Home2Torah The Small Letter Alef and Prophecy Rabbi Poston VaYikra

[Music] okay good evening everyone so glad you all joined us here in the studio and as well in cyberspace mainly on the west coast of the United States I gave a brief introduction to Kerberos which may not make a entire video out of at some point but the first thing we notice in our shots of the Ebro first of all the ikura is really called teleological I mean the laws or procedures for the Kohanim for the priests there's so many procedures there's so many details that we're going to find throughout the book so what we're going to just start with is the first verse which doesn't really seem to have anything to do with curb uh note and I shouldn't say that with the details I should say it's more of a general idea it's like a very general concept and it's very fundamental so it starts off by mentioning the clean car start off by mentioning that you should notice that the first word has a small olive and I printed it out on the source sheet where you crop see the olive it's the fifth letter love you poof race and then there's an olive so Lea L Moshe got cold to Moses the doctor Hashem a LOF Mayo hell no and he spoke to him from the elbow age and that's the first part the second verse speak to the children of Israel and say to them dot be relevant in Israel Lea Martelli had ready for this other atom in the Torah usually usually usually refers to Jews Israelites and hada refers to mankind in this case we're going to see that this also this word atom does not mean Jew and you alone but also mankind's and we'll see through Rashi and we'll see through the general concept because the very first offering that is there's gonna be what we call a burnt offering which is entirely except for the innards is basically brought up on the altar and sand and give it to a shadow and also the blood that's thrown around the altar but the idea is that maybe let me just preface this also with certain general principles of carbonate number one if somebody does a sin intentionally that means knowing full well what he's doing what they're doing no Corbin is brought ok Corbin is not brought the only thing that will help is true now aside from that there are many types of offerings guilt offering sin offerings offerings when you're in a very happy mood and a thankful mood after a woman gives birth on and on and on there's so many different types now they are brought from either those three animals and I mentioned earlier which is the cattle account could be a sheep or a lamb and then if the person is not wealthy enough doesn't have the the financial ability in the burnt offering which I'll explain in a second can bring a pigeon a certain type of the bird and beyond that we're gonna also learn about a minute on the medical offering is a vegetable offering meaning it's from grains and there's going to be oil but the interesting thing is that when we get to the medical offering it's also called and nefesh so I'm going to tell you about the wrong bonds idea behind why we were in korban note and clear car brings this idea down that it's a soul for a soul in other words we should feel as if this is what we deserve okay that we're giving our Sawyer this the soul of the animal in place of our own soul which deserves some type of punishment now while we're talking about a mythical offering which has no soul the tour actually calls the notice here we say in other key acronym when a man offers and so forth throughout it talks about when somebody offers but when it comes to the Mincha offering which you can see the hath you to verse 1 it says nefesh when a soul offers which we're going to learn that it's the soul of a man when he works hard for his money and we just know a lot about money and working hard that the sweat and the blood and the efforts that go into earning that dollar or that Shaco if you put your soul into it so you use your money to buy these carbon notes you're using money to buy the flower even though it's the minimum most I'm not gonna call it inferior because it's not in fact it's a very high level because a poor person can't afford a line animal brings this and it tones just like a rich person who brings a cow has the exact same and I'm going to say maybe even even has more because it has the word nephesh he's actually giving his soul through through this middle of the cake or bread offering that he's bringing it's a flower offering actually okay with that in mind we're gonna start by talking about the small olive so it says the Fiat car brings down that it's a smaller oh very good where is there another anomaly either a small olive or a large olive in the Tanakh I'll tell you where first chronicles interesting me enough what do you think I'm dedicated distressed chronicles could probably quote the first verse right its history of the world and it starts off with the main name a dime huh right Adam says so what do we have it's amazing that you have a large and large olive by the word a dumb in its first chronicles 2 verse 1 Adam Seth Enosh cannot Mahalo Jared on and on and on throughout right the history of the world which is obviously significant because we are talking about what a man and I used the word of dumb and we're gonna see in Rashi he uses the word of dumb as Adam arisia we're going to talk a lot about admiration in tonight's class Adam to reach what is the first man okay so he points out that the olive is small as if it's not there as if remember as if it's not there and if it wasn't there what would the word say via car not as in the clear car but as in but Nicorette as in that when God meets up with Billy you can look on your source sheet it's a numbers 23 verse 4 it says God chanced upon bility movie a car a lo keem L Billy okay so what is so interesting about this that the same word if there's no olive is used for Moses and for building so the clea car is going to make a proposal of course this is not a new thing it's it's brought down throughout the south there is an equality or some kind of equation somewhere somehow Moses is equal to bilham in his prophecy but he points out don't make the mistake to think that they were on the same level there's something equal about them in their prophecy and he's going to introduce the idea of what that is okay and we're gonna learn a lot about prophets of prophecy tonight so if he says that I just read the words cuz they he's just so so sweet kihyun mr via car tarnish el tovar the reason is la xu oanh nuvvula moshe and the who opted belong as it says we just read 23 for in in numbers ok very nice but guess what we also have a verse in Deuteronomy 34 10 which says that there was no other prophet who rose in Israel and Moses whom the Lord knew face to face so how can we say that Billa was equal on any enemy level if we say there was nobody like Moses correct well if you look carefully at the verse it says look how biggest royale combo showed the most common meaning it's true in Israel there won't be and there wasn't and they never will be and then ever was but amongst the nations there was and that was Billy now one thing he