Tazria
Leviticus · 9 articles
Parshat Tazria - Seventh Aliyah
In this aliyah we conclude chapter 13, which deals entirely with the laws of tzara'at, and move to the details of purification or impurity of tzara'at on a garment or a leather vessel.
Parshat Tazria - Sixth Aliyah
In this aliyah the Torah continues to detail the laws of tzara'at, this time regarding the bald head, and a rare and loaded phenomenon: tzara'at on a garment.
Parshat Tazria - Fifth Aliyah
In this aliyah the Torah continues the laws of skin afflictions, this time in special places of the body: the head and the beard, and an affliction called 'netek' that causes hair to fall.
Parshat Tazria - Fourth Aliyah
In this aliyah the Torah continues the laws of skin afflictions, this time in a special case: an affliction resembling tzara'at that grows within the site of a burn, a burn of fire.
Parashat Tazria - Third Aliyah
The aliyah addresses a plague that appears on skin that had already healed from a boil, and distinguishes between active tzara'at and a scar that remained.
Parashat Tazria - Second Aliyah
The aliyah continues the laws of the plague on the skin of the body, and sharpens how the priest decides between pure and impure.
Parashat Tazria - First Aliyah
The aliyah opens with the laws of the woman after childbirth: purity and impurity, circumcision on the eighth day, and an offering adapted to those who cannot afford a lamb. From there, the Torah turns to the opening laws of tzara'at.
Parshat Tazria - Insights and Questions
Parshat Tazria teaches that life itself is deeply holy, so even the smallest stains are not negligible, and purification does not begin from perfection but from truth.
Is tzaraat purely a physical illness, or is it an external expression of a spiritual problem?
Is tzaraat - the one described in Parashat Tazria - a purely physical illness, like flu with spots? Or is it a heavenly sign, a divine inner response, reflected on the skin like a mirror of the soul?
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