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0:00 welcome to this week's virtual drasha this week we have the incredible privilege to read parashat and embedded in the many beautiful and incredible lessons of the parasha moshe i mean reviews the laws of kasras the dietary laws and so the 0:14 torah says speaking about birds cult see part tahorah parikh parikh dalit passage of chapter 14 verse 11 you shall consume every pure bird now it's important to understand khomarim general is a review of things that mosh rabinu had taught us 0:33 earlier on during our sojourn in the desert but as rashi points out every time moshe rabbenu reviews something and it looks like he's restating something that he had stated before there's usually some new novel idea that is being expressed here 0:48 so remember again back in hamish vayikra in parish shemini we already learned the dietary laws laws we already learned the laws of kasras so what is mosh rabbin adding in over here by saying called sipar to hora sohelu again parakeet 1:00 dal and passage of chapter 14 verse 11 you shall eat every pure bird we already learned the laws we already learned the laws of the birds we already learned those laws of castras and rashi says something very interesting rashi says 1:12 called sipar tahura so what does it mean you shall eat every pure bird it comes to include the bird that was sent away as part of the purification process of the metzora incredible we know the minsora the masara is the 1:30 person who's stricken with this malady we loosely translate it as leprosy but leprosy is an actual physical ailment was a physical ailment that was really the manifestation of spiritual sickness so the gemara suggests that a person contracted sarah's a variety 1:47 of different reasons perhaps most notably amongst them los a person slandered a person spoke negatively about another whenever i maligned another individual other human being another jew that's symptomatic of an internal spiritual sickness that sickness bubbled up from inside of 2:03 me and manifested manifested itself in lesions on my flesh sooner that the torah says that when the mizora when the person afflicted with sarasota through his purification process he brings two birds one of the birds is shaktid is slaughtered and 2:18 one of the birds is set free so rashi says over here what is the torah coming to add when it says you are permitted to eat a kosher bird atar a pure bird it means that if you captured the bird 2:31 that the mizora had sent free if you went ahead and you captured that bird that the matsoda had let go as part of its purification process and you capture it you're permitted to eat it it's a kosher species you're permitted 2:43 to eat it very interesting but raises a number of different questions how would you know it's the midsolas bird why would i think i couldn't eat the missouri's burger in other words once it's released into the wild then of course 2:54 all bets are off but perhaps the torah dosha is coming to teach us an incredibly profound lesson because if we go back a little bit to speak about the mesorah why does the metsura bring two birds right now rashi points 3:09 out that the reason why birds are part of the purification process of the mizora because saras as i mentioned before comes about primarily because of lashin hara slandering negative speech ill speech about another and what is that it's like chirping 3:25 like the birds chirp chirp chirp they're always chirping so the person who speaks in the heart is always chirping sipo rimra she says chirping like a bird so to highlight the deleterious nature of his actions he brings a bird you 3:41 chirped like a bird you spoke lush and haru you couldn't stop talking so therefore part of the purification process of the matsura ultimately again is the bird but why too and why one that's slaughtered and why one that's set free 3:56 and rashi says over here i understand the one that's slaughtered is because at the end of the day i'm i abused my speech speech is the greatest gift that is given us in fact creates man in the taurus breathed a 4:13 life into the nostrils of man explains that what is life what is life speech speech is what separates us from the rest of the of of all the other organisms in the world it's true animals communicate other life forms communicate 4:30 but no one has speech to hadeeb or the power of speech like we have and so therefore again the metsoda comes along he brings his bird because the bird representing the constant chirping the constant talking the mitsura abused his speech 4:44 and so what does the matsura do he slaughters the bird he slaughters the birds symbolizing he slaughtered your speech you destroyed this gift you went ahead and you were given something so beautiful the power of communication the power of verbal 5:01 articulation the ability to translate thought into and into sentences into words to express a sentiment to express feelings to articulate intellectual thought and you abused it he slaughtered it and that's why he slaughters the bird but why does he let 5:18 one go free and here listen to the words of azar the zara kadus writes something amazing this alright i'm going to quote to you begin mila bishop because he misused his words his negative words so as part of his punishment was 5:34 and the purification was he slaughters the bird symbolizing the fact that he slaughtered he abused his speech begin mila tavidika and why does he release the bird see the bird that he releases that bird also represents speech that represents the 5:52 lost opportunity of speech meaning what that in those very moments when the masoda was abusing his speech and using his speech to deconstruct and to demolish another that's the hate that's the avira but the idea of the sin is compounded 6:11 by the fact that in the very moment i was abusing my speech and deconstructing and demolishing another i could have been using my speech