A fire official says, A Connecticut house where five people died in a Christmas morning fire has been torn down.
An often used metaphor in the Torah speaks of houses being built up or torn down referring to family genealogy. The Cabala explains, To build a house is one of the intrinsic desires hidden in the human heart; to raze a house pierces into the very heart of the human being.
The house is considered the external garment, clothes being the inner garment, by which we hide from the world – our nudity and our hidden ways. The sanctity of the individual is seen in these two garments – clothes and houses; the house is firmly planted upon the earth.
The way in which the body brings light to the world is through being clothed, but the greater light is found in the confine of having a private house or room – with this greater light creativity happens. When a fire breaks out causing the subsequent razing, one wonders.
In death and destruction there is payment of previous deeds comes due; the victim is not always the perpetrating of the original debt, but now holds the debt. Improper action incurs debt before God; Tshuva/Repentance requires returning to God before the due date.
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