#111 | Vayikra ch.20 - The Practices of the Nations

from The Tanakh Podcast · host Alex Israel

What is the prominence of idolatrous warnings in our chapter?Why do we hear - twice - a list of abhorrent sexual practices?And how does this relate to "Hukot Hagoy" - the notion of the ambient culture of Canaan.Today we explain the unit of ch.18-20 and what it seeks to say about the Torah's ethical lifestyle in contrast to the degenerate ways of the Canaanite nations.

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