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it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this
week's Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion is par tazria the question of
the week is how can you protect yourself
from becoming
impure so this week's T portion T we
learn about the laws of Tas where a
person becomes impure so there's an
interesting mishna that says as follows
that if you're home and a leopard walks
into the house so if he comes into your
house before you know he's going to
touch something and obviously the things
in the house become impure R Yehuda says
what happens if the leopard walks in ER
of Shabbat and the uh you're busy
lighting the candles for shabas so Yuda
says as long as you're busy lighting the
candles for shabas
the house stays
pure why and the commentary say very
simple because since you're lighting the
candles of shabas you can't talk out and
tell the guy please go out you know
you're impure this is you know this is a
pure house you want to keep it that way
so as long as you're busy lighting the
candles of shabas you can't say anything
so therefore the house is pure but the
minute you finish then you can tell
listen excuse me you're impure and
please
leave so the Reby asks but the reality
is whether you're busy lighting the
candles or not busy lighting the candles
if he's there what's the difference if
you can tell him to leave or not to
leave if we're conc concerned that he's
going to make it impure what's the
difference if you're busying at and if
we're not concerned so then why what's
why is it when you're lighting the
candles it doesn't become uh impure so
the re explains a fascinating insight as
follows he says what's the reason why um
a person becomes a leopard spiritually
so spiritually the reason why person
becomes a leopard because we know the
source of leprosy is because a person
speaks L and Har when a person speaks
bad about somebody else or times even
good if it's inappropriate if it was
confidential information and so on and
so forth so the source of leprosy is L
now that is the
spiritual uh issue with with with uh L
and Har that brings upon leprosy when a
person lights shabas candles we know
what's the reason why we light shabas
candles cuz shabas candles is to bring
Shalom peace in the
home which is the opposite of L which
breaks people apart this brings people
together so the rebi says that's why re
Yuda says as long as you're busy
lighting the shabas candles what does
that mean you're busy bringing people
together spiritually there's no way the
leopard who his Source his negative
energy is to break people apart can have
an effect on your home so therefore as
long as you're busy lighting those
candles he cannot affect the house
spiritually by breaking the thing apart
so in other words if you want to make
sure that the house does not become
impure by Lush and Har be busy
creating Shalom peace within your family
and within your community so to answer
the question how do you make sure to
stay pure always be busy uniting people
uniting your family and uniting your
community then you will not become a
leopard because the essence of leprosy
is to create this Unity this week's
Torah lesson was dedicated to the memory
of
B and schomo Ben Ys May their souls be
elevated by the we're studying in their
memory thanks so much for joining us for
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