Parashas Tazria - Metzora

Our Parsha this Shabbos is a double portion of Tazria-Metzora and both Parashas discuss purity of the Jew.
In Tazria, the laws of purity are discussed after the birth of male and female children and after that the Laws of Tzaraas are discussed in detail and different inflamations in different parts of the body are mentioned ,that appear after the Aveirah has been committed,as well as Tzaraas in garments,showing how our very actions, can certainly affect the Physical World.
Parashas Metzora continues the discussion of how purification takes place from these afflictions and also,Tzaraas in the house is also discussed.
Next, the Parsha tells of the Laws of the Zav , a male who had an emission and the Zavah, for the female and Niddah,her period time and how each gets purified.
The Parsha ends with a reminder that the Children of Israel are to be separated from Contamination,thus showing that we are to be a Holy Pure People.
At every moment we are to remember that we stand always in G-D's Presence,even in the dark of night.We are to be a pure People , Holy unto G-D . It doesn't matter where we are.We are always before HaShem.If we were to stand in front of a human king,would we not be at our best.How much more so when we stand all the time in the Presence of the King of Kings Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu The Holy One Blessed Be He , Who can Look within us and Know all we think and do .
Any Aveirah we do, dirties us. We put a spiritual blemish on ourselves Chas Ve Shalom, each time we disobey , Chas Ve Shalom, G-D and His Laws. No wonder we feel so heavy and tied down in this World, as we are filled with disobedience and disrespecting and dishonoring of our Most Holy Creator.No wonder this World feels so heavy around us and we fill it with Aveirah.
HaShem Let's us start our lives with an open and innocent pathway to Him . As we continue to disobey Him and His Torah, we close the gates to Him more and more each day.
HaShem in His Mercy, still Gives us Laws of how to handle our mistakes yet the ultimate act of Love to G-D , is to always put Him first and follow all G-D Tells us and not make an Aveirah at all .By doing this, we can keep ourselves in a constant state of purity. Thus when we make an Aveirah , the physical signs become visible in the Physical World. Especially in the case of Loshon Horah,evil talk and gossip. The second part of our double Parsha is Metzora and if we take this word and look deeper, we get the words ,'Motza Ra,' which means 'to put out evil from ourselves.' Such is the Sin of Loshon Horah - Evil Speech. HaShem put us above the Animal Kingdom so that we can speak His Holy Words. To use our tongue for evil talk against another is to attempt to destroy Creation Chas Ve Shalom .We know that when we slander, we hurt three people, the victim of the slander,the person we are telling and ourselves.To speak about others behind their backs when only HaShem Knows the true them, is to make them into something HaShem never Created and this is as if to say that we know better Chas Ve Shalom and thus recreate the way they are seen in a way HaShem never Made them.What an extreme insult to HaShem. The Torah Punishment for those who curry favor with others , by slandering people is so totally apt, for what they do evilly in private , shows very publicly on their bodies and garments and houses and so they are exposed for the hidden evil action they perpetrate and on top of that, as they tried to isolate that victim from others, so do they get isolated till their contamination heals.Thus they are also taken out of harms way till they learn the right way to behave.
Our Rabbis in Pirkei Avos say that HaShem Made the World with Ten Utterances, yet the evil ones try to destroy it with ten utterances. This couldn't be more true ,then with the Aveirah of Loshon Horah.
These two Parshas talk of ways to keep from impurity, starting in Parashas Tazriah at birth going to the very garments we wear and in Parashas Metzora, the ways of Purity of the body and even of our homes .
Our very actions can even affect our very homes and even though HaShem still showed us mercy when Tzaraas was found in the homes of the Children of Israel, for when they knocked into the walls to remove the Tzaraas, they found the wealth that the Canaanites had hidden there, yet it is still so much more important, to keep pure in the first place.
HaShem put the tongue behind the teeth for good reason, so that the tongue would have a helping barrier against flapping at people behind their backs.So let us learn to use this barrier wisely to keep our tongues where they belong.Also, let our bodies remain pure for our bodies , house the Holy Soul that HaShem
Gave us for Life . Let our entire bodies be the Holy Temple HaShem Wants them to be , when HaShem said in Torah , "Make for yourselves a Temple wherein I Can Dwell," so that HaShem Can forever dwell within us in Love.
With Love to HaShem, I wish HaShem with Love, a Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love and to all, a sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.