Shnayim Yomi - Emor - Sh'vi'i - #7 - Rabbi Meir Gavriel Elbaz - The Values We Pass On

Shalom u'vracha, parshat Emor, aliyah shvi'it, mashlim, the final aliyah of the parsha, discusses one of the most disturbing incidents in the Torah, where Am Yisrael never had any exposure to anything like this, somebody went out, the ben ish Yisraelit, the individual with a Jewish mother and a an Egyptian, a non-Jewish father, gets into a uh monetary dispute with a neighbor and unfortunately curses Hakadosh Baruch Hu, God Almighty. Eventually we we find that the Torah says that Hakadosh Baruch Hu says he's sent sentenced to death, but it's very interesting what happened here. Rav Nachman Leibowitz in a sicha on parshat Emor once pointed out, why is it important for the Torah to say "Vayeitzei ben ishah Yisraelit v'hu ben ish Mitzri"? The son of a Jewish woman went out and by the way, he was the son also of an Egyptian man. We know that the halacha dictates that as long as one has a Jewish mother, he's Jewish. Why was that an important um fact to point out? And he says it's very important. Egyptians followed the lead of Paroh. The first time Paroh heard about the name of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, the Shem Havaya, uttered by Moshe Rabbenu, the first reaction, the gut reaction that Paroh has to hearing the name of Hashem was "Mi Hashem asher eshma b'kolo?" Who is this God that you speak of that I should listen to his uh directives? And because of that, the Egyptians acted with a zilzul, with a denigration to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and his holy Torah. And that was latent, that was actually passed on to his spiritual DNA from his Egyptian father. He lived among Am Yisrael for a while, it was latent within him, but then when triggered, when something didn't go as planned, that terrible middah of zilzul b'Hakadosh Baruch Hu was triggered and it came out in the worst possible way, in a way that actually got him sentenced to death. The Fashma Love it says, we as parents and as Rabbeim, as teachers, whatever, we have to make sure that the ideals that we pass on to the following generations are good and pure and follow the path of the Torah Kadosha, making sure to keep, you know, the bad middos that we have to fix them, to rectify them, so that Halila, we don't pass them on even inadvertently to the following generations and only give over that which is good, the Torah, mitzvos, and maasim tovim.