From wheat grains we make fancy pastries, from stalks of flax we make beautiful garments, and so on. We can find a source for this idea in the Torah. Chazal connect this name to the word dai , meaning enough , saying that this name reminds us that HaShem created the world with limitation. In this way you will make yourself whole. HaShem didn t give us a perfect world but rather a perfectible one.
Human activity is essential to improving and repairing the world.
Even the human body is not perfect, for men are born with a superfluous part, the foreskin. The brit mila, performed on the infant on the eighth day when he is only a week old, reminds us that if we want to repair the world we must start by repairing ourselves. Our parsha deals primarily with the skin affliction tzara at often translated as leprosy though it is unrelated to the disease we call leprosy today. Our Sages learned that the verse teaches us that we may perform a mila even if the foreskin is leprous even though cutting off tzara at is usually forbidden. Let us examine the inner meaning of this law.