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A Jew who behaves like the gentiles loses this title. What is the essence
of this title Man, distinguishing between one who observes Torah and
mitzvot and one who behaves like the gentiles?
The Zohar states that a person’s neshamah contains a spark of Divinity.
For this reason, we do not discard body parts, even the fingernails and
toenails. Only the hair and excretions may be discarded, as “gifts to the
negative forces.”
The word (man) is numerically equivalent to the Heavenly Name
with its letters spelled out. Hashem, Yisrael, and the Torah are
one. Only when a person is bound to Hashem and His Torah is he worthy
of being similar to His holy Name. For this reason, man was created only
one, and Chava was created from his rib, also a single unit.
The name Man depicts a singular level of kedushah, on condition that the
person binds himself to the oneness of Hashem and the Torah. But one Rashi states that the nations of the world mock Bnei Yisrael regarding the
who goes in the ways of the gentiles loses this epithet. mitzvah of parah adumah. Why do they single out this mitzvah from
among all others?
David Hamelech was saddened that he was bereft of mitzvot when in the
bathhouse. Then he remembered his brit milah and was mollified. The The Parah adumah atones for the sin of the Golden Calf, as Chazal say,
reason for his anguish is as stated above. Man is elevated only as long as “Let the mother cow come and clean up for her calf.”
he connects himself to the Torah. When David thought he had lost this During the days of Shlomo Hamelech, the spiritual level of Am Yisrael
connection, he became aggrieved. was very high. This was in the merit of their toil in Torah and mitzvah
The Torah surrounds us with mitzvot all day long. The pasuk, “Seven observance. Therefore, the nations not only did not prosecute against them
times a day I have praised You” refers to the following seven mitzvot: the or mention the sin of the Golden Calf, but they wished to become close
four fringes on the tzitzit, tefillin, brit milah, and mezuzah. with them.