By Joy Scott, Am Haskalah Congregant This week, we read a double parshiot: Tazria, followed by Metzora. Each of these parshiot describe in punctilious detail the bewildering phenomenon of ‘tzaraat’. In effect, this is a physical manifestation of a spiritual malaise, frequently mistranslated as ‘leprosy’. An individual afflicted with ‘tzaraat’ would be referred to […]