Betachan Falaif Sheer 1724, Yoyim Shaini Bishabis, Parshis Vyaka Pakudai.
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We are discussing why we wash our hands for bread.
Obviously this is not the reason that chizel say, but perhaps this is a behind the scenes reason.
We're a message that we can take when we wash our hands.
One of the mitzvahs in the taira is the mitzvah of Eglah Arufah.
If you find a dead person on the outskirts of a city,
the alochah is the zikainim of that city come and they kill an Eglah by anachal and they wash
their hands. And when they wash their hands they say, the Pasek says, Yadaynulay Shofkhu
Esadamazeeh Veininulayro. Our hands were not involved in the killing of this person.
And Rashi explains why you would think the zikainim were involved in the killing of the person.
It's a Gamar Insighta, but that's irrelevant to our discussion.
The point is by washing their hands they wash their hands so to speak to demonstrate that they
have nothing to do with this story. Washing hands symbolizes that their hands are clean
from what happened over here. And perhaps that's what's going on every time we wash our hands
before we eat bread. We can make a mistake and think that it's our genius, it's our
ishtadlis that gave us this bread. And therefore we wash our hands before we eat and we tell
ourselves, no, our hands are clean from producing this bread. It has nothing to do with us.
It comes from Akadish Barakhu. He's the one that sent us this bread.
Perhaps that's an important message in when a person washes his hands to eat bread.
If we can understand it like that, then it gives us a little bit of an understanding
of what Roshisda was doing. When Roshisda washed his hands with a lot of water,
he was basically washing his hands completely from the bread that he was eating. Meaning he
was internalizing the concept that the bread that he was eating had absolutely nothing to do
with the activity that he did to earn that bread. It only came from Akadish Barakhu when he washed
with a lot of water. With, so to speak, a real powerful message. He was telling himself
a real powerful message that his hands had nothing to do with this bread. And therefore he was
zaykhah to Moli Khafni Tivusa. Therefore he was zaykhah to torment his brother like we said many
times, the more a person brings Akadish Barakhu into his life, the more the person is zaykhah
to brother. Like the Pasek says, Bechala Mokim as you ask your husband,
wherever my name is mentioned, wherever a person mentions Akadish Barakhu, he zaykhah to brother.
We will best our Shem continue.
