After reading in the Torah about the rules governing tzara’at, or skin diseases like leprosy, we recount the story of four lepers who were exiled from the community after Gehazi, assistant to ...

Today is the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost. The main reading today is about the Healing of the Ten Lepers (Lk. 17:12-19). In this miracle, like most of the miracles in the Gospel, is presented ...

Summary: The source for this well-known Bible story is three of the gospels: Matthew 8: 1 - 4, Mark 1: 40 - 45, and Luke 5: 12 - 15. According to the gospels a man with leprosy knelt before Jesus ...

There were many biblical words that translators and commentators mistranslated. Tzaraat was one of the many. It is mentioned in the 13th chapter of the fourth biblical portion of Leviticus, Tazri’a 12 ...

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