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Positive commandment · Mitzvat Aseh #103 of 613

For a house afflicted with tzara’at to impart impurity

להיות בית מנוגע מטמא

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The verse · Vayikra 14:34

כִּי תָבֹאוּ אֶל־אֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי נֹתֵן לָכֶם לַאֲחֻזָּה וְנָתַתִּי נֶגַע צָרַעַת בְּבֵית אֶרֶץ אֲחֻזַּתְכֶם

“When you come into the land of Kena῾an, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of żara῾at in a house of the land of your possession;”

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The Rambam’s words

For a house afflicted with tzara’at to impart impurity.

להיות בית מנוגע מטמא.

Who & when

“And it is practiced in the house of a male or female in the Land [of Israel], at any time that there are priests fitting for the thing.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Defilement by Leprosy הלכות טומאת צרעת

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