Tazria Metzora - Protecting our Health

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Rawle 5780 2020 this week's precious parsha story I met Sora and I'd like to share with you a thought from the mesh and partials met Sora we have the subject of surahs' surahs' was a special spiritual disease we called leprosy but it was a spiritual disease that came as a result of haughtiness as a result of Gaia his result of speaking loshon Hara speaking negative things about others and so there's a magic shear that teaches us a powerful way of protecting ourselves from disease a path way of protecting ourselves from spiritual diseases not just spiritual diseases but even physical diseases and this is a major you say we need to understand the major foundational concept that we need to incorporate into ourselves but see Bocconi melaka let me tire of a goober Gomer so there's a few different points here I'd like to share with you it's important to understand them all let's see what we can get through we'd see about kind of like a floppy tire Bostick tells us this is in chapter 14 verse 4 the Kohen shall command and they shall take for the Matar the person who is coming to be purified states affirm highest iris - birds - pure birds eight areas hyssop branch whoosh nutella says i've a red string and in a Ze'ev I'm sorry eight Sara's is a cedar branch is always a hyssop branch okay there's a whole procedure that's gone through in order to purify the person who's become impure okay now the measure tells us some interesting things first of all it says it points out that we have state C poem we have two birds what is the idea of the birds so the measure says something very interesting there's different explanations the meditation is going to give you my understanding based on the Marzu is this like this oh my review who the bar Simoni like super rad cool onon my cottage broke who you ever have coffee Harper Alec all that these birds the idea of the birds what do they represent the birds represent the voice the sound right we wake up in the morning and they are the birds being outside so we have sinned with our voice we have spoken Lashon Hara we have said things that were inappropriate it should've been said and as a result we take something which makes sounds we take something which makes sounds a bird in order to recognize that we were twittering and twittering unnecessarily saying things that were inappropriate or negative and therefore we need a cappella we need to be atoned for that's one aspect of it there's a recognition there's a recognition of what we've done wrong B Sherman lady all my support drawers I fell asleep eat ceviche same name of very interesting he says like this we're talking about a bird of a seaport drawer means a free bird a bird that ordinarily it can it can be found in the field like me found in a person's house it's not specifically a house bred bird that's the part us according to the Gemara super drawer so now what happened with this super drawer it's a wild bird you took it into your house in order to be able to bring it as a Corbin as a sacrifice now what happens to this bird so when when it was in your house so you were feeding it you were taking care of it it was eating from your bread it was drinking from your waters and now that it benefitted from you it gives you a benefit now it goes and it's a sacrifice on your behalf but let Darin kava himer the measure says something very importantly to understand the depth of what is coming to teach us a kabul climber Montse park let me pick the fish ice mmm I happen to love if a bird which just ate a little bit of your bread drank a little bit of your water you had it for a short time nevertheless it's Mahavir for you it atones for you Cohen Shannon mu L Beth Ann Arbor Martinez - who know Allah has come over Hama certainly a coin a priest that person who is spiritual who stands in our stead who represents us in the Mishkan in the in the base some English in the temple certainly he who benefits from us as well we bring their 24 different Matano special gifts and were given to the coin so certainly he shall be able to meet Mahavir for us atone for us but as the masla I'm ray the aqua bajalia Kara you'll give her the Aquila I'm not sure exactly what this means okay and study this part but the idea is that if somebody benefits from me that's what it's yes it says its own benefits from me then they have an obligation now to help me out and get me a car para if I do you a favor you need to pray on my behalf that all should be well in my in my life if you do me a favor I need to pray on your behalf it's simple it's simple etiquette caller or simple la casa Tov we need to show our expression of thanks or recognition of the goodness one else has done for us as we have two points here we'll see more points the idea of Tara's first point is recognize the thing that we've done wrong the birds are making lots of noise we made too much noise without any intention without thinking number one number two we we are do gonna have to do somebody else a favor we're gonna give gifts to the coing we're gonna take a burden to our home and take care of that bird even though we're about to sacrifice it but still we take care of that bird and now we get a Caparo so there's an idea of a car set o of a recognition of the good okay there's that's point number two let's see more this very interesting measures however beyond mere autumn yeah hey vehicle imma love the magic is mad I can deposit deposit says votes evocati logical Amita hair the coin is to take two birds on behalf of the person who is coming to purify himself what's the idea he's coming to purify himself says the Madras may awed me actually a Vocaloid my love it's a person's obligation the person himself has come to purify just like when it comes to this spiritual sickness called Saros the person comes to purify himself there's some act aspect the person is responsible for himself I'm coming to purify myself so to Anna comes all Hal I'm all sicknesses there's an obligation on myself and we'll sue seen that there are spiritual obligations as well as physical obligations but there are obligations that we each have to make sure that