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Haftorat Parashat Tazria-Metzora 2 Melachim 7:3-20 The Haftorah’s Connection to the Parashah – Reaching Perfection in Speech This week’s double parashah Tazria-Metzora discusses various forms of tzara’at,(skin diseases), that could befall a person who is...
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Parshah MetzoraWhy Separate the Menstruating Woman?This week’s Parashah, like the previous one, deals with spiritual purification so pertinent to the general mode of cleansing prior to Pesach. “If a woman has a discharge of blood, where blood flows from her body, she...
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Parshah TazriaThe previous Parashah concluded with the mitzvah that Israel sanctify themselves: “For I am Hashem your G-d; you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, for I am holy” (Vayikra 11:44). Parashat Tazria opens with the laws of purification after birth: “If a...
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Returning to EdenA central theme in Parashat Shemini is immersing in the mikvah (ritual bath), which is one of the three primary mitzvoth designated for the Jewish woman, in addition to the challah offering and lighting the Shabbat candles. Immersing in a mikvah has...
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With Clean HandsThis week’s Parashah begins by describing the burnt offering, while the end of the previous Parashah described the guilt offering which a person must bring to atone for having denied that he stole. The most important condition upon which all the...
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Parshah Metzora Why Separate the Menstruating Woman? This week’s Parashah, like the previous one, deals with spiritual purification so pertinent to the general mode of cleansing prior to Pesach. “If a woman has a discharge of blood, where blood flows from her body,...
