Think for a moment how powerful the sense of smell is, how fragrance penetrates boundaries and how burning incense creates a cloud-like aura. Now consider why the incense altar appears to be out of ...

In last week’s Parasha, Parshat Terumah, Bnei Israel are commanded (27:1-8), to make an ‘altar of acacia wood’, and to plate it with copper. Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl comments:”In addition to this copper ...

This week, once again, we have one of those situations where the parashah starts and ends in the middle of Christian chapters. Note that the Masoretic text does clearly mark Exod 30:10 with a פ as the ...

Ah, incense. As the priest rhythmically swings the censer, the aromatic smoke from the burning incense, with its sweet fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, rises and fills the sanctuary. Then the ...

In the preceding parsha, Parshat Terumah, Hashem had instructed Bnei Yisroel in the construction of the Tabernacle and its vessels. Parshat Tetzaveh continues with instructions in fashioning the ...

Billowing clouds of incense at Mass and the inability to receive Communion can force some Catholics to cover their face or get out of the pew because of allergies and a sensitivity to wheat.

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AN interesting article by Dr. Max Ohnefalsch-Richter appears in Globus of November 17 (xcviii., pp. 293–7), m which he brings forward data to prove his earlier supposition that the first site of ...