Home2Torah The Eternal Light Rabbi Poston Tetzaveh 5778

[Music] good evening everybody good morning good afternoon wherever you are in the world we are in parsha tits out there which mainly deals the parsh in general deals with the the different garments of the Kohanim which there are eight for the high priests and four for the regular priests but interesting they love the very first few verses deal with the menorah seemingly but not it's actually the oil and maybe not so that's what we're gonna find out now I also gave you parshas amor that would be okay so let me just claim where we are we are in Exodus 27 verse 20 through I think 23 no it's only 20 and 21 that we're going to be dealing with and then it Marsha's ever which is in Leviticus chapter 24 verse 1 through 4 those verses seem extremely familiar it almost is like there's a cut-and-paste going on but I want you to know when you look at these two printouts they're very different I mean those two paragraphs that I just mentioned first of all in chapter 27 verse 20 parshas to sabe now you should command the children of Israel that they shall take for you pure olive oil press for illumination to Kindle a lamp continually in the tent of meeting outside the petition that is near the testimonial tablets our honor his son shall arrange it from evening until morning before a Shem an eternal decree for their generations from the children of Israel we read it makes sense now we're going to go to chapter 24 neck in Leviticus and it's gonna seem like the same thing but let me tell you it's very very very different Hashem spoke to Moses say command the children of Israel that they shall take for you pure olive oil pressed for illumination to Kindle a continual lamp outside the petition of the testimony in the tent of meeting Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before Hashem continually an eternal decree for your generations on the pure menorah he shall raise the lamps before Hashem continuously okay I picked what I think is about eight or nine questions the clear car asks and I translated them so let's go through them first of all the main focus is on the Exodus 27 and verse 20 look in the Hebrew it says at top pockets of it first of all he doesn't address this question but why in the world does it have two times the second person pronoun when I say at table that means you and when I say the word tits out there it means you shall command so in other words what I'm saying it doesn't say English but I'm telling you that's what it says Nibiru you you shall command why do we have the word you twice all these Americans that come to Israel think they speak Hebrew they make this common mistake they tell you they say the word you and then they add the word you into the next word not realizing that's not necessary right Karen okay so the first question he asked is the art art it's our last day not field why do we have these two second person pronouns being used all you had to say was a cop said that you command right you come in and not only that he says even later on if you notice when I say later on I'm now talking about chapter 24 in verse 2 it says command the children of Israel in Hebrew solve espen SRL even bigger proof you don't need the word the Atty law and you don't even need you a second you don't need to do the first time you know me do the second time so that was one of the things he stresses number one is why do you need the two second person use and I'm gonna just retract to the purposes say the word double you I know W is a letter but we all know and after I say the word W it's going to be referring to the to use that are seemingly totally superfluous so that's really that sums up a and B number a was what do you have twice and number B is why do you even have the word you it's not necessary as we see if I eat from 24 to straight out the word command with the you being understood you can say south at been a sound it's understood it's you so when we ask these questions were saying why did God put these words there what are they what are the worst tried to tell us what did God want to convey me that you took some Hebrew okay so it's not totally foreign to you either now the third question why is the church so careful to point out this missile should be done only by Aaron now that's according to the Rambam the Ron bond is answering up why does it say you twice why do we have a W because it's an emphasis whenever anything is mentioned twice it's an emphasis you you only you okay so God is some Moses or Moses tongue Aaron that only you do not send a messenger don't send a replacement don't like you know I mean it's you this is a unique job for you now if that's true first of all why is it only in this Mitzvah we don't see any other mystical with as W is mentioned so what's so unique about this Mitzvah that's not by other visitors and not only that once you get onto this whole idea so that we have a problem because there is another verse that has a double unit and that's three or four verses later through the whole Torah you don't see it but here you have it in Exodus 2 three remember we were in 2720 now we're talking about three four five verses later and it says and you shall speak the etat to the bear you shall speak to all the wise hearted whom I filled with the spirit of wisdom and they shall make Aaron's garments to sanctify him so that he shall serve me as a co-head this also needs to be resolved how does he deal with this verse meaning they're on bond and said the W was strictly for the emphasis only him and nobody else would he do over there and also the real prime location for this parsha is not here what did we have we had the idea of the detainee the k-league the vessels then we have the Mishkan the tabernacle and now what we're leading into just a few verses later is all about the garments these are all to be used for the service of God and smack in the middle right between the time you have the mission on the tabernacle and the garments you're dealing with what whatever this is we haven't even resolved what it's doing here what it's really about but it seems like if you're going to put it anywhere it should be over there and Parsis mor in Leviticus chapter 24 certainly not here so the whole idea these two verses seems superfluous and if you want to tell us as the word tits are there means in the future you shall command that not really now but you will command that in Leviticus chapter 24 so then even more so why you need to tell me what you're you know why do you need to tell Moses now what he will command later it's really weird I mean this is something that has to be done with all so it says I lost near tamid to bring up the candle continuously so how many Kansas do we have seven right the