Metzora
“Leper”
The twenty-eighth reading from the Torah is Metzora, a word that means “leper.” The word appears in the second verse of the reading which says, “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing” (Leviticus 14:2).
Leviticus 14 spells out the complex rituals for the cleansing of a leper and a leprous home. Leviticus 15 briefly covers the laws regarding ritual unfitness stemming from bodily emissions
From FFOZ’s Unrolling the Scroll
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