Tazria-Metzora | The Unique Opportunity Afforded to the Metzora
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Rav Yitzchak Etshalom explores the laws of tzara'at and their implications, emphasizing the themes of purification and second chances in life.
Tazria-Metzora | The Unique Opportunity Afforded to the Metzora, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Why is the law regarding the Yoledet presented immediately before the laws of tzara'at? The complex, confusing and unique instructions regarding the diagnosis and healing from tzara'at make these parashot possibly the most inscrutable and deliberately overlooked sections in the Torah. We analyze the status, implications and message of Tzara'at following his or her repatriation ceremony - which looks, in many ways, like the purification from an encounter with death. In a season when painful memories of the victims of the Shoah and our fallen soldiers are saluted, this long reading gives us, perhaps, a renewed appreciation of life and of the miraculous opportunity of "second chances". Source sheet >>
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