The Signs of a Jew - Parshat Tazria - Rabbi Kaplan on The Weekly Torah Portion

We're starting part. We got a double header this week. I made a mistake. We got a double header this week. Next week, the week after we have a break. It's Emir is only one uh is one and then so we have a 221 and a two. Two, a one and a two. But uh okay. Page 608. When a woman conceives and then gives birth to a male, she's tame for seven days. This is by Torah law. Rabbitic law instituted more safeguards, but by Torah law, she's tame for seven days. Now uh the first thing that we always want to ask is what you know nothing is random and haphazard what's the connection between this and the previous para and the previous para if you saw if you're paying attention to I'm sure you were if paying attention to the leaning so it was talking about the forbidden various forbidden foods which we spoke about last week the various forbidden foods and the the signs the animal signs and I think we spoke about it right did we speak about it last week. Maybe we didn't. I think we I touch told you about the kasam sofur about if you see an animal and you just think to yourself, I'm not allowed to eat it. It's a mitzvah. No, we the beach instead. Uhhuh. Oh, yeah. That was on Wednesday, right? Yeah. Or saw other animals. But the uh the uh the there's a sofa. It says when it comes to the forbidden animals, said there are three really three levels. Level one is where you smell non-cosher food. You say, "Boy, I really like to eat that." And the only reason I'm not is because the Torah says not to. then you're getting a mitzvah. Level two is where you see the non-cooser food. You don't really want to eat it, but you remind yourself, even if I wanted to eat it, I wouldn't be allowed to because the Torah says I'm not allowed to. That's a mitzvah. That itself is a mitzvah. Just just looking at it and thinking to yourself, I'm not allowed to eat that because the Torah says, so that's a mitzvah. And then theamur says, and this is a novelty. I never knew this. Even if you see a live animal, you see a camel and you think to yourself, you know what? I'm not allowed to eat that animal says that's a mitzvah. So my wife was recently talking about getting a pet rabbit because my uh my my grandchildren have a pet rabbit. So I told my wife this, I said, you get a pet rabbit and then we could look at it and do mitzvah all day thinking about we can't eat the rabbit. So we're not getting a rabbit. I don't want no rabbits in the house. the uh the uh uh um I was thinking you know according to theam so now I he doesn't say this this is only my my uh strange the way my strange mind works but I guess if you look at a human being and think to yourself well I'm not allowed to eat him because the Torah says so everybody you meet you're my mitzvah I am not allowed to consume you soam doesn't say that but that's what That's where the Torah Kovah goes through all of the all the various forbidden animals that we're not allowed to eat and various rodents and uh uh creepy crawly creatures and all sorts of things like that. Then the Torah starts out over here and the Mapor say that the the the uh um take a look at the first Rashi just as man's creation was at the end of the creation of all animals all creatures man's created on seventh day and sixth day. So too, the rules of a human being are also now elaborated on after the animals. The same way creation, we spoke about the animals, now we're talking about the human being. But what's interesting is that that the the uh uh when when we when we spoke about the animals, so it talks about the kosher signs that they have to have split hooves and chew their cuds. Animals have to have split hooves to chew their cuds to be kosher. That's as far as uh uh the the live uh livestock. Uh birds have a different sign, fish have a different sign. But the the question is why is that a sign? Why is the chewing of the cud and the uh split hooves why is that a sign for a kosher animal? What's the what's the lesson? He says like this split hooves represents it has to do with the feet. And so he carries over he makes a connection that it's a reminder to us to use our feet with zizus when we serve God that be energetic. It's the feet that carry us. So the the the kosher sign of the feet and exactly how he makes the distinction based on but the idea being that the kosher sign of the feet apparently if it's got split hose it represents a good more speed than if it's wound closed to I don't exactly what the symbolism is but the idea is to remind us that in a zash we have to move with what's called zeriza zusas is elacrity have to get up with energy in the morning you don't jump out of bed by the way you don't jump out of bed but you energize yourself out of bed the the I told you I think I told you once They found medically it is a good idea after you wake up to lie in bed for 12 seconds before pulling your head off the pillow. Now, what's remarkable about that is when we're lying on the pillow, what do we do? 12 words. What a coincidence. 