[Avodah] Purim and Parshat Tetzaveh Dvar Torah

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:08:06PM -0800, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: Please see the Dvar Torah I wrote on this week's parsha and Purim.
: http://mydvar.com/2010/02/judging-a-book-by-its-cover/
: For those who care, I mention Rav Hirsch ;).

Along parallel lines, in a category (where I also cite RSRH) on Aspaqlaria
(total of 3 posts, so far), I also link the theme of clothing in Esther
with the Bigdei Kehunah, and use that to reflect on why begadim get
tzitzis but a kesus gets gedilim, and what did HQBH make Adam and Chavah
upon their expulsion?

http://www.aishdas.org/asp/category/clothing
Rashei peraqim:

Just based on shorashim, a kesus has to do with ervah, a beged has to do
with uniforms and office. Achashveirush has neither, just a levush --
something he wears. Even in uniform, he is no king, just led around by
his advisors (and perhaps blood alcohol). A kohein without the uniform
of office -- bigdei kehunah -- is oveir "zar haqareiv yumas", because
the clothing makes the kohein. Unlike Moshe eved Hashem, who did the
avodah during the yemei hamilu'im in a simple white chaluq, no need for
begadim to turn him into a kohein.

A beged therefore gets tzitzis, sprouts, extending the symbol of our
role of Jews into everything we do. Whereas a kesus gets gedilim, chords
bound with chulios, kerikhos and qesharim, confining our baser urges.
(Perhaps, using RYBS-speak, we could say that a kesus is an article of
retreat, and a beged is worn to advance.)

One of the bigdei kehunah is a kutones. Which means that the kusnos or
that HQBH made Adam & Chava were begadim, not kesusim. He didn't give
them clothing merely to cover their nakedness. Hashem gave them uniforms
asserting the greatness of humanity even as He expelled them from the
gan.



Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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