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Bo - Learning to Feel, Once More

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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This is David with the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you a little insight into the para and this week's para is of course para's bow and in parha's bow we are told to the carbon pesak and take the blood and put it on the doorpost and put it on the lintil of your doorway to basically paint it in blood and we have that pik that we say at the sa bidaya By the blood you will live. The blood of the carbon and the blood of brisma. When you think about it, there's a lot of blood in this story, more than I'm comfortable with cuz I tend to get a little squeamish. We have obviously makasdam. We have parro bathing in the blood of babies. Hashem gave Moshe a separate sign for benefel to take water and pour it on the ground. and it'll turn into blood. There's a lot of blood here. There's another theme that you're going to find in these parios and that's and in this week's para on the words of right the medish says I made his I made his into a into a liver. Well, that's a strange idea. I liverized his heart. What's the difference? So when I was learning form, one of the things we had to learn was malika where before you can eat meat, you have to soak in salted in order to take out the blood. But there are two exceptions. One is a heart and one is a liver. A heart does not absorb blood because it's a muscle. So all you have to do is make a crisscross, empty out the blood, rinse it out, and you're done. A liver, it's filled with blood. You can't soak in salted, you'll have nothing. I had a rebby who his father was a butcher. And one time his friends were hungry, so he went down to the butcher shop and got a liver. And they figured, well, you got to soak in salt and they soaked in salt. And when they were done, there was just a bucket of blood. It's all blood. You have to grill it on a fire to be able to remove the blood from it. But you can't soak in salted. So I took something that never absorbs blood, a heart, and I turned it into a liver that always is absorbs blood to the point that it's a lump of blood. What does that tell us? It tells us that the heart is kinetic. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. If it absorbed blood, it would slow down. Boom, boom. Heart failure is because water is gathering around the heart and slowing it down. Boom. Boom. Yeah. And liver does nothing. It just lays there. It's a filter for your blood. But it's just a lump of blood. He says, "Go to pyro. He's not going to let you go because his heart has become like a liver." And the med makes it clear. He still had free choice, right? The med says he made his heart like a locked door. But you can, the Leo has a whole beautiful piece on this. He says, "But you can open up a locked door." You know, find the key, get a get an axe and knock it down. He could have, but he had gotten so used to oppression that his heart, which should have had emotion and feeling, became like a lump, like a congealed mass. There was no more feeling left inside of him. And so in order for us to get out of it, we had to do a bris or is from a word satum. It's related to the word sealed and closed. We had to open it up. And you see there's a concept of mal. Open up your heart. Learn how to feel. Learn how to be alive. And that's why the Egyptians and pyro had grown dead emotionally and they had no more feeling and no more meaning and they had to come back to life. That's what we have to do in order to be saved. And that's why writes that the garin suka says first mashiach bin yose will come and then mashiach bin David. Why? Because Yoseph is compared to the heart and Yehuda is compared to the head. The Messiah is not going to come intellectually with our head. It's going to come emotionally. When we circumcise our heart and learn to feel again, then we can bring the gula. Chabas.