Shmini - The Job of a Jew | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is owski and welcome to the paraa in five we're in five minutes we try to give you some ideas that will hopefully enhance your shabis and give you uh little insights into the Parsha know there was uh um a fellow who said to me that uh Friday night his wife said what's the paral this week he told he says oh now I'm yot because not everybody has a chance that's why we devel this we developed this specifically that have a little idea on the paraa um in the first year of the podcast I would very often do something on the parha and and people would say uh you know wow this gives me something to say over on chabas and since then I've received uh emails saying hey you don't talk about the para anymore no I don't uh sometimes I do you know if if the spirit moves me um but uh got I I found that as time goes on I have so much to talk about so this is the time that's dedicated to talking about the par and Par as Rashi says we have the seven days of miluim and in the seven days of miluim uh mosenu was acting as the coal and uh aronov were receiving a process of being brought into the aod to become Kohan and on the eighth day now they take over iron becomes the grand GLE and uh his children become kohanim and uh this is the moment when they bring the back and it rests upon the M the as comes down and uh everybody throws themselves on the ground and uh you know they there so happy you know that that they've been able to accomplish this and there's one individual that kazal focus on to whom this was probably the most special day they could imagine and that is Alisha amon's sister who we know in par ER our own marries and for Alicia it's difficult to put into words the that she felt the say she's watching her husband become the K she's watching her four children become kohanim she's watching her brother-in-law become the Mel she's watching her brother nakon bring the first of the corono of the N to dedicate the mishan and it's just the best day of her life and then uh another who die for bringing in the age of Zar and the whole day changes and it it just goes from this tremendous Sim to this tremendous sadness this past that's what it's all about it's Sim and then suddenly it just turns I mean I was at a minion here in harno and suddenly you know the sirens go off the missiles start crashing down um uh people that I saw over there were getting messages that we're sending around a Jeep to pick you up we're going in you know we have to go in immediately we need you and everything just turned upside down unbelievable there are people in 911 who daved uh said got to work probably thinking to themselves you know I'm working in the Twin Towers office unbelievable view making good money and then in a second it all turns around this is the nature of uh of how we have to look at things that um we have no choice we celebrate when we celebrate and we mourn when we mourn and uh sometimes we don't know where it's going to go I was teaching in or there was an older fellow there who was living in the territories the and there had been a terrorist attack in his uh and his ISU a few people had been killed and he came to me after class and he saidou know one of the guys in or is getting married tonight how can I go to a wedding and I said that's the job of a Jew a job of a Jew is to be able to mourn when we mourn and to celebrate when we celebrate when the mishan was dedicated it says they sang joyously out of sim and they fell on their faces out of Y it means to always maintain that balance and I said to him if we can't celebrate aassa then we've let them take everything from us and so we have to celebrate and we have to face tragedy and we have to be able to do more things than one we have to multi task you go to a funeral and you say and you say bring me to my destination I'm going to a funeral but I'm glad I got there alive because Jews are capable of more than one thought at a time and one emotion we should only have to face