Tzaraat That Develops Out of an Inflammation

If tzara’at develops out of a partially healed inflammation, the rules of diagnosis differ slightly from those that apply when it develops out of a white spot (see Figure 3, page 97), as follows:

This type of tzara’at can only develop on a person’s flesh if there is an inflammation (i.e., a localized heating resulting from the infection) of its skin due to a blow or disease, and the inflammation heals enough to form a membrane. (In contrast, a fully healed inflammation is considered normal skin—even if it leaves scar tissue—on which tzara’at can only develop out of a white lesion, as described above.)