Digital Maggid
Kivrot Hata’avah — dort vu di chokhmah lebt, dortn iz di taivos bagroben.
There where wisdom lives, there is taivos* buried. (Degel Machaneh Efraim)
*passion, lust.
July 26, 2011
Buried Passions
וַיִּסְעוּ, מִמִּדְבַּר סִינָי; וַיַּחֲנוּ, בְּקִבְרֹת הַתַּאֲוָה
vayas’u mimidbar sinai, vayachanu b’kivrot hata’avah
and they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai
and pitched in Kivrot Hata’avah (Numbers 33:16)
נאָך דעם ווי די אידען האָבען פארלאָזען דעם מדבאר סיני, זיי אויפ’ן וועג זיך אָפּגעשטעלט מקבר צו זיין זייער תאוות. (ר’ אשר הורוויץ)
After that, as the Jews left the wilderness of Sinai behind, they paused along the way to bury their passions. (R’ Asher Hurvitz)
The place name Kivrot Hata’avah literally means “buried passions” in Hebrew.
What were the passions they buried there, and why? Is passion a klippah (obstacle state)? It appears these particular passions were, or else why bury them?
