Parsha Pick-Me-Up Yitzchak Sprung
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- Religion och spiritualitet
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.
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Behar: A Time and Place for God
God chose the 7th day of the week and the 7th year of the Shmitah cycle to be special for Him but the special nature of these Sabbaths is dependent upon us.
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Emor: Cursed is that One, Fortunate the Other
Our Torah portion begins with our deepest hope and greatest fear: getting credit for our children or receiving opprobrium.
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Kedoshim: The Emperor's New Clothes
Our verse functions as a sort of warning: don’t turn to false gods, since, in the end, you may come to think that they are real.
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Acharei Mot: Defense or Prosecution
Notably, this is not the usual uniform of the High Priest, clothed generally in gold, jewels, and wool. Rashi explains that the gold, reminiscent as it was of the sin of the golden calf, would have been problematic.
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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.
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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?