the Hanukkah menorah has eight because that is a rabbinic holiday based on the eight days but the the the menorah in the temple had three branches on each side with one branch in the middle there were seven branches seven candles so why does this verse a to bring up to Kindle the lamp continually we know they're set and not only that the verse also says that it should be done from when from the evening until the morning obviously when do you need light from the evening until the morning but it also says continuously so again what what does continuously mean if you only need it for 12 hours continuously implies 24/7 and the last glass one issue okay this is gonna get that's not complicated okay so it says here where the menorah is going to be place but we already know where the modern when I was gonna replace the OM o inclusive the pearl this is sure our latest so anyone I don't know exactly what he's trying to say here but we already know where the menorah is going to be placed so or maybe not you know what maybe that's the that's the part of the question we know that later on it says to arrange them that arrange the candles on the menorah so what do you need to tell me where the placement of the menorah needs to be okay so there's something significant about where the menorah is going to be placed and also our paragraph only mentions one menorah where it does say in chapter in chapter 24 in Leviticus it does say the words arrays the lamps so we do know that they're more than one lamps there's more than one lamp but also mentions continuously once again what's the question that's the verse sorry I'll have an oratorio a rope at the narrow Slovenian tamid so if we only have one candle and over here many candles are mentioned so what is this idea about being mean that they'll have to dress these questions then here it says in the tent okay this is interesting where is it done in the oh hell no way oh hell no it oh it was a tent mo wait literally means the the tent of meeting of Avadh were aid we're going to say maybe testimony the word I invalid the whole tabernacle serves as a testimony then afterwards it says where me hoots Allah parathas outside of the curtain the dividing curtain what am I talking about here you have let's say two or three rooms that's how you look at it so you have the most in a room it's called the Holy of Holies then you have what we're going to call the middle room but it's and that's called the Holies and that's where the vessels go all the vessels except for the holy our own right the except for the ark the ark is the only vessel that's in the Holy of Holies and in the middle room we're gonna call it the middle root for middle troops for conversations sake the the outer room you have the menorah you have the shore table with the breads you have the incense altar and then you have the outer courtyard now you have a prophet you have this veil separating the Holy of Holies from the Holies and then you have you may have a curtain but it's not totally closed and debate - Mick - you have this big doorway and opening so anybody outside in this courtyard can certainly see it but then you have as what I mentioned look at Jay so here says in the tent of meeting and then it says outside of the dividing curtain so it's in what we call the room called the Holies but look at the order in the Oh mo8 but outside of the curtain and it parses em more it says become apparent I know this sounds crazy like we're nitpicking outside of the parapet first it's like the reverse order and we're then it says in the oil oil so it's the same location but the description is flipped why and the last question also the word testimony is used in a little bit of the different fashion in the art parsh it says the bahut slipper a lot I share all her ages you're going to put it outside of that dividing curtain which is either next to or upon the testimony where an Emirates has me who's Lapera plus a deuce the the word testimony is is describing the curtain itself seemingly okay clear as mud lots of questions okay now we're going to really sink our teeth and figure out he's gonna claim one concept answers everything she begins by telling us that he says nearly shaped Cosette the mask underwear on Bob you know what it's all apparent everything is able to be resolved by what the Rambam wrote that what we're really talking about when we say la I lost near Tommy when we sang when the Torah says to raise up the candle the single candle continuously and this will not come as a shocker to anybody correct that what that we're talking about the most Western the candle if you go into any synagogue today there's a little light above the irenna kodesh above the arc that has kept the Torah scrolls as I mean we called it the eternal light the the lightness it's all just a remembrance of what took place in the temple and of course but in that middle room which we called the Kadosh you had now there's a difference of opinion of which direction the menorah was facing so if it was east and west so the first opinion is the most Western the can the one closer to the the veil and on the other side of the veil is going to be the arm cottage so it's the closest to Hashem it's the closest to the veil of testimony okay there's another pinion says as soon as you walk in you're coming in from the east the actual what's the word the actual Camden come to first as you're approaching the West which would be those easterly candle okay there's another opinion that the the menorah was facing north and south and that each of the wicks of the three branches were facing to the middle it's face we'll call it and then the one called its face was facing towards the wick was facing towards Hashem where the Holy of Holies or the put the ends and called the the curtain but the main idea here if we understand this little portion here is talking about the Western eternal candle we're gonna resolve everything because it was it was always lit they were five there were ten helping miracles in the first temple and one of them was that this was always lit even though they put in the exact same amount of oil into all seven what's the word goblets cups okay they did not remain lit only this one so it's an open miracle everyday that signified something what do you think its signified that God's presence is there okay she says oh gosh AHA a really slow to meet Kiki man I've got Booker all the other candles only lasted from when from night until morning now he says according to this thesis in this proposal that this answer's up all the questions that we stated above why because after that was commanded by God to Moses what did we just saw in the last few partials we saw that the kaeleen the vessels and the Mishkan but Moses did not know