Tetzaveh Moshe and Aharon

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with the shims never ending assistance in 5775 2015 this week's parsha is partial to java the partial this week there are two main commands that my shrah ban was instructed to give his brother are not korean air on the priest the first is the obligation to light the menorah the candelabra in a temple in the Michigan tabernacle that was a form of the of the temple in a wilderness and the second obligation is to put together to create the big kahuna the special garments which were worn by the children of our own all of the priests the Kohanim and the special garments which were warned the eighth garments which were worn by the client got all the high priest in this case which was iron himself Aaron the priest now there are a few different statements of cos all of our sages that if we look at them close let me try to understand what's going on gives us a great depth and an insight that we can use in our lives as well you know one of the interesting things that we find is that this week's parsha part of the sava is place right before next expression next week's parsha spartacus Isa which classically is the parsha that the Jewish people they fall prey to the eight Sahara the evil inclination which causes them the tsaatan the Satan causes them to worship the idol the golden calf Moshe a banner will see is going to be up on our see uniting at Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights the Jewish people are going to say where is this mushroom and Moses we've been waiting for him for so long where is he and are not cutting Aaron as our class I'll explain as I say just say he tries to stall he tries to hold them off but he sees that it's not going to work so he says come back with your gold and with your your your you're going to you're going to bring that goal to us for we're going to create this new thing that's going to lead us and indeed what's created as the idol the golden calf and the result is a great sin as the tour describes in next week's parsha but see the question is why do we have in this week's parsha partial said Sava why is this week the the obligation of the clothing of arnica in the aura what is it what is the message of the fact that this is placed before next week's parsha so one of the things that are huzzah point out is that one could see one could think that since our nicoya was involved in this great sin this sin which cost the Jewish people tremendously the Jewish people had reached a state of other my recent claim I hate Adam before the sin they had they were no longer going to die they were in a state of purity they're just incredible you know so I earn a coin by him Aaron being involved in a cine caused him to lose that great state to lose that great spirituality and other Jewish people would be back to human beings be back to the state that we're in now and so you would think that iron as a result of that great sin causing that great centering part of the great sin perhaps you'd fall from grace even no longer be a leader of the Jewish people but no we find out that's not true in fact he continues to be leader of the Jewish people in fact he's the one who comes into the Michigan which is the capara which is in a certain sense a an atonement for the Jewish people and he's always going to lead them and give the core bonus on their behalf he's the one is going to be involved in a service at every level and the question is why if he did such a great sin he was involved in this great sin of the golden calf how is it that he can continue to serve hashemi can stand up in front of a son and and be the liaison though the person who's going to connect the Jewish people to God how is it and as our class I'll tell us the measure says that the marshal it's a muscled as an analogy to a prince and this Prince wants to rebel against his father so he's doing a certain act of rebellion now there was a great officer of the king who loved the king very much and he saw that his son was doing this act of rebellion against his father and so he says his son no don't don't you do it let me do it and the son of course sees that this officer wants to do this deed and he says okay go ahead you can do it that's fine but as a result now the King comes home the King season this officer is doing this this dastardly deed how could it be that he's doing this act of defiance against the king but it becomes clear that the reason that he was doing it is not because he wanted to defy the king but rather he didn't want the Prince to look bad he didn't want the Prince to be doing something and his father would come home and see his son doing this act of defiance against his father and in the same way I shemsi zarna Cornish MCS the efforts that Aaron did in order to prevent them to stop them to push off so that Moshe Abed would get back before they would do this in a sham sees that that was his intent if wash em says this is the one who I want just like in the martial the analogy so the King comes home and he says you my officer since you tried to protect the prince from doing something an act of defiance against me I want you to always be the one who's going to be my officer to be my second-in-command so to wash em says to are not going to air and I want you since you were the one who tried to prevent my children from doing a sin you took it upon yourself and you even looked like it looked like you were the one doing this in so since you were willing to take that upon yourself take the blame off of the Jewish people place it upon yourself I want you to be the one who enters in the fan either lift NIM it's the Holy of Holies that place of true relationship with a Shem and I want you to be the one who acts on their behalf and continues this relationship continues to maintain this relationship between our Shem between myself God says and my people my Jewish people now what's interesting is that there's another measure sure there's another statement for Marquez all the teachers of something very powerful not about arnica about Aaron but about Moshe I'll being about Moses after the Jewish people sins when they worship this I Vytas are this golden calf so most rubino pleads with God he says please God forgive the Jewish people don't don't destroy them don't destroy the Jewish people and Masha says Moses says am I in Mahaney no miss africa and if you don't forgive the jewish people i want you to erase me from your book Moshe Rabbeinu is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice because when he says I want you to erase me from your book he doesn't just mean erased me from the Torah he needs I want you to erase me from from the from the book of life from the book of everlasting consciousness now when Moshe says this awesome indeed forgives the Jewish people