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This week's YouParsha Metzora http://youtu.be/X5C8NEkltdI What is the purification process of a Metzora in our day since there is no tzoraas? ===================================

The Talmud says that Moshiach is currently suffering from tzoraas. Parshas Tazriya Metzora - Leviticus 12-14 - deals primarily with the process of one afflicted with tzoraas. The Parsha can be understood allegorically to refer to the period of redemption from exile.

Moshiach does not spontaneously appear but rather is sitting enduring the exile with the rest of the Jewish people. Tazriya and Metzora are normally read in the same week indicating that Moshiach's arrival is not a sequential occurrence. We should perform each mitzvah and act of kindness knowing that this one deed could usher Moshiach's arrival. It says at the end of each section in these two Parshas, "This is the Torah of…" One of the most effective ways of bringing Moshiach is to study the Torah sections dealing with Moshiach. May we merit his coming, NOW!

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Reb Noach of Mezibuzh came to the Baal Shem Tov requesting a blessing for children. The Rebbe fell deep in thought and said, "You will have a son, but on condition that you never leave the child alone for the first six years of his life. Noach agreed and they had a son the following year. When the child was four years old, the circus came to town. The child's mother heard the commotion and left her son to see this unusual sight. When she returned, the child was gone. A frantic search ensued with no luck. The Baal Shem Tov had passed away the previous year. Noach went to the Rebbe's daughter Aidel to ask advice. Aidel said she would pray at her father's grave and have an answer.

Upon her return, Aidel told Noach that her father instructed him to travel south and not give up on finding his son. For week's Noach travelled from town to village. One day, he asked a local innkeeper if a four-year-old boy of such and such a description had been seen. The innkeeper's eyes lit up. The local squire had recently adopted a child. There was going to be a large baptism ceremony the next day. Maybe this was his son. The innkeeper found a pretext to go to the squire's estate. He returned with the news - the boy was definitely Noach's son.

The innkeeper suggested that Noach go the next day and approach the bishop to intercede. The bishop was making a special trip just to perform the ceremony. Noach stood outside the squire's gate, he stopped the bishop's carriage as it approached and explained to the bishop the whole scenario. The bishop instructed Noach to wait outside the gate. When he would have his son, Noach was to take the bishop's carriage and speed away.

The squire was very happy to see the bishop but was shocked as the bishop began berating the squire. This Jewish boy could never be trusted. To prove it, the boy would be shown a random Jew. The bishop maintained that boy would run to the Jew even after all the kindness the squire had shown the boy these past few weeks. At the signal, Noach appeared, the boy ran to his father and the two escaped in the bishop's carriage.

Upon their return to Mezibuzh, Noach went immediately to Aidel to tell her the news. Before he could open his mouth, Aidel said, "You should know that my father left his place in paradise and came down to this world disguised as that bishop just to save your son."

Several weeks passed and Noach received a letter from that innkeeper. The day after Noach left with his son, the bishop showed up at the squire's estate, apologizing for being a day late. He was now ready to baptize the boy. Everyone was shocked, but no one could figure out what happened (except Noach)

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