This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...

I have Tazria! Great! I am the rabbi that gets to write about the diseases of the Bible. Even though, in a year like this one, we can connect even deeper with the idea of infectious diseases, ...

This week, the reading of the Torah will consist of the parshiot of Tazria and Metzora; both parshasdeal with the fundamental theme of human holiness and purity, and contain many of the laws relating ...

The process of purifying the metzora (a person afflicted by a rare skin disease) is described in the portion of Metzora: “This shall be the law of the metzora in the days of his cleansing: he shall be ...

This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say and do irrational and destructive things. You wouldn’t ...