Acharei Mos-Kedoshim - Entering the Holy of Holies

if you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in romanovic 783 2023 this week's parisha we have two parishes and kadoshim and akaremo should be familiar to us because it is also the Torah reading that we read on Yom Kippur because describes the avoida of the high priest the service of Aruna coin in the Kardashian the holy of holies which was a location that was only permitted for him to enter once a year and only for this purpose to bring atonement excuse me to the Jewish people and I'd like to focus in a little bit differently than usual usually I'll read a madrish and we'll try and understand the measures together I'd like to actually start off with a question here and then we'll see this uh the cliuker has a description of Majors actually and we'll see together some very interesting and deep ideas that are related to the answer to this question I'll also mention that this Parsha is my verminister Parsha so I feel very strong and special connection to this person specifically the concept of which was 31 years ago the topic of my speech at my bar mitzvah so I'd like to talk about this which is a very cryptic and difficult concept to understand I like to speak about in general the concept in the series is the is the goat that was sent off it was thrown off of a cliff and somehow it it served as a capara as an atonement for the Jewish people but in general the the concept of the avoid of the of the high priest of the of Arna coin or the Kindle on Yom Kippur is one which needs explanation but the specific question which I'd like to address and try to understand you know we read this every year in around Nissan time around ER time and it seems like something that's far off you know Yom Kippur we've got some time still before we have to think about Yom Kippur we still have a few months you have all of er Stephen Thomas of L we start to think about it you know send me a full five months until Yom Kippur so why is it here why are we reading it here so this is to say they are parishes but the question is actually deeper than that because what is the context the Torah gives us for when this command was given this commandment was given all right so this command seems to have been given posix says immediately after the death of Aaron's sons of you when did that take place that took place on the first day of Nisan exactly a year after the Jewish people left Egypt and it was the moment of the mishkan it was the moment of the really the the climax of the entire previous year they had spent a lot of time involved in creating all of the different elements of the mission of the Tabernacle and finally it was put up for seven days at the end of Adar and then on the first day of Nisan for the first time performed the avoida exactly what the sin was why were the sons of our own why were they liable for death what did they do wrong in public says they came close in front of Hashem they According to some opinions they came they brought uh they brought a guitarist an instance offering inside of the iron inside of the Okay police in a way which wasn't commanded which wasn't appropriate there's only one day a year that the coin and specifically the coin guttle the high priest is allowed into the holy of holies and that is only through this specific order of service of Hashem only in this way can the high priest come into the holy of holies and the question is the question I'd like to understand is what is a connection between Yom Kippur and the first day of Nissan why are these days connected why is it that this is the day that the command for Yom Kippur which is not going to be for from the first day of Nissan it's not for another six months in 10 days why is he being commanded by this around this now we could say well it was a result of the fact that they came in inappropriately so therefore he needed to be told when it is appropriate but I need more than that I want I want a deeper understanding than that the the sukim seem to indicate that there is a unique connection a an intimate connection between the first day of new Sun and Yom Kippur and in thinking about this so I was thinking what what's the connection what is what is Yom Kippur have to do with kamasa mishkan and it occurred to me it's actually something that's well known that what was special about Yom Kippur of the previous year Yom Kippur of the year which followed immediately followed you'd see some time with the Exodus Valium Kipper was the day that Moshe Rabino came down with forgiveness right the Jewish people had sinned with the golden calf that occurred on you Zion Thomas on the 17th day of tamus moshirabenu came down broke the glucose broke the Ten Commandments the the tablets and then we went back up for another 40 days and another 40 days if you add up the days he comes down with forgiveness Hashem says when does that occurred occurs in him Kipper that day he came down and he commanded the Jewish people now that you have forgiveness let's get to work on the on the construction of the mishkan equally truma shall bring for me a truma that happened when were the Jews commanded to to bring their donations to the mishkan it all started on Yom Kippur the day after Yom Kippur the ability to bring to to bring those contributions to build a mission to enter into relationship with Hashem depends