- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Vayikra
- Tazria
64
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who has an inner perspective, explains: " When she is giving birth—lit. in the hour when she is kneeling in childbirth—she swears not to have intercourse with her husband. Therefore, the Torah prescribes she bring a sacrifice." (Nida 33:2). Sometimes, it is precisely at a time when one brings life into the world, that feelings of regret and hatred of life arise within them.
Deep in people's hearts, is a constant fear that life is bad. Religions such as Roman Catholicism deal a lot with "original sin" – reality is inherently evil and therefore it is better to abstain rather than bring children into such a miserable world.
After life has nevertheless appeared, self-hatred develops subconsciously; "I am intrinsically evil and that's why I am rightfully hated". This disease actually affects the "mother" – the individuals and peoples who give birth to good. For example, Jews who justify the hatred of the Arabs and develop a kind of "auto-anti-Semitism" (some of them are responsible for the current crisis with the US); last week I got a question along the lines of, "What do we need to fix so they don't hate us so much?"
Such thoughts must be accompanied by an offering of atonement. Surely there is something to fix in the world; there is certainly what to improve in the State of Israel and in our personal lives; but the basic position is faith in our role in the world. The State of Israel is now facing one of its most difficult hours, but we do not have a single moment of regret – neither for the birth of the people of Israel nor for our own birth – "Will I Who causes the birth of everything, prevent it, Zion, from giving birth, said your God?" (Isaiah 66:9).
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