Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
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From the Rebbe’s Father
Chayai Sara
Explains a Medrash!!
When I came to the spring today, I said…
24:42
Medrash Rabba Chapter 60;
The conversation of the servants of the patriarch’s household are more significant than the Torah laws of the descendants.
The passage about Eliezer is two or three columns long, it states it and repeats it. The [law of impurity of] creeping animals is one of the fundamental laws of the Torah, but the fact that its blood imparts ritual impurity, like its flesh, is learned only from a derivation based on an extra letter in a verse
[What is that derivation?] Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai says: Tameh, hatameh (Leviticus 11:29). Rabbi Eliezer ben Yosei says: Zeh, vezeh (Leviticus 11:29).
Questions
A) Why does the Medrash choose the Law of blood from creeping animals?
B) Why is the conversations of the servants greater?
C) At the end of Parshas Vayeira it states
22:23
וּבְתוּאֵ֖ל יָלַ֣ד אֶת־רִבְקָ֑ה שְׁמֹנָ֥ה אֵ֨לֶּה֙ יָֽלְדָ֣ה מִלְכָּ֔ה לְנָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֥י אַבְרָהָֽם:
Besuel became the father of Rivka. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Why does the Torah need to say the Number EIGHT Sons?
Anyone can count.
Explanation: EIGHT sons correspond to the EIGHT creeping creatures….
לקוטים על פסוקי תנ״ך ומאחז״ל ע׳ קנז
ילקוט לוי יצחק חיי שרה סימן קס
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