Parshat Parah, Purity, and the Nullification of Self (Week of Vayakhel)

19/03/2025 52 min
Parshat Parah, Purity, and the Nullification of Self (Week of Vayakhel)

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode we are going to get into Parshat Parah, one of the special parshoyot we read leading into Pesach! Why do we read about the Parah Adumah, the purifying red heifer, this week? What is so powerful about this mysterious mitzvah? And how does it in fact begin to prepare us for Pesach? We'll get into all of that and  much more in this episode!  If you want to follow along in the text, it is Nesiovs Shalom Sefer Shemot page shin yud (310). You can find a pdf of the piece here.This week's episode is sponsored by the Betsalel family in honor of the yurtzeit of Adina's great-grandmother, Esther bat Shoshana. May her neshamah have an aliyah. Thank you so much to this week's generous sponsor!If you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast, please email Rabbi Charnoff at [email protected].