Parshas Chukas (5767)

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Parshas Chukas (5767)
by Mordechai Dolinsky

It is common knowledge that the area of tumah and taharah belongs to the category of Torah that is beyond our sense of logic. There is a meaningful and significant medrash in our parsha (19:8) that crystallizes the idea. “Lo hames mitamai……the deceased doesn’t defile nor does the water cleanse. Hashem Himself designates the status.

Our whole Torah is nothing more than the ordinances of Hashem. The other areas have some aspect of logic and human understanding. Perhaps this area of tumah and tahara, defilement and cleansing, was selected to strengthen the concept that the very essence of the gift of life is solely in the hands of Hashem and to inspire us to keep us in the state of constant awareness of this principle.

Have a wonderful Shabbos.