Pinchas

Addressing Land Distribution in a Just Society

By SARAH MARGLES

We can learn from the Torah about fair land reform and redistribution. Especially for agricultural populations, we need to ensure equal access to the land by engaging actively in helping the millions of people, mostly poor and from rural populations, who are subject to unequal land distribution. As the early Israelites understood, ownership of land is essential to survival.

Wisdom of the Torah transcends Time and Provides New Insights

By BEN ADLER

We are reminded that the Torah integrates and past and present and provides new ways to understand social justice issues. Serving in a needy community exemplifies how modern land reform can work now, just as it did in ancient times.

The Daughters of Zelophchad and the Divine Right of Ownership

By ABIGAIL B. WEINBERG and KEVIN HAWORTH

The Holiness Code in Leviticus is largely about sexuality, which seems incongruous. But appropriate sex can be holy.