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Be-Ha'alotecha: Miriam, Isaiah: We've Got Your Backs

This article first appeared in the IRAC newsletter

"Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Kushite woman whom he had married: for he had married a Kushite woman." --Numbers 12:1

Tazria - After Birth: Separation

by Rabbi Shefa Gold
 


The Blessing

These parshiot are concerned with the delicate times when one’s condition necessitates a period of separation from communal life. How does that separation happen and how is that person re-integrated into the community?