Hashem’s House

So, we have the Seder BeChabura in Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh. Not just Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh, but in the Churva shul, whose legacy as being part of the issue of of Eretz Yisrael, which was chazak in the air very much in the 18th century, and then in the 19th century into the 20th and 21st century, played such a a prominent role. So, I think it's kedai to start now with the first of the seder, which will be several rate bites over the course of the nesiah, just to talk a little bit about Yerushalayim bizman hazeh, talk a little bit about the Makom HaMikdash bizman hazeh. The Rambam in Hilchos Melachim Perek Aleph Halacha Aleph says, "Shalosh mitzvos nistavu Yisrael bishas knisasam la'aretz." The Yidden were commanded to do three mitzvos when they entered Eretz Yisrael. "Limnos lahem melech." To appoint a king. "Shenemar, "Som tasim alecha melech." "Ulaha'achris zera Amalek." And to get rid of all of the offspring of Amalek. "Shenemar, "Timcheh es zecher Amalek." And finally, "Velivnos lahem Beis HaBechira." And to build a Beis HaMikdash. "Shenemar, "Veshichanti besocham." "Uvasu sham." So, the Rambam, quoting a Gemara in Maseches Sanhedrin daf chof amud beis, says that when the Yidden entered Eretz Yisrael, they were commanded to do three mitzvos. Number one, appoint a king. Number two, destroy any offspring of Amalek. And number three, to build a Beis HaMikdash. As it relates to "Livnos lahem Beis HaBechira," asks the Rambam, "What's the makor?" It's a pasuk in the Torah. It's in Parshas Re'eh. "Shenemar, "Veshichanti besocham." "Uvasu sham." But, the Chacham Mishnah of Fenar asks a kasha from another Rambam. A stira in the Rambam. The Rambam in the beginning of Hilchos Beis HaBechira Perek Aleph Halacha Aleph says, "Mitzvas asei la'asos bayis laHashem." There's a mitzvas asei to build a house for Hakadosh Baruch Hu. "Muchan lihiyos makrivim bo korbanos." It should be prepared for a place that Yidden should be able to bring the for a place that Yidden should be able to bring korbanos. "Vechol Yisrael ya'alu lishalosh pa'amim bashanah." And also, we Yidden should be able to go and be al regel three times a year. "Shenemar, "Va'asu li mikdash veshachanti besocham." The Rambam in the beginning of Hilchos Beis HaBechira also discusses the mitzvah to build a Beis HaMikdash. "Mitzvas asei la'asos bayis muchan laHashem." Rambam gives two descriptions of what the tachlis, what the ta'alus of a Beis HaMikdash is. Number one, "Lihyos makrivim bo korbanos." Number two, "Vechol Yisrael ya'alu lishalosh pa'amim bashanah." But, the Rambam here quotes a different source. The Rambam quotes the pasuk that we all know, the pasuk in Parshas Terumah. It says, "Va'asu li mikdash veshachanti besocham." And the Chacham Mishnah will have a stira in the Rambam. In Perek Aleph Halacha Aleph in Hilchos Melachim, the Rambam says, "What's the makor that Yidden had a chiyuv to build a Beis HaBechira?" "Shenemar, "Veshichanti besocham." And in Perek Aleph Halacha Aleph in Hilchos Beis HaBechira, the Rambam says, "What's the makor that there's a mitzvas asei la'asos bayis laHashem?" Because it says, "Va'asu li mikdash." "Vechol Yisrael." The Rambam seems to be bringing two independent makoros for the same mitzvah in the eyes of the Chacham Mishnah. This was a kushya atzumah. "Vetzarech iyun," says the Chacham Mishnah. "Vechol Yisrael stira in the Rambam." The Chacham Mishnah tries to give a little bit of an eitzah. I saw there are Zalm and Even HaEzel has a little bit of a pilpul to try to give a little bit of an eitzah. But, it could be that there's a mahalach that we could say. And maybe it's even emes. And maybe it's even poshut. That is, it's interesting, but if you go through the Torah, like we're actually doing now the Chabura, holding in Parshas Vayishlach, it's interesting to note that the city of Yerushalayim is never mentioned. The Makom HaMikdash is never mentioned. In fact, the closest thing that there is to a mention, a reference to Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh is in Parshas Lech Lecha, where the Torah says, "Umalki Tzedek Melech Shalem." And the Targum Onkelos says, "Malkah diYerushalayim." Shalem as in a reference to Yerushalayim. But, this city of Yerushalayim is never