nobody knew the God knew that there was going to be a separation between the Holies and the holy and what was inside we said already that the holy ark that carried the testimony of what it carried thee they carried the the the Luke hold those the tablets of stone were miraculous first of all it was with God's own finger that he carved it out right and that you were able to see on one side right the writing remember from right to left and on the other side you could see and understand from right to left it wasn't like you know in your innocent way I guess we thought okay here's an example when you're driving and you have an ambulance behind you did you know that the word ambulance is written backwards when you're looking through your rearview mirror so that ambulance is written correctly but that's only through a mirror and it's written that way because they assume that they're gonna be up someone's took this you know behind someone's car beeping or how in the way you don't see them but you might you do an ambulance and then move to the side okay so if something that is described on one side and it's all the way through so on the other side you would assume that you would need a mirror to read it correctly but know this was a miracle you could read it no matter what side you were on correctly it was carved all the way through oh also you should know it wasn't a flat tablet it was a square it was a Rubik's Cube was a cube it was a cube and you have certain letters in the alphabet like it's like letter O for example in English but you had a sonic which looks a little bit like you know and you have a final man which is more squared but it also if you had a wizard a if it was carved all the way through but it's more than a great it's cut all the way oh well so you have the little zero the dough got the bagel this is i floating levitating first of all if it wasn't there it would look like a solid her men and and if it was there but it was no it wasn't levitating would be down on the base of the ladder it wouldn't appear as that ladder either so the miracle was it was floating so I'm gonna try to stumble out of this up so basically who goes into the Holy of Holies once a year to see this testimony only the con go to the high priest when young people are and Moses felt like whoa God you told us you're gonna be with us and now you put this hirokin you're gonna make a separation how else are the Jewish people going to understand and live with the idea that you're with us always and now we understand why this place where this part is placed here I'm gonna go back into the text he says so by another zoo you through your color statements in this career with this proposal you'll be able to understand all the all the questions that were asked above theocracy watch General Moshe aluminum Mikhailov after the fact that now that Moses was commanded by God threat on the Mishkan on the tabernacle itself and all the vessels the he Lake Michigan - logical walking and there was this realization at this point that the Michigan is divided into three separate portions or divisions the Alcala whoa ready for this okay go to your source sheets [Applause] number two exodus 25:8 and they shall make me a sanctuary I will and I will dwell in them know and understand the English says in their myths but us will be Mick - mr. Conti potaka look because we're about to say something don't think it's not true God wants to dwell in each and every one of us but he's proposing the God to say I want to dwell in all three portions of the Mishkan read it again we are surely micked us with shikhandi but calm there are three portions and I want to dwell in every portion in all of them in them okay I never heard this from anybody and you unbelievable this is we always thought that God wants to dwell in us it should have said in it build me a temple and I will dwell in it but it says I will dwell in them meaning in each and every one of us you guys are the one building it therefore I will do on every one of you the clear cars taking it one step further and also this is his whole thesis here premise that God wants through this westerly light to show I dwell there and you understand that in the holy of holies you know that I dwell and I want you to know it's like a message of proclamation a sign that I am with you always and we'll see it but it's really deep it's going to go much deeper than this okay because he's supposed to answer a lot of questions ah ha ha Poirot that mouth will be Kurdish the Kurdish cut machine and this veil would serve as a separation between the middle room and the latter room meaning the holy to the Holy of Holies nuts emotions should befall Kayla queued up her a migrant - Tina surely mr. Moses himself really wanted he desired that God make some kind of a sign I'll just read it again that each one of these portions should teach should reflect the idea that the divine presence dwells with Israel meaning of the Kurdish condition so there's no steer at all right the Haitians love with each and every one of us okay these are just the science that behold in the Kurdish condition Maya Lucas aiders when you think of the Holy of Holies you already have the the tablets of testimony I sure did new eight-deuce a sham man mother she can destroy shop they actually give what's the word testimony proof and that what the God is trustworthy God is believable that he has his FINA dwelling there Gianluca showing up at mass anything as we mentioned that the Lucas were there and they were produced through mirror miraculously show you Nick Ramos ney every hand you could read them from both sides the man and the Sabbath that's the letters the its it looks like a circle and the man which is a little bit more square we mentioned they were by a miracle standing in the the tablets but Enoch should call Apollo Makka Moo yurei I ain't I am quiche omnitrition to grow up and anybody who stood in that place could see we're talking about the most inner place if you didn't have the if you didn't have the the menorah so if you were in the most inner sanctum the Holy of Holies you would see that what that when you'd see with your own eyes that the name of God that the but miracle these tablets were standing and had the subs name on it however now that you have this separation this veil the paratus this mobster somehow comes in and makes a separation and not every person goes in there it's only the conga road that goes in there pencil newly younger I'm a higher god forbid solid should think for even a moment that God has distanced himself from the Jewish people of came to who chocolate on each bar food therefore by necessity God felt it necessary to do what to make also in the handle of the first room where they will called the