Parashas Chukas

Our Shabbos Parsha this week is Parashas Chukas .
In this Parsha, HaShem Instructs Moshe and Aharon on the Laws of the Red Heifer - the Parah Adumah . HaShem discussed with Moshe the different levels of Tum'a Impurity and levels of contamination and how the different contaminants contaminate what comes into contact with them.
Moshe asked how to purify from coming into contact with the dead. The Laws of the Parah Aduma was the answer.
The Sedra then goes on to relate a very sad story and that is the passing of Miriam with a Kiss of HaShem,Moshe and Aharon's sister, who watched over Moshe Avigdor ( Avigdor was Moshe's birth name by his Jewish Mother and Jewish Father ) , while he was a baby in the basket, before being found by Batya, Pharaoh's daughter.The same Miriam who persuaded her Father Amram ( who had physically distanced himself from Yocheved , his wife and Miriam's Mother) , to return with and have a new child ( Moshe) , when Amram had chosen before to rather not bring any more children into the World at the time , as Amram thought they would have no spiritual and physical future.
HaShem Had Given K'lal Yisroel 3 gifts :- The first gift was the Manna in honor of Moshe (like the sustenance of life the Torah given through Moshe ), the second, the Clouds of Glory (that covered and protected us in the Wilderness ) in honor of Aharon .
And in honor of Miriam, the Well of Miriam, that accompanied the Children of Israel in their wanderings through the Wilderness.The Well of Miriam was a Rock through which HaShem gave is water.
Now that Miriam had passed on, so did the water from the Well of Miriam cease to flow.
It was then that the people started to protest about not having water.They came to Moshe and complained and even argued now with Moshe about which was the original Well of Miriam Rock.They pushed Moshe to a point of anger, just after he lost his sister where , although HaShem had asked him to bring water from the Rock peacefully , Moshe's anger caused him to strike it twice and water still came out.The reason Moshe asked in anger if he must bring water from 'this rock,' was because they were all disputing which rock it was.
It was here at the Waters of Massah U Merivah that HaShem decreed that Moshe and Aharon would not enter the land.How sad how even a moment of anger hurts even the most holy.
This did not deter Moshe from serving HaShem,for HaShem then instructed Moshe to send emissaries to Edom to ask to pass through their land.Edom answer with a 'No and threat of attack.'A second asking , also returned with a 'No, ' and a massive mobilization of Edomite troops, so the Children of Israel turned away and arrived at Mount Hor on the border of Edom. It was here , that Aharon passed away with the Kiss of HaShem and Moshe was instructed to pass on Aharon's duties onto Aharon's son Elazar. The entire assembly wept for Aharon , (the man of peace , who went out of his way to make peace between people) , for thirty days . At the passing of Aharon, this too affected the Clouds of Glory, for it was in Aharon's honor, that the Clouds of Glory were given to Israel. And because of this,our arch enemy Amalek attacked us in the guise of Canaanites ( in the way they dress and language and that is why Torah calls them that ), hoping to confuse our prayers of help.HaShem Assisted us and we won . 
Again the people started to complain about the food. HaShem got angry with us and sent fiery serpents to attack us.The people begged and Moshe prayed to HaShem. HaShem told Moshe to make a 'Saraf,' - Fiery Serpent , so Moshe made the 'Nachas Nechoshes ' - ' Copper Serpent ' and put it on a pole , so all those bitten by the snakes , who looked up at it , would be healed . It wasn't as such the copper serpent that healed, but the fact that people had to look toward an upward direction as if looking up to HaShem . HaShem thus healed them. The word 'Snake ' and ' Copper ' both have the root 'Nachash ' within , - 'Snake' showing that it wasn't the snake that healed but the Essence of HaShem. 
This copper snake was actually put away for centuries and in the time of the kings, ended up to be worshiped, and so it was destroyed later in history.
The Parsha continues with our journeys and the Song from the 'Book of the Wars of HaShem.'
Then emissaries are sent to Sichon of the Amorites , who attacked Israel and this tall giant was killed and his people beaten.The same happened with his brother the Giant Og King of Bashan , who had lived even in Avraham and Noach's time , and with the help of HaShem he too was beaten and his entire people were destroyed. The Children of Israel then encamped in the Plains of Moav , on the bank of the Jordan , opposite Jericho . It is here where the Parsha ends.