wants to make clear after that statement you may mistakenly think that what we're trying to say is that billerman and and moses were equal no in a pair of shia bilham's chevelle emotion the Neva probably love god forbid don't think that Moses and Dylan were equal in their prophecy but this is what we're about to say this is the nitty-gritty of tonight's class ready for this and he's going to explain it and we're gonna really grasp it that Moses was able to grasp more prophecy than what he was actually fit and prepared to receive on his own meaning there was a bonus God gave him Co cepheid's Sheva an added amount of prophecy more than so what is a profit do to invest profit schools right so you go to school and you learn how to work on your character that's like that's the basis if you don't have that if you haven't worked in your character you're not outside that you're not righteous there's very little chance you will be advanced in the school of course yes we married yes we wealthy you have to have a whole bunch of other things that you basically have to work on your character and nullify a good amount of your ego to be able to be a true servant of God now we know billet was not such a righteous person far from it so so he - now it's easy to grasp what is interesting about a guy like Bill who was able to say things that Wow I mean we're talking about the times of the Messiah he was able to see things that the other prophets weren't even able to grasp and so basically this is how we burn equated but the proof texts that even Moses received prophesy more than he was able to obtain on his own was from the verse in Deuteronomy it's actually the same verse Deuteronomy 34:10 we go back to it it says whom the Lord knew face to face it doesn't say that Moses knew God but the God caused himself to become known to Moses so it's top down it's called a Cepheid Sheva it's this abundance of spirituality that came from above down to - Moses that was called the bonus of prophecy over and above his own abilities and I could just read his words it's just so beautiful he says as the pus successorship God who Hashem and it doesn't say I sure y'all do SSI fine so what is it trying to tell us you who meets Anatolia does a share house they open the the extra prophecy that we're talking about it was coming from the bottom up Kim Hashem Yabu with nothing intercepted chef up and where is this good Israel as we already mentioned Moses was bit that bet in front of the word in Israel doesn't always mean in Israel in other words the bet doesn't always mean him but it can mean and thus here also mean on account of Moses's extra prophecy was for our sake Moses didn't need it friends his his his own sake it was in order to give over as every verse I tell you it says when it says we add a brow don't know emotional a more what's the word lame or mean to say over God spoke to Moses for what purpose so that Moses would then in turn say over to to us what we needed to do see wants to say its biscuit Israel in other words there wouldn't be another prophet in Israel or the scrutiny job what about all the other prophets you want to hear about all the other prophets they were only able to achieve right they only achieve the prophecy the day we were on the level to achieve nothing more none of them received any bonus like Moses Moses was the only prophet to receive a bonus and now when it comes to the Ummah Salaam the nations of the world there was one that stood up we'll call him Billa and it was also the kavod on shelves also for our benefit I mean if you just look at the prophet and the words that he spoke we're really just unbelievable we're not doing that tonight we'll do it meaning we'll go through partials baaaack but also there is an idea that in the future of the the nations might come to a sham and say why are we not getting the benefits that the Jews have God if you would have sent us a profit then we would have been good boys and girls we would have done exactly we were supposed to do and God's gonna turn out to them and say and did just that it's exactly why I sent bill oh he was a very high level prophecy and you didn't even listen to him because he talks but she's odd she look beautiful when he speaks about the Jewish people and for all those anti-semites out there anti-semites out there wherever you are rebuild okay so he just he repeats the idea that both Moses and bill bill will also be seen much more than he so I'll use the numbers these are my own numbers and see if you can grasp them let's imagine in our minds that Moses built himself up to be a prophet and he worked himself to 99.9 percent but God gave him an extra 10.1 percent so the Moses is at 110% prophecy but there's that 2/7 is that 10% plus bonus let's take a guy like villa let's say he only worth either five percent or minus five percent but he was hovering around zero you know plus or minus five percent God gave him another ninety five percent so he topped them off in a hundred but together to make sure the equation is not equal Moses is still the greatest prophet we ever had he's not equal to building they both have what we call two separate prophecy in extra Sheva of prophecy and now something about all these are the prophets is that what they do is but since they do acquire the prophecy that they're fit for we call that the roof above the Etzel it actually is clinging to them like glue to their essence and it never departs from them whereas both Moses and bilam there's going to be a part of their prophecy that will depart as we'll see even Moses when God says Lake Ray go down because the children of Israel the Golden Calf we know that gun that Moses himself descended from his level of greatness God city and the Argosy was so great because of us I mean I'm not putting down Moses I'm just saying that the exit aceptas we reread was on our account so if we're sinners and we're doing the wrong thing so then he also loses that extra Scheffer because it was not necessary if we work and if we took a while till y'all keep work that we were forgiven and we'll see that he got it back so not only did he lose it for a period of time but he got it back and we'll see that all I'm here to show tonight is Rob so the things that the other things in the level of prophecy that the other prophets are able to achieve we call that at smooth pinioned of ink it's much part of their essence they acquire and I'm gonna mention that about when you learn Torah and you hear a piece of toad that absolutely resonates it's like wow blows you out of the water shoots your neshama your souls like flying high and you really feel that you acquired that piece of Torah that toe should never leave you you remember it till your dying day because you made an acquisition so to these prophets prophesized that prophecy never left them but anything that you acquire as a bonus let's say for example you go to work you work 40 hours and they're hard and they're tough and you get your check okay it's a nice thing to thank your employer but it's coming to you it's yours I mean it's their heiress to thank it and have a smile because you