The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

even in the Messianio age (Tbo>
a serpent could not hart one like Chanina, draina,
TuEria, end).
Still, if such had been the real views of
Babbinism, one might have ohap. expected that
Divine compassion would have been extended to
those, XV who bore such heavy burden of their
sins. Instead of this, their ' '"""^ burdens were
needlessly increased. True, as wrapped in
mourner's garb the leper passed by, his cry '
Unclean!' was to incite others to pray for him—but
also to avoid him.* No one was even to salute him;
his •xbadx. bed was to be low, inclining towards
the ground.^ If he even put ^* his head into a place,
it became unclean. No less a distance than four
cubits (six feet) must be kept from a leper; or, if
the wind came from that direction, a hundred were
scarcely sufficient. Babbi Meir would not eat an
egg purchased in a street where there was a leper.
Another Babbi boasted, that he always threw
stones at them to keep them far off, while others