page_title: Tazria
section_title: In medieval Jewish interpretation
hierarchical_section_title: Tazria / In medieval Jewish interpretation
caption_attribution_description: English: Moses Maimonides, portrait.
context_page_description: Tazria, Thazria, Thazri'a, Sazria, or Ki Tazria' is the 27th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah deals with ritual impurity. It constitutes Leviticus 12:1–13:59. The parashah is made up of 3,667 Hebrew letters, 1,010 Hebrew words, 67 verses, and 128 lines in a Torah Scroll.
  Jews read it the 27th or 28th Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in April or, rarely, in late March or early May. The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between 50 in common years and 54 or 55 in leap years. In leap years, parashah Tazria is read separately. In common years, parashah Tazria is combined with the next parashah, Metzora, to help achieve the number of weekly readings needed.
context_section_description: The parashah is discussed in these medieval Jewish sources:
caption: Maimonides
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