Description: a blog of Joseph David Quinton
a blog of Joseph David Quinton
TORAH: Leviticus 12:1-15:33 HARTARAH: Isaiah 66:1-24 GOSPEL: Luke 2:22-35 and Mark 1:35-45
The name of the twenty-seventh reading from the Torah is Tazria , which means “she conceived.” The name is derived from the words of Leviticus 12:2, where the LORD says to Moses, “When a woman [conceives] and bears a male child …” Leviticus 12 discusses the laws of purification after childbirth. Leviticus 13 introduces the laws for diagnosing and quarantining lepers. Except in biblical calendar leap years, Tazria is read together with the subsequent Torah portion, Metzorah , on the same Sabbath.