0649 - Hora'os In Avodas Hashem from the Situation 05

00:00 In the lesson that we take from our matzah now concerning tumah v'tahara, as I said last time, there's another detail here. But all we know by tumah, even by tumah, that it gets less and less, it wears off. The first level of tumah could be the highest level, a b'aves ha'tumah or a av ha'tumah. Then anything that that touches becomes a lower level because it's already less. It's only, it waters down, it wears off. So that's only a rishon le'tumah. If whatever that touches is a sheini le'tumah, that's a lower level of tumah. Now since it's only a sheini, anything that that thing that's tumah in the level of sheini touches, so the gabah normal things, it doesn't make it tumah because it's so, became so worn off, watered down that it's not tumah. The gabah, the din of trumah, there's even a shlishi. If the sheini touches something else, it becomes a shlishi. So the gabah trumah, which is holier, that's also called tumah. And that's it. Whatever the shlishi will touch will not be tumah for, even for trumah. The gabah kochim, the gabah beis hamikdash, I mean the kochim korbanos, even a, a shlishi touches something, it becomes a revi. And there is, there's also a level of tumah. But anything that will touch, revi, will not continue further. Nevertheless, there are exceptions to the rule. One exception is just bekitzah, not to go into the details, is that liquid which is tumah will always be the level of a rishon. Liquid

01:25 that is tumah touches something, something other liquid, that other liquid will be a rishon. And if that touches another one, it'll be a rishon. In other words, it could go on and go on forever, it'll always be a rishon. Another place we find it is that concerning para adumah and the mei chatas, the water that has to do with the para adumah, with the sprinkling of the ashes of the para adumah, there, there is more than a revi. It goes on. Actually, there's a person who gave out a sefer called Mapas HaTumah, and he has a map, a physical map of the levels of tumah that the-- and he made it so that the highest level is very red, and then it gets less red and less red till he goes down to the revi. And the revi is the most little pink, and after that, nothing. When he sent that into the Rebbe, Rebbe noted that there is a chamishi also, and to go further, that is when he gave para adumah. So the next edition he gave out, he printed the Rebbe's letter, and he made it go further. There's a chamishi. But it's always hard to understand that by certain levels of tumah, it goes on and on and on without being watered down. It's hard to understand. L'chura, as it gets less and less, as it goes further, it gets watered down, it gets-- wears off, and it should be less. Here we see an example. I would imagine that this

02:31 virus, someone, chas v'shalom, has the virus and contaminates somebody else, it's already a second level. By him, it was full, and the second one is less. And if that person contaminates a third person, it's become less again, and then less again. But it's not like that. The moment you contaminate somebody else, he becomes the first level as good as the other one, and he is-- the contamination is the same. So here we see that even b'gashmi is not always as it wear off. So that gives us a little dugma, an example to the inyan of tumah, that sometimes tumah could even continue without a stop, even though l'chura, you would think it waters down, but it nevertheless, it doesn't stop, and it goes on and on in the same level.