Community Magazine January 2017

Various verses in the Torah mention the ear, for example in Shemot 29:20: “You shall slaughter the ram, take [some] of its blood, and put it upon the cartilage of Aaron’s right ear and upon the cartilage of Aaron’s sons’ right ears.” Additionally, anyone familiar with Hebrew literature knows that the usage of the word moznaim for balance scales is very ancient; in fact, it predates the discovery of the ear’s mechanismof balance by thousands of years. As it is written in Vayikra ( 19:36): “You shall have true scales and true weights, a true eifah , and a true hin . I am the L-rd, your Gd, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” We learn from these pesukim that the reason the Torah calls the organ of hearing ‘ ozen ’ is because of the mechanism of balance ( izun ) located within it! Compilation of writings from Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, Rabbi Adi Cohen, and Rabbi Zamir Cohen. Auriculotherapy is a health care procedure in which stimulation of the auricle of the external ear is utilized to alleviate health conditions in other parts of the body. A microcosm of the human body exists in the ear – each part of the ear corresponds to a different part of the body. SCIENCE HAS ONLY DISCOVERED IN THE LAST FEW CENTURIES THAT THE HUMAN EAR SERVES TWO FUNCTIONS – HEARING AND BALANCE. TEVET 5777 JANUARY 2017 71