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FW: Childbirth and Hachodesh

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Subject: Childbirth and Hachodesh

New! YUTorah Parsha Roundup: Tazria

View in browser Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future Parshat Tazria 5782 Download the newest edition of the YUTorah in Print for Parshat Tazria with 8 pages of recently uploaded Torah articles to print out for your Shabbat table. Learn about the Parsha Topics from the Parsha • Bris Milah • Childbirth and Tumah • Halacha on the Parsha • Man following the Animals • The 3 Stages of Tzaras • The Kohen and Tzara'as • The Power of Speech • Tzara'as and Mila • Tzara'as Nowadays • Tzara'as Over the Whole Body • Understanding Tumah The Message of Brit Milah Learn the laws and lessons of a baby's first mitzvah as seen from this week's parsha. Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim The Isolation of the Metzorah Why does the person afflicted with tzara'as have to go through a period of isolation from the rest of society before recovering? Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim The Power of Speech One of the lessons of our parsha is the ability we have to build and destroy with our words. Learn more about the rules of Lashon Hara. Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Tazria and Parshas Hachodesh It's not often that the two fall on the same week, is there any connection at all? Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim New This Week Recent Shiurim on Tazria • Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh: Think Twice • Rabbi Yisroel Bloom: Bringing Kedusha into our Lives • Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander: When Creativity Is Lost: Understanding Ritual Impurity • Rabbi Chaim Brovender: Naaman & Moshiach • Rabbi Dan Cohen: Tzara'at and Mitzrayim • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman: Issues of Lashon Hara in the Shidduch World • Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: The Darkness Before the Light • Morah Stacey Goldman: The Power of 7 • Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith: Immediate Tumah • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht: הצרעת, המפתח לכל ספר ויקרא • Rabbi Daniel Hartstein: What Goes In & Goes Out • Rabbi Ari Kahn: Isolation • Rabbi Shaya Katz: Childbirth & Tzara'as: A Time To Appreciate The World & Our Place In It • Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg: The Great Potential of the Human Being • Rabbi Yoni Levin: The Secret of Tzedaka - The Nucleus of the Torah • Rabbi Yoni Mandelstam: Enjoying Pleasant Smells of Chametz on Pesach • Rabbi Chaim Marcus: Yearning for Tzara'as • Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern: Why was the Metzora Quarantined? • Rabbi Isaac Rice: The Pain Of Feeling Lonely • Rabbi Yaacov Thaler: The Good and The Bad • Rabbi Moshe Walter: The Medrash of The Peddler, Rav Yanai, And Rav Alexsandri • Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: Brit Milah as "Spoils of War" Recent Articles on Tazria • Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald: Tzaraat, The Spiritual-Dermatological Disease • Rabbi Judah Kerbel: The Roots of Sins of Speech • Rabbi Yehuda Mann: The Path to Happiness • Rabbi Moshe Taragin: