Shabbos Pesach Yam Suf

This Shabbos comes out on the last day of Passover. This Day was around the time , just after the The Splitting of the Red Sea.
We had arrived at the sea after coming out of Egypt , and as things stood, could not go further. 
On the third day after leaving Egypt, Pharaoh expected us to return , as he was originally told when the plagues started that we would go into the desert to make Korbanos and return . This was a Middah Knegged Middah punishment for the Egyptians , as they had originally not told us what their building projects would be when they asked us to volunteer and it turned out to become slavery .
So now that third day had arrived and Pharaoh saw we were not returning . He had sent spies among us to make sure we are persuaded to return and now these spies showed themselves and tried to get us to return , but we refused and these spies were beaten. Some spies managed to escape back to Pharaoh , who was told where we are ( stopped right near an idol of baal ( baal tzefon as mentioned in Torah ) and that we are not returning . Pharaoh assumed that the fake idol was holding us there , For HaShem Had Wanted Pharaoh to be caught in this thought so as to get him to go after us and thus his army be drowned .
Pharaoh and the remaining Egyptians regretted their decision to set us free and so , Pharaoh harnessed 600 of his elite chariots to be pulled by the horses that were not harmed during the hail, when they were taken in under cover . Pharaoh and his army caught up with us when we were near the Red Sea , actually called the Yam Suf - Reed Sea . The people heard the sound of charioteers coming and were panic-stricken . Dathan and Aviram argued with Moshe and Aharon that they should not have left Egypt . HaShem Considered these complaints as a rebellion against Him . Moshe told them to 'stand back and witness the Salvation of HaShem . ' Moshe prayed to HaShem and HaShem Told him to command the Sea to split , but it did not listen to Moshe . The Angel Sar of Egypt Appeared over the Egyptian Army to fight for them and went up to HaShem and begged HaShem to not destroy the Egyptians . The Sea didn't want to open so as not to have the low level Egyptians in it . HaShem Held a Heavenly Tribunal , where the Sar of Egypt Pleaded for Egypt to be let go . The Angel Michael asked the Angel Gavriel to go down to Egypt and bring proof that these Egyptians deserved punishment . Gavriel returned with a brick used in the building that had within it the body of a Jewish child , and the decision went forth to sink the Egyptians in the Yam Suf . The Yam Suf raged all night , till HaShem Personally Came down and Split the Sea , for the Sea said to Moshe it will only obey and open for the Master of the Universe . But the tribe of Yehudah Nachshon ben Amminadav entered before it split , showing his Emunah and the leader of Binyamin entered just after him . The Sea Split into twelve different pathways so that each Tribe could walk through separately , yet through the walls of water , the Tribes could see the tribe next to them for comfort . As Yosef's coffin was brought down to the Yam Suf , the Sea opened at that moment , for as Yosef had kept himself pure from Zulaicha , so did the Sea respect his purity . The Angel Gavriel stood at the Walls of water helping to keep them up . The water walls formed beautiful mosaic patterns that gave off sound and one need only stretch out one's hand to drink water and then the wall would close in that spot again . The Egyptians were basically plunged into darkness for the Pillar of Fire and the Clouds of Glory that led the Children of Israel , went behind our camp and blocked the Egyptians from their persuit till their time had come and they were plunged into darkness, thus getting their seventh day of the Plague of Darkness , for each Plague usually lasted a week , yet for us , HaShem Lit Up the night . Water in other places in the World also split , thus publicizing the Miracle . The Waters of the Yam Suf also formed a roof over us to shield us from the Egyptians arrows which were already being stopped by the Clouds of Glory from HaShem . Then came the time for the Egyptians to go across and they , according to our Rabbonnim , were hit with 250 Plagues within the Yam Suf, each Egyptian suffering according to the measure in which he hurt us . 
The Sea spat out the Egyptians on the shore so that we could see this was the end of them . 
The Sea churned them , hitting them like iron . They sank into the mud within , yet we walked on dry solid ground , a punishment for them for putting us in the brick pits . Pharaoh was the only one to survive so as to witness HaShem's Truth and Power and he never returned to Egypt , but traveled to Nineveh , where he became the king there and this time , when Yonah came to tell them to repent , he listened .
Our People sang a Shir praising HaShem For His Mighty Acts and so , did the women led by Miriam , also dance and sing . This was the last time , we saw those Egyptians that hurt us .
It is interesting to note , that The Reed Sea ( not Red Sea ) is called Yam Suf . The words ' Yam Suf ,' are spelled exactly the same as ' Yom Sof ,' which means ' The End or final Day .' This was tthe lat day that the Egyptians ever pursued us , for after this miraculous event , we were free and never bothered again from these Mitzrim Egyptians . 
This is like the End Of Days , when we will finally be free of all that want to hurt us , and we will live In Peace and Safety . How significant is each word in our beautiful Torah from HaShem . Passover , The Festival of our Freedom , is all about being saved and freed from our oppressors. We even , on the Seder night , put out a glass for Eliyahu Ha Navi , who , at the End of Days , will anoint the Moshiach . Thus our Pesach is very symbolic of not just our Freedom from Egypt , but also our freedom from this present Olam Hazeh , and our entering into Olam Habah The World To Come , after Moshiach . Such is the hidden deep meaning of HaShem's Yam Suf Miracle , celebrated near the end of our Passover Festival Yom Tov . So , we are to look forever forward just as we are to. Look back as we celebrate our Passover as if we too were redeemed , for everything that happens , is a link to what is to come . Each learning experience , is a step up into our future . Freedom from the shackles of our Yetzer Horah , will be a beautiful thing to look forward to , at the End of Days , for then , we will have been forgiven for the Aveirah that took us out of Gan Eiden . This too is Passover , the freeing of our Yetzer Horah and all that pulls us down to lower spiritual levels , Chas Ve Shalom . Each step we take , must always be a step up toward our Creator HaShem . 
Just as we rid ourselves of the Chometz on Pesach so must we rid ourselves of arrogance , unholiness and lack of morals and most certainly foreign ways and beliefs. To truly get to the ' Yom Sof , ' The End Day , ' let us all rid ourselves of the Chometz of our egos and lack of holy spirituality and the useless want for the physical and all its traps . Let us ,each day appreciate the Beautiful Gift that HaShem Gives us , to work ourselves up to Him . May every step we take , lead us to our final Yam Suf and to the End of Days with HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu .
I wish HaShem with Love a very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov with Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov with love .

Shabbos Pesach

This Shabbos comes out this year on the first day of Passover.
It was on this very evening that HaShem Freed us from the bondage of Mitzrayim . We had come into Egypt originally when Yosef , Yaakov's son who had been sold into slavery by his brothers had been brought to Egypt and after first working for Potiphar ( meaning ' the mutilated one ' ) , had been wrongly accused , due to Potiphar's evil wife Zulaicha desiring and chasing him every day, She finally , realizing he would never succumb to her, made false charges against him that had him put for many years in prison only able at night times , to allow him out to still serve in Potiphar's home, here she still continued to to harass him . Yosef , through HaShem's intervention only came out of prison , when he , through HaShem , interpreted Pharaoh's dreams and , was appointed viceroy of Egypt. With the Help of HaShem , Yosef , saved the country from the years of famine with his plans and also caused his Father and brothers to then come and settle in the land of Goshen in Egypt ( an area originally given to Sarah by a previous Pharaoh , when Avram and Sarai had gone there ) , and so, we as a people came to Mitzrayim. 
