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Now, Chew on That
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 from the ...read more
Hidden Messages and Hidden Treasures
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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
Double Dipping
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]
Who is going ...read more
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
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Truthfulness With A Shadchan
QUESTION 57:
How truthful must one be when talking to a shadchan (match-maker) - or anyone helping to find a shidduch (match) - about the ...read more
Fear Induced Lies – Response to Question
Dear Rabbi Travis,
Does the Torah's prohibition of "Distance yourself from falsehood" apply in a case where someone finds himself in a ...read more
Practicing Sorcery
"You should not eat on blood" (Vayikra 19,26). Rashi explains that this verse alludes to the prohibition of eating sacrifices before their blood ...read more
Who Hast Not Made Me a Woman Part I
"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 most ...read more
Chapter 7, Law 8 – The Practicalities of Return
It is the way of people who have repented (lit., 'masters of repentance') to be lowly and exceedingly humble. If fools mock them on account of ...read more
Chapter 5, Mishna 13: It’s Not My Problem – – Or Is It?
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
Last class we look at the fifteenth blessing of the Shemoneh Esrai, continuing to review the communal blessings and focusing on our request for ...read more
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