#699: Yay, It’s Leprosy Time!

A sermon about Parashat Tazria-Metzora

Apr 28, 2025

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a small armadile walking through the grass — Handling armadillos is a great way to get leprosy! Photo by Dawn Peek on Unsplash

Note: This is a sermon I gave eight years ago. Enjoy!

The struggle to make these Torah portions about leprosy relevant is a very old one. Our sages turned the whole thing into an allegory about gossip, but it is an allegory that exists in the Bible itself. Miriam came down …

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