Parashat Shmini 5775 You Are What You Eat

Audio and Essays Parashiot Tazria and Metzora:

Audio and Essays Parashiot Tazria and Metzora:

New Echoes of Eden Project:

Parashiot Tazria and Metzora 5775 - FreeBird

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2015/04/parashiottazria-5775-and-metzora.html

Audio: Tazria and Metzora:

Ritual Separation To Create Holiness

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=328

Separation Leading To Holiness Matan (more in depth)

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=329

Tazria

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=340

Tumah/Hyssop/Korban Pesach Matan

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=356

Commandments as a replacement for Holiness

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/774530/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Commandments_as_a_replacement_for_Holiness

Parshiot tazria metzora 5773

Iyov Yona and Eliyahu Prophets and Non-Prophets

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/792170/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Iyov_Yona_and_Eliyahu_Prophets_and_Non-Prophets

Metzora

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=306

Turning Pain into Pleasure

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759389/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Turning_Pain_into_Pleasure

Essays Tazria and Metzora:

Seclusion

http://rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_tazria_5774_seclusion.pdf

Life and Death

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48923217.html

The Holy Hyssop

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2009/04/tazria-metzorah-5769.html

The Sanctity of Speech

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48923507.html

Man's Duality

http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48918152.html

Turning Pain Into Pleasure

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2010/04/parshiot-tazria-and-metzora-5770.html

Feeling Kinship

http://rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_metzorah_5774_feeling_kinship.pdf

Audio and Essays Parashat Shmini

Audio and Essays Parashat Shmini

New Echoes of Eden Project:

Parashat Shmini 5775 - You Are What You Eat

http://arikahn.blogspot.co.il/2015/04/parashat-shmini-5775-you-are-what-you.html

Audio:

Commandments as a replacement for Holiness

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/774530/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Commandments_as_a_replacement_for_Holiness

Nadav Avihu and the 4 who went to Pardes

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759077/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Parshat_Shmini_-_Nadav_Avihu_and_the_4_who_went_to_Pardes

Shemini Tazria

http://rabbiarikahn.com/audio?id=333

The Value Of Silence-Parshat Shmini - Silence in the Teachings of Rebbe Nachman

http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/759079/Rabbi_Ari_Kahn/Parshat_Shmini_-_Silence_in_the_Teachings_of_Rebbe_Nachman

Essays:

Separations

http://rabbiarikahn.com/pdf/parashat_shmini_5774_separations.pdf

In Front of God

http://rabbiarikahn.com/writing?id=124

Silence

http://rabbiarikahn.com/writing?id=125

Aharon's Silence

http://rabbiarikahn.com/writing?id=126

When Pigs Fly

http://rabbiarikahn.com/writing?id=127

The Sons of Aaron: Sinners or Saints?

http://rabbiarikahn.com/writing?id=128

Thoughts of Pesach and Peoplehood

Throughout the generations people have defined and redefined the “wicked” child at the seder. I think an interesting question to pose at the seder is – who or what would be the contemporary “wicked” member of our people: Someone who is still at the seder, who we still speak with, even though they really make declarations rather than asking questions. (Take a careful look at the various verses used as proof texts for each of the sons.)

A flip side of the same thought process is, when we say “Elu V’elu divrie Elokim Chaim” (“Both these and these are the living words of God): In our opinion, whose is the OTHER opinion we deem appropriate, or legitimate – even though we disagree? It seems that the definition of the legitimate “other” has become increasingly narrow.

What are the contours of the Jewish community with which we feel comfortable? Whom are we vilifying? Who threatens and scares us? Who do we see as a legitimate other voice?

Pesach is about peoplehood, the formation of a nation. Have we written off some of our people too easily? Do we think they do not have a legitimate voice? Do we see them as “wicked”?

These are some of the questions I would like to raise at the seder. I am not looking for answers, just raising some questions.

Passover 5775 Becoming a Nation

Sources for 21 Pesach Shiurim:

Sources for 21 Pesach Shiurim:

הלילה הזה כולו צלי

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_56.html

חד גדיה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_23.html

"From Arami Oved Avi to Chad Gadya - a mystical journey led by the Vilna Gaon"

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/fromarami-oved-avi-to-chad-gadya.html

המצה של לוט

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_26.html

אין ביעור חמץ אלא שריפה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_7.html

אלו קרבנו לפני הר סיני ולא נתן לנו את התורה דייני

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_4.html

ארבע כוסות

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_90.html

פסח – הלכה, מנהג, וחומרה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_40.html

חייב אדם לעסוק בהלכות הפסח כל הלילה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_30.html

חישב את הקץ

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_91.html

חרוסת

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_9.html

כנגד ארבע בנים  

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_34.html

מַצָּה זוּ שֶׁאָנוּ אוֹכְלִים עַל שׁוּם מָה. עַל שׁוּם מה? -לֶחֶם עֹנִי

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_44.html

מכירת חמץ

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_99.html

מתחיל בגנות ומסיים בשבח

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_3.html

(פֶּסַח,) מַצָּה, (וּמָרוֹר)

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_16.html

קטנית

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_74.html

חג הפסח עד חצות

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_31.html

שיר השירים עם ברכה

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_54.html

ערב תבשילין, קיטניות וחמץ - הבט הלכתי ומחשבתי

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_29.html

רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה זכירת וסיפור יציאת מצרים

http://mishkanetrog.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/blog-post_27.html

Parshat Tzav 5775 Chametz and Matzah