By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: This week’s Torah portion, Tazria, mainly speaks about the special spiritual skin disease named Saraat. Torah describes in length regarding the ramifications of this disease and what this person needs to do, and the processes of purification. This person becomes impure and needs to reside alone, […]
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By Avraham Sani Parshat Shemini famously commands us with the appropriate signs to identify kosher animals. Only those with split hooves and also chew their cud are permissible to eat. Chazal relate that a few animals exist that possess only one of the two signs. Camels chew their cud but […]
By Rabbi Moshe Vosoghi: Parshat Vayikra brings with it the laws of the various korbanot people would bring to the Mishkan and Bet HaMikdash. The chatat, the asham and the minchah are all mentioned in this week’s parsha. However, there is a very intriguing korban called the oleh v’yored that […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, In this last Parasha of Sefer Shemot, after all the work of the Mishkan was done, we look back and see one Pasuk keeps coming up: כאשר ציוה ה׳ את משה As HaShem commanded Moshe. We can’t fathom the secrets of the Mishkan and its […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: This week and next week’s Torah Portions, Vayakhel and Pekudei, both talk about the details of building the Tabernacle, holy Ark, Menorah, and Shulchan etc… The purpose of the Mishkan was that the Almighty would communicate with Moshe Rabenu from there, meaning that place, the Almighty’s […]