Rav Berg Zohar Chukat 19870716 edited 2017
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The red heifer.
What was the red heifer about?
The Torah says
that in this combination of taking this red heifer,
it must be red, very clearly,
it must be 'parah'
it must be a heifer or a cow
'temimah', without a blemish
faultless,
again if you were to read just the translation
it's totally incomprehensible
because it says already 'temimah'
now if you know what 'temimah' means in hebrew,
it means faultless, means there's nothing wrong with it
and then what does it say?
It has no blemish.
Well, of course, if it is 'temimah', then obviously there is no blemish.
Why is there a repetition of the word?
And because on the ox or some other work animal,
you put a yoke around it, so you stir it or pull it and so on.
On this animal, there was never
presented upon her all.
The purpose of the heifer according to the Torah
was to remove uncleanliness.
What the Torah is telling us here is this
that like people
we describe as some people, "Oh he's so negative"
"He is very positive".
What are we implying when we discuss
someone being negative and someone being positive?
What does that mean?
It means that this person is actually channeling
negative vibration or negative fields of energy
and a positive person is transmitting,
emitting positives fields of energy,
so that even exists by an individual.
But the difference is that an individual has free will and choice
to either once act as a channel for positivity
or act as a channel for negativity.
The animal kingdom has no free will.
They have been designated as
positive channels or negative channels.
We learn from the Torah
that the ox or the 'parah'
is the channel for negative energy
What is 'tamei'? We've said that this is coming to cleanse
Cleanse, if we can use that word, but it doesn't mean that.
It means rather to restore a circuit of energy.
When a person becomes 'tamei'
it means not uncleanliness
it means he has become short-circuitness.
He has now generated an aspect,
you know, if you have a flow of energy,
there's a completeness, like in the bulb,
the moment short-circuitness takes over
what do you have?
Darkness, closed, opaque, you can't see through.
The person has become closed,
Closed to his detriment,
because we usually know a person who is open-minded,
a person who can see things all around him,
can then take it all and come to some form of a logical conclusion,
but when we discuss an individual who we say, "He's close-minded"
Is that a liability?
Of course, it is.
When he's close-minded meaning
he's not taking all of the facts that are presented in his daily life
taking them all together, trying to understand all of this factors.
Because what would the accountant tell a business man who fails?
You forgot to take into account this, that or the other thing. So he failed.
The same way as people fail in their life for the reason
or had I known this or had known that.
The question is why didn't you know
because you were closed to a certain extent or to a certain area.
This whole aspect of the heifer
was to open up the individual
to remove the 'tamei', remove that opaqueness,
to remove that close-mindedness
so that you can see almost from beginning to end
the whole picture, like when you want to build a building.
It's only a fool who would say
I'll plan the 84th floor without planning the foundation.
He's got to see the whole building
not to see the conclusion, the 84th floor,
because he may never get to the 84th floor.
Understanding what makes things work the way they should
they chose the red heifer. Red and heifer and not to have any blemishes
What does it mean there is no,
because anything that can disrupt the flow of energy,
which is all that this is about,
which in any way can disrupt the flow of energy
would not produce the desired result
which would be what?
Restoring a complete flow of energy.
So the red heifer is not something we do not discuss.
On the contrary, the Zohar discuss it in complete detail.
When we hear, the reading
via that scroll
and the purpose of this world, you know what that does
it takes us back in time
when there was this heifer
when there was this form of restoration
for those who for whatever reason have created negative
flows of energy in their life and
have created short-circuitness in their own life.
How do you restore it?
How do you again provide an influx of energy
not to be drained, not to be burned out?
Is by listening to this particular reading in the Beit Kenesset, on Shabbat
because you go back to the time when this was established
and at that moment you are drawing,
not to the physical extent of what to place there,
but you will be drawing the equivalency of that kind of energy
when you connect via Torah to this energy.
So the reading of this section is not merely
to just reveal another part of the Torah,
which seems to be meaningless for must of us today
but actually to connect to that procedure
and that procedure was the most powerful restoration of energy
of anything that even the High Priest could have established.
The restoration of energy even that the High Priest.
On Yom Kippur, he did not restore energy.
He was a channel to bring down that kind of energy
but the restoration of individual energy for the individual
was the red heifer.
So this was the significance.