Semuchim M'yad- Connecting Parshas Tazria With the End of Parshas Shemini

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It's available in Spanish and Yiddish. It's available in Lashon Kodesh. Also Lag B'Omer. The fire in the soul. If anybody wants to participate in upcoming publications, for example, Sefer Birkas HaTzaddik in English published by ArtScroll. Or if you'd like to participate in the historic publication of Sefer Ahavas Yisrael of the Chofetz Chaim. I just went this past week to the Mendel Gottesman Library and I saw the very first edition of Sefer Ahavas Yisrael published by the Chofetz Chaim. It's published in the back of Sefer Beis Yisrael. All of that is available. Okay, shiur number one today is Smuchim me odd. Connecting the beginning of Parshas Tazria with the end of Shmini. And here we go. Parshas Tazria begins. >> [clears throat] >> Daber el Bnei Yisrael lemor, "Isha ki sazria." What is the juxtaposition of Tazria to the end of Metzora? Well, simply um it's like Rashi says. Rashi brings from Rebbe Simlai that why is the Torah of Adam following the Torah of beheima chaya v'of? Rashi says, "Just like the creation of man is after the creation of beheima chaya v'of so too are the halachos of tumas Adam following the halachos of tumas beheima. So therefore, Parshas Shmini discusses the ritual purity and impurity of animals, which animals you can eat, which animals you can't eat. So therefore, following that in Parshas Tazria are the hilchos tumah v'taharah of Adam, isha ki sazria. Okay, fine. Then the Tzur HaMar has an amazing an amazing approach to the smichus aparshiyos. Says the Tzur HaMar, "Earlier on Parshas Shmini, it explained the dinei tumah of food uh of touching food that became hochsher l'kabel tumah through a mashkeh. And it talked about beheimos tumas beheimos taharos. Now it's coming to teach about tumas isha yoledes and tumas Adam. What's the connection? First it talks about a yoledes. Says the Tzur HaMar because it already spoke about korbanos in the beginning of Vayikra. This is the seventh type of korban mentioned in Vayikra. The first six were already discussed in Vayikra and Tzav. So now we're coming back to the inyan of korbanos. In other words, the juxtaposition of the parshiyos is not just to Shmini, it's to Vayikra and Tzav as well. Vayik uh Tzav, I'm sorry. Parshas Shmini spoke about tumas mechal, maga, massa, tumas beheima. Now we're talking about tumas isha yoledes and tumas Adam and begadim, but it began with yoledes because we're in the middle of the subject matter of korbanos. Now says the Tzur HaMar something out of this world. But it's more than that. Because it's coming to show that all tumah and all tzara'as are all a result of the cheit of Adam HaRishon and Chava. Tumas niddah, tumas zivah comes from the sin of Adam HaRishon. Like Hashem said, "B'etzav teldi banim." Before the sin of Adam HaRishon, there was no niddos, there was no dam, there was no zivah. So after Hashem says, "Eat this, don't eat this. Lo zeh tochlu, lo zeh lo tochlu." That's the end of Shmini. Eat this, don't eat that. What is that reminiscent of? That's reminiscent of the Eitz HaDa'as. You can eat don't eat the Eitz HaDa'as. You can eat the Eitz HaChaim. The warning, this is the first time in the Torah it says anything about yes to eat or no to eat. Why? Because it's an introduction to hilchos tumah v'taharah. It's letting us know that dinei tumah v'taharah result of the sin of Adam HaRishon. So it begins by saying, "Eat this, don't eat this." As a reminder of the Eitz HaDa'as and the Eitz HaChaim. And now it's saying, "Because of the Eitz HaDa'as and Eitz HaChaim women become a niddah and a zavah and there are all kinds of tum'os." And the Tzur HaMar brings a proof to this from the following. It's a Gemara in Kesubos. A woman came, she didn't have dam besulim. The husband went to Beis Din. He says to Beis Din, "She's not as advertised." She said, "No, I'm from the Dorkati family." They said, "What? What's that?" "We're a darkatu'a. We