Parashat Shemini 5778 - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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aw being silent that there's really four types of categories, four gradations of uh of objects that exist in the world. The first and the highest and the most elevated is of course that's which means alive human being that's capable of communicating and capable of speech and that's the highest level of the creation that exists. That's really the pinnacle of creation was the creation of man. And as it is known when a person um communicates a person could could be offended, could be harmed. And the offended, could be harmed. And the natural reaction to such a thing would be to fight back, to respond back, to be uh defensive, to defend oneself. And uh that is the t typical response of of a that's then you have the category of that's just a living being but doesn't have that ability to communicate in the form of speech like we do and that's the animal life and the different uh different types of species and all the other things that that associate with that and those are called kai because if that and those are called kai because if they were to be attacked or they were to be aggressed against then they would also defensively fight back. As we know, if you try to take a cub away from a bear, then that that bear will not be too happy. It will respond aggressively in in response to saving its its own children or itself from from an attack. So that's the how about the the is the plantation, the vegetation, the trees that that live. If a tree is harmed, it won't respond. It won't fight back.

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