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6) A summation of the 5 books of Torah. The Talmud learns 7 books. אשברית בראשית. This brit examines the nefesh oath/brit that first Noach cut. A brit forges a partnership, and requires making a formal oath. Making a formal oath ideally requires an altar and sacrifices. Hence the oath qualifies as the fire of the brit. As a consequence that the generations of Adam profaned their oath – the floods destroyed the world.
שמות… whereas בראשית teaches the art of cutting an oath/brit by families, this book and the next two tackle the thorny issue: Do or do no the generations walk according unto their fathers? שמות applies the oath/brit of Avraham on a national level. The ruach of Avrahams oath/brit:. If you give unto my descendants this land – we shall rule it with justice.
The Egyptian bondage contrasts cruel slavery with the Torah revelation and the establishment of the Sanhedrin. In Egypt, humanity orbits around Pharaoh; שמות measures the mishkan and garments of the high Priest.
ויקרא… whereas שמות blends the Sanhedrin home government into the measurements of mishkan and high priest, this book considers sacred dedications and the distinction between substance and form. Shall Israel dedicate our neshamah to walk in דרך ארץ before the Elokim? Sacrifices serve as the agent of the person(s) making a formal dedication. Shall the agent have greater holiness than the person(s) who send their “angel”? Holiness requires a specific dedication, for a sacrifice lacking a dedication of neshamah functions only as a barbecue. Dedicating a neshama concerns the living much more than it does the dead.
ויקרא first discusses the different types of sacrifices. And then addresses the profound central point of respecting the dignity of ones neighbor like a person protects his/her own.
The plagues of tumah, meaning the failure to develop דרך ארץ, separates the dedication of the family of Aharon with Yom Hakippur and the death of Nadav and Avihu. These two sons, the next generation, died as great scholars. Never the less, their failure to sanctify דרך ארץ in their relations with Moshe and Aharon resulted in their offering avodah zarah before the Elokim, hence they died. Our Sages attach slander with the plagues of tumah.
במדבר Whereas ויקרא considers tohor and tumah, keeping the oath sworn unto Avraham as the essential foundation, this book weighs the oath of the land against the slander of the faithless spies. It defines thereby redemption. The Chiyah distinguishes between the oath/brit peoples and non oath/brit nations; it passes the .אש.בריתunto the next generation, and thereby unto all future generations.
Moshe sets the tribes into formation and order. With each tribe possessing both leader and banners. Within the hearts of the bnai brit peoples function the 26 essential elements which form the Yazzir Hatov and the Yazzir Harah; without middot and derech eretz, all external orders turn eventually into chaos.
דברים This book examines the Yechida the Torah brit of Moshe our Teacher as a way to inherit both Chiyyah and the oath/sworn lands. This last book establishes the constitutional principle of legislative review as the chief burden of oral Torah. That Chiyya obligates all generations to employ Oral Torah so as to interpret the intent of the Framer and to legislate Torah specific to the needs of each generation.
Our Teacher rules that daughters could inherit their fathers house, but must marry only within their tribe. Later generations interpreted that this ruling applied unto a specific generation. Mishne Torah teaches the humility and power of legislative review.