The Death of Opportunities
And that’s why the metzora is chashuv k’meis. He’s driven out of the camp and nobody can come close to him! He’s a dead man walking in the sense that he loses the glorious opportunities of kol hachaim.
So what's the last word to sum up this subject? What is life? It’s not breathing and eating. Life is opportunities, opportunities to make progress in the service of Hashem! And Shlomo Hamelech tells us that one of the most important and prevalent of all opportunities of life is being connected to all the living. If he's yechubar el kol hachaim, if he’s still living and still understands the opportunity of being connected with all the living, that’s his bitachon, that’s his hope.
And that’s why we get up every morning with enthusiasm. You know some people wake up like grouches: “Oh no, not again.” Chas veshalom! We love waking up again because it’s another day of opportunities. And so we say, מוֹדֶה אֲנִי לְפָנֶיך! “Oh, Hashem I thank you so much. It’s so good to be alive! Another day of life! Another day of being connected to all types of people and being able to live life to its fullest.”
Have A Wonderful Shabbos
