KabbalaOnline.org Tazria-Metzora 5783 Chasidic Masters Insights on the Torah Reading   Eating Humble Pie Chasidic Masters  Beginner By Binyomin Adilman, based on Chidushei HaRim "Then the priest shall command to take two clean living birds and cedar wood, scarlet wool and hyssop, for the purification of the so-called "leper"." ( Lev. 14:4) The plague, or tzara'at [various skin diseases (usually and incorrectly translated as "leprosy") that can render a person spiritually impure], came as a punishment for arrogance. What is the remedy? Let him relinquish his arrogance and consider himself as lowly as a worm [which was used to dye the scarlet wool] and the hyssop [a low scruffy shrub]. ( Rashi ) If the purpose of the service of purification is to have the so-called "leper" abandon his arrogance, then what is the purpose of cedar which is tall and statel...