A new Pharaoh arose in Egypt after the passing of Yosef and his brothers and that entire generation , and they quickly and conveniently ignored how much HaShem and Yosef and us Jews had done for the country ,and so , to allay their concern that we might join their enemies , Pharaoh and the Egyptians , knowing our ways of Chesed, deceitfully advertised a new building program , that they made out would be a great help to the country , knowing we as Jews would always volunteer to help. Pharaoh himself even went out in the beginning to show how important a task it was advertising , and went so far as to even take a spade in his hand . He had Egyptians also volunteer , who every day would get less and less, till only Jews were left at the work, and to work areas that really could never get finished in swampy land and the Jews found day after day how the Egyptians dwindled and we suddenly found ourselves under whipping taskmasters, who were instructed to work us day and night in the fields and in their homes . Men were savagely beaten and killed , the plan was to destroy our menfolk Chas Ve Shalom and take our women for the dirty Egyptians . 
These evil Egyptians went so far as to throw all our male babies that were born , into the Nile river , when their astrologers said a redeemer would come to us and would be destroyed by water . How they read this wrong ( for the only water that had affected Moishe was the decree later in his life at the Waters of Meriva when he struck the rock ) and so beautiful new born Moishe Avigdor was put in the Nile n to make the Egyptians think that the redeemer was now in the Nile . This Moishe grew up to be HaShem's Messenger and he was chosen on this Pesach day , after Ten Plagues , HaShem Sent against Egypt , brought our Pesach day of freedom . HaShem Instructed us on this day to tell our children of the Exodus from Mitzrayim and so , on this night , we do just that , on our Passover Seders.
A night , we are to never forget , the time when HaShem Took His Legions ( Us Jews ) out of Egypt . 
Such is the day of our Passover . This period starts from the night we went free and we commemorate right up until the time we were not ever to be bothered by the Egyptians when they drowned in the Yam Suf . That was the end of them enslaving us at that time . HaShem's Final straw with Egypt , when His Time of our redemption from there came , was when HaShem Saw how Pharaoh was going to bathe in the blood of our murdered children , some of those of our people that had not been put into their walls among bricks . How cruel and low these Egyptians were. 
Egypt was called Mitzrayim , which means , ' borders , ' for once a person came to Egypt , they were locked in and could not leave , unless Pharaoh gave permission . These Egyptians were the lowest negativity of a people at the time , the lowest in morals . Thus Pesach , is also a reminder , to free ourselves from any form of negative behavior .
HaShem Asked us to mark our doorposts , knowing full well who was Jewish , but Left it up to us , even then , to choose HaShem , and not foreign ways Chas Ve Shalom .
The Unleavened Bread Matzah that we took with us out of Egypt , not having time for the dough to rise , was so precious to us , that we kept it close to us on our shoulders , yet the valuable silver and gold , we left on our donkeys . 
The idea of Leaven, that we are to remove from our homes is also a lesson to remove from ourselves ego and arrogance and to be ever humble before HaShem . The whole way of Egypt , was one of leaven arrogance , and that is the path away from HaShem . Thus we are to choose HaShem and so , we must remove any trace of arrogance that leads to self love and idol worshiping Chas Ve Shalom . 
This night of Passover , throughout history , is a night related to our freedom from enemies . As an example , it was this night that in the story of Esther , haman had come into the courtyard to hurt us , by wanting to talk to the king about killing Mordechai , but on this night , our conditions there in Shushan were turned around , haman found himself having to humble himself to his enemy. HaShem , on that night , turned our future into on of rejoicing .
Everything we do on the Passover Seder , like talking of our freedom as a nation and leaning to the left ,is allied to also acting as a free people , only under HaShem , for it is only under HaShem that one can truly be free .
We remember on Passover the bitterness of our slavery in Egypt , when we eat the Maror , the bitter herbs at the Seder . This is our Festival of freedom , under HaShem . Thus we also think forward to the Final Redemption , as put a part of the Matzah in hiding as the Afikoman , that comes out after the meal , to remind us of the Final Redemption . We also remember Eliyahu Ha Navi , who we pour a glass of wine or grapejuice for , hoping that he will usher in Moshiach and the Final Redemption , that will take us close to HaShem . We drink four cup of wine or ( though it should be wine , ) to commemorate the four orders made by HaShem in Torah to do with us being told to leave Egypt .
