Tetzaveh - Diamonds and Covenants

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with Hashem stem running assistance in um 5783 2023 this week's parchment is and in our Parish we have the big dick Kahuna we have the special clothing that were worn by the priests in their service in the Michigan and the Tabernacle and we have the special garments that were worn by the Klein gunnel the high priest and there were eight the schwein bagadum there were eight parts to these picadem and we also know that the coin goddal on Yom Kippur as the second describe you would wear four parts four different garments that were made completely out of linen big they have Bud now that's the foundation for what I'd like to speak about today bring you a beautiful madrish I also want to tell you all that bakashem we get a Mazel Tov my wife and I had a baby boy and this Shabbos we're making a briss and so it's appropriate that today's vartura will touch upon some things that have to do with the concept of bris that have to do with the concept of the Kindle the high priest his entrance into the shakadash and the holy of holies and what was the Merit that brought him in there we'll see that shortly in the magic but before we do I'd like to read to you the bisokim sukum the end of Pericles beginning with paragraph test and our Parsha plus success of different parts of the the close of the kohanu that are to be made this is in chapter 28 verse the the priests are and his sons will wear them when they come into the Tabernacle the beginning or when they come to bring corbones bring the sacrifices on the altar when they are serving in the Holy areas they shouldn't carry any sins these clothing protect them the clothing of the kohanim of the priests protect them from any sins it's Aloha for them and their children forever and then the first verse in chapter 29 this is and this so as I understand it this is a continuation besides the fact that they need to bring to to be wearing these clothing they also need to do the following when they become priests list of different corbones sacrifices that they are to bring but this is the thing this is the thing and this is the thing that they need to do so the magic speaks at length about what is this thing what is this referring to the word this Visa so the first thing that the message tells us is it's referring to the breasts it's referring to the obligation for for excuse me every single Jewish person every single Jewish Family to to circumcise their sons on the eighth day after they are born what is this place the holy of holies the holiest location in on Earth in order for him to walk in there and attain an atonement for the Jewish people he needs a particular Merit what is this Merit what is the Merit that allows him to come in there to get an atonement for the Jewish people for himself or his family for the entire Jewish people said it was the Merit of the Mila it was the merits of the briss of the fact that he was circumcised now what does this mean exactly so we'll see together hopefully soon but just to give you a heads up and a preview so the the levim says explained the Levites when they were inside of Egypt when they were still serving when they were still servants in Egypt so the Levites were Potter they were not obligated in becoming servants they weren't slaves there and so while the entire Jewish people were uncircumcised the Levites retained the Missouri the tradition of circumcision of the bris now they got to the mid bar explains them a fortune explain them a fortune when they got to the Wilderness so Aaron was the one who taught them the Mitzvah of bris the Mitzvah of circumcision making sure to do it on the eighth day now we need to understand what is represented by the bris what is represented by circumcision what is the concept of it and we'll see that there are other things there were other merits that allowed Aaron akun to come in to the holy of holies to atone for the Jewish people so we need to think about what is the concept of atonement what is the concept of coming into the holy of holies how does that connect to the concept of Mila to the concept of circumcision so that there was the Merit of the circumcision that would come in with him ironic would come in with that Merit Generations this is a reference to the Mila to the circumcision uses the same word this what is this this is the Covenant that you should keep so the concept of the bris of circumcision is referred to as a covenant is referred to as a pact between us and God and it's referred to as this is my Covenant was with him with him right means and accompanied him the concept not just the actual physical manifestation of the circumcision but the concept accompanies us if we understand it obviously we need to understand it but clearly understood what it meant what is the essence of this halach of this Mitzvah of circumcision and we'll soon understand what it is what is the essence of it the life and the peace the word Shalom is always connected the word peace is always connected to the to the bris the concept of the Covenant right we call it a Shalom zakhar the Friday night the first Friday night it's it's very much connected Friday is the concept of six going into seven it's the connection between the female aspect and the male aspect the point of connection is the bris has a different understanding what was it that accompanied iron a coin when he wanted to enter into the holy of holies when he wanted to enter into the Tabernacle it was the Merit of the schwatum it was the Merit of the the tribes themselves right because let's remember aranakain the high priest he was a representative though the Gohan represented the Jewish people they brought the Coronas on their behalf they brought the sacrifices they gained atonement on behalf of the Jewish people so it's very interesting because here's Aaron a coin coming to atone for us and what does he bring what's the Merit that he brings it's the diamonds it's the rubies it's the emeralds it's the special Stones the precious stones that were on the afold that were on his breastplate now of course he didn't go inside the shakadashem the holy of holies with those on because he would change into the white garments as we mentioned but as I'm unfortunately explained he would go in to the karate of the holy of holies with the recognition of with the concept of with the memory of the schwatam the tribes now what is that what is the idea behind