Written by Anonymous
The pig is called the “Chazir” from the word “Chozer”, return. The Medrash Shochar Tov on Tehilim 146 tells us that in the future when the world becomes complete the pig will chew its cud and become a kosher animal. The Chasam Sofer explains that this is the reason why the parsha of kosher and unkosher animals is written immediately after the parsha of the Chanukas HaMishkan and the death of Nadav V’Avihu.
That day was a very special day as Hashem rested his Shechina in this world. However, it was marred by the incident with Nadav V’Avihu. Chazal tell us that had that day been perfect without Cheit the world would have reached its final completeness. If that would of happened the pig would have become kosher. Therefore, right after the torah describes the failure of this historic day the torah tells us that because of this, the pig remained in its unkosher state.
We see from here the importance of sin! In other places we are told that had there been no sin then that would have been completion of the world, had Adom and Chava not sinned they would have never died and brought death to the world.
Maybe the sins we do even though are not so great in the grand scheme of things maybe, just maybe they are preventing moshiach coming!!
Humor
1- An old Jewish woman, on her 80th birthday, decides to prepare her last will and testament. She goes to the rabbi to show it to him and to ask him for advice on a few points, chief amongst them is her request that she not be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
"But why Mrs. Epstein?" the rabbi asks. "You don't want to be buried with the rest of our people?"
"No," Mrs. Epstein said resolutely. "I want to be buried at Bloomingdales."
"Bloomingdales?!" the rabbi said in disbelief.
"Yes. Then I'll be sure that my daughters will visit me at least twice a week!"
2- Moishe Wasserman went to the kosher meat restaurant by his house and the head waiter came over and greeted him with a smile.
"Good morning sir, may I take your order?” the waiter asked.
“Yes,” replied Moishe. “I'd like two boiled eggs, one of them so under cooked it's runny, and the other so over cooked it's tough and hard to eat. Also, a steak that has been left out so it gets a bit on the cold side; burnt toast that crumbles away as soon as you touch it with a knife; margaine straight from the deep freeze so that it's impossible to spread; and a pot of very weak coffee, lukewarm."
"That's a complicated order sir," said the bewildered waiter. "It might be quite difficult."
Moishe replied, "Oh? I don't understand – that's what I got yesterday!"
3- Shmuli Horowitz was having a garage sale and invited some of his neighbors to sell their wares at his place as well. One of Shmuli’s neighbors, Brent Mathews, took four tires over and was asking $30 apiece. Brent needed to leave for a few minutes, so he asked Shmuli to watch the tires for me.
"Sure," Shmuli said, "but if someone offers less, how low are you willing to go?"
"Try your best for more, but I guess I’d be willing to accept $15," Brent said, and left.
When Brent returned, his tires were gone. "How much did you get for them?" Brent asked excitedly.
"Fifteen dollars each."
"Who bought them?"
"I did!"
4- With Coronavirus affecting High Holiday services, Rabbi Solomon decided to give two versions of his sermon – one for those who would be coming to shul on High Holidays while social distancing, and one on Zoom a few days prior for those who would not be in attendance.
One of those who joined the Zoom sermon was a reporter for the local newspaper who wanted to report on the Rabbi’s sermon. But as he was giving the same sermon both times, using the same stories, he asked everyone on Zoom not to repeat the stories so as not to spoil it for the others.
The next day, the reporter published a story on the Zoom sermon which concluded with a line stating, “Rabbi Solomon also told a number of stories that cannot be printed."
