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Parashat Tazria 5771 – english

Rabbi Gustavo Kraselnik Kol Shearith Israel Congregation Panama City, Panama. The beginning of Parashat Tazria brings us the law of the woman in labor (Lev. 12).  Commenting on this passage, Professor Nechamah Leibovitch affirms:  “The laws of purity and impurity are disconcerting; we will never know what they mean and we will never understand them…” …

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Shabbath Parah – Parashat Shemini

Rabbi Claudio Jodorkovsky Asociación Israelita Montefiore – Bogota In my Judaism courses for non-Jewish university students, I am often asked why our people keep such a particular diet: why can’t we eat pork, why just some poultry, why not seafood, etc., just as the rules appear in our parashah. And when I tell them that …

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