Posts Tagged ‘metzora’

I Wouldn’t Get Used to This – a poem for Torah Portion Tazria-Metzora

If a man loses the hair on [the back of] his head,he is bald. He is clean.Leviticus 13:40 No one complains when babies are baldbut let a few decades go by and if the skinof our heads becomes visible, it becomes a thing. Industries have arisen to help us deal withthis affliction. Wigs, magic hair […]

Unscrolled, Parashat Tazria-Metzora: A Pox Upon Your House

In many contemporary editions of the Torah, the name of the skin condition which concerns Parashat Tazria-Metzora is transliterated but not translated. The word, Tzara’at, is thus unfamiliar to the ears and stripped of associations. We cannot know for certain what it is. Faced with this uncertainty, we have two choices. We can, as many […]

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