middle room for this practical say also a constant miracle and he did that through the nama Ravi through that eternal white through the Western me candle in order what can they should cool amidst aku bow everyone should be able to see it and by seeing it what do you see you're looking Isaiah 29:19 it's 59:19 the year me net met Arab shame I shall look what it says in 59:19 and from the West they shall feel the name of the Lord the year me my arrived at shame Hashem you would actually be able to understand that God is present from that light that is existent in the West he who show came pitaka because he's dwelling there in them in it even the evil Ohia protest if you didn't have that veil that's maja say I'll Arwen a noose that actually separated or covered the Holy Ark of testimony low Heights are and they say you wouldn't need this this candle to stay lit you wouldn't need the NER Tamid you wouldn't need that most westerly light to be continuously later now according to everything we just said that this whole portion is dealing with what the Iranian should cope our Shizu ain't come on the sorrows on there no it's not talking about all the lights it's only talking about one light rather the partial is talking about all the lights that you're gonna find in Leviticus 24 the controversy voice here the main point the main command that is being told is what is about that most Western Lea like that this was going to be revealed to motion the guy locomotion key i4p shahar pe'er ofit Mikasa our neighbors even though that veil is going to cover the arc of testimony nevertheless is going to be also also a place in the Kadesh in the middle room with a constant miracle to proclaim that God dwells there it's a proclamation this that light that little flickering light serves as a proclamation of a then the far same an announcement that God's Wells there now you already know that Moses god bless him peace be upon him it says but regarding him now go to do round it's number five in the source sheet now we're talking about the tribe of Dan he saw the first portion for himself because there the portion of the lawgiver is hidden where was Moses buried over there on the other side of the Jordan I'm sorry not Dan gat this is God sure he saw the first portion for himself because there the portion of the world givers him and he came at the head of the people who's the head of the people Moses he thought he did what is righteous for the Lord and what is lawful with Israel so the fact is that based on this verse he who I got gray sheet it's a it's a concept that Moses was the first the first of what he was the greatest prophet that ever lived no prophet is greater than Moses and he is the beginning of all things that stand in it as a miracle and guess what we're going to now compare him and his level of prophecy to that candle yeah remember you only you should not leak in me many common arrows run there ain't no hacer let me ask you a question you have $100 and you want to give up charity by the end of the day you got nothing left correct thank God you gave it a hundred dollars or a hundred shekels and charities what happens when you have a candle and other people need light and you give each person a little bit of leg do you have no light at the end no you have just as much light in your candle as when you started correct so you lit a hundred candles you would think ok I got zip know that you could take a candle light 100 candles and nothing is lost to you at all this is how Moses was Kaka it's on me men who Shepherd ruach ha'qodesh I'll call her the beam should bow after of that all of godly prophecy emanates through Moses like he is as if right it's coming directly from God to him and then disseminating down and proliferating towards all the other prophets that existed it's all emanating through the abundance of the Holy Spirit that Moshe had towards all the or any other prophet that comes after him as we know it says in the Gemara that Moses his face shone like the Sun so now I want you to go to number 6 now the truth is number 6 includes enough set six persons I want you to I'm gonna go through them a little bit because if anybody didn't know that Moses face shone so what happens is this in our Christian world that we all grew in up in Western civilization there's a famous painting or a statue of Moses with horns and maybe that's where they think Jews have horns so why is it why did Michelangelo carve out for paint Moses with horns because it says in the Torah then he had horns no doesn't it says that he had carried with a carrot or rays of light the word for Karen Harris carry a carrot is a horn or a ray they make sense it's a ray or a horn it's coming out protruding we think of the Sun we think of sun's rays right that's how that's was the description he's his face shone like the Sun and everything was emanating right but they're using the word wrong to think it's a horn it's really rabies okay so look at these verses and it came to this is Exodus 34 verse 29 through 35 and it came to pass when Moses descended from Mount Sinai and the two tablets of testimony were in Moses his hand when he descended for the mountain and Moses did not note that the skin of his face had become radiant okay everything here is this Karen or I had to come read while he had spoken with him to turn the pages verse 30 all right then I don't know the children is a salt most of behold the skin of his face had become radiant okay again Karen or is that the same person listen in that's verse 30 then 31 but Moses called to them and iron all the princes security returned to him and most of them speak to them afterwards all the children of Israel draw near and he would command them everything the Lord had spoken with him Sinai 33 when Moses had finished speaking with them he placed a covering over his face Moses was so radiant you could not you couldn't stand in front of him and look you ever see those people welding people welding yet the to have some kind of a guard over their eyes I don't know what's made out of but it's heavy-duty sunglasses right so so so this is you know in order what are you gonna do pass out something that says the six million you know six hundred thousand people three million people just cover the most face makes a lot it makes life a lot easier so Moses walked around with a veil over his face so again 33 when Moses is going to speak with them he placed a covering over his face then 34 when Moses would come from the Lord to speak with him he would remove the covering until he left then he would leave and speak to the children of Israel what he would what they would be commanded at 35 then the children of Israel would see Moses faces the skin of Moses race to become radiant again current and