Aliya Summary: After concluding the subject of tzara'at,
the Torah discusses the ritual impurity of a man who issues a sickly
and unnatural seminal discharge, as well as the method by which this
person attains purity when the condition passes.
Rashi
points out that the discharge contaminates only if it's on a portion of
the body, but if the entire body is discharging, the person is still
pure. Logic would dictate otherwise, unless you view it as an indicator
of specific internal issues that need to be addressed, and having an
entire body secrete anything is not operable or helpful. You can't tell
someone "everything is wrong with you" and expect them to be able to do
anything about it. Being "impure" means that the person needs to fix
something about their character traits, and that just isn't possible
with a full-body discharge (a separate question would be why a full-body
discharge would ever happen, if it's inoperable).
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