Post by alon on Apr 21, 2020 7:08:55 GMT -8
27,28.3 Par’shot Tazria & Metzora
Name of Par’shah- 27.3 Tazria, She Conceives
Par’shah- Lev 12:1–13:59
Haftara- 2 Kings 4:42-5:19
D’rash: Leviticus 13 mostly deals with the laws of tzara’at. These are the priests responsibility to make decisions concerning whether a person is tumah or taharah (ritually unavailable or available). In early times doctors were of the priestly class. Today we’d go to our medical provider and be treated there. If he/she says we are contagious, then we should to go to synagogue or any other public gathering. So I am not listing those laws as applicable today. When the Temple is rebuilt, however, and should we have opportunity to go there, these laws would most definitely apply. If you have any skin problems you should consult a priest before visiting the Temple.
Leviticus 12:2b, 4-5 (ESV)If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. … Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
Nidah, still applies.
Leviticus 12: (ESV) And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Brit Milah, still applicable.
Leviticus 13:45-46 (ESV) “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp. A person who is tumah due to leprosy must publicize it, and live apart.
Name of Par’shah- 28.3 Metzora- Person Afflicted w/ Tzara’at
Par’shah- Lev 14:1 – 15:33
Haftara- 2 Kings 7:3-20
D’rash: A metzorah is a diseased person. Ch. 14 deals with the priests responsibilities in dealing with tzara’at in a person or a building. This won’t apply to us until there is a Temple. However tzara’at in a building is a serious thing, as it is probably some kind of mold. It should be dealt with by someone who knows what they are doing, usually a contractor.
Leviticus 15: (ESV) “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. An unnatural discharge makes a man tumah. Basically whatever he touches must be sanitized. Whoever touches him or items he’s touched is also unclean.
Leviticus 15:13 (ESV) “And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean. A man who has had an unnatural discharge must after 7 days without discharge wash his clothes and undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:16-17 (ESV) “If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening. And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening. A man having a natural emission must wash his cloths and undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:18 (ESV) If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening. After marital relations both the man and woman must wash their clothes and undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:19 (ESV) “When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. Laws of nidah- she, anyone or anything she comes in contact with to 7 days after she stops is unclean. Items must be washed, persons must undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:25 (ESV) “If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. Same as thwse laof nidah.
Leviticus 15:31 (ESV) “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”
This is the reason for these laws, and why most do not apply today. There is some debate as to whether any of the laws in these 2 parashot apply. I would say that any we can keep does apply. Those requiring a priest to either examine and pass judgements or for sacrifices obviously do not. However those which just require a mikvah and cleaning I think should apply. So I listed them.
Discussion?
alon
Name of Par’shah- 27.3 Tazria, She Conceives
Par’shah- Lev 12:1–13:59
Haftara- 2 Kings 4:42-5:19
D’rash: Leviticus 13 mostly deals with the laws of tzara’at. These are the priests responsibility to make decisions concerning whether a person is tumah or taharah (ritually unavailable or available). In early times doctors were of the priestly class. Today we’d go to our medical provider and be treated there. If he/she says we are contagious, then we should to go to synagogue or any other public gathering. So I am not listing those laws as applicable today. When the Temple is rebuilt, however, and should we have opportunity to go there, these laws would most definitely apply. If you have any skin problems you should consult a priest before visiting the Temple.
Leviticus 12:2b, 4-5 (ESV)If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean. … Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.
Nidah, still applies.
Leviticus 12: (ESV) And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Brit Milah, still applicable.
Leviticus 13:45-46 (ESV) “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp. A person who is tumah due to leprosy must publicize it, and live apart.
Name of Par’shah- 28.3 Metzora- Person Afflicted w/ Tzara’at
Par’shah- Lev 14:1 – 15:33
Haftara- 2 Kings 7:3-20
D’rash: A metzorah is a diseased person. Ch. 14 deals with the priests responsibilities in dealing with tzara’at in a person or a building. This won’t apply to us until there is a Temple. However tzara’at in a building is a serious thing, as it is probably some kind of mold. It should be dealt with by someone who knows what they are doing, usually a contractor.
Leviticus 15: (ESV) “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. An unnatural discharge makes a man tumah. Basically whatever he touches must be sanitized. Whoever touches him or items he’s touched is also unclean.
Leviticus 15:13 (ESV) “And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean. A man who has had an unnatural discharge must after 7 days without discharge wash his clothes and undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:16-17 (ESV) “If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening. And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening. A man having a natural emission must wash his cloths and undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:18 (ESV) If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening. After marital relations both the man and woman must wash their clothes and undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:19 (ESV) “When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. Laws of nidah- she, anyone or anything she comes in contact with to 7 days after she stops is unclean. Items must be washed, persons must undergo tevilah.
Leviticus 15:25 (ESV) “If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. Same as thwse laof nidah.
Leviticus 15:31 (ESV) “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”
This is the reason for these laws, and why most do not apply today. There is some debate as to whether any of the laws in these 2 parashot apply. I would say that any we can keep does apply. Those requiring a priest to either examine and pass judgements or for sacrifices obviously do not. However those which just require a mikvah and cleaning I think should apply. So I listed them.
Discussion?
alon