Made for Order - This shiur explores the centrality of Vayikra and the way in which all Torah is defined by the difference between vayikar and vayikra which Adam experienced in Ma’aseh Bereishis – i.e., his initial kriat shemot which involves the same behemoth as in Vayikra. This difference ends up defining all Torah at its close as well, by distinguishing Moshe from Bilaam. It impacts how human beings experience their lives in down to earth ways, such that vayikra is an experience of things that happen within the context of an overall life which otherwise could not be taken as something worthwhile to profoundly invest in, because an infinity of alternatives could be conceived of that would have offered the same potential for emergence into one’s self.
This issue is the essence of what Torah comes to address, completely redefining a person’s middot and how he relates to the most biological of things – animals outside of himself (food, korbanot) and the animal which is himself (the history of his own development). It turns out that Moshe’s approach differs from Bilaam’s in terms of understanding the Universe as a place of creation of information and participation in a brit which involves becoming part of the process of developing Creation. This turns the keri and happenstance in which the present is experienced into a history of growing order, which is the only way to conceive of the Universe as it is.
(MY) We explore the centrality of ויקרא and how כל התורה כולה defined by the difference between ויקר vs ויקרא as part of the experience of אדם himself from מעשה בראשית, where his קריאת שמות is of the same בהמות that ויקרא involves and which ends up defining כל התורה כולה in its close as well: the difference between a בלעם and משה! We then see how that difference impact the way that humans experience their lives on a down to earth and day to day basis: ויקר is the experience of "things that are happening to me" within the context of a life overall , which cannot be taken as something worthwhile to profoundly invest in because I can conceive of an infinity of alternatives that would have offered the same potential for emergence as myself!
We then come to see that the תורה regards this issue as the essence of what תורה comes to address: that it completely redefines the way in which a person is in his מדות – and is actually dependent on how he relates to the most biological of things: animals outside of himself, which are used for eating for קרבנות – and the animal that is himself, which is how he relates to his own development!
It turns out that the difference between בלעם and משה is the difference of understanding the universe as a place of the creation of information and the involvement in ברית as becoming part of that process of the Development of Creation which turns the קרי and happenstance into growing order which is the ultimate Participation and mutuality in the world as it is!

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