Torah Unscrolled

Episode 28 + 29: Leper (Metzora) & After the Death (Acharei Mot)


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Sarah and Jason discuss Metzora, the 28th portion of the Torah, and Acharei Mot, the 29th portion, continuing the book of Leviticus, and covering more details on the purification process for lepers and eruptive plagues, the origins of Yom Kippur, and instructions on which relations cannot be slept with. How do the instructions on dealing with discharges further inform our understanding of the purpose of keeping separate when impure? How does this portion deal with gender differently than all previous portions? And is there a way to interpret the verse forbidding men to sleep with other men more generously than simply forbidding it?

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Torah UnscrolledBy Sarah and Jason