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Shnayim Yomi - Naso - R'vi'i - #4 - Rabbi Dov Blumberg - Elevating Physicality

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In the fourth aliyah paraso the rabbai explains that the carbon nuzzar brings after completing his nazerus is not coming as a standard kapara for sin. In fact the Torah never uses a language of forgiveness or atonement when talking about it. So what's the carbon coming to teach us? teaches that the carbon is coming as a tila as a plea that the nuzer should be successful in carrying over his growth back into the world he momentarily left behind. You see during his time as a Nazir he attained a much higher level of kaduca and now as that ends and he returns back into the regular physical life there's a natural danger of losing some of that growth in his transition. But if we read very carefully, nowhere does the Raenuay say that the Arida itself is bad or that physical life is something negative. Because the Yiddishite doesn't believe that the purpose of spirituality is to reject the physical world entirely. Some other religions do, but not ours. You see, Gashmius is a natural part of life and the goal is not to escape it but to elevate it.