parshat Metzora

Heaven is indeed conscious of our thoughts, actions, speech, and behavior. And that these have consequences both for the good and for the better.

Connecting the phenomenon of  leprosy of the house, and the steps taken to resolve it, to how the story of the final Redemption will play out.

The new social media have brought about a return to an ancient phenomenon, public shaming. Tthis gives us a way of understanding the otherwise bewildering phenomenon of tsara’at.

Lashon hara is an expression of evil. An evil eye (ayin hara) looks for something or someone who is above it, and upon finding it, poisons the person’s tranquility and does not allow him to enjoy things he could have enjoyed.

The Sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, the sin they took to be the cause of tsara’at. But there is a meta-halachic principle: “From the negative you can infer the positive”.Therefore there must in principle be a concept of lashon hatov, good speechץ

The Torah limits the disease of Tzra'at (according to the Ramban), to the land of Israel. Is that positive or negative?

A Short video connecting the Parasha to the land of Israel

A Shiur by Rabbi Zalman Melamed for the weekly portion "Tazria-Metzora"

A Shiur by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for the weekly portion "Tazria- Metzora".