In R. Shimon Golan’s 2005 Devar Tora for Parashat Metzora, “Leprosy and the Land of Israel” (491 Golan (biu.ac.il)), on behalf of Bar Ilan University’s Parashat HaShavua program, he notes the association that the Tora makes between Tzora’at and the land of Israel, with respect to the plague that effects the walls of one’s house:
VaYikra 14:34
When ye are come into the land of Cana’an, which I Give to you for a possession, and I Put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession.
R. Golan reviews a number of traditional approaches to the association of Tzora’at HaBayit specifically with the land of Israel: Continue reading
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