Parshas Tazria
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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 Tazria/Metzorah - Tahor, Tahor
In this shiur, based on a sicha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l, Rav Burg explains the concepts of Ratzo and Shov, three perspectives as to how Hashem relates to creation and how Rabbah Bar Nachmeini was able to see the purity in every single Jew, even those w
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Tazria - Plugging In To Hashem
In this shiur Rav Burg explains the inner meaning behind why tzaras is white, why we go to a Kohen to be diagnosed and why that Kohen must be in the Beis HaMikdash. The world is created with speech and through the medium of speech we can tap in or break off fr
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Parshas Tazria - Redemption of the Metzora
Chazal teach us that the name of Mashiach is the leper. Why would Mashiach have such a strange name? Only the Kohen can declare someone afflicted with tzaras to be pure or impure. Why? Would it not make more sense to have the chacham who actually knows the ha
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Parshas Tazria is in Nitzotzos on Sefer Vayikra, Rav Burg's essays on the parsha.
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Parshas Tazria · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Tazria – Conflict Resolution This article has been generously sponsored anonymously in the merit of Tzvi ben Yitzchak Yaakov. May his neshoma have an aliyah. To sponsor an article and to help us… 
Parshas Tazria · Jan 7, 2021 Parshas Tazria / Metzorah – Positivity Bias This Dvar Torah is dedicated in the zechus of Yehudis Miriam Bas Raizel. May she merit a speedy refuah shleima! כ ִּ֤י תָבֹ֨אוּ֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ כּ ְנַ֔עַן אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֛י… Keep the spark alive
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