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Portion Mezhorah
 

 
 Matters of Torah are written in four parallel layers. Every verse in the Torah can be interpreted by: literally, hint, Midrash, and the secret. The commandments dealing with practical matters, they have the hidden and inner layers of these.

This week's reading deals with ways of purity and impurity, impurity of leprosy and gonorrhea impurity. Gonorrhea impurity is considered serious, gonorrheal defiles the things he came into contact with them. The Torah says: "and pottery which touches it gonorrheal - would break, and wooden tools – wash in water."

Language of the verse means that apparently; if gonorrheal touched pottery from outside have to break it. Our sages interpret, touching only "behind" (i.e., outside) is not impure the pottery, but only if the gonorrheal raised pottery or impurity entered into pottery, then must be broken pottery.

This law implies the relationship between man and the business world. Pottery made ​​of dust, implying a person, who also made ​​from the dust. The 'tools' that, i.e., the person, comes into contact with the business of this world, which can catch him. The Torah says: As long as the negatives stick man "behind", from the outside, they cannot defile the essence of a Jew.

So G-d created man, whose body had to eat and drink and engage in other worldly needs, nature has the pleasure of them. Work in the world does not break the body, but G-d's work must be done by the body, and the person to do any physical body and world affairs that he had come into contact with them – House to G-d.

Therefore no person's fault that in his world, stuck in this world's affairs and it's not 'defiles' it (though eventually he will have to clean those things).
But there are things that are not part of the natural course of life in this world, and it is symbols like impurity gonorrhea (which is not a natural thing and routine, but a disease.) I.e. spiritual meaning to the person himself stimulates desire (more than instinct by itself is confusing and disturbing.) So you could think of such impurity unclean person even touch the outside.

The Torah teaches that even this serious impurity cannot harm the essence of a Jew - Jewish unless allowed impurity 'move it', that is, to shake the whole essence, to which has no connection to holiness. As long as impurity only touched the exterior, is not defiled. Just remove the dust covers and conceals his true desire and the nature of his soul, and discovered his inner desire, every Jew eager to be part of the people of Israel and do all the commandments.

 
 



     
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