Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Para Aduma and Liberation from Death

my baby [Music] hi everybody thank you thank you for coming again um and today's tonight's share is sponsored for a before suleima for hayam Shimon benelga may you have her first name of the top shakal Israel and the birth of a baby boy to your your son and daughter-in-law yeah and refuge Lima to Shelley bat Karen and the entire Poston in our ghee families again it's kind of as well uh we finished last week the very very sad and tragic story of karach and right after Korra the Torah gives us a bunch of mitzvos uh that are very very interesting uh the Mitzvah para Duma the red heifer which is said to be the most mysterious enigmatic Mitzvah in the Torah and uh this is me now the truth of the matter is it's very very interesting that although the details of the Commandment appear after korach it is 100 texturally demonstrable that there must already have been such a ritual because impartial after the mission was put up the levium were said to be purified by sprinkling upon them the Waters of purification meaning there was already a Para aduma so this is actually an example of the toranati that's exactly right the Torah is not in chronological order the Mitzvah paradigmo was not given after Kovac was given before co-work and in fact according to kazal it was even given before the Torah was given it was given in the Oasis of Mara now you don't you don't have a proof from that the only proof you do have is that it was given before but because I'll actually predate it but be it as it may it's introduced with a certain formula Torah now the word hope means Mitzvah that we don't people say they translate they don't have a reason that's the father not true Hashem certainly has reasons for everything but we don't know we don't understand what the reason is but the mafortion and of course paraduma is the ritual to become purified by mixing the ashes of a red heifer mixing it with water when you sprinkle it over a person that is ritually impure on day three of his Tuma and on day seven of his tumor then he goes to the mikvon day seven then at night after day seven days he is now ritually pure he can enter the base of mikdash now remember that para aduma there are many types of Tuma in the Torah seminal emission a woman that's in need a woman after childbirth a person touches a dead animal a matsora many types of tumor para ajuma is not relevant for most types of tumor para aduma is relevant for only one type of Tuma that is the Tuma that is contracted by touching a dead body or by moving a dead body or by being under the same roof as a dead body Tomas mace and from other to other tumors usually going to the mic phase enough too much mace we need the para aduma sprinkling and we need Mikvah now I think as I indicated a few weeks ago this is just to review it very quickly this is the key halachic reason why there's an issue of going on the harabayat because the harabit is the Temple Mount and at least part of the harabayad not the whole Harbor Bay but part of the higher by it has the Holiness of the beta mikdish and any area that is the Holiness of the base is not allowed to go it's a free of car race and since anyone that's ever been in a cemetery any time of their life remains in a Perpetual state of Tuma until we have the Para aduma all of us are tame so I cannot go in any area that is designated with the holiness of the mikdash now in truth in truth it is I don't want to get in trouble for this there are very definitely areas of the Temple mount that do not have the Holiness of the basement and therefore in truth the outer perimeter of the Temple Mount would be permitted and those religious Jews who go go to those areas they're willing to take that position the reason why most godola Israel just say the Temple Mount is off limits is simply because we're not entirely sure where the different areas begin and since it's like walking in a Minefield right let's imagine you're told that certain parts of this field there are live Minds that are going to go off but if you stay three inches away from this line you're going to be okay you know most of us would not feel that secure because of the margin of error well car race death in the hands of heaven and possibly losing Allah is a lot worse than a minefield so mosquito only Israel say just stay away from it those who are a little more confident in their identification of areas will say go here and don't go here if you're not religious you go anywhere that the Arabs allow you to go right again unfortunately the Arabs seem to have more influence in this area than our College parkum uh but putting that putting that aside uh in principle there are stuck him that you are allowed to go to but the only Israel basically saying not to not to do it and the reason is until we have paradoma we have no way of purifying ourselves from too much mate right so paraduma is the mysterious ritual that is used as a purification mechanism for tomatma now I'm going to start off with a very technical problem that is para aduma is introduced with the phrase this is the law of the Torah question is it's not the law of the Torah it's the law of the para for example when the Torah introduces carbon pesach it also calls it this is the law of the PESA so by analogy it ought to say this is the law of the Para why does it say this is the law of the Torah as if there's something in Para aduma that pertains to the whole Torah how is that so so I want to give you a two answers basically answer number one is that the quotes a medrish that Shalom the wisest of all people I thought I would acquire wisdom but I saw that