0648 - Hora'os In Avodas Hashem from the Situation 04

00:00 Another lesson that we could learn from the matzah the way it's now is concerning the union of tumat metar. We know there is a union of tumat metar. It means certain things are tamei. The Torah says they are tamei, and if they touch anything, it makes it tamei. And it's one of those things that is very hard to understand, and it's even more than other things which are forbidden. The mashal, when something is forbidden, you mix milk and meat together, it's forbidden. We don't see anything negative about it. With our eyes, we can't see how that is bad. We can't see how that is poison, so to speak. But we see a difference. Before it wasn't mixed, now it's mixed. So the physical mitzias we see. We just don't see why it's asur. By tumah, we don't even see the physical mitzias. Tumah touches something, goes away, and the thing is left itself. It looks exactly like it was before, no change, and nevertheless it became tamei, and became tamei that could contaminate other things and make other things tamei. And certain levels of tumah is that you can't be in one room together with that tumah. That tumas metzorah or tumas mez, you can't be in one room. And it's very hard to understand why. It's something that we don't see, and that's why it's called a chokah, or the Rambam refers to it as gezera sakasa. The fact that this is tamei is only a gezera of the Torah, and it's not-- it's

01:11 beyond our understanding. But here we have an example. We don't have a, a hasbara, we don't have an explanation why it's like that, but we have an example. Here we have something that we cannot see. It's not visible at all. Nevertheless, it's there, and if it-- that touches something, it contaminates it in a way that you can't see, and therefore it can contaminate other things also. But you can't see it. But it's there, and we see it makes a person sick, and it brings the poison further. So here we see an example to the concept of tumat metar, which was never understood. So we don't understand why this is tamei and this is not tamei, but we see that this concept is something that we find b'gashmius also. That one little thing which you can't even see and it touches something, it spreads, and it spreads further, and it could make something else contaminated, and you have to be-- can be in one room within close pr-proximity of the, of the thing. So this all gives it, makes it more real that this is in gashmius. So obviously there is a thing in ruhnius, just like there's poison in gashmius, there's poison in ruhnius. So we could see from here a certain, uh, connection that to the union of tumat metar. Now, tumat metar doesn't apply nowadays anyway. It's only the time, Beis Hamikdash time where we had Parah Adumah. But we learn about it and we know there is such a thing, and when

02:23 Mashiach will come, it'll be back. This gives us a little closer look at the possibility of such a thing. But there is in-- here is b'gashmius, there is b'ruchnius.