Hashem Doesn’t Need A Holy Camp

Parshas Nasso, we find a parsha that seems to be a very harsh parsha. It's the parsha of the shiluach hamachanos. The parsha where we throw out of the machaneh, we send out of the machaneh, kol sarua v'chol zav v'chol tamei lanefesh. Someone who has tzara'as, someone who's a zav, someone who's tamei meis, we send these people who have the various levels of tumah, we send them at a distance away from the from the from the Makom Hamikdash. Some of them get sent a little bit away from the Mikdash. Some of them get sent very far, like the metzora gets sent out of all three machanos. There's a shocking lashon in the pasuk by shlishi in Parshas Nasso that like you can't read it carefully and not be disturbed by how much repetition there is in the pesukim. The pasuk says, Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe leimor, tzav es Bnei Yisrael, v'yishalchu min hamachaneh kol tzaru'a v'chol zav v'chol tamei lanefesh. Command Klal Yisrael and they should send out of the machaneh kol tzaru'a v'chol zav v'chol tamei lanefesh. Mizachar ad nekeivah tishalchu. Men and women should be sent out. Where should they be sent out of? Anybody have any safek? Where? >> The machaneh. >> Out of the machaneh. Right? The machaneh? The machaneh. So why does the pasuk then say, el michutz lamachaneh tishalchu? V'lo yetamei es machaneihem. Why does it add We just said v'yishalchu min hamachaneh kol tzaru'a v'chol zav. Did you just hear this? Kol zav v'chol tamei lanefesh. Then it says, mizachar ad nekeivah tishalchu. El michutz lamachaneh. In case you forgot from 10 seconds ago, I want to repeat I'll be good to love her literally one possible go. Even in today's day and age where we don't have an attention span for more than 7 minutes, we remember what happened in the last possible that says we shall come in a market in it. Another catcher. It says only good to love her below you tell me as my honey and they should not defile their camp. I shall I need show you that I dwell. What should I say next? In it in the camp, right? I shall I need show you that I dwell. In the camp. I need to tell her as my honey and I shall I need show you that happens to be that Russia says somewhere that my honey could be Zachary on the Kayla. >> [clears throat] >> So it could say I shall I need show you beside her. It could say I shall I need show you beside her. I'll be happy with either one but it doesn't say either. What does it say? It says below you tell me as my honey and I shall I need show you beside her in them. We weren't talking about them. We were talking about the market in it. >> [cough] >> The shot is I believe. That it's true that if somebody becomes to me. They have to be sent out of the market in it. But the tire is very very very concerned. That that person that's being sent out of the market in it. Shouldn't feel. Like he's being discarded because he doesn't belong in the market in it. He should understand. That this is the journey that I could have brought her who made for him. And this is the process where he's going to reach his flame us. By going on that journey of going out of the machaneh and doing whatever teshuvah he needs to do and whatever process of purification that he needs to do and then returning to the machaneh >> [cough] >> that's [clears throat] his process. Hakadosh Baruchu does not need a holy mikdash. He doesn't need a holy place. He needs holy people. He wants us to be mekadesh the mikdash as a vehicle ultimately to be mekadesh and metahir ourselves. And that's the lashon of the pesukim. V'yishalchu min hamachaneh, you should send out of the machaneh kol tzaruah v'chol zav v'chol tamei l'nefesh. But we're not just discarding them like a used tissue. There's a place called outside the machaneh. And that's the place where someone who becomes tamei can grow and could reach the place that Hashem wants them to reach. El michutz lamachaneh t'shalchum. Send them to that place called chutz lamachaneh. That's a place. There's a place called chutz lamachaneh. V'lo yetamei'u es machaneihem and let them not be metamei the machaneh asher ani shochein that I dwell b'soch chem in them. Ultimately, my goal is to dwell inside every single one of them. Ultimately, my my my ratzon is to connect and to have my kedushah affect every one of them. And this is the process. The process is v'yishalchu min hamachaneh. This [clears throat] is a very Rebbe, I say we're sitting here in the dark, you can't see the pesukim. It's in shlishi in parshas Naso. Take a look at the pesukim, you'll see it's undeniable that there's a message here of love to anyone that ever felt pushed and and and and pushed down. There's a message here and it Taka V'ya'asu kein benei Yisrael." It doesn't say "Vayishlachu Vayishlachu min hamachaneh." It says "Vayishlachu el chutz lamachaneh." That's what they did. They didn't just send out of the machaneh. They sent two out of the machaneh. They said, "This is your amakem for you. This