then Moses would replace the covering over his face until he would come again to speak with him with Hashem okay so we're really getting a little bit of an idea hungry shadows so we're having a little bit of an idea what's going on and we're going to compare that Western life that most Western li-like with emanating and proclamation and also the the idea of all prophecy coming through this but let's go a little bit in order now so I hope we've covered a lot of ground but we don't really you know have the full flavor yet so he says that Moses his face shone like the Sun and from him from Moses 8 saw or emanated a light on all the other prophets came and Marivi Zev just to cop nearby Robbie said he was like our Western Lee candle huh yeah or Ramasamy but darkness just like that Western candle was constantly lit through a miracle so to answer all of Maharashtra Moshe so to emanated from him that were it perhaps it we're saying the light and Moses were very we're comparing them he who he who I am ye bain't or Hashimoto mean a horror show I'm Denise whether we're talking about the candle or Moses because he it was a intermediary between the light of God to all other types of light which stand in miracle so let's say we're talking about Moses and therefore we're talking about the candle in there minute in the in the Michigan I assume in Isaiah and as a sign for this ship at the lake Chevrolet dot oh and it's male called abayas cooler so the more salt that says when Moses was born the entire house was filled with black and I want you to go to number seven on the shore she Exodus to 2 says when the woman conceived she deceived the poorest son we're talking about Moses birth by the way and when she saw him that it was good she hid him for three months what does it mean when she saw him that it was good Rashi says when it was were the entire house is filled with blood and how do we know how do we know was still her blood love we were told but in Genesis 1:4 says God saw the light we got created that my so glad everybody say it was good so we understand when Moses was born all houses folk lights and this legs would emanates and co truths to all the other prophets okay to teach us what what does this teach us Chihuly and the kaabah Rochelle mid or L young that Moses was the first receiver from that eternal or let's call supernal or L young the supernal white and Reuben M Soto Pushpa or our coma coma and then through him being an intermediary the the the Providence of light went all other places that it needed to be in order there should be miracles that's why it says now we know what it says to be out tactics of a uu w you can there's two times you because the first time it says Reata it means mahute Utz will cut that's mean to cut you the essence of who you are you the essence of who you are and then the tous effort or a sugar huh and then the additional light that's within you you're the one who's going to command the children of Israel and what should they do they should take to the shipment for you it says really cool laughs a Shemin this is in my in chapter 24 in Leviticus they shall take this chemin for you the chemin you got to let ha they're gonna take the chemin for you the oil the oil is the fuel meaning let's our faux leather that it's going to be combined to who you are you gonna have like absorb they giving you the fuel the fuel the oil becomes who you are Kaneesha tasveer all of my old car in order that your glory Moses his glory should should emanate from him in order to I love snare Tommy in order to bring up that little candle or any candle for that matter but he says that candle would be the most westerly candle which was always lit by a miracle okay we have a lot of ground to cover still but I think you guys are getting the idea right I know it's a little confusing than a lot of questions the beginning but he says now afterwards there's good reason to give a good positive reason to what Tom the spot for what there was any need for any type of miracle because it was in the oh hell no a which we said is in the tabernacle which is outside which although where does the menorah stand or for that matter where does the Western candor stand in the Illinois right in the tabernacle outside of that Purohit outside of the dáil which is upon the ages which were next to the testimony quija parathas mafia Big Mac welcome CH low ages are less in Israel because the Prophet itself that they all served as a separation between the place where the testimony stood and that testimony meeting of the Holy of Holies that the Shiina the God's presence rested with Israel and between the rest of the the tabernacle therefore when it says he should arrange an hour range from evening until morning why because the whole night you think the whole night he was standing there arranging it of course not but rather he would place into them the exact same amount in each one of the seven right the one that's most westerly he put the same amount of will as he did in all the other six shame boat came she or delay camara both care that's what it means he should arrange it that they should all last exactly twelve hours and even though one of them will last 24 hours still it didn't explain we didn't know which one that was we still don't know that it's the most Western me but it says before I shadow lift Nash and look at the verses it says where should this go before God in front of God and where's in front of God that's the most westerly candle that is closest to the Machine of the pred divine presence which is in the West meaning that is where the Holy of Holies were the our own of the Ark of testimonies came Masada aiders dome in theirs their el aronia a Druze so now we're making this great comparison between that Western the candle which is before I sham and what's beyond the way they both serve as testimony and if what do you need for a testimony how many witnesses do you need so let's go down to the next so you have in Deuteronomy this is number nine on the source sheet Deuteronomy 19:15 it says one witness shall not rise up against any person for any iniquity or for any sink regarding any sin that he will send by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses show the matter be confirmed we don't really need three witnesses here but rather to look at Rashi the verse establishes general principle from whenever you have the word 18 witnesses mentioned whenever it's mentioned the turret always means - unless the Torah specifies one is enough okay so now once we say before a shell that would be the most westerly candle closest to the Divine Presence which is in the West which is going to serve as witnesses which we say I'll be say anything you need two witnesses to establish anything Shanaya