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her daughters in their mission in life. Likewise, the birth of a female is a We learn an important lesson from this. When a person transgresses, he
reminder that the woman caused man to sin. Therefore, she undergoes a should immediately do teshuvah. If he postpones it, his iniquity will be
prolonged state of impurity. greater, and he may become accustomed to his evil ways. Consequently,
In the future, women will rise during techiyat hameitim in the merit of he will become desensitized to sin.
encouraging their husbands to study Torah and sending their sons to learn
Torah.

“Hashem spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying: If a person will have on the skin of his
“Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying: Speak to the flesh a s’eit, or a sapachat, or a baheret, and it
Children of Israel, saying: When a woman will become a tzara’at affliction on the skin of
conceives and gives birth to a male, she shall be his flesh; he shall be brought to Aharon the

impure for a seven-day period, as during the Kohen, or to one of his sons the Kohanim”
days of her menstruant infirmity shall she be (Vayikra 13:1-2)
impure. On the eighth day, the flesh of his
foreskin shall be circumcised. For thirty-three
days she shall stay in blood of purity… If she
gives birth to a female, she shall be impure for
two weeks, as during her menstruation period;

and for sixty-six days she shall stay in blood of
purity”
(Vayikra 12: 1-5) # 26347-EYAL-6