Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Chumash Insights: Parshat Chukat - Part 2

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

yeah let's go we're gonna go to pet for 840 that's where we're going to go from yesterday we uh we we looked at the concept of the red heifer the this incredible Paradox that it makes people pure and it makes people impure depending on uh whether you're on the receiving end or whether you're on the giving end um then over here that the tour is going to talk about who becomes impure what is this impurity was it coming from if it comes from you know it comes from touching a dead body um but let's let's go there's the particular verse I want to deal with verse number 14 over here um yeah very good it says like this is so the simple understanding of the of the possible over here is coming to teach you that if somebody dies in a tent or any kind of a building the spiritual impurity that's generated by Death is going to permeate the whole area anything that's covered right so if you've got somebody who dies in a tent it doesn't matter how big the tent is it doesn't matter which part of the tent somebody else is standing in they're going to become spiritually impure by the fact that this the roof over the dead body is now going to circulate that spiritual impurity the truth of the matter is today because we don't have a red heifer so we all of us are in a state of spiritual impurity um probably all of us are in the state

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1. 0:10yeah let's go we're gonna go to pet for 840 that's where we're going to go…
2. 3:56the heifer was added into all the other red heifers that were subsequently used for this…
3. 8:12what does it mean other key maybe it's the answer somebody who kills himself someone who's…
4. 11:54it's Hashem if you leave the Yeshiva and you go and establish your homes and you…
5. 16:03it the beauty the beauty of what's going on over here is which even inside is…
6. 20:25missing right do you see it in the description or to give you a little bit…
7. 24:09they come and they gather around I still want an interesting idea Thomas again we're back…
8. 28:24they're saying any other way to die would have been preferable than dying like this we're…
9. 32:10gonna die and everyone's gonna go into the land of Israel but hold on a second…
10. 36:24authorities which means you you now sound like the native you start looking like him and…

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