Tazria: The Lonely Leper | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and hab thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning Monday morning as we are back my friends from pes vacation and we are ready full steam ahead towards matan tora towards the receiving of the Torah the holiday of shàu coming up and every day we have the om and we count towards the uh not just towards the receiving but every day we make it count and we grow in whatever way uh each person on their own whatever way uh each person on their own level is able to. So here we go my friends as we are studying this week a double header and these two parachot are often read together they both deal with the leper or that's how it's usually translated leprosy. Now, [clears throat] if you read these laws, if you read the parote, they're very uh interesting. They make really they they're they're hard to make sense of what exactly is hard to make sense of what exactly is going on. If you read it just on a superficial level, here you have a guy who all of a sudden gets some form of uh blemish, some form of sickness, uh something on his skin or even on his hair or on the house or on his clothing, he gets a discoloration of sorts. It turns white and the Torah says now that he has to go outside. He is in a way impure. He is

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