Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yisraeli: Tazria-Metzorah Disease as Punishment?
Rabbi Lavery-Yizraeli writes that tzara’at is not a medical condition, even though it seems like it is. Only the Kohen diagnoses, and a Kohen cannot…
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Rabbi Lavery-Yizraeli writes that tzara’at is not a medical condition, even though it seems like it is. Only the Kohen diagnoses, and a Kohen cannot…
Rabbi Mintz writes that, despite post-biblical and contemporary thought, judgments of impurity that are affiliated with “uncleanness”, or “sinfulness” related to the chata’at are not…