We remember on this night other miracles HaShem performed for us , like Avraham overcoming the enemy , HaShem Sending Avimelech a dream not to touch Avram's wife Sarai . It was this Passover night time, that HaShem Warned Lavan not to hurt Yaakov . It was this Passover night time that Yaakov wrestled with the Angel Samael till daybreak , just before meeting up with Eisav . It was this night that HaShem Sent the Plague of the Slaying of the firstborn of Egypt , and there were many firstborns in Egypt as the Egyptians had many firstborns , even among husbands and wives , who were not faithful to their partners and so had many firstborns among their unfaithful relationships. It was on this night in time , that HaShem did destroy Sisera , our enemy . It was on this Passover night in time , that Sannacherib's plans were frustrated . It was on this night in time , that Daniel was given his vision of what he was shown . It was on this night , that Belshazar , was killed . It was on this night that Daniel was saved from the lions den . As I mentioned earlier, on this night , haman's evil was turned back on him , when he came to the King Achasvuerus to ask for Mordechai to be killed, and HaShem turned it around n, so that Haman would have to parade Mordechai through the streets of Shushan. ( Seder Book Haggadah SAZF Appeal ) . It was thus also this night in time , that HaShem disturbed the sleep and night of Achasvuerus , that he ended up asking for the annals and was told how Mordechai had saved him from Bigthan and Teresh , that same night haman came in to try hurt Mordechai and it was turned around on haman's own head . Yes , this is a very Holy night , on which HaShem Has many times , Saved our people .Yes this is a very holy night . 
HaShem Wants our closeness , and we are constantly reminded in Torah . This night we re to remember that HaShem Took us out of Mitzrayim and how HaShem Keeps Saving us . This is the night of our redemption .
So as we sit this Holy Shabbos and Pesach , reading our Haggados , may we truly give ourselves over to true freedom , by turning completely to HaShem in Love . 
I wish HaShem with Love , a Very Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Pesach Sameach with Love and to all my fellow Yidden , a very sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Pesach Sameach with love .

Parashas Metzora Shabbos Ha Gadol

Our Torah Parsha this Shabbos HaGadol , which is the Shabbos before Passover , is Parashas Metzora . HaShem Continues with the Laws of Tzaraas and here, discusses how purification from it takes place . HaShem Teaches what offerings are to be brought , how the process takes place and exactly what the Kohein needs to do . The Torah portion then goes on to discuss Tzaraas in houses . This can only occur in Eretz Yisroel . HaShem In His Mercy , Wants To Try And Avoid Striking the person directly first with Tzaraas , so HaShem Strikes the person's belongings and house first. Should the Kohein come and find Tzaraas in the house , he instructs first that the owner remove all his belongings from the house and only then , declares the house Tamay - Contaminated . This was quite embarrassing for the owner to have all his wares displayed on a public street . One of the reasons for this. , is due to one of the Aveiras that causes Tzaraas on a house, and that is dishonest miserliness , for this kind of Tzaraas can appear on the house of a person who may have been asked to lend a certain thing , and he denied having it , not wanting to help his fellow, and now , all will see that he had what he denied he had, thus a punishment for miserliness. Other Aveiras that brings this Tzaraas, are Loshon Horah and denying the Truth that HaShem Runs the World And Is Responsible For All our Blessings, not us . HaShem In His Mercy And Kindness , gives mercifully even to the one who makes an Aveirah and genuinely repents , for even HaShem's Punishment , Is His Blessing in disguise , set to put us on correcting ourselves so we can enter Shamaim . We see here in The Punishment HaShem Metes out on a house, was a blessing in disguise , for when the Kohein would come and scrape off the Tzaraas in the house and cut away bricks , stone and mortar , they found riches and valuables hidden in the walls , left by the previous Canaanite dwellers , who had hidden their treasures in the walls of the houses ( and even in the fields ) when they knew we were coming home to our gift from. HaShem , our Land and so , these got found and the repentant found himself wealthy . A Lesson for us , That Even When HaShem Punishes us , it is for the good , to bring us back to Him and receive His Brochas being near Him . 
