Celebrate Your Strengths - Parshat Emor - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi welcome to the para and five we're in five minutes we try to give you insight into the paraa suitable for framing we uh talking about Pas emor now Andor kohanim we learned about the kohanim and we learn about all the special laws of the Kahan and the things that they do and the things that they get and all kinds of nifty things like that but you know not everyone can play some people are disqualified HH they are a Coen balum and they have a defect it could be a unibrow it could be that their left handed yeah whatever it could be their Mican arm yeah but they're balum and therefore they don't get to participate so what did the Bal mum do well the balum when their uh time came to work at the Bas Mikes they went into the woodro you don't need a kosher Cohen to do that Cohen who's able to do the avod they would examine the wood that was going to be brought up on the mbak to make sure that there were no wormholes in them um okay it's not up there with catching the D and The Miz it's not up uh bringing the pieces of the carbon up on the M it sure ain't offering up thear but it's a job that needs doing and a person does it so listen to a MIM that describes a cohain balum and that's how he's described there was a cohain balum and he was working in the L woodro and he figured out where the iron was hidden because he noticed that one of the tiles were different from all of the other tiles and he says oh my gosh I know where the Aron is hidden one of the tiles is different and before he could say where it was he died now there were hundreds of Kahan in the room before him hundreds of behind him in the room after him nobody noticed a different tile because he defined himself by his handicap he was a cohain BAL mum and he thinks to himself yeah yeah I'm just a BAL mum I don't get to do the real aod in the Bas of mikdash I'm just sort of here in the wood room looking at these wood yeah cuz that's all I'm good for because I'm a cohain BAL it wasn't necessary to imagine he was a Cohen balum you could just have said he was a cohain in the in the woodro but he saw himself as different and because of that he saw everything as different and he was the only one who noticed the one imperfection in the tile that was different from all the others because since I see myself as a balum i see everything as a b and therefore when you see yourself in a negative light you thereby extend it to everybody around you hence the kazal tell us if I call someone an evid it's probably because I'm an evid if I call somebody an it's probably because I'm anit it's the it's my own defects that I project onto other people if a person has a positive outlook on life there a story in the first Chicken Soup for the Soul and this guy who gets into a motorcycle accident and becomes a quadriplegic and they say he was always a very happy guy and he says how could you be so happy and he says I used to be able to do 20 million things now I can only do two million things so I could focus on the 18 million things I can't do or the the two million things that I can do he refused to see himself as a BAL he saw himself as doing what he could with the abilities that he had and so each one of us should celebrate our own K and greatness instead of focusing on where we fall short everyone should have a good shabas