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Metzorah-three types of people who speak lashon hara (gossip/slander) The Torah describes the three kinds of Tzaraat as Seit, Sapachat, and Baheret. (Vayikrah-Leviticus 13:2).  How do these words relate to this spiritual disease? These words…

 Korach All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothingKorach ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do…

Emor -The Minyan on the Airplane “And you shall not desecrate my Holy Name, and I will be sanctified before the eyes of Israel (22:32)”. The verse (pasuk) seems to…

Emor -The Minyan on the Airplane “And you shall not desecrate my Holy Name, and I will be sanctified before the eyes of Israel (22:32)”. The verse (pasuk) seems to be repetitive…

Bechukosi-Spiritual Exercise: Use a Walker and a StepperBechukosi-Spiritual Exercise: Use a Walker and a StepperSpiritual Exercise:  Use a Walker and a StepperParshat Bechukotai ‘Im bechukotai telechu, vei-et mitzvotai tishmeru, veasitem otam’…

Parshas Kedoshim- Kedusha (holiness) is achieved in public – nine Zadikim (pious men) cannot say Kedusha – any ten men can!“And G-d spoke to Moses saying: ‘Speak to the entire…

Kedoshim-Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders a man happy.In the opening verse of this week’s Parsha, Kedoshim, Hashem commands Moshe “Daber el kol edat Bnei Yisrael veamarta alayhem kedoshim tihiyu… “Speak to…

 Kedoshim -Do more than you have to!Do more than you have to!“Naval birshut ha-Torah” is an expression used by Nachmanides, known as the Ramban, to describe “a degenerate with the permission…

Say about others what you would want said about yourself!Why is the Parsha of ‘negaim’ (tzaraat  – skin afflictions that are specific types of discolorations which occurred sometimes as a result of gossip/slander – lashon…