ספר ויקרא

Another exegesis of our verse draws attention to the word ‎וילדה‎, “she gives birth,” not having been preceded by the usual ‎ותהר‎, “she conceived and became pregnant.”Rabbi Yossi, in ‎the above quoted paragraph of the Zohar, stated that G’d ‎distinguishes between a drop of semen containing predominantly ‎alkaline sperm and that which is more acidic, affecting the ‎eventual sex of the infant born. G’d, as the third partner in every ‎human being born, enters the picture after the woman has ‎received seminal ejaculation by her male partner. He then decides ‎the sex of the baby that will result.‎Another exegesis of our verse draws attention to the word ‎וילדה‎, “she gives birth,” not having been preceded by the usual ‎ותהר‎, “she conceived and became pregnant.”Rabbi Yossi, in ‎the above quoted paragraph of the Zohar, stated that G’d ‎distinguishes between a drop of semen containing predominantly ‎alkaline sperm and that which is more acidic, affecting the ‎eventual sex of the infant born. G’d, as the third partner in every ‎‎[clearly a reference to the sacrificial offerings by the Jewish ‎people. The word used in the Zohar is ‎סעודה‎, “meal.” ‎Ed.] He understood this statement as a hyperbole, similar ‎to when Solomon says in Proverbs 10,1 ‎בן חכם ישמח אב‎ “a wise ‎son causes the father joy.” He meant that the actions performed ‎by the wise son result in his father deriving pleasure from this. ‎Similarly, the Torah’s commandments performed by the Israelites ‎provide their Father in heaven with similar satisfaction and joy. ‎In other words, the word ‎תענוג‎ can also be translated as ‎פרנסה‎, ‎‎“livelihood,.” If that were so we must ask ourselves how it is that ‎G’d Who has millions of angels at His command in the celestial ‎spheres should have to look to the Israelites to provide Him with ‎His parnassah?” In our daily prayers (kedushah) we ‎quote the angels who in a celestial choir proclaim the holiness of ‎G’d in awe and fear so that in the words of the psalmist: ‎מה אנוש כי ‏תזכרנו‎, of what significance is man that You should even make ‎mention of him?” (psalms 8,5)‎We have to resort to a parable in order to better understand ‎the Zohar. Imagine that leaders of the gentile nations have ‎undertaken a program to teach a specific bird the language ‎spoken by humans. When somebody hears about this he is so ‎amazed that he tells his colleagues about it, inviting them to ‎personally examine the truth of this statement. The moral of this ‎parable is quite obvious. The human species (gentiles) are invited ‎to observe the effect of the Jewish people observing the ‎commandments of the Torah and the effect of their performing ‎kind deeds towards their fellow man, so that those observing the ‎exceptional success of the Jewish nation will henceforth consider ‎the angels as insignificant by comparison to the Jewish people.‎