in a positive way to construct to lift up to elevate the other instead of shinhara i 6:27 could have been giving compliments instead of slanderous words i could have been building up another person's self-esteem instead of deconstructing i could have made a person feel like a million dollars and the tsar therefore says these are the two birds 6:41 the bird that's slaughtered represents the misuse abuse the slaughter of the gift of speech and the bird that's released represents the missed opportunities the opportunities that got away in those same moments when you were abusing your speech you could have 7:01 been doing such incredible things but now that bird got away that bird which represents the boards represents positive speech see what the zora is saying is when a person commits an average this is true with really any sin every sin 7:15 almost has this duality to it on one hand i committed an advaira on the other hand in the moment i committed an advair i also could have been doing a mitzvah so every average every sin represents this compounded double loss 7:29 the actual negative activity and the loss of the opportunity in that same moment with those sim cocos to do something good so the missouri slaughters one bird representing his abuse of speech and has to release the other bird representing the 7:42 lost opportunities i could have had to use my speech in a meaningful beautiful and uplifting way so now we come to parashastra and what does moshe talk about you could eat every kosher bird every pure bird and ashes what does 7:58 it come to include even the bird that the matsura released and perhaps what rashi is coming to convey to us is something amazing you see when the matsura releases that bird that bird as i mentioned before represents lost opportunities you 8:13 could have been doing good i could have been doing something meaningful good and uplifting and i lost the opportunity it got away but sometimes in life you can recapture your opportunities see sometimes in life when you fail to take an 8:26 opportunity that's in front of you the door closes and it can never be reopened right once opportunity is there and you don't take it it moves on to someone or somewhere else and very often in life if you don't find 8:41 the courage to grab opportunity when it's in front of you by the time you decide you want it you're interested in it maybe you have time for it it's often gone but there are times in life there are times in 8:51 life when you can recapture lost opportunities and so most of it was telling israel we all miss opportunities in life but be on the lookout for the opportunity maybe that you let go by maybe it's circling overhead called siportahola because 9:10 sometimes you can't reclaim your lost opportunity sometimes the things you said no to or you didn't have time for sometimes the doors that you close when you realize oh my gosh i just let something so beautiful go by sometimes if 9:24 you open your eyes and you open your heart those opportunities are still there to be reclaimed sometimes the bird of lost opportunity is circling overhead and all it's waiting is for you to grab it and this is such an incredibly 9:39 important lesson especially now this shabbos parachute is sunday sunday monday and you know elo the power l has so many different aspects to it and so many different dimensions to it but i've often thought you know what the real power 9:56 of l is ello is the opportunity to reclaim the released bird because all of us almost a year ago this time made so many promises we're going to do this i'm going to do this i'm going to do this initiative 10:11 i'm going to change this behavior i'm going to modify the way i act in this particular circumstance and hopefully we've accomplished a lot of those things but chances are if you're like me you didn't get a chance to do many 10:22 of the things that you said you were going to do and when i say didn't get a chance just didn't create the opportunity to do the things that really need to get done see when i look back on this past 10:34 year i realize that there are many beautiful birds that i let go from my hands there were many opportunities i had to change many opportunities i had to grow many opportunities i had to accomplish many opportunities i had to actualize 10:50 the promises that i made to myself and that i made to the ribanus a year ago this time last rosh but i didn't but i didn't but comes and the power of l is there's still time the power of elo 11:12 is look up and you'll see those birds of opportunity circling overhead you didn't make the changes you wanted to make this past year there's still time you haven't actualized the goals the dreams and aspirations you had last year there's still 11:26 time you haven't made the lifestyle changes or the personalistic changes you promised yourself and you promised the rebalancing you were going to make there's still time you know the gemara says everything in life is determined by how you end by 11:45 how you close it out l is the last month of this year lol is our opportunity to do all of the things that we said we were going to do but we just didn't have the chance or didn't make the 12:00 time to get to ll is the month when we could reclaim the birds we've let go ella was the month we could reclaim the opportunities we've let pass by called sipa tahora to sometimes in life when you close the door 12:16 of opportunity it's no longer there when you want it but so often especially during khodesh elo the birds of opportunity that we missed during the year are circling overhead maybe to reach up to grab them to take them to utilize 12:31 this sacred and holy month to accomplish the things we still need to accomplish in this year and pave the way emirates hashem for a beautiful year to come wishing everyone a good and heir of shabbos a beautiful shabbos kodesh and 12:45 a good khaidesh
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