From Sinai to Moshe: The Completion of the Mitzvos

But there's one more shaila that we need to address, and we're going to end with this. And that is, when did Klal Yisrael get the other 603 mitzvos? So, that's the dibros we got at Ma'amad Har Sinai, right? What about everything else? So, I think, again, I'm not 100% sure, but I think that if you ask somebody who never thought about this, maybe, when did we get all the other mitzvos? So, of course we got it at Har Sinai. What's the shaila? We know everything was gotten in in Har Sinai. By the way, there's a Rashi that everybody knows cuz it's right, the first Rashi in every parsha people know. So, the first Rashi in parshas Behar, I think this would be the first shush doubt to anyone that learns Chumash Rashi. He says, "Wait a minute, it's over in the Rashi at the beginning OF PARSHAS BEHAR. OF COURSE WE GOT EVERYTHING at Har Sinai." I don't know, I think that's the way we were taught, right? Moshe Rabbeinu was mekabel the Torah at Sinai, he gave it over to us, and at Har Sinai we got we got the entire Torah mitzvos. By the way, there's other Gemaras that say the same thing. A Gemara in Maseches Brachos, daf hey, the Gemara says, Everything was given to Moshe Rabbeinu at Sinai. So, again, this is pashut. Right? It's called Kol D'Rav. You know what Kol D'Rav means? Go ask a like a little child, right? Go ask the child, what does he say? Of course he's going to tell you we got all the Torah and we got all the mitzvos at Har Sinai. But I want to ask you two questions. The first question is, how long was Ma'amad Har Sinai? It was a couple of hours. We're going to talk about this more in the next year. Pirkei Avos says, if I remember correctly, three hours. The gantz ma'aseh. It was this incredible event. It was a couple of hours. In a few hours the Yidden got the entire Torah? I'm looking around at the Sefardic In a few hours the entire got entire Torah is going to say, "Okay, there were miracles that were taking place. Learn the Gamorahs and Shabbos Pikes, Pates. All the Nisan and the Fleisch that took place at the time of Har Sinai. Go through all the Midrashim." This is your greatest Akasha? Mosque. But still, I mean, in a few hours we got the entire Torah. There's a little part of me that feels at least I'm sure they shall make raw, right? But everyone knows after Moshe Rabbeinu gave us the Torah, he went up to Shamai. He went up for 40 days and for 40 nights. Why did he go up for 40 days and 40 nights? So, to bring down the Lukhas. Yes, but that doesn't take 40 days and 40 nights. It was to learn Torah. There's many Khazals that Moshe Rabbeinu was sitting with the Baruch. The Baruch was teaching him Torah. He was forgetting it. Right, there's a hope Gamorah is coming up soon with This is a lot of Khazals, a lot of Gamorahs. Moshe Rabbeinu went up for 40 days and 40 nights to learn the Torah and to come down and teach the Torah. Right, you have the Gamorah in Aravin and Dalet Amud Beis with the Gamorah that says, "How did Moshe Rabbeinu teach Torah?" He would teach it to Aharon and Nadav and Avihu and the Sganim. Comes out everybody learns the Torah four times. So also Rashi in Khumish. The bottom line is is that when Moshe Rabbeinu was Mekabel the Torah during those 40 days, he didn't give it to us at Har Sinai. So So, how do you make sense of this? What happened? Again, it's a very It's not a trick question. When did we receive the rest of the Mitzvahs? So, we clarified a little bit in the Khiluk between the Asarah Hadibros. What about everything else? So, I just want to share with you one Ramban and we're going to end with this. This Ramban is in Parshas Mishpatim. And by the way, the more we do this, right? Bekhavura, learning Khumish, Rashi, Ramban, the words of the Khassam Sofer, and I come back to it every single day. Khumish, Rashi, Ramban, Kilu Medu U Salamdu Ki Hu Roish Emunah Omen. You can't understand Khumish without Rashi, but you also can't understand Khumish without Ramban. And the Ramban always saves the day. It's unbelievable how many times you're trying to make sense of a partial desire and it's in the first round back. The Ramban should be in our bones. Yeah, yeah, sure he everybody would know Rashi Ramban. I think so, right? I am as a matter of fact I was going through recently the Hesped that the gave on his father the and he would talk about how he used to give his sheer in Rashi Ramban. Made such a big deal that he didn't talk about the sheer he gave above a camel. He was talking about the sheer that he gave in Rashi Ramban. It's so interesting. It's the foundation of a moon and comes from learning Rashi but anyway this is the Ramban. The Ramban says something very interesting. So again, hopefully this is not a spoiler alert but we're going to finish Parshas Yisro and then we're going to start Parshas Mishpatim. And Parshas Mishpatim starts with a whole bunch of and then we're going to have a camera and we're going to have to come ice her right all the fancy are coming up in Parshas Mishpatim. And then the end of Parshas Mishpatim we went through the a little bit in the previous year. The Posuk says the went to Moshe and the told Moshe I'll lay out there I want you to go on top of the mountain and the Posuk talks about how said and how they brought and there's a whole another part of the story of that's mentioned after we go through like half a in the beginning of Parshas Mishpatim. We mentioned yesterday that the Torah and really those Mishpatim happened it happened really before as a matter of fact we said that one of the big gaps that we had in what happened on the fifth day of Sivan and we know the fifth day was a huge day that's when they brought that's when they entered the right? There was a huge huge Indian that was going on on that fifth day. But Rashi learns that really the and the Parshas Mishpatim they really belong before they belong in the former part of Parshat the Ramban is Ramban says it's not what happened listen to what the Ramban says the Ramban says I'll mention about that you have to take my word for it that the Yidden received the Torah after they received the Torah after they received the Torah Moshe said down with the so he started giving them he started giving them you know which he gave them he gave them Parshat Mishpatim the