mentioned in the Torah. If you think about it, it's a pella. Yerushalayim, which plays such a central role in Yiddishkeit. There's so many dinei d'Oraisa and dinei d'Rabbanan that relate to Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh, and of course to the Makom HaMikdash, and it's not even mentioned in the Torah. What does this even mean? Truth is, if you go through the psukim, and really starting from Parshas Re'eh Perek Yud Beis, the Torah says again and again and again and again and again and again, more than 20 times, that the Yidden, when you're going to enter Eretz Yisrael, there's going to be a place, says Hakadosh Baruch Hu, that I'm going to choose. And that place that I'm going to choose is going to be a holy place. There's going to be a city that's going to be a holy city, and within that city, there's going to be a place that's going to be the holiest place within that city. And there's going to be many different halachos that are going to relate to the city, and then even more halachos that are going to relate to the place in that city. Just to bring the point. The pasuk says that the ovdei avodah zarah, they make avodah zarahs, and they build their getchkes wherever they want. Says the Torah, "Lo sa'asun kein laHashem Elokeichem." When it comes to the Eibershter, you can't just go ahead and pop up a mizbei'ach and decide that you want to offer up korbanos wherever it is. "Ki im el hamakom asher yivchar Hashem Elokeichem mikol shivteichem." But rather, you know where you as a Yid are going to have to bring your korbanos. You're going to have to bring them to the place that Hakadosh Baruch Hu in the future is going to choose. From all the different shvatim, Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Yissachar, Zevulun, the Eibershter is going to pick the chelek of one of these shvatim that's going to be the chosen place, literally, and it's over there that you're going to go. "Veshichanti besocham." That's where you're going to bring your korbanos. "Es olosichem veshivcheichem." "Es ma'asrosichem." "Es terumas yadchem." "Vinidreihem." "Vinidvosichem." "Uvecheiros karcheichem vetzeonchem." "Veachaltem sham lifnei Hashem Elokeichem." "Usamachtem bechol mishlach yadchem atem uvateichem asher berachacha Hashem Elokecha." "Lo sa'asun kechol asher anachnu oisim hayom." "Ish kol hayashar be'einav." You know, you can't do that. No. You're going to have to go and bring all these korbanos where? In the place that in the future I'm going to choose. Skipping a few psukim. "Vihaya hamakom asher yivchar Hashem Elokeichem bo leshakein shmo sham." It's going to be in the place that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is going to choose to rest His Shechinah. "Shama ta'viu." It's over there that you're going to bring. "Es olosichem veshivcheichem." "O lo seichem." "Vezivcheichem." "Ma'asrosichem." "Uterumas yadchem." "Vechol nidreihem." "Asher tidru laHashem." I'm skipping again. "Ish kol hayashar be'einav." "O lo seichem." "Bechol makom asher tish." Be careful when you come to Eretz Yisrael, don't just bring olos wherever you want. "Ki im bamokom asher yivchar Hashem." Hashem is going to choose a place, and that place that the Eibershter is going to choose, it's over there. "Shamtah lo olosichem." This "Shamtah kol asher anochi metzavecha." Is another pasuk. "Lo sucha lisharecha." "Ma'aser degoncha vetiroshcha." You can't just go ahead and eat ma'aser sheini wherever you want. "Uvecheiros karcheichem vetzeonchem." "Uchol nidreihem." "Vechol nedavosichem." "Asher tidru laHashem." "Ki im lifnei Hashem Elokeichem." "Tochleinu." "Bamokom asher yivchar Hashem." There's a place that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is going to choose, and it's over there. "Tochleinu." It's over there that you're going to go ahead and you're going to be able to eat it. "Atem uvitechem." The Torah goes on again and again and again. Says halachos that we know are neged Yerushalayim. Says halachos that we know are neged the Makom HaMikdash. But, the Torah never mentions Yerushalayim and the Makom HaMikdash by name. The Torah says, "I'm leaving you with suspense. I'm not telling you. You're going to have to wait." You have to wait. Suspense. You're going to find out. You're going to enter Eretz Yisrael. I'm going to choose a place, and it's