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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9532| Title: | Taking the lead: Parshat Tazria/Metzora |
| Authors: | Brown, Erica |
| Keywords: | leprosy Tazria Metzora impurity the High Priest the Kohen Gadol |
| Issue Date: | 17-Apr-2023 |
| Publisher: | The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership |
| Citation: | Brown, E. (2023, April 17). Taking the lead: Parshat Tazria/Metzora. The Torah of Leadership. YUTorah.org. Yeshiva University. |
| Series/Report no.: | The Torah of Leadership;Parshat Tazrie/Metzora |
| Abstract: | This double Torah reading of Tazria and Metzora is among the most challenging in the Torah. It is about a spiritual skin affliction that we erroneously call leprosy, its many variations, and the places it can reach: one’s body, one’s clothing, and even one’s house. Instead of going to the ancient equivalent of a dermatologist, the person infected notifies the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest. If the illness is spiritual with a physical manifestation, then the doctor, too, must be a spiritual one. Who better than the High Priest to diagnose the rash? |
| Description: | The weekly Bible portion |
| URI: | https://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecturedata/1062716/Taking-the-Lead https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9532 |
| Appears in Collections: | The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership -- Weekly Parsha |
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