Year: 5767 - Tazria and Metzora - audio

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- We come to recognize that תזריע\מצרע is a direct continuation of ויהי ביום השמיני (not coincidentally opening with שמיני של מילה!) and takes: 1. the idea of הבדלה which is the response to violation of boundaries in שמיני to a new level in which הבדלה becomes not just the recognition but the definition of the state of צרעת and 2. the עניין of what appears to be malfunctioning and אין שמחה ממתנת בשמיני and turns it into a recognition of the malfunctioning of the physical processes – that lead to the very things we appreciate, including down to the level of the cellular processes and level of צרעת – and views that as part of a deeper level of insight into the nature of processes! With the first process we could recognize even as a simple linear process leading nonetheless to וי which leads to רפואה (for as it is known there is no רפואה without oy vey and thus no תקון העולם without oy vey). But there is a much deeper sense here: it is talking about a process that is not linear but rather information acting upon itself -- information in dynamic state which is the nature of dna, the way in which בריאה as a whole is constantly acting back upon itself rather than being definable as a simple linear process or algorithm – and it would be as if not infinitely more absurd to confuse תורה with that type of information as it is to confuse the output of a linear computer with the consciousness of a human just because said computer has "learnt" to pass the Turing test!
The result of this is the nature of דעת is profoundly linked to our sense of the massive confusion and complexity of this information, requires just as much an understanding of טומאה and darkness as it does an understanding of טהרה ואור – and therefore the height of the development of תורה is דעת: סדר טהרות!
This סדר טהרות goes ultimately go back all the way to תקון הלבנה אור הגנוז שנגנזה בתורה שבעל פה and is only נתגלית with the recognition that information consists of immediate experience (what we call consciousness) rather than in weak attempts to duplicate it by attempting to break it down and linearize it and confuse תורה as something that can give conception הוראה without it's being understood as a constant ongoing process that lives in its dynamism as our minds themselves!