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Both the ceremonies removing ritual impurity from the
- Lepor: The slanderer
- Contact with dead:
require a procedure involving
- Cedars: [Rashi: High society people]
- Hyssop: [Rashi: low society people]
- Wool: [Rashi: Wool = lamb = ordinary people who use ...]
- Dyed worm-blood Red: [Rashi: ... wormy low life laborers]
The symbolic meaning of these items - indicated in the accompanying
Rashi comments above - and the applicability of this symbolic
interpretation to removal of ritual impurity, seems to be the following:
To remove the impurity of slander one must expose oneself to the full
spectrum of personality types - the low/worm life to high society; those that use lower social
structures and those that don't. This allows one
to become aware how each personality type has a set of skills and a place
in life. Each is needed for the achievmnt of communal goals. Without these
people society would not function. Similarly for the removal of the ritual
impurity due to death one must be aware of the equality of death on
all personality types; such an awareness facilitates seeing death as independent
of personality type - indeed since all people die we cannot perceive death
as due to any particular life style or actions. That is, no particular social
status facilitates avoidance, or a propensity to, death.
Advanced Rashi: There is more that can be said on the above
but as usual we suffice with the bear minimum. Note especially that Rashi
advanced two explanations. It is our custom in this email group to assume that
Rashi's second interpretation is the correct one and that the first explanation
was rejected. In fact the first explanation was only a numerical association
of the three of the three objects - cedar, hyssop, worm-blood-dyed wool -
and the three thousand that died because of the sin of the golden calf.
Such an association while sometimes justified in symbolic interpretations must
be rejected in favor of an intrinsic interpretation such as we have given above.
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