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This week, we read Parshas Tzav, Leviticus 6-8. A korban todah-thanksgiving offering was offered by a person who recovered from an illness, freed from prison, or crossed an ocean or desert. Chasidus describes these four instances as the process by which the soul comes into this world.
While the soul is in its source, it experiences unbounded G'dliness. It feels the loss when forced to leave that realm. This causes the soul to feel "sick" as it desires to regain that revelation. As the soul descends, it becomes affected by the "imprisonment" in the physical body. There is the possibility that while the soul is in this world, it will "drown" in the turbulent waters of worries of livelihood and may eventually find itself in a barren "desert" void of spiritual meaning.
The Almighty administers an oath before the soul comes into this world, "Be righteous and do not be wicked." This oath satiates the souls and imbues it with the necessary tools to traverse its course in fulfilling its mission in making this world a dwelling place for G'd.
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Once, when the Rebbe Maharash of Lubavitch was traveling through Berditchev, he saw a group of elderly Tolna chassidim carrying buckets of water and scrubbing the walls and floor of a little shul in preparation for a visit from their Rebbe the following day.
When the Rebbe asked them why they were doing all the work themselves instead of letting the younger chassidim help them, they answered, "We are doing this ourselves because we want to have healthy angels to assist the advocating angels who come out of the tekios, the blasts of the shofar."
"You know the Yehi Ratzon that is said after the tekios of Rosh HaShanah — the one that mentions 'the angels that are formed from the blowing of the shofar, and from the tekia, the shevarim, the teruah, and the tekiah, (kshr"k),' [the identifying letters of the Hebrew words that signify the various sounds of the shofar]?
Well, one Rosh HaShanah the holy Rav Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev said: 'Sweet Father, compassionate Father! Just in case the angels that proceed from the shofar that Levi Yitzchak the son of Sarah Sasha has just blown are weak angels, let their place be taken by the holy, healthy angels that were created by the toil of Your people in preparation for Passover, as they cleaned their kitchen utensils in order to fulfill their mitzvah as perfectly as possible:
kratzen (scouring), shobben (scraping), rieben (rubbing), and kasheren (making kosher)!'" — [for the initials of these four Yiddish words are also kshr"k].
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