Tetzaveh-Purim - He Carries, We Carry

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in urmavich israel 5781 2021. this week's parasha is partially in our parsha we have hashem commanding moshe abenu to create the big day kahuna the special clothes which were worn by aron and his sons the high priest and the other kohanim and i'd like to share with you two different pieces in the medrash seeming seeming to be unrelated and they're actually one is at the end of a section a previous section and one is at the beginning of the following section i'd like to share a thought perhaps a theme that ties them together and i also like to talk about purim because recording this it's now titus esther it's the fast divester and we're heading into the purim holiday and i'd like to talk about the big day kahuna in in the context of purim we find that veros or sages tell us it's kumar magillah and baze that ah put on the big deku when he put on the clothes of the high priest at his party he used the kalim he used the vessels from the base of english from the temple i'd like to try to understand in the context of these midrash and i'm going to share with you what is the idea behind that using the high priest's garments what is the mistake that he made and how does hashem correct that mistake and use his mistake for the good of amistrel so the first piece in the measure says you shall command you shall command the children of israel and they shall bring to you the pure olive oil that they are to use in order to bring light to the mishkan to the tabernacle says the magish what is this idea what is the light that the jewish people bring call out and i will i will answer you when you call out hashem is going to answer hashem desires his mighty adam the things that he's created the human beings he wants us he wants to answer our prayers he wants us to pray to him he knows what we need but he still wants us to pray to him there are four cases there are four instances where we see that hashem asks us to do something even though he doesn't need it right think about tv think about prayer sean doesn't need our prayers he knows what we need he knows what we want and yet he wants us to pray he wants us to ask him so there are four instances hashem asks us to do something even though he already has it okay it says in the puzzle you shall desire your creations right so what is this which means desire it's this concept we find there's the word means to desire to want very much vietnamese fortune explain and point out that the magisk is actually going to only list three because there's one of them are missing one of them is missing it's not it's not essential but an example is the the one that's missing it's brought down in a different matrix that hashem asks us to bring carbon uh to bring him bread as the word to bring him food of course hashem is the one who gives sustenance the entire world he doesn't need our food so to speak he doesn't need us to provide him with anything and yet he wants us to be part of it he wants us to do something for him the first of the things that are mentioned that are our major mentions is that hashem carries the world some carries the entire world yes i created the worlds as hashem i shall carry the world i will bear the burden of the world. and we find that hashem commands the bene the children of levi the levites that they should indeed carry when it comes to the parts of the mishkan mushroom doesn't need the bananas to actually carry them hashem carries everything but he wants the jewish people to take part in the carrying so to speak earlier then we find that when indeed the jewish people came to the jordan river hashem himself carried them the orange carried them the iron carried the priests themselves you would think that their carrying is too heavy perhaps for them to carry hashem was carrying it but he wanted them to carry shanemovin they weren't able to pass they were carrying the orange the the waters came back in just like at yam they were carried by they floated above the water over the river and they were able to get to the other side they didn't really need to carry the orange the iron carried them nevertheless even though our action is not necessary he says hashem wants our action hashem wants us to carry some requests of us that we do it [Music] is like we said that they weren't really carrying the iron or was carrying them [Music] we find that hashem protects his world he takes care of his world shannara he nearly announced israel he behold the guardian of israel neither slumbers nor sleeps right hashem is the one who protects us now thus we find that hashem asks us to be involved in protection in protecting the mishkan supposed says there's an obligation for us to surround the mishkan to protect the mishkan in a certain sense it has special shimerim in in the islamic dash in the temple all of this was because kansha who wants us to take part to feel like we're part of what's going on um finally comes back to arpasuk which spoke about the obligation to hashem says to moshe to command the jewish people to bring shaman says islamoor to bring this special olive oil for them to light so it doesn't need light shane gives light to the world that hashem lights up the entire world with his honor hashem wants us she wants us to take part even though it seems that our actions are not so relevant they're not so important hashem is doing it anyway he wants us to be part of it okay that's the first major i want to understand perhaps the deeper depth of it but that's the basic idea of the first mattress second madrush and you shall bring to you your brother chapter 10 from you from it from the nation of israel there shall be a peanut a foundation stone and you say this from the jewish people there shall be a a stake that's driven into the earth to hold up the the tent and from the jewish people there shall be a an arrow which shall be shot in war what does this mean come in here um [Music] it was common in times of yore that when they wanted to have somebody to lead them let's say to be a king they wanted to have warriors to be part of the war that they were waging they would bring people from outside of their country they would bring a distinguished leader from elsewhere in order to lead that particular country about israel says the majest it's not so the jewish people