Bimidbar 5770 - Intensifying Relationships - part 1

listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with Michelle's never-ending assistance and Robbie she wishes real 5770 2010 this week's parsha is participant Midler in the posture this week we see a few different topics that are clearly related but there's something that's very deep that's going on that's running through a theme that's running through all the topics and what's interesting is that the tour begins this new savor this new book if the Torah the fourth book of the five books of Moses and it begins with the concept of boom it bah hum speaks to motion written to Moses in the wilderness and he speaks to him not just in the wilderness but in the oil Lloyd in the type of meeting in the sanctuary I want to see better sous chef goes up at the end of this partial pockets will understand exactly why was why was necessary the Torah to begin this concept to to give a privilege of the concept by speaking about the wilderness and speaking about the homewood let's hold that for a moment and we'll speak about what is it tour itself speaking about in this week's parsha so it speaks about the idea of the counting of the Jewish people the counting of the Jewish people involved every single person we give a half a shekel a half of a coin and they've countable the coins and this way they would understand exactly how many Jews there were now it's very interesting and we need to understand exactly why but we see that when the tour is counting the Jewish people and God asks marshall been to do so so he says them count the 12 tribes of the Jewish people and when we speak about the choice you have to remember there were twelve sons of Yaakov however there were actually 13 tribes because 12 of those tribes so yo safe became became a national friend had two sons and they became separate tribes of their own overlay V the tribe of lady was a separate tribes special try and Moshe Moshe was a specifically instructed by Shaam to count them separately and we need to understand exactly why is it the tour instructor instructs Moshe Rabbeinu to count them separately what is the deeper understanding of that fact another important point that we see is that the Torah after describing effect that they are to be counted so that are also describes the formation of the Jewish people how they would in camp in the man in the member in the wilderness and not only we describe their encampment but it also described the formation when they can't and when they were moving now the tourists that the love IAM the levites they played an integral role when it came to the encampment as well as when they were moving in regards to the michigan regard to the sanctuary what was their integral role so they were the ones that surrounded the mishkan they acted in a certain sound like a buffer between the mishkan between the encampment of the michigan itself and the jewish people which surrounded the Mishkan now it's also true in regards to the to the time when they were moving along when they were traveling through the wilderness now the question is it's very interesting when the verse discusses the fact and describes the fact that the Levine had to be surrounding a sanctuary so the Torah says that this is in order to protect the Jewish people if the load vemma the Levites would not be in that location if they won't be surrounding the Michigan so then it would cause a great cats of a great anger to come out upon the Jewish people it seems that if the Jewish people would not have had the buffer zone of leuven between themselves and the mishkan so would have caused a great amount of death heaven forbid to befall the Jewish people and the question is why was that necessary and what does that teach us now another interesting thing that we find at the end of the parsha is that when the tour is describing the way that the the Levine the Levites would carry the different calum the different vessels of the mishkan so the Torah says that the different parts of the family of the Levites of the tribe of the Levites there was cohosh there was garrisoned there was Murari these three different families of the Levites each had their own unique job their only purpose the own their own things that they would carry and they're all purpose that they would fulfill the Torah says that the Cohoes the family of cohoes would be the ones who would carry the kalyan the vessels of the coach ekadashi of the Holy of Holies the ark itself but the targets of a warning the Torah says to them it's very important to understand that are not calling the high priest and his sons those that want to have to wrap up and pack away the Artic radish the holiest of the vessels before the cajas the members of that family the tribe of lady before they could touch those vessels they had to be packed first by Aaron and his sons by the high priest and if heaven forbid they would do something if they would look at it or they would touch it before I've been packed away so then they risked the risk of death that's what whoever says it's very interesting even though cause were the very ones who were carrying those Caleb nevertheless if they would touch them if they would look at them before was the proper time before it had been packed away by iron a coin they would pass away they would lose their lives and the question is what is what is the understanding of it what's the deeper significance of it and why is it