The Laws of Tzaraas in houses go on to tell us how the house us purified and under what cases , a house has to be totally demolished and all the Laws related to it. . 
HaShem then discusses human impurity again in the form of ritual impurity from the human body , then the Niddah ( period of a woman every month - going back to the original Aveirah of Chava ) and its Laws and other blood flows and its impurity and how to purify herself . The Laws of Niddah and Family Purity , are the basis of a pure Jewish home , bringing HaShem's Shechinah Into the Jewish home and the continuation of Holy Jewish Children , brought up from the very beginnings of conception , in holiness and purity , the life intended for every Jew . 
So ends the Parsha . 
The usual Haftorah for Parashas Metzora , would usually be 2 Kings 7:3-20 , talking also of the lepers Gechaizi and his 3 sons , that we mentioned last week , in relation to the Parsha of the Metzora who spoke Loshon Horah , the main reason for this punishment of Tzaraas . Gechaizi as mentioned before , slandered his master Elisha the Prophet and also tried to take for himself what he was instructed not to take and so he and his three sons were stricken with Tzaraas , a link to the Parsha . But seeing as this Shabbos is Shabbos HaGadol , we read Malachi 3:4-24 , reminding us to remember Moshe and the Laws from HaShem and How HaShem Wants To Give us in abundance . Passover , is a time HaShem Gave us our freedom , And Put us in the Path of His Laws through Moshe after HaShem Redeemed us . This Haftorah also discusses the coming of Eliyahu Ha Navi at the End of Days , the Final Redemption and we are reminded of Moshe at the Burning Bush , when he was Told by HaShem , Who to say Sent him . The fact that Hashem Told him to only say part of HaShem's Name Reference , showed Moshe that our removal from Mitzrayim , would not be the final one on Passover , and this Haftorah is thus an apt one for it refers to the Final Redemption , May it come soon in our days . So ends our Sedra .
One of the main reasons for Tzaraas , is Loshon Horah , Slanderous talk about another . This is a terrible Aveirah , one that even caused us to lose our Temple over causing groundless hatred for our fellow . As we near Passover , The Festival of Freedom , we need to learn to free ourselves from that which destroys . Loshon Horah Slander destroys more than just the one spoken about . Speaking Slander , ruins three people , The perpetrator of the Loshon , the one listening to the Loshon and the one spoken about . Tto be truly free , is to be on the close path with HaShem . Such is true freedom . To make an Aveira of Loshon Horah , chains us to the negative , for such a person that Loshons , ties themselves to the negative untrue paths of slanderous talk , which pulls the perpetrator of it into more and more negative thinking of others . To be truly free , as we were after leaving Egypt on Passover , is to emulate HaShem's Ways of Honestly and seeing the best in others . To slander others is to seek ruin , Chas Ve shalom , of HaShem's Beautiful World . We should always seek life and light and travel always on HaShem's Path toward HaShem . 
Shlomo Ha Melech said very distinctly in Mishlei that ' Life and Death are in the power of the tongue ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ). ' We can kill more people with a word then with a sword . A sword can only kill one person at a time that is close but a word can destroy many at once , and even those very far away . 
HaShem Creates all people and when we Chas Ve Shalom go and slander another , it is as though we are trying to recreate , Chas Ve Shalom , that other person in a way we negatively want to perceive them , just for our own arrogance . This is a very terrible Aveirah and one of the easiest to commit .