12 words before you Yeah. And you're not supposed to just pop up and jump out of bed, but we should get up with energy. In the old days, they didn't have a snooze alarm. Snooze alarm causes a lot of cause a lot of snoozing. So, which is exactly why it's called a snooze alarm. So, the uh the uh Oh, by the way, the one I was thinking of is the one with Chichin Chong when we speak of Chichin Chong. What I was thinking about there's the it's not a song. It's that routine class class. You ever hear that one the teacher where they're all getting un she gives a yell and that was that was I think their first routine on the radio. That was before the songs. So, okay, got that out of my system. So, the uh the uh um um this the the the split hose represents zizus represents being you know doing a votment with energy. The chewing the cud represents how consistency animal chews it brings it up. Choose it brings it up. Choose it brings it up. We got we got to get up every morning and dive in and we got to get up every day and put on fillin and we got to go every day and you have to learn Gomorrah and you have to learn it over and you have to review it and review it and review it and review it. That's the that's the symbol of the kosher animal. That's what Kafi suggests. Okay. The same way that animals have a kosher sign, Jews also have a kosher sign. What is the kosher sign? One of the kosher signs is immersion in the mikvah. Because when somebody converts to Judaism, what do they have to do? They have to immerse in a mikvah to become a Jew. A woman in order to live with her husband after she has become impure, she has to immerse in a mikvah in order to even begin having a child. So the first sign of a Jew is the immersion in the mikvah. And the second sign of a kosher Jew is brief. And so you have over here that follows the the the signs of the animals. You're followed with you're followed with the signs of a Jew, so to speak. Number one. Number two, the word is the zer. So the word zar, it could also, you remember in the Torah there are no vowels. The word zar can be read as zer. Zar means to remember a uh it's a a uh a reminder or a memory. And the idea is that man was created last because he's the pinnacle of creation. Who comes into the room last? First everybody assembles, then the president walks in. The whole the whole ceremony is for the the most important person. Most important person comes in last. Man is created last for two reasons. If you're good, then you realize, as the g the medure says, if you're good, you realize that the entire creation was created for you. If you're not good, then remind yourself that even a flea was created before you. You're insignificant. Even a flea was created for you. It goes both. It cuts both ways. Being created last cuts both ways. If you're deserving, then realize you're the pinnacle of creation. The whole thing is here for you. and you enter here he is here's the star of the show and the star comes in that's if you're good zer z vilda zer she gives birth to a male is also the same word as zer meaning that we have this is only worthwhile we're only the pinnacle creation if we remember what our purpose is in life you remember that god created the world that we should serve him then it's z and then you're the pinnacle of creation if you forget about it so then you're then then even a flea even an insignificant flee was created before you. Now the um the other the the other idea here is that the entire para is going to be talking about saras leprosy. It's going to be talking about leprosy and various signs of leprosy. What's the most common cause of leprosy? Now the truth of the matter is that it also comes because of haughtiness. It could come because there's a pulse work you're going to see later a Pikachi where where where there are seven thing seven traits that God despises and those seven any of those seven could trigger off could trigger off but the most common uh connection that people make exactly what you're saying is is lush and horror. So the the the the question here again is and what's the connection to the previous para? Why does okay we'll talk about the first few sukim market the woman giving birth but they immediately get into Saras and and what what's the connection? Yeah I was going to ask but if Saras is coming from lashhara it doesn't seem like we would speak less lasheshara today than we did many years ago. Well let's wait till we get there. I'm just I'm just No, we don't. But let's let's let's because we don't but let's let's wait till we get there for a second. But the point here is what's the connection again? I'm just connecting to the previous part. Just an introduction. What's the connection to the previous par? This is something we forget. What are you saying? Well, just based on what we just said that you have to like quarantine for seven days. You're impure when you have to. Okay, we're going to see that. We're going to see about that quarantininess. We we'll see about that here. The connection is that the previous para was talking about what shouldn't go into your mouth. Now, we're going to talk about what shouldn't come out of your mouth. And uh if we were as care, by the way, if we were as careful about what comes out of our mouth as we are about what comes into our mouth, uh we'd be okay. But it's unfortunately we're not. I can only speak for myself. You know, every when it comes to cautious, everybody's all, you know, this you're checking all the they ought to have like on speech, right? Kashra supervision on speech. Just just kind of, you know, put