Tzav - Israel's Gift of Peace

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never ending assistance in R Israel 2024 the six par parav and in par towards the end of the discussion of the caranas the different sacrifi sacrifices that are brought the PK says chapter 7 verse 37 this is the law for the fully burnt offering for the flower offering for the carb the sin offering is a different kind of sin offering and for the carbas which were brought in the dedication of the Mish the last on the list of all of the carbon of all of the sacrifices is the carbon schlam and of this chapter these were all commanded by hem to Moses on Mount Si when hasem commanded the Jewish people to bring their corbon their sacrifices to God so when we read these Pim we have to notice first of all what's going on in this particular P but also generally in the par that the carbon schlam which is the last of the carbonis why is it indeed that it is the last of the carbonis what is special about this sacrifice carbon which we bring every day carbon T we bring on shabas it's completely burnt it goes completely to Hashem as it were the carbon schim is unique in that part of it is eaten by part of it is eaten by the Kohan by the by the priest parts of it are given to the owners and parts of it go on the onto the altar that's unique about the carbon schl and we're going to discuss what is the idea behind the carbon schlam what is the idea behind what is the name sh means whole complete as we spoke about in regards to sh Jerusalem is whole it's complete let's say see together a mish and I also want to point out a earlier in chapter 7:2 it talks about the fact that one of theb is called a carb it's called a thanks offering in the med this is kind of an introduction to the whole discussion the tells us these different rabbis it seems they lived in Galia it's the name of a place they said that in the future in a bottle all of the carbon all the sacrifices will be nullified we won't bringas caram there won't be sins anymore there won't be any there won't be anyar there won't be an evil inclination to do wrong and therefore all that's going to be left is carb the sacrifice which is brought to to show our thanks to God which is a carbon schloman we will no longer need to pray so much because we'll have all of our needs naturally given but we'll always need to thank hem we'll always need to show our gratitude we will always pray still and the prayer will just be a different kind of prayer it won't be a prayer of request it will be a prayer of thanks this is what we find it says in the verse in Jeremiah 33:1 in Jerusalem is going to be heard a sound a voice of Joy the voices of a bride and a groom and this voice says thank you to God just thanks everything will be in their places there won't be any more sh crisis there won't be any more relationship issues everyone will just be grateful everyone will just be joyous and happy they'll be bringing thanks car sacrifice of thanks to God King David says about the future time upon me God I take upon myself these vows I will pay them and I will thank you doesn't say thanks which would mean a literal a literal thanks saying expressing my gratitude rather it's plural why because of course there's the natural expression of gratitude that we need to do but there's also the Corb even in the end even after sacrifices are no longer necessary the sins are gone God will wipe away all of our sins we will still bring a sacrifice to say thank you to God we'll still express our gratitude and as we'll soon see the whole concept of the schl has to do with with peace has to do with a relationship between us and God has to do with a win-win right not only does the carbon get consumed on the altar it's also parts of it are given to the co to the priest parts of it are given to the owners to the BM who bring the carbon and of course with the car so there's also many loaves of bread that are brought person has to involve in his expression of gratitude those around him it's not enough to just say thank you to God in front of God we need to increase that thanks by involving others in our expression of thank you but there's a certain aspect of completion the Mish is saying here and we'll see more about this aspect of completion but there's an aspect of completion we will still have the Corbin schlam and we will still have the even at the end of time even at the end of the story of the 6,000 years of History we will have a carbon title we will have thanks the bottom line of it all will be gratitude we're going to see more about Shing let's see together so next piece in the M this is in we just read from Simon Zion he says like this B right we mentioned at the beginning that theb is the last of Theon that's mentioned and in the P that we read it goes it lists off carbon carbon etc etc and it finishes off with schl why is it the schlam is last says the because it has many different types okay we're going to try to understand what is Shalom what does peace look like right peace doesn't look like we're all the same I just heard yesterday from from from RAB yov he said over why didn't hasem make us all look the same it's a good question right why don't all human beings look the same why does everyone have a little bit of a different look why does everybody you know nobody looks the same nobody looks identical even identical twins you can if if you know them very well you can tell them apart so we read in theik the the the repel of luin he said that it expresses the fact that each and every person looks different expresses that each and every person is different just like their faces are different their opinions their their their ofie their nature is different and that expresses the fact that there's many many different types of ways of serving Hashem Shalom is that all the different ways all the 70 different aspects of Torah come together and form a Unity I'm going to see right if I if I give a car if I bring a corbon think about it if I bring a carbon let's say a carbon katas a sin offering it goes completely to God why carbona it goes completely to God why I sinned I made myself separ separate from God I've I've showed that I my own thing so now I need to go to the Other Extreme and say it's all God in the schlam there's peace we have a we have a win-win we have a interdependence everybody benefits from this Corban expresses the fact that there's Aus a completion a wholeness says a good mush and analogy for this is this particular dish it's a dish that the explained has lots of different uh elements to the dish it's it's some kind