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Tazria Metzora: A good friend and wine
Nobody likes Tazria Metzora. It’s all about dead animals and dead skin, eruptions and discolorations. It’s not a pretty parasha. There’s this hard-to-fathom concept of being unclean and malignant eruptions that a priest has to come and observe, and then … Continue reading
Posted in Shabbat musings
Tagged Commentary, Judaism, Leviticus, Metzora, Parasha of the week, Shabbat, Tazria, Torah
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Tazria: Life in context
Oh, Tazria, you strange and troublesome parasha. Coming as you do, a couple of weeks before Passover, as I wonder why I bother with the burdensome details and literal and figurative heavy lifting of getting ready for Pesach, I read, … Continue reading
Posted in Shabbat musings
Tagged Brit Milah, Commentary, Judaism, Leviticus, Parasha of the week, Shabbat, Tazria, Torah
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Tazria/Metzora: Staying on the life-side of the line
This week there is a double portion of Torah. That is, we read two portions for the same Shabbat. It happens other times in the year, so we can end up on Simchat Torah in the fall having gotten to … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Judaism, Leviticus, Metzora, Parasha of the week, Shabbat, Tazria, Torah
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Tazria/Metzora – Walking the Line
Jewish ritual purity….sin….Facebook One of these things is not like the other…..and no, it’s not Facebook. My friend Miriam Brousseau , Social Media Queen and singer in Stereo Sinai, posted something the other day that got me thinking, as she … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Facebook, Judaism, Leviticus, Metzora, Parasha of the week, Shabbat, Social Media, Tazria
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Nothing succeeds with excess
I went to a wedding last weekend, which you would think has nothing to do with this week’s double Torah portion, Tazria/Metzora, but read on. Like most weddings (one hopes!), it was a happy affair, with a delightful young couple … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Environmentalism, Jewish and green, Judaism, Metzora, Parasha of the week, Shabbat, Tazria, Torah
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Tazria Metzora: Skin deep
It is not easy to be a Jewish Taurus, because there’s a chance you might end up with Tazria Metzora as your Bar or Bat Mitzvah portion. It’s hard enough being 13, but to have to find some meaning in … Continue reading →