one in our forehead, you know? you know badach you know you know put some sort of sign to as a reminder to us of of the cautious of speech. Okay. Now the um the uh um the other idea here is like this. It says ishaka says when she said the word zora literally means to to plant. You plant seeds and obviously a woman who gets pregnant the seed has been planted. There's a POS that says those who plant with tears. We say that in Shamalos. If you plant with tears, you will harvest it in joy. And that is a projection of many things in life. When you invest and you you you you break you learn a piece of Gomorrah. So Benny, you know, giving torturing the rebby over there. Good. That's what rebies are for. Don't let him off the hook. You you chase them down. Chase them down to the ground. But it's hard. It's hard. You got to work and you got to think and you got to work through it, too. But when you finally do and you put in, you invest and it's tears. It's blood, sweat, and tears yet. And when you finally get it, then I'm sorry about then you harvest it with joy. And there's nothing in life that is going to get you anywhere. I mean, once in a while, if you have a rich uncle and he leaves you a pile, so that didn't take much. That didn't take much. You know, a story about this guy. This guy's really rich. So, somebody says to him, "Uh, how did how did you make it?" How did I make it? How did I make it? When I was nine years old, I was running a paper route. When I was 14, I was mowing lawns. When I was 18, I was working in a McDonald's. And when I was 22, I had a rich uncle who kicked a bucket and left me a wad. That's how I made [Laughter] it, you know. Okay, so once in a while that happens. You buy a lottery ticket and you win. Should happen to me soon. I mean, but it if if it doesn't always work that way. It doesn't always work. Usually in life, anybody who's accomplished anything, it came from blood and sweat. That's where it came and tears. So there's an interesting, you know, it says that when Abrau marries Hagar, say he marries Hagar and she gets pregnant the first time they're together and the medish says that Hugger was thinking to herself, you know, that's Sara. I guess she's not the sadus that she's cracked up to be. I mean, here she's living with the man for 70 years and doesn't get pregnant. I live one night with him and I'm already pregnant and I don't know. I don't know about that. Sorry. There's a kasam sofur that says sure you got pregnant right away and what did you have? You had a yeshmile. To have a yeshmile doesn't take much. To have a to have a took years and years of crying and aem to earn a to get ashel doesn't take anything. to get a that's you you swed the earth with tears then you're going to harvest in joy. Parents have to invest. Person has to invest in himself and you invest. It's difficult. It's challenging but eventually a person harvests in joy. That's why it says you want to bear a male, I mean a real zar, somebody worthwhile, then it's going to have to be aim. Not all the time. Sometimes you there are plenty of women who get pregnant right away and have wonderful children. But but the the lesson is that you can't look at Senu and therefore come to conclusions that she's not at Sedakus. Look at Saru and come to a different conclusion. That's why data how do you read data over here is well I guess she's not at Sedake. This is one way to read the data. The other way to read the data is she's a very big is withholding a child because he he he values her tears in her and eventually she's going to end up with a okay idea number one on the eighth day he circumcised. Now, uh the the if you'll notice, first of all, it says there's a VV. A VV, by the way, the word VV means a hook. That's why the VV the VV in the Torah, the VV looks like it looks like a hook. It looks like a hook. And a VV means a hook. So often a VV is a connecting word. What's this VV connection? What's it got to do with what came beforehand? The answer is that the previous pik talks about a woman who gave birth she becomes a nida but that means that she's keeping the laws of need. The keeping the laws of marital purity is itself a merit that can help people to have a a a a child a boy. Not every couple that keeps does. But in other words, the value of the mitzvah itself. This is a very important concept I want to tell you. You know sometimes you see statements in the garra or in kazal. The garra will make a statement. Somebody who does this gets this. If you do give sodaka, you'll get rich. If you learn Torah, uh the Mishna period says people who learn Torah under ex uh uh extenduating circumstances, difficult circumstances will eventually learn Torah with prosperity. But you don't always see it. You don't always see it. So for explain that when the Gmorra makes a statement like that, that sounds like a um an absolute Thank you. It sounds like an absolute statement. That's not what it's not. It means if all else was equal, that's the potential value of this mitzvah. The potential value of the mitzvah of learning Torah when you're poor, the potential value of that mitzvah is that you'll learn Torah with prosperity. Yeah, but there are other factors. What about the fact that maybe one day you missed putting on fill in or maybe one day you ate enough something not