Vayikra: The Holiness of Unfulfilled Longings

Welcome to and thank you for joining us. The Torah introduces this and tells us in the middle of the says when you bring you should salt it, right? you should uh you shouldn't withhold salt from being present on a carbon if it's why do you say by the why is the introduction to this putting by the so I think the simple answer that is that it's it's uh it's required by the like the pas but I heard from a rabbi a depth to it that is is very profound what's what's malik at the beginning of time the gumar tells us there was a like this there was a there was a dispute between the there was water that went up to to heaven to become clouds and then there was the water the lower waters which became oceans and rivers and seas and the lower one said we also want to be by the king we all want to become a mala we want to be sitting in front of the king why do the upper waters get to be in the celestial realm to be close to and we're so far so was he gave a consolation prize to the lower waters on circus and that'll be a derivative as a product of of the water the lower waters and on every carbon there's going to be that was that that was the answer that gave gave the lower waters because it really felt bad that it was so far away said like this who brings a poor person is the carbon of the person who cannot afford to bring a he can't buy an animal like other people he can only bring as humble. That's why it says it says who who is the type to bring a a poor person. It's like he's giving his nephesh. You know the difference between a a between a popper and a poverish person. A wealthy person is a poor person is all unfulfilled longing. A rich person wants something. He wants a nice car, a nice house. He wants to go out to eat. He wants to have a better lunch. He wants a new coat. He gets it. And a corporate says, "I really would love to get a new coat. Maybe next winter. That looks delicious. Maybe on my anniversary I'll get to go to a restaurant." Right? He wants things through. He just doesn't get to have it. Melik is the expression of the kaduca of unfulfilled longing. The the kaduca of mel on the it's like one big expression of ying. It's lower water saying we als want to be by the king. Why are they always there? So the tells the Malik it's true that they're always there and you're far but first of all you want the fact that you want makes you makes you so close that means wanting is itself something wanting is real that expression that you want to do something in a way connects you much more to the thing than people who actually have it. So that's the message to the Arman. You don't have everything you want. That's true. And it looks like the usher has more than you. But maybe he has less than you because maybe his time, let's say user who has a a full-time cook or cater in his house will never have the joy you have in the restaurant because it's just something he takes for granted. And to you it's an expression. He'll never have the joy in a new suit for that you have. You put away money for it. That means your whole life is longing that you wish you could have. Some of them you achieve and some you don't. But you're living you're you're tasting the the experience of of actually having it which the usher doesn't get to do. So melik is a message to the man himself saying keep wanting that's really