In this week’s parsha we read, “This is the teaching regarding the metzora: On the day of his purification, he shall be brought to the Kohen. And the Kohen shall go out of the camp…” The Lubavitcher Rebbe notes a seeming contradiction in these verses. While in the first verse we are told that the metzora is brought to the Kohen, the very next verse states that the kohen goes out to visit the metzora! Which is it? It is…

In Parshas Tazria, Hashem tells Moshe that when the Jews enter the Holy Land, He will place tzara’as on their houses. Rashi explains that unlike other forms of tzara’as, this plague was not a response to human sin. Rather, this affliction would be sent from heaven for the benefit of the homeowner. When a Jew would approach the kohen and announce, “Something like a plague has appeared on my house”, the stricken abode would be rendered impure and closed up…