kosher one day you didn't you didn't give enough sedaka it there there are other extenduating circumstances it's only you know the classic example is classic example is theor says if you answer amen rabba with all your strength and rashi says all your strength means all your kavana sometimes you get in the shaw and guys yell I don't know if you've been there you probably have sounds They got to make a braha on thunder the way these guys are and and you hear why because they learned the gar. The gar says if you answer the gummor uses the expression koho with all your might. Barachi says all your might means with all your kavana. Kavana could be very quiet also. So if you answer a mania says you merit 70 good years. How do you like that? Now there's a problem because Gomorrah also says if somebody soils his mouth, if somebody goes to a wedding, the Gomorrah says everybody knows why a bride is getting married. And if somebody soils his mouth and makes dirty jokes, 70 good years could be turned into 70 bad years. So which one is it? So a guy goes to the wedding and they have a minion for Mariff. And at Marv he answers, "A man, hey Robin, now he's got 70 good years coming." And then at the he starts making dirty jokes. Now they got 70 bad years. So which one is it? You understand? There's only au with a super computer can can weigh up here. The VV is telling you the merit of the mitzvah of keeping family purity and then she purifies herself. The merit of keeping that mitzvah can bring a couple a child. Number one. Number two, let me ask you a question and this is very very very important for us to understand this. There was a RV in a community. I think he was in South America. He was a RV of a community and the community wasn't very wasn't really Torah observant and he was you know he was a RV. A couple had a baby. Now we learn from the Torah on the eighth day prrisma is done even if it comes out on shabas and even if it comes out on rashash shana and if it comes out on yum kipper I have a grandson who had a rash shaana bris and I've been at a yum kipper bris and we learn from the now here you're doing something which is what we would call an elective surgery it's not a life-threatening surgery life-threatening surgery you do it's pikish you do it on chab you do on kiper if it's life-threatening an elective surgery you never do on chabas. Not only that, if the baby for whatever reason can't have the bris on the eighth day, say the baby is jaundest a little bit. You know, that's not uncommon. The babies are what they call yellow. They're born with a with a high Billy Rubin count. So, what they do is they they put them under the lights for a couple of days. So, and it's very very very common. Now, as long as the baby's number hasn't gone down on the whatever the bill, whatever measures the Billy Rubin, I think it's 15 on the Billy Rubin count or if the baby has an eye infection, if the has any sort of infection, which is also not uncommon, the baby develops an eye infection. There have been brises, the tables are set, the mole is there, the knife is out, and at the last minute, the mole takes a look at the baby says, "We're not doing a bris today." Because the baby may develop a fever, the baby's got an infection or something. Once a bris is put off, then you do not do it on chabas. So if the baby, let's say they couldn't do the bris on the eighth day, the eighth day came out, let's say on a Thursday, and they couldn't do the bris on the eighth day or the ninth day. By the 10th day, the baby is healthy, but it's shabas, you don't do the bris. But if it's the eighth day, comes out bullseye smack on chabas, then you do do the bris, even though it's an elective surgery, which is prohibited on chabas. Why? Because the Torah says so. Torah says this this they also bring a corban on shabas. So the Torah says this overrides Shabas. Okay. Now this rabbi asked a question to the title. The title was one of the great postk of the previous generation. Uh I think he was nifter maybe 2530 years ago 40 years ago was in contemporary. And it sits Eleazar was asked the following question. This rabbi is a rabbi of a non really non-observant community somewhere in South America and a couple had a baby. They were traditional. They were going to do a bris and the brisk came out on chabas. But he also knew that if people are going to come to the bris on chabas there going to be a lot of people driving. So he wanted to know should we put off the bris for Sunday just like you find that we don't blow chauffeur if it comes out on shabas because there was a concern people would carry the chauffeur we don't bring a do a lula estrog on shabas if you're if if you want to call it and and we don't read the migilla on chabas because there's a concern people are going to carry it so he wanted to know knowing that shab there's going to be shabas desecration He wanted to know do we should should we just put off the bricks on chabas just like you see that in the gore they put off things for the sake of chabas what would you say and why you go to shabas anyway what's that they're going to go to shabas anyway why is it it's not the br that they're coming for well I don't know maybe they'd stay home and you know maybe they hear you're causing them to come to the bris I don't know maybe they stay home