All posts in: Tazria
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7 years agoA Great Reason why not to speak Loshon Hora!!
Chazal say that all our pain is caused by the Accusing Angel who constantly prosecutes us before Hashem. Is there anyway to protect ourselves from his constant accusations? ..
Written by Ben Rose
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3 years agoBeing blind to you own faults – amazing true story!
וְהַצָּרוּעַ אֲשֶׁר בּוֹ הַנֶּגַע . . . וְטָמֵא טָמֵא יִקְרָא And the person with tsaraas in whom there is an affliction ..
Written by Rabbi Moshe Kormornick
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3 years agoWords to the Wise_Tazria_The Life Monger
Tazria: The Life Monger Parshas Tazria addresses the curious spiritual malady known as Tzaraas. Although Tzaraas would seem to resemble a skin condition of sorts, ..
Written by Rabbi Aryeh Dachs
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6 years agoLone stranger
One of the main causes of the Biblical disease tzarass was evil speech [1]. Part of the repentance program for a metzora (suffering from tzarass) was that he would ..
Written by Rabbi Daniel Leeman
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7 years agoWhy do we go to the Kohen and not the Doctor??
Something is slightly strange about this weeks sedra regarding the goings on when a person contracts Tzoraas. One is why do we go to our Local Kohen when we can go to our local ..
Written by Benjamin Rose
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7 years agoa Father always wants his son back
The opening Rashi of the sedra notes that just like man was created after all the animals, so too are we given certain laws [leprosy here] after the animal details ..
Written by Daniel Fine
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7 years agoTazria-Metzora Power of Speech
This week’s double parsha deals almost exclusively with a leprosy-like skin disease which would afflict those who were guilty of lashon hara, literally ‘evil ..
Written by Rabbi Andrew Savage
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7 years ago
The Special Kedusha of a Baby
At the beginning of Parshas Tazria we are told that a woman who gives birth will be tamei, spiritually impure (for none of a better word). Why is this? ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
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7 years ago
Short Vort
Why is the Parsha of Tzaraas (Parshas Tazria) written next to the Parsha of Maacholos HaAsuros (prohibited foods) in Parshas Shemini? R’ Yisroel Salanter explains, ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
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7 years ago
Why do Women bring a chatos??
Our Posuk says “And when the days of her purification are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for an Olah, and a young ..
Written by B Rose
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7 years ago
Speech has effects!
A line in a certain Shakespearean play (R & J) reads “A plague on both your houses,” and though it was not referring to the tzara’as ..
Written by D Fine
