Parshas Tazria: The Kotzker on the Divine Experience of Childbirth

good morning everyone I want to share with you a few on the upcoming par if anybody would like to get a hold of the hag published by Art School it's available at local stores or at artscroll.com in the beginning of the para we read about the Tuma that a woman contracts upon giving birth the question is how do we understand philosophically the idea that if she gives birth to a child so now she's T she just did an incredible uh she had an incredible achievement she produced a child she brought a soul into the world why does that engender Tuma so the the kutser would say as follows the Katka would say that Tuma is a product of the departure of the when the leaves it creates a vacuum and Tuma comes the same way you know we wash our hands in the morning we wash Nal vaser in the morning why because uh in the in the night when the goes up to Shay so it creates a vacuum of Kad and the t comes so in the morning when the Nish comes back it chases the T out and it remains on on the fingers so there there's an idea that t is when there's a vacuum of kadus the same way Tas SM when the Nish leaves it creates a vacuum of kadus and it creates T which by the way it's an interesting idea to think about in that case that when one has a girl the Tuma is double that of a a boy indicating that there was a greater vacuum of kadha somehow the kadha of the Nika is is on a greater level but the katar would say as follows that child birth is a very elevated experience it is such an elevating experience that it's it's something that only himself can accomplish like the says like thear says inness and B that there are three keys that God has sold possession of so the of opening the wom the womb of a mother is so powerful that it's reserved only for Hashem himself by the way says that the emphasis on why the emphasis that God himself took us out of because was like the child the the birth of the Jewish people and therefore it was something that only AES himself could do therefore says the kutar when child birth is over and after Hashem so to speak has done his job in the delivery room the departs it creates a vacuum of kadus and it engenders t but that just illustrates and paints for us the the uh extent of the power of the that is uh present at the time of child birth and therefore there's a vacuum of Kusa and there's T upon the conclusion of birth recording stopped