wisdom was very far from me it was distant so the medrus explains he was going over every Mitzvah in the Torah and he understood the reasons for it when he got to paraduma he was stymied he was stuck but says the before him says by the fact that he reached paraduma and couldn't figure out a reason that taught him that even the mitzvos that he thought he understood have deeper meanings that are unfathomable by human understanding so it's not simply oh I understand everything but I don't get this one this one shows me what I thought I understood was like the tip of the iceberg whatever it was you are going to be infinite infinite depths of meaning that's why it's called because the whole Torah is a Coke something we don't really understand because it comes from God God is infinite there are infinite layers of meaning right that's why you know the old arguments people make you know it's an old argument I remember it as a child already well the Torah prohibits pork because without you know pork uh without Refrigeration in particular there's trachnosis and parasites and but now that we have modern cooking and modern refrigeration you know there's no reason why not to eat pork or the Torah prohibits making a fire in Shabbos because fire used to be so difficult to make it was laborious but today what's fire strike a match turn on the stove turn on a light the people make all sorts of arguments that the Torah has a particular reason for something and then you start saying well that reason doesn't apply therefore the short answer is I'm not denying that some of those reasons may be valid maybe Health was a a concern in the laws of kashrat but every single Mitzvah Hashem is infinite and there are going to be layers and layers and layers that we will never understand and that's why para aduma was put there as an example of something that's clearly an enigma so you'll understand that the whole Torah is this is what the urachium says the second explanation I actually give you three answers I'll give you answer number two uh is this that we know that mishpatim is the term that is used for those laws that make sense to us don't kill don't steal don't commit adultery those are things we understand Coke is used for those laws that are enigmas so the truth of the matter is the true test of an ebit Hashem is not whether he keeps the laws that make sense if I keep laws that make sense to me am I doing it because I'm serving God or am I doing it because it happens to be God's will works with whatever I believe at this particular time so in a sense the litmus test of one's commitment to Torah is do you do those things that don't make sense because doing those things that make sense is not necessarily a commitment to Hashem therefore from the croak we see your attitude towards the Torah you are a servant of God you're not simply following what makes sense to you but you go above now a third answer uh is based on a passage of the growth of Illinois he doesn't say it as an answer to this question but I'm I'm going to borrow it as an answer and this is a very very amazing Passage in his commentary on Michelin and it's so amazing that when I used to say it at an Arsenal Gathering people from Lakewood said it's impossible to be true so I don't say it anymore there because they say it's impossible even though the building says it okay I didn't make it up the Velma gone by the way we do know the villain gun was not a slouch when it came to Torah learning he obviously considered thorough learning can be very important he learned around 22 hours a day sleeping in four half hour increments over a 24-hour period so he was not a person who devalued the learning of Torah but listen to this everyone knows the famous teaching that Torah is compared to water and there are a gazillion reasons why terrorists compared to water water is necessary for Life towards necessary for Life water refreshes uh Torah refreshes water cleans and purifies Torah cleans and purifies water goes from High Ground to low ground the Torah leaves the arrogance and goes to the humble right all of these are beautiful basic ideas white Taurus compared to water but listen to what the grass says why Taurus compared to water it is the nature of water that whatever you pour it on is going to grow meaning water is indifferent if it's positive growth or negative growth if I pour water over soil that has seeds if the seeds are wheat or beautiful flowers I'll get wheat or beautiful flowers if the seeds are poison ivy or any other type of weed I'm going to get weeds water has what is called a KOA foreign a power to generate growth whether it's for the good or whether it's for the bad so says the belmadon if a person has in their personality good meet us they are kind they are compassionate they are generous they are humble the learning of Torah will make him more kind more generous more compassionate more humble so far not controversial agreed but listen to this is a person is arrogant selfish and cruel the learning of Torah may make him worse it is water and that's why the bill McGowan emphasized before rubbish also launcher the importance of combining your Torah study with work on your character traits because if you leave the weeds inside the learning of Torah is going to make it even worse quite amazing quite amazing so Torah has this amazing paradox it can purify you or it might drag you down if you learn with arrogance and gaiva so in Para aduma we actually find a similar paradox right this is the famous Paradox of the paradoma those who are impure become purified by being sprinkled but those who are pure those who are handling the ashes and the water they become ritually impure