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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/06-27-10.jpeg16201080Four of the melakhot deal with separating food from waste: Threshing (Dash), Winnowing (Zoreh), Separating (Borer), and Sifting (Meraked). Why do so many melakhot deal with separating? This teaches us how crucial it is to be able to distinguish and differentiate in life. The physical world is a confused and muddled place. The ability to separate the good parts from the bad parts allows us to improve and develop the world. This is also true on the spiritual plane. The world is a mixed-up place morally as well, and our job is to distinguish between good and evil. If it were clear that good was on one side and evil on the other, it would be easy to choose the good. Things are not so clear though. Even the good contains evil, and the evil contains good. Something that’s corrupt in one context may be moral in a different time ...