by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Apr 11, 2008 | Tazria, Metzora
In this week’s parsha we learn about the diagnosis and treatment of “tzoraas” (a leprous disease, which one would suffer because of some moral failing) by a kohen. The kohen might observe a whitish sore on the person’s skin, and, if he...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Sep 18, 2007 | Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Elul, Ten Days of Repentance
There is a standard metaphor that we are taught as children. On the Day of Judgment God, the judge, sits on His chair with a large scale in front of him. Not a digital scale or the type of scale that you would see in the butcher shop or the vegetable store but an old...
by Rabbi Yaacov Haber | Oct 18, 2006 | Tzav, Pesach/Passover
There is an interesting Midrash concerning this week’s parsha. Moshe, in writing down the Torah at G-d’s dictation, has noticed something strange. Nowhere, in the description of priestly functions in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus) up to now, is his...
