When "Bad" Is Better Than Good | Parshas Tzav

back in the Soviet Union there's a knock at the door have a little one-bedroom apartment in Moscow the door opens and the KGB is standing there and they asked the little Yigal standing in the door excuse me comrade but does it happen ovitch live here the little girl says no no but not much doesn't live here okay thank you very much the KGB leaves but a half an hour later knock at the door again door opens Loulou yellow says yes could I help you the KGB says yeah we're looking for her but nobody does right but no but you live here the Laurel says no but no witch doesn't live here another half an hour later another knock at the door door opens same KGB officer standing there this time he's got a photograph and he's holding it up and he says excuse me comrade this here is a picture of ivanovitch he looks exactly like you now you're gonna tell me your but no which doesn't live here all the other looks at the KGB officer a system no this you call living what is the meaning of life and when I said what is the meaning of life I don't mean what is the purpose of life I mean how do we define life what does life mean this week's Pasha Pasha staff is continuing the discussion of car Bonus that began last week in Paris Vayikra and in this parsha we learn about the carbonate either the Thanksgiving offering in al-qaeda yeah creevy know if for a Thanksgiving if for a matter of gratitude one brings a sacrifice this should be the the sacrifice and the gomorian brokers DAF nan de la dama base elaborates that are bought sleeping llaha dice that there are four who are obligated to bring this carbon this carbon Tyler this is year day I am one who went into the sea one across see hey hey mid bar ace one who traversed the mid bar the desert me Shailaja hayla Misurata one who was sick with a life-threatening illness and recovered and finally kovash the vase for sodium one who was held captive who was in jail and interestingly we find in show Honora in the tour Shahana raha that this is discussed in terms of the parallel custom of benching daemul of course we don't have the carbon tied until the baser make visual will be rebuilt speedily but we have the blessing of game Oh a game Allah high oven TVs and in the Holocaust where this is discussed the tour tells us how do we know how do we remember that these are the four categories of people who are obligated to bench go Amal and in the times of the based on English would have brought a carbon tether the Torah tells us see Monica your mnemonic your memory device the way to remember it is the whole haha MEA Duha Sela Holohan Madikizela we know is we recognize that from Davin Inc from the medium Braja o the living will give thanks to you forever speaking about to you to Hashem and the tour explains there the ballot or him that hiam is a Russia Tavis fascist kala a sick person Yodas you suit him which means affliction in this case jail the next good is yam which means to see someone who crossed the sea Mami's mid bar a desert so Mahal ha hey I'm Jay do Casella all of the hiam russia davis of heylia surah mohammed bar these four people with this for situation adieu Casella they will thank you always that's how we remember it according to the tour here's a question though it's an interesting mnemonic it's an interesting semen memory device but think about it hyeme means life you know like lehayim so the word Hayyim is a receipt Avis for four things that nobody wants to ever go through in their life in fact therefore things that are so life-threatening that if you come out of it impact you have to bring a carbon fiber or in our days you have to bench Gomel so the word valium should be a Russia Davis for four things that are the opposite of hiam that are a threat to Khayyam that are that are that put life at risk the word kayu means life and these four things are an obstacle or an impediment or threat to life so that's our first question another question is a little bit more technical but when the tour brings that simin that memory device and he says Mahalo Jaime do Casella and all the living will praise you forever why did he have to quote all those words he could have said Hawkeye Madoka a Jaime radula would mean the living give thanks and he could have said the same thing that time has passed you Jordan mam which is halo you saw them yam made butter he doesn't have to save a whole I am all the living and he doesn't have to say Sela forever could have just said Mahalo Jaime do we could who just said Jaime took her not the whole oak I am you do a cellar could have made it to words instead of forwards okay that's like I said it's a little bit of a technical question but we're asking that as well so they say a story actually heard this from my father's organs a design maybe well I've mentioned at other times that my father's a psychologist so he and told me a lot of psychology jokes growing up and he was the jokes like this there was once a guy who was not well mentally and was not well so they put him they committed him involuntary commitment to an insane asylum so finally they treated him and they were gonna dismiss him so they called him in and the head doctor that had psychiatrist says to him you're you're cured and we're gonna release you now too you know you're you're free so the guy says to the doctor says hold on a second everybody knows where I was they know that I was in an insane asylum you gonna let me out but people are gonna think I'm still crazy so the psychiatrist says no no it's okay because we're gonna give you a certificate that says that you've been treated for your mental illness and that you're better now so you don't have a certificate so the guy says oh that's good certificates so then after they let him out he used to go around to people whoever he would meet and he would say to them are you crazy and it would be like no I'm not crazy why he'd say yeah but do you have a certificate okay I didn't promise you it was a hilarious story but the point is do you have a certificate regular people aren't going around with that certificate in order in order to have a certificate that says that you're not crazy you have to have once been crazy but there's actually you know they say every joke has a little truth sometimes they say every truth has a little joke there's something deep in this joke in halakhah a star a document a legal document is presumed to be because cos Cassius it's presumed to be a kosher document meaning valid or a legitimate document but you could always challenge it you can bring a document to a bed into a rabbinical court and you can challenge the document and ask that we brought to affirm that the document is valid that's with any with any document in that that any one might use for any purpose however there's one kind of document that cannot be challenged if you bring it to the rabbinical court they will dismiss out of hand the the the objection I'll tell you no you can't object to this you can't you cannot cast aspersions on this document and what is it a document that was already contested in the rabbinical court if there's an e roller a contesting against a document in court and it made it through the process of being contested that's it now it's considered to be ironclad forever and ever and you can never contest it again so it's interesting