don't have dam niddah. We don't have dam besulim." And they said to the husband, "Wow, you hit the jackpot that you married a woman from the Dorkati. They're always tahor. There's no safek niddah. Like kodem macha'is." To the point that through niddah and zivah a woman becomes tamei because of the sin of Adam HaRishon. Therefore ein isha mis'aberah ela samuch l'vestah. Shenemar, "Hein b'avon cholalti." Meaning through tumas niddah and zivah that that creates tumah in Adam. In any event, says the Tzur HaMar the juxtaposition of Parshas Tazria to the end of Shmini is first it tells you, "Eat this, don't eat this." Don't That's reminiscent of the sin of the Eitz HaDa'as and the guidelines of the Eitz HaDa'as. And it's immediately after that are all the laws of tumah v'taharah at the end of Shmini continuing into Tazria to indicate that tumah v'taharah is a result of the cheit of Adam HaRishon. Now, the Ba'al HaTurim has very amazing connections between the end of Shmini and the beginning of Tazria. The end of Shmini, it says "V'his'kadishtem vi'yisem kedoshim." The beginning of Tazria is "Isha ki sazria." What's the connection between having children and the warning of kedushah? Says the Ba'al HaTurim, "This comes to teach that one should sanctify themselves during marital relations. That's why it says, 'V'his'kadishtem, sanctify yourself. Isha ki sazria, produce a child.' That that the act of producing a child should be performed with the utmost sanctity. Also it says, "Do not disgrace your souls." From which we learn in that if somebody has to relieve themselves, they should not hold it in. They should not hold it in. By the way what's the halachah? If somebody has to defecate and they can't hold it in for 72 minutes and they davened Shmoneh Esrei they have to daven again. What if somebody could hold it in 72 minutes? Are they allowed to daven? They're not allowed to daven. What if somebody needs to urinate, but they could hold it in, they say for about 3 hours. Are they allowed to daven? No. What if somebody has an urge, a slight urge? They couldn't snot. You're not allowed to daven. You're not allowed to daven. That's why before you daven, you need to go to the bathroom. I don't have to. Pal, you're not 4 years old anymore. But that's part of kedushas hatefilah. Before you daven, you have to go to the bathroom. Now, this was learned from the pasuk, "Al t'shaktzu es nafshoseichem." And juxtaposed to that is "Isha ki sazria." Says the Ba'al HaTurim, "This teaches that somebody who came out of the bathroom should not have relations immediately. They have to wait a certain amount of time." That's the juxtaposition of "Al t'shaktzu es nafshoseichem." "Isha ki sazria." Says the Ba'al HaTurim. Then it says, "L'havdil bein hatamei u'vein hatahor. Isha ki sazria." Which means that if somebody's marriage was terminated a spouse died, there was a divorce then in order to get remarried, you have to wait 3 months. L'havchin bein zar l'zar to establish paternity. Anyway, and then one final one, uh which is a beautiful idea my friend Robert Fowl and so of France offer this. Parshas Tazria uh Shemini ends Kiani Hashem Hamala eschem me'eretz Mitzrayim liyoscha Elokim. Tazria ends with Yitzias Mitzrayim. If you remember, many many uh uh from years ago and we've mentioned it many times, Yitzias Mitzrayim was likened to a childbirth. Do you remember we discussed that? That that's the reason the first makah was makas dam and that's the reason why Hashem himself took us out of Mitzrayim because only Hashem has the key of childbirth. The This is an idea developed by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Haver that the Exodus was likened to a childbirth. That's the juxtaposition. Ani Hashem Hamala eschem me'eretz Mitzrayim. Isha ki sazria veyalda. Yitzias Mitzrayim was akin to the birth of a child. Okay, there are many other um connections that are mentioned in the safer Smuchim La'ad, but that's our presentation of the juxtaposition for parshas Tazria. Stay right there.