…responsibility to reflect those values – to react appropriately to lashon hara and create environments in which malicious speech is not tolerated. Tazria: The Price of Free Speech Praise, and how we administer it, is a fundamental element in leadership of any kind. Recognising the good in people and saying so, we help bring people’s potential to fruition. Metzora: How…
…its radiance, transformed by its alignment with the will and word of its Creator. Vayikra Tzav Shemini Tazria Metzora Acharei Mot Kedoshim Emor Behar Bechukotai Bamidbar (Numbers) The central theme of Bamidbar, the book of Numbers, is the second stage of the Israelites’ journey: physically from Egypt to the Promised Land, mentally from slavery to freedom. It is among the…
…beginning, on account of the famine, was also a sin he committed, for in famine God would redeem him from death. It was because of this deed that the exile in the land of Egypt at the hand of Pharaoh was decreed for his children. Ramban, Commentary to Genesis 12:10, based on Zohar, Tazria, 52a. According to Ramban, Abraham should have…
…when we most want and need community, we are being deprived of it by social distancing, by self-isolation, by quarantine. And it feels not so much like the parshiyot of Vayakhel-Pekudei as the parshiyot of Tazria and Metzora, where we read, badad yeisheiv mi’chutz lamachaneh moshavo, “He shall dwell alone in self-imposed isolation outside the camp.” (Vayikra 13:46) In New…
…Yellin College and taught at Keren Ohr and Chavat HaNoar HaTzioni. He moved to Perth in 2007, where he completed a Master’s in Special Education. He and wife, Judith, have two children. < Back to The Sacks Scholars More from Simon Lawrence Tazria: The Plague of Evil Speech – Family Edition What is True Freedom? Tikkun Leil Resource for Teenagers…
As we saw in Parshat Tazria, the Sages identify tzara’at – the condition that affects human skin, the fabric of garments, and the walls of a house – not as an illness but as a punishment, and not for any sin but for one specific sin, that of lashon hara, evil speech. This prompts the obvious question: Why evil speech…
…you celebrate the good, the more good you discover that is worthy of celebration. SHEMINI: What you think of as your greatest weakness can become, if you wrestle with it, your greatest strength. TAZRIA-METZORA: In any relationship that matters to you, deliver praise daily. Seeing and praising the good in people makes them better people, makes you a better person,…
Koren Publishers have launched a new Magerman edition of the Koren Tanach featuring, for the first time, the complete translation of Chumash by Rabbi Sacks zt”l. You can order your copy here and view the opening pages below. Peek Inside…
Praise, and how we administer it, is a fundamental element in leadership of any kind. Recognising the good in people and saying so, we help bring people’s potential to fruition. Praising their efforts rather than their innate gifts helps encourage growth, about which Hillel used to say: “He who does not increase his knowledge, loses it” (Mishnah Avot 1:13). The…