In the Parsha. Moshe and the children of Israel, defeated Sichon and Og.Sichon wwas the King of the Amorite and took possession of his land , from Amon to Jabbok to the children of Ammon, which has a relation to this week's Haftorah portion ( Judges 11 : 1-33 ) , where again Ammon is beaten by our people , under our chosen leader at the time Jephtah - Yiftach .
Our Parsha is called Chukas . HaShem Gives us Laws and Ordinances, for which , an explanation may be apparent. But. A Chok, plural Chukim, are Laws for which no apparent reason seems understandable. In other words, the are beyond our own limited understanding. I believe all Laws of HaShem have a deeper side to them that is beyond understanding, but these Chukim, defy logic and our own limited understanding. Some examples of these Chukkim, are like this Parsha of the Parah Adumah, where the ashes of it, purify from strongest Tum'a , yet make those who come into contact with it , impure. Shlomo Ha Melech understood a lot of the Chukkim, but this one , our sages say, he wondered about.
Other examples of Chukkim, include the Laws Shaatnez, where we don't mix wool and linen , yet they can be put together in Tzitzis .Our Rabbis believe this may have something to do with Kayin and Hevel, for their offerings were linked with wool (Hevel - Abel who brought a korban beheimah that had wool ) and Linen ( Kayin - Cain who brought that which grows on the tree but as Torah says, he brought an offering from the 'fruit of the ground,' which meant his offering he just picked up from what had fallen on the ground) and these two offerings should not be mixed . Another Chok , is the goat sent to Azazel, in the Yom Kippur Service, that cleanses the congregation, yet makes impure the one handling it. Another Chok , like the others that says its a Chok, in Torah , the Law of Yibum, where if a man dies childless, his brother is to marry her and bring up children in his name, if he had none. 
Laws that are deeper than human logic. Some of our Rabbis say even Shabbos is deeper in its meaning, as is the Laws of sending away the Mother Bird. There are others , that are deeper than logic , from the depths of Creation in their reasoning from HaShem.
A Rabbi in the Gemorrah when asked about these Chukkim felt we are not to question their reasoning at all.
With regards to the Red Heifer Parah Adumah,(of which we await the last one in Moshiach's time , some Rabbis believed it is linked to the Chait Ha Aigel - golden calf and atonement , where the hyssop and crimson thread and cedar wood refer to arrogance - cedarwood - being tempered by humility like a hyssop, where the crimson thread resembled sin and repentance. 
I believe, the very mystery of the fact that makes one pure from that which is impure, is a tie in with the beginning sin of Adam Ve Chava, who sinned in the beginning and now have to work through physical impurities in this World to climb higher spiritually to become pure again, by being tested with negativity and impurity around us, as we all are tested. That is the way to get back to Gan Eiden. That is just my humble reason of opinion.
But I believe that the reason for these Chukkim also not having an apparent reason, is that this would be the ultimate test of love to HaShem, where HaShem gives us a Law we cannot understand and fathom, so that we get nothing in return for keeping it except following HaShem's Word out of selfless love. That is a good enough reason to give us a Chok It tests our love of HaShem to its purest form , for we won't even get the personal satisfaction of knowing the Whys. This is a true test of Faith and Emunah and Love of HaShem . 
This I believe is one of the deep reasons for the Chukkim .
It is much easier to keep a Law when we know the reason. The true test of love is in the not knowing and still doing it anyway , just because HaShem Asks us to. That should be the purest reason for us to Keep all HaShem's Laws. We are to take all HaShem Gives us and do it without question. The letters in the word 'Chok,' also spell 'Kach ,' which means 'Take, 'for we are to take ourselves and do all that HaShem Asks of is without question. We are to 'Take' HaShem and His Laws into ourselves and let HaShem dwell within us as HaShem asked us , not just for the sake of building a Temple for Him to Dwell in, among us, but also to make ourselves a Temple in which HaShem can be within us always, by doing all HaShem Asks of us without question .Thus to me, all Laws are like a Chok, for their deeper reason is unknown to us and so , we should keep all HaShem tells us anyway. We don't need a reason to listen to HaShem, He Is HaShem and that is Enough to trust Him with all our being. All we do for HaShem , must be a labor of Love and Trust and Emunah , like Avraham , who when HaShem Would ask, would say ' Hineini' - ' Here I am ' always ready to serve, even if it meant giving his beloved son to HaShem. HaShem always must be followed without question . That is true love of HaShem . That is the path to HaShem .
With Love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with Love , a Sweet and Holy from us Shabbos Kodesh with Love, and to all , a sweet and holy Shabbos Kodesh with love.