and watch a football game on chabas You don't know for sure they're going to go somewhere on Chabas. Here you call that's that's part of the idea of inviting people to for the sake of Kiru on Shabas where they're going to drive to your house. Can I the argument that they're going to drive anyway? I don't know if they're going to drive anyway. I cannot be the catalyst of them desecrating Shabas. What do you say, B? Well, we were just I was just hearing yesterday that there's this concept of the eighth day being beyond tea. You know, we were getting into that within the brisma seems considering it's the eighth day it seems to be getting into that and if it's truly beyond beyond what Yeah. But their description of Shabas isn't beyond tea. Their sabas is very much within I hear what you're saying. Day falling out on the seventh. There's something beyond beyond. So okay that's true that's why we do it on the eighth day. The question is those are very interesting those are very interesting what we call inyanim you know that that's very very spiritual always overrides spiritual that means the I'll get to you one second that means the classic example is you have two people eating the corban pes there's a classic example right you have one guy who eats the corban because I love roast lamb boy am I hungry I he doesn't think a word doesn't think a thing about the corban pes he just says I love roast and one minute before katos he eats the roast lamb you have a second guy who has every cabalistic intention in eating the corbak and he eats it one minute after katos he is of he did not fulfill the mitzvah of the so spirituality is a wonderful thing but halaka always trumps spirituality now the question here is do You push off the bris because for the sake of Shabas. What do you say, Andrew? Well, the bris already is like we already said that because it's an elected surgery you're doing on Shabas anyway because it's that important. But it's not a desecration of Shabas. That's a mitzvah. And here by doing this mitzvah, you're going to cause Shabas desecration. Do you do you push it off? What do you say? Last one. Oh, it's I had I had a yes or no, but I'm going to go with the no because I think it's a no answer. And that is the whole purpose of becoming a Jew is to keep So the fact that you push it off, that's the whole essence of this person going Jew. These guys whether they see that they not are going to know that that's the purpose of being a Jew and therefore and therefore to for the good sake of Kiru. Yeah, it's got Kira. No, we don't we don't desecrate Javas for Kiru. We are going to influence them. You're saying that because of the influence on the people who will drive over and that is something that that's something we do not do. Okay. So I'll answer your question. The answer to the question is first of all we can never make comparisons to what is what the title wrote back. First thing is we can't make decrees. We don't make a decree. We don't make safeguards that the Gomorrah did not make in the time of the Gomorrah. Khazal could make a safeguard. No Lulov, no migila. No what was the third one? No Lulov. No migill. No chauffeur on Shabas. Because Khazal have that strength as a basin to make that tako. You can't go and make a takono. Number one. Number two. So therefore, you you do not have that authority with all your good intentions. You don't have that authority. That's first of all. Number two, there's another major difference. In the time of the Gomorrah, when they did make those those safeguards, that was for people who wanted to keep shabas, but just in case they'll mess up unintentionally. So a safeguard was put in. Here you talk about people who aren't interested in keeping Shabas at all. They're going to make safeguards for them. The safeguard is for Jews who are conscientious and are making every effort to keep Shabas here. There's no conscientious evidence. To the contrary, they're willing to desecrate jobs. There's no safeguard there. But that's not the main reason. The main reason is we don't have the authority to tamper. That's the main reason. They'll drive, they won't drive. That's not up to us. when we have to do the mitzvah. You don't have to invite somebody to your house on chabas if he's for the sake of kiru if they're going to drive on. That's not your obligation. It's not you're you're a here you have a son. The son has to be sacri I was going to say sacrifice. It is a by the way it's called it's called a form of uh the uh it's called a corban of sorts. the the when the mo refers to the lap of the sandic is a misbeh when he hands the baby to the father and tells the baby okay put the baby on the lap the lap is a misbeh and the baby is the corvan that's the that's a that's why it's such a it's such a and but he's right the brisma is beyond the transcends nature and it's the eighth day and everything about it but at the end of the day we don't have the authority to go and make up rules and make takas the only time there's authority nowadays a rv of a community could make rules for his community but he can't go and make a general takona for the Jewish people you know don't based we don't have that authority nowadays to make decrees for the Jewish people somebody once suggested the big rabbi they should make a decree that nobody should live