the jewish people do not bring from anywhere else and we find something obligation to place upon ourselves the jewish people the great people of the jews come from the jews the great kings come from the jews the great priests who serve on the jewish people's behalf come from the jews we have our own prophets we have our own princes as it says it shall be from us the foundation stone who is that this is a reference to king david heaven as as he refers to himself as the stone which was despised by others the builders despise this particular stone he became the foundation stone menu we find what is the verse referred to as stake that's driven into the ground to hold up the tent it's a reference to zechariah it's a reference to the high priest of base first the fact that we have a very s a very powerful foundation which is the stake that holds it up that's referring to the kangaroo from them come the warriors the posture is talking about real worries talking about the the fighting men jews have our own fighting men unfortunately it says it's referring to the merchant those who are involved in studying the torah fighting the war of torah those who are able to fight with their with their bows and arrows so we also find the reference to the fact that we have our own scribes we have our own scholars who is our priest who is the one who stands on our behalf in front of in the kardashian in the holy of holies in the temple it's not someone from any other nation we have our own best men we have our own best men that's what hashem said to mushroom bring your brother bring indeed now i want to understand what is this message teaching us what is the idea why do we need to know that we have our own best men it to make us feel good it makes us feel happy wow the jewish people we have so much kitchen we have so much um talent in the jewish people we don't need to get our talent from anywhere else with our own kings we have our what's what's the idea so measures continues in explaining it further and he says and it says there is a it's a parable it's comparable to a king a king who had a very close friend and he wanted to give him a certain honor and respect so he appointed him to be in charge of appointments he appointed him to be in charge of deciding who's going to be in charge of different areas he said you're going to be the catalinas so the king it came time for him to appoint to to make a particular appointment for a very important position in his kingdom so this beloved friend of his thought i'm going to be the guy but that's not what happened the king said that's not though that's not who i'm gonna make and that's not what i'm giving that great appointment to it's not gonna be you um but i want you to go and appoint who you think is appropriate to be this great leader um is a genusia from which family should i appoint it i'm not exactly sure who's the guy that you would like me to to hire so to speak all right said i want you to go to your own family and find somebody there who's going to be the one who's going to be the leader he didn't have it himself but he's going to have it someone at least someone in his family is going to have it i want you to be in charge of the entire craftsmanship of the mission of the tabernacle the creation of the mishkan he was in charge he was shown everything he gave instructions he said do this do that. now that hashem is going to to appoint a certain person to be the high priest to be in charge of the void in the mishkan he thought it's going to be him says no no no i want you to appoint somebody else i'm going to follow him i love him amazing so from which tribe am i supposed to appoint this korean gunnel you said from your tribe the tribe of levi rejoicing said my shave it is beloved it's your brother okay that's the idea what is this measure saying and clearly it's paralleling the fact that we you know mosh robin was felt disappointed he felt oh maybe it should be me even i'm the correct person to be the one who serves in the basement from the tabernacle and the michigan says no but he was he was consoled not just console but he was joyous over the fact that it was somebody from his own pedigree from his own family in a similar way the the first part of the message was telling us a similar idea again we need to understand it but we see that it's saying the a parallel concept that cloud israel we have our own people just like moshe albano felt joyous that his brother was going to be the cutting gun hashem is telling us that we have within our own ranks amazing amazing leaders amazing fighting warriors amazing people to be to fill all the tasks that are needed for our nation we don't need to bring anyone from anywhere else so that should bring us great simcha but what i want to understand is why would we think to go out anywhere else why indeed in the times of yore the times of kadmainim so why did these nations you know think about it bollock went to billam to be this prophet of doom for the jewish people why did he go there why couldn't he find anybody in his own in his own country who could accomplish this so i was thinking about i was thinking about this and i think perhaps we could say as follows very important idea very deep depth why does someone go somewhere else why does a person think i need to find something somewhere else because we think that we know who is the best for the job we think that if we bring in a particular individual this person has all of the leaders leadership skills all the leadership ability this person is the one might not be one of us might not be one of ours but nevertheless this is the guy he's got the power he's got the ability he's got the talent there's an assumption there there's a mistake there and masha abano made the same mistake as the magistrate explains it he thought he should be the kangaroo what does that mean he understood his own talents he understood the talents of so many people around him but he felt that he had the ability to be the go-between he was always to go between he had gone up on arsenal to receive the torah for the jewish people he had spoken directly to god he's the one that makes sense to be the ultimate shleak the ultimate messenger for the jewish people he felt that he knew who the right one is says no it's not you it's somebody else we could also think that we know who has the power