PHYSICALLY Spiritual.

one two five Keith oh boy welcome to the late person show our Holy Land of Israel is blessed by God with seven specific types of produce wheat barley grapes figs dates olives and pomegranates in abundance and remarkable quality in this week's Torah portion we are given a special Mitzvah called B curve that one the first of each of these seven species grow we are to bring them to the Temple Mount to the temple to the base of mikdash with a proclamation of thanks to God thanking God for bringing us to the land and making us successful in working the land but know unlike any other offering we do not offer this basket of produce up on the altar we place it next to the altar but then it is given to the priest and the priest eats it there are other offerings which the priests Ephraim but they don't eat the whole entire thing part of it is offered up on the altar this the beaker in this basket none of it is offered up on the altar it's all for the priests to eat and I'm not going to eat this because I'm not a priest and because it's made of glass there is a motive being that a lot of us live in that's basically all about escape elevating oneself out of the mundane physical world I want to fly away up to God holiness and corporal reality are antithetical in this mode the only way that they can work together is if the physical stops being physical if you offer it up as a sacrifice take the physicality out of its form and make it spiritual then it's holy but the physical itself yeah burn it the decorum have an even more special element precisely because they are not burned up by the fires of the altar but rather eaten consumed by a physical being like me and you straight up the priest eats it the pker teaches us anything that we are not commanded against as graceless as it may be by you using it in a Jewish way you are fulfilling it and your purpose of existence so like if I nicknamed my television of gold burbs and watching TV becomes my purpose no but there's the idea of taking an animal's hide and from it making a Torah scroll or filling and then there's something that seems way more crass and mundane eating the animal and that physical act if done as a Jew if it's kosher if you make a blessing if you eat it on Shabbos that is physically spiritual may we all immediately see the beauty of the physical and spiritual fusion here in God's world with the revelation of mashiach now [Music]