Monthly Archives: April 2015

A Brief Note on Fear and its Isolation – Parshot Tazria and Metzora

Posted on April 24, 2015 by

This week’s double reading is the combined Parashot of Tazria-Metzora, literally to conceive and to be afflicted with a tzara’at, a word that has no known meaning but represented some sort of foreign growth that would settle on the skin, clothes or … Continue reading →

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A Brief Note on Going off the Script – Parasha Shemini

Posted on April 17, 2015 by

Parsha Shemini records two major narratives. The first is the story of the macabre deaths suffered by two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu; the other is a rather dry listing of which wildlife, from the land, air and sea, may and may not … Continue reading →

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