BEWARE THE SKUNK OF JUDGEMENT

BS"D


We had quite the interesting late-night encounter with a skunk in our garden. The little chap (or chappette, I suppose) unearthed some of our onions, then proceeded to dig the most enormous hole in our compost. Clear down to the clay. & he didn't care for parsnips, which he chomped on then cast aside. He then made scat on my bike wheel & left.

I see these confident creatures as the opposite of a Sefer Torah. A little White Fire on much Black Fire. Not much Chesed (lovingkindness) with a lotta Din (judgement). Thus the nasty trick they do with their tails. The Hebrew for "skunk" is "bo'eysh". The gematria of "bo'eysh" is 309, same as that of the word "leper". Perhaps there is a connexion there: Biblically, if we express our judgement of others in the form of lashon hara (evil speech), then we are stricken with tazria. It's popularly traslated as "leprosy", however the description in the Torah of this disease shows clearly that it is another affliction. Interesting, though, how lashon hara is so like skunk spray...

Bo'eysh Din.

Shabbat Shalom.