Rabbi Yitzchak Botton – Shares how the most confusing and contradictory mitzva of the Parah Adumah actually uncovers the meaning of life. What is the mean of life? Helping others. Why? Because we are all one. Love your fellow as you love yourself.
Rabbi David Kaplan – Shares about the upcoming weekly parasha (Chukas) – some interesting tidbits including:
The story of Dovid Hamelech (King David) and how he tried to protect himself from the Angel of Death by learning Torah and where it’s alluded to in this parasha.
Keeping our eyes on the long term benefits of doing the right thing and living the right way. Being mocked for being religious Jews but a life of meaning shines through over time.
Not everything in life has to be understood.
Shlomo Hamelech (King Solomon) and Moshe Rabeinu and their lack of understand and understanding of the Red Cow mitzvah expressed in a pasek. Pasek Yud Zion (840 9 lines from bottom) – take from the tamei person the ashes of the chatat – first letter of word latamei, and subsequent words spells limoshe jumble letters it spells shlomo.
Also, two different ways to purify oneself – mikva full immersion otherwise is doesn’t take vs. red cow water only a drop that nicks your ear makes you pure. Represents full change versus a bit at a time – different types of teshuva.
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz – Shares about the weekly parasha (Chukat) and the deep meaning of the unexplainable commandment of the Red Cow.
Personal Thoughts – Enjoyed the background stories of this sometimes very complicated and dry subject matter to make it interesting which increased my desire to learn about it.