so the same thing that can bring purity can also bring in purity and that is a characteristic of the Torah itself because Torah is compared to water so those means the same Paradox of paraduma we find in the Torah itself and again this is the famous phrase it purifies those who are tamei um as I'm sorry um those who are pure become Tamil by the way I I remember years and years and years ago in their Israel my Russia so one of the perennial issues that black hat yeshiva's face in the United States is whether they'll allow their tomidem to be advisors in an organization like ncsy it's a perennial problem it's been a an issue for many many years still an issue NCS wise many of you might know they've started in Israel but it's not it's not as big in Israel as it is in the United States is an organization of the OU the Orthodox Union that works with uh public school kids Elementary and high school middle school and high school kids and many of them come from totally unreligious backgrounds it's a co-educational program and ncsy is really one of the wonders of the world in terms of changing these kids lives making them religious but with enthusiasm with simcha many of them go on to yeshivas and seminaries they get married they establish Jewish homes and it is such a loving beautiful atmosphere ncsy but it is co-ed and at least initially you know some of the girls in particular may not be dressed sinius and then some of the advisors as well are you know college students college boy college students girl college students Etc so in the black cat Yeshiva worlds there's always kind of an issue where the the Russia Yeshiva don't like their students participating in these type of co-educational events with Croatia and lack of sneas and and various other things as as as well now that creates a very big problem because that means that you're you're taking out the most religious elements and you're telling them not to participate so what you might be getting are people who are less religiously committed to be the advisors and and the like so this is an issue that Russia Yeshiva grapple with some allow it some don't allow it some say uh you can only go if you're married already go with your wife you don't go as a single person okay they're for different issues I was involved with the NCAA for a number of years but it was taka only after I was after I was married uh now here's the thing the classic line that my Russia said about NCS right it's really a very witty line he says he considered ncsy to be the para aduma he says it purifies those who are impure it takes people who are not religious and it elevates them but God forbid it may sometimes have the negative effect of those who are already religious it might lower their standards so that's going to be a paradox the Paradox is like how do you balance that how do you balance that okay but again that's uh maybe a talk for uh for another another time all I can say is I have absolute great great admiration for what ncsy has done for now it's been uh probably 60 years that it's been around in fact the found your Rabbi Pinnacle stopper is everyone just just for sniffed her like last year um and you know so his must be just literally very very unbelievable okay so now though I want to talk about this this Paradox because we again paradoma is described as the Hulk part of Excellence the Enigma and the fortune say the Enigma is in the Paradox meaning it's not simply oh a red cow is a funny ritual I mean there's a lot of things in Judaism that are funny like why can't you mix woman linen whatever it would be so it's not just the fact that the details are a little strange it's the contradiction that is difficult how can the same thing that is a force for purification be a force for a lack of purification to make your tummy by the way let me just digress for a moment people sometimes raise the question that if the ashes purify the tummy but make the people who handle it themselves Tommy how do you ever get the Jewish people to be totally pure let's imagine that we get the paradoma back okay and a paradum is made and all and now we have a based on mcdus we all have to be pure because we're going to bring corbanos everybody has to be pure now how that's going to happen if a coin sprinkles the ashes on you you're pure but now the coming is impure so somebody has to sprinkle the ashes on him so he's pure so somebody's left holding the bag meaning to say if you always have a circumstance that whoever handles the ashes becomes tummy then it's going to be impossible by definition to ever achieve a state of purity they'll always be the last person whoever the last person is the answer is that that is a false assumption and the reason that's a false assumption is that the tumor of handling ashes is not too much mess it's a separate tumor and all you need for that is Mikvah meaning you don't need if I'm Tommy because I handle the ashes of paradoma I don't need to be sprinkled by the ashes of I just need to go to the Mikvah so the last guy jumps into the Mikvah and he'll be okay right so it's very very simple the problem only this because some people get the impression that every tumor of paraduma needs paraduma to purify that is not a true that is not a true assumption no it's only one day it's only one day too much math is seven days the tumor of a fair paradoma is a one day tumor so at night he's going to be totally tired by the way um so we have this Paradox okay so I just want to share quickly a beautiful thought from the swasemus even though you would seem if even didn't understand the paradox how dare we explain the paradox right we got to get it wrong I mean we can't be thinking of