Bimidbar 5770 - Intensifying Relationships - part 2

to jewish people so then he is liable for death because he stepped out of his relationship and he tries to have a relationship which doesn't pertain to him let's understand this on a deeper level and we'll see that this is actual explanation for the entire torah for the entire pasha i'm sorry that we find this week we saw that the first thing that we said the first question that we asked was why is it that the levites the levium they have a different they have a different counting they're counted separately from the entire jewish people and we also pointed out that the levites they are needed to be a buffer zone between the jewish people and the mishkan and what this really means is that besides for the fact that you see that there's a relationship between a non-jew and god and the jewish people and god it's a different type of relationship besides that even within the jewish people themselves there are different levels of relationships you have the jewish people as a whole but you also have a very special part of the jewish people they're called levine those levites they have a more sanctified relationship with hashem they're the ones that are involved with the sheriff's akaidesh they're performing the special things that are necessary for the mishkan for the sanctuary now when they perform that so they are the ones and they only are the ones who can perform that specific service now that's the livium now what happens if a jew regularly swell regular jew tries to perform that service he steps out of his bounds god is saying the levites have to take their place they need to perform their service so that there's not an anger on the rest of the jewish people if the jewish people maintain their level their relationship with god all is well but if they try to step over their bounds into a different area they're in trouble now what's amazing here is not only is it true in regards to the levites and the jewish people but even in within the levites themselves and even within the special area the special family of kahas they're the ones who are carrying the most holy of all of the caleb of all of the different parts of the sanctuary nevertheless they couldn't overstep their bounds either and in fact it was only aaron and his sons who could actually look at the arna kodesh the holy ark only they could be the ones to pack it up and if the levine themselves were going to carry it they were so exalted that they could carry it but if they would look at it in an improper time they would also lose their lives they would step out of their bounds out of their relationship they would run into a great difficulty so we see that there's different gradations different levels and it's essential in the torah is essential to understand that we need to stay within the bounds of our relationship and if we it's amazing because if we indeed use our relationship to its fullest extent so one could think well this one is different this this one is not as close to hashem this one's a relationship it's not in his intense it's not true what you see is from the statement of the gomorrah and sanhedrin that a non-jew who is careful to fulfill his relationship to the to the greatest extent possible he looks and he learns the seven minutes with the seven okay laws so that he's like a calling he's like a high priest who's able to enter into the holy of holies and he's able to access indeed the arena which no one else can even look at so a person focuses in on his relationship and tries to maximize his relationship with god to the best extent to the greatest extent that's possible so then such a person indeed is equivalent to the holy of holies the high priest that enters into the holy of holies now there's another aspect here that's extremely important to understand and this will help us understand another dimension of this very idea and that has to do with another medrash that on the surface seems a little bit difficult to understand but when we understand it deeply it really changes the whole picture here and that is as follows there's a message that says that why is it that the torah says that the hashem speaks to moshe in the midburg in the wilderness what's the significance of the fact that god speaks to motion in the wilderness and the measure says a muscle gives us an analogy there was once a king actually a prince and this prince comes into his medina into one of the great towns in his country and the people from this great town is a very big metropolis and they come out and they see the prince and they're so scared of the prince they feel so they're overwhelmed by the fact that this prince has come they run away they can't handle looking at the prince the prince sees that they've left him he goes on to another town he comes to a more run-down area of his promise and in this rundown area so the people see the prince they're not at all threatened by the prince they see the prince and they come out to greet the prince and they praise the prince and the prince is so impressed with these people he's so impressed with their honor for him that he says this is where i want to place my offices this is where i want to have that place where i'm going to interact with the people because i see that these people are extremely humble and they want to interact with me says the magistrates the same thing with hashem hashem said when he came when he came to the yam when he came to the to the ocean it's interesting the choice of an ocean i'll explain that in a moment but it says that when he came to the ocean it says when the ocean saw it ran away it completely fled just like when the prince came into the large metropolis they ran away they couldn't handle it and the ocean is a place of a tremendous amount of life it's a tremendous amount of diversity however when hashem came to the wilderness when he came to the midfield where there's no life where there's no separateness where there's no there's no egg in kite there's no sense of oneself in a certain sense so that's where hashem decided that he wanted to place his mishkan he wanted to place his all-maui he wanted to place his presence and interact with the jewish people speak to moshe and speak to the jewish people now with the deeper lesson of this is actually contained in the negamar nadar the kemar nadar says that kevin shaw's when a person makes himself like a wilderness that he makes himself completely humble in regards to everyone that he sees the torah is given to him as a gift now what this means is is that in order for a person to have a relationship with hashem if a person lives in this great metropolis he thinks he's so wonderful he's so great he's like that yam full of life full of separateness so then hashem says when there's a lot of gaiva when there's a lot of egg of thinking that you're great that's not a place where hashem can develop his relationship with you however if you make yourself into a midbar into a wilderness you make yourself very humble so then then that's a place where hashem is going to rest hisheen is going to place his presence and he's going to create a relationship with those people now what this teaches us is is that the greater the intensity of a relationship and this is something that we can see in our own lives but the greater the intensity of a relationship the greater the necessity for humility for example if a person has a co-worker and he has a relationship with that co-worker it doesn't involve a great amount of self-sacrifice in in that relationship it's not it's not such a big deal to be a good co-worker to be a good friend however to be a good husband or good spouse or a good parent it's a much more intense relationship and because of the intensity of the relationship it requires a much greater level of humility and that's what we see when hashem is coming down to arrest in the world when he's coming down to places his divine presence upon the world upon the jewish people it has to be specifically in a wilderness in a place where there's no separateness where there's no there's only humility there's no god there's no pride that's the place where hashem is going to create the most intense relationship with the jewish people and that's also true in regards to all of these different gradations these different levels the more a person is connected to hashem if it's just a regular jew so he has a certain level but when you when your niklas into a greater relationship with hashem a greater intensity if someone's a levite so he has to have a certain level of humility and the highest level of humility is the kind god the high priest if a person enters into a place where he doesn't belong so then he enters into a tremendous danger into place of death now what's amazing is that we find that we find that you can transfer levels where do you see you can transfer levels of course the jew can't become a regular jew if he's not from the tribe of leave levy you can't become a levite and a lady can't become a coin you can't increase in your intensity of relationship but there's one place that you can and that place is if a non-jew wants to enter into a greater relationship besides we're just having the seven minutes the seven aha laws if he wants to become a jew he has the opportunity to take on 613 laws but what happens there are three different conditions that a person needs to take on if he decides he wants to become a jew the first condition is if he's a male so he has to have a circumcision he has to have a bris the second condition is he has to be titled he has to go into the mick for the special ritual bath the third condition is he needs to accept upon himself all of the mitzus all the commandments of the torah so what you see is if you want to enter into a more intense relationship with hashem so you have to develop a greater sense of humility and this is something that we see with our relationship with hashem the greater our sense of humility the greater the intensity of our relationship with hashem the more we want to enter into an intense relationship the more we required to have a greater humility this is also true in relationship to our relationships in relation to our relationships with our family with our close family the greater that relationship the greater the intensity of the relationship whether it's a spouse whether it's a child it's necessary to have a greater level of humility to lower our own egos to lower our own pride in order to really enter into a relationship with that individual i want to bless you and me and all of us hashem should help us to always be able to have the humility that's necessary in order to enter into that relationship with him thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos you