Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Rishon - #1 5784

[Music] this morning deals with the topic of death not only in the beginning this discuss how to how to purify those who become but the also deals with the tragic loss of two of our great leaders of and and we'll see the connection later on but in the first alah we were be given a commandment what we call a hul to to take a referred to as a red heer that was never ever used in any purposes that has no blemishes fully red and it is brought to elen his job is take this cow burn the entire cow add into it some ingredients hiip cider cedar tree and a little bit of hiip burn it and he has a person called them s who helps him burn this Cor and then comes the who gathers these ashes these ashes are then used with water to people who have become tame we have not told yet who or what is tame 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 but their T only is for one day the AL then ends off by telling us that all those who come in contact with a dead body either by n by touching the dead body body or by being in the ohel with the dead body or by walking over something of the dead body all of these people are what we call T for seven days and they're required to be sprinkled with this may with this on day three and day seven and only after the end of day seven are they during this time the par tells us that during this T they cannot come to the o to anywhere KES at punishment of kit and this is where the first Aliyah ends and so here at this point 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 H soal and I just want to give it some ideas so you can think of it yourself throughout the day tell us that a h is a more complicated mitvah than a in total between and we have 613 some of those 613 are called because from what tell us they're much more complicated to understand for us to understand well part of the hul does have to make some sense to us and 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 therefore the par tells us this idea of death is part of life so this MIM that you're going to put upon those who came in contact with death will give you this m 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 directly involved with Tuma with a dead body it may take up to seven days and therefore we have what we will call today a posttraumatic 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 yet continue to live with life [Music]