Pinchas - 7th Portion

Join me as we learn Chumash for the seventh Torah reading for Shabbos Parshas Pinchas. Yesterday we learned about the sacrifices that we brought on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and Pesach and Shavuos. And today we're going to continue with the sacrifices that were brought on Sukkos and Shmini Atzeres. In contrast to the other times where it was the same sacrifice brought every single day during the holidays, we will notice that Sukkos there were much more sacrifices and every day there was a different amount of sacrifices. Chapter 29:12 And on the fifth day of the seventh month, 15th day of the seventh month it should be a day of holiness. No mundane work should be done. And you must celebrate a festival of God for seven days. 13 And you will bring an ascent offering as a sacrifice pleasing to God. Bulls that are young, 13 of them. Rams, two of them, sheep, lambs, 14 of them. So already you see there are much more sacrifices that are being brought as we'll soon explain why. their meal offerings will be refined refined flour mixed with oil. 3/10 of an for each bull. That means for each one of them. That means for all 13 for all 13 bulls. 2/10 of an for each ram. For the two rams that were brought. 1/10 of an for each sheep. For the 14 sheep that are brought, 14 lambs. And one goat young goat for sin offering. This is all besides the constant offering that was brought every day, it's meal offering and its libations. Verse 17. That was all for the first day of the seven days that need to be celebrated. And the second day of the holiday, you're going to bring you're going to bring young bulls, 12 of them. Two rams. And the lambs that are a year old, 14 unblemished ones. 18. Their meal offerings and their wine libations for the bulls, for the rams, for the sheep will be according to the number of according to the number of men that you have, meaning according to the number as we discussed. Rashi. If you look the amount that are going over here that every single day there's a different amount and the number of bulls diminishes by one every day. What is he referring to and why so many? So Rashi explains as follows. You'll notice that if a total of bulls that are brought throughout the holiday of Sukkot is going to be 70. Because of the 70 non-Jewish nations of the world. That every single day you'll see something unique about them. The first day you're going to bring um 13, the next day 12, then 11. That every day they become less and less, which this is a sign seeing You should recognize that this is for the nations of the world as they continue to diminish. And during the times of the Holy Temple, these sacrifices would protect them from any hurt. However, because the Holy Temple was destroyed, the non-Jewish people lost that protection. That means they didn't realize that by them destroying the temple, they're actually hurting themselves because they were being protected by the temple as well. However, the Jewish people constantly have the laws of the Torah and the teachings of the Torah that protect us. And therefore, we continue to prosper while they continue to diminish. V'lach vasim k'neged Yisrael, that's referring to the Jewish people. Shenikra shev nikru sev zuro, that they are the Jewish people are called like a wandering sheep that went away from the herd. Hem kruyim, it's the same amount, 14 sheep. You have 14 I'm going to be brought every single day. U'minyanam, the amount tisha u'shmonim is going to be a total of 98. So, we have number one, the difference, the contrast between the bulls for the sheep. The bulls you're your every single day is diminishing, one's getting less and less and less. While the sheep that refer to the Jewish people, you have the same amount throughout the days of the holiday. Why 98? L'chalesh min tisha u'shmonim k'lalah sheb'Mishneh Torah, this is to be able to protect them from the 98 uh consequences and curses that are mentioned in the book of Deuteronomy, in the Torah reading of Ki Savo, where there are 98 different uh mentions that over there of difficult times the Jewish people may go through. Rashi continues. And if you'll notice over here in the rest of the days of the holiday, he uses the terminology when it comes to the wine libations v'niskah in a in a singular term. However, on the second day of the holiday, it's going to say v'niskehem in a plural term. B'sheini nemer v'niskehem al shnei smida yamim ki there were two constant offerings. L'shina k'mishnamar b'sheini u'v'sheini nemer v'niskehem b'shisha u'nischa b'shivim k'mishpatam mem yud mem are kanton mayim remez nischamayim min ha'Torah b'Chag. Over here, Rashi's telling us if you look something unique, even though there was the same amount of wine libations that were brought every day, but the Torah changes