Reply To: Parsheh of the Week Interpretation

There is an interesting sacrifice for a Metzarah. We take two birds to a Kahen with an ceder tree and a ezov and red thread. We dunk the live bird into the blood of the slaughtered bird together with those additions. Then, we send away the live bird to the open field. The bird chirps representing speech. The Kohen is suppose to regulate speech. Either the person held himself haughty or humble for his excessive speech. He says that I am greater than others therefore I have the right to speak badly about them or he feels that it makes no difference what he does. Either way they are both extremes and they are like a red thread. So we have to go to the other extreme. The live bird resembles his excessive speech which must be limited by killing some of it, so we dunk it into the blood of the dead bird. Then we can send it away to the open field being ensured that he will limit his speech.