Har HaBait Jewish Sovereign for all Israel

 Torah.org Perceptions By Rabbi Pinchas Winston, Parshas Tazria Perceptions By Rabbi Pinchas Winston To Dedicate an Article  click here Parshas Tazria Eight And Beyond   Friday Night THE TORAH TELLS us to wait seven days after the birth of a boy performing Bris Milah . Similarly, it also teaches us to wait seven days from the birth of a potential sacrifice before offering it up on its eighth day. The Kli Yakar asks ( Parashas Emor, Vayikra 22:27) why the Torah thinks we might have offered the animal earlier than its eighth day, since it would still be quite young and vulnerable. He answers, because even such a young animal already looks like an adult animal from birth, just much smaller. Then he asks, why the eighth day? Is it just the first day after the seventh day, or is it specific? The Kli Yakar explains that the number eight always represents a more...

 Torah.org Rav Frand By Rabbi Yissocher Frand, Parshas Tazria Rav Frand By Rabbi Yissocher Frand To Dedicate an Article  click here Parshas Tazria A Joyful Time Should Be Had by All   These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissochar Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Torah Tapes on the weekly Torah portion: Tape # 369, Bris Milah That Causes Chilul Shabbos. Good Shabbos! At the beginning of Parshas Tazria, the Torah says that after a woman gives birth to a male son, she is ritually impure for seven days. Then, following immersion in a mikva (a ritual bath), she returns to a state of ritual purity. On the eighth day, male sons are circumcised. The Talmud in Niddah (31b) provides a very interesting reason for performing the bris milah on the eighth day. During the seven days of ritual impurity following the birth of a son, the mother is a...