HaShem Made the tongue as one of the easiest moving muscles , for a good reason so that we can easily gain Kavod by speaking Holy Words of Torah to bring HaShem's Shechinah down to this World ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ). To use the tongue for a negative reason , completely goes against the very purpose of HaShem in Allowing us a Tongue and Speech - to make this World a home for HaShem . HaShem Secured the tongue behind teeth and the walls of the mouth and gums , as a deterrent to keep it in check . We should only speak and use the power of speech , for holy purposes . To do otherwise , is to go against Creation , Chas Ve Shalom .We all are here , out of Gan Eiden and in this World , suffering , because of the Aveirah of Loshon Horah , where the Nachash - Snake , with Samael within , slandered HaShem to Chavah and was punished by having its tongue split and being forced as its food, to eat the very dust that is alike to the negativity , of what it spoke . Loshon Horah , also led to Doeg slandering David ( Midrash Vayikra - Rabbi Weissman ), to King Saul , and thus having Doeg kill 85 of the Priests at Nov , including the Head Kohein Achimelech , for a lie Doeg told . Doeg was to never be given redemption . Loshon Horah has ruined many lives and shows as I mentioned a great arrogance . Torah is a way to control its pull . Studying Torah , keeps a person on a higher Madreiga - Level , thus keeping them occupied with Holier pursuits and also keeps them from being idle , when the tongue likes to flap . 
Within the word " Metzora ," is the Hebrew word ' Tzar , ' which means enemy , oppressor , trouble and a rock ( Shilo dictionary ) . How deeply descriptive is our meaning now . Thus Loshon Horah is a great enemy to us ,brings oppressors upon us , brings trouble and distress to many and is cold and hard without feeling like a stone . When we Loshon , we can't see the whole picture , so thus our view of another person is worth nothing , for only HaShem Sees the Whole Picture . So our maligned view of another is only a cold hard unknowing one , with no emotions for another , just like a rock or stone . Only HaShem Can Decide on others. Not us .We must be there to guide and help , not to put others down . We must Emulate HaShem in every way , and be a helping hand to others , not ever use others to step on so we can try to get higher in a wrong way . Such people that stand on others to get ahead , accomplish nothing but humiliation . As the Slanderer isolates others , so does HaShem's Punishment for Loshon Horah , isolate the perpetrator of Loshon Horah . 
HaShem Wants us to be pure holy individuals, pure from within , shining to the outside . How we treat others , is the path to how we are treated in return . If we go out of our way to slander others and ruin others to make ourselves feel good , HaShem Responds , By Humbling us . But if we give people the benefit of the doubt , trying every possible way to find a good reason for what another may do , So Can HaShem also Give us mercy and Try To Excuse what we do . 
Our Tongues must speak sweet words of holiness always , helping others rather than trying to destroy them . Instead of sullying our soul which shows on the body , rather purify the soul , so the body may shine . 
Let us all be a vessel to hold the Light Of HaShem , and speak words always of sweetness and holiness and light . 
With deep love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with Love , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love and Chag Pesach Sameach with Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and a Chag Pesach Sameach with love .

Parashas Tazria

Our Parsha this Shabbos HaChodesh is Parashas Tazria , it also being Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Nissan , an important Rosh Chodesh , before Pesach , around the time when the Laws of Rosh Chodesh were Given By HaShem to us through Moshe . So from the first Torah Scroll , we read Parashas Tazriah Vayikra 12:1 - 13:59 and from the Second Torah Scroll we read for Rosh Chodesh , Bamidbar 28:9-15 and from a Third Torah Scroll for Parashas HaChodesh , Shemos 12:1-20 . The Haftorah is Yechezkiel 45:16 - 46:18 and Isaiah 66:1 - 24 related to the relevant topic of Rosh Chodesh.
