Why does the cleansing ritual for healed skin disease reuse the exact same materials - cedar, scarlet, hyssop - that show up again for the red heifer ritual in Numbers? There's a whole recurring purification kit running through the Torah. The repetit...
Mystical & Allegorical'תהיה תורת וגו זאת THIS SHALL BE THE LAW [OF THE LEPER IN THE DAY OF HIS BEING PRONOUNCED CLEAN] — The words “in the day” inform us that we may not pronounce him clean at night (Sifra, Metzora, Section 1 3; Megillah 21a).
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