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Metzorah 5771 – English

Rabbi Rami Pavolotzky B’nei Israel Congregation, Costa Rica The Purification Ritual and Monoteism Last week we read, in Parashat Tazria, about tzara’at, a word used to describe several skin diseases.  It is usually translated as “leprosy”, although it is known that identifying leprosy with the illnesses that the Torah calls tzara’at is incorrect. This week’s …

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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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Shabat Pará – Parashat Sheminí 5771

Los Rabinos de la UJCL escriben sobre la parashá de la semana Rabino Claudio Jodorkovsky Asociación Israelita Montefiore Bogotá, Colombia. A menudo, en mis clases de judaísmo a estudiantes universitarios no judíos, se me pregunta el motivo por el cual nuestro pueblo guarda una dieta alimenticia tan particular: por qué no podemos comer cerdo, por …

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