B”H Friday, 8 Tammuz 5781 June 18, 2021 Issue N897
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ОТРЫВКИ ИЗ БЕСЕД РЕБЕ Всплеск эмоций В начале главы Торы «Хукат» дается закон о красной корове. Пишет Рамбам (рабби Моше бен Маймон): «Девять раз была исполнена заповедь о красной корове: впервые Моше (пророком Моисеем),
затем - Эзрой, и еще семь раз от Эзры до разрушения Второго Храма. В десятый раз совершит ее царь Мошиах, да явится он вскоре, амен, да будет так!» Продолжение на стр. 2
Where There’s a Will There’s a Why Why do certain people find satisfaction in Judaism while others are bored stiff? Why is faith exciting for some and irrelevant for others, a joy for one guy and an absolute burden for the next? One fellow cannot imagine going to work without first putting on his tefillin and the other hasn’t seen his tefillin since his bar mitzvah 40 years ago. This woman can’t wait to get to shul and the other can’t wait to get out. Why? This week we read about the ultimate mitzvah of
faith, the Red Heifer. It is a statutory commandment whose reason still remains a mystery. I must admit, to take the ashes of a red heifer and sprinkle them on a person so he may attain spiritual purification is, indeed, rather mind-boggling. According to the Midrash, the Almighty promised Moses that to him He would reveal the secret meaning of this mitzvah, but only after Moses would initially accept it as a Divine decree. If he would first take it on
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Our Rabbis: Rabbi Yisroel & Henya Karpilovsky Rabbi Zalman & Tamar Shuchat faith, thereafter rational understanding would follow. The truth is that there are answers to virtually every question people may have about Judaism. Intelligent skeptics I meet are often amazed that what they had long written off as empty ritual is actually philosophically profound, with rich symbolic meaning. But the skeptic has to be ready to listen. You can hear the most eloquent, Continues on a page 3