Thazria-Metzorah:Reunion

Thazria-Metzorah:Reunion

 

The parshioth do not describe a cure for the various conditions that render a person tamei. It describes the diagnostic procedures and then it descirbes the ritual performed when cured from Taoraas, Ziva, the danger and bloodloss of childbirth. There are few things more pleasurable than the restoration of something lost, particularly health.  When our patients finish a prescribed course of chemotherapy, they have a party (maybe they should offer a couple of pigeons, too)

 

The special ritual of the purified leper ( tzoruah) is particularly fascinating. Among other details, a living bird is dipped into a mixture of bird blood and "living" water  and then set free. Reminds me of Noah.  He is floating (alone) on this mixture of water and the blood of every living thing.  In the end Noah releases a bird and the favorable sign is that it does not return. May the leprosy not return, thank you very much....korban todah.