Tazria-Metzora: She will conceive/Leper — תזריע/מצורע

Thoughts for Last Weeks Torah Portion.
 
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Leviticus 14-15
Last week’s Torah portion continues to discuss God’s uncleanness laws.  We saw in our previous post that being unclean is not a sin and that uncleanness relates to the corruption in man’s fallen physical body. Further, God has set out in the Law the process to become clean and to regain holiness.  Being clean was required to enter into the Tabernacle and later with the Israel’s Temples where God’s presence dwelt. 

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​This requirement is set out in verse 31 in chapter 15 of Leviticus in this portion:
 
“Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”
 
 
An Endtime Temple
Though currently there is no temple that would require that a person be “clean”, the prophet Isaiah speaks of an Endtime Temple; and, it is this Endtime Temple that again will require a person to be “clean” to enter into God’s Temple and for which the cleanness laws will be operative.
 
"Many peoples shall go, saying, Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, that we may follow in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and from Jerusalem the word of Jehovah."   Isaiah 2;3
 
So if a person was going to enter God’s Endtime Temple, that person must be in compliant with God’s cleanness laws.
 
Practice and Rehearsal
Steve Berkson in the following video teaching suggests that as a “maximalist” a person could live as much of the cleanness laws as possible as a matter of practice and rehearsal.  Indeed, by living what law we can, God will bless us for our efforts and intent.

Isaiah Chapter 27
At his harvest of the earth’s wicked, Jehovah gleans out individually his people who bear good fruit.

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Hebrew Study

Isaiah 2:3

English	Hebrew	Transliteration
And they shall come	וְֽהָלְכ֞וּ	v-hahl-ku
people	עַמִּ֣ים	ahm-mem
many	​רַבִּ֗ים	rah-beem
and they shall say	​וְאָמְרוּ֙	v-ahm-ru
come	לְכ֣וּ ׀	l-cu
and let us go up	​וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה	v-nah-ah-leh
to	​אֶל־	ehl
the mountain	הַר־	hahr
of Yehovah	​יְהוָ֗ה	Ye-ho-vah
to	​אֶל־	ehl
the house	​בֵּית֙	bayt
of the God	​אֱלֹהֵ֣י	eh-loh-hay
of Jacob	​יַעֲקֹ֔ב	yah-ah-kohb
and He will teach us	​וְיֹרֵ֙נוּ֙	v-yoh-reh-nu
​His ways	​מִדְּרָכָ֔יו	meed-rah-chav
and we shall walk	​וְנֵלְכָ֖ה	v-nehl-cah
​in His paths	​בְּאֹרְחֹתָ֑יו	b-ohr-koh-tav
for	​כִּ֤י	kee
from Zion	​מִצִּיּוֹן֙	mee-tsee- yohn
shall go forth	​תֵּצֵ֣א	teh-tseh
Torah	​תוֹרָ֔ה	toh-rah
and the word	​וּדְבַר־	ud-vahr
of Yehovah	​יְהוָ֖ה	Ye-ho-vah
from Yerusalem	​מִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃	mee-ru-shah-laym

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Resource Links for this Week's Portion

TORAH: Leviticus 14:1-15:33
GOSPELS: Mark 1:35-45

Listen and Read the Portion
First Fruits of Zion

HAFTARAH: Isaiah Chapter 28

Commentary with Avraham Gileadi, PhD