This week's Torah portion is called Tazria (bearing seed) and begins a long section (spanning this and the following parashah) that describes the laws concerning a disease called tzara'at. This disease manifested as spots on the skin of the body, head, beard, clothing, or even on the walls of houses. This exact disease no longer exists today, but as we have often mentioned, the Torah contains timeless teachings that apply to every place and time in human history.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de los causales de estas manchas, nuestros sabios explican, basados en los vers\u00edculos de \u00e9sta secci\u00f3n, c\u00f3mo debe identificarse una mancha para saber si es tzar\u00e1at o no. Y el proceso comienza por ver la mancha. Dice la Mishn\u00e1 (Nega\u00edm 2:5): \u00abTodas las manchas una persona ve, excepto las propias. Rab\u00ed Meir dice, tampoco las de sus parientes cercanos\u00bb.<\/p>\n
El texto se refiere a las manchas de tzar\u00e1at, sin embargo, nuestros sabios explican que esta ense\u00f1anza tiene un significado mucho m\u00e1s profundo tambi\u00e9n: las manchas a las que se refiere son manchas en el alma. Todos tenemos diferentes \u00abmanchas\u00bb en el alma, actitudes y comportamientos, inclinaciones y emociones inapropiadas que no vemos ni percibimos. S\u00ed logramos ver las manchas de los dem\u00e1s, siempre y cuando, seg\u00fan la opini\u00f3n de Rab\u00ed Meir, no sean nuestros parientes, en cuyo caso el amor y la indulgencia con la que uno se percibe a s\u00ed mismo se esparce sobre nuestros seres queridos tambi\u00e9n.<\/p>\n
Ahora bien, a pesar de lo profundo y revelador de la Mishn\u00e1, hay un problema: aparentemente la Mishna deber\u00eda decir algo como \u00abTen cuidado y se honesto al observar tus manchas\u00bb o algo por el estilo. Es decir, entendiendo la naturaleza del ser humano de no asumir sus propias faltas, la ense\u00f1anza deber\u00eda tender a advertir y ser cuidadoso en ser imparcial a\u00fan con la spropias manchas. Y sin embargo nuestros sabios dicen directamente, \u00abNo te dediques a ver tus errores, \u00a1observa los de los dem\u00e1s!\u00bb<\/p>\n
La idea detr\u00e1s de esta ense\u00f1anza es la siguiente: siendo clara la naturaleza del hombre, de, por amor propio, no querer ver sus propias fallas, ser\u00eda cruel por parte de Di-s exigirle al hombre ir en contra de su propia naturaleza (con la cual El mismo lo cre\u00f3). La Tor\u00e1 s\u00f3lo exige al hombre lo que \u00e9ste puede cumplir seg\u00fan sus capacidades y limitaciones. Por eso la Mishn\u00e1 no le indica al hombre que aprenda a ver sus fallas, sino que directamente lo manda a dedicarse a las fallas de los dem\u00e1s. Pero, a su vez, en otro lado, la misma Mishn\u00e1 dice (Avot, 1:6): \u00abHazte de un maestro\u00bb, as\u00ed indicando cu\u00e1l es la forma de lidiar con las propias manchas.<\/p>\n
This should not be understood to mean that one should dedicate oneself to criticizing and pointing out the flaws of other people; on the contrary, the emphasis is that one should make sure to consult with someone about one's own flaws, with the aim of erasing them and growing personally.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week's Torah portion is called Tazria (bearing seed) and begins a long section (spanning this and the following parashah) that describes the laws concerning a disease called tzara'at. This disease manifested as spots on the skin of the body, head, beard, or\u2026 Read More \u00bbStains<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,63],"tags":[950,971,962,1034,969,942],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editoriales","category-tazria","tag-di-s","tag-hombre","tag-ley","tag-mancha","tag-parasha-2","tag-tora"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Manchas.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar1400.jpeg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"castbox":{"key":"castbox","url":"","label":"CastBox","class":"castbox","icon":"castbox.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/en\/feed\/podcast\/rabino-tuvia-serber","embedCode":"Manchas<\/a><\/blockquote>