on a high floor where you need to rely on elevators on chabas besides the silliness of the idea ra there's no basen today that can make a decree. Nobody lived beyond the sixth floor of an apartment. Nobody can make the idea a silly idea. But nobody can make a decree. There's no rabbitic court. a rv of a community can make a certain role in the community like you have by the and this by the way is one of the reasons I envy the uh for example uh in the by the gear they have a rule that when you make a wedding you can't have more than I think 200 guests because that way it alleviates pressure from those who can't afford a bigger wedding guy actually went to the gibe I think it was the basis he went to the basis uh and he said to ribby I'm uh you know I know that we're limited to 200 but I I'm a man of means uh maybe I could uh you know I can make a bigger wedding. said Rebby said to well maybe you should get yourself a different rebby right that's the rule he could make that rule they can make another rule in gear they have a rule I think that a couple that gets married is not allowed to buy a if I got if I got they're not allowed to buy a flat in your line for the first five years of their marriage because that puts pressure on those who can't afford it young couple you want to go buy go buy in the TV go buy in and in in in uh inad go by where where real estate is cheap but he has the authority to make that rule. One of the reasons I'm envious of the is because the when the Rebi says jump, you know, you ask how high and how long should I stay up there, you know, and therefore and and that that there's a certain there's a certain strength that the have Okay, but a RV of a Kahila could also make certain rules. A RV has had certain rules through Jewish through Jewish history. They had very strong rules in Europe before uh before in Europe. Uh the basin could actually sentence a person to a humiliation. A Jew who was desecrating a Jew who desecrated certain halas, a Jew who didn't behave properly, they put him in the stocks right outside the shul. The basin would rule that he's to be put in the stocks, you know, where you're you're you got your hands, you know, you're you're trapped and everybody walking in and spits on him. They call him push Israel. Yeah. Not only that, I think at the time of the re there's a cohen who was married a coin who was married to a divorcee and the ba in Pascin that they that they uh they have to get divorced and he didn't want to divorce the the the divorce and he's not allowed to be married to her and then what they were going to do is they were going to go live somewhere else. So the basin severed his fingers his fingertips so that he wouldn't do birkas kohan because he's not allowed to do brika as long as he's married to a to a gusa and ty gumar the garumar says they they severed somebody's hand somebody was went around punching people the basin told him to stop they find him and he kept punching people I think it was ravuna ravuna's basin they severed his hand guess what after that he stopped punching people how do you like that was it's just a flesh wound like Montipython you It was it was you know and listen you can't can't let your society's disintegrate because the guys guys go around. So the point is the point is that the title as I said we don't have that authorities now can't can't go. What do you say Andrew? Okay. So was he able to in that community enforce that you can't do the No. No. Because you you you could make rules but you can't push aside Torah law. We don't have that authority. We don't have that authority. It's a very very important concept to know. We don't have the authority nowadays to tamper with the Torah. Very important to know that that even the based we don't have a basin. We don't have that authority. The time of the Gomorrah that's when it says that the Gomorrah was a sealed book because the Talmud Bavi is a sealed book. That means that whatever they decreed and what they decreed was always with a basin. It was always a basin. It wasn't one man came along and made a decree. They don't have the right to go in and make make nobody could go and make decrees on on on the Jewish people. Okay. Now, um there's one other idea here. Why is it the you know there are 19 bras inre one of the ironies of Jewish life. It's called the 18 and there are 19 brahas. But then again flogging in the Torah is called malus aro and there only 39. But but here we have so the answer is originally there were 18 brahas then they added the 19th bra which was about the one that we say every day was the 19th one and according to some of the it was actually and the minim were the early Christians they added a braha to the men of the great assembly ly who who formulated the 18 bras a 19th brah was added about the downfall there should be the downfall of the Christians the early Christians the mean and we call it nowadays informers and all the no goodnickness now the eighth brah the gumar mcgill says what's the ethan cure us hashem heal us and the garra says why is the ethu day because the brisma is on the eighth day and the baby needs to be needs a ra that's one of the ironies the bris you say make a you make a init we make a I think they don't make a don't make a on the bris and it's a and right after the bris is finished they