on Yom Kippur Yom Kippur is the day that we are forgiven and therefore it's possible for us to start to enter into a relationship with Hashem now that's the simple that's the most simple thing that I could think of straightforward idea now I went to the cliocor and I'll tell you the reason I went to the cliocor was the foundation of my bar mitzvah shuttle the dvartura which by Calamar review Calamar of blessed memory helped me write a wrote for me more appropriately it was based on a clear so I wanted to again take a look at some of the kliac or what he has to say in regards to the Sierra La Salsa which we'll get to in regards to the to the goat that was sent off the cliff in order to atone for the people but here in speaking about business excuse me and speaking about the obligation of Aram in order to come into the holy of holies so he says the following he brings the following Majors which is remarkable and teaches us the connection again we need to understand what's what's so special why is Yom Kippur really the essence is the really it represents the full purpose of what the mishkan is about and you need to have Yom Kippur in order to have a mishkan and you'd have a mishkan in order to have a Yom Kippur let's see together what's going on here because it's really deep it's really beautiful and I think that it's something that we can all learn from and benefit from says the magic avraham if we look at the cedar avoida we look at the order of the service the different animals which were commanded by Hashem to be brought by Aruna coin we can discern that there are certain parts of the savoida certain parts of the service which correspond to different things that were involved in the lives of the others avraham yes the power right the public says he shall come in with a with a uh a bull pardon makkar that corresponds to abramovino to Abraham 's avraham very interesting and we'll see what what this means the gliaco will explain to us what is the concept here but let's just understand the context avram avinu he has these guests who turn out to be angels and he runs to the buckar he runs to the cattle to get an animal to Shack to slaughter in order to provide them with food to perform in and as we'll see when did that happen it happened in relationship to his bris to the circumcision which he performed when he was 100 years old 99 years old so for some reason when it comes to when it comes to the avoida on Yom Kippur when it comes to the service that he performs which is the essence again of what the Michigan is about the Tabernacle is about somehow it's connected when he is in pain from his bris his circumcision running to get an animal to slaughter in order to provide for his guests The Isle right the pasig says let's actually read this plastic in inside because this is what he needs to do in order to be able to enter into the holy of holies he needs to bring a power which we said corresponds to avraham to Abraham and he also needs to bring an Isle which is a ram he needs to bring a ram as a fully burnt offering what is this Ram the island says the magic which the clyaka brings the Isle the ram corresponds to Isaac right classic was bound on Miss bayach which is the place of the Misa mikdash he was bound there and instead of schecting his son is commanded to bring an Isle a ram in its place an ayal in its place shanikra I'm sorry an isle is a deer an isle is a ram tomorrow says in his place an Isle was brought okay so it represents Darkness or him or maybe the bris of averman represents the willingness to sacrifice himself of Yitzhak these are the things that are in a kind is to bring when he wants to be makhapra he wants to atone for the Jewish people we find here's where we get a little bit to the to the easym to the Two Goats one of which was brought inside the base of English as an offering and one of it was brought to Twin goats one of them was sent off the side of the cliff the great mystery which we'll see if we touch upon it at least so this corresponds to yakovino how does the the two isim respond to Jacob so I would mention something which is hinted to in the cliocor later which we'll see if we get to but yaakov was a twin right yako Vanessa were twins hard to tell their voices apart they were physically different I would imagine they look different but their voices were similar could be fooled by yaakov the only thing that was different right I called Yakov the only difference in their voices was really how they spoke the way of speaking as our sages tell us but the twins besides her referring to the fact that Jago of an Issa were twins and one went to you know yaakov Jacob became the forbearer of the Jewish people ASA became a forebear of the West is him right Rifka you mean Rebecca commanded Jacob in stealing the blessings he said to him bring to me two Two Goats bring to me two ghosts to prepare so the the the goats which Aaron brings one of which is brought in the mikitosh one which is sent over the side of the cliff to atone the Jewish people these correspond to the goats of yaakov Jacob as he's stealing the blessings so what is this magic trying to teach us cavanas the clear tells us the intent of this message is to tell us Hashem always [Music] just like when it comes to most Romaine how does he how does he Merit to have a vision of God as he merits to have Hashem reveal himself