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Shnayim Yomi - Shemini - D'var Torah
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Rabbi David Bitton shares some really powerful thoughts on this weeks Parashat Shemini. Thank you Rabbi Bitton for taking the time to carry us through the week! Shabbat Shalom!
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towards the end of the par we learned
about the animals that are permitted to
be in and animals that are prohibited to
be in including the
of in the
end
says
in other words these two are in contrast
of each other which means that if a
person ingests brings into his
body which means the foods that are
prohibited to be
in then it makes you that's a simple
words you be
which doesn't seem so bad because so
what you become you go
to you become what are theic of
that gives us a
commandment be
pure again be
pure
explains is referring to which is
in other words again bringing
purification again to the person's to
the person's body says it
twice says like
this when a person
commits so
it's it makes the
person it contaminates himself
contaminates his heart not just his body
in other words something that the M the
physical M water will not be able to
purify because the person's heart
becomes that's what we saw over
here says over
there in other words even though the
literal translation of the word means
and you will
become however the says deeper
understanding and you will become
stuffed your Mo your live will be
stuffed from understanding spirituality
you want to sit down and learn Tor all a
sudden either you don't understand it's
not have any effect on you it's not
coming into your heart you don't have a
drive for it where's that coming from
how come I don't have a CH I come I
don't have a yearning how come I don't
enjoy
it because the live of the Adam is
stuffed how come because he ingested
inside of his body things that are
coming and when he ingests into his
physical body has effect on his heart
has effect on his
as well the words on this aspect is writ
like
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this foods that are
prohibited says to eat one eats them
what happens
is again it brings T brings
contamination contaminates his heart
spiritual aspect of it
person's soul attains his
soul
Lees one of the
great brought in as well as one of
the he writes like this in which again
over
there is
regarding and he writes these are his
words
in his time already going back in a few
centuries he says in our
times we're not so careful to keep these
to that's why most of the children go
off the why they go off the they don't
have a connection to the Tora doesn't
give them enjoyment how come because
what's ingested in them is
now it can be physical ingest when it
coming in because or is what goes into
his eyes as well goes inside his his and
taints it what he thinks about in his
mind but what the Tora is referring to
mades over here specifically regarding
food it's not the only thing that have a
negative effect on the person but the is
saying that has a tremendous effect on
the children of the
generation that's why they rather the
outside they have more enjoyment from
the outside gives them more
satisfaction and it causes brazenness
and because of what goes inside and
that's because of the animals that the
Torah prohibits are animals that are not
the best of nature animal is an animal
but they're different types of animals
and the animals that has created that
are more tame create animals that are
more cruel when one brings inside his
body one the is ibits so he's bringing
cruelty into his body he's
bringing into his
body
relates the story
with was unfortunately point in his life
went off the and the explains few
different reasons why that happened him
if he was so kados and how could someone
on that caliber that stature go and
become
go and so on and one of the things that
does not mention over there but to over
there
brings brings one of the explanations is
that the time that his mother was
pregnant with
him she passed by a house of idol
worship she smelled the food over
there and she ate from it she ate from
that food it went into her body
and because of that who gets from the
food of what the mother eats the baby
and even from the time that she was
pregnant and she ingested in her own
body but through that it went into
Elisha's body at that time already
tainted his from that
point and therefore later on in his life
it came out it came out what was inside
of him bubbling inside of him from even
before he was
born and it had an effect on his
spirituality the saysat
that one of
the one of the
great he said like
this were they prohibited a person on
shabes to have from in other words a
person cannot come close to a candle and
read a book next to it why
explains you might come to tip the
candle and by tipping the candle and
bringing the oil closer to the the wick
that's
and if the candle starting to go down
down you might come to tip it don't
imagine the candle that we have today
it's hard to understand why someone
would tip it but the ways that their
candles were were made and the types of
candle holders that they had the oil
would remove itself slowly slowly as it
got eaten up by the wick and in order to
bring the oil closer to the wick at a
certain time when it's starting to
Flicker and go out would cause the which
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is heard this and he says I'm I have
fear from sh that's never gonna happen
to
me I'm read no problem I'll read next to
the
andb I'm not going to tip it not going
to happen to me says according to one
opinion he he read the and he actually
tipped and he says about
himself wrote it down make sure he
doesn't forget that
when I'm G to bring a but a fat one to
rectify my sin so you see
even he fell what's that to do with us
to over
there says one second doesn't the say
over there that
the the donkey
of didn't didn't want to eat food that's
not not that's prohibited to eat and
he and hasem didn't bring a the animal
didn't eat it and the animal so to say
was saved from ingesting this food so
one second if Hashem has a special uh
surveillance and he watches over
even and even the the rightous doesn't
let them fall so to
say so
the protects so if that's the case how
come didn't
protect he protects the I'm sorry if
protects the he protects
the
protect from not having to to tip and
violating yes inadvertently was but he
did it and he would have to bring
a and to says that there's a difference
between external actions that happen
from the external like Shabbat which
would happen with the hand for example
that he tipped the
candle to when it comes into ingesting
over there there's a
special why because that's the lesson
over here that we see how the how it has
an effect negative effect on the person
when he ingests something
that's that's almost unrectified
during his life he was such a great and
still what he ingested in his body had
an effect on him later on it's almost
something that cannot almost be
rectified in a way becomes part of the
blood and part of the ne of the person
it's very very difficult to
undo when it comes to external is
tipping of a
candle it's up to you you have to take
care of yourself you know about Shabbat
you make sure you have the right and you
put it to your mind not to do it and you
have but the
extra is worri for a person not to come
close to and the greatest s he'll
protect is when it comes to making sure
that what the person ingests is
100% to
be to separate ourselves from all the T
whether it's the external T that we
ingest through our eyes or through our
mouth what we think
about
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