The Jews of Holland

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So good morning. So let's start with the para today. The today we have a double para um because this year we only had one month of adar. So we have to fit 54 portions in um less than 50 weeks. So we get a bunch of doubles this year. So this is our first double for the year and this is called Tazria Morra. Tazria being the first one, Mura being the second one. The first portion begins with um a woman who's g and these two portions both of them have the same portions both of them have the same theme which is the laws of tuma and taharo ritual purity. Um we've touched on ritual purity in various other classes that we have spoken about. Um there were various laws. A person who was uh became tame became ritually impure in various different ways. Some of which are discussed in this week's para. If they become tame, there's various ways they become tahor pure. Um usually through going to the mikvah, though not always. going to the mikvah, though not always. Um, someone who is tame is forbidden from um going into the temple, from eating holy foods such as the truma that was given to the Cohen, from um eating sacrifi holy foods like sacrifices. Today we no longer have a temple. We no longer keep most of those laws of ritual purity. Um the only ones that are relevant are the um uh the only ones that we still keep today is um a when a

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