April 18, 2024 | 10 Nisan, 5784 | Torah Portion: Metzorah, Leviticus 14:1-15:33 | Haftorah: Shabbos HaGadol: Malachi 3:4-24
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Hashem – Who’s That?
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 a very ...read more
Have A Good Look
"...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 with ...read more
Down & Out: Down & Up
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 ...read more
Gold in them Thar Walls
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 ...read more
Does Mussar Help?
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1288 An ...read more
Metzora and Shabbos HaGadol
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 ...read more
The Marshmallows of the Future
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 did HASHEM our G-d ...read more
Strengthening the Fortifications
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Volume 38, No. 27
5 Nissan 5784
April 13, 2024
Sponsored by Nathan and Rikki Lewin in memory of her father Rabbi Morris E. Gordon ...read more
Give the Critic a Taste of His Own Medicine
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape # 235, ...read more
Just Compensation
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
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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
A Plea for Prayer
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Chapter 7, Law 7 – G-d’s Cue Card
How lofty is teshuva (repentance). Yesterday this one was separated from the L-rd, G-d of Israel, as it is stated, '...your sins had separated ...read more
Chapter 5, Mishna 12: G-d Strikes Back Even Harder
During four periods (of the seven year agricultural cycle) pestilence increases: in the fourth year, in the seventh year, in the year after the ...read more
Chapter 7, Law 6 – Flowing Love
Great is teshuva (repentance) for it brings a person close to the Divine Presence, as it is stated, 'Return, Israel, unto the L-rd your G-d' ...read more
Chapter 5, Mishna 11(c): The Perennial Battle
Pestilence comes to the world for death penalties mentioned in the Torah which are not in the hands of the courts [to administer] and for [the ...read more
Fixing A Library Book
QUESTION 56:
If my child tears a few pages in a book that I've taken out from the library, can I scotch tape the pages back myself, or must ...read more
Fear Induced Lies
"As we told my lord [Yosef], we have an elderly father and a young [brother] who is a child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead." ...read more
Changing Places
"When Rav Hamnuna would ascend from the river on erev Shabbos, he would lift up his eyes to see the angels of the weekday departing and the ...read more
Rachav: The Courage to Create a New Reality Part II
This week Women in Judaism continues to explore the life of Rachav and her enormous capacity to change. From our perspective, the prospect that ...read more