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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