Zera Shimshon - Shmini #6 5785 - Rabbi Zvi Kahn

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The opening of this shiur, in Zera Shimshon’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] To good evening, do viet we are in the zera shimon on para shimini. Uh we're going to do ov section number six. Before we begin, we'll take a look at a puk from the para. This is peric yud puk yud. And this comes from a a little set of tsukim in which Hashem is giving special laws for the kohanim to aaron to aaron the first god aaron. So the PK says and to separate between that which is sacred and that which is secular and between that which is impure and that which is pure. Next is and to teach and to instruct Ben Israel is all of the statutes Hashem Alheim that Hashem spoke to them beyond Moshe through the hand of Moshe. So one of the jobs of the kohanim when we think of the kohhanim we of course think naturally about their work in the basan miktod they are doing the avod doing the service in the temple in the bas miktod this pusk is telling us that they also have a very special role to uh teach the laws the mitzvos and the laws and to distinguish between that which is holy and that which is uh secular. not holy, profane and between and to determine that which is pure and that which that which is impure and that which is pure and to distinguish between them. So because of this idea of havalah of distinguishing and separating between the pure and the impure between the holy and the the sacred and the profane the zerosim shown in this piece is going to talk about the havdullah ceremony in which we distinguish between certain things and we're going to see right at

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1. 0:07[Music] To good evening, do viet we are in the zera shimon on para shimini. Uh…
2. 4:37water and Hashem separates between the kohanim and the levim and Israel. The three different categories…
3. 8:59this, he created two worlds for the righteous people. He created a world called the the…
4. 13:19darkness is this world even when it's daytime and it's lit up. That's darkness compared to…
5. 17:39Monotan and the younger one Jacob Vainu counts means bases his calendar according to the smaller…
6. 22:10allowed to rest from to refrain from doing mala on Shabas. So therefore, every single day…
7. 26:31spice. And the spice called shabas, its fragrance is very powerful, very penetrating because on that…
8. 30:47the beginning of paras when hashem is uh and is it's the Torah is describing the…
9. 35:12there's a mitzvah to put a melt on each one of the corbonos. And this is…
10. 39:27say Hashem's servants in this world need to be pure and they need to be separated…

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