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This week is a double parsha<\/em>. Tazria continues to discuss the laws of purity (tahor<\/em>) and impurity (tamei<\/em>). People who were impure were forbidden from entering the holy space of the Mishkan. By learning about purity we can also begin to understand the difference between God and human beings. God will exist forever but humans are mortal (and we will all die one day). God is spiritual, humans are also physical. The things that these parshiyot<\/em> tell us can make a person impure are all connected to our mortality and our physicality.<\/p>\n

The parsha<\/em> begins with the laws relating to childbirth (and the impurity it brings), and also the command to circumcise a male child on the eighth day. It continues with laws relating to tsara\u2019at<\/em>, often translated as \u2018leprosy\u2019. This was something larger than a disease, because it affected not only people but also clothes and houses. It was the job of the Priest to examine the symptoms, and to declare the person clean or unclean, or to be separated until a clearer decision could be made. The Sages said that tsara\u2019at<\/em> is a punishment for the sin of lashon hara<\/em> (evil speech).<\/p>\n

In Metzora we learn how to become purified from tsara\u2019at<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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