mind emotion and both of them come through Moses what does that mean both of them through Moses through the same person what do we call the Torah the Torah that's the ark it also carries the Torah scroll the Ten Commandments what do we call them called the Torah of Moses the Torah of Moses and guess what the Shemin is for you that's what it means these gonna take the Shannon for you this this most westerly candles also attributed to Moses so it's not only the Torah which is gonna be called by his name but a little history on culinary's we're not really mentioning all the nationally mentioned is one we're only talking about this one play when there was reading again sorry so Snelling they much of both witnesses are through Moses Keegan muttering nikkor sauce smell because also the Torah scroll by his name below his Kirk on culinary's we're not mentioning all the other six candles he ain't come to come because it's not the place the place is over in chapter 24 in Leviticus came partial said moreover their partial somewhere where it mentions over there plural narrows therefore it doesn't mention over there either of the atop that sub that's all mentioned here it's because it's referring to motion with the de Grazia Li Shanghai are : arrows since the ink of the main command there will be on all the other can all the other candles so just mentioned over there also the Western Canada where it says to raise up then their tummy but I want to show you now we're going to break that last verse I think in number 11 where's a 10 ok number 10 we're going to read it different in parshas m-more 24 3 it says sagas morale command the children of Israel the youth to Aleppo so I Roman number 10 right that's everyone we're 24 3 so it says outside the partition me hoot slipper office make a pause and then say a toast oh hell no Adi real Hotel in other words outside of the veil karma as a testimony in the tabernacle it should serve right that's where you arranged it in other words as a testimony it should be arranged so yet you have a different way to read it because what's being served as the witness it's the light itself so on one side of the petition you have the Holy Ark with not just the 10 commandments you have the Torah scrolls you have Aaron's rod you have a little container of the mana yeah ok in the Torah scroll so that service as a one witness and they really were talking about the tablets itself but everything else and then on this side you have what that light that most westerns we like serving as a witness ok so he says seems like Santa Paws is a parcels anymore ok I think I just read that when you read it again nearly she saved their a pulse-width pursuit show harshest a more so the way to read in partial sum or you need to make it a half sick like a break between the word Rohith witches the veil to the next word which is testimony and then you would understand like this that you bring up the candle continuously outside of the veil we meaning in the middle room meaning that it should be one constant candle serving as a miracle outside of the veil and then afterwards you explain that this is the use of the use of the actual miracle in other words the next part of the phrase explains why the miracle is necessary as a testimony in the tabernacle since this miracle will serve as witness that Hashem is trustworthy is believable is is the true God also in the Oh mo aid mean the whole place that anybody that is looking into it they will see with their own eyes the Western the candle has the the name of God upon it the cure pump its Mamas within it and that's how it means that's what it means the article to Aaron shall arrange it from evening until morning and it will be before God continuously and then he says Sam has been around the clea card goes on this explains your command the Jewish people they give to a left I take for you wouldn't we understand that this is somehow related to all the Jewish people because it says command the Jewish people and they should take to you so what are we here that there's something about this oil that relates to everybody and there's also something within it that relates only to Moses since it says they should take it to you now that's the combination somehow that relates to both both just the Jewish people or also say it relates not sure it means just the Jewish people it's it relates to all the Jewish people then there's something unique that relates only to Moses he had done from youth has a left up below that there's something that were they to Moses but not to them and what is that that's that one thing that is standing in by a miracle I share all of my which it actually says to raise up this one candle constantly odd until meaning the verse says until it serves as a statute and you charge statute for your generations and then afterwards we're almost finished this thing it relates to all of Israel as it says on the menorah which is pure you shall range the narrows constantly before Shem right before Shem constantly because all of the narrows are all pointed towards that middle candle if everything is pointed towards the middle candle so it's not just why I say the middle candle in the case of the Western cam but whatever the western candle is maybe this is the middle candle when it's facing north and south or it's the end candle and everything's facing towards that that's why we're says regarding all of them all the candles are lift may Hashem tamid everything together through some not connected with Moses everything is pointing towards the shed okay I want to stop here just answer any question so I know this is a little bit out there but if I could sum it up that what we're trying to say is like this I did this part these are three birth two verses do not belong here right and the fact that they're there there has to be a whole steering and we just got done saying write the two chapters that deal with the Michigan and with the vessels and well the vessels came first then the Michigan and now we're about to talk about all that all the garments also this is placed here because there's a realization that that perot had that that veil separates the testimony from everyone's vision that everyone's view or perception and that is not healthy for the people so whether Moses is instigated or prove or brought the idea of to shell or obviously a Shem knew before the room was created this is not the best situation meaning we need an additional miracle to stand and not only that it's actually very symbolic in many ways to Moses himself who radiates who's radiating by miracle or you know that Moses he couldn't speak God spoke through Moses his throat he could not communicate he was he had a speech impediment he even said how can you choose me so when God