Parashas Tazriah starts with the Laws of Purification , on the birth of male and female children . We just discussed in the previous Sedra about the contamination of various animals , and now naturally , Torah goes on to the Laws of Purification of people . But why were animals mentioned first before people ? Just as in Creation , HaShem Created the animals first , and then humans , So does HaShem Deal First with contamination of animals before humans . This is also a lesson in human humility for should man become too conceited , HaShem Reminds him that even the Gnat was Created before him .
HaShem Starts With the Laws of Human Purity in this Sedra , at the beginning of a person's life , at birth . This also indicates a very important lesson . HaShem Could Easily Have Created humans perfect but instead , we are given the opportunity from the beginning , to work on our own , gaining in Purity and Holiness and so , can earn the merit of it ourselves . Thus , HaShem Commands The Laws of Purity to already be in place at birth . HaShem Watches the birth of every member of Creation and is with all His Creation , Even Before birth , still Performing Miracles within the womb . The very fact that an entire human being starts as it does and grows into an adult is such a Beautiful Miracle of HaShem . The Whole concept of " Tazria , " - " Giving Birth , " is an Awesome Act of Kindness From HaShem , Who Is A Part of Every Conception with the Parents , and shows us that right at the beginning of every life , HaShem Is There For us . The very act of Tamei Contamination at Birth , goes back to the action of Chava , at the Beginning ,when she disobeyed HaShem . Before her Aveirah , Birth could have been a pure and painless act . Now every birth comes with a touch of needed climb for purity . The Woman bring as a Korban , both an Elevation offering and a Sin Offering . The Sin Offering goes back as an Atonement for Chava , and the Elevation Offering is like the guilt offering here , where she regrets the possibility of vowing at the time of the painful childbirth , that she may have wrongly spoken out that she will never be with her husband again . The Idea also of these offerings , is that we start out birth, clearing ourselves of any negativities that can bring us to Sin and then we work to Elevate ourselves Higher .
HaShem Then Discusses a most important set of Laws with respect to Tzaraas and human contamination , should a person Sin , Chas Ve Shalom . Different kinds of Tzaraas are discussed , from Tzaraas on the skin , to the head , to a garment , to a house , and how the Kohein is to judge if it is Tzaraas and what to do with it . So ends our Sedra . 
The Midrash talks of 10 sins for Tzaraas that can cause it to come upon a person . These ten are Loshon Horah , Murder, Theft , Arrogance , Idol Worship , Chilul HaShem , Immorality , Blaspheming HaShem , Doing things not permitted ( like doing the work of a Kohein when one is a non-Kohein ) and the Evil Eye Miserliness. The Gemorah in Erchin , lists an eleventh one , which is making a vain oath ( Midrash Vayikra - R Weissman ) .
The whole idea of Tzaraas is so far removed from what we know today as Leprosy . Today's leprosy is a physical ailment , whereas Tzaraas , is a spiritual affliction that comes out physically . The Kohanim had to know all the different Laws regarding Tzaraas and how to differentiate between over 300 different types of Tum'a Tzaraas . It shows us that how we behave and what we do religiously , or in this case , also not do what we should do , can have a very physical manifestation . HaShem Furnishes the afflicted with a suitable punishment , for just as the one afflicted may have Loshoned and thus isolated others , so was the afflicted , forced to leave the Clouds of Glory and isolate themselves from others , putting on sackcloth and calling out ' Tamei Tamei , ' should anyone come near them . We need to take this into account , for the way we act , shows on our very Physicality , and our negative emotions , does reflect Spiritually on the outside .
Usually the regular Haftorah Portion for this Parsha is the story of Naaman , general from Aram , who was leprous . There was a young Jewish girl taken into Aram's territory who spoke out and advised that he should go to Elisha , the Jewish prophet to help. 
