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If Tzaraas Exists Today—Who Has It?

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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I'll let send you. >> Okay. Um good morning everybody. Say we're going to start today talking about um Saras Bisman or or otherwise. It has potential to turn into a series about about medical stuff um doctors pandemics alternative medicine. Um we'll see I guess we'll see where it goes. We'll follow where it goes. Um now I I wanted to start discussing the inas. Obviously it's partially related but uh 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 uh there's there's a a very famous uh non-Jewish woman by the name of Mother Teresa. I think everyone's heard of Mother Teresa. Uh Mother Teresa was is is like she became a saint already. The Catholic Church uh like beified her, made her a saint. She was a uh I think an Albanian who moved to Ireland and became a a nun and then moved to Kolkata, India and opened like many many many um 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 like a fatal disease. Um and she opened like hospices for the poor of Kolkata which was a a huge uh very overpop populated and very unsanitary city in India and she took care of these like um you know people suffering from leprosy who were dead who were dying. Now she

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  1. 0:00I'll let send you. >> Okay. Um good morning everybody. Say we're going to start today
  2. 3:11way that they accepted their suffering and dealt with it was like a spiritual reaction and
  3. 6:21terror says that that's not he doesn't have to be separated he says um another thing
  4. 9:36harassed when she speaks negatively about which the Garra says makes the that even Miriam who
  5. 13:25and it's a like a now the question is uh like observed like pointed out is
  6. 16:36he wouldn't he wouldn't talk about something you know mundane now is like a star that
  7. 19:51doctors in said a big salic wouldn't need a doctor like the Ramban he which if
  8. 23:43If you really look back, it's an earlier mikist. There's a seems to be a in
  9. 27:04says I don't know the answer says that was when I was a kid you know
  10. 30:21person is is the more viable it is that he could possibly have sarass meaning a

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