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Leviticus 13: What is Tzaraat?
The next two chapters discuss in extreme detail the affliction of Tzaraat. Most translate the word as leprosy. Although modern leprosy does not match most of the symptoms listed in this chapter. Another mystery about Tzaraat is that the Torah never mentions why someone would get the disease. There were people in Tanach that get Tzaraat- Moshe, in one of the early signs he’s told to show to Pharoah (although it is the only of the early signs he does not actually show Pharoah). Miriam becomes snow white faced after she and Aaron gossip about Moshe in Number 12. In II Kings 5, a commander of the…
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