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“You should not eat on blood” (Vayikra 19,26). Rashi explains that this verse alludes to the prohibition of eating sacrifices before their blood has been… Read More »Practicing Sorcery

“BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD OUR G-D, KING OF THE UNIVERSE, WHO HAST NOT MADE ME A WOMAN.” An introductory essay on one of the… Read More »Who Hast Not Made Me a Woman Part I

For seven days you shall eat Matzos, but on the preceding day you shall clear away all leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leaven… Read More »Now, Chew on That

BS”D Metzora Volume 38, No. 28 12 Nissan 5784 April 20, 2024 Sponsored by Rabbi Sanford H. Shudnow and family on the 20th yahrzeit of… Read More »Hidden Messages and Hidden Treasures

This shall be the law of the metzora…he shall be brought to the kohen. The kohen shall go forth to the outskirts of the camp…[1]… Read More »Double Dipping

This week we read the double parsha of Tazria-Metzora. We begin with the laws pertaining to a woman after childbirth and then move on to… Read More »Hashem – Who’s That?

This week’s Torah portion opens with the complex topic of the laws of purity and impurity that are associated with childbirth. The Torah tells us… Read More »Down & Out: Down & Up

This week, in reading both Tazria and Metzorah, we combine portions that deal with the physio-spiritual plague of tzora’as. Tzora’as is a discoloration that appears… Read More »Gold in them Thar Walls

There are four character types among people. One who says, ‘What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours’ is of average character, and some… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 13: It’s Not My Problem – – Or Is It?

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1288 An Aliyah After Your… Read More »Does Mussar Help?