Year: 5770 - Tezaveh - audio

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- We recognize that the פרשה is not just about זכירה (so much the idea of פרשת זכור and the זכירה that destroys עמלק) but is also the פרשה about בגדים – which is so central in the story of שאול and עמלק, in the חמשה חליפות שמלות in the עדיים of הר סיני lost in כפה עליהם הר כגיגית of theעגל in the המן העץ of אדם הראשון himself naked and in the מעשה בראשית that was created by He who is עוטה אור כשלמה!
Therefore the concept of שמחה which is the שמחה of אהרון הכהן in the expression of uniqueness which becomes the מזבח הקטרת which itself is the nature of שם, the individual name of each human being. The עבודה of אהרון הכהן לדורות of giving the special moments to each person to such an extent that we come to discover the significance of our selves and our own individuality. Those things are fundamentally linked to בגד and זכירה and specifically linked to בגד which is something that can be taken off and put on just as our lives can, just as we ourselves so easily take on a new life and in which we see no contradiction in leading multiple lives within a short span of time – and more profoundly see no contradiction in leading a single life out of the infinity of Life which is Us. The choice of taking one’s own skin seriously such that בגד becomes a mode of protection – or the primitive approach of taking קעקוע which is so deeply connected to עבודה זרה where someone looks at his life as the ultimate reality where in fact it is the מקרה – just as מעשה בראשית if it were not בגד could not exist as sprinklings of life –there would be nothing but ונשגב הש"ם לבדו without any place for כבוד for the individuals who are the whole purpose
So too does פורים provide us the תקון of אסתר who is capable of taking off her clothes and being anyone for anyone therein lies the תיקון of שאול, the תיקון of what we feared in קבלת התורה the כפה עליהם הר כגיגית and leads us to קיימו וקיבלו, in which each human life is יקר. Learning in זכור that only the significance of others and ourselves is the essence of פרשת זכור and שמחת פורים.