Parshat Tazria: Skin Care Tips from the Torah

 

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Leviticus: 12:1-13:59 

Tazria is possibly the grossest parsha in the entire Torah, full of scaly skin, sprouting sores and breakouts of Biblical proportions. Join the contagiously comic chronicler of crustiness Jennifer Traig for a tour of Biblical skin disease. Bring your own pimple cream.

The Torah does not give a reason why certain animals are kosher and others are not. Why do you think some of them were permitted and other prohibited?

What counts as gossip? Why do people gossip? What are the effects of gossip?

Each week, a different storyteller - some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current Torah portion...and then we animate it! For a source sheet and lesson guide for this animated short please visit http://www.g-dcast.com/weekly-parsha/