going to be in that place that all the halachos that we know about, all the halachos that we learn about every single day right now in Daf Yomi, all those halachos are are going to be neged. Right? Think about some of the psukim we know. "Shalosh pa'amim bashanah yera'eh kol zchurecha." "Es penei Ha'adon Hashem where?" "Bamokom asher yivchar." Right? Doesn't say Yerushalayim. It says "Bamokom asher yivchar." It's always "Bamokom asher yivchar." Go further. In Parshas Shoftim, where the Torah talks about the zaken mamrei. The zaken mamrei goes up to the Makom HaMikdash, and he's a mamrei. Right? He goes connect to the Beis Din HaGadol, and the Torah says, "Lo sa'aseh va'asisa." Where did he go? "Vekamta ve'alisa el hamakom asher yivchar Hashem." Torah doesn't mention it by name. There's no mention of Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh anywhere in the Torah. There's no mention of the Makom HaMikdash anywhere in the Torah. Torah literally leaves us hanging. Torah says, "You're going to go into Eretz Yisrael, and when you're going to go into Eretz Yisrael, Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "I'm going to choose a place. And when I choose a place, that place is going to involve a city, and then a Makom Kodesh within that city." So, when was Yerushalayim chosen? When was it chosen? When did the Yidden figure out that the place is Yerushalayim, and within Yerushalayim, it's the Har HaBayis. It's the Har HaMoriah. When did that place have a sign in the Torah? Where is it? When did it take place? So, for that, all you have to know all is a little bit of Nach. And really, it's the very, very last episode in Sefer Shmuel. It's in Shmuel Beis. Very, very end. It's Perek Chof Daled. Perek Chof Daled begins, "Vayosef Af Hashem lachros biYisrael." Hakadosh Baruch Hu continued to get angry at Klal Yisrael. Rashi says, "Lo yadati al mah." Not sure exactly what's going on. Rashi HaKodesh. Not sure. I'm not sure. But, Hakadosh Baruch Hu got very, very angry. "Vayosef Af Hashem lachros biYisrael." "Vayosef es David bo leimor, "Lech menei es Yisrael ve'es Yehudah." because there was this had this impetus. He had this feeling that the right thing to do is to go ahead and to count the Yidden. So, we're all familiar with Dovid Hamelech counting the Yidden, which of course is not something that a Yid is ever supposed to do. Machsa Shekel, Rashi in the beginning of Parshas Ki Sisa, Dovid Hamelech infamously counted Klal Yisrael. This what happened. It happens in the very very end of of Shmuel Bais. And the pasuk says "Vayomer Hamelech el Yoav." So, the Melech, Dovid Hamelech, goes to his Sar HaChail, Yoav, and he says "Shut na b'chol shivtei Yisrael. I want you to go wander amongst all the Jews miDan v'ad Beer Sheva, from sea to shining sea, u'fikdu es ha'am. And I want you to count the folk v'yeda'ati es mispar am." And when you do that, I'm going to know how how many Yidden are there. Yoav tries putting up a fight. Yoav says "Lama chofetz adoni hamelech b'davar hazeh?" Dovid, you know that's not a good idea. "Vayech tzav Hamelech el Yoav v'el sarei hachail." But Dovid Hamelech says "No, I want you to go ahead, I want you to count the Yidden." Nu, so Yoav had no choice. "Vayeitze Yoav usarei hachail lifnei Hamelech lifkod es ha'am es Yisrael." He went out to count the Yidden. And the pasuk says "Vaya'avru es Yarden vayachnu b'Aroer yemin ha'ir asher b'toch hanachal Gad v'el Ya'azer. Vayavou el ha'Gilgal vayeitzei'u el ha'aretz." They literally went everywhere. Every single place that there were Yidden living, it didn't matter where it was, they went and they counted. And then finally, I'm skipping several psukim, "Vayiten Yoav es mispar ha'am el Hamelech." Yoav comes with a census, he delivers it to the king. "V'Yisrael, how many Yidden were there? Shmoneh me'os elef ish chayil sholech cherev." 