Tazria-Metzora 5785: Cycles of Renewal
How do life’s transitions invite spiritual renewal? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash explore the cycles of tumah (impurity) and taharah…
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Metzora 5784: Transforming Curses into Blessings
Can we uncover hidden blessings, even from within painful experiences? Join us this week as we delve into the profound purification rituals surrounding the mysterious…
Tazria-Metzora 5783: Uncertainty & Divine Providence
How do we make sense of Divine reward and punishment in our complex world? In this week’s episode of the Pardes Parsha Podcast, Rabbi Zvi…
Parashat Metzora 5782: Sitting Alone Outside the Camp
Parashat Metzora 5782: Sitting Alone Outside the Camp Description: The graphic description in the Torah of tzaraat, leprosy, leaves modern readers alienated and baffled. Can…
Tazria Metzora 5781 – the Messiness of Life
The book of Vayikra introduces us to a whole new lexicon of terms for our spiritual life. This podcast introduces the ideas of tumah and…
The Parsha Discussion with Alex Israel — Tazria Metzora. Setting Goals and Making Progress
This week we will speak about Time and human processes. There is a dynamic of seven and eight which animates our parsha and recent parshiot.…
5780 — Tazria-Metzora: Making the Case for Tzara’at
The strange skin ailment called Tzara’at, described at length in our double parsha, sounds arcane and irrelevant to our modern ears. Long ago, the ancient…
An Interactive Parsha Experience – 5779 Metzora: Tzara’at and the Exodus Story: Connections, Community and a bundle of Hyssop
This week’s parsha, Metzora, is one of several in Sefer Vayikra which deals with things that seem rather strange and should no longer concern us…
5779 – Metzora: The Lessons of Impurity
The book of Vayikra is filled with laws of purity and impurity which are often difficult to understand and even harder to make relevant. In…