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Apr 22, 2024, 5:02 AM

What to Tell Your Grandkids about Israel at the Seder

The amazing thing about anti-Semitism is that it never fails to fail! Rarely do we get to experience an open miracle, but on Saturday night April 13, 2024, we could feel the protective hand of G-d, not as a miracle of...

Apr 19, 2024, 10:02 PM

Sixty Harrowing Hours of Pogroms and Violence In An Upside Down World: Metzorah

Please share this post on the murder of Binyamin Ahimeir, the wave of violence during the 60 hours from last Friday to Monday (and still ongoing), upside down values in our inverted world and Parashat Metzora with those you...

Apr 19, 2024, 10:27 AM

The Rot in the House: Parshat Metzora

Not too many parts of this week’s parshat metzora speak to me. However, since my mother had an asthma attack when exposed to mold in a summer camp where she was working, I identified with the part of the parsha...

Apr 18, 2024, 10:18 PM

Is there such a thing as Lashon Tov? (Metzora, Covenant & Conversation)

The Sages understood tsara’at, the theme of this week’s parsha, not as an illness but as a miraculous public exposure of the sin of lashon hara, speaking badly about people. Judaism is a sustained meditation on the power of words...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Apr 18, 2024, 4:07 PM

Lord of the Doppelganger Flies (Metzora)

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. -Francois Fenelon Ever heard a piece of really juicy gossip? A man cheated on his wife? A businessman caught for...

Apr 18, 2024, 9:03 AM

‘Drones and Rashes’ Parashat Metzora – Pesach 5784

Last week’s Portion of Tazria pertains primarily to the laws of tzara’at, a skin disease commonly – but incorrectly – associated with leprosy. A person afflicted with tzara’at is rendered ritually impure and sis sent “outside the camp”. This...

Apr 17, 2024, 5:10 PM

Israel-Gaza War 5784: Metzorah – We Could All Use a Good Soaking

Metzorah describes the purification procedures for people, clothing, and houses with an affliction called tzara'at. While tzara'at has sometimes been translated as leprosy, this affliction was something else. It appeared on the skin of a person or the surface...

Mordechai Silverstein

Apr 16, 2024, 7:24 PM

Conquering the ‘I’ of Idolatry

The laws of ritual purity played a large role in religious life during Temple times. After the Temple was destroyed, they were codified into law in the Mishnah. That said, with time, their literal relevance ultimately fell into disuse....

Reuven Chaim Klein

Apr 13, 2024, 10:58 PM

Migrating from Mitzrayim

One of the most exciting highlights of the Passover liturgy is a poem written by a payytan named Yanai (who probably lived in the Holy Land under Byzantine rule during the sixth century). That work consists of a poetic list of...

May 2, 2023, 10:10 PM

Words are free—it’s how you use them that might cost you!

Your words become your reality. In 1988, Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s most popular newspapers, published an article about a murder that took place thirty years prior by a sixteen-year-old immigrant. In a fit of rage, the young man who...

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