Tag Info

Tos'fos Yom Tov to N'gaim 12:5 gives the following answers, if I read him right: (from the Mizrachi in the name of his teachers) Since he can't be sure it's a nega until the kohen shows up, he shouldn't say he's sure. (from the Mizrachi himself) He should treat the kohen with derech eretz, etc. [The Tos'fos Yom Tov includes the "etc.", thereby referring ...

The simplest answer is that the haftoras go in the way the Torah ordered it in Melachim. (Tazria's being from 2 Kings ch. 4, and Metzora's from ibid. ch. 7.) (Not that this is always the case, see for example Behar and Bechukosai. ) In addition, the Gemara tells us (Sotah 47a) that the four lepers (discussed in the second haftora) are Gechazi and his sons ...

Ralbag (on M'tzora 14:49) says: הנה מפני שנטמא הבית כל ימי ההסגר והיה בלתי ראוי שתסור טומאתו בזולת פועל כלל הנה תהיה טהרתו בצפורים לפי שאי אפשר בו הטבילה That is, a house, like a garment, should by rights just go in the mikve, but it can't, so we do the sprinkling-of-blood ritual instead. (This leaves open the question why tzaraas on a person requires ...

The Sifra there (12) explains that this is coming to include even a case where he was rich at the time he was healed from the Tzora'as, and only later became poor - he would still bring a poor man's sacrifice, and we don't say that he has to bring according to what he could afford when he became obligated. See Malbim there for further explanation.

This is pretty tenuous, but there is a version of the Mishnah in Avot (3:5) that uses the verse "‫ואנודתו על ארץ יסדה‬" to prove that even three people who learn together, the Divine Presence rests on them (instead of using the verse to prove it for 5 people). This is the Bartenura's version. He says that we see that 3 things together are called an ...

The Ramban on Tazria-Metzora (I don't have it in front of me at this time. When I find it I'll post it) says that the order of severity in tzaraas (from light to severe) is clothing, houses and then people. He further says that the more severe the tzaraas is the more needs to be done to become pure. Therefore, to purify tzaraas on clothing, one needs to ...