Tazria/Metzora – Blessings in Disguises
The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
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Cabalistic Piece - Adam's Naming
The benhoada wrote the bensa, and he asks this same question. And he says, i want to give you an answer based upon the arisa. The idea behind it is as follows: An animal is a mixture of good and bad. It has what the cabalists call the clipa, the bad parts of it. By naming the animals, he was perfecting them. He was separating the good from the bad. Therefore adam was not allowed to eat meat. Because the only reason why you would eat the animals is to bring the animals towards their perfection. These animals were perfect because adam had already named them. And thus separated the god from the evil, from
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