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The Torah portions this week and next are devoted mostly to the spiritual disease of Tzara’as. Tzara’as is a physical blemish found on the body, clothing, or the… Read More »Little Prayers

When a man from [among] you brings a (Korbon) sacrifice to HASHEM; from animals, from cattle or from the flock you shall bring your sacrifice.… Read More »To Fix the World

This week we read the double parsha of Tazria-Metzora. Tazria begins with the ritual purity laws that pertain to childbirth. “When a woman gives birth… Read More »Doves and Relationships

The Mitzvah: A new mother is impure for seven days after bearing a baby boy and for a fortnight after bearing a baby girl. Following… Read More »New Mother’s Offerings: Of Childbirth & Impurity

Rambam’s few, measured words regarding lashon ha-kodesh seem lame to many people. He writes[2] that what makes Hebrew language holy is the absence of specific… Read More »Tumah Leaves Tracks

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1201 – The Shabbos Bris… Read More »Why Was the Metzorah Put Into Solitary Confinement?

BS”D Volume 36, No. 27 1 Nissan 5782 April 2, 2022 Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jules Meisler in memory of Jules’ father Irving Meisler… Read More »First or Last

In this week’s Torah reading, we are informed, almost in passing, of the commandment regarding circumcision of male children at the age of eight days.… Read More »The Rite to Circumcise

“…he shall be brought to Aharon the Kohein, or to one of his sons the Kohanim” (13:2) The Torah discusses a person who is afflicted… Read More »Have A Good Look

One of the peculiarities of tzaraas is the fact that someone whose body is fully engulfed in the disease is considered tahor (ritually pure). Tzaraas… Read More »Open Your Eyes