This Shabbos is Parshat Metzorah where we learn about how the contaminated person start to become pure from their contamination.The word 'Metzorah,' can be separated into two root words ,namely 'Matzer' and 'Rah' which translates as 'Boundary for bad.'This is so descriptive,as that is exactly what this period of Metzorah is.The contaminated person has now gone through the period of Tzaraas and is preparing to become pure from the negative spiritual tum'ah that the physical was afflicted with and are at the stage of realizing what is Good and what us Bad and will now put a boundary from the bad,around themselves and will stay separate from that kind of a negative action again.
The idea of boundaries from evil and all things bad is something we can choose to put up ourselves to keep us far away from the negativities that this world pulls us down with Chas Ve Shalom.All the time,we are faced with a Yetzer Harah question,'should we or should we not do something that is wrong.'The first time we commit an aveirah it is harder than continuing to commit that same aveirah and somehow,the Yetzer Horah get's stronger and stronger the more we fall for it.If we put up a boundary from the very beginning and keep our lives,actions and words Holy and separate from that which is not good,then we will be able to overcome our Yetzer Horah's easily.
Egypt which is 'Mitzrayim' in Hebrew is very descriptive,for it was a place of borders for all those things which were so unholy.It was a place where the lowest negative spiritual influences resided and kept people trapped within its negativity.People were not just allowed to leave Egypt.Once there,they had to stay within its borders unless permission was given to them to leave.Evil has a way to shut a person in and encircle them like a snake entangling them in a web that they cannot escape from as the Yetzer Horah does.Even Pharaoh himself on his headband would have an engraved golden snake on the front facing all who came to see him.Mitzrayim was as its name suggests,a place of borders and 'Matzah Rah,' a place where evil and bad was found.The Metzorah has stepped away from the negativity and is on the way to be purified and find Good with their eyes and all they see and has learn't not to be tempted by the pull of what their eyes find - thus 'Metzora' becomes 'Matza Ayin' -'The eyes find goodness.'
How true this is in our own lives.if we look toward good,we will find it.If we keep our eyes toward HaShem and HaShem's ways,we will get to the right place and will be free of the borders and bonds of negativity that is the Yetzer Horah ,that tries to encircle us.
We are at the position to free ourselves from the entangling web of negativity simply by the choices we choose to make.We are at the head of the decision to purify oursellves to HaShem's Way and to stop looking toward that which physically pulls us.We can choose HaShem.This is the same choice that existed from the beginning of time,through Avraham's time to follow the One True HaShem,through the time of Moses when Moses asked us ,'Who is on the L-rd's side,' through the time of Eliyahu ha Navi when he asked the evil priests of baal to choose HaShem right through to us today and beyond,to only and always choose HaShem and only HaShem's path of true purity.
Let us look within ourselves and find ('Matzah') that which holds us down (Matzer) and let our eyes (Ayin) look toward Holiness-the Holiness of HaShem.Passover is coming and when we eat the 'Matzah' (which has within it the words 'Matza' (seek/find) Matzer' (borders) and let us remember to free ourselves from the borders of all that tries to hold us and persuade us to do negative things and let us look toward the good- the Ayin-the eye of Holiness.Let us 'Matza' find every possible path toward the Holiness of HaShem.
I love You HaShem and wish You with Love a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love and to all,may you have a beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.