something he didn't think of but even so when it comes to Torah we're supposed to go as far as we can go even if we know that greater people than us obviously didn't totally agree and the Swiss Ms and repsarak actually try to offer an explanation for this paradox let's focus generally on a very important Torah concept the concept of impurity some people and things are tame a some people and things are tohar and that's a biggie when a person is tummy they can't go into the basement they can't eat corbanos they can't bring corbanos if they were coming they cannot eat truma Tuma is primarily connected to restrictions having to do with the base or holy things now Tuma is a huge variety of things there's tumor of dead bodies there's tomb of dead animals there's tumor of leprosy there's two more of Nida there's some of seminal emission of childbirth but is there a common denominator of what makes things tumor through Egyptian and father Hirsch says that the common denominator of tumor is some type of direct contact with death when we are in connection with death there is a state called Tuma that descends upon us and her first made the argument every form of tumor is connected to death now you may question that well wait a second here certain forms of tumor are obviously connected to death I touch or I move or I'm under the roof with a dead body okay that's simple dead animals which is a one day tumor by the way this dead animals that weren't drafted if you eat a hamburger you don't become tummy unless it's a tray hamburger in other words the Tuma of dead animals are animals that were not shifted okay but all right so there's tumor of dead human there's a tomb of dead animal even a seminal emission is a form of death because the seed that went out did not produce a child Nida is connected with death because it is the shedding of a uterine lining that could have been a potential could have sustained a potential pregnancy about childbirth a woman after childbirth is tummy now she's telling me if there's a stillbirth okay so that's connected with death but she's even Tommy if it's a live birth how is that a connection with death Seraph first makes the argument which you may or may not buy that even childbirth is a form of death because it is the death of the life that was within her becoming externalized there was life within her that is now outside and that's a form of death so refer says all Tuma leprosy is also a form of death it's a disintegration of the of the flesh so all Tuma comes from connection to death now why is that so why does connection to death engender tumor so our first argues that originally man's ideal state was immortality God created Adam In His Image to live forever death came into the world because of the sin of the eight Sadat and that sin required expulsion from the Garden of Eden the Garden of Eden was the ideal idyllic existence with God and the introduction of sin created two consequences which are really connected one is death and the other is exposion from Eden although you might actually say that's the same thing so reverse says every time we are connected to our mortality we are reconnecting so to speak we are re-experiencing and we have to be expelled from the Garden of Eden the Garden of Eden on Earth is the base of Magnus so Tuma is primarily a state that is connected to the basement so tame a equals not having access to the temple equals expulsion from the Garden of Eden because contact with death reenacts the sin of the eight sentence but this is a thought of reverse which is why Tuma does not mean you're dirty it does not mean you're unclean it does not mean you're unfit a tummy person I mean all of us are coming can do all of the mitzvotes you dive in you keep Shabbos yeah but I learned Torah but Tuma is a state that necessitates expulsion from Ghanaian which in Allah Canadian is that is that encounter with god with the intimacy and the immediacy of gun Aiden right this is repurchase idea of Tuma as a reenactment of the height of eight sadas now this is reverse now I'm going to move to Rev sadak makes the point that what brought Adam and khaba to the sin of the eight sedans right the nakash enticed Java who then enticed her husband 's argument which is hard for us to parse exactly is if you eat from this fruit you will be like God with a true knowledge of Good and Evil Kim Ura and God doesn't want you to have that knowledge and that's why he's telling you not to eat it which means is marketing the fruit which by the way was not an apple the Kumar has many opinions what it was according to Summit was grain it may have been wheat or esrogue or fig or grape the one thing that's not mentioned in the Gomorrah as a possibility is apples like I'm I'm not even sure if apples are native to the Middle East but whatever it is so fruit is marketed as a gut bill take this fruit you will be God throughout Southern says the downfall of Adam was gaiva was arrogance the idea that man wants to be God and in a sense you know people discuss a lot I don't want to get in trouble you know is the story of the eightsadas a metaphor or is it an actual historical event and people will often debate history versus metaphor I would suggest to you that this is a false binary thinking not either or history or metaphor we believe these things happened they did happen but they are also metaphoric because they have certain meanings beyond the particulars of an event so it's not history or metaphor same thing by The Exodus you know you hear this uh you know did it really happen or is it a symbol of the striving of Freedom Etc the answer is it's both the events of the Torah are archetypes they're prototypes for Spiritual