want to be back on the following Sunday when you get paid on Friday here we get paid once a month but okay so if you get paid every week you smile you're stanking but it's coming to what happens if you got an envelope and it's full of money I mean the truth is you don't really care it doesn't matter how many bills it's the very fact that you got a bonus you'll count that I'm sure there's as you can account but whether it's plus five minus five you know of what you thought the bonus might be it's irrelevant your your true grateful but it can come and it can go there's something about that bonus that is awry which we're going to talk about it's transient and it's about chance which is actually what we're leaning into this the Micra the the idea of without the olive on the right without the olive only drum and it's just the Micra that's the bonus that we're referring to where it can come it can go it's transient it's not fixed like your salary it's a bonus and that's why he says although cohosh of my senior to make definite out anything that the profit is able to receive more than his own preparation for does that slogan Rick the mick Ravello betcha that's called the bonus it's by chance I don't know if that's the best translation but we're saying that it was not earned unearned OK ROCK Matata lucky it was a gift from God that's why it says to be card by both Moses and by billing to teach you that there was something equal in both there's ability of prophecy and that was been linked read no Steve no soft outer rule ahem inside out sometime that was the additional prophecy that both received more than what was part of their essence now he claims at this point that this actually resolves what Rashi mentions now what's the problem we didn't even look at Rashi so window karashi what's going to be the problem with a careful sense of the viable see and if we don't see it pointed out it's still number one on the sushi it says this is on numbers 23 for by billah Rashi says the word via car has an expression of awry Russian awry which means a casual meeting her parents Democrat by chance it also has a language of goodnight and another language of two lot scarier tuna okay so how can we apply his question is which evening in state how can you apply these words to Moses's prophecy I understand being a ride part because we just explained it we spent the last 15 20 minutes talking about it but - ma you're gonna say that something about Moses prophecy is Touma dick well he's gonna tell us what do you think the answer is that's why there's an olive if the earth was totally taken away then yeah you could say it's it's all these meanings but once the Ark is still there we know the olive which represents God and so I'm sort of way the unity of one sophomore okay so there's no tuna involved involved over there so let's read what he says well Bizet may you shove Masha perish Rashi this resolves what Rashi explains by rushing awry and mushroom toulon so he begins by telling us already that we were explained awry but he says how you died by me and lead team have they'll bake me a car the Vitra it would have been fine just for having one of these explanations to tell me the difference between the word via car and the wordly crap LOL official Raschi server got came the new emotion is with McGrath you know what the rocky also understood as if as if the I was not there that you could read the word as via car and therefore the McGrath and it's not that etson MIT Sahara tell it's not really part of the essence of what he worked for in profit school the physical uh so what really is the problem what was bothering Arashi lama lo nipped on via carmelo out of club widen why is called vapor just called the car and and move along with life it just right if we were gonna say the out is not there then make it not there of came booking Mataura alone that's why he's coming actually coming to answer and saying the official Russian via car true it's marshmallow should arrive which is the McGrath like we explained but it also implies a language of tuna and zip a no shake table jalapeno sure you cannot use this and said when you talk about Moses and his prophecy there's no tumor there's no contamination yes - MA - as opposed to time arrived suddenly yes the word kalila which means god forbid I shall break with cognitive Allah so that there was God made sure the other was there it was made small by mommy - what the whole team in Russian MIT red moon shell tumor to exclude to get rid of any concept an idea that Tula is involved in Moses prophecy McCulloch of nifty vial of his era but it was written small and therefore when you read it the car to teach you what that also the prophecy of Moses was awry meaning by chance the Micra meets an iota no sir ah-ha-ha at oh it was it was additional chef at this Josefa Sheva additional Providence more than he'll and his own ability was to prepare so for that the opposite meaning Tula you cannot come and say it all leaders day clear as mud so he says with honey Eau de Vie folios it's very possible she said that to me drops this is exactly the opinion with the metros was talking about on this verse which mentions the language like this your food is safe at school depression emotion you might think is that even possible that when God spoke to Moses it was from Moses his own sake no remember the Torah says lay mark read around an oil or Shalimar least in our verses he called the Moses and he spoke them from the tent saying whatever that the word saying it always means to tell over to the Jewish people myths are dirty sure I'll be Barry well it was for the sake of the Jewish people that God spoke to Moses low Letarte Cosmo not for him or his on the same but he claims the clear car says this manager she's still lacking a certain ethic Larry because happened it never caught on your mind well I think you ever think for a moment that God spoke all these mitzvahs remember the 613 mitzvahs for Moses a sec anyway you got women right you got Colin I mean you got all these different situations of people cases in the land it's like crazy why would you ever think that God spoke about all these misses just to Moses for his own sake and he asked every 12 the question was he alone was moses alone when god says and know--they I'm the Lord your God you show having others right I'm the Lord your God first commit and ve'lo yellow huh and you shouldn't have any others no we were all there at the revelation all the Jews heard at least at least the first two commandments which could be that was all the commandments at once and well violation malos a new blue Madhab era that were actually talking about this great level of of prophecy that Moses had because was for our sync as we mentioned before she's of emotional via car and Moses merited what we called the Akkar meaning of the additional to set faith Linda Lewis Makris should to separate love yet tear myth down from the top he repeats it over again to really join in to us that the prophecy that Moses received was much more than he was even ready to handle should be brush and it took honey my honey and we see