CHUKAT

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the title of the PARASHAT. The title of the PARASHAT is CHUKAT. The IVRI transliteration CHUKAT is interpreted into the English term, DECREE. While the IVRI transliteration CHUKAT is interpreted to mean DECREE, the term carries with it the idea of a command that is not easily understood but when obeyed, comprehension occurs.

The SIDRAH commences with the SCENARIO of the RED COW. Instructions are given on how to prepare a mixture containing prescribed components of the RED COW to produce a purifying agent. The agent of purification is to be employed to cleanse one who has become TAMEI (contaminated) by coming into contact with METIM (death).

Torah discloses that the physical body of one who has undergone METIM is TAMEI. No doubt the reasoning behind the physical body that is separated from the SOUL becoming TAMEI is because of failure to fulfill the GOAL of CREATION. 

The GOAL of CREATION for those who are undergoing the human conscious experience is to be ONE WITH ECHAD. The fulfillment of the GOAL is the manifestation of IMMORTALITY in the physical body. The NAVI Isaiah wrote, “He (ECHAD) will eliminate death forever, and my Lord HaShem/Elohim will erase tears from all faces…” (Isaiah 25:8a) In this prophetic utterance, it is revealed that ECHAD has established the GOAL for those who are undergoing the human conscious experience to become IMMORTAL. Since the physical body that undergoes METIM did not manifest ETERNAL LIFE, it is considered TAMEI. This discloses that death is not inevitable, but rather the opposite of the fulfillment of the GOAL of CREATION by those who are undergoing the human conscious experience.

The NAVI Daniel is given a vision of those who fulfill the GOAL of CREATION, it is written, “Many of those who sleep in the dusty earth will awaken: these for everlasting life and these for shame, for everlasting abhorrence. The wise will shine like the radiance of the firmament, and those who teach righteousness to the multitudes (will shine) like the stars, forever and ever.” (Daniel 12:2,3) In this prophetic utterance, not only is it revealed that a time has been predetermined by the SUPERNAL when ETERNAL LIFE will be made manifest in the physical body but also the mechanic that will engender the event. The mechanic that will engender the event is the instructions of the TZADAKIM (righteous) who have been sent by ECHAD to aid in the TRANSFORMATION.