Torah.org Drasha By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Parshas Metzorah
Torah.org Drasha By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Parshas Metzorah Drasha By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky To Dedicate an Article click here Parshas Metzorah Strange Altar-Fellows Parshas Metzora deals with the purification process of the person afflicted with tzora’as. After the disease healed, the formerly afflicted person is instructed to bring a sacrifice that includes two very diametrical items. “And he shall take two birds, cedar wood, crimson thread and hyssop (Leviticus 14:4).” The Torah details the offering and all of its intricacies, leaving the commentaries to ponder the symbolism of the wood of the tallest of trees bound together with the lowly moss of the hyssop. Rashi explains that, “the hyssop symbolizes the humility that the metzora should have,” and the cedar,” he explains, “is a symbolic reminder that he who holds himself as high as the cedar tree should lea