If you were to ask most ‘sun-day christians’ what one of the most boring, and irrelevant, sections of the whole Book is – even if they never hear it read anyway – many might point to the part about what they call “leprosy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which is a good reason to at least SUSPECT that there’s more to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests this week that there is a WHOLE LOT more to it: Not only is the section NOT at all about “leprosy,” or what we know as Hansen’s Disease, there’s a good case to be made, as he does, for the “why!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Erev Shabbat (Friday evening) of the two-part Double-parsha “Tazria,” then “Metzorah,” Leviticus chapters 12 through 15.reading again begins with what happens on eighth day — but this time it as after a woman “bears” a male child — and one more thing that just isn’t talked about much either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n