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Project Likkutei Sichos — Shemini 5782

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — Shemini 5782. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. This is especially notable in light of the maxim that “there is no tzaddik on earth who does good and does not sin”52 — at the very least, sin {‫ }חטא‬as connotong a “deficiency.”53 He is lacking; he didn’t perform his avodah as it should have been performed,54 or at least not perfectly; and consequently, he must make amends for the deficiency in his avodah. Eliezer Danzinger Content Editor: Rabbi Sholom Zirkind © Copyright by Sichos In English 2022 ○5782 A note on the translation: Rounded parentheses and square brackets reflect their use in the original sichah; squiggly parentheses are interpolations of the translator or editor. PARSHAS PARAH AND PARSHAS HACHODESH In the Jerusalem Talmud, it says:1 Logically, the reading of2 parshas HaChodesh3 should precede that of parshas Parah,4 since the Mishkan was erected on the first of Nisan and the heifer was burned on the second.5 Why does parshas Parah come first? Meaning, first, we read parshas Parah, “to enjoin the Jews to purify themselves, in order to offer the pesach sacrifice in purity,”6 and afterward, we read parshas HaChodesh, “which contains the laws of the pesach sacrifice.”6 From the wording in the Jerusalem Talmud, “because it is the purification of all of Israel,” it is clear that the purification of the red heifer is important to all Jews. It is also understood from the context there that since “it (the heifer) concerns the purification of all of Israel,” our Sages instituted that parshas Parah be read — and this enactment applies to all Jews — before parshas HaChodesh (although “logically, the reading of parshas HaChodesh should precede that of parshas Parah”). 2 {Our Sages instituted, that beginning from the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Adar, an additional Torah reading be read after the weekly Torah portion: On the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Adar (or on Rosh Chodesh, if Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbos), we read parshas Shekalim, which details the laws of half-shekel donation that all Jews had to give toward the communal sacrifices. On the Shabbos preceding the reading of parshas HaChodesh, we read parshas Parah, which details the laws of ritual impurity that results from contact with a

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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23 марта 2022 г.

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15

Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary