). Moshe, of course, adheres to God’s command that the aleph be included, but does so humbly and writes a small aleph. A second, more mystical thought comes to mind. Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the ...
“Vayikra”: “And God called” (Lev 1:1). This could have been a loud, dramatic word, announcing a series of divine decrees to open the book of Leviticus. But Parshat Vayikra begins with an unusual ...