is where we're going to love you here and wait for you till you come back into the machaneh. We're sending you to this place called chutz lamachaneh." Sometimes in life, >> [snorts] >> we feel we go through different things. We go through difficult challenges. We struggle with various nisyonos. And sometimes we feel like we're being pushed away from the mikdash. Sometimes we feel it because we have a hard time enjoying our learning. And when a person struggles to enjoy their learning, they feel a little bit pushed away, unwanted by Hashem. Sometimes we feel pushed away. Sometimes we feel like the tzaruah or zav or tamei lanefesh because we were nichshal in aveiros. And we struggle with our yeitzer hara and we're trying mightily mightily mightily to fight him. But sometimes we end up being metamei ourselves and we feel pushed away. Sometimes we feel pushed away because of the events in life, because of the difficulties in our lives or the difficult things that we've been through. Sometimes we feel pushed away because we struggle and nobody knows. We struggle with anxiety or depression or other kinds of struggles that are internal that nobody else knows about. And those are our internal gehenem that nobody could see. Somebody's in an accident and they show up in yeshiva with broken arms and broken legs, everyone can take care of them. But the person that might be sitting next to you that struggles with anxiety, nobody knows and there's nobody there to take care of him. And he's And he sits alone and he feels lonely in that. So in many ways, sometimes people feel pushed away. And there's a feeling of being sent away, not feeling that connection, not feeling that closeness. And this parsha gives us that message. El to lovingly is sending us there. Whether my struggle is with finding my place in the world of Torah, whether my struggle is being able to manage the battle with my Sahara, whether my struggle is the traumas or difficulties or challenges that I went through in my childhood or that I'm going through now, or whether my struggle is the the anxiety or depression or other types of internal difficulties that nobody knows about, it's important to know that sent me there because that's where I'm going to reach the place that I shall wants me to reach. That's where my journey leads me. That's the place that wants me to become pure. That's the place that wants me to accomplish not the doesn't care about the net. But I shall in Israel. You know, we we just coming away from the of us. And And it's you know, we're leaving the mountain. Leaving the mountain is not possible. You know, in left they didn't leave so so well. They tell us they ran away by me safer. They ran away like children running out of school. They it was it became too much for them. But and that's a a lesson learned for us that we work on how we walk away from the mountain. You know, I never may like a servant that's walking away from his master that he walks backwards and he he says goodbye not losing eye contact with his master. And that's how we leave. That's how we leave our Sinai. The possuk says in parshas Devarim, the very beginning of parshas Devarim that Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells Moshe, "Rav lachem sheves bahar azeh." It's enough sitting at this mountain. Time for you to go on from our Sinai. And this week we did that. We moved on from our Sinai. We stood by our Sinai for 2 days and this week we moved on from our Sinai. But if you look in Rashi on Rav lachem, check it out the beginning of parshas Devarim. "Rav lachem sheves bahar azeh." Rashi says you should be so happy with what you received on that mountain. "Harbeh gedulah kibaltem." You've received so much greatness. You built them Mishkan with its kelim. You were mekabel the Torah. You sat the Sanhedrin. You were mekabel [cough and clears throat] so much greatness and every one of us as Shimon said, this is the last the last mishmar and some of you have been here for the overwhelming majority of mishmars and we've gone through many sugias together at these these late Thursday nights being mechazek ourselves, hoping for higher, reaching higher, yearning for more, preparing ourselves for Shabbos and it's a it's a little bit of a siyum tonight on a zman on a year of getting together Thursday nights just to be mechazek ourselves. And we felt we had that feeling walking away from Yeshiva, you know, each in our own time when it's the right time for us to leave, but "Rav lachem sheves, harbeh gedulah kibaltem." That we received so much. And we try to prepare ourselves for the days ahead with seichel and with with a with a sense of clarity of how we can continue our climb and our closeness to Hashem and we remember that his goal for all of us, no matter where we might feel we are in the his goal for all of us is to bring us close with his purity because he wants to be close to every single one of us. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. >> [music]