spoke through Moses it was God himself meaning God to explain God's voice emanated out of the Moses his throne and all the prophecies all the prophets they're all gathering the sparks or the power or the emanating whatever they're saying is from Moses himself I mean Moses is not God okay but we're talking about such a strong connection now I did mention a few weeks ago and I want to say this again I heard Greg that's Dean saying when Moses says I have a speech impediment I cannot communicate what does he really say he actually was already elevated to the highest level a human a human being could still be here on this planet and just about be dead or not dead meaning what is it about when someone passes away they're still there there did he go anywhere they just can't communicate there's no way we can really we can't see them we don't hear them they don't have a voice the person has been elevated so to Moses Moses in the capacity that he was in he was so elevated that he was really already in the next world the world of the living that's what we do we don't call it dead he was in the real world of the living and so for in this world he could not communicate there was no way that he can communicate so he says I can I let me see all over the Torah God said to Moses tell this to the people how was he able to tell this to people because it was God's own speaking through his mouth through his throat so this is the whole idea in a nutshell I think we have a lot of really nice ideas okay and his thesis is that this does not belong here this is really about Moses that we all have a connection with Moses whether it's through the prophecy we all experience Rooker - on the other hand there's also an idea that Moses if you compare Moses he's actually compared to the whole Jewish people God was very upset with the Golden Calf incident and he says I'm gonna wipe them out I started with you and Moses says no no wipe me out of the book don't the fact that he was gonna start over with us the very fact that God's gonna start over with Moses and wipe us out that alone shows you that he's equal to us or even greater because God says I'm gonna wipe them out start the whole story everything over just with you so he's equal to 600,000 Jews on one hand and he is equal because God's willing to part with us and start all over with him he says nothing doing that would be the worst desecration of God things come out with my cousin the Egyptians or the whole girl and saying see there's no there's no there's no God that has truth of justice it's just chaos so you've promised these people you would bring them out nose assist fulfill it right there won't be any belief in you people wouldn't trust you you've made the promise and that's that's one of the things also if God promised he doesn't change you know there's no change up you know he promised something's gonna happen and look the Jews are coming back we were always the firstborn child just we were let's say a little bit wayward a little bit disobedience a little bit wayward okay but there was always that relationship the relationship never changed he even told you if you don't keep it just to do bad things gonna happen to you right and call them the curses the curses are very obvious in the time okay in order for the curses to be fulfilled it means the relationship was still there to come in it was always there how can you say okay you do all these good things and then good things will happen to you do all these bad things so bad things gonna happen it will you say okay so now these bad things happen I'll just get rid of you that's not part of believing in God is also knowing the bad things are gonna happen because you did the bad things it's not okay you know just why France and it's part of the eternal okay [Music] okay so it's a whole class on this but look god can be perceived there's no question about it can you actually know God and live can you see God can you absolutely know God so we say look where we are where we are finite beings God is infinite I'm not making this up the Torah says you can't see God live which means the ultimate ultimate revelation of God and every detail is gonna be very difficult for finite people so there's no doubt that human beings Jews non-jews will perceive God on different levels throughout their lives so I can't answer for you what you're perceiving and what you know to be true I mean you know what you're feeling we believed in rural Hakodesh and we spoke about this many times some people thought that was a Christian concept you see it being discussed all throughout Kazaa but what we believe it's a very low level of prophecy nice and low level prophecy I don't mean it's a low level in general prophecy itself as many rungs on the ladder and it just happens to be one of the lower levels of prophecy we don't have the highest levels of prophecy and nobody has the level prophecy that Moses had anything we get as the creeks are explained is somehow emanating from the original prophet okay so every okay let me explain another way the the the kuzuri it's a very good book to read it was written perhaps in 1300 was written about a story that happened a few hundred years earlier about the king of the castle rights who supposedly converted to Judaism after a thorough study so some people would call this book apologetics it's about the conversation that this King of the Qasr eyes had with the different heads of different religions he was sir the truth he felt that he had a moral obligation to find the truth but he wasn't sure how one should behave let's say you had this belief or that belief but in the ultimate sense whichever one is gonna be true is the way I should actually behave and the hid behavior should be that's where the judgment that's where he thought the real judgment would be on how one behaves you know because we do know that certain religions say oh yeah yeah we pull Allah full of love but they they live by the Swart you know convert or die so after he has a discussion with a Christian a Muslim and a Greek philosopher he has a conversation with the rabbi which the truth is that's 99 percent of the book okay and discusses all about Jewish philosophy so one of the things in that book that he discusses is you have different types we're going to call it four but there's going to be a fifth but there's four types of life forms on this planet there's inanimate that's domain that's the clothes you know rocks minerals inanimate then you have another form of life called some manner that is plant life it's like and then you have animal life but it's not really it's not the highest level of functioning life on the planet and then you have the fourth level which I'll he'll call man but what is that it's called madaba it's