tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post6080174707702571686..comments2024-03-28T23:20:49.777-05:00Comments on Beis Vaad L'Chachamim: Chukas, Bamidbar 20:1-2. The Life and Death of Miriam: Role and RecognitionEliezer Eisenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-45288631575856078402012-07-13T16:21:25.718-05:002012-07-13T16:21:25.718-05:00Yasher Koach! If you'll look at the post, you...Yasher Koach! If you'll look at the post, you will see that I incorporated your comment, in preparation for the time that I move everything over to my own website.Barzilaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-30525957772528068422012-07-13T14:49:59.441-05:002012-07-13T14:49:59.441-05:00You have stated before that you appreciate hearing...You have stated before that you appreciate hearing what others have done in response to the verter you post.<br><br>I appreciated this insight into the Gemura in Moed Kuton, and I thought that the homiletic reading of to the Gemura in Horios was also a nice touch. Thanks for sharing this.<br><br>I tucked it away in the back of my head for a year, and then I was asked to speak to a group of camp counselors last week, Parshas Chukas. (In my small town, we have a day camp, and every year we bring girls in from "the city" to help out.)<br><br>Anyway, I mentioned this insight, and I amplified it by describing the intricate arrangement that was needed to make the pura adima possible (See the Mishna in Pura about the cave in NE Yirushaloyim where women went to give birth and raise their childern in a state of taharah until they were big enough to ride on top of the doors strapped onto the backs of oxen ...).<br><br>I said "Who were these women? These children?" We don't know. Their names aren't recorded. But every avodah in the Beis HaMikdash was made possible by their mesiras nefesh outside.<br><br>I also pointed out that while the kohen gudol was sequestered for seven days prior to Yom Kippur, and sprinkled on the first and seventh day, the person who burned the pura adima was sprinkled each of the seven days. I said that the avoda outside the BH"M, which is the preparatory work without which the avoda inside the BH"M would not be possible, is more precious and more sensitive to taharah. The mishna says that even those who carried the clay jugs to the cave for the children to carry became tamei after handing them over. Our dealings with gashmius, when dedicated to making possible dealings with kedisha, are the arena of tuma and tahara in our lives.<br><br>(By the way, in order to post to this site, I have to activate image rendering in my web-browser.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com