800,000 ish chayil that were literally yielding swords. "V'ish Yehudah chamesh me'os elef ish." And then ish Yehudah, 500,000. The pasuk says "Vayach leiv Dovid oso acharei kein safar es ha'am." As soon as Dovid Hamelech got the census, then somehow and for some reason, he decided maybe this was not such a good idea. Yoav tried talking him out of it, but he went right there anyways. But at this point, he realized this was a mistake. "Vayomer Dovid el Hashem." And Dovid turns to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, he says "Chatasi me'od asher asiti." I sinned terribly. "V'atah Hashem, ha'aveir na es avon avdecha." Please forgive me. "Ki hishkalti me'od." I act very I acted very very foolishly. "Vayakam Dovid baboker." The pasuk says Dovid Hamelech woke up in the morning "u'dvar Hashem hayah el Gad HaNavi chozeh Dovid leimor." And Hakadosh Baruch Hu revealed himself to Gad HaNavi, who was the chozeh of Dovid, he was Dovid's like private prophet, and he tells Gad, "I have a message I want you to deliver to Dovid." "Haloch v'dibarta el Dovid." Go talk to Dovid Hamelech and you should tell him "Koh amar Hashem." So says Hakadosh Baruch Hu, "Shalosh anochi notein l'cha." I'm going to give you an onish and I'm going to give you three options to choose from. So this onish involves multiple choice. You get to pick which onish you want. "B'char l'cha achas mehem v'eifalah." You pick the one that you want and whatever it is, that's what I'm going to do. "Vayavo Gad el Dovid vayageid lo." So, Gad comes to Dovid Hamelech and he says I have some bad news. The bad news is that what you did was a terrible terrible mistake. There was some chareinaf in the world and now Dovid Hamelech, he was mosif on the chareinaf by counting Klal Yisrael and because of that you're going to be punished. That's the bad news. The good news is, at the very least you get to pick your poison so to speak. You get to decide what onish you're going to want. "Vayomer elav." Then Gad talks. He says "Asurenu l'cha sheva shanim b'artzecha." If you want, you can pick seven years of hunger. "Im shlosha chodashim l'nuscha lifnei oyvecha v'hu raidefcha." If you want, you could also have to run away from your enemies for three months. That's also an option. "O may yish shlosha yamim dever b'artzecha." Or there could be a mageifa that's going to last three days. So what do you want? You want seven years of hunger? You want to be on the run for three months? Or do you want three days of a mageifa? "Ata daber el adoni hamelech davar." I have to deliver the message. Think about it for a minute. I'm going to come back to you. I have to return to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. I have to tell him what you want. The pasuk says, and we all know this pasuk, "Vayomer Dovid el Gad." Dovid turns to Gad, he says "Tzar li me'od. Nipola na b'yad Hashem ki rav rachamav u'v'yad adam al apolah." What was Dovid Hamelech saying? He said I would rather the onish that's going to be totally Hakadosh Baruch Hu. "U'v'yad adam al apolah." He said I don't want to be totally b'yad adam. Cherev and rav, that's b'yad adam. Dever, that's kol kulah b'yad Hakadosh Baruch Hu. So you want to know what I want? I want that there should be a dever. That's what he chooses. He says "I know that ki rav rachamav." And if my onish is going to come directly from Hakadosh Baruch Hu, then at the very least there's going to be a midas rachamim. "O v'yad adam, man I don't trust. Al apolah, that's not something I want." "Vayiten Hashem dever b'Yisrael." And as soon as Dovid Hamelech chose dever, Hakadosh Baruch Hu immediately brought a dever. "May haboker v'ad eis moed." From the boker until the time that the dever was supposed to last. "Vayamas min ha'am miDan v'ad Beer Sheva shiv'im elef ish." 70,000 Yidden died as a result of this. "Vayishlach Yado Hamalach Yerushalayim." Then Hakadosh Baruch Hu sends a malach to Yerushalayim "l'shachasah" to destroy it. "V'einacham Hashem al ha'ra'ah." And as the malach is about to destroy the city of Yerushalayim, all of a sudden Hakadosh Baruch Hu has a little bit of regret so to speak. "V'einacham Hashem al ha'ra'ah." "Vayomer el Hamalach Hamashchis ba'am rav, ad hena heraf yadecha." Stop. "UMalach Hashem hayah b'Goren Aravnah HaYevusi." Where was the malach at when he was going to go destroy Yerushalayim? He was in Goren HaAravnah HaYevusi. He was on the top of the field, the gishaft of a man whose name was Aravnah, who was a Jebusite. He was a a Yevusi. "Vayeimer Dovid el Hashem b'ro'so es Hamalach Hamakbeh." Dovid Hamelech saw the malach standing by the Goren of Aravnah HaYevusi. So Dovid Hamelech turns to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. "Vayomer ki hinei anochi chatasi v'anochi he'eveti. V'eilah