Daily Talk
A man has counted his seven days, gone down into the water and waited for the stars, and he still may not eat from the sacrifices until he brings a bird in the morning. Three chapters live inside that one night. Why should a person who is already pure still be missing something?
The Day After You Are Already Clean
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About This Talk
Chapter 3 works through the zav's seven clean days, the discharges that erase the count without ever obligating a sacrifice, and the ruling that an infant, a convert and a person who cannot form intent all bring atonement so that they may eat sacrificial food. Chapter 4 walks the healed metzora from the birds and the shaving through a second immersion on the eighth day to the blood on his right ear, thumb and toe and the oil that follows it. Chapter 5 tests every step of that rite against what can go wrong, and in doing so separates two things usually spoken of as one, the purity a person regains and the favor his offering finds Above.