Posts Tagged: Tazria parsha
The Torah Teaches That Feeling No Pain Is a Weakness
You will be excused for not having heard of the latest Bollywood movie sensation, a film called Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, which translates as...
Parshat Tazria: The Sacrifices of Childbirth Don’t Demean Women
At the start of this week's parsha, there is a cluster of laws that challenged and puzzled the commentators. They concern a woman who has...
The Covenant of Circumcision: Why the Eighth Day Is So Holy
Our parsha this week begins with childbirth. It says that, in the case of a male child, “On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin...
The High Price of Free Speech
Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing, she enjoyed an active social life and seemed to have an exciting...
