Hot answers tagged tzaraas-negaim
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Tosafos (Zevachim 102a, ד"ה אני מסגירה) asks this and leaves it unresolved.
Netziv (to Sifri on this verse) suggests two possibilities:
True that she'd be tahor, but she'd be in a state of suspense (not knowing what the outcome would be) until there is a kohen available - a yet-to-be-born son (or grandson) of Elazar or Isamar - who could check it and make ...
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If nowadays a Cohen declares somebody (or a garment or a house) as having Tzara'at, then that declaration is valid and the laws of Tzara'at kick in. All this assuming that the "blotch" in question has the correct size and color.
The Ramabm in הלכות טומאת צרעת פרק י"א:י"א - says that the process for "curing" the Mezora from Tzara'as is followed even nowadays ...
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I think that the answer is yes.
I base my answer on Mishnah N'ga`im 13:12:
נכנס לבית הכנסת, עושים לו מחיצה גבוהה עשרה טפחים על רחב ארבע
אמות.
נכנס ראשון, ויוצא אחרון.
(Informal translation: If [the leper] goes into the synagogue, they make him a barrier [mechitza] ten handbreadths high by four cubits wide. He enters first, and ...
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@ba, in his comment on the question, linked to chapter 47 of "Gam Ani Odecha" by Gamliel HaKohen Rabinovitch. There, he collects responses he received from several contemporary halachic authorities regarding whether a Metzorah must sit alone.
In short (and I may be glossing over some important details, so please read it inside), there are authorities that ...
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I'm sorry if you're not satisfied with this answer, but it's my honest feeling that when you untangle the disparate sources that you've quoted from one another, they're either not contradicting one another or it's not a problem that they do.
For a start, Rashi (Leviticus 13:46) never says that people afflicted with any other type of impurity may not dwell ...
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I found something that might be helpful in your search. The Meam Loez discusses why the chazeh v'shok are waved (Vayikra 7:30):
The Hebrew word for chest is chazeh, which also has the connotation of seeing. We thus find, "His eyes shall see (ye-chezu), his eyelids shall discern the children of man" (Psalms 11:4). This teaches that God's eyes and eyelids ...
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The Gemorah in Menachos 62a says the reason is to stop "bad winds":
אמר רב חמא בר עוקבא אמר רבי יוסי בר רבי חנינא מוליך ומביא כדי לעצור רוחות רעות מעלה ומוריד כדי לעצור טללים רעים
Although I realize this is not an answer as to why "davka" (specifically) the ones that are waved.
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