Dear Reader,
Welcome to the concise, relevant Weekly Dvar. Tell a friend,
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Nature dictates that children look somewhat like their parents,
fruits look like other similar fruits, and animals act in
predictable ways. But if that were always true, then how do the
laws of the Red cow, brought in Parshat Chukat, make sense? How
could the impure be purified, while the pure become impure? How
do these things make sense, if there is to be order in nature
and creation?
The Mofet Hador explains that we too were all given opposing
forces. We were given the Torah, which tells us of these and
other 'contradictions', and we were given the brain that wonders
about all of it. The Parsha starts by helping us deal with
these, and other issues. 'This is the law of the Torah" ...our
laws make sense, even if we don't understand them! We're limited
in our wisdom. In fact, King Solomon, who was given all the
knowledge, couldn't understand the laws of the Red Cow, and
said, "It is far from me". The logic is there, but none can
discern it, and that too is part of nature. So when we come to a
fork in our lives, and we're deciding whether to do what we know
we should or what we think we could, we should remember this
lesson: Our minds might be limited in understanding, but the
Torah's wisdom is eternal!