Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Rishon - #1- Rabbi Avraham Banhamu

[Music] para this morning hukat deals with the topic of death not only in the beginning does this discuss how to metah how to purify those who become tame but the para also deals with the tragic loss of two of our great leaders of and we'll see the connection later on but in the first aliyah we were be given a commandment what we call to take a refer to as a red heer that was never ever used in any purposes that has no blemishes fully red and it is brought to his job take this cow dita burn the entire cow add into it some ingredients hip cider cedar tree and a little bit of hip burn it and he has a person called the surf who helps him burn this and then comes the who gathers these ashes. These ashes are then used with water to metah people who have become tame. We are not told yet who or what is tame but this is what will be used for those who are tame. Those involved in the process of making these ashes with the water themselves become tame but their tum only is for one day. The aliyah then ends off by telling us that all those who come in contact with a dead body either by touching the dead body or by being in the oil with a dead body or by walking over something of the dead body. All of these people are what we call tame for seven days. And they're required to be sprinkled with this with this on day three and day seven. And only after the end of day seven are they during this time the parad tells us that during this tum they cannot come to the to anywhere kesh at punishment of ket and this is where the first aliyah ends and so here at this point I'd like to ask us to think first of all why are we dealing so complicatedly with the concept of death and then why is it introduced as hook so kazal and I just want to give it some ideas so you can think of yourself throughout the day tell us that a hawk is a more complicated mitzvah than a ceu in total between we have 613 some of those 613 are called a hook because from what tell us they're much more complicated to understand for us to understand well part of the does have to make some sense to us and we can see from over here that what really is happening is that death is probably the most traumatic thing that we go through in life that's probably our biggest fear it's a fear that we can't get over because it is going to happen to every person in this world and therefore the parad tells us this idea of death is part of life. So this mim that you're going to put upon those who came in contact with death will give you this mim. And what we're basically telling us sel is that when we do go through tragedy like death we have to go through a recovery. It may take us one day if you're associated somewhat with it but if you're involved with tuma with a dead body it may take up to seven days. And therefore, we have what we will call today a post-traumatic stress disorder where you're able to get over the death of a person either that you knew or came across and be able to deal with the tragedy of death and you continue to live with life. [Music]