Parashat Taz-ri’a: A Shift in Power from Biblical Text to Rabbinic Perception (delivered by Rabbi Sacks on April 1, 2022)   This week’s Torah reading, Taz-ri’a, portrays the Priest as a physician, and it portrays spiritual blight as medical malady. The text focuses on scaly skins and malignant discolorations, but simmering beneath the surface is […]

Haftarah for Lech L’cha 5782/2021 – Torah Study Shabbat Torah Discussion with Rabbi Sacks (given on October 16, 2021)   Once again, yasher ko-ach to Maayan on his chanting of today’s haftarah. In the haftarah, Second Isaiah wants us to see ourselves as a people who live and act in the world as Abraham lived […]