April 20, 2021 ✦ 8 Iyyar, 5781 - 23rd day of the Omer ✦ Torah Portion: Acharei Mos Kedoshim, Leviticus 16:1-20:27 ✦ Haftorah: Amos 9:7-15
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That Kiss
HASHEM spoke to Moshe, saying: “Speak to the Children of Israel, saying: When a woman conceives and gives birth to a male…On the eighth day the ...read more
The Stain is Noticeable
This week’s Torah portion describes a person infected with a Negah – a blemish, which might infect his skin, his clothing, or even the walls of ...read more
Tzaraas Teaches a Major Life Lesson About Negiyus — Personal Bias
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1157 – But ...read more
Who’s Going Where?
This shall be the law of the metzora on the day of his purification. He shall be brought to the kohen. The kohen shall go outside the camp. The ...read more
Pleasure vs. Affliction
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Family Vs. Fortune
The Torah indirectly, but softly and clearly, speaks to the continuity of the Jewish people and the human race generally, through the idea of ...read more
Purging the Evil Within
This week's parsha of Metzora, the last regular reading before Pesach {Passover}, continues with the laws of tzara'as {loosely defined as ...read more
Good and Bad Together
Shabbos Night
THESE TWO PARSHIOS begin the laws regarding spiritual impurity. The first one is that which results from birth, and the second ...read more
Tzaraas: Spot Checks
The Mitzvah
The appearance of tzaraas, a leprous spot upon man's skin necessitated a check by the kohen who would determine whether this ...read more
Tattletaling
Once upon a time
Yehudit and Leah were walking home after a hard day at school. For weeks, their class had been trying to behave perfectly, ...read more
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Chapter 1, Law 6(a) – Do We Really Want G-d? Part I
Law 5 (end -- see last week for entire text): Nevertheless, we are commanded to follow the middle path in life. This is the best and most upright read more
Chapter 1, Mishna 1(b) : The First Commandment: Know Yourself
Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it Joshua. Joshua transmitted it to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets ...read more
Chapter One Hundred Forty-Nine
I read in Pirkei Avos that I am now considered to have reached maturity, so perhaps I may be allowed to indulge in a bit of nostalgia. It seems ...read more
Ends and Means
"Go to the flock and take two choice young kids..." (Bereshith 27:9)
In this verse, Rivka commanded Yaakov to take goats that belonged to her ...read more
Multiple Kedushos
At times one may recite Shacharis early and spend the rest of the morning learning Torah in the shul. If he is sitting in a shul that hosts one ...read more
Obligation or Privilege?: Part III
Student Comments and Questions
This week's class features student responses to "Women in Judaism: Obligation or Privilege", which appeared in read more
Taking Money Found on the Street
QUESTION 78:
I understand that according to Halacha (Jewish Law), I can keep a ten-dollar bill that I find in the street. Is it a higher ...read more
Chapter 1, Law 4(b)-5 – Rational or Crazy?
Law 4 (end -- see last week for entire text)
Any person whose character traits all fall in the center, midway between the extremes, is ...read more
Chapter 1, Mishna 1(a): Who Gave the Rabbis the Right…
Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it Joshua. Joshua transmitted it to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets ...read more
Chapter 1, Laws 3-4(a) – Reaching Our Own Stars
Law 3
The two extremes of each quality are not the proper and worthy path for one to follow or train himself in. And if a person finds his ...read more
