Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Megillah 16:18

אמר אביי אמר קרא (ויקרא יד, ג) ויצא הכהן אל מחוץ למחנה והנה נרפא נגע הצרעת מי שצרעתו תלויה ברפואות יצא זה שאין צרעתו תלויה ברפואות אלא בימים:

Abaye replied: The verse says: “And the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and behold the plague of scale disease is healed in the metzora” (Leviticus 14:3); one whose scale disease is dependent upon healing, and excludes one whose scale disease is not dependent on healing but on days [of isolation].

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Megillah 8b), "There is no difference between a quarantined metsorah and a definitive metsorah except renting and wildness, [...] shaving and [offering] birds" - meaning to say that the quarantined one does not become wild and rent. And the explanation of becoming wild is the growing of hair; and of rending is that he tears his clothes. And the one who is pure [after] the quarantine is exempt from shaving and birds, but the one who is pure [after being] definitive is obligated about shaving and birds. But the impurity of both of them is the same in everything. And the matters of their impurity and how it is; whether they are prohibited in inquiring about [others'] welfare; whether they are permitted to study [Torah] while they are still in their impurity; whether they are forbidden to get a haircut and to wash clothing; whether they are permitted in bathing, anointing, the wearing of shoes and sexual relations; the law of a metsoraat (a woman that contacts tsaraat), how is her law and her practice; and the rest of its details are elucidated in Negaim (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Defilement by Leprosy 10).
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