who could be our leader who could be our king who is who's the talent that we should bring in hashem wants us to know that we don't know we don't know he has his people he has his people who he's going to choose we don't know that might be that might be a downer for us right i thought that this guy is going to be the powerful one this guy's going to be the one who's going to be our best king he has all the talents he has the abilities some says no you don't know but there's a hammer and it is a consolation not just a consolation but there's a rejoicing that occurs when we realize that we have somebody of our own so we have both sides of it it's very it's a very interesting contrast what's the idea the point what's the what's the niku down here the idea is that hashem wants to know it's not us we don't know we don't really know who's the one we don't really know who's the one who has the power we don't really know who's the one who's got it right where's the talent hashem knows who it is and i think that that's the connection to the previous major the previous message was talking about the fact that hashem is the one who does everything he carries everything but he wants us to carry he's the one who lights the world but he wants us to light as well he's the one who provides sustenance he wants us also to reciprocate at some level he wants us to be involved but he wants us there's a powerful foundation idea here and that is that we are not the ones doing it we don't really know whose place it is we don't really know whose job it is to do certain things at the same time we do know that hashem wants us to do it we do know that hashem wants us to be involved we do that hashem wants us to take part in the smear of the world the protection of the world he wants us to learn the torah by learning the torah we protect the world what does that mean i don't know but hashem wants us to feel like we're part of it hashem says we don't know we're not really carrying and yet we are carrying she wants us to know that we're involved here and we're not involved here the big day kahuna why does ah want to put on the big day because he thinks that the jewish people have been rejected he thinks that it's been 70 years the basements was destroyed seven years ago the prophet said of the jewish people there's going to be a new base i make this seven years later didn't happen he thinks he knows the score he thinks he knows what's going on and he thinks that now he has taken over that he is the kind guttal he's the conduit through which the world will be able to access a higher realm be able to access god [Music] what happens in the end what happens in the end he's in the sky of misa he's because why because he's out of place he's in the wrong spot he doesn't belong there only a only a kind gutter can wear those clothes only a kind guido a high priest is allowed from the jewish people only a jew can play that role he's got mesa and so once you know his misa who dies his wife ends up dying the wife of a person is like himself somehow he got away with it right but what happens because he wore it comes in esther esther amalka she is the jewish princess she is the jewish queen her son darya is gonna be the one who's gonna allow the jewish people to rebuild the temple to rebuild the base hamiktosh so in a certain sense was wrong obviously because he couldn't wear the big decoruna but by wearing the big day kahuna the result was that things ended up in its right place esther amalko she's in the wrong place she's a nice jewish girl what is she doing married wrong place but somehow her being there brings about the chuva of claudia sorel the jewish people repent and subsequently they're able to return to eretz israel to the land of israel rebuild the basement build the temple is a mistake things being out of place brings about things being put back in place that's that's what hashem does he has the ability to take the things that are out of place and use them to bring everything back into the right place because ultimately this is the foundation he is the one who decides he's the one who carries he is the one who ultimately brings everything to its tequila we don't know whose job is to do what we don't know who's who's the real person we think this person is going to be the person who's going to bring us to certain salvation but it's not why does hashem do that like we said it's because hashem wants us to know it's him it's only him it's not us it's not that guy it's not this government it's not this figurehead this puppet that we see in front of us but ultimately no matter what hashem is going to show one thing for certain and that is that it's real claustrophobic is his chosen people the amanithar they will never be forsaken they were never in all of history despite all the claims to the contrary by other nations other religions who say that they are not they are now the chosen ones klaus was never forsaken not you don't think available you know don't think that you're really carrying don't think that don't try to bring it in from somewhere else someone else no one else is going to save you notice is going to help you it's going to come from you why because hashem wants us to know that we are it so to speak but it's not us either that's that's the ultimate deepest depth of the whole thing it's not us he wants us to be part of it he wants us to feel part of it but it's not us and purim we have to forget all the characters we have to forget who's who what's what forget it forget it take off the mask take off the mask and you see who it really is you see at its deepest depths every single thing is hashem i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem shall help us that we should be able to have this sense that he's the one that's carrying should be able to also feel that we're part of the carrying we should be able to recognize that israel is why just because hashem decided just because hashem chose us we should be able to recognize we have everything we have all the talent classical has everything that we need we don't need to go elsewhere hashem should help us to recognize we should take off the mask so we can see that really he's behind it all thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos and afraid this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www or search on itunes ari goldwag