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Shnayim Yomi - Metzora - Sheni - #2 5782
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Featuring: Rabbi Mordechai Shifman Emek Hebrew Academy Teichman Family Torah Center Los Angeles, CA https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2-compressed-1.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
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second aliyah
pasha's masora
second aliyah describes the third
process
that the mizora has to go through in
order to divest himself of his
saras tumor the tumor that comes with
the affliction of saras
and the torah talks about the bringing
one of the corbonas is known as the
ashram the guilt offering
that the cohen shechts
the carbon ashram the guilt offering
and takes the blood
from
the carbon and applies it to the right
ear mid-ear
the right thumb and the right big toe of
the metsora as part of the purification
process
what is fascinating is that we don't
find this process repeated in any other
situation in the torah except for one
the case of
the inauguration of a cohen the cohen
who is based on his actions and his high
standing noble standing in society has
been chosen to serve in the basa amigdas
has to go through
a process of inauguration and involved
in that process is the exact same
procedure taking blood from the shafted
animal applying it to his right ear his
right thumb and his right big toe the
question is what is the connection how
can we compare the kohen who is the most
noble elite individual
in claude israel
to
this mitsora who is the outcast who has
been singled out be thrown out of
society leaving all game of macha
nozzling all three camps and now he's
trying to make his way back what is the
connection
we know
that every single individual has a
deep
yearning
to
feel self-worth because he wants to feel
valued he wants to feel like he's a
success that he has worth
now in secular society
the way
this is uh attained is through the
promotion of competition
competition is the forum by which we
gauge ourselves vis-a-vis our fellow man
if we can best him we can be better than
our
colleagues that gives us a sense of then
we have attained success we have
attained self-worth by being better than
the person next to us unfortunately this
manner of gauging ourselves is fraught
with great dangers we are never truly
encouraged to fully develop
to be all that we ourselves can be and
furthermore instead of applying
ourselves and developing our talents and
actualizing our potential
we sometimes choose a path of least
resistance the easy way out is that we
can elevate ourselves by stepping upon
others putting others down and uh we can
delude ourselves into believing that by
being that we feel we're better than
them that gives us a sense of self-worth
now
the opposite is true very often instead
of feeling accomplished
right we will feel empty and we don't
feel that sense of fulfillment that we
are looking for and very because very
often also the most talented and the
individuals have the greatest capacity
will be it will feel the greatest void
when they are uh when they are have that
sense of not being fulfilled and we find
that usually the ones that have that
talent to put people down the cynics the
ones that are the bali russian horror
are also usually the most talented
individuals yes they're using their
talent unfortunately in a way
that is not going to give them the
fulfillment they desire
that is really the motivation very often
of the ballot
puts people down
because he's searching his own sense of
fulfillment now
if
this baalosh and horror has chosen that
path to get fulfillment clearly saw that
path led him to be singled out as an
outcast the torah is teaching us that if
you want to feel special and you want to
feel that you are
separating yourself as an outstanding
individual take a look at the cohen the
cohen embodies self-accomplishment
developing his potential he stands out
in society in a positive manner so
therefore and that is being highlighted
the inaugural process the inaugural
process that he goes through highlights
the individual this is an upstanding
individual you the baaloshin hara you
want to be you want to have that sense
of fulfillment you want to be singled
out and somebody special
use the cohen as your role model the
process of the cohen is
is mimicked by the midsole
because now he's coming back to society
and you have that still that deep desire
to feel self-worth copy the coin use and
actualize your your your talents and and
and your potential in a way that will
make you feel special in a positive
manner not in the way you did in the
past which laid you down to in a path of
self-destruction
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