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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Tazria-Mesorah: The Divine Paradox of Tzaraat and Humility 4.17.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  A little bit more of your theme of a two-part shot with RiRi
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  this week, Taziria Mitsuda and they have different aspects.
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  They begin talking about when a woman gives birth, she has tumaa
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  talks about tuma nidah that she keeps away 7 days.
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  And then it says that there's something called the Mila for a
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  baby boy on 8 day goes back stuck with the woman's stronger
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  degrees of two mile that lasts for longer days.
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  And then it goes on to Sadat people having leprosy.
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  What the Gemara tells us, there's an argument.
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  Is it completely miracle or is it a miracle would be a
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  punishment or or is it a natural?
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  There's such a thing called natural leprosy, Absolutely.
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  But is it not referring to something that's miraculous?
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  We assume it is. And then we talk about the fact
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  that we punish a person and we make him deem him tamer,
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  etcetera. I want to talk about just an
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  overall theme about Sarat and that's like this Basuk's in the
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  middle basuk in the second pair. If I devel Hashem speaks to
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  Moshe and Arun. Arun is involved in everything
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  when it comes to set out Adam and the person has in their
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  skin, in that flesh said to a sapah to beheaded different
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  forms of blemishes by our board, the surround and they get set
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  out. It might be leprosy, vuva de la
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  arona Quan. He's brought to our own or he's
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  brought to the Qani. This topic is decided by the
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  Qani, whether he's pure and pure, whether his leprosy is
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  something that's concerned or not.
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  But our Qan at the Nega, the Qan sees the blemish border beside
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  by Basar on his body and looks at it and sees the white and
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  sees the depth and he says tamih, he looks at it
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  differently. He says not Tamih.
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  The client says set aside for seven days, we'll look at it
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  again, we'll revisit it again. If it spreads, the person's
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  tamih. If it doesn't spread the
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  purpose, it remains the same, he's told.
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  So the Basu is speaking about the status of a person getting
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  this leprosy and going through this process.
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  So there are two questions. Why the punishment of leprosy?
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  Where's he coming from? So the camera tells us multiple
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  options of sins that would cause this sort of miraculous
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  punishment. You think about it.
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  It's not common for the Torah to have such a punishment.
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  Every other punishment is administered by God, clearly, or
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  administered by man clearly. Be a Dean down here, Arshan.
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  This is some way in between. It's obviously God, but it's
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  something that a person just walks around us with as if it's
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  natural starts off. He doesn't get stricken from
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  from he doesn't get lightning. He doesn't just have me topic
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  this your mind. He gets instead this natural
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  occurrence of a punishment on his body.
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  So why? Why this level of punishment?
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  What's the cause? So there are many different sins
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  that they give out mentions really 7 to the exact that can
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  cause and deserve a person to get this punishment.
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  What are the big I say the big three.
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  The big three are one is Ashuhara, that's the most famous
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  one that's considered the most acceptable.
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  Speaking about other people triggers this punishment #2 is
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  being arrogant person being arrogant and #3 is something
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  called sareai. Sareai means I don't want other
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  people to have success. I want to have it all to myself.
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  I don't want other people to have from my money.
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  I want to have it all to myself. I am negative to other people's
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  success. I'm only happy with my own.
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  That said, I it may be jealousy, it might be horrible keeping
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  everything for yourself, but that's the third family three
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  big three right now. Why does a person get Sadat?
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  And again, why is it decided by the Cohen?
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  So here's the thing. Here's I'm saying that I have
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  Sadat is a blemish on the body. It's visible, it's noticeable.
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  You know what happens when someone gets that noticeable?
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  It's embarrassing. He asked you a little bit back
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  away. In fact, he's sent away what he
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  has to set out. He's told to get out of the
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  camp. There's Pusha, his
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  embarrassment, his separation, his loneliness, his forced
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  humility, Right. So in other words, here's a
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  person who was arrogant. We said that's the cause of sin,
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  building himself up. Here's a person who put down
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  other people to La Shanada. Here's a person who didn't want
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  others to have success to today. I am, he thought.
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  I'm the man. He's building himself up.
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  He's trying to have Cavalt. He's trying to have prominence.
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  He's trying to be bigger and better than everyone else and
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  put them down. He's trying to force the
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  situation to make himself into a big deal and put everyone else
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  aside. You know what's happening.
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  He's being put aside in the fight and face everyone else.
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  He's trying to force Cavalt and put other people down and lift
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  themselves up. I think it was successful other
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  people. And what's happening is that
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  he's is that he's being put down, he's being ashamed, he's
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  being embarrassed. He's walking around with the
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  blemish and why by the quantum. That's the idea.
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  Thank you. That's the idea.
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  Idea is, is that in Mitzaral was someone who is trying, whether
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  on purpose or not, inadvertently to put other people down, to put
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  himself up. And the outcome is exactly the
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  opposite. He is put down, embarrassed,
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  ashamed, backing away in front of other people.
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  The term is Mitsura. Mitsura means motzira, says the
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  Gemara. He's trying to bring out the
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  better of the people. You know what happens?
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  Motzira himself, he brings out the better himself.
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  And why are the Qaani? The Qaani are the ones and then
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  says say Qarnim, it says our own and his sons.
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  It doesn't need to be our own. Any Qarnim could do it.
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  He says our own and his family. The reason that's the case is
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  because the Qarnim, Aram specifically, was a man of
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  Shalom. Arun created Shalom and the only
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  way you could be a man of Shalom is if you're willing take
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  yourself out of the picture, humble yourself, build other
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  people up. Our own's creativity in Shalom
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  was that he would say so and so they're in a fight, you don't
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  have to upset you, they're not really upset you.
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  They like you and he would just make it up and fix it up and
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  create a situation of peace. Shalom requires taking yourself
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  out of the picture. Ardon was the man of that.
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  His chosen we hope for they did follow suit and that's the way
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  of a clan. So according to that, we use
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  them as the representatives to decide whether I'm Tamir,
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  whether I'm tired. What's that?
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  Because they're looking at my outside and I'm sure they're
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  also looking at my inside and they're saying, am I, am I still
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  a guy that's talking about other people or did I get the message?
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  Am I still a person that's embarrassing others or did I
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  realize to stop And to realize that you have a far better off
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  in life instead of hurting and talking and impacting other
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  people negatively, trying to build yourself up, do the
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  opposite and you'll get success. I'll segue this right down.
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  My Sonic Shineman that we'll close is that we just learned
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  one of the stages of humility. And he says one of the main
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  stages is when someone gives other people cover it.
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  It's a main level of humility. And he says we know this that
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  takes humility to do so, but it's also very smart business
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  because when you build other people up, in turn you just
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  build yourself up. And that should be our way and
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  that should be our recognition. Mossida Mitsura tried to harm
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  other people. And the fact it's going back on
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  him and it is the reality. If he doesn't get the message,
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  he can have Sarat on his body or his clothing or his home.
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  More and more visible Can you can hide your skin, can't hide
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  your clothing. You can hide your clothing,
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  can't hide your home. Right.
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  And the idea is, is that a person tries to embarrass
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  others, he will be embarrassed first and somewhat of a national
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  miracle, then in an open miracle, then in a very open
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  miracle. To prove this point, our better
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  way forward is, as a Jew, to be part of the camp, to lift other
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  people up, to be there for them, to support them, to encourage
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  them, to make them feel good, to talk about them in a positive
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  light. And you say, how am I harming a
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  person if I talk in the backroom about people in negative light?
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  All gets out there, right? And all Lashontov is out there,
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  too. Speak Lashontov, pick all the
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  people up, and that's the message about pressure.
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  Let's talk about this.