Tag: spiritual

  • Tazria Metsora 5781

    Tazria Metsora 5781

    Tazria-Metsora 5781 Lauren Tuchman   This week’s parsha, Tazria-Metsora is both incredibly timely and deeply complex. Now that the Kohenim have been ordained, their functions are beginning to be outlined. The Book of Leviticus is arguably the Torah’s most complex and least understood book, given that it is largely concerned…

  • Torah From A Mussar Perspective Mishpatim 5781

    Torah From A Mussar Perspective Mishpatim 5781

    During this pandemic time, I have found myself frequently moving between periods of normal energy and periods of considerable fatigue. I note that the latter is not unexpected, given all that has occurred in our world and in my own life this past year. Yet, I yearn to emerge from…

  • Kedoshim 5779

    It has become something of a cliché in the circles I run in these days that when a teacher of Torah or a clergyperson from any religious tradition, for that matter, sits down to write a sermon, the sermon they often write is that which they most need to hear.…