Shemini/Shabbat Para: The Red Heifer

Posted by Daniel Landes on March 30, 2016
Topics: Pardes from Jerusalem, Shemini

The Red Hiefer offers the paradox of the “impure” becoming pure and the “pure” becoming impure in the process. In this week’s podcast, Rabbi Daniel Landes offers a new attempt to appreciate the dynamics of these transformations.

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Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

About Daniel Landes

Born in Chicago, Danny studied in Chicago with Rabbi M.B. Sacks, the Menachem Tzion; in Israel with Reb Aryeh Levin, the Tzadik of Jerusalem, with the great mystic R. Zvi Yehudah Kook, and with the Chief Rabbi R. Avrum Shapiro. In New York he studied with the Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; and in Los Angeles with the Av Beit Din R. Shmuel Katz (on whose rabbinical court he served).

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