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In many contemporary editions of the Torah, the name of the skin condition which concerns Parashat Tazria-Metzora is transliterated but not translated. The word, Tzara’at, is thus unfamiliar to the ears and stripped of associations. We cannot know for certain what it is. Faced with this uncertainty, we have two choices. We can, as many […]
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Unscrolled, Parashat Tazria-Metzora: A Pox Upon Your House
April 16th, 2021 
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Unscrolled: A Rabbinical Student’s Take on Parashat Tetzaveh
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy “Can you picture, in your mind, what Anna Karenina looks like?” With this question, author Peter Mendelsund begins his book, “What We See When We Read.” To any reader of Tolstoy’s classic novel, there can only be one answer to this question: “Yes. As if she were standing here in front of me.” Tolstoy’s clear […]
Unscrolled: A Rabbinical Student’s Take on Parashat Mishpatim
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Religion is a thing forced upon children by the adults in their lives. To this day, my brother and I recall with horror how, at the command of our parents, we endured High Holiday services in uncomfortable formal shoes, bored by a relentless stream of inscrutable words and exhausted by senseless exhortations to stand up […]
Unscrolled: A Rabbinical Student’s Take on Parashat Beshalach
January 29th, 2021 Awake Goy In the final scene of “The Graduate,” as the giddy runaway lovers Elaine and Benjamin take their seats at the back of a bus, we are plunged into a moment of sudden stillness that interrupts the breathless speed of the previous sequence. While moments ago life swelled to epic proportion, now it is small again. […]
