Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Rishon - #1

[Music] 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 [Music] you