#8 Jordan Spencer Jacobs on offerings to get rid of animalistic qualities, or to give in to the needs of the people, or simply to feed the Lord?

VaYiqra and Tzav - offerings to get rid of animalistic qualities, or to give in to the needs of the people, or simply to feed the Lord? Leviticus, chapter 1-8. Guest: Jordan Spencer Jacobs. Leviticus, which is the third book of the Torah and highly associated with the priesthood, starts off with prescriptions about how to make offerings to the Lord. Blood is flowing at the altar after bulls, sheep, goats and pigeons have been brought forward to be sacrificed. More or less the whole text seems to belong to an era that was very different from our time, and we have to struggle to find the relevance for us today. Or do we? Jordan Spencer Jacobs is a Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Jewish Thought. He has studied at the Center for Theology and Religious Studies in Lund, but now finishes his Ph.D. thesis in Madrid, Spain. He is originally from California, USA.