Tirzah Firestone

The "Metsorah" Question:
Dying and Flying

Every year, we have to look at this issue of what is m'tsorah. It's so much nicer to read other parshiyot, but m'tsorah is such a conundrum every year. What is this thing, m'tsorah? Is it psoriasis? leprosy? the disease du jour, AIDS, breast cancer? What do we do with it? Is it slanderous tongue? So many different interpretations of this word. So why is this Reb Zalman's chaylek (portion)?