these diamonds these precious gems that are presented each tribe measures go through I'm not going to read it inside but the measures goes through each of the different tribes and what they're what type of stone they had my time what was the reason why they have all these Stones why did he come in to the to the miktash with stones representing precious stones representing each of the tribes of Jewish people because Hashem would look at these Stones he would look at the clothing of the kohanu of the priests he would look at this special clothing that he would change into in order to enter into the holy of holies and somehow that would remind God as it were of the Merit of the Jewish people it would gain atonement for them so we have two things here we have the bris the circumcision gains atonement for the Jewish people it accompanies him and we have the clothing which has to do with the the precious gems the Diamonds the rubies the emeralds that were on the afo the clothing the outer aspect and the inner aspect we could say the outer aspect in the inner aspect we'll see more in a moment says foreign this Prince had a a person who was taking care of him who was raising him and you know sometimes the the prince says he's learning to be princely he's learning to be who he's supposed to be how he's meant to behave he'll make a mistake he'll do things wrong he'll maybe disrespect his father the king heaven forbid so this teacher who is teaching the prince the way to act in a princely manner he would come in and he wanted to say something positive to the king about his son he wanted to get atonement for his son he was afraid that whatever he would say the other members of the Court would try to say things negatively as he's trying to say something positive [Music] so the king obviously wants to forgive his son he wants his son to grow up to be the next king so what did the king do he'll be shy parfir Chalet he dresses the agent he dresses the teacher in his own Royal garments she is that all of the other members of the Court should see the Royal garments and step back and be afraid to say anything negative about the prince in the same way when Aaron would come in each year in order to to gain atonement for the Jewish people he didn't want any negative things being said about the Jewish people he wanted to come in there with with the right clothing with the right with the right kingly clothes so the the Mitzvahs is another magic which I don't think we'll see if we get it we get to it another measures in vayikra which speaks about the many misses that would accompany him besides so the briss so that's where the the bris which is the inner aspect so Shabbos which represents a certain thing there is also the Torah which represents a certain aspect but all of these were like the the kingly garments that he was able to go in and protect the Jewish people with the the Angels were there and they would they would say negative things haven't prohibited about the Jewish people hey why aren't these people acting as they should why are they not acting in a princely way I also like other Sparkle nothing do he gives him beautiful garments that look like God's garment says it works we find that the the verses speak it's a reverse in Isaiah chapter 59 verse 17 they speak about the clothing as it were that God wears God wears righteousness he wears a hat of Salvation by Il Bush there are times when he puts on clothing which is the clothing of Vengeance he puts it on he puts on these different clothing so just like Hashem puts on certain clothing this clothing he gives to the kind cuddle when the coin goto enters the high priest enters into the crazy shot kadashima to the holy of holies so he also wears parallel clothing kingly garments what does that clothing look like it looks like the conceptually it looks like the missus that he brings it looks like the diamonds of the Jewish people which represent the uniqueness and specialness of the Jewish people so Hashem gave him the secret the the clothing to wear to protect himself and to protect the Jewish people what was this clothing it was the clothing of Marcus it was the clothing of the king the clothing of Hashem himself what does that look like was the inner aspect and what is the outer aspect so indeed let's let's take a look at the medrish in Partridge which parallels this manjush there's two pieces here one of them says like this the friends of the sages they said like this why does he have eight different garments foreign it corresponds to the concept of Milo the concept of the circumcision which is for eight days on the eighth day though brings the same verse that we saw together so somehow that the number eight the aspect of eight represents something something powerful represents the the clothing that he wears it's the Merit that allows him to come in and it represents the Mila what is this concept one more hint of what the concept is what is it that he comes in with iron comes into the holy of holies with this we said one aspect is he comes in with the briss with the circumcision with that mitzvah which he taught to the Jewish people also he comes in with Torah that's the message over here he has packages bundles and bundles of Mitzvah the Mila Shabbos the tribes but what is the idea so the previous message this is this is section 21 uh partial 21 section 5. when it comes to Waging War you have to be able to use all kinds of all kinds of Tricks is their packages can mean the the tricks the all the different calculations in order to wage and win the war but the same word which means packages bundles if a person has done packages bundles of sins heaven forbid so turn it around [Music] do corresponding bundles of Mitzvahs of fulfilling Commandments let's say a person has used his eyes to to look at people in a negative way put on villain the tool and go between your eyes and they raise your eyes to a TR in a Transcendent way right the thrill and rest above the head the place of kesser which where that's really what we're talking about here the eighth aspect we'll get to that in a moment the shine shock air let's say a person spoke with with false lips with his tongue fix it by using your tongue to teach Torah to your children [Music] let's say a person has used his hands to hurt others or the example here is to to kill to to cause death [Music] on your hands okay so you have the Toyota you have the twilling oven let's say a person is using his