the terminology. On the second day, it says the word v'niskehem. So, you have an extra mem cuz it's really v'niskah hal cuz it's only singular. There weren't the multiple type of libations. On the sixth day it says so you have an extra yud there. And on the seventh day it says like it's law. There's no world where you can say why does it have also extra? So you have a mem, yud, mem that are seemingly superfluous. Therefore, if you take the word mem, yud, mem makes the word mayim which this alludes to the water libations that they would do throughout the festivals of Simchas Beis Hashoeivah and the throughout of Sukkos where we know this was considered though it's not mentioned clearly in the Torah. This is a tradition that was given from Torah Mount Sinai. However, we are able to find some type of alluding to it by this way looking at the extra letters that are there in each one of when we talk about libations that were done on Sukkos. Verse 19. And one young goat for a sin offering besides for the constant offering that was brought every day and it's meal offerings and its wine libations. Verse 20. >> [snorts] >> Third day you're going to bring 11 bulls, two rams, young lambs, 14 unblemished ones. meal offerings and wine libations for the for the bulls, for the rams, for the sheep will be according to the numbers as prescribed. One young goat besides for the constant offering brought every day and its meal offering and its libations. Verse 23. The fourth day of Sukkos you're going to bring 10 young 10 young bulls, two rams, young sheep one year old, 14 of them unblemished. One young sheep for the rams. question coming low and elevations for the poles, for the rams, and for the lambs are according to the prescribed amount. 25 and the young goat for a sin offering besides the constant offering meal offering and wine libation. On the fifth day of Sukkot bulls teach you again bring nine as we see every day it's getting less and less. Two rams and a sham. Arbasar temimim 14 unblemished young lambs. And the meal offerings and the libations for the bulls, for the rams, for the sheep are according to the prescribed number. And one young goat besides the besides the constant sent offering and it's meal offering and it's wine libation. 29. On the sixth day of Sukkot you brought brought eight young bulls, two rams, and sheep 14 unblemished. And the meal offerings and wine libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lamb according to the prescribed amount. And for the young goat for a sin offering. Besides this is all besides the constant sent offerings that were brought daily with its meal offerings and wine libations. 32. On the seventh day of Sukkot you going to bring seven bulls, two rams. young lambs all unblemished. And the meal offerings wine libations for the bulls, for the rams, for the sheep are all according to the prescribed number needed. And one young goat for a sin offering besides for the ascent offering meal offerings and a and its libations. Now the Torah tells us about the holiday that was 7 days of Sukkot and on the 8th day which is the next day it's considered a holiday for its own and independent holiday though the Torah calls it the 8th day. By your mash mini 8 days later meaning you've celebrated Sukkot for 7 days the 8th day now is at Sarah's TLM must be celebrated at a time to be free a time of restriction for you come and let me know no work should be done no mundane work should be done. Rashi at Sarah's TLM what does it mean that you must refrain a time of restriction? At Siri CS Malachi you must restrict yourself from doing any type of work. Doven actually another explanation to what this means at Sarah's which means to hold back it's from a lot of days hold back from going out but I'm going to tell me no which means that a person who goes up to stay in the holy Temple go up to Jerusalem for the time of for Sukkot for the festival of the holidays must stay there until after Shmini Atzeret as well. With Russia God of the mattress explained as follows. The finish you may say to give a negative memories because for all the 7 days of the festival we were bringing sacrifices for the 70 nations of the world and now the Jews are about to end the holiday on the bottom of the God says to them and on the bottom of the God says to them I wish you make a Maya big of you I'll see you at the diner please make one last meal another meal and stay here a little bit that I should be able to enjoy and have pleasure from it. What is that meal? Those are the sacrifices that were about to describe that were brought on the day of Shmini Atzeret. Verse 36 the craft the mail you should have a glass of you're going to bring in a scent offering as a pleasant fire offering to please God. Parshat is going to be one bull, Ay one ram, plus two and