Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778 (In Spanish with English subtitles) Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum – Director of OTS’s Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Programs
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“Shabbat Shalom” – Emor 5778
In Israel Parshat Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – “Remove the blasphemer to the outside of the camp” (Lev 24:14) Our Biblical portion of Emor concludes with a strange and almost mythical tale of what appears to be the son of a mixed marriage (“the child of an Israelite woman and of one who is an Egyptian …
“Torah Lights” – Emor 5778
“Bringing Holiness into Our World” – Rabbi Riskin’s insights into Parshat Emor Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
“Shabbat Shalom” – Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778
In the Diaspora Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20:27) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – “You must surely instruct your colleague, so that you not bear the brunt of his sin” (Lev. 19:17). Judaism teaches us that “every Israelite is responsible for the other.” Except for the State of Israel, where the Jewish population …
“Parsha Perspectives” – Tazria-Metzora 5778
Tazria-Metzora 5778 (In Spanish with English subtitles) Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum – Director of OTS’s Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Programs
“Torah Lights” – Acharei Mot – Kedoshim 5778
“Taking Responsibility for our Own Redemption” – Rabbi Riskin’s insights into Parshat Acharei Mot – Kedoshim Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
“Parsha to the Point” – Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778
In the Diaspora Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778 (Leviticus 16:1-20:27) Rabbi David Stav This Shabbat, we will read the Torah portions Acharei Mot and Kedoshim. Though these two parashot ostensibly cover entirely different subjects, they share something profound in common, which is also tied to how they are structured. The first part of Acharei Mot deals …
“Shabbat Shalom” – Tazria-Metzora 5778
In the Diaspora Parshat Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1-15:33) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – “Then he shall sprinkle [the mixture] seven times upon the person being purified from the tzara’at; he shall purify him and set the live bird free upon the open field” (Leviticus 14:7). One of the strangest and most primitive-sounding rituals …
“Parsha to the Point” – Tazria-Metzora 5778
In the Diaspora Tazria-Metzora 5778 (Leviticus 12:1-15:33) Rabbi David Stav This Shabbat, we will read the double-parsha of Tazri’a–Metzora in our synagogues. Dozens of verses outline the symptoms of various skin diseases that appear on people’s heads, in their beards, in their clothes and in their homes. Suffice it to say that nowhere else …
“Parsha Perspectives” – Shemini 5778
Shemini 5778 (In Spanish with English subtitles) Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum – Director of OTS’s Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel Emissary Training Programs