PARSHAS TAZRIA
- Rabbi Moshe Rockove
- October 25, 2021
- 4:14 pm
- 0 comments
Summary of Parshas Tazria
Parshat Tazria describes various categories of tumah, or spiritual impurity, such as tzora’at, a disease that is a physical manifestation of spiritual malaise. It comes upon a person, primarily, for the sin of speaking ill of other people (lashon hara). In nature, it is similar to leprosy. A person afflicted with tzora'at is called a […]
- Rabbi Dovid Gross
- February 16, 2021
- 7:24 pm
- 0 comments
Real News- Take It From a Nobel Prize Winner – Parshas Tazria
- Rabbi Dovid Gross
- March 16, 2020
- 5:01 pm
- 0 comments
Blue Skies Above Dark Clouds- Tazria-Metzora
In this week’s double-feature Torah portion, Tazriah-Metzorah, we find the laws pertaining to a house afflicted with tzaraas, the spiritual equivalent of a modern-day mold infestation. The Torah says that if, after a thorough inspection of the premises, the Kohein (priest) determines that the growth on the walls of the house is indeed tzaraas, then […]
- Rabbi Moshe Rockove
- March 5, 2020
- 4:46 pm
- 0 comments
Sitting in Solitude- Parshas Tazria
When a person is afflicted with tzora’as, his life turns upside down. Aside from the physical affliction on his skin, he is quarantined: he must leave his home and stay on the outskirts of town. There he stays alone; no one may come in contact with him. He must warn people who wish to come […]
- Rabbi Yisroel Serebrowski
- September 18, 2019
- 3:29 pm
- 0 comments
Who Me, Couldn’t Be – Parshas Tazria
In this week’s Torah portion, we learn about tzora’as, the malady that serves as a wake-up call and/or retribution for various sins a person has committed. When the afflicted individual notices tell-tale splotches on his skin, he is required to show it to a Kohen (Priest), who upon examination, pronounces the person tamei (impure). The […]