Articles related to "Social Outcast"
Who Is The Social Outcast?
Do social outcasts have shared features or dispositions that cause them to become a social outcast? Or do social circumstances cause people to become outcasts?
• exclusion • group norm violation • hostilty • withdrawnness • aggression
Do social outcasts have shared features or dispositions that cause them to become a social outcast? Or do social circumstances cause people to become outcasts?
• exclusion • group norm violation • hostilty • withdrawnness • aggression
The Anthropology of Belonging
In this article, I will explore the evolutionary roots of our universal desire to belong to a group.
• social inclsuion • social banishment • social outcast • anthropology • inclusion
In this article, I will explore the evolutionary roots of our universal desire to belong to a group.
• social inclsuion • social banishment • social outcast • anthropology • inclusion
III-4 Tazria Social Leprosy with a Jaundiced Eye
Tazria is concerned with the laws governing childbirth,"brit milah"-circumcison and tzar'as-"leprosy" with its associated physical and spiritual impurities. Tazria balances birth with its hope of new life and creativity with warnings of degenerative disease that corrupt the person, physically and spiritually, appearing in the clothes and home and extending to society. Tzara'as or "leprosy" is a spiritual and physical illness, corrupting the life of a person. Only the Kohen administered diagnosis. Rabbinical interpretion explores the passage metaphorically, acknowledging that spiritual corruption is contagious and, unless isolated, is a malignant cancer in society. Isolation is imposed on contagious diseases: scarlet fever or diptheria. Such plagues fall on the good and the bad, the innocent and the guilty, but "tzara'at", frequently translated as leprosy, is asssociated to "lashon hara" –slander. Slander and gossip corrupt society, defacing it as a degenerative disease that mutilates the body while robbing it of its functions.
• tazria • vayikra • leviticus • books of moses • lashon hara
Tazria is concerned with the laws governing childbirth,"brit milah"-circumcison and tzar'as-"leprosy" with its associated physical and spiritual impurities. Tazria balances birth with its hope of new life and creativity with warnings of degenerative disease that corrupt the person, physically and spiritually, appearing in the clothes and home and extending to society. Tzara'as or "leprosy" is a spiritual and physical illness, corrupting the life of a person. Only the Kohen administered diagnosis. Rabbinical interpretion explores the passage metaphorically, acknowledging that spiritual corruption is contagious and, unless isolated, is a malignant cancer in society. Isolation is imposed on contagious diseases: scarlet fever or diptheria. Such plagues fall on the good and the bad, the innocent and the guilty, but "tzara'at", frequently translated as leprosy, is asssociated to "lashon hara" –slander. Slander and gossip corrupt society, defacing it as a degenerative disease that mutilates the body while robbing it of its functions.
• tazria • vayikra • leviticus • books of moses • lashon hara