This Week's Torah Portion
Tazria - M’tzora
תַזְרִיעַ - מְצֹרָע
Bearing Seed / A Leper
The Eternal One spoke to Moses, saying: "Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her condition of menstrual separation." - Leviticus 12:1-2
The Eternal One spoke to Moses, saying: "This shall be the ritual for a leper at the time of being purified ." - Leviticus 14:1-2
Torah
Leviticus 12:1-15:33Haftarah
II Kings 7:3-20When
/ 5 Iyar 5781
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