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Resolving the Struggle of Identity

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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the second half of parshas mini or the end of Parrish mini deals with laws known as to Ma and Tyra which has translated as spiritual impurity or spiritual purity now most of these helices not all but most are not very practical don't have much relevance and application in the Jewish daily life living today but in the times of you are they were not only practical but they were an essential fabric they were an essential component of the daily rituals and behaviors that governed Jewish life just as today making Shabbos cleaning a house for Pesach cooking supper doing the laundry keeping the house clean part of the day-to-day life style of the Jewish people revolved around the halacha of Touma antara of purity and impurity meaning if a person or a vessel or clothes or food or drinks came in contact with a source of tumor source of impurity it would affect them and affect their conduct so for example especially in the days before there were hospitals somebody passes away in a home which was obviously very common people died in their homes so everything in that home anything that's under the same roof under the same tent would become immediately Tommy would become impure any person who was their vessels that were their clothes that with the food there was their drinks that were there now you say okay so it's impure the problem is of the person wants to go

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