the end result is the Jews people are forgiven of their sin and indeed Hashem does not erase mushroom in doesn't erase Moses from the safer Tyra from the book of the Torah so doesn't erase him from everlasting life of course from everlasting consciousness but our house I'll tell us that in fact most raveena was erased in a certain sense because Sally Glaser McCormick I'm when a righteous person says something even if it's negative Hashem is going to fulfill the word of that righteous individual now the question is where is that word fulfilled and the answer is our cause I'll tell us that if you look at this week's parsha parshas to java from beginning to end so it starts off the very first verse the it starts off saying the ATAF it's avez benezra you shall command the jewish people and tell them to bring this oil for the menorah the special oil made out of olives etc but it doesn't say Moshe rubinos name it says you shall command them it speaks about commanding your brother Aaron etc goes through the whole entire parsha it doesn't mention why sharabi know once in a house i'll tell us our sages tell us said why was it that moisture bein was not mentioned in this week's parsha the answer is because he said in my in makeni now miss africa if not if you don't forgive the jewish people that I want you to erase me from your book where is he indeed erased even though I shouldn't forgive the Jewish people where is he indeed erased he's a race from this week's parsha we don't see anything about Moshe Rabbeinu in this week's parsha in partial stood Sava now thinking about this when we look at this we have to ask ourselves a question there's a question its belaid's it sticks out the question is why Daka this week's parsha why specifically if there's going to be any place that Moshe that Moses name is left out of its gonna be left out of partial to Java which speaks about the menorah it speaks about the the clothes of arnica of air in the priests why is this the parsha that moisture ave no is left out of why is it here in this very partial that we said before this parsha represents the fact that are declined even though he's going to do a great sin he's going to lead the jewish people to to bow down to worship the idolatry of the golden calf that he still remains in the good graces of god right that's what we said why is it that in this week's parsha which talks about the fact that iron is in mushrooms good graces even though there's gonna be a sin later on still a sham wants him to be serving a Shem to be serving the Jewish people creating that connection why is it that in this very parsha maschera Bay know is erased his name does not appear up here what's the understanding what's the reason for it now when thinking about it we need to understand what is the difference between moisture Ravana's approach Moses approach to reality and iron Italians approach to reality Aaron the priest what is the difference between these two personalities how they lead the Jewish people what their role is in the leadership of the Jewish people and this is something we've spoken about in the past we've spoken a few years ago about motion Aaron and Miriam and their role and the way that they work together in tandem but what I'd like to focus in on right now is the difference in approach between Moshe and our Moshe Rabbeinu as a result also say just say Moshe is the meter of net saw the media of metse the character trait of net sock is from lush room from the language of meat sack on which means victory my Shura Boehner with somebody who he is powerful he comes in and he says this is the way we're gonna serve God and this is it this is how it's got to be and if it's not going to be this way we are going to fall into a spiritual abyss if someone's going to step up and he's going to try to define me as Cora does he's going to be destroyed and fall into a spiritual abyss or physical abyss but that's my sermon hughesnet suck he's a character trait of the fire in his eyes I mean if you could imagine the fire in his eyes iron Italian Aaron the priest is a completely different approach to Yiddish guy to completely different approach to spirituality in service of God harun aaron is called the aspect of HUD HUD is from a language of little duct which means to admit aren't a kind he knows had to admit you know sad to see when the jewish people can't handle it when it's too much for these people he sees my shirt you know moisture a banal he sees that they're good they're that the the Jews had not gone astray they've served this idolatry he throws down the Lucas he throws down the tablets which represent the relationship with a sham basically says you have destroyed the relationship with Hashem through this actress idolatry now what is aaron do Aaron on the other hand he sees that they're going to sin and he sees that he's not going to be to stop them because someone else who tries to stop them but he's killed so he says himself if I will stand up and try to stop them they will kill me exact result Ellis our sages say if they kill me that's a much greater sin if they kill a profit that's a much greater sin than serving idolatry so he says I'm going to aid them and hopefully by aiding them as we said previously hopefully by by trying to help then we're going to push it off into my charbonneau to Moses will come down from the mountain so Aaron sees that within the sin itself there's an opening as a possibility for for there to be by aiding them so to speak in the sin so there's a possibility to prevent them from sinning there's a possibility to maintain the relationship with Hashem or that the relationship with a Shem should end up being even worse than it already is so that's the difference in approach between moisha and our anisha comes in with his toy gift with his strength he throws down the loop eyes Aaron he comes in and he says hold on a second let's let's let's let's see what we can do is see how we can work it out let's see how it can you know let's let's hold on let's let's work with the people that's our nakone these are two meters these are two different ways of approaching a virus a Shem and there's a time for this and it's time for that that's why we have these two great leaders we have a my sharabi know who leads us in our relationship with a sham who brings down the Tyra we also have an iron a coin who leads us in Aaron who he's the one who is bringing the car bonus is bringing the sacrifices which represent this relationship between God and the Jewish people now what's what's the bottom line message the bottom line message isn't it Savin our parsha as a prelude to the to the sin of the golden calf the bottom line message is that are not Korean his way of serving a Shem is indeed respected Hashem respects it and once and once that inside of the temple you once that