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0:00 welcome to this week's virtue of russia this week we have the incredible privilege read parashat and nestled in the middle of the parachute say give moshrabin who gives a review of the halachus of kasiros the jewish dietary laws and in paraguay 0:13 14 verse 11. the torah says moshirabinu conveys the clavice you are permitted to go ahead and eat any kosher bird or literally any ritually pure bird and the torah then goes on to go through the different talaq the truth is 0:27 for birds the torah identifies the birds of prey that one is not permitted to eat and through that we're able to see which birds are kosher which birds are permitted for jewish consumption rashya kadesh points out that whenever the torah 0:42 repeats halachus because we already learned the hallo host of kasras the jewish dietary laws back in parish shemini already in vayikra so rashford explains that whenever the torah reviews information there's always a kiddish there's always something new that's contained within 0:59 this section it looks like a review it looks like it's the same exact information but there's always something new so what's new in this review of the hallows of conscious of the jewish dietary laws and rashi says something amazing called 1:14 when the torah says you could eat any kosher bird what does it come to include what is it coming to teach us what new piece of information is being conveyed to come to include the bird which was sent away as 1:29 part of the purification ritual of the mizora the person afflicted with saras so let's take a little bit of a journey back to parashat sora the torah introduces us to the individual the surah who's stricken with saras and saras occurs 1:44 for a variety of reasons but most notably because one has spoken lashin hara one has spoken slander or negative speech about another individual and as such is afflicted with sauras and the torah impartial surah goes to the purification process of 1:59 the metsora and most notably the center piece of the purification of the mizora are the statesi porin the two birds the two birds and rashi points out something amazing it actually says why birds and rashid points out back in parashat's 2:14 midzora he says lefish and they go in because a person gets sarah asked because of lashing hara like the chirping of the birds and it's such an incredible comparison the birds chirp when you hear the birds chirp they're kind of 2:31 chirping just like continuously in an ongoing fashion lashenar is a person who needs to chirp and keep chirping and doesn't know when to stop chirping and doesn't know what to chirp about and what the nat chirp about so is compared 2:44 to the chirping the incessant chirping of the birds the incessant negative speech the slander of the metsora and as such therefore the metsora comes for his purification so the torah says he has to bring birds what's interesting is why two 3:04 birds is why two birds so the tsar comments on this and the zohar says something absolutely amazing and i quote to you the tsar this is our empire says begin mila says something amazing i understand why bird bird but bring 3:25 one bird why two birds why two birds the bird is necessary because of the chip of the chirping motif i understand why two birds says the zoar one bird represents the negative chirping the negative speech and one bird represents the 3:43 positive speech what does that mean and the zora sings something so profound when a person speaks lashing hara when a person speaks negatively there are in essence two averroes which are being committed there isn't a vera that a person is 3:58 misusing their quran our person is misusing the power of speech i'm using my words i'm using my words to deconstruct to cut down to hurt and to visit harm upon another human being upon another individual that's one sin but there's 4:12 another sin because at the same time that i was cutting someone down with my speech i could have been building them up at that same moment in those same moments where i was using negative words to deconstruct and to hurt 4:24 another i could have been using those same words in a positive way to build up to build self-esteem to give a person renewed co-authoring hope renewed resolve so in every single average in hara and every single transgression of slanderous speech 4:39 explains the tsar there's a dual sin there's the misuse of speech by speaking negatively and there's the misuse of speech by failing to speak positively and says the tsar that's why the metsora has to bring two birds one bird one 4:56 bird for the negative speech and one bird for the positive speech or the loss the the lost opportunity of positive speech and says the tsar something absolutely amazing the bird that you shacked the bird that you slaughter that's the bird 5:13 for negative speech that represents the harm that you did but in the torah's purification process the second bird is set free it takes flight what does it mean it takes flight that bird that's set free and takes flight and flies 5:27 away that bird represents the lost opportunity i had the opportunity to use my speech to build someone up i have the opportunity to use my words to do something positive to do something constructive in this world i didn't take it 5:42 and so i let the bird go that bird representing positive speech flies off flies off never to be seen again representing the lost opportunity of life comes parshas akev come partial and what does the torah say called sipar tahora to 6:03 you could eat every kosher bird again remember like we said before rashi says which kosher bird are we referring to it refers to if you find the bird which was set free by the mizora you're allowed to go ahead and check 6:17 that and eat it as well and i think that the torah is teaching us an incredible incredible lesson you see when mitsura lets the bird go free what the matsura is really saying is i've lost an opportunity and dear friends 6:32 too often in life when the door of opportunity slams shut it stays shut if you don't take advantage of your life opportunities they don't wait around until you're ready they don't wait around until it's a convenient time they don't wait 6:46 around until i finally have my act together i'm ready to embrace them so often in life when the opportunity flutters away it's gone forever but there are times when even lost opportunities represent themselves there are moments in life when even 7:04 those birds of opportunity that i let get away come back called sipar tahura taraki dosha tells us if you let life opportunity slip through your fingers if you let the birds of opportunity fly and flutter away you there may be 7:21 a moment where they come flying back and if they come flying back grab them if they come flying back take hold don't let it go a second time because if you're lucky enough that life presents you with opportunities again don't 7:39 press your luck by letting them go don't press your luck by letting them fly away called seaport tohora more often than not once you let opportunities go they don't fly back but sometimes they do and if they do find the 7:54 courage to grab it to consume it and to maximize it called siport if the mitsora bird of positive opportunity that got away comes flying back grab it ingest it maximize it this is an incredible lesson but i think it's magnified 8:18 even more on this shabbos of rashford it's amazing to think the end of one year beginning of another year and this bridge month and what's the avodah of khadijah you know sometimes we come to this month and you get a 8:34 little bit of like hello anxiety or even ill paralysis because like there's so much to do and i'm not sure where to start so much i want to cram into a month so much i meant to do the whole year 8:45 i didn't get a chance to do now it's hello it's almost russian and i want it i want to go into rosh hashanah with a sense of confidence i want to go into the yamaha i'm feeling that i maximized my 8:55 year but but i didn't but i didn't or at least i feel that i didn't so what do i do now in this last month and i think you know what the power of ho this is the power of elo 9:06 is elo is the month to reclaim lost opportunities elul is the month to think to myself which opportunities did i let slip through my fingers this past year what are the things that were in front of me that i could 9:21 have done that i didn't do for whatever the reason why the reason is almost immaterial a little bit right now right but what what are the birds what are the birds that i let fly away what are the birds of 9:32 personal growth of dynamic positive activity what are the birds of self-actualization that i had i had them in my hand but i let them go let me identify those birds and let me see if i could reclaim them in the 9:48 one month left to this year that's the avodah of chodesh elo to identify the things that i've allowed to slip away i've allowed to get away i've allowed to fly away and see if i can reclaim them there may be 10:06 some birds you can't get back there may be some lost opportunities that simply are beyond reclamation but there may be some that you can i rephrase that there are some that i can there are some opportunities that i did not 10:22 take advantage of that are still there for the taking or even if those same opportunities are not there there are other ways that i can make it right there are other birds that i could seize this dear friends is the 10:34 avodah of chodesh ello it's the month to think about the birds i let slip through my fingers the birds i let fly away and to figure out how can i how can i reclaim them in the months ahead maybe to 10:55 make this a month of incredible accomplishment to make this a month of incredible dynamic activity but i think most importantly we will use hashem to make this a month of call tsipar tahorah a month where we find the courage to 11:12 think about the opportunities we let fly away and to summon the guru to summon the strength to reclaim them wishing everyone a good night of shabbos a beautiful shabbos kodesh and a good as well
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