command him to command the Jewish people where does that mirror come from it comes from this it comes from the Merrell of his forefathers foreign Moshe to go to reveal himself as the Redeemer of the Jewish people your first to the fact that they're going to believe in you why because you they will I'm sorry it doesn't say why the the ice the the mifus the sign that he's to bring is in order that they believe that Hashem the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob has revealed himself to you why is Hashem revealing himself to Moshe in this house in the Merit of Aramis says are an amazing thing what is the purpose of the coin god of the high priest going in lift never left him into the holy of holies what is its purpose what is the purpose it's in order for him to have a revelation of Hashem for him to experience God for him to have an open Revelation just as Moshi romino had an open Revolution so to the high priest would have an open revelation so what are we after what are we after in the Michigan what is the center of the Michigan what is the purpose of the Michigan it's to give us a recognition of Hashem it's to give us through our proxy through our shlia through our messenger the high priest an an open revelation of Hashem and how is that done it's done through this kapara through this atonement is Liam keeper says the kliac are something even more deep and interesting he says that there's a there's a Remnant there's a hint in each of these three references to avram with with being bound yaakov each of them has a hint to Yom Kippur avraham this that it says that Abraham ran to get an animal in order to slaughter it and serve as guests this message holds that the story took place this mice with his breasts with the circumcision and the angels coming took place on Yom Kippur and I would add they're about to announce to him that that Yitzhak is going to be born and when is Easter born in Nissan and pesach right the good morning says in Rosh Hashanah U [Music] again a connection between him Kippur and and Nissan the beginning of news in the middle of Nisa darshu best circumcision occurred on Yom Kippur foreign this message shows that it all happened on the same day the British the revelation of Hashem the malachim coming to visit him all happened on Yom Kippur yeah explains a side point that he made a he made a great Su they made a great meal right so and we know that the others kept them the Mitzvah so he couldn't eat it was Yom Kippur so he was stringent upon himself not to eat at this meal but he allowed other people to eat okay so that's the story avram's bris is connected to Yom Kippur it happened on your Kipper we need to understand that as well the message tells us it's in the Alcove message tells us that The Binding of Isaac took place on Yom Kippur ayas refers to the fact that it will be said today that this is the place where God's the Mountain of God where Hashem is seen Hashem what happens on Yom Kippur and what happens what happened there when avram was locating the location where he was to go to bring Yitzhak as a sacrifice Hashem appeared in an Anon in a cloud that's our sham appears and sashem reveals himself so Yom Kippur is a day that Hashem reveals himself the the holy of holies is the location where Hashem reveals himself there was a revelation of Hashem we could say seems to be that what this is what the kliac are saying there's a revelation of Hashem on Yom Kippur is a revelation of Hashem in the bris right Hashem right just did the risk on what day on Yom Kippur and there's a revelation of Hashem through this mindset of the breasts through the through the circumcision he merits through the capara we could say through the atonement of doing this difficult act the first Mitzvah that the Jewish people ever had it's for bris most fundamental and basic myths for the Jewish people do the circumcision it reveals Hashem The Binding of Isaac reveals Hashem and thirdly here is these two see even these two goats which Rifka asked him to bring in order to steal the blessings these were two good goats says the manjush good for you and good for your kids it's good for you because through them you will receive the blessings and it's good for your children your grandchildren your great great grandchildren through these twin goats there's a capora is similar somehow we need to understand this a parallel a parallel Revelation which occurs through the twin goats the brackets of yaakov will think about it well let me just finish reading the end of the Cleo from then it was already at that time when yaakov was commanded by his mother to bring these two goats that there was a guarantee that yaakov would have the blessings which are I would say reinforced each time we bring the two goats on Yom Kippur and there's a kappar and atonement for the Jewish people there's a revelation what is a blessing what does it mean that Jacob received from these blessings the blessings represent the revelation of Hashem the fact that God is in our lives that what are blessings the blessings are that which we recognize and we see Hashem is in our life Hashem is giving us such incredible things we have a family we have parents we have children we have all that we need to provide for ourselves Hashem is constantly providing for us all that we need this is where we see through the blessings we see that Hashem