We like to think of childbirth as miraculous and joyful (which we certainly hope it will be), but it is also
a bloody, painful, and sometimes dangerous process. Even today, after the advent of modern
medicine, women continue to face perilous complications and even the risk of death during
pregnancy and labor. It is thus not surprising, at least to me, that in the biblical world – as we see in
Chap. 12 of Leviticus, the opening of this week’s parashah, Tazriah – that giving birth was a source
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