Rav Yerucham Olshin Shlita on Parshas Tazria

Rav Yerucham Olshin Shlita on Parshas Tazria

Reformulated by Rabbi Yair Hoffman    In memory of R’ Tzvi Dovid ben R’ Moshe As we know, the Parshas of Tazria and Metzora are dedicated at length to the dinim of tzaraas. The parsha begins with the words, “Adam ki yihiyeh b’or besaro se’es o sapachas o baheres v’hayah b’or besaro l’nega tzaraas.” […]

Parashah of the week: Tazria-Metzora - The Jewish Chronicle

“Then they said to one another, ‘We are not doing right. This is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent! … Come, let us go and inform the king’s palace” 2 Kings 7:9

In non-leap years, Parashat Tazria is read together with the parasha that follows it, Parashat Mitzora. In leap years, it is read alone. Times of Shabbat Entry and Exit The post Times of Shabbat Entry and Exit, Parashat Tazria Mitzora, 5775 appeared first on srougim.

Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Returning From Isolation

Both halves of the double portion Tazria and Metzora deal with situations in which people are experiencing profound life circumstances — so profound, in fact, that they prevent those impacted from being wholly integrated into society. Tazria begins with instructions for a mother following childbirth: She is to take time apart to be with her newborn before returning to the public sphere. Much of the rest of the double portion addresses the myster…

This Shabbat will read 2 portions of the Torah, Tazria and Metzorá. The first tells us about family purity and the law that indicates abstinence of intimacy between the couple during the woman’s menstrual period. The director of our station points out the teachings of the Talmud about it. The second of the Parashiot, Metzorá, tells us about leprosy disease, the one where the person is affected by an infection that affects peripheral nerves and o…

Parshat Tazria Metzora — Leviticus 12:1-15:33 – The American Israelite Newspaper

Efrat, Israel – “And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised” (Leviticus 12:3)   The mitzvah of circumcision in the portion of Tazria appears in the midst of the discussion of the impure and pure periods immediately following childbirth. Furthermore, our Sages specifically derive from this ordinance that the ritual of circumcision overrides Shabbat: “‘On the eighth day, [the child’s] foreskin shall be circumcised’ — even…