Tetzaveh 5786 - The Kavod and Tiferes of the Garments of the Kohein

Paras speaks of big day kahuna and the big day kahuna are described as being that's the they're supposed to be um full of glory and so on and um it you know it sounds right but what exactly is the meaning what is the coveris we're referring to and so on So both of them offer um two explanations one of their so it's based the same explanation like always does elaborate a bit more and uh he um explains really raan and many times he does it and here this is one of those places. So let's try to let's um take the simple shot first and then we'll go to the other. The first plot is the coveras is going on the kohanim. The kohanim are special people. They're elevated people. We need to acknowledge that. We need to show that and therefore we dress them with clothing that are royal. The uh Ramban explains at length from Sukim and so on that these are the type of clothing that were worn by royalty, royalty only like and like all the other things. They certainly were extremely um intricate intricately woven of most expensive uh fabrics and therefore it shows a certain malus and coanim this is in line with appreciating just like there's a covered Torah cover the cover of kahan is the same people that we need to look up to respect obey We we we adorn them. We project it through and that is the safaris. That's the both of then they say another of and they say it's going back ones are eras is coming through over here. I want to explain a little bit what that means, how we understand it and so on. the um let's let's go to the concept basic concept of kavot antifair both of them they're they're variations of the same idea and they what is the concept of kavot is something that is that is bound together with go hand in hand so Why is it such an important part of it? You don't find for instance um obeying parents is which is respect and authority of is in a very very different location. It's in itself. So let's understand the point of in that sense when I have physical objects what you see is what you get. I have a big block of wood. That's what I have. If I see a person who's very strong, big, um, tall, um, muscular and so on, I'm very very much understand how strong the person is and I'm sort of in in a little bit scared of a person and the person impresses me with the the the his strength. I can see it. Beauty is something that we can see. And those are all physical manifestations. And basically what you see is what you get. The eye can sort of um see exactly what's what it's about. But so we have a big strong person. He projects that through his body. We have a person who who has is graced with beauty. He projects it with his appearance. What about we have a person who's a big he's very wise brains and smarts are not something that we can see. We have an inkling of it. It says that the wisdom of a person um casts a light on his face. But it's certainly not it's not something that I can physically see the brains. What about a person who's very holy, very spiritual? I those are things that I can't really see in physically. um they are not physical descriptions but in my attempt to sort of highlight and take note of it I do through cover so in walks a tiny short man and everyone rises and and and and the the body language says they're in complete awe because this person is uh a god uh anybody who I mean I was at the sea I was at the seat they were very very short people small but the the the the the um the level of of order that they cast was incredible and the covote that we gave is um reflects it. So the fact that everybody sort of moves aside and and the everyone else's body language projects what that person is all about. So cavode is an extraordinarily important um meda of sorts because it allows us to express in physical language spiritual content. So when when by um the only type of person that they will take note of is if he's physically looks very very strong or or very very handsome or whatever it is. There's no way that a person who is um spiritually um the giant a spiritual giant no way that anything will be projected. We have cover Torah which means wherever the Torah is we convey it's the and so on who fills the world world um but we um we don't see it we don't feel it we there's no physical sense of feeling it in any way but the the place where a karesh who is noted where we can sense is the mikdash. That's the place where he's most sensed. That place is called um his mock um that's the place where it's basically fenu it's it's it's the it's the place where's presence is projected through some sort of incredible koderis koderis are two meters of that are a projection into a physical physical world of what a sense in its entirety is because it's that's what it's doing. It is projecting through physical items a world beyond the kohanim because the kohhanim are um the ones who represent as people the kohhanim are the ones that need to be the covenants of vis because that's what they represent. So the covenants of eras is going on a kadesh bar that a kadesh's covenants affrisis is expressed in mikdash and therefore everything mikdash has to um arous in us that sense the extraordinary beauty of the pair and the kod are there to to underline and underscore the fact that there's that there's over there and that these people are money. This is something that a is an understanding of why is very important. The respect that we show to projects what we think of the understanding that it's expresses in the world but it also so definitely we need to be but it also is a reason why every person to the degree that is has to be himself self himself means that it not that he demands coverage from others but that he acts in ways that is it means that the person will not stoop to do things that are cheap low not not uh refined the speaks about when he speaks about he speaks about um people who are people are special need to reflect that in their even things that are mut but acting in ways hanging out and acting in ways that are unbefitting it takes away from it had his central message was that and demanded from that a person always act like a prince person be refined dignified. So yes, clean and dressed well and dressed decently, not fancy, but dressed uh well is is part of it. But a lot more of it is the bearing of the person, the mannerism, the speech and so on. and teras are where a krau is projecting this world and bes mikdash is the place that's most and that's where everything needs to shine including the people that serve this is trueim it's true inra that somebody who is to whatever major and represents being a bent The person needs to project that refinement that covered that affairs.