we don't cause ourselves to be sick that we don't we're not prone we're not more prone to sickness my time in America hey Simon Co highly plastic says in the varam in Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 15 says Hashem will remove from you all kinds of sicknesses meme car the verse says from you what is idea of me mr. Eisen is just saying Hashem shall remove all sicknesses why does it say you shall remove from you all sicknesses because the idea is that there's something that's dependent on you it's from you dependent on upon ourselves mium club and we have an honor I'm sorry mean Kaushalya Valhalla in Malacca it's it's up to you it's up to you to make sure that the sicknesses don't come upon you now we're gonna see how do we do that how do we prevent sickness both in a spiritual sense and in a physical sense how do we prevent sickness and we protect ourselves maybe Ivan armors aood Sahara chose to heal us and most like me so from our says Rabi Alvin and this is my um shot in what the measure she was saying it's my understanding date Sahara starts off very sweet this is a rule for this my Russia Sheba there's a rule if you want to know like what's the right thing to do what's the wrong thing to do the thing that you don't feel like doing the thing that feels bitter at the beginning and afterwards you always feel good that you did that right that's yeah it sort of that's the good things those are the things that we want to do it's a hard as always I all this is sweet this is sweet and afterward you feel bad you do something wrong you hurt someone's feelings you speak russian about somebody it feels good in the moment but afterwards it always feels bad that's the litmus test for how we know what's good and what's evil it's not a cloud god oh there are certainly exceptions you know it it feels good to do certain things to do people a favor do I said you know but claw goggle the hard things like my kids say sometimes make it say to me they don't feel like doing a particular thing I don't feel like studying I don't feel like I don't know whatever it is I say something you don't want to do you always feel good afterwards you might not feel good before but you got to do it anyway it's our I feel sweet in the beginning it's sweet to speak loshon Hara you know what happens in the end first of all you feel bad first of all you feel bad cuz you've hurt yourself when you've hurts when you put down somebody else but second of all you end up with sore ass heaven forbid person ends up with a spiritual leprosy which is really an expression of a spiritual sickness okay so it starts off sweet ends off bitter so it depends on you you got to make that decision and the onset this is what this is what we got to know Lomita hair it's up to you you want to purify yourself you want to get out of this cycle of speaking negatively about others and becoming spiritually sick physically sick you got to think about it before you start it might be sweet at the beginning but it's bitter at the end don't forget don't forget okay so that's it depends on you repeat a coma be shimmery be laser ribbon Menachem of ashame Roth Omar he saw Simon Haley Zion very interesting very interesting there's something called ioan hora why do people speak negatively of others because they're jealous but you know if someone speaks negatively about me there's I have a part in that because I have a choice whether I flaunt the good things that I have do I go out there and do I you know have five Lexus cars and mansion and at this and of that and all the things that because I'm rich you know I can spend our I want to make a wedding I want to spend a half a million dollars on my wedding etc do I do that do I flaunt it do I show it off the problem is that when I show it off it makes other people jealous it's like I've said to my kids give a ticket out and I gave the particular candy finish it before we go home I don't want other kids to be jealous they don't need it until they see that you have it right so I inherit is the negative force it's a true powerful negative force that's created by us when we flaunt the things that we have and we don't protect them with Snee Society of sannyasis be careful about what you do to somebody else whether it's because of your good looks whether it's because of your talents whether it's because of your the money that you have it's because all the different things that a person has it someone else could be jealous of modesty a nevis sneeze that's the idea of sneezes matches for women sneezes for men too it's an obligation to not cause somebody else to look at you negatively that negative force is a spiritual force that can manifest in the physical world so this is another way to protect ourselves this is so important protecting ourselves from from any kind of sickness physical sickness is important and how do we do it one of the ways says this message is by not arousing other people's jealousy I'll die to the rebel eyes aren t shemitish about I am a technician I'm an amazing thing maybe less it says that of a hundred of a hundred people who get sick 99 out of 100 it's because of the fact that there was an eye in Hara that they aroused at the people's jealousy but they weren't aware of the fact perhaps or they weren't careful about the fact that they were causing others to be jealous so important you wonder how to protect yourself from sickness from drawing upon oneself sickness it's by being humble it's by being modest it's by not flaunting those things that we have okay so these are all spiritual things and these are absolutely true because all of the physical reality is a result is a manifestation of what's going on with us spiritually but we also find rather a beacon II know that we have a Mallika's between Ravinder be panina about what is nineteen ninety nine percent of people who get sick was to because of raffia dated RTV mateship iron hadisha Liang Roth holds like rebel laser that 99 out of 100 becomes sick because they have aroused people's jealousy Buckhannon Academy Hanina Reb Nelson our interval teacher my teacher but Xena Swedish from mine a person is not careful about cold the cold person gets sick if he's not aware the