powers that come in and repeat over and over and over again so yeah are there metaphorical meanings through the sin of the eighthadas a hundred percent that's not a negation of the historical event which means the downfall of man is their attempt to be God and that brought death into the world now the thing is in many many ways we are Godlike we are after all the Torah says we are created in the image of God selomelo came this by the way even applies to non-jews this is not only Jews salomelo Kim now what does the image of God mean it doesn't mean a physical image God does not have a physical image but it means we have attributes of divinity within us whether it's free will intelligence creativity the ability to make or create or destroy all sorts of things and refs elevatic rights in the lonely man of Faith the classic essay that even things like scientific discovery we talked about this last week working on cancer research is part of man in the image of God to take nature and don't simply say you know I'm subordinate to whatever is out there but I go out and I create so we are Godlike but it's precisely our god-like natures we talked about this last week and we Revisited here that can lead us astray and death comes into the world when man convinces himself he can be God because that's what the says eat and you will be God whatever that even meant hello death came into the world not so much as a punishment but as a reminder that as great and as Godly as man can become mortality is the ultimate reminder that there's an unbridgeable Chasm an unbridgeable Gap between the Creator and the creation so this is why death comes into the came into the world because of covert arrogance hubris gaiva and this continues to have an importance in modern times you know scientists are trying to create life with cloning or whatever it might be and we have to be aware of our limits and we have to understand that although Judaism is certainly pro-scientific research but we're not God we have to be aware that we're not God so because it's so because of this subject says the following if death comes into the world because of arrogance hubris diver the purification from death The Liberation from Death the restoration to the Garden of Eden which we get when we leave the tumor must come through rituals of humility and submission that's how we get liberated from death that's how we return to the Garden of Eden which is access to the base so let's take too much meth which is which is obviously the strongest tumor connected to death because that's how you became tummy so the two rituals that purify you are the sprinkling of the ashes of the paradoma and going to the Mikvah both of them are rituals of humility now without getting into all of the details why a red why red why a cow you know all of that stuff but the basic idea to be sprinkled with ashes ashes is a symbol of humility of submission of submissiveness avra mabinu says to God anokhi or forever affair I am dirt I am ashes so if death comes into the world because of arrogance and diva I become liberated from death when I'm sprinkled with ashes I connect to ashes it's like the old uh there's an old Greek myth but the emesis is the measures from kazal too but unfortunately people are more familiar with it from the Greek context of the phoenix bird the phoenix bird was a bird that when you burnt it into ashes it Rose From the Ashes and people often use the Phoenix as a symbol of the Jewish people coming back after Holocaust and everything else we Rise From the Ashes the truth of matter is there's a metric the mattress talks about the netspert a certain type of birds that's birds and Rises From the Ashes but rhapsetic is a little bit of a Different Twist most people understand the metaphor that we suffer and we suffer and we suffer but we come back so the ashes refers to kind of what the going do to us but in Casitas there's a different understanding it's not referring to the going of beating me or whatever it is it means by destroying my ego by obliterating my egotism I get Reborn into a higher state of Holiness and connection the ashes is making myself ashes not not what somebody else did to me so it's a different metaphor it's not We rise you know From the Ashes of the Holocaust Hashem that that's true also but this is the notion I find myself by losing myself when I'm filled with egotism with gaiva with the sense that I'm God then I remain Tommy I'm expelled from the garnaden and that's what contact with death revisits every time it revises which was around so the purifying power of Parada comes from the humility that liberates you from death and reunites you with the Garden of Eden with Hashem now in truth Mick Falls are represents mikfe itself which is the second purification ritual also represents humility one of the themes of Mikvah is it's a return to the womb by the baby in the mother's womb is kind of immersed in water it's breathing through the umbilical cord in fact I say you know people who adopt uh young babies who are not Jewish so the baby has to go to the Mikvah meaning you don't throw the baby in the microwave but the father will go and hold the baby and dip the baby in the microphone so parents are sometimes very worried about taking a baby and dipping him underwater so you need to know this might be relevant to some of you at some point in your lives that babies love it and actually it's easier to take them to the Mikvah before they're six months old because they have a swimming reflex that when they hit the water and that has to be face first has to be their nose hits the water they hold their breath and they even it's very cute they even do the dog pedal