Showing One’s True Colors

Towards the end of the Torah section Tazriah, after a series of instructions concerning the contraction of tzara’at (loosely translated as leprosy), we learn of a case in which someone comes to the kohen (priest) with a nega (affliction of tzara’at) comprising a white patch of skin.  The kohen is not certain about the status of the nega and places the individual into isolation.  A week […]