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In this week’s Parsha, the Torah talks about Tzaras. Although often thought to be a form of leprosy, Tzaras is actually a purely spiritual ailment. The midrash states that one would be afflicted with Tzaras as a punishment for haughtiness or for slanderous speech. The Talmud (Nedarim 64b) states that a Metzora, a person that was afflicted with Tzaras, was considered like a dead person. In fact, a Metzora has some of the unique characteristics of tumah, spiritual impurity, that were generally reserved only for a human corpse.
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