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Tazria-Metzorah (Shabbat - Sat 21st April/6th Iyar) - Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video

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Tazria-Metzorah (Shabbat - Sat 21st April/6th Iyar) 
Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video
Birthing, Renewal, and Human Responsibility 

SUMMARY: Giving birth is the most G-d-like phenomenon that humans display.  Yet all aspects of creation are birthed, mature, age, and decompose – only to experience renewal again – the cycle of life.  The human has however been assigned the honorable role of tending the garden of Creation and we must be fully responsible ensuring the quality of the renewal – especially our children.

Notes:
• Birthing is the introductory theme of our Parsha. This is the most G-d-like act that humans can mimic the Creator, seemingly creating something out of nothing.  What begins as a state of mind and emotion evolves into the procreative act that gives rise to the birth of a child –  a journey from the spiritual core of our soul into the corporeality of an impossibly complex fully grown conscious and sentient human being.
• Can there be anything more wondrous than that? On a lesser scale, all aspects of creation engage in renewal and demise and renewal again. Vegetation dies, enriches the soil, and gives birth via its seed to a new petunia plant or lemon tree. The mountain tops become weathered, the minerals being carried  by wind and rain into the sea, to become a coral reef or underwater shelf – a shelter for fish. Everything decomposes, winds down, goes to rest, and then experiences renewal.  The cycle of life.
• The human being has been given the task of tending the garden of creation. We nurture all new life – the crucial role of parenting; the mastering and overseeing of the ecological integrity of flora and fauna; caring for and maintaining our environmental equilibrium.
• G-d entrusted us with this noble role. And we need to live up to our responsibilities.

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