Parashat Tazria 5779: Connecting the Parshiyot - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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The parsha starts off Ish ki tazria v'yalda zachar. If a woman conceives and she will give birth to a boy. And this concept of hazra'a the hazra'a means really putting in the work just like a planting of a seed. Takes a lot of work. First you got to go ahead and you have to work the land, make sure that the land is plowed properly. You have to plant the seed, you have to water it, you have to always constantly be taking care of it, making sure that everything is right conditions. It's everything is right conditions. It's probably uh uh providing the proper nutrients for it. Everything has to be done with a lot of focus and a lot of energy. That is exactly what a person's job is in the world. If you have to summarize it, Ish ki tazria, it's constantly that planting, that nurturing, that making sure that everything is done the best of our capabilities and that's what it says in Tehillim. Hazor'im b'dima b'rina yiktzoru. When one plants with toil, with tear, with energy, then he gets to with tear, with energy, then he gets to the harvest and it's b'rina and it's with joy. And that's the type of mentality a person always has to have. And when a person is mazria, Ish ki tazria, the concept of Ish is Ish is always in reference to Am Yisrael. Knesset Yisrael, the whole nation of Am Yisrael is referred to as a woman in relationship to the to that uh bond that we have with Hakadosh Baruch Hu. It's a bond between a male, Kadosh Baruch Hu and a female Am Yisrael. And that is Sha

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