they do a little little swimming in the water and they like it a lot after six months it's not dangerous even after six months but they lose the reflex so they might swallow a little water so there might be a little uncomfortable and if a baby cries I I know there's some experience if a baby cries when you take them out of the water it's not because the water was uncomfortable it's because of the change of temperature the mix of water is warm and the change from warm to cold is a little uncomfortable for them but they love it it's a very familiar environment so some might make the argument that the Mikvah is returning to the womb and you get Reborn as a baby free of pretense of artifice right you no longer have the egotism that destroyed you right so both Mikvah and paradoma are connected to humility again and you come out tell her yep it's the same it's the same concept that's exactly right you're a reader yeah because he connects to that that humility so now and this again will will be a little bit revisiting the theme we talked about last week but but it pops up more than once and that is again we're trying this much damage is trying to explain the Paradox how can the thing that purifies you make your tummy he says because there is good ashes and bad ashes ashes humility submission to God obliteration of ego wonderful good holy and nobling restorative but at the same time when the ashes take away your self-esteem it takes away your evaluation of yourself it becomes destructive this is kind of a paradox humility is the greatest virtue that one could have but when it's taken in the wrong direction it becomes destructive it becomes it robs me of my confidence it robs me of a sense that I matter if a person truly thinks they're worthless then why should Hashem care about their Mitzvahs why should Hashem care about their Torah you'll never be the person you're able to be that's right said the famous statement you got to have two ideas in your pockets pocket number one anokhea for VA fair I'm dirt pocket number two bishvili nibram because of me the whole world was created one man one woman justifies the whole universe that's not arrogant because if I say for YouTube it's not arrogant but it makes me realize I matter I make a difference and I gotta feel I make a difference because if I don't make a difference then what's the difference what I do with my life the answer is it makes a difference I'm important you're important God needs without you without getting into minus Freeman debates here okay so this is the explanation of the paradox the ashes purify by letting us transcend our egotism but when it's taken in the wrong direction it can make you impure because it robs you of your sense of worth so the paradox is the Paradox of humility in and of itself there is the humility in fact this is interesting there's the humility of empowerment and there's the humility of despondency the humility of empowerment actually says I'm nothing but when I connect to God as the ultimate power source he will give me the resources to make a difference that's good you Melanie that's purifying humility the humility that I don't matter and what I do makes no difference is the humility of despondency of passivity that's strife that's midame so we have the Paradox the same attitude when taken in the right way purifies and the same attitude can destroy right so again Shalom said it was a Coke so obviously this is not a complete explanation but I think the Insight is a very beautiful Insight once again death comes into the world because of arrogance we are liberated and therefore we're expelled from the Garden of Eden we are liberated from death by humility but humility itself has the dangers when taken in the wrong direction of making us tumbling and that's why the personal stomach he has to go to the Mikvah kind of go back to the womb and relearn kind of or dis learn that negative attribute that brought him brought him down and uh you know it's interesting that um died [Applause] of course is in Benet Barak andisha lived and it was buried in Vape Rock so the Masjid of the panovic Yeshiva at the time was the famous Rabbi Leo destler of desler had an amazing amazing career of activity in England and then he came to Erich Israel and he was the mashed of the panovic Yeshiva of course as great men often do he didn't give anything up he was still handling everything in England when he was narrative so he was kind of just adding things constantly was so involved in everything going on in Eric Israel so there was a boy that was sobbing a boy that was crying [Music] sir of destler went over to the boy and he said why are you crying over the rav the go on the great man and the Sadiq who's buried in the ground why are you crying over the Wrath going and that sadak is buried in the ground and then he pointed to the boy you should cry over the Wrath of the gown and the Sadiq that's buried in you because the route the Govern and the Sadiq who's buried in the ground became the Wrath and the gun and the Sadiq that he was destined to become but what about the greatness in you that you don't even realize he says that's something to cry about he says that's something to cry about that within us there's the wrath of God and decided that we don't even realize that we don't even try to you know trigger try to develop and this is where humility can can actually give you a false turn right take you in the wrong route and that's the meaning of the Paradigm but the final point I want to share with you is a beautiful thought from the aperture of the aperture of issue of Apatow a town in Poland famous of the 19th century the book on that he wrote is called