1)

"'u'le'Tzara'as ha'Beged ve'la'Bayis - ve'la'Se'eis ve'la'Sapachas ve'la'Behares". This is the order in which the Nega'im would strike a person. Why, in Parshas Tazri'a, did the Torah present them in the reverse order?

1.

R. Bachye: Because 'The ways of the Torah are pleasant', 1 and it did not want to present them in order of progression (from bad to worse), but in order of regression 2 (to hint that things will only improve.

1

Mishlei 50:17.

2

See also R. Chavel's footnotes (citing Midrash Tadshei).

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