elements and how it lowers his immune system person has to be careful if you walk out you gotta wear a mask today you gotta be careful you got to prevent all the people I'm getting sick and you have to protect yourselves you can't be a fool rather I'll rather I'll to have a sharable bubble - hi Vanina be sure they're interesting Rob would travel Rob would travel he lived in Bevelle he didn't want to stay where he was he was afraid because he knew that people were very jealous there there was an eye in Hara and therefore he would travel to stay away from people's eye in her Rebecca Nina Alda have a sherbet superb Ahava taman cinta bhai Nina would travel because he lived in soup oriya and it was common there that it would be cold and as a result he would travel to stay away from the cold so a person has to take measures in order physically to make sure number one you're not in the line of fire of the negative thoughts of others yes negative thoughts have real power number two you have to take physical precautions to be healthy to stay away from places that are dangerous and you know come to IRC strong it's it's more safe here come here move to Eretz Israel but seriously really seriously it's important to live in a place I have a family member who has two homes one in Florida and one in Washington State and they were in Florida during the outbreak of Corona and they deaf go into Washington because in Washington they were already much more careful because they had already had a number of deaths and they immediately locked down and and create all kinds of precautionary measures you got to go to a place that's safe Eric Cyril is perhaps the safest place in the world of the countries that have Corona you gotta go to a place that is safe you got to be safe you gotta travel if you're in an unsafe place okay bottom line here and this really comes to the core of it the core of it like what is the idea here what is the the foundation here the foundation here is there's an obligation on us of course to be safe to be healthy to stay safe to do things to keep ourselves safe but there's also an obligation an equal and even greater obligation to be spiritually safe because every single thing that we have in the world old every single manifestation every sickness is a manifestation of something spiritual of a spiritual sickness there's a spiritual sickness in the Western world and that spiritual sickness is an addiction to money an addiction to having so much an addiction an addiction and a Kadesh bar is coming with a clear and open statement to us to recognize we are overly addicted to our jobs our businesses to art to money to having so much shaman saying chill out folks step back step back that's the statement you know the Matsuura he's so busy talking he's enjoying that must like the thing that's sweet for the moment but bitter afterwards he's so busy and what is Hashem say Jim gives interest now he has to be sequestered he needs to go into hiding needs to be he needs to go straight into bedewed like we say here in Israel what's the idea the idea is you wasted the potential here you wasted your opportunities when it came to your interactions with others you used it for self-promotion and self benefit to feel good in the moment now it's bitter afterwards now it's tough now times are tough what is the solution says huzzah the solution is numerous number one recognized what we what we've done we we used our voice in an inappropriate way bring that bird which makes a lot of noise to recognize that you're making a lot of noise number two we said that the idea is that a person isn't is obligated to show a car sitive we need to strengthen our spiritual side we need to strengthen our recognition of the good we need to look at the positive of others I'm going to give something to a bird I'm gonna benefit this bird and now the bird is gonna give me something in return which is a Kippur in atonement I'm going to give these gifts to the coin and he in return is going to pray on my behalf we need to recognize what's going on we need to recognize all the good that surrounds us there's so much good in our lives it right here right in front of us wants to go far away we don't have to go work in faraway places we we've got it right in our homes we have our families we have life we have food on the table we have toilet paper you know we've got it all do we appreciate that do we recognize it that's number two number three we need to recognize our responsibilities we have to recognize that it's from us it's upon us to make sure that we know beforehand the must like the thing that's sweet for the moment ends up being bitter speaking negatively of others ends up being bitter we lose out being so involved in gosh Mia's so involved in the physical we lose out in the end we lose out on our relationships with our family being so involved in all the different things that pull us in and the internet the distractions the news all of the forbidden things that are there much it's very sweet in a moment but it feels so bitter in the end how much time did we waste recognize we need to recognize and see all of the places that were not modest enough that we draw too much attention to ourselves and to our talents of course if we have a town we need to share it and we need to use it in a way that inspires others but it has to be done in a way that doesn't arouse other people's jealousy it has to be done in a modest way giving sadaqa and a modest way learning tyre in a modest way not flaunting it because I'll tell us that this is what we see over here we have to be careful because it could bring a spiritual curse upon us heaven forbid if we're not careful about that which can result in a physical curse and of course finally the obligation to be safe to do things that prevent any kind of sickness to stay in a safe place to go to safe places in order to remain healthy and well I want to bless you and ask you to please bless me back I should help us that we should be able to recognize the spiritual power that we have that it's in our hands to attach ourselves to in order to remain spiritually healthy and physically healthy thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]