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Values are what Leviticus is all about. They pervade every chapter and almost every verse. Underlying the rituals, careful readers will find an intricate web of values that purports to model how we should relate to God and to each other. Ritual is the poetry of religion that leads us to a moment of transcendence. When a ritual fails because it either lacks content, or is misleading, it loses its...

The second commandment orders: “You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image” (Exod 20:7*). Does this mean that images are forbidden in our homes and synagogues? The earliest opinion is found in the appendix to the Decalogue, which prohibits gold or silver images of the Lord, who should be worshiped on imageless altars of wood or unhewn stone (Exod 20:19–23*). Other interpretations are found in the Torah: this prohibition includes imageless pillars (Lev 26:1*; Deut 16:22*). Yet the absence
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