Parshat Metzora Video
Parshat Metzora is proof that Fundamentalism will destroy you.
Metzora and Tazria essentially talk about the same thing: this weird green, scaley looking skin disease that can also effect your house and your clothes.
For centuries, people believes that the Bible was talking about Leprosy. This was a mistranslation from Hebrew to Greek. As a result, Lepers were cast away and treated like 2nd class citizens, believed to be spiritually unholy, since G_d, in the pre-modern world, was responsible for everything in nature and interjected in every aspect of human life.
We now know that it was not leprosy...and to be truthful, we still aren't completely sure what it was.
A lot of people hate the idea that there is something in the Bible that's "wrong" or "mistranslated". It goes against our sense of reality: that G_d dropped the Torah down from heaven, in complete and perfect form in an Artscroll hardback book, and handed it off to the Rabbi's who apparently had magic hands that wrote G_d's literal oral code.
Come on, people...that's insane.
Yet, what have we done as a people, a human race, in fact, because The Bible told us to? How many of us have gotten so wrapped up in the details of Law that we have forgotten to use the Brains that G_d gave us!
Second Passover is coming up soon. It's only celebrated in Orthodox communities, but I think it's a great day for those of us in the Cultural Disapora. In the Torah, Moses commands those who were unclean during passover to have a second passover. It was a time for them to make good with G_d since they didn't have the chance in the last passover.
So if you've ever been a fundamentalist and done something rotten because G_d told you to, use the second passover as a time to ask for forgiveness, not just from G_d, but from those you harmed in his name.
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