RAV KOOK ON METZORAH

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Translated and abridged by Rabbi Chanan Morrison Parshat Metzora These Torah portions discuss at length topics that are among most challenging for us to relate to. What relevance do the laws of ritual purity and impurity — after childbirth, for lepers and for various types of male and female discharges — hold for us? Why does the Torah place such emphasis on these matters? And why do we feel so far removed from them?