the God spoke through face to face but the school too for our sake the sweetest right the low box will turn a phrase on sake and that's what we mean when it says let's our Turkish trout the very mouth was for the sake it was for our sake that he spoke that's our calm sutta it was because of us that he married that extra prophecy not for zone sake as it says low common avi big Israel the bet is the language of Babur that's the bet is a prefix to a word and it can be many things like I said in with 4 here it means on account of on account of Israel therefore when Israel sinned what did God say to Moses looking schmoes look in Exodus 32 7 that's number three in the sushi God said to Moses go down go and descend from your people then you have brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly this is when Moses didn't even know that the Jewish people were involved with the golden calf God informs him and he tells him go down go down how do not try not to physically dissemble though that's also the meaning but that you Moses you have to go down from your high level that I put you on because it was only for their sake and since they involved themselves from the golden calf there's no need for you to have that additional chef up additional Providence of prophecy and that's what the clear car says time to look to separate chef is any tension eating go above a strap you're gonna go down for me greatest the extra greatness that was granted to you the author I'm Athena how Mithila that after the Jewish people were forgiven who chocolate Irish should cause emotional incognito that Moses after the Jewish people were forgiven which we talked about on Yom Kippur several months later Moses was then replaced or put back to that greatness as if you look at Exodus 33 11 we should be done before C then the Lord would speak to face to face as a man would speak to his companion and he who returned to the camp now all this is taking place when between the time of the city of the Golden Calf until the time of well now we're talking about the time of after Yom Kippur so during that time Moses had descended right from the time of the golden calf then until the day after Yom Kippur monkey for itself Moses had descended but once the Jews were forgiven on the upkeep or so then Moses wouldn't be able to speak with the Lord face to face and that's what reverses you furniture okay so the next paragraph he brings down a mattress so why why do children Jewish children you know where would you think they start learning the body you would think Abraham Isaac Jacob maybe even know all of the with all the animals and the ark you see many you know especially in Israel the Jewish the Israeli zoos they all have Noah's Ark and all the different animals will children learn from where did they start Deuteronomy Exodus where would they start Adam Adam and Eve you know maybe it's a little bit wait till they get to the bar Mitzvahed because it involves you know having children I know but guess what we all know whoever lives in Jerusalem or a Jewish community that all the standard boys they all start learning the ikura Vayikra and why he says because yes in a question for lava mottling a Tanaka's loo boatman parshas cars why do the children learn the first thing they learn is about korban us offerings so he says Maha cubanos Tahoe mean ft nut goes came just like children are absolutely pure without any blemish so to the Cubano sire there is a move on narashima Marsha's tinnitus I'm not going to go there but he does mention like this that the words where it says a sheep less than a year it's many places that's the type of watering cuz I see Benicia ah what's a Kevin Kevin scuff beth shean is a sheep a sheep of less than a year so there's a little bit of a play on words even though it's different letters to loose two of them with the same the cuff bet sonic let's cuff that Sabbath campus the campus kibou seen a Mona Lisa to launder to wash to bleach so to just like the sheep less than a year is what has brought up in many cases if shin the cop seemed a voice or other they cleanse the sin of man the ice and ocean Katina bench on us and it makes us I love this like you're born again like you are a brand-new child a child of less than a year old can't beat it right hallelujah I just love it okay so bog or Zedd I live katana and that's why the other which was made small then it hints that the children start learning here and guess what what is it about the word it's really a letter olive it's one letter with it strike that in the middle of two little years on the side but guess what it's also a word and what's the word olive olive means to learn or to teach that's why in Israel OPA it's not like a ULP am but an olive lawmen painless open olive and I want you to look I believe there's a versa if you look in number five on the source sheet it says Joe 33:33 it's really just the last two words but if not you listen to me be silent and I will teach you wisdom what's the last two words of Cosmo the word olive olive means with teaching okay teaching and to be taught as well so that's why the vibra the children being valued read because all it's about attaining and learning wisdom so it's from the outlook it's from the concept of so he says leave with the rush it's the first letter of the alphabet you're gonna teach him what where do you start with Z and go backwards you're not I mean in there I don't know what the French alphabet is but I guess the same right ABCD efg that comes from the e because you know why because when the floor the Tower of Babel odd first of all God spoke Hebrew had created the world and he looked into the totally written Hebrew says he looked into the turtle created a road he spoke and the roads created so what language did he speak the same language we all spoke for the first five thousand plus years that we were on the planet and that was all Hebrew and then from the Tower of Babel on that we all were dispersed and spoke different languages but it all originates from the alphabet ax the olive net the ABC ABC alphabet so you have here he says it since the first letter so and there could time so therefore the Kotani the children learned from the first letter okay then he brings another idea about this olive well it's something we just said it's a Russian Orlan lean mood it's the language of learning and here's the verse he brings it down in job 33 3 three which hints that what Shane Hollywood myth kyon Kingdom Misha Martina that smell that it's not possible to learn unless one makes themself small how do you think you can acquire wisdom when you're so full of yourself it's impossible the only way to learn is to become a little bit more objective right you have to be able to diminish yourself to a certain extent so that's what it's talking about it's making yourself small so you can learn so - Reza's saint-remy Shamu shows up in the Korea zoom the fishy hinting at optimal you know that Moses was the humblest man of all and I'm not saying as I can go I'm just I know it wasn't or said so but he ran away from authority you know he was like he was like gonna