If Tzaraas Exists Today—Who Has It 04 12 2026

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay. Good morning, everybody say. We're going to start today talking about Saras Bismuna Zera or or otherwise. It has potential to turn into a series about about medical stuff but loud. Doctors, pandemics, alternative medicine. We'll see, I guess we'll see where it goes. We'll follow where it goes. Now, I I wanted to start discussing in your trust. Obviously, it's partially related trust. Obviously, it's partially related but you know, also the the broader topic. So, There's I'm not sure I'm not sure if it's appropriate to say this but I'll just there's there's a a very famous non-Jewish woman by the name of Mother Teresa. I think everyone's heard of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was is is like she became a saint already. The Catholic Church like beatified her and made her a saint. She was a I think an Albanian who moved to Ireland and became a a nun and then moved to Calcutta, India and opened like many Calcutta, India and opened like many many many hospice cares for the for the dying. Now, primarily who she she took care of in the hospice were people with leprosy. Now, leprosy is a terrible disease. You could look it up online at symptoms, etc. It's a terrible disease. It's like a fatal disease. And she opened like hospices for the poor of Calcutta, which was a huge very overpopulated and very unsanitary city in India. And she took care of these like um you know, people suffering from leprosy

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