of uh I would call it a fruit salad it comes at the end it's brought out as a dessert lots of different types of fruits there's apples in there there's Clementine there's lots of different uh elements and the juice mixes up together right it's it's a delicious treat for the end it comes at the end what comes at the the end what comes at the end of the meal signifies what comes at the end of time what comes in the end of a process the purpose of any process and the purpose of all reality is to bring together all of the disparate elements into cohesive whole into a into a blending into harmony says so that's this is the same reason why schl the carbon schl is the last of the caronus mentioned it has many different types different aspects of it there's blood and the the different parts of the animal that go onto the altar that are burned on the altar the chest and the limbs some of the limbs go to the priests to be eaten or the the leather of the animal and and some of the flesh goes to the owners to the people who brought it so the Corb SCH has this aspect where everyone's involved where everyone's part of it's not me separate from you it's not me separate from God it's a com a combination a completion a wholeness now the Mish goes on because we're talking about the concept of wholeness and we're talking about the concept of Shalom of peace and we're talking about the the concept of completion what happens in the end the M goes on to speak about Shalom and we find goes on to speak about peace we find that in it's true about the end of time and it's also true about our prayers as we mentioned the end of prayers what do we say at the very end of our ding the last thing that we talk about is uh is peace Grant peace God get Grant peace to your people the end excuse me the end of what's the last thing that it says in there I'm sorry that's a p we say that's what I'm looking for the end off their blessing to the Jewish people with peace hem should give us peace should give you peace place on you peace that's the last thing that we say in our prayers so why is it or what is the depth of the the importance of the concept of pece of course we all naturally understand it intuitively how good how wonderful the world would be if there was only peace but it's the ultimate the ultimate goal I think it's important to understand what peace means it doesn't mean uh there's a concept of peace that others have in Islam the word Islam means peace but it means everyone is the same and everyone serves God the way we do and now all of the infidels have been killed and therefore there is peace that's not the peace we're talking about the piece that we're talking about here is there's Hashem there's kohanim there's the Bim there's different parts there's different aspects but all these aspects come into harmony you don't destroy all of the other aspects in order to get peace that's not how you get peace peace is where you have all of the aspects still all the aspects have come into into harmony they're no longer fighting with each other let's see some let's see what the measure says about peace the author of the Z says great is peace all the blessings are included in it where do we see that like we said before God gives his Nation [Music] strength God will bless his Nation with peace so the concept of peace is one where all the blessings are there all the blessings are included in it right interesting way of saying it it sounds very much like what we're talking about all of the blessings well there's a blessing of having parosa of having Lively there's a blessing of having children there's a blessing of having Harmony between a man and his wife there's a blessing of having Torah there's a blessing of having there's so many blessings all the blessings come together they're all included they're all held by they're all encompassed within the word Shalom the word peace when you have shal you are shal when you have peace you are complete okay so it gives a number of examples here I'm not going to read them all inside here's here's an important one um says listen to this one in all of the instances where the Jewish people traveled in the midbar in the wilderness so it says they traveled they encamped it's plural so there was a certain aspect of division the way it says it is when they would travel there would be division there would be arguments when they would encamp there would be arguments but there was one exception to this rule when they came to Mount Si the tells us that they all encamped as one says it's singular singular Israel encamped singular not they encamped Israel he encamped doesn't say they encamp but rather singular he encamped Hashem says this is when I can give the Torah to my children the Jewish people can receive the instructions for Life the the relationship with God when we are in a state of unity we are a state of Peace we're not fighting with each other we're appreciating each other's uniqueness okay brings other examples of peace between man and his wife I'd like to read to you a particular story that man brings talks about the fact that when Hashem uh Hashem mentions again what sah Sarah said how can I have kids she laugh she said how can I have kids I'm old my husband's old hasem when he repeats it he says she said about herself she's old AB is hearing it Hashem does not repeat the part that sorry made a thought in her mind that that Abraham is old right there's an aspect of Peace God is uh is looking for peace even the fact that we find that hashem's name can be erased by a so it's fored to erase hashem's name for peace all right so that this woman can go back to to being in her husband's house so here's the story I'd like to read to you may listen to this story mayor the great Tana the Tana of the gor re mayor was sitting and he was saying a on Friday night a particular woman there was listening to Thea and she stayed till the end she she didn't want to miss out a single word she she waited until he was finished with his D with his Shear she came home she was very late her husband said where were you I'm she said I was listening to the I was listening to the sermon of the rabbi like her husband was very angry that she was late and say he was a Russ he was a wicked person and he said to her I don't want you to come back to my house so you go and you spit in the face of the rabbi who gave the sermon Rabbi who gave the jha so she didn't know what to do two three weeks she didn't come home because she couldn't bring herself to spit in the face of the rabbi in the end she she went went back to the D she went back to hear