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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: muman613 on March 27, 2014, 03:13:50 AM
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Shalom JTF readers,
Once again I am writing this thread late as my friend has been 'hanging out' late on a rainy night...
Anyway, this week we are reading the portion of Tazria which contains more commandments concerning ritual purity and impurity. This includes the description of Tzaara which afflicts those who speak lashon hara. While it is translated as 'leprosy' it is not what we know today as leprosy, but rather it was an affliction which caused the afflicted to be banished from the camp until his affliction was examined by the Kohen who would pronounce it clean...
From the Chabad 'Parsha in a Nutshell':
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1545/jewish/Tazria-in-a-Nutshell.htm
The Parshah of Tazria continues the discussion of the laws of tumah v’taharah, ritual impurity and purity.
A woman giving birth should undergo a process of purification, which includes immersing in a mikvah (a naturally gathered pool of water) and bringing offerings to the Holy Temple. All male infants are to be circumcised on the eighth day of life.
Tzaraat (often mistranslated as “leprosy”) is a supra-natural plague, which also can afflict garments. If white or pink patches appear on a person’s skin (dark red or green in garments), a kohen is summoned. Judging by various signs, such as an increase in size of the afflicted area after a seven-day quarantine, the kohen pronounces it tamei (impure) or tahor (pure).
A person afflicted with tzaraat must dwell alone outside of the camp (or city) until he is healed. The afflicted area in a garment is removed; if the tzaraat spreads or recurs, the entire garment must be burned.
As usual I will start with the latest posting of Rabbi Richman, of the Temple Institute, who has been busy this week preparing for the 'International Temple Awareness' program which will be broadcast this coming Sunday...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHcDkhOZEYc
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Rabbi Chaim Schwab gives a long 40min talk on Tazria and Q&A on Pesach...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2KQtwQhvpI
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A short TorahInTen from Rabbi Chaim Miller...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJy7mwsPw4c
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Rabbi Ginsburg explores the Kabbalistic insights concerning the Brit Milah (Circumcision) which is commanded in parsha Tazria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhUya5KkXrM
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As Rabbi Richman explained in the 1st video I posted, most of the time (when it is not a leap year like this year) we read a double portion, of Tazria-Metzorah. These two seem to naturally go together as Metzorah goes on about the laws of the Tzaarat...
Here Rabbi Machlis talks about the double-portion which is read most years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG7fU-FMfWk
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Rabbi Levi Chazen gives a short talk from Jerusalem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPOa6DLPcU
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Rabbi Richman, from 3 years ago, talks about the portion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJCMzQVXY0
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Rabbi Finkelstein of the Anshe Sephard Beth-El Emet Congregation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1AU2_vFoo
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A couple more before I retire..
Some short youParsha thoughts from Rabbi Herschel Finman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ure7g0dbskM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNlKvLNg1c