Weekly Torah Commentaries

Metzora

Leviticus 14:1-15:33

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Text Studies

Recipe For Purity by Hannah Graham

Provided by Hillel’s Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Learning, which creates educational resources for Jewish organizations on college campuses.

 

Sensitivity To Speech by Rabbi Jordan D. Cohen

Provided by KOLEL--The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning, which is affiliated with Canada's Reform movement.

 

The Cursed House by Rabbi Fred Reiner

Provided by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in North America.

Commentaries

Natural Healing by Ramona Rubin

Provided by Canfei Nesharim, providing Torah wisdom about the importance of protecting our environment.

 

Water for Life by Carol Towarnicky

Provided by American Jewish World Service, pursuing global justice through grassroots change.

 

Leper as "Other" by Lydia Bloom

Provided by American Jewish World Service, pursuing global justice through grassroots change.

 

Making Room for the Leper by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky

Provided by the Jewish Outreach Institute, an organization dedicated to creating a more open and welcoming Judaism.

 

Reaching Out To The Isolated by Dvora Weisberg

Provided by CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a multi-denominational think tank and resource center.

 

Is It Blasphemous To Heal People? by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Provided by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, which ordains Conservative rabbis at the University of Judaism.

 

The Subtleties Of One Letter by Rabbi Avraham Fischer

Provided by the Orthodox Union, the central coordinating agency for North American Orthodox congregations.

 

Modern Untouchables: Our Sins Of Exclusion by Rabbi Justin David

Provided by SocialAction.com, an on-line Jewish magazine dedicated to pursuing justice, building community, and repairing the world.

 

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