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Negaim 8:2-3

Negaim 8:2

Let’s say that a white spot the size of a split bean had in it healthy flesh the size of a lentil. If it broke out all over a person and then the healthy flesh disappeared, or if the healthy flesh disappeared and then the white spot broke out all over him, he is clean. If healthy flesh appeared, he is unclean. If white hair grew appeared, Rabbi Yehoshua rules him unclean but the Sages declare him clean.

Negaim 8:3

Let’s say that a white spot had white hair in it and then it broke out all over him. Such a person is ritually clean even though the white hair remains where it was. If there’s a white spot in which there was spreading and then it broke out all over the person, he is ritually clean. In all of these cases, if the ends of his limbs revert to their pre-tzaraas condition, he is ritually unclean. If the tzaraas broke out only over part of him, he is unclean; if it broke out over him entirely, he is clean.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz