Is Leviticus's Skin Fascination about Judgmental Exclusion or Universal Healthcare?
Judaism for the Thinking Person

Is Leviticus’s Skin Fascination about Judgmental Exclusion or Universal Healthcare?

2017-05-02
Like other Torah topics including sacrifice, slavery, and creation, Leviticus's preoccupation with skin disorders offends many, prompting outrage and elaborate comparisons to historical examples of horror and immorality.  And like those earlier topics, it's as if people aren't reading the Torah, but are projecting their own sensitivities -- an inevitable part of the hermeneutical circle of reading, but one which tells us more, sometimes, about the reader's sensitivities than about the Torah ...
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