Tazria: When the Wind Blows | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and huru. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning as we are studying together. We have a double header this week and today's class will be dedicated byem for the safety for the protection of our brothers and sisters in Israel for the wildfires. Hashem should um calm them down as we see um what's going on in Israel. our hearts and our prayers to in the land of to in the land of Israel. We um the tells us in that all of these things, the wind, fire, uh all the elements, they're an extension of and Hashem should bless Hashem should accept our to calm down the fires to keep all the people in Israel safe. Amen. My friends, I would like to actually talk today and share with you a midrash that has to do with one of the midrash that has to do with one of the elements. We know that the four elements fire, wind, water, and earth. And believe it or not, this week's paras discusses one of these elements and how it connects is in a very wild way. The pas says in this chapter 13 if one day a person finds on his skin these are three different types of skin these are three different types of leprosy okay now leprosy is not precise but we use it as leprosy there is something called it's a skin disease that the Torah tells us actually our rabbis tell us it has nothing to do with uh any physical symptom. It has nothing to do with a physical uh it's not a physical sickness. This is a spiritual disease. It has physical symptoms, but it's a punishment. Our rabbis tell us for different sins that a person does. Not

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and huru. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning…
2. 3:02physical sickness this is something deeper is what's causing this these right the symptoms are physical…
3. 6:51where after doing the great miracle on on car to prove to everybody that hashem is…
4. 9:56to have weight means strong so we're saying here that the wind was very strong without…
5. 13:32south. But what if you had a wind that came from the north, south, east, and…
6. 16:40I can be tempted. I can do a sin desire. But they don't crush the human…
7. 20:16be satisfied. You'll have a lot of blessing, a nice house, good car. You build your…
8. 23:18You're going to give in. The people on Yov's boat, they weren't bad. On Yona's boat,…
9. 26:52other gods. And this is the wind of heresy. Very dangerous wind. person who just throws…
10. 30:05seven years for Ibrael and very clear, after seven years were up, he throws in Lei…

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