Israel because his theme and virtually every Parsha is to talk about Abbas Israel right there so he's known as the ohav Israel the aperture of so the operator of quotes of madrish that says the following if you want to understand The Secret of paraduma you must contemplate avat Israel Israel is the secret of paradigma very enigmatic I mean paraduma is a ritual but how does para Duma show us avat Israel so this is a medrish so the Opera explains it the following way we know that paraduma has a paradox that the person that it sprinkled on is pure but the people handling the ashes they're impure for a day now we look at that as a paradox the upstairs says maybe it's not a paradox maybe it's a cause and effect pure it because again for a coin to become Tama even for one day is an inconvenience for a calling he can't teach from I mean his wife made him a nice lunch of truma Sandwich whatever it is he can't eat it even if it's one day so it's not just space I make this he can't go to work right he'll dock his pay whatever whatever will be and his wife made a good lunch of Truman He can't eat it it's an inconvenience hello what but to help another Jew become pure he's willing to inconvenience himself that brings Purity into the world Purity comes into the world in other words the reason why it purifies the impure is because it makes the Peoria and pure because when a Jew is willing to inconvenience himself for another Jew that brings Purity into the world by the way I have to digress for a moment because although it's not essential to this word but I am going to get comments if I don't say this so I'm going to have to say it uh because people think I don't know this and they always correct me and I do know this uh the rule that people who handle they haven't please anyone who wants to contact me please listen the rule that says that people who handle the ashes of the Para dumagetame does not apply to the Cohen who actually sprinkles the coin who sprinkles the ashes on spring water on the person does not become tummy even though the Torah is lesson is the one who sprinkles is darshan that just means the people who carry the water and the actors that are going to be sprinkled not the actual sprinkler so although I said a number of times anyone handling the ashes becomes tummy it does not apply to the actual sprinkler okay so I know this okay so however nevertheless but nevertheless the people who prepare it in anticipation of the sprinkling do become Tommy so the vort of the after rub is still a good word that I put myself out for a fellow Jew that brings Purity into the world and this is a famous little hasidish story they say that a father was teaching his son how to read and uh in a printed Hamish hashem's name the IDK is often written as two yuds and we read it I don't I read it as hashem's name so uh when the boy first saw the two units he was reading the Kudos under the two yards and the father said no no you read it Hashem or you know Ajo Etc so then at the end of a pasok you have like a colon right you have two it looks like a yield on top of it it says the end of a sentence so the kid read it as hashem's name so uh the father said no no no when you see it like that it's just like a period you don't read it it's just a period so we asked his father how come when they're side by side it's hashem's name and when one is on top of the other it's the end it's a period so the father said a beautiful answer is a Jew he says when one yield stands next to another good when two years and stand together with equality with respect with love with friendship that's where Hashem is but when one Jew stands on top of another Jew when one yud is on top of another yut looking down thinking they're Superior that's the end of the sentence the Torah goes no further the Torah stops the Shekinah stops the Shekinah does not come in in that type of relationships it's a beautiful way of remembering it a yet next to it yet is God the presence of God and yet on top of it yet the Torah goes no further into that into that relationship and that's why the Opera said that Uma itself is connected to the idea of Abbas Israel I put myself out to help another person so business Hashem we should be okay now we're entering we have well now we're in the month of Thomas of course tomorrow night is also good the the art site of the Baba Jeremy Thomas and uh will be doing all sorts of huge things but I think all of us have to look at Robert as an example of a person who was not only a leader in every conceivable way but a person who's obviously throughout was virtually Limitless without Gable in which every single Jew in the world was his personal concern his personal and of course none of us could hope to even imitate the tiniest of fraction but we should look to this meter and try to incorporate it in our lives to whatever degree that we can and that will continue to give the Revy a tremendous but more importantly when the Jewish people love each other and care about each other just like parents often say yeah it's interesting when parents get older and they're approaching death one of the things they talk about a lot it's very interesting is they want their children to kind of get along with each other it becomes it's something that parents really think about a lot that you know talk to your brother you know call your sister a parent gets tremendous When the Children especially as adults still connect to each other right so if that's true for human parents it's rather true for our College Sparkle as well it gets tremendous not us when his children are connected to each other so we should all Endeavor to give that so thank you have a good week [Music]