[Avodah] FW: Medicine for a Metzora

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

(This post is not to dispute any of the answers that others have offered, but only to offer yet another perspective on it.)

Someone asked:
> It seems clear that in those days, a person speaking Loshon
> Hara, Motzi Shem Ra etc would end up becoming a Metzora. So
> which normal bar-daas wouldn't refrain from LH, knowing that
> he'll get on-the-spot punishment?

You're absolutely correct. A "normal bar-daas" would of course refrain under such circumstances. But ain adam chotay elah in nichnas bo ruach shtus ("No one sins except during temporary insanity"). And then he gets tzaraas.

Akiva Miller
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