seven unblemished lambs. Parshat Ay Rashi verse 36 Elo Israel. For all the days of the holiday we were bringing different sacrifices to think about the nations of the world. However, on the day of Shmini Atzeret we bring one as this represents the Jewish people. As God said as at the end of the holiday Hashem says he's actually mad at you. Please stay here a little bit more. Who's that? And this is a terminology of endearment children that leave their father. He says it's difficult for me when you leave. Please stay one more day. Please stay one more day. Please stay one more day. Words comparable to a king who makes a meal and on the day of the meal he makes a wonderful meal and on the last day he says make just one small little meal that I should be able to have pleasure. The tractate of Sukkah explains of how the pleasure that God has of the Jewish people and the reciprocation that we give to God as well. The measure of explains Linda Taylor that I had it the Torah of years teaching us proper respect and etiquette we have to have. If somebody has a guest who's eating by him. On the first day he gives him nice stuffed chickens. And then that means a very expensive beautiful meal. The next day he gives him fish not as nice. The next day he gives him meat from an animal. The next day he gives him only legumes. The next day he only gives him vegetables. This is you know meal which is usual for the people in this home. Every single day every single day it gets less and less like in the animals that were brought by the holiday that every day it got less and less meaning that he makes him first he gives him a lot. He makes him feel special, unique, and that's why he gives him a special meal. But as time goes on, he wants him to integrate and feel part of the family, so he gives him less and less and whatever the rest of the family is eating, that's what he's going to eat. Verse 37. Meaning part of the meal offerings and the wine libations that are going to be for the bull, for the ram, custom and for the sheep, but are as the number prescribed. 38. One goat for a sin offering besides for the constant offering that was brought every day and its meal offerings and its wine libations. 39. These are what you are going These are what you must offer to God on my holidays. And their holidays, this is all except for the ones that they make with vows and they say the ones that you donate for the for the ascent offerings and to your meal offerings and to your wine libations and to your and to your peace offerings. Rashi, 39. Meaning these sacrifices that we brought are are they they're a mitzvah, meaning there's a set amount that has to be done, an obligatory amount that has to be brought for every single holiday. This is what you have to bring. Meaning of year as well, that when it comes to holiday a person was able to bring all the sacrifices that he may have promised throughout the time. Because the Torah tells you as me being being that you're already been obligated to bring these sacrifices, you're going to find a difficulty to go home and then come back as well and therefore you may come to transgress on a biblical commandment of not delaying something that you promised to do. So then bring your sacrifices already while you're here for the holidays. Chapter 30, verse 1. Mosha tells the Jewish people everything that God has commanded Mosha. This is to interrupt between what we're talking about the laws between the holidays and the next verse and the next verse of the next parsha. Next week's reading is going to tell us about vows. That's the reason why he tells us these words here. Give small. That's where small says and he explains as follows. Because until now it's God telling Mosha what to do. But when it talks about next week's Torah reading, as you see the Torah reading begins as Mosha spoke to the leaders of the tribes, that's already Mosha talking to the Jewish people. So here is the interruption. Here is the the break off point. Therefore he has to make a stop and say the words He has to tell us first of all that anything that God told Mosha he repeated it to the Jewish people. If not, so yes, but how would you know that Mosha actually repeated the laws of the holidays to the Jewish people? And therefore he comes to tell us that if this wouldn't this interruption wouldn't be, I would think that Mosha never followed through what God told him to do. So it tells us that Mosha told all the sacrifices and all the obligatory sacrifices that have to be done to the Jewish people. And afterwards then he started the the next Torah reading which starts Mosha's words talking to the Jewish people about the laws of vows and how one has to be careful to say to watch what they say as we'll see in next week's Torah reading. This concludes the Torah reading of Pinchas.