William Cutter

Reading an Ancient Practice

D'Var Torah By: William Cutter

Is Tazria a parashah that indexes Jewish connections between purity and community health? Jackie Mason might say that the Jewish fixation with health originated in this parashah: You begin with a spot on your skin, and you wind up with a bad back! Imagine what the Israeli comic Gil Kopetch

Is Korach All Bad?

D'Var Torah By: William Cutter

Focal Point They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and Adonai is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above Adonai'scongregation?" (Numbers 16:3) Moses was much aggrieved and he said to