Parashat Tazria (When a woman conceives)
The Torah speaks in this
section mainly about skin diseases. Skin diseases are usually related to
impurity.
All of a sudden in the
middle of the description, there is the following verse:
Leviticus 13:13: “…then
the priest will make an examination. If the skin disease has covered the
person’s whole body, the priest will declare the infected person clean. If the
person has turned entirely white, he is clean.” If the disease covers the
whole body, that person is pure. If 99% of the body is affected, impure,
100% pure.
There are many
interpretations to this difficult verse…
I would like to share a
short story. When I was at Haifa University, I had a teacher who, in his first
class, told us: “You can only get 98 points in this class. 100 is God. 99
is the teacher…”
I didn’t like the idea of
the 99, but that idea that only God is 100, I loved it!
In memory of my beloved mother and teacher Miriam Rachel bat
Israel Itzchak Z"L
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