Tazria-Metzora - Think About It | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is Davidski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you a thought for the para and this time I'm going to have to do it for two parios tazri msor. Yeah, same five minutes but two partials to tie the two of them together. Tazri Mitsur, what links together Tazri Mitsurra? Well, there's a rashi right at the beginning that says, "What is the difference between uh parasi and paras tasria and by extension mats t paresi has the toma of animals, the different that are unclean, the unclean animals and na things like that. And now Tazria Mitsurra is the human tumor and we cover within it apparently all of the human tumor. What do we have? Well, we have woman after childbirth. We have a matsura person who is suffering from saras some sort of a spiritual affliction and it becomes tame and it could affect him and his clothing and his house. Um we have a uh zv and a zava people who have some sort of discharge. We have a balaryi and person a man who has a seminal discharge and nida a woman who is having her period. All of these are forms of human tumor and all of this is covered in tazor which to me seems absolutely amazing because since we're using human tuma and as a kazal tell us all tuma has its source in death. A mitsura is kase considered like someone dead. Nida is described as a whisper of death right. Um every all tumor has its source in death. How come we don't talk about a dead person? That would seem to me to be the most important part of death. That doesn't come into paras. We don't deal with that. So I want to suggest because when we introduce the human tumas over here, all of human tuma is for one thing to make a person stop and think. A yolletus has to bring a corbin afterwards and she brings a bird. Why? Because just like a bird chirps, it could be that she said things in childbirth that she did not mean. Certainly, we husbands hope that they didn't mean it. Yeah. So, she said things without thinking. How do you uh uh become a balkeri? It's called the mikraala. It happened to you in your sleep because you thought about things during the day that caused this to happen. How do you become a z or a says because you're living to excess. You're eating too much or doing other things too much and that throws your body off. How do you become a matsura? You spoke about other people thoughtlessly. And because people don't think that leads to tuma as the gimar says how do you become tame just don't think if you're not thinking I remember when I was a kid and we would go to school and they would say okay wash in school and you'll make hamotzi on the bus and everybody's walking like this like a doctor going into surgery because we know that if you drop your attention all you have to do to become tummy is stop thinking about it. If you go to the mikvah to be able to eatim and then you had you stop thinking about it. You have to go to the mikvah again. All it takes is not to think to become tummy. But to become you have to think. There is a process involved. And therefore a z and a z have to count. You have to stop and think. The mitsra we lock him up for a week. says the think about what you did. If that doesn't work, we lock you up for another week. If that doesn't work, we kick you out of the mach. And if you come back in and you finally figured it out, it takes a whole week to become toa because you have to think about it. Tah comes about through thinking. When you're dead, you're not thinking anymore. Yeah. It's too late. and there's no more thinking. There's no more growth. That's it. When you're dead, it's over. But while you're alive and you're like dead, it gives you an opportunity to stop and think, what did I do that put me into a state of tuma? And how can I get out of the state of tuma? The only way is by thinking and by concentrating and by working on it. And that's why during this time of the year when we're getting ready to go to Hari, we have to go from the 49th level of tuma to the 49th level of kaduca. How do we do that? We count. And that's what Resla says. When do we have a mitzvah to count? A z and a z has a mitzvah to count. And during we count to be able to get us to concentrate and to think cuz the only way to achieve is by thinking and being conscious. And all of the tumas are designed for us to stop and think what caused this. And when we stop thinking we become tom and that's why except for death when there's no more thinking and no more ability to repair that's the ofatum that's the source of all tuma but on a lower level we can think and through that bring ourselves to a state of chabas