be the next pharaoh he was like pretty high up there but when God asked him to be his messenger what does he say look in Exodus 4 verse 10 what happened here and I never skipped it he says mogees the Waterman ohthey so I guess I didn't bring it down Exodus 4 verse 10 he says I am NOT a man of words what do we see about all the politicians nobody would ever buy no politician would ever say that so he ran away from sroa authority okay how we doing so far guys okay so the next verse that was just the first verse this is the pace we grow any-any many integers that's good so verse 2 says both of Piatra mechanic or von wahnschaffe a man now we're not saying in members as a female but we're talking about a man the word of them usually means the jew and hugga usually means the human race in this case and these were talking about the burnt offerings let me explain I started to but I really can completely finish this is going to be a voluntary offering for an intentional sin remember I mentioned intentional students don't bring any offerings that wasn't entirely true anytime there's a punishment mentioned in the Torah which all the negative Commandments basically have so you wouldn't get you wouldn't be able to bring an offering for any one of the three sixty five commandments if you violated them intentionally but in a positive Mitzvah which usually does not carry a punishment there are a few to do it's just a lost opportunity that's what it is when you have a positive Mitzvah and you fail to do it there's no punishment but what is your punishment the lost opportunity to come close to a shed the point of dualism definitely the root of the word Mitzvah is satting love and cause I'll tell us the word sodding love means to connect the Cobell we do mitzvahs in order to commune to have that intimate relationship with God through our deeds through our mistress now if someone failed to do a positive mitzvah oh well the punishment is the failure of that of little bosses that opportunity come closer to God it never comes back however this burnt offering is an opportunity now if you look one of the sheets that I gave you copied from the arts well it says at the bottom right one three a burnt offering may be brought by one who is contention Alika mitad a sin for which the turret does not prescribe the punishment one who fell to perform positive Commandments what have had sinful thoughts and by everyone who wants to come comes to Jerusalem for the three pilgrimage festivals what's the point soon they may be brought by anyone who wishes to raise his spiritual level you want to come close to a sham you want to raise your spiritual level whether it's a result of missing out on a positive mitzvah that there's no punishment listed or because you just want to come close the vodka shot in the world is yours okay so I just wanted to point that out so he says right away interesting enough that this verse begins in a in a singular language because when you read it says right other key yah truth the man that's all that's okay that's singular but he's young Creed he's offering up it's singular but the latter part of the verse it says right I mean I behave out minute buck our minutes on top reivew at come on tenth right so you understand that in the Hebrew right that you shall bring your courtroom but it's you plural okay and it's offerings so Rashi on that verse by the way you might have to go back notes on page it's longer this pastry it's number six whether it says at the bottom you shall bring number D ABCD I wrote it down here you shall bring top review top reivew the plural form of the verb teaches the two people make dummy a voluntary burnt offering a partnership you can save a lot of money you have lots of friends you all want to come close to a chef you make a big big deal out of it but you're not going to eat any of it it's all going to the altar Melik along shackled me so he is bothered by the fact that you have the first part of the verse singular and the latter part of the verse plural one of the problems you could have to try to figure out as weird as it begin where does it end in other words really put the strong comma to separate the first part from the second part and try to make sense out of it there's why is it like this so he been he brings right away wash explains some Alam h9 mid 1900 'la we should we should Buffalo so two people we learned from this as two people can bring this voluntary offering but he's bothered he says ain't my speaker be I shave him acrylic ah bro me Rosh the sofa but I don't know where to must speak and there's not enough like a clarity to resolve in this verse where the beginning and the end separates kilo Yadav and Haytham hypsi Canyon I don't know where to stop it so if you notice at least on this sheet there's a calling okay there is a following I know that the source sheets a semicolon but either way that's where it's broken up so when a man among you brings an offering to Hashem that's as if it's all sentence on its own and the second part of the sentence which is seemingly a sentence on its own from the animals from the cattle or from the flock you shall bring your offerings remember the beginning of singular the end is plural and that's where to break it up Munir the furnish it sounds like what he's saying is like this sure up to Allah has your call not Prive Corbin lashing that is coming to war to give like a Hazara to anybody who's dreaming a Corbin to God that guess what this is so important you'll see that's why thinking this look at number B of the Rashi it says Amen it's a Hebrew Adama why is this term used here as opposed to each and the key bra she says that loose is it alludes to Adam Adam every shop adam every shut the first man on earth he was a jewish no no way no how just as Adam the first man and never offered sacrifices from stolen properties since everything was his so to you must not offer sacrifices from stolen property and this is going to be the running theme for a while but he doesn't want to go into the original offerings made by both Adam and the sons Cain and Abel and he wants to teach us what we should not do that there's lessons to be learned right who's wise someone who learns from everyman : up he says this is a warning for anybody who wants to bring an offering any one Jew or non-jew shallow yet casual mission is very you should not become trapped or stumbled in the two things which came and Abel kind of the heaven stumbled in remember they were the first ones to bring a carpet to offer up to God what did Kingdom person well you just know that if you go to and I didn't highlight it properly maybe I did number eight in Genesis chapter four its verses two through four he really wanted us to only look at four if you go to number four my Abel brought the firstborn of the flocks and the Lord turned to a ballista Zara's okay I really think I messed up but let's go back to the two and we're talking about his mother Eve she continued to bear his brother Abel and Abel was what a shepherd see he was see later and the suppose it for he brought from the Fox so he was a shepherd and he brought