true and what does it teach us those are the questions that we have in regards to the mish going and now there's a very interesting meh Jewishness at the beginning it's not the beginning the party bus brought down it's from via crow which speaks about to you Oh muy and it's brought down in the sport and similar i read it from the Midrash Jim it's brought down over here at the beginning of a partial and it's a very interesting measures and it needs a beer is an explanation and when the chums help will try to understand it and it'll teach us a very great depth about all the other questions that we've had so far and the measure says like this the measure says that if the Ummah solemn if the nations of the world will understand how important the only the sanctuary was to them they would do all that was possible in their power to make sure that it was properly protected and it says as far as why is it so important to them and says his false that at heart seen I when Moshe Rabbeinu spoke when a sham spoke through emotional valence shamans voice was heard so at that point in that in that time so the nations of the world all of the members of the nations of the world began to pass away they were dying because the voice of Hashem the voice of God was so powerful that it caused him to die whereas the Jewish people were able to withstand the voice of God however what happened was when the oven lug when the sanctuary was created and was commanded to the Jewish people to create the sanctuary and the voice of God was limited to be only in the sanctuary at that point so the nations of the world stopped passing away they no longer were inundated with the overwhelming power of a Shems voice and therefore they they were fine they were able to be saved so the ole mine acted in a certain sense to limit the voice of God so that it wouldn't inundate the world my question is how do we understand it's what is the deeper message of this measures what is it coming to teach us why is it that the almost all in the nations of the world could not hear God's voice as it were the Jewish people could in fact it says that the Jewish people when they heard God's voice gave them life but when it when it was heard by the nations of the world had caused them to pass away questions deeper understanding of that what is it really saying now to understand this like to share with you a Gamorrean some Hedren the Amarna hedge was very interesting and brings a contradiction between two different statements of our sages and these two different statements one understood give us a tremendous depth for the measures and further questions that we asked the first Damon our sages is that if a non-jew learns the Torah the Gemara says in one price it says that he's kind of Mesa he's liable for death how could that be that's what it says the Kimura says hold on a second there's a contradiction because we have a second brycee we have another statement of our sages that if a non-jew learns the Torah it's considered as if he's like a kohen gadol he's like the high priest it's an incredible thing for an honor to learn the Torah even though he's not committed so Moore says how do we resolve this what's the resolution and by the way I'd like to point out that of all the people that the brycee the statement of our sages could compare a non-jew who learns Torah to who is a comparing it was comparing to a person was a high priest the calling Donald the person who is the greatest most exalted person in the Jewish people we need to understand that put that question on hold let's try to understand how do we resolve this contradiction between the fact we find on one and one bracelet says that if an Andrew learns Torah he's liable for death and on the other hand we have a bracelet that says of an andrew learns Torah he's like a Cohen goal is like a high priest sigmar explains that the resolution is as follows that if a non-jew is learning the laws that pertain to him the seven noahide laws so then he's considered like a high priest echoing model because those are the things that he can use to develop his relationship with gone however if he's learning the laws that do not pertain to him and he's trying to get involved he's setting out of his bounds in a certain sense into the areas that are reserved for the Jewish people so then that non-jew if he learns the Torah he's liable for death and this needs explanation we need to understand a deeper sense what is the understanding of this however I believe that the understanding of this actually lies within the statement itself of our centers and that is that a non-jew who learns the Torah he loves a tour that pertains them to seven noahide laws so he's considered like a high priest a kohen gadol and what that really means what are the seven noahide laws those are the special command set involve the laws that for a nullified for a non-jew those are the laws that involved his relationship with God if he focuses on what his relationship is with God he is like a high priest who is the high priest the one who enters into the cold shock adduction the Holy of Holies he is able by focusing on his seven laws but focusing on those things that pertain to him he's able to enter in to the highest place for himself but if he steps beyond his bounds if he enters into a place which doesn't belong to him which belongs to the Jewish people he doesn't learn the Torah that pertains to him Elizabeth the toilet pertain