Leviticus 14:50-15:2
50 He must slaughter one fowl such that its blood drip into an earthenware vessel and onto spring water that has been placed in that vessel.
51 He must take the bundle comprising the cedar stick, the hyssop, and the strip of scarlet wool, plus the live fowl, and he must dip them into the blood of the slaughtered fowl and into the spring water. He must then dip his finger into the solution of blood and spring water and sprinkle some of it toward the house seven times.
52 He must thus purify the house using the blood of the fowl, the spring water, the live fowl, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the strip of scarlet wool.
53 He must then send away the live fowl outside the city, into the open field. He will thus effect atonement for the house, and it will be purified from defilement.
Fifth Reading
54 All this is the law for every lesion of tzara’at, for a netek,
55 for tzara’at of garments and houses,
56 for a wool-white spot, for an egg-membrane-white or lime-white spot, and for a snow-white spot—
57 by which the priest is required to render decisions regarding on which day in the process of the sufferer’s diagnosis or purification process he can be pronounced defiled and on which day he can be pronounced rid of this defilement. This is the law of tzara’at.”
Chasidic Insights
2 Discharges originating in the reproductive organs: These types of ritual impurity serve to remind us how much our lives are a product of the events that occurred at the dawn of human history—the incident with the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil and the expulsion from the Garden of Eden—and how we must continually strive to stand that the purpose of the destruction of God’s house, the Temple, was in order to reveal the “hidden treasures” of Divine consciousness that will be manifest with the restoration of the Temple in the messianic Redemption.
