Parsha Pick-Me-Up
di Yitzchak Sprung
Take a few minutes to study the parsha with Rabbi Sprung on Thursdays from Bereshit to V'Zot Habracha. Find the Parsha Pick-Me-Up on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodi del podcast
Stagione 2
Metzora: Expertise versus Authority?
Some stupendous humility may be called for in such a case. Perhaps the teacher of all of the priests is not a priest. Then, that teacher will never be able to declare tzara’at, though his students could. A surprising lesson is contained here. Listen to the Parsha Pick-Me-Up to learn more.
Tazria: First in Thought or Last in Value?
"If a man does well, they say to him, you preceded the angels; if he does not, they say to him: (in creation) the fly preceded you, the gnat preceded you, the snail preceded you." - Reish Lakish But what does this have to do with the laws of Kashrut and ritual purity?
Shmini: Love, Then and Always
"I am torn within, I cry without end. I do not sleep.... Maybe Hashem has finally decided that we are no longer His chosen people?" Words and worries from the past and present. As always, the parsha comes to speak to our moment. Sources: Rabbi Yuval Sherlow, Shu’’t HaHitnatkut p. 139 Lev. 9:23 with Rashi Jer. chap. 2 with Rashi.
Tzav: No Strings Attached?
Do we need to earn our place in this world? We find ourselves here, and no one asked us whether we were interested. Yet, once we are here, God makes demands of us. Our parasha contains the beginning of a meditation on this problem. Sources: Lev. 6:10, Malachi 1:10, Tosefta Demai 2:8.
