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 KabbalaOnline.org Tazria-Metzora 5783 The Holy Ari Insights on the Torah Reading Please Note: The bold text is the direct translation of the classic text source. The regular text is the explanation of the editor/translator   Healing Swollen Ego The Holy Ari From the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria; translated and edited by Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky This week's parasha begins with three seemingly unrelated topics: the ritual impurity acquired by a woman through giving birth, the commandment to circumcise infant boys on the eighth day after birth, and the ritual impurity imparted by the condition known as tzaraat . (The latter term is usually incorrectly translated as "leprosy", but in fact refers to a unique disease that existed only when the Temple stood and bears only the slightest resemblance to what we know today as leprosy.) Since the order of topics in the Torah is significant, t...