The Sefer Yitzira says
that the ברית
הלשון וברית המעור are dependent on each other. What is the connection? The kabbalists teach that פסח is פה – סח, in golus mitzraim
speech was in exile and it got redeemed through leaving Egypt. What does this mean? Why is milah the mitzvah that precedes
the parsha of negaim? Why
is there a law that an ערל
can’t eat from the korban pesach?
We explained here and here, that
speech is a reflective of the צורת האדם,
the force that binds all the capabilities of an individual together. The servitude that Klal Yisroel was
subjected to indicated that they lost their צורת האדם. The geulah came to perfect the צורה
and that is the geulah of the tongue.
Milah also reflects the צורת האדם. Milah is associated with the sephira
of yesod (see the Patach Eliyahu in the beginning of your
Sephardic Siddur.) Yesod is the sephira
that binds all of the other middot together. The milah is the tikkun of the yesod
which binds all the middot of a person together. The mitzvah of milah is a reflection in the body of the צורת האדם.
As we discussed over here, the rules of the korban pesach
reflect the concept of unification.
The korban pesach was the offering that transformed Klal
Yisroel into a nation. As we
explained here, the Exodus served as the birth of Klal Yisroel. The 12 tribes became 1 nation. Therefore, this theme was reflected in the korban
pesach. It is the korban pesach that
reflects the צורת
העם, it functions to bring everyone together. In order for the pesach to serve as
the glue to bind everyone together, the pieces themselves had to be complete. It is only a person who has a milah, whose
own self is bound together that can participate in the korban pesach to
bind everyone together. (See Shem M’Shmuel Haggadah that explains the milah
aspect differently.)
what is ברעת המעור? perhaps you mean קרבן פסח?
ReplyDeletesorry, ברית המעור, I corrected it (ע and י are next to each other.)
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