from and what about Cain Cain was a tiller of the soil so we see in verse three that he brought from the fruit of the soil so the Torah tells us what they did is a living in occupation and what they brought which was very consistent okay Abel brought he was a shepherd he brought the flocks and Cain was a tiller of the land and he brought from the what you would think of the stomach from the ground so what was Cain's mistake Cain brought because I'll tell us flax seed flax is very common and inferior it's not a very expensive and it's not very high quality of course after you work it you can make some very nice clothing from it but still linen doesn't meet the same a silk but anyway the mistake that came made I'll call it a nick shop the stumbling block that that affected Cain was that he brought from the the most inferior products and Hassad Towson was therapist taught from the flaxseed and he does get into this idea that the Rambam as I mentioned that Rahman held that it's a soul for a soul so therefore when you when some sins with their soul they need to bring a nefesh bahama the animal soul in place of their own soul now Hashem has a lot of mercy for the poor so he allows a poor person to bring a biblical offering which does not have a salt it literally doesn't have a salt but he does want to connect the soul to it anyway he says my love olive Kela hickories not sure yet the torah itself says when a soul brings so we see that there is as if even though the the poor person is bringing a cake or bread if someone had a flower offering it's as if his own soul is being offered up and because the pus excedrin a fish ki Tok read from in cup and that would be a number 7 the Vedic chapter 2 verse 1 and what about Heather Abel what was his problem he did bring from the best so what was his problem if he brought to the best you know what it says by him he brought second and it says it just threw me enough God he also brought which means it didn't initiate from within he was keeping up with the Schwartz's he was keeping up with the cop with the Katz's or the Joneses it she it was a it wasn't an offering to a shell he is offering it was to show off or as if you were giving you as if you were worshiping it to people you were offering it to people because it was in the eyes of people again there wasn't anybody around but the idea is that it didn't come from within you only awoken within him because of someone else so he did bring the best and the comic envelope Togo so it's not good but he did she learn it's a rare have a corpsman me out no he didn't bring it on his own initiative hello miss de Rais limits resumed a hot smell he didn't come on on his own to do this and after Shiro hypocrite kyon : it was only after he saw kind offer osmocon about then he had either a jealousy in others there's an unhealthy jealousy there's a healthy jealousy right so he not so free Marvin Marvin Hofmann when you see otherwise people and you want to be wise as well so that should increase your okay it shouldn't arouse a misplaced and infantile jealousy that is not healthy okay and we just drove my Karen [Music] [Applause] but it says hem bothe hey began whoo so in the English which is we go back to the number eight an able heat - brother - to have the Torah have to tell me he - brought we already know he's green so it's because he's bringing also because the what motivated him to break the first the older brother of Cain who brought lash were thought to know a lot he wanted to plate himself to his brother okay so that's a mistake so we now know that we should overcome these mistakes when we bring offerings you we make efforts to come close to Michele okay number one not to bring the most inferior well we would like for ourselves most that's we should be fresh out okay and it should come and be aroused from within us but he doesn't finish this when we go that's why it says other key yoke wreath meat and which again it's luscinia Kela so this singular language to tell you what shove motto one thing I forgot to mention swimming why are we saying this replies to all people because I've made a chart here and then they try to copy the chart from the article and it goes through all the different animal offerings and I made an Arab by the Ola burnt offering it's a voluntary offering the only offerings we accept from the Gentiles are voluntary offerings so this particular offering is a voluntary offering and it's personal it's not a communal offering it's from the sheep goat or cattle and so I just wanted to bring that out that when it comes to non-jews we accept their voluntary offerings and that's why of them here if it's pertaining to this please ask me [Music] okay that's so we're going to deal with that right now okay so whatever why is it less than young people to tell you some aqua via coloration of the corona it should be just like Adam the first man when he made his offering shot I got hit by oh ah he was alone in the world shame shame is that science women again so when you're the only person in the entire universe then everything either belongs to you or belongs to nobody but it doesn't want to so else and therefore remember I mentioned the whole idea here is to teach you do not steal and don't think that you can take your stolen money and buy offerings or steal someone else's offering this is something would be considered so disgusting to God you can't even imagine chaga yeah Edie you a hot kosher love since he was all by himself and alone everything belonged to him measly I saw a neat room in a Duggar Nick Szabo hello this actually would would save him from that witch hello fella because remember if there's someone else offering and you have jealousy so if everything is embossed you there's no jealousy came in sunshine you seem to be a lot since he was all alone in the world bad thing it's honor at Corbin me at smell there's no question that for Anna Maria that the court oven comes from within himself and it wasn't aroused by seeing anybody else love me touch a rock Harry my see not because he saw anybody else we also have my autumn that's why it says other because she loves me show that this is how you should behave just like how to Maria that's why it says other key yacht grief me Kevin you should offer from what from you from them it's in the images from among how does he say it what a man among you offer but I don't know if that's how once you read it kkeok with me cam te aha Prabha me handle of Missoula Sam it should be from you and not from anybody else give me ham boo buck em from you and with you Yahoo it's a ruse elemetary that's where the arousal should come from within you not from other people zip korban ah chef then it's truly an offering to God as the verse says when a man from among you right from within hasn't even brings us offering singular fashion it is an offering to God and that's where the period is is if there's a period okay Kevon I ain't Kevon Toki English a nutshell when you're not thinking about anybody else of keeping up with the Schwartz's it's purely yours - god it's acceptable and this comes to exclude what la Fuki