The Torah's Table - Rabbi Gershon Turetsky

shalom it's a privilege and a pleasure once again to be sharing torah with the koala torah cooler community in last week's parasha of pashas shimini we learned about which animals we can eat which animals we can eat what makes the animal tame what makes animal tahor and in this week's parasha pasha's tazria we learn about saras is an affliction that comes about because of the because of speaking badly about other people says what's the connection why these two in these two ideas right next to each other what you can and cannot eat and the shanhara and he explains that the juxtaposition of these two ideas is to teach us that what we can eat and what we can do we're usually so mock but about much more so than lash much more than what comes out of our mouth and how we can destroy a person literally rabbi sraslander says how we eat a person alive by what we speak about him and so the the connection between these two ideas to teach us that as makban as we are about we would go and eat something that wasn't kosher shalom we would we would eat something without a hamster we'd go into an establishment with the question of kasiras so much we also have to be very careful about allah we shouldn't speak about people in a negative way to be as careful about hara as we are about consciousness about and as we are about what we eat now i think this is always an important message but specifically now as we're about to head into being or even if we're not in the yeshiva world we're heading out into family time of pesach vacation that we're still making we shouldn't have any comments around us hospital we capture everything we clean everything fine toothed comb toothpicks toothbrushes to make sure everything is 100 kosher for pesach we have to remember that it's just as important to be very careful about what we speak around what we speak about around the umpteenth table around the shoppers table as much but as we are to make sure that what we serve at our yum and shabbos meals is 100 kosher without any hashash we have to be careful to make sure what we speak about at the um dif table that's the exact same thing 100 pure no hash of any issue i wish you all a wonderful wonderful day a wonderful week and a wonderful pesach le tova thank you very much [Music]