Drasha - Chukas, 5757 - Torah.org:
Parshas Chukas
Chukas Pocus
Volume 3 Issue 41
by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
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"Shouldn't the mystical requirements of the Parah Adumah join its counterparts together with the laws of the Kohanim? Why is it placed in the Book that recounts the stories of human folly -the malicious uprising of Korach, the miscalculations of the spies, the unfaithfulness of the sotah, the complaints against the heavenly fare of manna?
What significance does the juxtaposition of these seemingly unexplainable rituals, obviously not congruent with mortal logic doing with the tales of error and miscalculation?
One evening during World War II, Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee could not sleep. As chairman of the Senate appropriations committee, he could not understand why he should the administration was requesting some $2,000,000,000 towards certain unusual scientific research.
He called Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and began to shout.
'Do you expect me to sanction this tremendous appropriation without any idea as to where it is going!'
Stimson kept quiet. He pondered and hesitated, then he asked, 'Can you keep a secret?' After McKellar assured him that he could, Stimson whispered,
'We are about to split the atom.'
McKellar exploded. 'Are you crazy? This is a war! We have men out there! We need guns! We need planes! We need ammunition! And you guys are fooling around with some hocus pocus -- splitting atoms!'"
The above excerpt can be read in its original form by following this link:
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Of all the explanations I have read so far on the web, the above is definitely an inspired explanation of Parshas Chukas.
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