the rabbi speak and RAB May looked at her and he had it was revealed to him through through a divine inspiration what had happened he said to all the people present he said is there a woman here who knows I have an ey sore I need somebody to spit in my eye to remove the eye he went over to her May went over to this woman and said to her I want you to be the one to spit in my eye came but she was afraid she didn't want to do it she she didn't want to spit in the R's eye she says I don't know how to use the the the spit of my mouth in order to fix your eyes sore he said to her don't worry you just do it seven times spin in my eye seven times and I will get better I know did it so mayor told this woman go back to your husband now and say I didn't even more than you asked you told me to spit in his face one time I spit in his face seven times Amazing rby mayor I so the students said to May why did you allow this situation this wicked person said to spit in your face okay so you did a trick so that so that she could go back and say it and and she would feel comfortable doing it but what a Biz it is to the to this is an embarrassment to your Torah learning to the greatness of who you are you should have asked one of us to do it if you had an ey said don't don't you understand I want to be like my Creator I want to be like God I I want to try to imitate the ways of Hashem Hashem says I want you to erase my name you're not allowed to erase God's name but I want you to erase my name in order that there should be peace between man and his wife so was saying I'm willing to forgo my own honor my own honor as the great Rabbi mayor the godor the Great Sage of the generation cuz I want to be like God I know how important peace is it's so important to that he allows his name to be erased His holy name to be erased beautiful beautiful medish there's so much more we could read here and I'm not going to be able to read everything but let's read just the end of the medish because it has the final parting message and it will bring us back to the beginning of what we spoke about these two rabbis in the name peace is just incredibly awesome it's something it's a Mida it's an aspect the concept of sh ofus of completeness of wholeness all the blessings and all of the good things and all of the consolations that God is going to bring upon the Jewish people they're all sealed they all are completed with the word sh with the concept of peace in in Friday night when we read so the last of the blessings we speak about is that hem will spread out his his canopy of Peace she talking about Mah the times of the Messiah but we end off the prayer as we mentioned earlier God does makes peace God makes peace God grant peace to the people of Israel ends with the words God should Place upon you peace not only is it true by the blessings it's also True by Theon as we said since the beginning we we give a whole list of the carbon the different sacrifices and the list ends with SCH which is the aspect of Peace the aspect bringing the SP elements together we only know this to be true in a as a general principle how do you know in the specific instances when it not only in this particular P which we read together but if you look at the if you look at how it lists off the different carbas one by one the last one to to that the P lists off is the carbon maybe this is only when it comes to the carbus of an individual how do we know that this is true in regards to the the which is more inclusive in in in numbers 29 it speaks about the different corbas of theor of the of the of the kahal of the congregation of the general populace that's brought on behalf of everybody and the last one that talks about there's in completion of this idea this how do we know that this is we this is the concept that we're speaking about which relates to this world what about in the next World right what about when it comes to the Future time when people won't have AAR anymore which we spoke about at the beginning with the but how do you know that to be true because the says about the future time in Isaiah 66:12 it says I'm leaning towards it like a like a river of Peace the characterization of the future time is a time of Peace what do you need peace for everybody there's no more there's no more there's no more as the ra says there's no more uh everybody trying to to win there's no more competition what do you need peace for but you do need peace there as well when the king the Messiah comes what does he start off with he starts off with peace who is he what's his purpose what is the what's going to be the experience that we have in the Advent of the Messianic age it's going to be an experience of Peace the first thing that he comes Le to to give the good news to give the Good Tidings he's making heard the sounds of peace and the sounds of Peace what do they look like so I bring you back to the first thing that we spoke about and that is the idea of carbon TAA the carbon which remains at the end of time is the aspect of gratitude and you'll notice that even in the aspect of gratitude there is still even when mashia comes and we no longer have thear we don't have the evil inclination we no longer have a a sense of competition but still there's still is an aspect of Separation if I'm showing gratitude to you that means that I'm separate from you I'm not just like if I'm let's say saying thank you to God for the things that I have that means that I don't experience myself completely Buttle completely nullified to God as it were and just like I'm just an extension of God maybe to a certain degree yes but in another degree I experienced myself differently and I have to show gratitude to Hashem I to show gratitude to others there still is an aspect of Shalom of Peace there still is an aspect of coming together of different concepts of different people with different natures and different faces and different opinions and feelings but without the competition without the a of heart without that evil inclination to separate but really to find the common ground to find where we overlap and where we shake and where we can help each other so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me has should help us that we should be able to understand what it is that we're looking for what it is that we're waiting for what it is that we hope for with the Messianic age what it is that we hope for with the B with the temple what it is that we hope for to come soon speedily and in our days thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this 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