page_title: Tzaraath
section_title: Modern medical interpretations
hierarchical_section_title: Tzaraath / Modern medical interpretations
caption_attribution_description: Buki Ben Yogli (Yehuda Leib Binyamin Katzenelson, 1846-1917)
context_page_description: Tzaraath describes disfigurative conditions of the skin, hair of the beard and head, clothing made of linen or wool, or stones of homes located in the land of Israel. All variations are mainly referred to in chapters 13–14 of Leviticus.
caption: Ukrainian-Jewish born Yehuda L. Katzenelson, (1846–1917) devoted a portion of his work on talmudic medicine to the analysis of the parallels between vitiligo and biblical tzaraath, he concluded that the chazalic consensus was that they are synonymous.
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