Parashas Tazria-Metzora, Issue #842 – By Pinchas Winston God told Moses, “Tell the Children of Israel that if a woman conceives and gives birth to a male, then she will be ritually unclean for seven days, as if she had her period.” (Vayikra 12:1-2) THE DAY BEFORE Yosef was supposed to stand before Pharaoh…

  Parashas Shemini, Issue #841 – By Pinchas Winston Aharon’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, each took his pan, put fire in them, and placed incense upon it, and they brought before God foreign fire, which He had not commanded them. (Vayikra 10:1)   A LEIV TOV. A good heart. That’s what we are after each…

IF A PIECE of treif meat becomes accidentally mixed together with two identical pieces of kosher meat, making it impossible to know which is which, the entire mixture is kosher. The rabbis tell us to not eat at least one of three, but the Torah permits it.

 Parashas Vayikra / HaChodesh, Issue #839 – By Rabbi Pinchas Winston And God called to Moshe, and spoke unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying . . . (Vayikra 1:1) I don’t USUALLY push my books through Perceptions, but this book is special, given the time of year. It is called the “Geulah…

Parashas Vayakhel-Pekuday / Parah, Issue #838 – By Pinchas Winston These are the accounts of the Mishkan, the Mishkan of testimony . . . (Shemos 38:21) REBI AKIVA AND his colleagues were once walking within eyeshot of the Temple Mount when they saw a fox emerge from the place of the Kodesh Kodashim, the Holy…