Year: 5766 - Behar Behukotai - audio

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- We find that the nature of נפש רעותכם וחיבה desire that is expressed in ברית בהר is an integrated element that takes both רמב"ן ואבן עזרא's approaches to the meaning of בהר ובחקתי for granted and builds upon them. We find that עריות באחרי מות וקדושים according to both רמב"ן ואבן עזרא central in the presence of both בהר ובחקתי and קבוץ ענייני הארץ.relationship of the חומרה of loss of ארץ ישראל in repetitive שמטות and rejection of creation to עריות (again with no conceptual explanation given here). We find that these two things end up becoming one in רות, where גאולת שדה becomes fundamentally related toערווה , and in which the other theme starting in ויקרא and "culminating" in הליכה בקרי becomes in רות the תיקון of literal השחתת זרע into תקון עובד as part of a whole story of תקון עריות ביבום which finally reach vindication in the acts of רות ובועז -- and become now a גלוי of what it takes to attain the שובע of רות: ותאכל ותותר which is central to this ברית ואכלתם את לחמכם לשובע, and is an expression of the way humanity experiences the sense of presence and satisfaction: both in וישבתם לבטחand in having feeling of enjoying what you have instead of merely being driven to "having more" אוהב כסף לא ישבע כסף.
We trace this back to the original שבועות: שבעים ושבע ושבעתיים יוקם קין (*equivalent of weeks and days in yovel?) into the breakdown of קין והבל – and find that the two פרשות עריות שבאחרי מות וקדושים are כנגד two approaches to life: one חיבור לאדמה and a deepening of connectedness and ownership and feeling of control over the earth (קין) to the search for finding solutions and living in the mind in relationships ( הבל) – both with different sense of עריות – but the fact is living within חק אם בחקתי תלכו and experiencing life as a continuum between ברית בשר –which is נח,'s connection to Ruth: נח איש האדמה כמו שנאמר איש נעמי that is מקור של חיבור קידושין עם הארץ is only in terms of תיקון של רות and what it means to have full relationship!
Those things come together to be שת –as מדרש מרמז becomes רות המואביה מזרע אחר out of left field -- the only thing that came out of left field and provided the real nature of עבודה which demands חיבור קין והבל: צמר ופשתים יחדיו – that עובד must come from רות!
This is true because the nature of גאולה is that which restores things to their original state but one which is a given that is in utero of גן עדן – but nonetheless the units participate in that state obviously in completely different level of identity! We relate this to the repetitiveness of history that nonetheless provides graph of the development of humanity despite the fact that the elements that need to be dealt with may be givens. This is the meaning of development of self within the context of בחקתי only there possible to have שובע נפש רעות with double meaning of desire and in the context of that to be זוכה לארץ צבי: ארץ ישראל itself.
It is this that is the תיקון קין והבל themselves because it is מייחד them into a mode of living that can provide not justכלים and physicality but fulfillment and security promised in this ברית themselves: ואכלתם את לחמכם לשובע – the nature of שמטה: לכם וישבתם על הארץ לבטח!