me Shayna Mataura me as well this excludes someone who's not being around for then I read ain't no meet them is an inner core in my shell it's not from within you then it's not equipment to god it's not accepting I mean only chef knows enemies am sure ain't arose below me I'll carry the whole around who came from outside from other people Bologna's him not from within you mean mock grieve a Corbin Ozma but rather to see he's offering the offering to himself it's for his own glorification the aim of Corporal nutshell is not to God Kiko ma should keep out each man Raheja any time a person is aroused with a jealousy and unhealthy jealousy from his friend Amy Oh Sookie I dare not know his name Rios so then all his actions are only to glorify himself and are not for God but it's for himself and for me for man and then what comes out from this nemesis Shana Corbin the Michele it's not equivalent to God keeping the shame of Rios it's offering it to humans and this is what it means this this is the Gomorrah Shabba if you want to write it down is good more Shabbos 28b it says sure chicory father Boresha Adam the first man I'm gonna call the unicorn but he closed with an ox Adam the first man offered an OPS caranesca I thought I got low beam it's cloud there was one horn coming out of his forehead the fact is that being low sure about Karen Arthas it just happened to be you know something you must make an offering to a shadow Hashem brings this ox near him he sees it he captures it to bring it up to a chef one and this thing has one corn growing out of his forehead he hired Dinah although it was just like Adam himself so hiya caranesca he as if he had one meaning to say shine yeshiva me hola Adam was all over the world full of God's gonna be Shimada he couldn't steal from anybody you know everything was healthcare Oh realest where he owned it well own its order issue mother and his arousal to bring the clerk and also didn't come from anybody came from within he gave me hot slow meaning me ham from within okay no liqueur bono the rut zone that's why it went up and was accepted willingly by God favorably nip-slip Corbin Lhasa it comes out that when we make that period right the first part of the verse is singular it ends at an offering to God period pif Sita Enya then afterwards the second part of the verse says from the animals LaHood sees are pitched it to exclude the most inferior of whatever could be brought grown from the ground which was the flax which came it brought la yosik ever JV but rather be like able to brought what the best the best of the best the fattest of his sheep it's a green goo carbon and plural make heaven may may have mayhem they had from the facts how Haley move Harsha other book hell asthma the choices of the choices that you would if you would for yourself that you'd give to yourself that's what you're gonna give to a shell the best of the best and that's what it means Karpov 10 plural because it's not only yours but now it's God's you get and bring it up and bringing come close and give it up to the altar on high and that's why it says come on can Russian robbing that Rashi matches more than you can be a partnership with other people to bring it up okay some say of them kkeok read me Sam what does it meet them from your own body nobody said you're the arousal comes from within within what are you offering up you're actually offering up yourself you understand when you make an offer you're offering up from you what does that mean I need Sun goes through the roof - bara either through the fasting or through a broken spirit we all speak we spoke about this many times what does God what he doesn't want your cabañas he wants your spirit he once you're broken spirit zukor go wash em that's what it means to have a cord into a shed and offer it to God never we say accord with me it really means to come close okay the Cibola vibe it's actually all going to God I'm not my shot - Michael even minima angles another car therefore whatever you're going to be offering up from the animals whether it's the cattle or whatever is it come on cam this is your core body Kia Optima Oakley belief cage will make shall make them that some of the offerings are some of them are burnt but some of they're going to be shared by the county and some are going to be shared additionally by the owner himself therefore it mentions carbide can wash and rob beam because it doesn't always only go up to a chef but it's shared by many people okay the latter part much sure things will be the last part do it okay of them Kyary Rashi says carbonated of the deep Farrah Enya as we look back and we know they're talking about Kerberos it looks like we were number one number a if you go back to number six I broke it down into four different things Russia's with a man among you brings a sacrifice yah truth kkeok read when he brings we're not dealing here with obligatory right in which case it would have said a man shall break but it doesn't say what a man meaning he has to bring but when a man happens to bring which is OP which is voluntary Rashi says scripture here - speaking of voluntary I'm just reading Hebrew because she got three carb understand of the D bear in it it's talking about voluntary offerings other why does the word God it appear mother lo he cream in a gazelle just like a person should not offer from stolen property Rashi says oh so Rashi to feel appears that's why Rashi brings that is first key aakhri and only afterwards he explains what other bids and all these other aspects because in the beginning the fish about the location of them of them lawmen Denmark why does it say other because you can actually say should both of my ain't illumos it comes to you might come to say comes to exclude the nation's then it comes to right it comes to exclude them but guess what because wash and lobular because in normal cases we don't use the word other to talk about the Gentiles shame the Kavli mayhem court Michaela we don't accept from the non-jews obligatory offerings of a lock shop since we're talking about voluntary offerings kkeok Reve so Remora our Shakur bonded of we are talking about voluntary offerings we are Bertha's ow ish ish if you go to chapter 32 18 which you should find the end it's 20 to 18 it's number 9 so we talked about the Jewish people it says each each me base the strap speak to iron into a sons and all the church and revision on same to them any man but doesn't say oh them it says each ish whatsoever from the house of Israel so we see the Ramos ago you should know three and are able to TT Israel that this verse over here when Vayikra is coming to include even non-jews who make all kinds of members voluntary but they made a outs were they want to give gifts to the tube to God like a Jew team came other ramanamma I love my low chicory mini Gaza again it's stressing over again that just like a man meaning honor Hashanah the first man did not offer from stolen property the loss on Dominica's no still needs explanation because it could have said no hick recover Gazoo it could have just said if we're talking about the Gemara here and the