name the baby and then the then the the the the mo says He said give them a now the baby is a he needs a rafu. So they made the rafu on the eighth day. That's why the why the says because of bisma. That's the obvious question. There's a lot more healing after the eighth day that besides that I thought you started off well when you said there's a lot more. You started off well. What what's the obvious question? There's a lot of people that what need healing of course. Yeah, there are a lot of illnesses unfortunately in the world. Why? Because brisma's on the eighth day and and brisma is minor compared to some of the other illnesses. So why is brisma the one that they made Rafa for? The answer is because in the future in Yosa Mashiach there won't be any more illness. There's only be one one situation where somebody needs a raff which is going to be brisma still going to be around and the baby's going to need a raff from brisma. So they made it on the eighth bra for rifu for the brisma because that's the only illness that's going to be around. Okay, now we get to the nitty-gritty. Uh oh, not yet. One more. Um yeah, one more. And this is also going to sound strange. So a woman who is uh uh let's pick it up from Gibbleo. A woman who experiences bleeding under normal circumstances. As soon as a woman experiences bleeding, she becomes tame. She's a need. Here a woman after seven days of birth and four lines from the top. After seven days of birth, she now has a 33day stretch where during that 33 days, even if she bleeds, she's considered permissible to her husband. It's not regular seconds that consider the same as regular need of bleeding. And therefore, the Torah says for the next 33 days, it's what's called deahara. Uh what do they call it? Blood of purity. Blood of purity. Exactly translate that. But she's got a limitation about coming in contact with holy things. She's not allowed to enter the Bikdash, but she's permissible to her husband for 33 days. Now, let's say she gives birth to a female. Then for 14 days, she's tummy. 14 days. The male it's seven days, but female is 14 days. But then she gets a double jeopardy on the purity days. That's 66 days she's considered the blood is considered pure. Now what happens after this? We're going to come back to this after the day the p the purity period is over. She brings a sheep as a a a burnt offering. And she brings a dove or how does he translate yon? A turtle dove or young. A young dove. Young dove or a turtle dove. A young dove or a turtle dove as a sin offering. Why in the world does a woman who gave birth have to bring a sin offering? What did she do wrong? She has to bring a sin offering. Maybe her thoughts weren't so pure in the pain of labor. What were the thoughts that are not pure? You're right on target. What thoughts? He said maybe her thoughts weren't so pure. I wouldn't use the word pure. But her thoughts maybe, let's call it inappropriate. Maybe her thoughts were inappropriate. What was the inappropriate thought? Ow. Is not an inappropriate thought. You know, I was not even a thought. I was a reaction. Boy, oh boy, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I just want to tell you something. I just want to tell you something. The first time my wife gave birth and I took her into the hospital, I had seen her doing LAZ. Lamas is with the with the labor coach and their breathing exercises. What do I know? You know, I'm watching her and you know, they do all sorts of make all sorts of breathing and then they go. So I thought, you know, you go poo poo poo out comes the baby and we get to the hospital and we, you know, she's in active labor and we get to the hospital and the the lady's taking a she's she's standing there. She says she's filling out a form. The nurse is filling out a form. What was and all a sudden I hear a blood curdling scream. Ah, like that. And the nurse and it's a scream stops and the nurse says to me, "I'm sorry, was that a B or a D?" And I said to her, "What was that?" She goes, "What?" I said, "I heard somebody screaming down the hall. I expected to see, you know, doctors running, you know, blue lights flashing, code blue." I was, "Oh, that's just a woman in labor. Shalom, shalisha. It hurts like the blazes." That's what the women claim. Anyway, so the the uh it hurts. It could hurt. So, uh um um um you know, but what Okay, what an inappropriate thought. Get this thing out of me. No, that's nothing wrong with that. I don't want this baby anymore. No, I don't want the baby. Curse be the one who caused this pain. Oh, very close. Not curse be the one who causes pain. She makes a vow either internally or verbally. I am never going to live with my husband again and get into this situation. That's what the Quran says. She makes a she either thinks a vow or actively makes a vow. Now, the vow is not valid because a woman doesn't have a right to deprive her husband of his rights. But she made a vow and therefore as a result of this vow that she either thought or made even though it's not a valid vow she has to bring a corban kas that's one idea the ola also but the katas specifically is the sin offering now one of the says there's another idea here you see a woman who's pregnant now she knows she's going into a birth which very very low percentage chance but it is a you know potentially life-threatening or remember and there sometimes shown there could be complications and the baby we want the baby to be healthy we may get nervous towards the birth people who are nervous often whether verbally or in their mind they make all sorts of commitments to be good okay no more loshinhara and I'm going to beat Sneas and I'm going to make make supper is ready for my husband every day when he comes home and uh I'm not going to fight with my neighbor and I'm going to treat my mother-in-law better and I'm going to, you know, stop yelling at my kids. You know, you you make all sorts of pledge when you're in that sort of situation. You vow to be good and she gives birth and she's okay and the baby's healthy and then you're back to normal. So, there's been a she reverts to herself. For that, you need to bring us an offering. you had pushed yourself up mentally into a heightened state and you didn't follow through with it which is by the way happens to many people many times I go if Hashem saves me then I'll give I'll do this I'll do that I'll learn dyomi I'll learn dyomi and I'll I'll put in mware then then he comes through the surgery everything is okay and or the test results come back and everything's okay and then he reverts right back to himself for that you need a unfortunately that's why now why is there a double Why is there a double uh impurity period if she has a girl instead of a boy? She knows the girl will experience her pain. You're close. Again, the same way that a woman becomes impure, she just brought another source of impurity into the world, a girl will also go through. Okay, number one. Number two, if a woman makes a vow not to be with her husband, when do you think she's going to regret that vow sooner? After a boy or after a girl? Do you know there's a different braha you make when you have a boy than when you have a girl? When you have a girl, you make a wonderful braha. Oh, you brought a life into the world. When you have a boy, the brah is hatu, which is a higher level brah. Why? Because bottom line is what is it that the couple wants? They want a boy. That's human nature. It's not limited to Jews. also a boy. There's something. It's a boy. I just had a friend who now had I have a friend who who who who had a uh uh he has five kids. His oldest child is nine years old and they just had a baby after nine years. They just had a baby, a girl, and everybody was happy. Very thrilled for the couple. But guess what? If it was a boy, it'd be a major celebration. That's the way it is. I didn't write the rules. Not only that, I saw it myself. I had one one of my children, my wife had a little bit of a complication towards the end of the pregnancy. So, she had to be in the hospital on what's called Shmeirat Herayon. They have to just keep her under supervision in the hospital. So, I go to the hospital every day. And I it's the only ward in the hospital. It's a happy place to be. It's a maternity ward. And every time I'd come into the hospital there, the nurses at a certain point would be going off shift. And these are women. And so the nurse going off shift that the one coming on shift would say, "Okay, what's happening with Mrs. Goldberg? She had a girl." Masletov. What happened with Mrs. Levvin? She had a boy. Masletov. It was blatant how the nurses favored the boys over the girls. It was ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The the the and that was the women. And I've seen it in other places like when we had a babies. You go into a doctor and there women in the doctor's office. You got a little baby and there's an older lady there. She says, "Hi, what's the baby's name?" Ra. Oh, my very nice. Then she goes right back to her reading. And when a boy, what's the boy? What? What's the baby's name? Shim. Yeah. Can I Oh, can I hold the baby? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. So, a woman who gives birth, she wants a boy also. You know why woman wants a boy? Because she knows her husband's going to be happier with the boy. I'm telling you hard facts, gentlemen. And more things to fix. And what's that? More things to fix in the mail. The job. Yeah. Yeah. Well, nobody needs to work. But and I'll tell you that the truth of the matter is girls are easier. Girls are easier. You're worried about them more. But raising them, they're easier. They stay closer to home and they they boys, you know, you know, you could get a call from the police department. He's been arrested. You know, he punched a cop. You know, no girl's going to punch a cop. But girls will drive you nuts as teenagers. They will absolutely. They will actually drive you to drink, but they stay loyal and they'll take care of you when you're old. Boys are more fun. You know, boys, but boys are unpredictable. Anything could happen with boys. The woman who gives birth to a boy, she her regret of the vow will take place sooner because there was so much sim involved. So after seven days, okay, all right, well then we'll have another one. Whereas with a girl, it takes 14 days. That's what the before. And none of this is coming from me, by the way. None of this is coming for me. This is with a girl. It's with a girl is 14 days. Those are the first. Okay, tomorrow we'll start with Saras. That mean that means we got to speak some lash. [Laughter]