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Silas Anastacio

Apr 20, 2026, 12:22 AM

In this past Shabbat (Beth-El, April 17, 2026), Rabbi Uri Lam spoke about tragedy and celebration, drawing on the teachings of the great sage Maimonides. By Rabbi Uri Lam This is a special Shabbat, known as Shabbat Tekumá, between Yom HaShoah...

Alexander Seinfeld

Apr 17, 2026, 7:41 PM

How To Make the Best Bourbon?

Outside of the boutique world of whisky connoisseurship, it takes a minor miracle for a bottle of bourbon to make the mainstream media. Forbes readers saw the headline, "World's Best Bourbon Costs Only $40." For a business audience, as for a...

Talyah Ginsberg

Apr 17, 2026, 7:13 PM

Your Walls Are Not as Private as You Think

There is something deeply offensive about Parashat Tazria–Metzora. Not morally offensive. Psychologically offensive. Because it refuses to let you hide. At first, it lulls you into thinking it’s about something manageable. Childbirth. Fine. Beautiful, even. Life enters the world. Except...

Apr 17, 2026, 5:48 PM

Parashat Tazria–Metzora

When the Body Speaks and the Self Returns ✦ ✡ ✦ The Torah does not begin with ideas. It begins with blood. With opened flesh. With visible fragility. “When a woman conceives and gives birth…” There is no shame in that...

Daniel Z. Feldman

Apr 17, 2026, 1:53 PM

Tazria: In Praise of Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the worst of all sins in the eyes of many. Anything else can be forgiven, other than advocating a standard that one personally does not live up to. There is, however, much to disagree with in this...

Apr 17, 2026, 7:38 AM

Shalom Brothers: The Labor Men Still Don’t See (Tazria)

There is a particular kind of loneliness that can take root inside a marriage not because love has vanished, but because labor has gone unseen. A wife is carrying the schedule, the remembering, the anticipating, the soothing, the cleaning, the...

Apr 17, 2026, 7:36 AM

Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1) "Do not be a false witness" Imagine a city where your right to live there depended on one thing: you couldn’t speak badly about other people. The moment you gossiped or badmouthed someone, you’d be sent out of...

Apr 16, 2026, 11:46 PM

Where Body and Soul Meet

It is a phenomenon unlike any in the Torah. Tzaraat, often mistranslated as leprosy, has no real translation, just like it has no real analogue or rational explanation. It was, for want of a better word, a “disease” that...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Apr 16, 2026, 10:23 PM

Holy Thumbs (Tazria-Metzora)

“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” — Jacob Bronowski A well-known study found that the vast majority of infants suck their thumbs. The explanations are typically straightforward. It is a natural reflex, a source of comfort, and...

Apr 16, 2026, 10:21 PM

Boundaries, bodies, and the rot within

gemini image in style of Kadishman for Tazria-Metzora.

The Torah portions on skin wounds and the grueling process of healing feel especially personal: My late husband suffered from basal cell carcinoma (Tazria/Metzora)

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