bed rest he didn't offer from something was stolen why does it have to say low chicory midnight gaza it says it says he didn't offer from the stolen he could have just said he can't offer up anything that is thought so it seems according to Rashi if he should aim there at how long she Gaelic we examine be awkward most of the book everybody knows nobody would ever in their wildest dreams think that you would take something stolen and offered in a temple of God he ought to the sheath taming a skin I mean any any any anybody with the simple concept of brain will never do them such a thing we'll meet petty yasuo so severe at Kadesh gossip or Mithra who would never be so foolish to do a myths to do a sin in order to do what they think as a mitzvah right we don't do sins in order to accomplish closeness to God cachet no Han dong min here especially if there's no benefit remember what are we talking about burnt offerings burnt offerings you'll get any benefit so that you might come to the conclusion if you were a judge or a lawyer that if there was nothing called motive right there's a crime committed there has to be some kind of benefit but if there's no benefit then why would it crime be committed right you want to prosecute somebody you find the motive what why would it benefit that person but if there's no benefits of burnt offering why would anybody I mean we're just like compounding reasons why nobody would would bring a Corbin like this from stolen property I'm gonna say mr. sheaves or the mumbled heart bag Oshie ASSA of our big motor so perhaps the case could be where the person is living a and not a healthy lifestyle is maybe he owns a casino whatever I'm using example maybe he's Bugsy Malone he's a hitman somebody who's whose profession itself is not kosher and his money is basically stolen you didn't actually go out and steal the money but he earned it in not a kosher fashion we hate it when you think inside you know some on a Gazzola sadaqa no minik or bug and maybe he'll take from the stolen money and use some of that to buy this is answering my it says mid Huggins oh and not just don't offer up stolen but don't offer up from that we just own and we understand that now Zemo zu this scheme a ship hush up should buzz air to the page scheme to do such a thing you know cliff they're our motors beyond though that he would think that he would get atonement for that which he gave out from his hand and that's why it says men again so not even from that we were stolen and which really comes into the other thing that Rashi says because to go back to number six again it says from animals so but not all the animals what animals you wouldn't bring up animals from bestiality relationships right to exclude the case of animals of the cohabitant of the human where they're active or passive so to exclude anything that has this you know nastiness about it so he comes out he says should portion zoo this whole idea is all about warnings not to bring stolen items to the temple or an exchange who in your office to feel OSA the eMeter eita the sofa as Hara other Gaza the beginning the middle and the end of this parsha all warns about stolen property in the beginning it says of them kkeok Reve a man when he offers so we were to discuss that Adam Rishon didn't have any stolen property and what about the middle so if you look at chapter 1 verse 16 we're talking about the animal the bird sacrifices what are the birds do they eat I'm not the same it's all stall the cop would be a lot of it's probably health care probably in odorless but they do go into people's yards and they do take things that don't belong to them that's what birds are free birds right so it says in chapter 115 and you should remove the prop along with the entrails cast it next to the altar on the east side to replace the ashes it doesn't go in the altar then you kill the bird right think the code uses his thumb from the back and clicks off the neck he's dead the bird is dead but you don't use the I guess the crop is part of your head and the entrails meaning the stomach you got rid of that because what what is it it has stolen property so that's a warning against bringing stolen property onto the altar Letitia away from these little mini Gaza because that's what birds do they nourish from stolen property and at the end now look at chapter five verse 23 you're going to have it here this is towards the air and it shall be when a man has sinned at his foot and his guilty he should return the article which he has robbed were the funds which had withheld or the item we should have been deposited with him with the article which he had found so it's another warning of the beginning in the middle and the end of our parsha all dealing with a warning against stolen property Lou Fisher Corbett vodkas Elena schnell puffy because the whole concept of what a Corbin represents coming close to God and what stolen property represents is really distancing yourself from God Kia Corbin Aquafina by bringing the Corbin it brings down God's presence and the gazelles merepeka it distances it as it says until 12 6 12 6 look at Psalms 12:6 it says because of the plunder of the poor because of the cry of the needy now I will arise the Lord shall say I shall grant them salvation I shall speak concerning them so the idea of oppressing the poor and hearing the cry of the needy so God says no that doesn't work we showed in the Eve made uncapped and you ought to akuma I said we'll come back for the salvation what does it mean shall not repay matter when somebody goes ahead and offers their animal evil he proved NASA it's as if he offered up his own soul kimmm ownership autumn cannot show dummy the the money of a person is like his own soul keep it not show Yami LACMA because through his soul his efforts comes his food as it says in Deuteronomy 24 six one should not take the lower or the upper millstone is a security because he's taking life and security when somebody needs a loan okay let's say you know mil so the the the the person who took the loan I'm sorry the guy who gave the loan him even the security that he took from the person to beat up the person's livelihood depends on it he has to give it back so you can make some money right so that's why we're calling it that says he nefesh who clothed oh he's actually taking the light as security and that is problematic but we're talking about somebody's livelihood is his that's why the club life Leela it's his life and then it's also written initially 2223 so the Lord will plead their cause and rob those who rob them of life the the robbing of the poor is taking their life well anybody really not even before we mix us not nefes-kula stealing part of someone's soul is like stealing their hosts all about him knock wood behind the Gazoo 'la so now we're the stand that if someone offers up a stolen animal shallow our mouth ball he didn't work for it little Halle yoga boat none of his efforts went towards a quiet night I don't know if yet to Merlin our show how can that possibly serve as a in exchange for his soul so now we're going to open up to questions [Music]