Torah.org Rav Frand By Rabbi Yissocher Frand, Parshas Tazria
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...