Chevre, this week’s parsha is תַּזְרִיעַּ - מְצֹרָע (Tazria - Metzora) and it’s Rosh Chodesh (Friday and Shabbat). Most of our double portion is talking about Tzarat, which doesn’t have a good translation into English, but is usually translated as leprosy. The problem with that translation is that Tzarat is considered a spiritual illness. A person, a person’s house or belongings would come down with Tzarat for some kind of spiritual issue the person had. When Miriam speaks out against Moshe, she comes down with Tzarat. So our parsha talks about the diffent places it can affect a person and the purification process. Now the process is reliant on the Cohanim (the priests) to visually see and identify Tzarat or not. So just like in workload observability, if there is no bad metric, ignorance is bliss. Not only that, but before the holidays, the Cohanim would stop checking for Tzarat so that everyone would be pure to come to the Mishkan/Beit HaMikdash for the Aliyah LaRegel. The other interesting part of the parsha is that houses when declared to have Tzarat would need to be destroyed. There is a midrash that talks about Tzarat Houses in Israel, where the houses had been taken over by the Bnei Israel after they moved into Eretz Yisrael. When they destroyed the houses, they found hidden treasures left by the previous occupants. So just as workload observability can bring “bad things” to light, some of those “bad things” can also bring along hidden treasures and insights. Shabbat Shalom, Chodesh Tov.