Parshat M'tzora
Picture a 13-year-old boy keeping a straight face while delivering a bar-mitzvah speech about a "...man (having) a discharge issuing from his member" and how his "bedding...shall be impure...". Shabbat Mom, jokes that she's the real-life Sophie Portnoy, but even she wouldn't ask her prince of a son to deal with that! Following last week's discussion of leprosy, M'tzora details the purification rituals necessary for an afflicted person to return to the community after his ski