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iyar 4 5781 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
To be a Free Nation in its Land
Parashat Tazria opens with the command to do a brit mila on a baby’s eighth day. It would seem that we thereby make a bodily sign of being like slaves of Hashem, which would indicate that we left the bondage of Egypt to be slaves to Hashem. So in what way did we become free men? We will investigate this matter as we go through, in the coming weeks, the holidays of spring (Pesach, Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Lag Ba’omer, Yom Yerushalayim, and Shavuot).
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Iyar 4 5781 | Baruch Gordon
A Skin Disorder...Only in Israel?!
Explaining why the fact that one can only get tzara'at - a biblical disease - in Israel is actually a good thing for Israelis!
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Iyar 4 5781 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Believing is Seeing
May I be mekadeish levanah now, although I am indoors, and I am also obviously looking at the moon through a window? The brocha of borei me’orei ha’eish on an electric light - could one do this when a lightbulb must be encased in glass for it to burn? What do the above questions have to do with this week’s parsha?
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Iyar 4 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
The Childrens Prosperity
. It has been statistically shown that as prosperity rises in certain sections of society, the birthrate in that section of society declines. For me, this was always counterintuitive.
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the Book of Complaints
My wife and I labored long and hard over the invitation list and over the seating arrangements for the wedding dinner. We invested a great deal of effort and energy in trying to make sure that, to the best of our ability, everyone would be satisfied, and no one would be unduly disappointed.
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Nissan 26 5781 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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