{"id":2413,"date":"2022-04-10T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T13:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2022-04-10T07:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T13:27:32","slug":"parsha-metzorah-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cMetzorah\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week’s Torah portion, Metzorah,<\/em>(Leviticus chapters 14 through 15) is essentially part 2 (of 2) in that sequence on “leprosy” that most who would prefer to ignore it can’t even get the name right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this week, referencing Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes, the key is in “the dog that did not bark.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual “plague” described in Scripture as ‘tzaraat<\/em>‘ literally hasn’t been seen for centuries, but it’s not like Yahuah did warn us – more than once – that He would “hide His face,” given the level of rebellion that has now gotten so bad that even Disney has given up trying to hide it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it has been suggested that this plague — which never REALLY was “leprosy”, or Hansen’s Disease, to begin with — was once associated with the Hebrew words “lashon hora<\/em>,” for the “Evil Tongue.” And there’s actually a pretty good case to be made on that score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s an equally valid case to be made that the lesson of the “dog that did not bark,” is telling us something even more vital — in a time where we should heed that warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the Erev Shabbat survey of the entire parsha:<\/p>\n\n\n\n