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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?

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