PARSHAS BEHALOSCHA: THE MENORAH AND TORAH - CONNECTING THE TWO

Thank you for an introduction. Yeah, we had some very good uh times together in the morning. Kyle, the night kyle. I have my notes over here, but it's a little dark. So, I was going to speak for 45 minutes, but now I can't read my notes. So, uh you'll be out of here in a few minutes. I had the privilege and opportunity to participate in an unbelievable event this past Sunday night in Philadelphia north of 25,000 yeden joined together to raise the flag of Kavatra. It's something that I'll never forget how let's even say closer to 30,000 saying roaring saying to honor the Tory something that's a personal takeaway for me and I believe for many others was the aus of the two parts of Clalistro. If you were the lo de the people that learn from the it was a lake with yeshiva event more than 8,000 talid yeshiva came and also also the supporters of tyra the other part the supporters of tyra this reminds me of a vart in this week's para the sapornu one of the explains the following in this week's paral begins the should be lit. How do we have the how much how many how many torches how many fires are there the mono? So you see Kaneka we have eight with a shamas in the B mikdash there was six six anamas how was it how was it in the bas mikdash there was three on each side with a shamas in the middle each side the three nai were pointing toward the middle says the supporter of the following you see the manura is mamas is fat Tory. You know what the Gammorra says? If somebody wants to become smart when he dins, he should face towards the right, which means he should face towards where the is. And if a person wants to become wealthy, he should face towards where the is the which was the food which is parosa. So explains to Sophorna the following that the mana had two parts had the right three candles the three nas and the left three the the right three says the saporner represents the part of cliol that's learning pyra those are the three right nay the left three nairo represent the part of clalius that support the Tyra that enable that make it possible for those to learn Tyra says the it's not just two parts the right the learning the learners of Tyra and the left the people that support Tyra says the all focus to the middle mayor it's all one there has to be an aus working together thera together. Not only the but also the ones that [Music] support the wasif in the gimmel when sad gimmel 90 years ago now it's piml in 1933 says you know why the mana had to be made from one solid piece Why could it? It was very hard. Why couldn't it be made bunch of pieces and you put it together, you melt it together, says the being that the three rights, the learning and the supporters of Torah are not just two parts of Clius role, it has to be united like one piece like one to be able to have the Torah. Very important lesson. and you'll see where I'm heading with where I'm going to but before where I'm going to where I'm right now this is like the lesson that was this Sunday night and you had the people that support so that's important just for starters to understand that the clust together this has the it's not just these two parts one without the other says the soponu it's an aus it's one unit. On the note of all of Klas being one unit, we have the Tarak mitzvah, the mitzvah. Is it possible for one person to be makim all of the tarag mitzvah? It's not possible. Why not? If you're a coim, you cannot be mimit. And if you're you cannot be mim different. So how is one person all of mitzvah? So many of the answer that we have is together. I left out before in theuab says when got the said means that it has to be one unit. So for mitzvah mitzvah, you know how you can be mai and call if we have a together and I do some mitzvah and you do some mitzvah together we're able to call. So we have so far for yak we need all of the ro together to be able to have the toyra. The same thing as with mitzvah as well. You have to have all everybody together. You know what's very interesting in paras midbar just a few parishes ago we find the concept of the de golum the flags. Every shaven had their flag. They had their location. Everyone had their place, their their place where they were. You go to shine shul everybody. It's all types. Everybody comes here. But in Midbar, everyone had their own place. It wasn't everyone mixed around. Everyone had their own place where they were. Furthermore, not only they had their own place, they had their flag which the flag had its own color, its own character. It represented for that part that what they were working on. So the question is that's the opposite of imagine every has their own their own part. They do their thing their is the opposite of a We just said now we need one unit to be able to mitus. So I'm asking you, isn't it, isn't this the opposite of Akis? Everyone has their community and their flag explains of Kamitki the following. And he says it's true that everybody everybody had their unique mid and what they worked on but only because there was a mishk in the middle and that united them were they able to have their own mid and their own part. meaning to say is that if not for the Mishka in the middle the the the focal point the focal point that brings them together if not for that it wouldn't be possible to have a just like the you had the nami that brought them [Music] Nether. What we spoke so far is all about the general aas being united together for tora for mitzvah. I would like to take a moment and zero in focus on each place for itself. Each moid each yeshiva we have to understand that there's a very powerful concept of that's very important. You see the Mishna says it of us. How do you know that even 10 that 10 people that learn they even less? And then the Mishna says that even one person that learns says the Mishna apost we know that the however says even though a person learns on an island he learns by himself says What you what we a person needs when he speaks about the three parts to be able to have the Tory part number three says is that it's not just enough to learn with somebody else and to be but like the says that a person has to connect believe connect the person has to be connected to somebody else to bring out this point to illustrate it we know that between and the nif the gar says why they were not respectful of course on that level the marshall says what do you mean they weren't respectful they weren't nice to each other they what does it mean they weren't respectful says the marsh they weren't respectful when it came to learning what does it mean being respectful when it comes to learning being respectful means means well I'll just explain for us what it doesn't mean the Gmorrah says in Sanhedrin and it's brought that two enemies are now let us sit on a bezdon together why can't they sit on a bezdon together why not what's the problem explains the you know why they can't sit on a bez together because this that they do not get along this. They do not get along. They're not going to pass and right. Why not? Because they're not going to be focused on the right. They're going to be focused how to argue with the other person says to when a person learns and the yeshiva you learn with each other of course you learn but there's a certain concept of aas of being connected leave my herish here in this yeshiva in general being here inside the warmth the ais really the so beautiful here around the fire the akas the such an energy of a over here akas in general I've been here a few times time seeing the the learning the but it doesn't just mean learning you see the the the unbelievable connection that yes have and of course this goes without saying that it's credited to the rashiva for putting in so much kus a new program a new sh what else could we enhance Aim going to this is that empowers and puts in this like we began in the beginning the supporter says this week's para thera it's not just to the right of these people that learn and to the left these people that support it has to be one unit like the says the mana had to be made from one piece from one piece. That's how we're all we're not just stiffened people. Everyone does their own thing. We all work together. We're and that's the concept. It's true that everybody has their avoid what they work on and how they're growing their level. Like we see in the in the in the midbar, every shaver had their own flag. The flag that they had was to show that they're different. Everyone had every of the everyone had their own feel when they went through the yam clustrol. There was 12 tracks. There are different tracks in clustrol. But that doesn't mean that it takes away from the actus the actus and learning the act and midas my bra to this yeshiva to continue to grow to flourish to strengthen inra and midas and everybody should be mats have a wonderful shabas amen. D.