hatzon ma asu? Tino yadcha vi u'v'veis avi." You know, you're letting out all the anger on all the Yidden. I didn't realize 70,000 Yidden already died. You know what? I'm the one that made a mistake. Take it out on me. I deserve to bear the punishment of Klal Yisrael. Why should everybody have to suffer? Says the very very next pasuk. "Vayavo Gad el Dovid vayomer lo." All of a sudden, namash as Dovid Hamelech has this hergesh, he sees this malach on the top of the Goren of Aravnah HaYevusi, he gets another visit from his private chozeh, from Gad. "Vayomer elav." And he told him "Alei hakem l'Hashem mizbei'ach b'Goren Aravnah HaYevusi." I want you to go and I want you to erect a mizbei'ach on the Goren, right here, of Aravnah HaYevusi. Dovid says "Sure." "Vayal Dovid kidvar Gad ka'asher tzivah Hashem." "Vayashkeif Aravnah." Aravnah looks at "Vayar es Hamelech v'es avadav over elav." All of I mean Aravnah sounds like a gvir, he owned acres of property. All of a sudden the king is coming with an entourage and he can't believe it. Like what did I do? Am I in trouble? What's happening? "Vayeitze Aravnah." Aravnah runs out. "Vayishtachu l'Hamelech apayim artzah." And he gives him tremendous kavod, he bows down to him. "Vayomer Aravnah el Hamelech." "Madua ba adoni hamelech el avdo?" He says "Why are you coming to me?" "Vayomer Dovid." Dovid said "Liknos me'imcha es hagoren." I want to buy your goren. You want to buy my goren? Is that what you want? You want to buy my goren? You own half the real estate in this country. What do you need my goren? "Livnos mizbei'ach l'Hashem." Because I need to build a mizbei'ach because I was told by God that if I build a mizbei'ach, it wasn't the first in the pasuk, but if I build a mizbei'ach, "v'te'atzar hamageifa me'al ha'am." 70,000 people died. You know what's going on, right? Everybody's quarantining right now. If I build a mizbei'ach right here on your goren, I was told by the navi that's going to end the mageifa. "Vayomer Aravnah el Dovid." Aravnah hears that. He says "Meshugah, we got to sit down with lawyers now, we're going to write a contract? Just take it." "Yikach adoni hamelech es avdo v'ya'as hatov b'einav." And not just that, you need animals, right? Just take all my animals. "V'es ha'eitzim v'es habakar l'eitzim." Here's the eitzim. What else do you need? Take "hakol nasan Aravnah l'Hamelech." He said you can have everything. "Vayomer Aravnah el Hamelech." Aravnah told the king "Hashem Elokecha yirtzecha." Hashem should be with you, you can take whatever you want. "Vayomer Hamelech el Aravnah, lo ki choneh echaneh l'Hashem Elokecha asher lo alah li b'machir." But I alah l'Hashem Elokecha olos u'shlamim. I'm not going to go ahead and bring olos on a piece of property that I got for free. "Vayiken Dovid es hagoren v'es habakar." And the pasuk says that Dovid went ahead and he bought this property "b'chessef shkalim chamishim." "Vayiven sham Dovid mizbei'ach l'Hashem." And Dovid Hamelech went and he built a mizbei'ach there. "Vaya'al olos u'shlamim." He brought olos u'shlamim. "Vaye'aser Hashem l'aretz." Hakadosh Baruch Hu answered the tefilos of Dovid. "Vate'atzar hamageifa me'al Yisrael." Chazak chazak u'nis'chazeik. This is the way save for Shmuel Bais. Says Chazal, and really it's mefurash b'psukim in Divrei HaYamim, that it was at this second when Hakadosh Baruch Hu came to Dovid Hamelech and he told him I want you to buy the Goren of Aravnah HaYevusi, that this promise that Hakadosh Baruch Hu made more than 20 times in Sefer Devarim played itself out l'ma'aseh. This is when the Makom Hamikdash was chosen. Until then, it could have been anywhere. Didn't have to be Yerushalayim. Maybe it would have been Chevron. Maybe it would have been Meron Tzfas. It could have been anywhere. In Yerushalayim? I don't know. It could have been anywhere in Yerushalayim, too. But it was at this second when God tells Dovid "Alei hakem l'Hashem mizbei'ach b'Goren Aravnah HaYevusi," this is where it played itself out. That it's the city of where the Goren of Aravnah HaYevusi was that would be the Makom Hamikdash in terms of shtad and it's that Makom mamash that would be the Makom Hamikdash Yifcha. As it relates to where exactly the Makom Hamikdash would be. The truth is, to appreciate this even more, in Sefer Yehoshua, when the Yidden