Shnayim Yomi - Emor - Sheni - #2- Rabbi Meir Gavriel Elbaz

[Music] Second aliyah. In the beginning of this aliyah, the Torah describes the blemishes, the mumim that cause a cohin to be invalid for service in the beta mikdash. The Torah is a whole list. What's interesting is that although the Torah makes it seem that when a coin is blemished, he can't do any of the service in beta mikdash. That's not entirely true. If you look in the in the second of the brings it down in even blemished who could not perform the service in mdash were given a special job. They were given the job of going through the wood for the to go through them to make sure that they weren't wormy or infested to make sure they were adequately dry. And they would go through it piece by piece and chop it up to make sure that it was for the Torah means to tell us a very important lesson here. Even when there are certain li limitations when a person can do in how he serves the certain times a person can't participate because of whatever the circumstances are. But every Jew no matter what has a seat at the table. There is always something to be done. You can always contribute to in your own special way even when the Torah says that they're invalid. Found something that theim could do in the beta mdash in spite of those limitations. So that's a tremendous lesson for all of us. Never get down about what you can't do. Ask not what you can't do for your nation. Find out what it is that you can contribute. And that's the lesson for us all. [Music]