Pesach (Passover)
Shabbat Shalom! This week we’re sharing an Orthodox Jewish commentary on the traditional reading of Song of Songs during Passover with Sondra Oster Baras.
Mezora (Leper) – Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33
This week’s Torah portion, Mezora talks about disease! But what exactly is this disease, often translated as “leprosy”?
Tazria (Conceived seed) – Leviticus 12:1-13:59
This week we read portion Tazria, but Shmuel is already looking ahead to next week’s portion, Mezora which deals with the topic of leprosy. Could leprosy be a tool to help the affected person?
Shmini (Eighth) – Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47
In this week’s video Shmuel discusses the foundation for the laws of kosher food, as well as his personal adventures of keeping kosher as a world traveler.
Matot/Masei (Tribes/Travel) Numbers 30:2 – 36:13
The people of Israel are the only people in the world who were exiled from their land for 2,000 years and yet remained intact as a people and as a faith. What kept us going all those years was the fact that we had the Torah, the Bible, as a guide through the years of exile, and we had a land to yearn for.