Tazria – Metzora: Chatter Like a Sparrow
In Aramaic, tzara’at is called sgiru, (Unkelos) cognate to sgirah (closing). It points to the imperviousness of the heart and mind, the result of evil...
Category : Tazria
Tazria: Healing Alone
“All the days that the affliction is on him he will be impure, he is impure, solitary he will sit, outside the camp of his...
Correct Diagnosis
In Parashat Tazria we learn about the disease of tzara’at (Biblical leprosy) and how the individual suffering from it is purified. Although nowadays we have no...
Tazriyah Metzorah – Living with the Torah’s Weekly Portion
Tazria-Metzora: Sunday: Shades of White There are four types of tzara’at, a Biblical skin affliction commonly translated as ‘leprosy’: Baheret, se’et, sapachat of baheret and...
Making the right diagnosis
In the parashot of Tazria-Metzora we learn about the disease of tzara’at (Biblical leprosy) and how the individual suffering from it is purified. Although nowadays we have no way to actively...
To Touch and be Touched
The two portions of the Torah, Tazria-Metzora deal with the laws concerning צרעת, tzara’at, a skin disease that required the afflicted person to separate from...
