02. Ketores Vayomer…Kach Lecha Samim, Class Two, Wednesday 17 Iyar 5776/ May 25 2016. .

02. ויאמר… קח לך סמים Class Two.
Introduction: Food vs. Medicine; Ketores is medicine, given in very strong concentrated doses to heal. Consequently it includes from the highest (לבונה זכה) to the lowest (ויאמר הוי’ אל משה [.הלבנה soft rather than hard speech, but from a high level almost like thought (like ברוך שאמר). It does not say לאמר as anyone who makes the קטרת does so with Moshe’s power. קח לך the ס”מ says to Moshe take it it is yours, but there is another level where it means that he must wrench it from him, depending on the nature of the illness.