This Week’s Torah Portion: Tazria – M’tzora – תַזְרִיעַ – מְצֹרָע (Levicitus 12:1-15:33)
Two Torah portions about skin diseases. If you get these diseases, you need to go to isolation outside of the camp.
The rabbis tell us a story, they ask who will be our savior? Our Messiah?
And they answer, go to the gate of the city, look for the poor people, outcasted because of these skin diseases, and you will find the Messiah among them.
Our salvation will not come from the top of the social order, nor from our leaders, it will come from those we tend to ignore.
Parsha Tazria – M’tzora – תַזְרִיעַ – מְצֹרָע Torah Summary:
God describes the rituals of purification for a woman after childbirth. (12:1-8)
God sets forth the methods for diagnosing and treating a variety of skin diseases, including tzara-at (a leprous affection), as well as those for purifying clothing. (13:1-59)
Priestly rituals to cure tzara-at when it afflicts humans are described. (14:1-32)
Rituals to rid dwelling places of tzara-at are presented. (14:33-57)
The parashah denotes male impurities resulting from a penile discharge or seminal emission. (15:1-18)
The parashah concludes with accounts of female impurities caused by a discharge of blood. (15:19-33)
Tazria – M’tzora – תַזְרִיעַ – מְצֹרָע
Two Torah portions about skin diseases. If you get these diseases, you need to go to isolation outside of the camp.
The rabbis tell us a story, they ask who will be our savior? Our Messiah?
And they answer, go to the gate of the city, look for the poor people, outcasted because of these skin diseases, and you will find the Messiah among them.
Our salvation will not come from the top of the social order, nor from our leaders, it will come from those we tend to ignore.
