For the Ilui Neshama of Avraham ben Ester ZT’L.
From Rav Darmoni shlit'a, who explained this to me over the phone from Yerushalayim, Israel.
Our parasha, Parashat Shemini, includes the Limud (teaching) of Hilchot Kashurt (the
Kosher Jewish laws). The two main
ingredients that need to show up in any animal in order for it to be labeled as
Kosher (before the proper slaughtering) are: 1) Mafreset Parsah, which means the animal must have split hooves and
2) Ma’alat Gerah, which means the
animal must chew its cud.
However, there are only four animals in the entire globe
that obtain a single of these signs, without having the other one as part of
their body’s system. One of these animals is the Pig. The Pig shows an external
sign, it has split hooves where one can see the floor between the pig’s foot.
It literally has a fingerlike foot that cuts into two. What does the Pig
represent?
The Pig represents someone who is hated by society.
Honestly, besides the non-Jews who love the animal after it is slaughtered, the
pig is pretty much seen as a dirty animal always rolling around in its own
garbage. But on the one hand it’s a tricky animal because it represents the middah (characteristic) of forgery,
trickery, lying, etc.
The Pig is like a liar. It shows us from the outside what he
wants us to believe about him, while on the inside he is really an impure
animal not housing any good qualities whatsoever.
Everyone you will ask will tell you the dislike they have of
liars and dishonesty. No one respects a loser with that quality. This is to
teach us to think about who we are. Are we showing Hashem on the outside, on
the street I wear a kippa or a skirt or a Shema Yisrael necklace and I’m all
fluffy and cute religious but when I am alone only G-d knows what I am doing
against the Torah?
This is Yetzer Hara’s greatest weapon, to have us fall in
times where we are alone in secrecy so then he can tell us how big of a Rasha
(wicked) I am and there is no point to behave like a Jew even in public. Even
if we G-d forbid fall in private, we need to know that we need to work on ourselves
in private and actual change!
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