Rabbi David Kaplan - Philosophy of Mitzvot: Laws of Impurity

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Okay. So, let's go on. Tomorrow we'll talk a little bit about Rosh Hashanah and Breslov today we'll today we'll continue with the mitzvahs. Um And mitzvah number 186 178 is a bit of a technical mitzvah from the Torah perspective, but it does have a bearing on us. It it the the mitzvah is a man can have a flow. Some sort of emission that comes from a male which is called a zav. It's not exactly a seminal emission. It's something that a seminal emission. It's something that the Torah says is similar to a seminal emission. There are those that say nowadays it's gonorrhea. I don't know if that's if that's accurate or not, but that's what they say it is. Gonorrhea is is a form is what the Torah is referring to what says of. Be that as it may, the technical law is that depending on how frequently and and consecutively a man experiences it will determine what level of tumah he experiences it he he he becomes if he experiences it once if he experiences it once if he experiences once he's tamei if he experiences twice it's a higher level of tumah and he experiences it three times and it's within a certain period then he actually has to bring sacrifices as an atonement for it. Now, what it comes from is that what what is more important than the than than the it's more relevant to us which is it comes from what's called habitual overindulgence in food. And the Torah is teaching us that that um if it happen only happens twice that

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2. 4:19forbidden fruit. What's the point of even giving the command? What's the point of telling me…
3. 8:21is not to maximize our pleasure within this obstacle course called Halakha. That means you're missing…
4. 12:28restaurant famous restaurant in New York. They have like one of these $20 all you can…
5. 16:29that a man and this is no longer applies by the letter of the law. There…
6. 20:33an expert in French opera. I remember thinking to myself, you know, you know, I don't…
7. 24:38there was another mishteh that Esther made as mentioned several times, which is where the mitzvah…
8. 28:44much a central feature of the Shabbos table because otherwise nobody's going to come to the…
9. 32:47that attracts attention, then she's also missing the point by the spirit of the law. It…
10. 36:51which was 420 years, there were over 300 Kohanim Gedolim. Now, if you knock off Shimon…

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