thoughts to think negative things to think thoughts of licentious thoughts for how you had the vermael place these words place the Torah upon your heart so the Torah and its villain they serve to raise a person up ragalaima Maris Larissa let's say a person is running to do evil things how can you how what are the bundles of Mitzvahs that he can use the Commandments that you can use to to rectify that heavy rats use your legs what's between them is the circumcision ruts ruts run after the mits of Mila which means to to be the one who's the sandic who sits the child on your lap and it goes through another you know a whole other list of examples and I'm not going to get into that right now but what I'd like to focus in on is an amazing thing an amazing thing we are human and the human being makes mistakes right that's why we need a cut and cuddle that's why we need the high priestess where you need the priests to atone for us to bring the core bonus of sacrifices the clothing that they wear they wear the diamonds right they wear the the precious gems which have the names of each of us upon them each of the the tribes of the Jewish people and he also walks in with the brisk because what is the concept the bris the Covenant the the circumcision means that there's something that's covered up covered up by sin but what's underneath what's underneath is who we really are it's the real relationship the proper relationship the proper use of our desires in our relationship with our spouse and our relationship with Hashem and our relationship with bringing children down into this world that's represented in this incredible way the Levites were the masters of this but it's something that's on the inside it's something that's covered it's something that we don't see something that you know it's something that's hidden it's meant to be covered it's the inner aspect and the clothing or the outer aspect as we said now think about it this way for a moment okay the concept of a the concept of the eighth aspect which is what we're speaking about are the eight clo the eight different parts of the clothing of the coin god of the high priest The Eighth Day the eighth aspect always represents it represents above nature it's Beena it's the eighth aspect we have the seven seven days of creation seven days of the natural order then we have la mama the eighth aspect but what's interesting is that the eighth aspect as the makubalum explain as the deeper sources explain the eighth aspects completely surrounds the soul surrounds the human being but it's also inside of the human being it's completely hidden within us and it completely surrounds us just as Hashem God himself as it were is the soul of the of reality he gives constant Keen to reality he's constant existence to reality but he completely surrounds reality he's Beyond reality but reality is inside of him but he's also inside of all of reality so the eighth aspect represents the spiritual aspect which completely surrounds and it's completely inside now what happens when a person sins when a person doesn't have Vera we've done something wrong so how do we get rid of it how do we remove the foreskin because what we're trying to do is we're trying to reveal what's really inside we're trying to reveal the spiritual aspect which is inside of us which is covered by the Avea which is covered by the sin that's represented by the bris the bris is the removal of the sin it's getting back to who we really are the clothing that the coin got all wears represent the diamonds the the beauty of the Jewish people represents the the essence of who each tribe is each of the stones that that are on the breastplate are different aspects represent different aspects of who the Jewish people are at our Essence at our core now we can reveal that by by cover you know covering ourselves with hey this is who I am look at who I am this is the beauty of who I am the clothing makes the man so to speak but that's the outer aspect that's the soul which completely envelops us that's represented by the clothing and it's the soul that's on the inside it's the soul that's in in the core of who we are which animates everything that goes on in the Physical Realm we which is represented by the bris which is the revealing of the inner aspect of the of the creative aspect that which is able to to bring people together bring a man and his wife together in a in a holy Union in a Holy Connection which brings the the highest Souls down into the world it's an awesome awesome thing iron is the I have Shalom he's the one who brought peace between people he's the one who brought peace between man and God he's the one who brought atonement to us how did he bring us home and if you did this sin here's the Mitzvah to do to show who you really are the sin is just it's a covering it's fake it doesn't represent Who You Are go back to the Torah go back to the tire which reminds us of who we're supposed to be go back to this villain that's fill and sit they rest upon the head they're also next to the heart why because they represent who we're supposed to be that's the inside aspect and the outside aspect the children are above they surround during the place of the Soul which completely surrounds us we we need these reminders we need these reminders of the essence of who we are the soul is Who We Are in order to come into the mission in order to come into the Tabernacle he needed to bring with him to discuss the Merit of the the bris of the Covenant which says hey this is who we really are we're really a spiritual being we have creative powers given to us divinely by Hashem just like God can create we can create we can bring human Souls which animate reality into the world and he also came in with the the the garments which represented the beauty the malachus the spirituality of Who We Are I want to bless you and ask you to bless me some should help us that we should be able to indeed recognize who we really are recognize the essence of who we are inside and outside remove all of the Alvarez all of that which stands between us and Hashem between us and the essence of who we are the soul that we that we really are some should help us to see to dress ourselves so to speak in the clothes of malchus of of the kingly clothes and Hashem should help us to be able to remove that which blocks us from who we are thank you so much for listening a wonderful shamas 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 foreign