EXTRA 3 on Metzora 14:48–52

Side-ring EXTRA · Seven sprinklings on the house

Source

Parallel to the seven sprinklings of the person-metzora rite (14:7), treated in Toras Kohanim / Sifra.

Core Text

Core Text
וְהִזָּה אֶל הַבַּיִת שֶׁבַע פְּעָמִים — כְּנֶגֶד שֶׁבַע הַהַזָּאוֹת שֶׁבְּטָהֳרַת הָאָדָם.

English: “And he shall sprinkle toward the house seven times” — corresponding to the seven sprinklings in the purification of a person.

Type of Learning

Structural symmetry

What Is Learned

The house is purified with the same sevenfold sprinkling pattern used for a person, binding the two domains of nega law.