Chukas - Purity from Impurity

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramappache and israel 57 2021. this week's parties parties and at the beginning of our parsha we have the obligation a person who becomes tummy mace becomes impure from coming in contact with a dead body so there's an obligation to purify oneself through the process of the para doom of the red heifer the torah refers to this as a as a hook uh this is a helic a concept which is very difficult to understand or perhaps impossible to understand i'd like to share with you a madrish which i have read in the past i don't know if it was last year a few years ago but it's a very powerful and deep mattress there's lots of ways of understanding it and i'd like to share with you a very deep thought based on this you know whenever we have a hike whenever we have a law that's deep we don't understand what it means still we need to plumb its depths we need to try to understand exactly what is it there is some depth there is always something that we can take away there's always something we can understand and i'd like to share with you this mattress and try to understand it together it says the magic like this this is an unusual thing i'm going to give you a little bit of the end before before we start so that we can have a foundation for what's going on here there's an a lot of unusual things about the para duma one thing that i'm thinking about and i'd like to hold in mind as we as we explore this idea together is that we take a red heifer completely red red always represents the concept of din of judgment completely red we burn it fire is also obviously we talk about gehenna hell as the place that has fire fire is something which is judgment we burn the paraduma the red heifer we take the ashes and ashes are an integral component of the process of becoming pure getting rid of this tumor this impurity from having come in contact with the dead so we have this din din judgment more and more fire red this idea okay so hold on to that thought because that's part i believe of what's going on here it says the madrish another thing another thing one more introduction before we read it and that is that when it comes to the para duma there's an unusual idea a contradiction the contradiction is that the person the kohen the priest who does the spring excuse me the sprinkling of the water that includes within it it's called the mercatus the ashes of the red heifer the person who is sprinkling it upon becomes pure but he himself the one who's doing who's making the effort to bring about someone's purity he himself becomes impure doesn't have the level of impurity of someone who's come in contact with the dead but he has a certain level of impurity so the medrash points out part of the idea of a haik of allah which is impossible to understand is that there are inherent contradictions and we're going to see a number of places where we have inherent contradictions we need to understand what is the idea of these contradictions the verse says in eo in job chapter 14 verse 4 who would give pure from impure is it not one we see and we're gonna list we're gonna list off a number of different circumstances where you see that something pure came out of something impure in our case the person becomes pure while the person who's the the the person who's being done for who wasn't pure becomes pure the person who's doing the process he himself becomes impure so something pure is produced from something impure abraham the first of the jewish people or the people of israel the forebear he was somebody who is pure and he came from someone who is impure terach his father was an idolater not only only was he an idolater he was a major major part of the the idolatry world he sold idols he was part of nimrod's court avram was pure something pure comes out of something impure there were two great kings of the jewish people who were sadiquim very righteous individuals kiskia and yoshia and their fathers were extremely evil great perhaps the greatest resham of all time the most wicked of all time so you see someone pure comes out of someone impure murder the protagonist along with astra malka of the story of purim he came out of someone who was a russian named shimi mordechai i'm sorry i've his grandfather was a russia but he was a great sadiq the people of israel there's two different ways to understand this there's a way i understood it there's a way my son understood it and most of them are forced to actually say like my son so i'll say that first the jewish people despite being surrounded by idolaters despite being in the melting pot of mitzrayim of egypt despite having gone through so many gallius the jewish people retained their jewish character maiphsha was the people of israel were produced from when ahmadine was the first he came from tarak but the people the jewish people came from the non-jewish world they came from the idolatrous world a nation was born within this womb of an idolatrous world the world to come which is a world of purity a world of a world of revelation of hashem's kindness and light that world comes out of the womb so to speak of the darkness of this world where the light is not so revealed where the light is hard to see now we're going to read more soon but i'd like to point out that there's there's different ways to understand what's going on here there's different ideas that we could take out of this one is that it seems to be a tamiya it seems to be a wonder like it doesn't seem likely or possible it's someone who's so impure a tara could produce someone who's such a sadiq and abraham we're just pointing out in the push up shot here we're just pointing out the the fact that it's unusual to see these two things next to each other usually a child a son is similar to the father usually those who we're around have an effect on us we're affected by our society so it's unusual to see that something like this would happen and someone's so great someone so pure would be juxtaposed so somebody's so evil tarak was so bad he actually took aram and he brought him to the king for heresy because he spoke of one god and it was against the idea of the times that they should worship idols he brought his own son to be killed all of these examples are examples of a contrast which are an unlikely contrast that's the simple understanding but there's something deeper going on here and this i find in the immediate sure uh maybe we should wait until we read the idea inside let's see let's see the next words in the madrish mitsuvaki migos says who did this who commanded this who decreed this was it not the one the only one one god there's one god he's done this he created good he created evil and says the emery yoshi and i believe that before him so we saw a lot of stuff together my son and i so i don't know exactly where we saw it but the meforshim explained that if evil always produced evil then we would know that there's or if good and it could only produce good so it used to be people used to think that there's two different forces and there are even those who believe that's today there are two different forces despair forces that fight for ascendancy in the world there's the force of good the force of evil but they're not sourced in the same source there's not one overarching good being there's a battle between good and evil they're not they're not connected those two forces what we see from this magic says them before shim see them before shim