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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Shmini
And the Ostrich…
The Targum called it נעמיתא
11:16
The Talmud relates, Moed Katan 26a
(It discusses there, if one sees holy scripture on parchment being torn ח״ו, he needs to fast)
Rabbi Abba and Rav Huna bar Ḥiyya were sitting before Rabbi Abba. Rabbi Abba needed to relieve himself. He removed his phylacteries from his head and placed them on the cushion on which he was sitting. An ostrich came and wanted to swallow the phylacteries.
Reb Abba said: Now, had it succeeded to swallow it, I would have been obligated to make two rents – one for holy words and one for the parchment.
Questions;
A) Why was the bird a OSTRICH?
B) Why was it Tefilin?
C) Why was it when Reb Abba needed to relieve himself?
D) What is the emphases , the Ostrich wanted to Swallow?
לקוטי לוי יצחק , אגרות קודש ע׳ רצז
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So interesting how it all fits together