the stalking spirit our spear God brood breathed into us his breath and we speak we're speaking we're breathing murder there's air flowing in and out that's what separates us between us the humans and the animals but the clear of the include fire the kuzuri goes one step further he said then there's another species called the Jew these are life and the difference between a speaker and the Jew is prophecy we are prophetic people yes we speak because we're also humans but there's another level of privacy do not juice that properly of course they do and of course then be righteous and they don't have to be Jewish to go to heaven okay so like this is like Jesus of one on one but it's very important to know all that but there must be a different level of prophecy and so anyway since we don't have but what is prophecy prophecy the prophets come to reward the people to warn the people to get on the right path that's the whole job it's not to Fratelli future in order to give them validity so God gave him a gift of foretelling the future but if if you did I think we talked about this if a prophet did not fulfill his prophecy he did some piece for free he said something would happen and it didn't happen does that make him a false prophet the answer is not necessarily why he's here to warn the people so if he gave the prophecy of doom something Bad's gonna happen and he's warning them to change their lives and then the prophecy of doom does not happen what can we assume he was quite successful he's he the the the bad prophecies didn't cap because he warned that if you don't change your ways remember changing your ways is not just a physical act also it could be in thought they're also sins in your mind so you don't know you just don't know but if he said something positive was gonna happen it didn't happen he's a false prophet he should be executed why am I going through those just the idea that prophecy we don't we don't have that level of prophecy today where people are walking around and telling what's gonna happen I don't care what kind of guys on TV and all that stuff okay that ended the time of Esther which form is coming up the word Esther means hidden and God's name does not even appear in the book of Esther okay and you don't see open miracles mean between you mean lampposts we looked at the book we see open miracles in the book of Stroeve time but it's not supposed to be read like that it's supposed to be understood that these miracles that were happening were part of more like the natural mr. words you know nature very natural be you and I looking backs take two steps back when we see the whole picture it seems pretty miraculous but you don't see like Alicia doing miracles you don't see all these you know Eliana be saying fire should come down from heaven or you know we don't see that in the book of Esther that's not what's happening it's all hidden in nature and that's the way the world is now so to be in touch with God we should know that the name for God one of the names of God is Elohim is the same Komachi as nature God is felt and perceived more on a natural way now soda is very spiritual sense spiritually sensitive like you do understand that it's that it's God it's not just nature other people get up and they sell its mother nature I don't know what they say somehow another it's more nature than God so I know what your original question was you know I don't you want me to evaluate you cuz I can't but you should know that there are levels of prophecy that will call them Ruth of kodesh that we have and you may have a Jewish soul you may be just tapping into the God of Israel which I happen to believe in general both Christian and Islam basically tap into because they believe in the Old Testament when you believe in the Old Testament you're tapping in and believing in the God of Israel and you want to connect to the Jewish people on some level so there's already this idea that right the euro did the hang of up in there is the creator of the universe and he took the Jewish people out of Egypt I mean so maybe in my opinion there's a few flaws in the philosophical ideas but ultimately for a Gentile it's not that bad as long as it's not actual Idol worshipper it's not that bad but a Jew it would be absolutely forbidden to sway away from the direct relationship with the Almighty and okay so for a non Jew it's more natural we discussed this before Wow I have my hand down so we say that we put our hand over our face when we say the smile okay and the four fingers represent the four different kingdoms is this there's four primal kingdoms that are in this dark world of ours until the Shia comes and that would have started with we say Babylon and then Persia and then Greek and then Rome okay Rome and and you smile are basically together but the fifth finger so that represents Israel and Israel is a nation that dwells alone and each one of these fingers there are three joints but Israel only has two joints when I say I really mean one joint with two bones because we're directly connected whereas these Jen the Gentiles in general they need an intermediary need obviously don't need but by nature they they choose an intermediary so I don't fault a Christian so news of another faith to somehow clinging it to the idea of needing an intermediary but I just want you to notice it's not necessary you can elevate yourself and you could go directly to the directly to God and perhaps maybe that's where you're at in terms of meat I don't know if I'm answering your question we many of us have just had these discussions before so I don't know because there's too many different groups of Christians talk about what Christians believe if you follow what I'm saying but I think in general if you believe in the Old Testament and you're learning the Hebrew and you're learning with me in the philosophy not just my philosophy but you know your understanding Judaism better which your religion is founded upon then you're the one who's gonna have to tell me if we believe in the same spirit and Lord you know because your religions based on ours you seem to have an obligation to learn ours as part of the basis for yours I don't know I don't have any obligation to to do to learn about yours although I have a little bit of a background and understanding so if you're asked me based on that I again I don't know if I can do any justice and answering you honestly maybe any other question I know I wanted to give you some background to my own knowledge but I'm not sure if I really addressed with you're looking for well you could let someone else so that you can pop in afterwards does anybody here want to add or help answer the question if you understand the 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