<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">The leprosy mentioned here was special kind of leprosy</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">which only the Jewish people suffered from only in Israel.</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">It never occurred outside of Israel, even in a Jewish home.</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">The etiology of leprosy in the Torah was not a physical </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">but rather a spiritual disease. </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">The Rabbis comment: </span><i style="font-size: 20px;" class="">b’sorah tovah hee l’Yisroel </i><span style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><i class="">—</i></span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">"It is good news for the Jews if a house is stricken with leprosy."</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Ramban remarks that it is odd for a house made of bricks and</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">mortar to act as if it were alive. It would be most unusual for a</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">house to become sick just like a human being. Such an illness</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">borders on the miraculous. Why does the Torah say that a house</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">may be afflicted with leprosy? It means that a Jewish home is different</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">from other homes; it has life and spirit attached to it. When the people</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">who live in these homes are sinful, the very bricks of the home reflect</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">that sinfulness. The Rabbis tell us that leprosy is a sign of evil and sin;</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">therefore, it is natural that house would manifest leprosy as a sign of</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">its inhabitants evil. Now we can understand why the rabbis say it is good</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">news when a house is stricken with leprosy. If one can notice the disease</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">before it spreads, he has a chance to cure it. When the disease goes </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">unnoticed, the real trouble ensues.</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">Since in today’s world we don’t have the warning of leprosy attached to our</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">houses, let us hope we can pick up other signs and warnings in order to be </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">able to remedy whatever difficulties caused by our own sinfulness. </span><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class=""><b class=""><i class="">The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bibl</i></b>e</font></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="helvetica neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Dwight L Moody</b></span></font></div></body></html>