inside of this happened on side of the mission and it's not to be rejected despite the fact that it seems like art is doing something wrong it seems like he's involved in a sin no the very thing that he's involved in ash MCS right away that this is something that he's involved in only in order to prevent the Jewish people from looking bad from losing their relationship with Hashem so in this very partial where there's an acknowledgement of the fact that aren is indeed still in God's good graces there's also and that moisture obey no doesn't appear when sharabi know who his entire aspect is the concept of net sock which is this extreme expression of serving a xem serving a Shem only serving a sham no there's no possibility of falling away and there's no possibility of sinners no there's no that's not part of the expression of the way that mushroom in a service of Shem I heard a client is a different thing and in the same vein I saw that the Rebbe Nelson speaks about the fact that if we look at the mitzvos that are involved in the big day Kahuna the clothing of iron a coin can we see that our hazael tell us that the clothing of our own the clothing that he wore was a cop para it was an atonement for the Jewish people if they would use clothing in the wrong way what does that mean nothing says that there's a way of using clothing in an incorrect fashion unless a person is running after ashira seas running after wealth so clothing as an expression of that wealth it can be an expression of that wealth because very nice clothing so it can be an expression of guyver of a person's ego look how nice my clothing is look how great I am look how look how--look how look how so that is where clothing can be used in the wrong way or let's say that vaanam typhus we find that the the a fold the the breastplate which aren't a coin would wear so it had on it these 12 different stones which represented the 12 different tribes now why was it specifically these precious stones that represented the 12 different tribes so the idea is that it was to atone again just like the big day Kahuna the clothing itself would atone for the misuse of clothing so to the stones that were on the Eightfold they would atone they would serve to atone for the misuse of wealth now what is the idea why do they tone what's the understanding of the concept of atonement in this context and the answer is that clothing in and of itself nice clothing is not something in and of itself which is negative depends how it's used if it's you is in service of one's ego then it can be a negative force wealth money precious stones these are things which intrinsically are not evil these are things which are not intrinsically don't have to be misused sometimes unfortunately they can be misused in the pursuit of ego again however when our nakone uses them when Aaron the high priest wears them or when the priests the Kohanim wear them were these big the Kahuna they serve to atone why because they're being used in the service of a Shem and idea is that wealth and beautiful clothing and all of these different things can be used in our service of a Shem and that is the aspect which we were speaking about four of arnica and aaron his ability is called hide it's the ability to use that which we have which seems to be only usable in a negative way perhaps a physical thing nice clothing you know or even the concept of sin for an iron a kind he's able to use sin something right where were you see Chloe's till he sees cloudy swell is about to send he's able to say no let me take over the sim and he can use this in itself as a representation of his service of a Shem Hashem says this is what I want in my Michigan this is why i wanted my tabernacle this is part of the avoidance of shem the service of God which i'm interested in says God Hashem says that is who are n is he's the one who can take the sin and bring it into the service of a shame he's the one who can take the clothing the beautiful clothing and bring it into the service of a Shem he sort of can take the precious stones these these things which represent wealth and use it and directed in the service of a Shem my sharabi know his meda is one called net sake goes up onto the mountain and he's the one who goes up and he brings down the Tyra yes but he's the one who represents the one who's completely using only the spiritual aspects of reality in service of a Shem that's net saw and a sham says that aspect of reality doesn't help me in certain contexts that aspect my Sherman mahamaya Mahaney na miss africa you raised me from your book what is the shams response you're correct there's a place where i need to erase you so to speak when it comes to the atonement of Claudio for the Eagle itself when it comes to the atonement for this avail for this sin the approach of iron is the correct approach which is to take the sin and to redirect it so to speak and and this doesn't mean that I can you know six an hour and a kind someone who's a good ol dias rallies he's you know he's an elderly person he's in his 80s he's somebody who's spent his entire life serving gosh em take somebody like that who can use this in the right way but the idea is that that iron this is the the approach of our own is high lead which is that I'm going to take even the sins I'm going to even take the clothing which can be misuse I'm going to take the wealth which can be so easily misused but no I'm going to take that and I'm going to serve Hashem with that I'm going to direct it towards my service of a show i'm going to clothe myself in these clothings in this kind of attire in order to come in front of a Shem i'm going to have these precious stones and show that everything is a part i can t part of my service of a Shem so I want to bless you and please bless me as well tion should help us to be able to use all the aspects of the reality within which we find ourselves to serve Him and sometimes in Aveiro we doin avera as as Rebbe Nachman says when we after the fact after the person has that are there of course before the fact I have to try to avoid a various we have to try to avoid sins but after the fact we have to say this was such times will that this happened why I can't use it as an excuse to do it again but after the fact i can say that and i need to do to ver from a place of strength not looking at myself as a bad person ever forbid but the idea is that even the sin itself becomes a springboard for me to do tuva to repent and come back into a relationship with Hashem so some should help us we should use all the things that we found ourselves all the situations within which we find ourselves and the weather its wealth whether it's closing all these things to become part of our avoided system part of our service of a Shem thank you so much for listening I have a wonderful shabbos