enter Eretz Yisrael and they conquer the land for the first time, there's a few psukim tucked away that so tucked away that even if you learn Sefer Yehoshua, it's very easy to miss. The very end perek tes vov, the possuk says "That's how Yevusi Yoshev Yerushalayim lo yochlu bnei Yehuda l'rishah." When the Yidden entered the land in the times of Yeshua bin Nun and they're going through shattle after shattle, they're killing king after king, the Yevusi who had a strong hold in Yerushalayim, they weren't able to knock out. "Va'Yeshev ha'Yevusi es bnei Yehuda b'Yerushalayim ad ha'yom ha'zeh." The Yidden weren't even living in Yerushalayim until that story. When Dovid ha'Melech is told by God, "Go to the goiren of Arvana ha'Yevusi." Where is that? In In Yerushalayim? In Jerusalem? The Yidden are living already a few hundred years in Eretz Canaan. "Ad ha'yom ha'zeh." They had not conquered that city. It wasn't even on the radar b'chlall, let alone being the chosen place. They couldn't because the Yevusi the Yoshev Yerushalayim, they were too strong. "Lo yochlu bnei Yehuda l'rishah." This was an unbelievable chiddush. But Dovid ha'Melech was told, "Yeah, that city Yerushalayim, which has been completely neglected, that even Yeshua bin Nun with the nissim and the floods wasn't able to conquer, I'm telling you that's the mizbei'ach that you're supposed to go to because it's in that city and on that place in that city that's the chosen nation. I just want to bring out this point. Let's drop that for a minute. From the second year that the Yidden were in the midbar, the Yidden already had a mishkan, right? They had a place where they could bring korbanos. They had a place that they could be oleh regel. Even though the Ramban in a few places in the spiritual Torah has a soffek if there was a mitzvah of oleh regel in the mishkan, but that really aside, they had a a place where they can come and appear before Hakadosh Baruch Hu. All the laws of zvachim and minachos, they all applied. They all applied. They didn't have Yerushalayim. They didn't have the Makom ha'Mikdash. They didn't have that Makom Asher Yivchar that the Torah references more than 20 times in Sefer Devarim. Just to map it out a little bit better. We know that the first Beis ha'Mikdash stood for 410 years. The second Beis ha'Mikdash stood for 420 years. The Yidden had a mishkan for how many years? For 479 years. 39 years in the midbar, 14 years in Gilgal, that's where the mishkan was immediately when they entered Eretz Canaan, then it was in Shiloh, hashtag tomorrow's ray, for 369 years, then it was in Nov and Givon for another 56 years. So, in total, it was 479 years that the Yidden had a mishkan. It was afterwards that ha'Melech went and he built the Beis ha'Mikdash which immediately follows this ma'aseh over here in Shmuel Beis and then there's a Beis Rishon, goes bubble for 70 years, and then there's a Beis Sheini, and then let's hope one day there's going to be a Beis Shlishi b'korovi mamash. But the point is is that the Yidden had a place where they can do all the avodahs. They had a place where they could bring korbanos. They had a place where they could be chiyuv by Hakadosh Baruch Hu. What they didn't have yet was the Makom Asher Yivchar. And the question then begs itself, what's unique then about the Makom Asher Yivchar? It has to be that there's something unique, right? Because you have a mishkan now, it's traveling with you, al pi Hashem yachanu v'al pi Hashem yisa'u, it's all over the place, right? All the men days masois in the midbar, and then it's in Gilgal, then it's in Shiloh, and then it's in Nov, and then it's in Givon. But the Torah keeps on saying that there's going to be a place where there's going to be a Makom Asher Yivchar, and somehow that's going to be different. After the Torah mentions it [clears throat] over and over and over again, and that place that was chosen was chosen with such drama in the end of Shmuel Beis, it has to be that "Lo ro'i zeh k'ro'i zeh." Atzas ha'Shabbos b'Yad, they're places of ashiras ha'Shechinah. But it's clear that this Makom Asher Yivchar Hashem is different than mishkan because all the places that the mishkan was in wasn't in the Makom Asher Yivchar Hashem. It was a place that the Yidden had sort of gone with the flow and chosen that that's where