it's sort of like do you have a certificate if a document was never contested it's assumed to be good but you could contest it but if a if a document was contested and it was it got through that process now it can never be contested ever again so that that becomes the strongest document and the same things with life what's life a life that was never threatened a life that was never challenged a life where there were never obstacles or impediments to life okay that's one level of life but then there's a life that was challenged where there were obstacles and impediments and that's really life you know the French have an expression c'est la vie you could say which means this is life but you can say c'est la vie two very different ways no c'est la vie you know what what do you want that's life you know that's the way the cookie crumbles you know the things are tough or you can say ah c'est la vie that's life or like we say but you can ah I'm a hiya you know that's life that's life means where there was challenge where there was adversity and we came through the other side and that's the cola hime you do Casella that I am the word life is an acronym Arusha Tavis Hessian you'd ma'am Kayla you sued him yam midburn and it's deaf girl Russia Tavis see in in Washington - an acronym is called the Russia Tavis or O'Shea means the heads of the words it's interesting we use the term head a head of a word it's sort of like Rosh Hashanah we don't say Feliz Hashanah at the beginning of the year we say Rosh Hashanah the the head of the year and what does it mean ahead ahead means the source head means the origin where everything else comes from so Russia Tavis means that if you look at the words the way they're spelled out fully you look at a word that it's spelled up fully or you break down little Avis you break down the a Kuna acronym and you have Kayla hail is a sick and you saw them that's affliction and yam that's the the dangerous see in mid bar that's the dangerous wilderness but that's the way the word the word is spelled out you have to look at the raw a Tavis the head of each word the head means the way the thing exists Lamia above in its Shirish in its spiritual source so even though the thing comes down here in this world as peril and adversity but if you look at the head if you look at the spiritual source you realize that these are all beautiful things and how do we how does it become revealed to us when we go through it and we come out the other side so this is the whole idea of Mahalo hey Madoka Sela what is hi am what is life contested challenged troubled life after we come through to the resolution the Baal Shem Tov used to teach the words of the PUC that a surah healy yankov only men are you Bashar it is a time of strife a time of difficulty for the Jewish people but from it he will be saved Baal Shem Tov used to Rita Ouma mana you've a Shia that from it from the surah itself the aced surah itself will bring - are you sure so instead of wanting to have an uncontested document know what I am I am is a dab of sleep in La Jolla dice the four people who have been through it and come out the other side That's Life that's Higham and now we could also answer our technical question why does the the ballot autumn save-a-ho Lahaina do Casella off for words he could have just said a Jaime a dukkha the Jolla Jaime da Casella the whole means all because all types of goodness come to us when we make it through the other side of adversity and why does it say sell o sell a means always eternal forever that once we make it through the darkness then it's smooth sailing ahead everything is good my dear friends it's difficult not to think right now as I'm sitting here at home this is a weekly Pasha share that normally we give in in in in the library here at the hub out of the five towns now I'm here in my house were all in quarantine we're all practicing social distancing we're all isolated and and and then the news is unfortunately very troubling the the people for whom were saying to heal them and then unfortunately we are there there are those whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo over the past few days we we've lost and it's a very troubling time for Claudius well it's a troubling time for the world but we have to know something we have to know something that it's an ace surah he lay yankov it is a time of adversity for the Jewish people for the whole world will that matter Ouma mana from this adversity UVO Shia will come salvation we're never going back to normal I'm sorry after this is all over we're not going to go back to the way it used to be we're gonna go back to the way it used to be after this then the whole thing is wasted that's not the point of the challah Jaime Adel Casella we're going through now are are you certain when we make it out the other side it's got to be a whole different new life no more status quo tell you about sham descent four outs vez mas at Dartmouth a race naming a hero and Nevada a sham so you see in the world today a couple of things are going on not just the corona virus but also there's a presidential primary and it's interesting among the Democrats what are they talking about a return to normalcy and they like a certain candidate because he used to be the vice president and they consider him to be establishment they consider him to be the safe bet returned to normalcy because they tightener that the the current president is not normal even those who like Trump you know will say that he's not conventional right and especially those who don't like will say you know the it's not a normal guy we got to get a return to normalcy but within the Democratic Party there's a big division because those who support Bernie what do they say normal so we don't want normalcy what's normal see normalcy is corruption normalcy it's not a system to we want know we want something completely radically new okay everything that exists in the world exists to also teach us a lesson in how to serve a sham we as cloud yourself to say we don't want to go back to normal what's normal everyone say we want to go back to our mixes and their jewels I want to tell you something that we don't want to go back to that I'll tell you why mikvah is for Tejada but what kind of Tejada we don't even have para Dumas we're never truly saw her and Fela Fela was instead of the carbonation the base of it - we don't want feel instead of components in the base of it we want the base oh my gosh we don't want to go back to normal we want to go on to something completely different it should talk to be this way that because of the troubles that were going through now we should thank you see the hole haha MEA do Casella that all of Kali swirl should have cause to give thanks to bring a carbon tither and to thank the a mr. for the trouble we've been through and for the salvation and for the the absolute new reality that we're heading into I want a bench everybody with revealed good and this whole situation should be resolved already before we can even before we know what hits us before that you finish watching this year you should get a call you should get a text you should find out that the biggest news of all is here and that the the biggest salvation that could ever be has come about and it's all because we made it through we made it to the other side