is that it's possible to have something good come out of evil and the reverse as well in order to teach us that there's one god there's one god and he produces good and he produces evil he produces light he creates the darkness he produces good he creates evil from the fact that from within evil something bad can be produced i'm sorry from the fact that with any evil something good can result shows that within the darkest darkness is still a light within the the person who's the farthest away from god we could say there's always the pentaly that little spark of goodness so that's one concept but there's an even deeper concept here taiwan taninin grispa adam tame park touhour says the marriage we find an amazing and interesting thing very difficult to understand if let's say a person has ser ah has leprosy it's a spiritual leprosy so if the baharis if this patch of tsaras of leprosy is in one location the size of a grist about a dime or a nickel if it's that size so he becomes tummy it becomes impure however if that same leprosy is not just in one place but it covers his entire body so then the person is taller he's considered pure who's the one that decreed such a thing who created this law this concept it's god god created a world where it's possible that just in one place it's so it's bad but if it's everywhere it's it's pure what's the idea what is the idea so listen with me to the to the emory yoshi he says something really really deep this is a just an amazing you say an amazing foundational concept if we understand this idea we have a much deeper understanding of what's going on in the world and by the way we keep saying the word the one god is is the one force behind everything because really good and bad are all somehow good god is absolute goodness but this is one of the secrets of what's the understanding of bad news yoshi says this is more strange that something which is tummy something which is impure should be a sign of purity not only if you have something pure coming out of something impure in two separate bodies for example abraham came out of terror tara was impure abraham was pure baby so it's not it's not only if it's two separate bodies but even in one body itself one person has a leprosy on his hand in one spot impure but if it covers his entire body that amount of impurity creates purity what's the idea purity comes as a result of a great flowering of impurity listen to this carefully this is counter-intuitive but it's something awesome this is zach this is even more rarefied it's more pure okay okay exactly what the idea is exactly what he's saying word for word i'm not sure completely but the foundation of this idea is as follows you see evil there's more and more evil in the world scarier and scarier things are coming to a head [Music] that's a sign that great purity great goodness is about to be revealed and i know i've said this before i want to say it again and i'm sure that you've had this experience too at some level in life so many times we experience great difficulties great challenges look at look at corona what a challenge what a difficulty look at the a person who's gone through financial challenges financial difficulties gets to the other side rocky patch in his relationship with his spouse what happens when you get to the end on the other side there's just awesome light an awesome light i felt in the middle and i may have shared this but i felt in the middle of the emotional rollercoaster that we've gone we went through through the mehrone tragedy i felt in the middle like this sense of closeness to shame closeness to god so many people were making kabbalists accepting upon themselves to fulfill more mises for more commandments more kindness more charity etc such a burst of light comes out of such a deep darkness it's such a hadith it's such a death it's such a beautiful thing and i think that we all know it to be true we all sense it inside of our hearts that this is true and i know spoken about it and i'll continue to speak about it but we look around the world and we look at the lies that are perpetuated by the media by about about israel but by our enemies by the arab world parts of the arab world by those who are out for our destruction and they may even be members of our own people heaven forbid and we look at the darkness and we say what is this about what is this about tell the truth who's who's who's the good guy who's the bad guy who's who has the right to this place who belongs here who doesn't who belongs in the land of israel and who doesn't who's real and who's fake who's it looking for life and who's looking for death so we hear more and more death we are more and more anger we hear more and more lies we say to ourselves how could it be that the lies they're winning and i believe that in this manner which is a very powerful thing the way to erase death the way to get out of the darkness sometimes we would like it to be that it would be through more and more light and that's true but you see there's another way and that's what this is teaching this is the hidden path of the turn this is the concept of the unification of god and that is that god is so great and so good that he's not just there when there's good it's not just there when it's revealed in open good but he has planted within the deepest bad the deepest evil the deepest revelation of good the deepest revelation of good the ultimate life the ultimate connection once a person purifies themselves through the para douma through this red heifer through so much din through so much judgment fire red burning someone else has to become tummy in order for me to become taller someone has to become impure in order for me to become pure what is that about it's about getting to the other side it's about the power of life the power of purity the toughest nails stronger than steel essence of good which remains untainted even though it traversed a world of evil even though not only did it traverse it has to come out of that deeper evil that's the the that's the the amazing death the amazing i don't want to say joke but the amazing humor of the of hashem of akali spoke who of god that the goodness comes from the darkness from the darkness that's what we see here and the darker it is the more hope we need to have that we're coming closer to the point in history when we will be purified we'll step out of this dark world this world of of hester of hiddenness we're god we can't see god openly into a world where god is revealed to all people god pours out on all flesh divine inspiration we all experience that we will experience that it's going to be soon the deeper the darkness the more hope we need to have me osaki meets you volcane miguez arcane who is the one who did this it not the one the only one the god of rachel of mercy and the god of judgment they're really one the darkness and the light they seem to be separate and despair but really they're one they're unified in awesome good i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be able to have an experience if we're going through challenging times in the whole world who's not going through challenging times today if we're going through challenging times to to remember and to hold on to the hope hold on to the knowledge that good is on the way and that the deeper the darkness the greater the revelation of light that comes on the other side thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.arigoldwag dot or search on itunes ari goldwag