This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say and do irrational and destructive things. You wouldn’t ...

The process of purifying the metzora (a person afflicted by a rare skin disease) is described in the portion of Metzora: “This shall be the law of the metzora in the days of his cleansing: he shall be ...

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This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...