Rabbi David Kaplan - Philosophy of Mitzvot: Ashes on the Alter

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all right we are now on a series of mitzah that are have to do with the uh the service in the b in the Michigan and uh as I've mentioned numerous times the the M the the the interesting thing about these mes are that they they have so little to do with us on a practical implementation level even if the base of English was standing because these are all limited to the kohanim yet they are enumerated in the 613 and that means that we have to try to figure out what the mitzah is speaking to us because the Torah is speaking that the Torah is from Torah is speaking that the Torah is from an expression that the Zohar says the word do you anybody know what the word Torah comes from what's the word Torah related to instruction very good H H which is teaching Torah comes from H H is the concept of educating Moret is a teacher and is also one that one that that that that that uh gives you uh Direction and that's what the Torah is for so the Torah is not there I mean even you look at the book of braus there are only three mitzah in the entire book of braus so what do we need all the

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