Parshas Metzora
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Tazria-Metzora - Love vs Boundaries
When the Torah sends the Metzora “outside the camp,” is it rejection or something far deeper? We don’t throw people away. So why does the Torah seem to? This shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, reframes the exile of the Metzora not as punishment, but as
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Tazria-Metzora - Be Godly, See Deeper
A peddler walks through Tzipori offering the ultimate cure: “Who wants life?” Chazal reveal: it’s not a potion. It’s a perspective. In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg uncovers the deeper root of the metzora: not negative speech, but negative
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Tazria-Metzora - Raising Children To Leave The Nest
Why does the Torah prefer the ben yonah over the tor after childbirth? The tor bonds for life. When it loses its partner, it never recovers. The ben yonah also bonds deeply but can re-pair after loss. In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg expla
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Tazria-Metzora: Seeing The Complete Person And All Of Their Beauty
In this shiur, delivered in Tomer Devorah, Rav Burg examines many of the halachos of the Metzora and explains the inner nature of each one. When we take a snapshot of someone, defining them without context by their lowest moments, we fail to capture the full p
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Tazria-Metzora: Not Just Being But Becoming Tahor
In this shiur, delivered in Ba'er Miriam, Rav Burg explains the inner meaning of the Niddah cycle. The halacha of the mother who gives birth to a baby boy and gives her son a Bris represents the Torah of man. We are not meant to live in a state of Tahara but t
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Parshas Metzora is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Vayikra, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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Parshas Metzora · Apr 21, 2023 Parshas Metzorah – Something Like a Blemish (short vort) וּבָא אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ הַבַּיִת, וְהִגִּיד לַכֹּהֵן לֵאמֹר: כְּנֶגַע, נִרְאָה לִי בַּבָּיִת. And the one to whom the house belongs comes and tells the kohen, saying, "Something like a… 
Parshas Metzora · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Metzora – I Am Blind So I Can See (A Tribute to My Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yaakov Bender shlit"a) One of the fascinating halachos that we find in connection with tzaras is that the Kohen who declares the Metzora pure or impure must have good eyesight. If he is blind… Keep the spark alive
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