Pride Shabbat: Selected Liturgy, Readings, and Poems
The Special Responsibilities of a Nation of Priests
Parashat M'tzora is about otherness. It describes skin conditions that required an ancient Israelite to live temporarily outside the camp. Reading this portion makes many of us uncomfortable.
Reading an Ancient Practice
Is Tazria a parashah that indexes Jewish connections between purity and community health? Jackie Mason might say that the Jewish fixation with health originated in this parashah: You begin with a spot on your skin, and you wind up with a bad back!
Becoming Midbar
There are only three places in Torah: Mitzrayim or Egypt, which means "the narrow place" in Hebrew; eretz zavat chalav u' d'vash, "land that flows with milk and honey" at the opposite end of the continuum; and in the middle, midbar, t
The Skin (Deep) Disease
Parashat Tazria/M'tzora is concerned with skin diseases and the procedures involved in checking for them, assessing them, declaring the sufferers healed, and reintegrating the latter into the community.
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