Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
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Parshas Reeh:
These you may eat of all [Fish] that live in water: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.
Reah 14:9
Talmud Nida 51B
Any fish that has scales has fins; and there are fish that have fins but do not have scales.
The Gemara asks: Let the Torah write only “scales” and then there would be no need to write “fins.”?
Rabbi Abbahu says, and likewise a Sage of the school of Rabbi Yishmael taught, that this is in accordance with the verse:
יגדיל תורה ויאדיר
“The Lord was pleased, for His righteousness’ sake, to make Torah great and glorious” (Isaiah 42:21).
Questions;
A) A explanation is still needed, why did the Torah write the sign Fins, once you have scales guaranteed it has FINS?
What is the meaning of the Talmud’s answer יגדיל תורה?
B) Why does the Torah write the sign סנפיר (fins) Before קשקשת (Scales)?
C) Everything comes from Torah, why is it in nature Any fish that has scales has fins; and there are fish that have fins but do not have scales?
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