Reb Shlomo Carlebach

On Parsha Tazria 

QUOTED

I want to share this with you on the deepest depths.

When a woman gives birth to a child ...

 

Everyone says, a woman when she gives birth to a baby, it's the highest experience in the world.

 

 The most G-d like thing in the world is to bring a baby into the world. 

...

 Something else.

 

Now listen to this, this is the deepest depths.

 

 The truth is, in the creation of the baby there are three partners, G-d the Father & the Mother. 

 

In the birth itself there are only two partners, the mother & G-d. 

 

Gevalt is that awesome.

 

Everybody is asking why is it that Yiddishkeit depends on the mother?

 

Because as much as the father is a partner in creating the baby, 

 

mamash in giving birth it is only the mother & G-d. 

 

So this is why the Jewishness of the baby depends on the mother.

 

I want to share something awesome with you. The truth is, there is nothing more close between two souls than a mother and her baby for nine months.

 

You can be very close to a human being but you can never be that close.

 

You see what it is? You can be very close but I am doing my breathing and you are doing your own breathing. I eat my food, you eat your food.

 

 Can you imagine for 9 months I am so close to a little soul? They are mamash the same breath,the same food,the same everything.

 

 And you know friends, A father can give over to a baby what to do, what to eat - it's all cute and sweet. 

 

It doesn't compare to the teaching the mother gives over to the baby at the moment when the baby is born. 


 

So in the craziest deepest way, whenever a Jewish baby is born, at that very instant, 

 

since the mother is ready to be impure for the baby, the baby is learning from the mother to have Mesirus Nefesh (self-sacrifice-selflessness) for G-d.

 

 It's unbelievable, the deepest depths of the Torah of Mashiach

 

Let it be now! 

Good Shabbos!