torah

Last class we look at the fifteenth blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai, continuing to review the communal blessings and focusing on our request for Mashiach… Read More »A Plea for Prayer

THE LAWS OF purification from tzora’as seemingly have little to do with Shabbos HaGadol. True, Moshe himself became a metzora on Har Sinai when he… Read More »Metzora and Shabbos HaGadol

And it will come to pass if your son asks you tomorrow, saying, “What is this?” you shall say to him, “With a mighty hand… Read More »The Marshmallows of the Future

BS”D Volume 38, No. 27 5 Nissan 5784 April 13, 2024 Sponsored by Nathan and Rikki Lewin in memory of her father Rabbi Morris E.… Read More »Strengthening the Fortifications

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape # 235, Cesarean Section… Read More »Give the Critic a Taste of His Own Medicine

When a woman conceives and gives birth to a male…[1] Chazal’s comment is well known, but little understood. “When a woman emits seed first, she… Read More »Just Compensation

During four periods (of the seven year agricultural cycle) pestilence increases: in the fourth year, in the seventh year, in the year after the seventh… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 12: G-d Strikes Back Even Harder

This week we read the double parsha of Tazria-Metzora. These parshios primarily deal with the different types of leprosy’s which afflicted people, their clothing and… Read More »Touched by G-d

“…He shall dwell in isolation; his dwelling shall be outside the camp” (13:46) The Torah teaches us that the Metzorah must remain in isolation, away… Read More »Joy Therapy

It first appears on the skin as a sickly white lesion, and then it begins to spread. It looks like leprosy, but it is not.… Read More »Skin Deep