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The Torah’s treatment of tzara’at is unlike the treatment of an ordinary physical condition. A visible nega may appear on a person’s skin, clothing, or home, yet its Torah status is determined specifically by a Kohen. Chazal and the classical commentaries describe these afflictions as carrying a message—one that calls upon the affected person to…

The Third Bet HaMikdash is an exciting theme and promise in Judasim. On the holy day of Yom Kippur in the Hebrew Calendar year of 3372 (389 BCE) Yechezkel HaNavi (Prophet Ezekiel) was shown a detailed vision of the allotment of the Land of Israel in the messianic era. Yechezkel was also shown a detailed…

Story: In the previous generation there was a superb scholar that has been quite unknown beyond his community and those that met him. Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch, whose Hilula fell on 11 Tammuz (1945), was the Chief Rabbi of all of Western Canada and the Western United States from 1905-1945.   Rabbi Kahanovitch attended the…

Hebrew Pidyon HaBen Customs of Pidyon HaBen The customs that surround the redemption of the firstborn, adding dignity and joy while keeping the act of redemption itself at the center. The Mitzvah and the Customs Around It Pidyon HaBen has a defined central act: the father brings his qualifying firstborn son before the Kohen and…