"The woman with the issue of blood is inexorably considered unclean. Not only during the seven days of ritual impurity. Always, every day, every month, all year round. For twelve years, Mark specifies. Twelve is the number of fullness: there are twelve months in the year, twelve tribes of Israel. Hers is a full pain, a perfect pain. She is impure: no one can touch her, caress her, embrace her. If she has a husband, he has certainly left her long ago. If she touches someone, she transmits her impurity and that person must purify themselves in order to enter the temple. She is a leper without having leprosy, untouchable without having a contagious disease. She is condemned by a religious rule that has lasted for centuries. How much loneliness can dwell in the heart of a human being? How much pain are we able to bear? How much pain has filled this woman's life?"
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q:it:Paolo Curtaz, Gesù guarisce, San Paolo Edizioni, 2014, p. 119 (in Italian). ISBN 9788821590764
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