they're going to be. But then there's this one place and Hashem says, "I'm going to choose that that's the place I want it to be. Once it's there, in Eretz Yisrael ha'kodesh, right? That's where it's always going to have to be. There's no such thing as a mishkan popping up after that. So, what's the difference between mishkan which was with it together with the Yidden for 479 years, and then mikdash which is in Yerushalayim ha'kodesh that's in the Har ha'Bayis. I found in my remark of Nefla that to me is a a game changer in terms of understanding Makom ha'Mikdash, in terms of understanding where we're going now, ad b'lo ad b'chlall, right? And that's in the Alshich ha'kodesh in parshas Va'Eschanan. If you have the new Alshich, they cross reference the different places where the Alshich says this b'kitzur, but I'm reading from parshas Va'Eschanan. The Alshich ha'kodesh says as follows. He says the idea of a mishkan, the idea of a mikdash is a place for Hakadosh Baruch Hu to be mashreh Shechinah with Klal Yisrael. We're living over here in a a world of of hester panim. But there's a mussak of Shechinah b'tachtonim. Where Hashem says that I'm going to take the Shechinah and I'm going to be together with you. But says the Alshich that when the Yidden had a mishkan, the gedar of the mishkan was we live b'tachtonim and Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "I'm willing to come and be your guest. If you let me into your house, if you make a place for me to come, then "V'nayadti eschem me'Eretz Kena'an l'Kodesh." I'll come. I'll be with you. I'll be mashreh Shechinah. And I'll be mashreh Shechinah on such an incredibly deep, complex level that "V'chol adam lo yireh ba'hem mayim." There'll be a parsha of Tumos Mikdash v'Kodesh. There'll be an Azarah. There'll be an Heichal. There'll be Al Lifnei v'Lifnim. Hashem says, "I'm willing to come and be your guest." It's a chiddush from ha'Zoch that there's an idea of Shechinah b'tachtonim that Hashem says, "I'll come. I'll be your guest." But says the Alshich, then David writes in the Torah that there's going to be a day, I'm not telling you when, and I'm not telling you where, but there's going to be a day and there's going to be a time and there's going to be a place where I'm going to tell you go ahead and build me my own house, and then you'll be able to come visit me in my house. I'm not going to be visiting your house. You're going to be visiting my house. And that's going to be on a whole different level. The mishkan says the Alshich was the Hashem coming and checking into our hotel, so to speak. Being an orei'ach b'yos. It's kavod. It's michayev dinim. The whole seder kodshim comes from that. But then says the Hashem there's going to be a time and place where I'm going to ask you to build my house, and then when we're together, when we're convening, I'm not a guest in your house. You're going to be a guest in my house. And my house has already a whole different inyan. That's a whole different madreiga of kedusha. That's a whole different beginah. That's a whole different beginah. The Alshich ha'kodesh says that Yirmiyahu ha'navi said at the time of the churban, he said, "Mi yiteneni b'midbar malon orchim." He says, "I wish I wish it would have been like when we were in the midbar where I WAS A GUEST." ZOGT DER ALSHICH, "because when the Yidden were in the midbar, if the Hashem wanted to sever his tie with Klal Yisrael, so what was Hashem to do? I'm checking out, ask my bill, I check out, I pay the fees, and I leave. But that's good if Hashem is a guest by us. But now in Eretz Yisrael, you're a guest by me. I can't leave. I can't leave. And it's for that reason says the Alshich, "Eish al Yoshev Badad Ayirah Basi Yom Hoiser Kamonah." Because the Hashem says, "I can't leave. So, if I can't leave, who has to leave?" Klal Yisrael has to leave. And that's why "Golsei Yehuda Me'oyni." And that's why Klal Yisrael had to leave. And Hashem is like an amonah waiting for her husband to come back one day. But Hashem can't leave anymore. And Hashem at the time of the churban said, "Mi yiteneni b'midbar malon orchim." Halivai, I would have been a guest by you because I wouldn't have to throw you out of my land. I would just be able to leave. But I can't just leave. I can't just leave. And the reason is because this