There are Tora Portions of the Torah that lift us with sweeping ideas: the origins of the world, the gift of freedom, the revelation at Sinai. And then there are others that lead us into far less luminous territory—places that feel uneasy, even unsettling: the fragility of the body, bodily fluids, blemishes, separation. Tazria and Metzora belong to that realm we would rather avoid, as though looking too closely at certain realities might shake the certainty on which we stand.