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How can it be that I am aware of the danger of the omicron and the cells of my body don't know this yet? The answer is that my body isn't me. My body is only like a garment, as our Sages learned from the verse "You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews." (Job 10, 11). The skin and the flesh, the tendons and bones are like changeable apparel, and they are not my true self. It is also written in the Torah on the oil of anointment "on the flesh of man it shall not be poured" [Exodus 30, 32] This means that the flesh belongs to the man, and it is not the person himself.
As well as changing clothing the body changes and renews itself all the time, over 100 million body cells die and are replaced every minute in our body. The billions of dead cells that were a part of me in the past and today they're dust aren't the real "me". The "real me" – that is my soul, which is why there there's a gap between what I know and what my body knows.
In the end, the body also understands what we understand from the beginning. And then it will heal itself much better than any doctor. It will initially send the scouts of the immune system, cells which are now called NK - Natural Killer - an inherent exterminator. These cells recognize with astonishing genius the infected cells, drill a hole in them and eliminate them. Afterwards the cells themselves learn to recognize the viruses and do not allow the viruses to enter the cells and to use them to reproduce and to damage the body.
Even the vaccine which was developed with extreme effort does not really cure the disease. It only speeds up the schooling of the body's cells to recognize the disease at an earlier stage, but really everything is built on the supreme wonder which God created in our body. The ability to cure diseases. Actually, that's the way it is in all diseases, whether a minor wound or a bone fracture. The cast does not restore the bone, it is only designed to give the body the opportunity to adhere the broken bones better.
Healing is therefore a part of the miraculous creation of God, and doctors only help this process to take place. This is an opportunity to thank God for the great wonder of the marvelous creation of the body. Truly the Healer of all flesh, Who performs wondrous deeds.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
Chief Rabbi of Tzfat. Son of Rishon Letzion RH"G Mordechai Eliyahu zt"l.
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The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
Chukat "HOW ENTEBBE STOLE THE BICENTENNIAL
The Difference Between Historic & Eternal"
As we approach America's 250th birthday, it's worth remembering her 200th Bicentennial birthday, on Jul. 4th 1976, when Israel "stole the show" by shocking the world & miraculously saving 101 hostages in a foreign continent. As Pres. As Pres. Trump decides which countries get priority in his new Middle-East, it's worth reminding him of the difference between historic events and eternally historic ones. This obviously connects with this week's parsha, as well!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 6 - The Parable of the King of India
The advantages of testimony over circumstantial evidence or philosophical speculation.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.
