Tazria-Metzora 5777 – Never Again? Or Again and Again?
“Never again!” “Never again!” Earlier this week I heard our own Riva Hirsch share her moving story in a Holocaust
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Leviticus (Vayikra)
Bechukotai 5774 – Blessings and Curses
This week’s Torah reading, Bechukotai, contains the tokecha, the “rebuke.” God tells us if we follow the rules, things will be
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And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and
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And the leper in whom the disease is, his clothes shall be torn, and his head bare, and he shall
Read moreTazria – Metzora 5773 Don’t Touch Me, You’re Impure
The rituals surrounding taharat mishpacha, “family purity,” are some of the more difficult laws for many modern liberal Jews to
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“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land” …Leviticus 25:10 “Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among
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