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Adamdam is the Torah’s definition of vitiligo with a reddish tinge to it. The term is used to differentiate between the standard appearance of vitiligo; e.g. in white shades comparable to that of a moist egg membrane or whiter (up to and including snow white). Adamdam means that the entire vitiligo patch has a uniform reddish tinge…read more
A wool strip (לשון של צמר) colored red using the famed תולעת שני dye is a required ingredient for the Tahara process of he/she who’s skin nega has receded from it’s state of tumah. What is שני תולעת? Tosefta and talmud yerushalmi describe the תולעת שני as a worm, this is the approach adopted in…read more
[boxify theme=”info” cols=”4″ cols_use=”3″]Note: This purification ceremony is Torah-mandated to Jewish people upon rescission of צרעת[/boxify] Once the vitiligo is cured, the Taharah (purifying) process can and should begin the very same day (Sifra metzora ch. 5), even outside the land of Israel (Maimonides commentary to Mishna tractate Nega’im 14:13) the recipe is as follows;…read more
The launder process for a nega on a wool, linen or leather garment/vessel is performed on the seventh day of quarantine of the infected garment. [boxify cols_use =”1″ cols =”2″ position =”right” order =”first” box_spacing =”10 auto” padding =”20″ background_color =”light blue” background_opacity =”10″ border_width =”3″ border_color =”yellow” border_style =”solid” border_radius =”10″ height =”343″ width…read more
Ok, a yisroel (or ישראלית, or כהן or כהנת) got a nega, was then seen by the kohen, and pronounced tammei, so what now? Hilchot menuga The Torah details what the menuga is and is not to do. והצרוע אשר בו הנגע בגדיו יהיו פרמים וראשו יהיה פרוע ועל שפם יעטה וטמא טמא יקרא כל…read more
A nega in the beard or hair, called a nethek נתק, may be what is commonly known as AA or Alopecia areata.
The nethek is a bald patch (not caused by hair picking or shaving) the size of a griss, that may be indicative of immediate tumah, provided that it has at least two thin golden-colored hair strands in that bald patch area.
Pisyon -an expansion- is the expanding of a skin nega after the afflicted individual being placed in hesger – quarantine – for a period of seven days, the afflicted is viewed on the seventh day by the same kohen who placed him onto quarantine who decides if the original nega has expanded. Pisyon doesn’t end…read more
The Torah discusses michve right after shchin, michve is an accidental scalding of the skin by fire, boiling water, a red hot iron or basically anything that burns.
The michve alone is not a call for tumah but it, like the shchin, can be a host for the shades of white as well as the discoloring of (at least) two white hairs that indicate tumah.
Shchin שחין is the Torah word for the condition known as eczema although shchin is broader in terms that it includes also a discoloring brought on by external sources such as boiling water. Common roots are found in schin and eczema as they both in a sense mean excessive heat, this characterizes what on fact…read more