So the king of Aram sent a letter to the king of Israel Yehoram to assist . The King of Israel thought it was a trap pretext to attack and so , tore up the letter . Elisha was angry at the king's reaction and said , " Let Naaman come . " Naaman came to his house , with wealth and Elisha never came out , but told him to go bathe seven times in the Jordan river , but Naaman thought he knew better , saying that his own rivers were just as good . Naaman's sons persuaded their father to listen and Naaman went and bathed seven times in the Jordan and his Leprosy was healed . Elisha told his servant Geichazi not to accept any gifts , for Elisha wanted it made clear that it was HaShem Who Had Saved Naaman , and not Elisha himself . This story continued , that Geichazi and his sons with him , deceitfully ran after Naaman , to try and get the valuables under false pretenses . When Elisha saw what he did prophetically , Elisha cursed his deceitful servant Geichazi and his sons with Leprosy and they were stricken . They ended up to be the Lepers who stood outside the city gate subsequently , and who were hungry and made their way to the enemy camp and found the enemy had run due to a conflagration HaShem Had Sent and so , they returned to report this to Israel . Geichazi had previously mocked Elisha and Elisha's staff , when Elisha , on another occasion , had sent Geichazi with Elisha's staff to try heal the sin of the Shunamite woman's son , and on the way , Geichazi loshoned his master and mocked him . So Loshon Horah is a big reason for Tzaraas to appear . HaShem Put Into our hands, our own destinies . What we choose to do , is where we lead ourselves to . HaShem Wants us to be a partner in His Work , by bringing ourselves to completion . This starts at birth and never stops our whole lives . There is not a single moment in this World , where we can't grow. Every moment we are given , has within it , many opportunities for Spiritual Growth . We just have to look out for them and bring each moment into Heaven . Every moment for us all , can either be a step up or a step down . Which one it is , is purely our choice . To waste a single moment on trivial physicalities is a waste of the sweet beautiful and kind reason , HaShem Gives us To grow . Our prophets of old knew deep Spiritual things . Like Elisha who knew that Naaman's solution , was hidden in the Torah , for Naaman's name started and ended with a Nun , as did a few other verses , like the verse that speaks of the subject of Tzaraas Laws , starts and ends with a Nun and also with respect to this very subject, where another verse in Torah that refers to the Jordan river , also starts with and ends with a Nun , as does another verse in Torah that refers to seven times immersing , also start with and end with a Nun , so all things are in Torah and HaShem Saw To all things . All we need to do , is Follow HaShem's Ways . HaShem Is In the most minute action , and even when trials come or punishments happen , HaShem Is There To Improve us . No one is immune from learning a lesson . Even a King , like King David , who after the incident with Bas-Sheva , was stricken with Tzaraas for six months and isolated , until he had worked through the Aveirah he had done . All of us are here to learn and grow and work through our weaknesses so we can become better beings , that Bless HaShem instead of just Blaspheming HaShem , as Golias ( Goliath ) did every day he came out to mock HaShem and the Jewish people from the Pelishtim , when David called on HaShem To Strike him with Tzaraas , before David killed him with a slingshot with HaShem's Help, for David could not abide any mockery of HaShem . It is interesting to note that as David was descended from Ruth in Moav , so was Golias descended from Orpah ( her sister - in - law ) in Moav , both these women being daughter's in law of Naomi , where Ruth chose to go with Naomi home , unlike Orpah who chose to stay in Moav with its Avodah Zorah . Thus David and Golias had to meet .
Our Parsha Tazria, teaches , that working toward purity starts at birth and continues on . 
We dare not waste a single moment , for each moment is very precious and is a Gift from HaShem . So , let us appreciate every moment we are Given , for HaShem Gives us Life To Truly Spiritually Live . May we all open our eyes to HaShem and take HaShem's Gift of Life and True Living , and Start to truly Live HaShem's Way , for only that is True Living . May we all keep pure and holy and live every moment we are Given by HaShem , for HaShem . 
I wish HaShem With Pure Love , a Very Sweet and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Nissan with Love , and to all my fellow Yidden , a very sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov Nissan with love .