is my house. And being that this is my house, it's for that reason I have to be here. I have to be here. If we need to sever our relationship, if we need to sever our tie, well, then it's you. You're the one that's going to have to leave. But al kol panim, al kol panim, it's m'vuar. And we're just getting started. This is part one b'ezras Hashem. Part two, part three, part four, part five is going to come. But what is emerges from here is that really within the world of mishkan and within the world of mikdash, there were two dinim, two fundamentally different dinim. There was a tkufah of 479 years where the Hashem said, "I'm a guest by Klal Yisrael." "Mi yiteneni b'midbar malon orchim." And it was Shechinah b'tachtonim. And it was michayev all the dinim of seder kodshim. But then the Hashem kept on saying there's going to be a day. There's going to be a day when I'm going to ask you to do something else. Not just to build a bayis where I can come now and check into your hotel, where you can host me, where I can be a guest for the weekend and then leave. There's going to be a time where I'm going to ask you to build my house, and it's going to be "Ki veisi." It's going to be the house of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and you're going to come and you're going to come to me. I think it's poshut, these are the two Rambams. The Rambam says in Hilchos Beis ha'Bechirah, "Mitzvas aseh la'asos bayis la'Hashem." There's a mitzvas aseh for you to build a bayis la'Hashem. What's the purpose? "L'hayos makrivin bo es korbanos v'chayavin l'eilos sholosh p'amim ba'shanah." "She'ne'emar, "V'asu li mikdash."" That mitzvah was chalah immediately. The Yidden got the Torah, they had a mitzvah of "V'asu li mikdash." "V'shachanti b'socham." That's a mitzvah they got that second. Build a place where there could be a Shechinah b'tachtonim, where you could be m'kayem terumah u'ma'aser, where you could have seder kodshim, where you could bring zvachim and minachos, you could bring a chatas or if you ever sinned, you could bring all the dinim that we're learning about right now. And that mitzvah was chalah miyad. And we were m'kayem that mitzvah for 479 years. Over then zogt der Rambam in Hilchos Melachim that there's another mitzvah. And this mitzvah is shall we mix this with this which means we're going to come to this road there's going to be a new mitzvah. You know what that is? Number one number two the live base of and to go ahead and put the base what do you mean? I THOUGHT THAT'S FOR US TO mix this with this one. For us to mix this with this one that's to have a place that can come with you. A place where your guest with the with the that's a mitzvah. The same with this one. But there's a gag of gag and that is says there's going to be a time and place that's only in this road. It's the how many times do I have to say that it's staring us in the eye. There'll be a time and if you know a little bit of you know exactly when it took place in the end of base where says I'm going to choose the place. And that's going to be a new mitzvah because as soon as you know where it is the there and only there. The mitzvah is to have a mitzvah. The mitzvah is is to be that mitzvah. I think if you look at the mitzvah in the says I say by us in the says what's the third of the three mitzvahs? Live base of in the base of ironically the mitzvah is by us a base build a base build a 39 years in the midbar 14 years in 369 years in and then it's going to be a given. That's not the mitzvah. That's a place that's a mitzvah. That's a different thing. The base of why the switch from base of to base of the mitzvah. Here we're talking about building that what's the difference? Oh it's very very different. The base of is build a house that the can come to. Make a and a and a it's going to be a place that can come. It says this is what your house This is what the guest room has to look like if you want me to be your guest. This is why I need the refrigerator. This is how it has to be stocked otherwise I can't come to you. That's a mitzvah. That's a mitzvah. That's a mitzvah. That's the base of that is a whole different that's already a whole different I think it's I think it's and maybe even that that's these two but this is part one is a little bit later we're going to learn part two.