Shmini - The 7 Drinks | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is David Alowski. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you a little idea about the parha. Um we're in vayikra now deep as darkest vayikra right the stories are starting to end. We punctuate uh stories from here on in but uh they're certainly not like braces and schmos where they are permeated. Yeah, they're punctuated. And um we come to parasmini and we start to get into right and we're going to continue mitsur a lot of tum and tara. So um we have something that seems extremely esoteric and that is the den of makiran. You do rashi you'll see the big long rashi over there by makiran which tells me the following and I always bring this as an example of how everything that we learn has to be relevant to our life. Yeah. What used to call uh to whatever we learn or as Shapiro said whatever we learn no matter how esoteric it may seem has to turn into a lisa in our life. So there's the concept of makiran. What does that mean? Apples are growing on the tree and something tm falls on them. Do they become tame? No. Why? Because they're attached to the ground. Okay. I take the fruit off and I put them into a basket and something tame falls on top of them. Are they tame? No. Because they first have to become uh wet. Okay. I left them outside and the dew fell on them. Are they now ready to become tame? No, it has to be intentionally. Okay. Uh, I pick all of my grapes and then I pour orange juice all over them. Does that make them now ready to become tame? No. Only seven liquids which are known by the pneummonic device, which stands for yin, wine, dvash, honey. Shin is she oil. Yeah is milk is tal dome is uhim water and the last dollar is dam which is blood. If they did not become wet with one of these seven liquids intentionally they will never become tame. Yeah. Rabbi Murai Kornfeld who is the head of the Dafy Institute. I saw him once at my and he said to me nothing is a coincidence. Everything is connected in Torah which is true. If there are seven Mashkim and there are seven holidays then they must correspond. And right on the spot we work to put them together. Since then I've spoken this over to and they always add another to it but I'll tell it to you because this is only the parish in five. Okay. And that is what do they correspond to? Well, uh PES corresponds to blood obviously. The blood you shall live the blood of the carbon pes the blood of the brisma. Yeah. So that's dam. Uh water that's obviously sukus, right? We pour water on the msbak. We dav in for rain. Yeah. Um uh rashashana is honey. Dip the apple in the honey. Have a sweet new year, rightash? Uh, mic the den to sweeten the den. Yeah. Uh, purim wine obviously says the avu. Why do we drink wine on purim? Because all of the the story took place with wine. All the nissim were with wine. Um, Kaneka oil, right? Shem and zas. Yeah. They found the oil. We eat foods cooked in oil. Yeah. All the different things associated with oilv obviously is milk right just like a baby is sustained by milk so too the Jewish people are sustained by Torah which is compared to milk is 40 in gamatria 40 days etc. Yeah. Um and uh that leaves uh tal do and that corresponds to yumra because tal is and we're like and the m which is called the food of malim came wrapped in tal etc. The point over here and every one of these is a shir unto itself. I'm saying it here mamish bakitsur but just to teach you that when you come to vayikra and you read things that you think are obscure understand that nothing that we learn is irrelevant to our lives everything has direct uh meaning to us and if you look at it you will be able to see it in the greater depth that's how we have to look at it I've told the story before that Shapiro someone asked him how did you become Shapiro and he said I watched Desla saying over to himself 40 50 times and I realized the depth that's in a kazal if you take the time to look for it. The depth of everything in Torah if we take the time to look for it and make it relevant to our lives. Chavis.