Mishpatim of name he started giving don't stick and then he told them and then he told them all the things that are going on above the comma right he told them and he told them he started going through all the that you have all the that you have in Parshat Mishpatim and then Moshe said I can't fit today and then they told Moshe and they told Moshe now it's time to go on top of the mountain and then Moshe left he left for 40 days and 40 nights and during that time Moshe learned the rest of the Torah and then he came down at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights and the intention was to teach the Torah but unfortunately and he didn't have done the and he broke the AND HE HAD TO GO for another 40 days and another 40 days until finally on Yom Kippur able to spend time with the and he was able to start teaching them Torah proper way of the Ramban that really the only things THAT WE GOT THEN AT WE GOT AFTERWARDS WE GOT THAT'S WHY PARSHAT IS HERE right that's why it's we can know every Parshat not know this why is Parshat here like what's going on here the reason PARSHAT IS CUZ CHRONOLOGICALLY SAYS THE RAMBAN this is when we were TAUGHT PARSHAT BUT THEN I LAY ON THE TO LEARN THE REST OF THE TORAH AND THEN AT SOME point in the future Moshe was going to go away and he's going to teach all the rest of the Torah. We didn't get the entire Torah at nine at Sinai. That's not what happened. That's not what Now choose your side and go and say that the entire Torah, if you know, is all it's all in the So on some level we got the entire Torah because it's all included in the but the way it was disseminated to us was a Deborah's and then we got later that day and then goes up to and then the of the being in the midbar we're going to start getting the rest of the Torah. It's a fascinating we did not get the entire Torah in one shot. Right, you know, you talk about not having to get everything in one We didn't get the Torah in one shot. We did not get it in one shot. It was something that happened over time. Which by the way makes a lot of sense because the weren't even obligated to keep most of the Torah. We know the says the of supposed to be in it's not supposed to be in the midbar. How many times does the Torah say that That's when these are going to be in the But this is a he He says it couldn't be more clear. By the way, the says in in the beginning of the I but if you want to see it very succinctly it's in but in the This is the way we got What does it mean then when say that everything was received at Sinai? What it means is when the were at Sinai. So the were at Sinai they're at the foot of the mountain. Moshe goes up 40 days 40 nights the are waiting at Sinai. That's also included in Sinai. By the way, just to point out not to get ahead of ourselves, the are going to remain in Sinai for a very long time. They're going to be there almost a year. Right, they're going to be there until year. They're going to be there almost they arrived by and they're going to be there literally for almost a full year. 10 days minus a year. Right? You do. That's how much time the Yidden are going to end up spending at Ar Sinai. They're going to be there for a long time. And by the way, they're going to be at the foot of the mountain every single morning. The Yid rolled up his window shades and he was staring at Ar Sinai almost for a year. It's a fascinating thing. So, when we talk about Sinai, THERE'S THE MAIN EVENT, AND THEN THERE'S the Shavuos Shavuos between Hakadosh Baruch Hu and Klal Yisrael. That's something that went on literally for a full year. And that's also on some level included in what Chazal meant. When Chazal said Sinai, and by the way, if you want to arrive at the dovor, the Gemara says in Maseches Shabbos, in the Sugyas of Maimon Ar Sinai, on daf kuf ches amud beis, that after Klal Yisrael sinned with the chet ha'egel, Amar Ulla, Ulla said, "Aluva kallah mezana betoch chuppah." It was so bad what Klal Yisrael did. It was literally like a kallah who's mezana betoch chuppah. It's a pillow, this Chazal. Kallah mezana betoch chuppah. What's What's the mashal of chuppah? It's because when we were mekabel the Torah, there was some marriage. V'yom chasunasaizu Matan Torah. But it wasn't betoch chuppah. The chet ha'egel happened 40 DAYS LATER. IT WAS IN THE MAKOM of the chuppah. It was in the wedding hall, which is disgusting. But at the same time, it's not betoch chuppah. The teretz is because Sinai Sinai it extended beyond the main event. The kuf of Sinai, Moshe Rabbeinu and Shamayim is oichech Sinai. This is all nichlal. Rashi says, "Mezana betoch chuppah ki Yisrael k'she'omdu omdu b'Sinai v'asu eigel. They were still standing at Sinai. It wasn't Maimon Ar Sinai, but they were still standing at Sinai. Klal Yisrael did not receive the entire Torah at Maimon Ar Sinai. They got Parshas Mishpatim immediately following the Maimon Ar Sinai. And then b'meshech hazman, they would receive the rest of the Torah. So, as it relates to just the dissemination of Torah Mitzvos, Anochi Hashem Elokecha as it says in the Sicha of Matan Torah, b'eis avodam b'lo yirah v'lo chein v'lo cheima upon it, that we heard from Hakadosh Baruch Hu b'fi Yidaihu atzmi, we understood it exclusively. There was no divine intervention. The other eight divrays was Yitaber. While it was divine intervention. The other eight divrays was Yitaber. We heard it from but it was only a coil. We couldn't make it out. Which Yitaber went ahead and explained. The uses that to explain this. went ahead and explained it. That's where we got the other eight divrays. Everything else we got from When did we get it? So, from my everything up until we got on that day. OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EVERYTHING ELSE. is going to go up to and when was going to go up to he's going to be the coils. And then he's going to come back with and it's eventually at some point he's going to sit down with the Israel. He's going to teach them the rest of the Torah. And it's then that we received everything else. Either way, again, just a little bit of a in terms of what went on. In the next we're going to finish and then we're going to try to talk a little bit more about my because again, this is literally the even of our faith. It's the foundation of what it means to be a year.