A PONY TALE<\/p>\n
This week’s Torah portion describes the different types of tzaraas<\/em>, leprosy. Tzaraas was a punishment for speaking lashon hara<\/em>, gossip or slander. What was unique about this particular punishment was that the person who spoke the lashon hara<\/em> did not get tzaraas<\/em> right away. First his house was stricken with tzaraas<\/em>. If he did not repent, the tzaraas<\/em> spread to his clothing. If he STILL refused to repent, only then did he develop tzaraas<\/em> on his skin.<\/p>\n What I personally find most interesting is that the house got tzaraas<\/em>, the clothing got tzaraas<\/em>, and the person got tzaraas<\/em>, but the animals did not get tzaraas<\/em>. On that topic, let me talk about a sick animal.<\/p>\n There was once a horse named Charlie. Charlie was overworked and as a result got CHARLIE HORSE. Farmer Joe, who owned the horse, got very nervous and took Charlie straight to DR. SUESS.* Dr. Suess took one look at the horse and smiled. He told Farmer Joe, “Don’t worry, YOUR HORSE IS IN STABLE CONDITION!”<\/p>\n *Sus means horse in Hebrew.<\/p>\n by R’ Yaakov Moskowitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A PONY TALE This week’s Torah portion describes the different types of tzaraas, leprosy. Tzaraas was a punishment for speaking lashon hara, gossip or slander. What was unique about this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,542,45],"yoast_head":"\n