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Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Rishon - #1
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Featuring: Rabbi Avraham Benhamu Kehilat Derech Yeshara Brooklyn, NY Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/chukat1-compressed.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
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the topic of death not only in the
beginning let's discuss how to make
ahead how to purify those who become
tame but the parasha also deals with the
tragic loss of two of our great leaders
of miryam and aron and we'll see the
connection later on but in the first
elear we will be given the commandment
what we call a hawk to take a para aduma
referred to as a red heifer a shalom
that was never ever used in any purposes
that has no blemishes fully read and it
is brought to el salvador
his job is take this cow do shajita
burn the entire cow
add into it some ingredients his a
cider a cedar tree and a little bit of
hyssop
burn it and he has a person called the
sorev who helps him burn this
corban and then comes the asef who
gathers these ashes these ashes are then
used with water to metahed people who
have become tame we are not told yet who
or what islam but this is what will be
used for those who are tame those
involved in the process of making these
ashes with the water themselves become
timid but their tumor only is for one
day the aliyah then ends up by telling
us that all those who come in contact
with a dead body either by nagiya by
touching the dead body or by being in
the hell with a dead body or by walking
over something of the dead body all
these people are what we call tame for
seven days and they're required to be
sprinkled with this
meta with this main
on day three and day seven and only
after the end of day seven are they
tahoe
during this time the parashat tells us
that during this
they cannot come to the oil to anywhere
kodesh
at
punishment of cut it
and this is where the first aliyah ends
and so here at this point that i'd like
to ask us to think
first of all why are we dealing so
complicatedly with the concept of death
and then why is it introduced as hook so
hazal and i just want to give some ideas
so you can think of it yourself
throughout the day
tell us that a hulk is a more
complicated mitzvah than
they're much more complicated to
understand for us to understand
well part of
the hulk does have to make some sense to
us so we can see from over here that
what really is happening is that death
is probably the most traumatic thing
that we go through in life that's
probably our biggest fear it's a fear
that we can't get over because it is
going to happen to every person in this
world and if the parashat tells us isn't
this idea of death is part of life so
this mind that you're going to put upon
those who came in contact with death
will give you this mind
and what we're basically telling
ourselves is that when we do go through
tragedy like death we have to go through
a recovery it may take us one day if
you're associated somewhat with it but
if you're convicted
involved with tuma with a dead body it
may take up to seven days and therefore
we have what we will call today a
post-traumatic stress disorder where
you're able to get over the death of a
person either that you knew or came
across and be able to deal with the
tragedy of death and you continue to
live with life
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