Bamidbar - 7th Portion

Join me as we learn the for shabis parishes chapter 4 verse1 the seventh tower reading. Yesterday we learned about how they were redeemed the firstborn for the Levites. Today we continue to see once we already counted the Levites from 30 days old. Now the Levites who are working in the holy temple, they were from the ages of 30 to 50. They were the ones strong enough to work in the holy temple and tells us their tasks and how they went about it and the amount of people and which families did it in detail. And God spoke to Mosha Aaron saying, "Take now a separate census from the clans of the people of amongst according to their families and their father's houses. Select from everybody else. You're going to take out the family because they are now going to work for a specific job. They're going to be from 30 to 50. The youngest under I'm sorry under 30. Do not take them because he doesn't have the full strength from here. The sages say the 30 you get your full might once you hit 50 she start getting weaker from then on. And therefore he didn't work from then on. verse verse three from 30 years old. Whoever is eligible for the troop then is able to come work in the tent of meeting. Verse four, this is going to be the work of the family of the tent of meeting. They're going to work with the holiest of the holy the holiest, the supreme holiness, which is their job is going to be with the ark, the table, and the manora is the altar. It's the curtain that separates the holy and the holy of holies and the items that are used in the holy temple. The process is going to be as follows. Aaron and his sons will come. When it's time to travel, they will then take down the partition which is between the holy and the holy of holies. With this partition, they will then cover the tent, the ark of the testimony. Only the sons are the ones that are going to put the things in the proper spaces. Meaning this job is going to give to because the ley was not allowed to enter the holy temple. The only thing the Levites are going to do is carry it. The ones that are going to cover it and put everything in the proper lids is going to be the when the uh cloud starts to ascend. So they'll know that it's time to travel of year. It tells us they'll cover the tent the actual ark which means that they'll take the curtain and they will push the curtain over the ark. Verse six and on top of that covering they'll put the skin and then they're going to spread a pure turquoise cloth uh bag on top of it on it and make sure they must put the poles in place. Verse seven upon him and on the and on the table they're going to be they're also going to put on this turquoise cloth bag first. They'll put on it as well the forms the spoons and the supports and the and all these cleaning items and the covering canes. So too, the bread must also stay on it even while traveling. He's not going into detail to tell us what these things are because he told it already in the book of Exodus the cover which is they also use that they use the coverment as well. verse 8 and on top of it they will then spread a turquoise cloth then they'll cover that with a skin and make sure to put its poles in place as well. Verse 9. Then they'll take a turquoise bag and cover a torquis cloth bag and cover the monora and they'll cover them illuminating and its candles and its lamps and its tongues and its scoops and all its oil vessels that is used for performing the service. Rashi translates in this case like a tongue that is able to pull the wick to make sure that it's in the direction that he needs it to be like a small spoon. It was flat. It was not round like the spoons we know of. It did not have walls only on the side and it was used as a scoop to be able and he was able to take the ash with this when he cleaned it. That's the lamps that you put the oil and the wicks in it. Verse 10 verse 10 and they will take it and all its vessels and cover with and they'll put it on a stick. It was like a big bag that was inserted that they would put it in and that would hold all the things that were in it and covered it from all the sides. Verse 11. And on top of the golden altar, they would also put a cloth of turquoise skin and then they will cover it with a skin that some of they'll put the poles in it as well. Verse 12 is they will take remove from it all. They must take all the utensils with it that are used for holiness. They'll put it into this bag, this turquoise bag. They will cover it then with the skin over it and they'll put it on the pole. Rashi 12 means anything that was used in the tabernacle was then considered holy. This is referring to the vessels of the incense which was used for the inner altar like the spoon, the shovel and all the things that were used for the incense. Verse 13. And now we come to the outside altar. The first thing they have to do is remove all the ashes from the altar. Then they'll spread on it a purple wool cloth bag over it. Rashi 13 were referring to the copper altar, the outside one. Remove all the ashes from it. Wasn't there a fire that came from heaven which was always on it? It would continue to light and continue to ignite and be there even under the garment. It was there would look like a lion even while they were traveling. It would not burn consume the garment the cover. They would first put a big pot of copper on top of it and on top of that they would put this garment this uh this purple looking the scarlet colored garment. Um verse 14 they will then place all the utensils that was used when they would work with the outside altars. Which were the what were the utensils? the shovels, the pitchforks, the and the basins and the scoops and the things that they used to sprinkle the blood. All the vessels of the altar first. Then they would put on it a skin covering and then they set the poles in place for them to carry it. What are says they use that to shovel the coals when they would have to clean off the altar was made like a shovel. It only had three walls around it. There was no wall in front of it. It was like slanty as we would call it a shovel to be able to wipe things off. They were long poles of copper. Would use it like pitchforks to be able to carry to to to get the meat that was on the altar and to turn them over so they should get burnt very well and quickly and quickly. They were like also different kinds of uh they were um they were scoops and forks and shovels all different kinds of things. And in this case this was another type of shovel was made up of copper. was like used as a sp as a broom to clean off the ashes from the altar. Verse 15. And when Aaron and his sons was finished to cover all the holy vessels and all the holy vessels that were there when it was time to travel, then the family of came along say to carry it for the should not touch something which is sacred because that can cause them to die. These are the travels. This was the burden of the people of gass of the family of el in the tabernacle in the tent of meeting to cover the holy we're referring to the ark the altar when we talk about vessels that were used for holiness and its utensils when they would because if god forbid they would touch it this would mean liable of the death penalty in the hands of heaven. and the charge of the priest. He was in charge of making sure to carry the oil for lighting the incense and the daily meal offering the anointing oil. He was in charge of the entire tabernacle, anything that was in it from the holy things and all the furnishings that came together with it. He was in charge to carry it. what which was the oil and the incense the anointing oil the meal offering. He was the one that had to take charge of it because when it came time to rest as well when it came time to settle they had to make sure that these things were there and ready to get going as soon as possible. And therefore he was the one that would always carry it and should always remember where it is and how to do it when they're carrying it. Not only was he in charge of those specific items, he also was responsible, he was responsible to tell the people of each person what they had to carry, what they had to do, and what their responsibilities were. As the verse finishes the tabernacle and everything that was in it, everything that's mentioned of that the family of However, all the things that we talk about in next week's Torah reading that the other two families of the Levites had to carry which was the pillars and all the other stuff that was not under that was responsible of is the other son of Aaron. Verse 17 and God spoke to Mosha saying do not let the tribe of the family of be eliminated from amongst the Levites. What does this mean? Make sure, be conscious of what they're doing and warn them that they do it properly so they should not die. God forbid. Verse 20, uh, verse 19, how you going to make sure this is what they got to do and they'll stay alive. They will not die because they are the ones that are approaching the holy of holies and the sons should be the ones that come first. the sum and they'll put on all the different things as we mentioned previously and cover it each person according to his job and to his load. Verse 20. And therefore the family must be careful. They must not come in to see when it is holy. Meaning before it's been wrapped up or while it's being wrapped up while they're wrapping up the holy things because then they will come to die. Meaning they should not come. They should not be the ones to be their wallets being grapped and put into their bags because it plain because as it says that they have to put it in these garments. The word absorbed in it means that they cover it. They put it in the bag because if they would see it because if they would be there they might come to touch it and if they come to touch it this would be terrible for them. This concludes the Torah reading of Pares Bidbar.