is there and through the kapara we see that Hashem is there we we're able to have a representative of ours walk in to the holy of holies that place where Hashem Hashem is shown he reveals himself on the comparis on the arnhabris on the ark [Music] so Aaron the avoid of iron what is he doing why does he have a power why does he have a bull it reminds us of avram and how Hashem revealed himself to Aram through his through his way through his we can say or through his through the bris that he performed the circumcision that that incredible Act of self-sacrifice at the age of 99 to to perform a circumcision a dangerous medical procedure but that reveals it's through the it's through the capara through the self-sacrifice that Hashem has revealed The Isle reminds us of yes of his sacrifice of his willingness to be bound and to be given up as a sacrifice and in its place Hashem said no don't sacrifice him instead bring the ayal bring the aisle the ram and we bring a ram on Yom Kipper as well to remind us of his sacrifice his willingness to be sacrificed and we bring the the the schnezi right is him the two the two goats one of which is offered in the mikdash one of which is offered thrown off to the side and I see it at the time is running out so I'm not going to get so much into this even though it's a very interesting topic but what I would like to bring home and bring it back to is the original question which was what is the connection between the first day of of Nisa and the day of that Yom Kippur and what we see here is that the essence of what Yom Kippur is is it like we said at the beginning like we said before Yom Kippur provides us with an atonement Yom Kippur provides a revelation of Hashem in our lives that's what the essence of Yom Kippur is and it allows us to be able to build a mission it's like a it's like a it's like a a Gaga it's like a a cycle which comes back on itself right claiser leaves my time in order to want to receive the Torah in order to be able to build a mission type a relationship with Hashem to have Hashem reveal himself in our Sinai and and the Michigan itself is a perpetuation of that Revelation asthma Fortune explained but the problem is that when we've blocked ourselves from Hashem and we have sinned so we can't get into the mission we can't build the mission we can't build a tabernacle we can't we've broken our relationship with him we need to have that atonement we need to have that kapara we need to ask God to forgive us for our sins which is something that occurs through a number of different ways we have emotional being representing us we have the concept of an abramovino how he did the circumcision we have a yet willing to sacrifice himself we have a yak of willing to do that which is right in order to get the blessings but all these things point to the essence of what Yom Kippur is which is a revelation of Hashem in our lives a revelation through our willingness to give up our mistakes what does that result in more opportunities for Revelation fdm keeper we start building the parts of the mishkan when does that come to a head it comes to a head on the first day of Nissan the first day of Nissan Nisan is that month of open Revelation when we once again enter into the mishkan does it involve possible mistakes yes it does and that's what we see because the Cycles they repeat themselves right the parts of the year are connected tissue is connected to Nissan and their connection is that there's a back and forth they make a mistake the sons they lose their life the sons of Aaron but now there's another Revelation as to how we can get into that place that they wanted to get into they believe that they should get into of course that's what the Michigan is all about it's about that revelation of Hashem that's what they were looking for but their mistake led to Hashem revealing after the sons of Aaron died there's a deeper revelation of what it takes to be able to access the Revelation which is the purpose of the mishkan that's something which we learn and we make mistakes and we learn and this is true on a national level and it's true on a personal level Hashem is constantly showing us in our lives how can you get closer to me the answers are revealed through average through there acts of self-sacrifice the the answers are revealed through the cedar Avada of an arena what does it mean to get into access to Hashem is through our willingness to admit our mistakes enter into find atonement for for our avarice but it all comes back to what is the center what is the center whether it's Nissan whether it's ER whether it's Tish rate what is the center of our Lives what is the center of our calendar what is the center of our Focus it's always going to come back to the revelation of Hashem bringing Hashem into our lives making mistakes atoning for those mistakes I want to bless you I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to indeed recognize the places that we've aired the places that we've made mistakes Jim should help us to recognize the paths that were laid out for us by the office the paths that were laid out for us in the terror itself the directions for our lives which are placed here in front of us for our for us to open up and try to understand thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shamus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]