
| Welcome to Kadaish. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to participate in the discussions, sharing your ideas and questions. This will broaden the scope of our understanding together and we greatly appreciate your willingness to be involved, regardless of how we may agree or disagree. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Outward representation of inner pain | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 30 2011, 04:40 AM (185 Views) | |
| MarkStaneart | Mar 30 2011, 04:40 AM Post #1 |
|
Administrator
|
And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. (Leviticus 13:20 KJV) But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: (Leviticus 13:21 KJV) And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague. (Leviticus 13:22 KJV) But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. (Leviticus 13:23 KJV) Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white; (Leviticus 13:24 KJV) Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. (Leviticus 13:25 KJV) But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: (Leviticus 13:26 KJV) And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. (Leviticus 13:27 KJV) And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning. (Leviticus 13:28 KJV) If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; (Leviticus 13:29 KJV) Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scurf, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. (Leviticus 13:30 KJV) And if the priest look on the plague of the scurf, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scurf seven days: (Leviticus 13:31 KJV) And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scurf spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scurf be not in sight deeper than the skin; (Leviticus 13:32 KJV) He shall be shaven, but the scurf shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scurf seven days more: (Leviticus 13:33 KJV) And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scurf: and, behold, if the scurf be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. (Leviticus 13:34 KJV) But if the scurf spread much in the skin after his cleansing; (Leviticus 13:35 KJV) Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scurf be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean. (Leviticus 13:36 KJV) But if the scurf be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scurf is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean. (Leviticus 13:37 KJV) If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; (Leviticus 13:38 KJV) Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean. (Leviticus 13:39 KJV) And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. (Leviticus 13:40 KJV) And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean. (Leviticus 13:41 KJV) And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. (Leviticus 13:42 KJV) Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; (Leviticus 13:43 KJV) He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. (Leviticus 13:44 KJV) And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. (Leviticus 13:45 KJV) Would that we had such evidences today of those who would go about spouting lashon hara. If only we could identify them from a distance, that their mouths would be covered and that they could only but speak in the way which clearly describes who they are. To what may the tongue be compared? To a dog tied with an iron chain and locked in a room within a room within a room, yet when he barks the entire populace is terrified of him. Imagine if he were loose outside! So the tongue: it is secured behind the teeth and behind the lips, yet it does no end of damage. Imagine if it were outside! (Yalkut Shimoni) Evil talk kills three people: the speaker, the listener, and the one who is spoken of. (Talmud, Erachin 15a) The speaker obviously commits a grave sin by speaking negatively of his fellow. The listener, too, is a partner to this evil. But why is the one who is spoken of affected by their deed? Are his negative traits worsened by the fact that they are spoken of? Indeed they are. A person may possess an evil trait or tendency, but his quintessential goodness, intrinsic to every soul, strives to control it, conquer it, and ultimately eradicate its negative expressions and redirect it as a positive force. But when this evil isspoken of, it is made that much more manifest and real. By speaking negatively of the person's trait or deed, the evil speakers are, in effect, defining it as such; with their words, they grant substance and validity to its negative potential. But the same applies in the reverse: speaking favorably of another, accentuating his or her positive side, will aid him to realize himself in the manner that you have defined him. (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) A man once came to see Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch and proceeded to portray himself as a villain of the worst sort. After describing at length his moral and spiritual deficiencies, he begged the Rebbe to help him overcome his evil character. "Surely,'' said the Rebbe, "you know how grave is the sin of lashon harah, speaking evilly of a human being. Nowhere, to my knowledge, does it say that it is permissible to speak lashon harah about oneself." |
| Visit Mark Staneart at www.renewourdays.com | |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · 3rd Reading Leviticus 13:18-13:23 · Next Topic » |





5:30 PM Jul 10