{"id":541,"date":"2014-04-04T18:54:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2014-04-04T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:54:54","slug":"parshas-metzora-homely-tzarras-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Parshas Metzora \u2013 Homely Tzarras {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Homely Tzarras<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">{<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">T&#8217;s Torah Tidbits<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">}<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In this weeks <em>Parsha<\/em> we learn about how <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Tzaraas<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> affects homes (14:33-57 describes the process). If the <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Tzaraas<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> is persistent and stays even after removing and replacing some stones, the house must be demolished (the walls must be broken down). Isn&#8217;t that a bit excessive? What did the house ever do wrong? <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rashi<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> explains that when the houses in Israel were demolished, hidden treasures were found in the walls. These were originally stashed away by the Canaanites when the Jews were conquering Israel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We see here a powerful lesson. What might seem like a cruel punishment on the surface (the destruction of a home due to a sin) is really a great reward in hiding (the gain of treasure). <em>Hashem<\/em> always has our best interests at heart and always does what is best for us. We must never doubt G-d, especially when on surface level it does not look positive. We should keep in mind that <em>Hashem<\/em> always does what is best for us even if we can not see it or understand it at the moment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homely Tzarras {T&#8217;s Torah Tidbits} \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In this weeks Parsha we learn about how Tzaraas affects homes (14:33-57 describes the process). If the Tzaraas is persistent and stays even after removing and replacing some stones, the house must be demolished (the walls must be broken down). Isn&#8217;t that a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parsha-dvar-torahs","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}