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Dvar Torah Parshat Tazria-Metzora 5772 2012

The Torah tells us that a house can have a נֶגַע, an affliction, and the wall upon which it is found has to be destroyed. Chazal give us many reasons why a house can have a נֶגַע. All the reasons are based on the one belief that the owner has committed Lashon Harah, slander, or [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Parshat Tazria 5771 2011

The Torah describes the symptoms of a malady which it calls צרעת, Tzara’at. Modern medicine cannot accurately identify this sickness. According to the Torah the Kohen has to examine the signs and determine if it is truly this affliction. Since the Kohen is not a doctor our sages recognize this is not a normal infection [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Parshat Tazria – Metzora 2009 5769 דבר תורה פרשת תזריע מצורע

One of the duties of the Kohanim, we read in today’s Sidra, is to examine what appears as a NEGA or an affliction on the skin of an individual. This is obviously a menial task. Moshe realized this and according to the Midrash said to Hashem, “Is this an honorable task for my brother Aharon, [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria 2008 – 5768 דבר תורה תזריע

In the beginning of Sefer VaYikra the Torah says that if a man, MIKEM, of you,.brings a Korban. In this week’s Portion when the Torah talks about a person having a disease in his skin, which according to Chazal is a punishment, it does not say a man MIKEM but merely a man. There is [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria – Metzora 7 2007 – 5767 דבר תורה תזריע – מצורע

These portions speak about one who has a NEGA TZARA’AT on his body. The words NEGA TZARA’AT are translated in the English Bibles as “a plague or affliction of leprosy”. This we know is a wrong meaning of the words because of the description of the malady in the Torah and the fact that the [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria – Metzora 6 2006 – 5766 דבר תורה תזריע – מצורע

The word METZORA is very difficult to define. The truth is that we today do not know its exact meaning. Most translations referred to it as leprosy. We know this is not the correct meaning since the descriptions that follow are not those of leprosy. Furthermore, the Torah talks about a cure which may come [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria 5 2005 – 5765 דבר תורה תזריע

It is an accepted practice among Chazal and the interpreters of the Torah to derive meaning from portions of the Torah that happen to be found next to each other. These commentaries on the Torah do not think that the connection between the portions is arbitrary, but rather they find a similarity between the passages [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria – Metzora 4 2004 – 5764 דבר תורה תזריע – מצורע

In the first Sidra we read this week we are commanded the Mitzvah of Brit Milah. It is customary at a Brit for the people standing around to bless the child and say: KESHEM SHNICHNAS LABRIT, KEN YIKANES LETORAH, LECHUPAH ULMA’ASIM TOVIM, “Just as he has entered into the Brit (of Avraham Avinu) so too [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria – Metzora 2 2002 – 5762 דבר תורה תזריע – מצורע

This week we read two portions. In the first we read about one of the most important Mitzvot in Jewish life – the Brit Milah. We are told that on the eighth day after the child’s birth he is to be circumcised. Why are eight days necessary? The Midrash Rabbah (27:10) gives the reason so [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria – Metzora 1 2001 – 5761 דבר תורה תזריע – מצורע

This week’s Sidra talks about one who is afflicted with a NEGA TZARA’AT, which is some type of bodily disease. Chazal tell us that this sickness comes about as a punishment for speaking LASHON HARAH. You remember when Miriam spoke evil gossip about Moshe; she was punished and became afflicted with TZARA’AT. (Num. Chapter 12) [ READ MORE ]

Dvar Torah Tazria 3 2003 – 5763 דבר תורה תזריע

Instructions are given in this week’s Sidra that on the eighth day after a Jewish boy is born he is to be circumcised. (Lev. 12:3) When Hashem created the world He did not finish it completely but left room for man to improve on it. Even a child that is born by means of one [ READ MORE ]

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