How to Become A Partner with G-d in the Creation of The World with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody Welcome Home to Torah a warm welcome home to Torah we are in the mid as guests we are so grateful thank you very much H we are in pares vaka but before we begin I want to make make mention that we are learning in the ra of not and they should have a complete and speedily UHA um uh return to health also for the AL of MOSI Ben Isel he should have an alas okay so as I mentioned before this is very text intensive but it's hopefully very spiritually uplifting that's the goal here so we can learn Hebrew at the same time and I encourage you all to look down below in the description box for the links and therefore you could actually follow along with us in the Hebrew if you're really interested in the English Source sheets you can send me an email that is also listed below andat if you want to join I will send you the English Source sheets that the company the Hebrew um I just want to mention I want to give a special thanks to all those who have contributed to the safe Torah fund we're almost there we're about 40% we 60% more to go and then we are actively looking for a m a place for our weekday cavana minion we could call it a beginner's minion a cavana minion um but it we go at a very nice Pace Anda and we will have instruction before and after and batem serve breakfast as well okay so here we go I want to introduce or make a preface an introduction to pares vak by reiterating something you probably already know and that is that the Torah is not in chronological order everyone actually agrees with this even though there's a m Locus between the ramban and Rashi even the ramban who says the Torah is in chronological order will still agree that not always okay so Rashi is depending on what we call the oral Torah okay in other words we have a traditions and traditions of when the Torah is in order and when it's not in order whereas the ramban is a little bit more literal and we'll assume that the Torah is in order except where there are d dates there will be dates that show you and I give you an example look in Source number one at the bottom um in B midbar right chapter 1 verse one it says on the first day of the second month of the second year and then nine chapters later verse one it says the second year of their Exodus from the the land of Egypt in the first month so you have the first month of the second year in chapter N9 and you have the second first day of the second month in chapter 1 so it's obvious so the ran nakes would agree and not only where their dates are mentioned but even where it's obvious okay so what we're going to deal with here is there are going to be I'm going to say three significant verses that show you that this para vak is actually on yum kipur the day after yam kipur as opposed to well let's get into it first of all our par begins in chapter 35 of Exodus verse one it's number two in theore sheet so Moses what is he gathered he caused for everyone to come together as Rashi mentions it's a hiil it's causitive causing people to assemble but not through your hands but through his speech um let's call it um he enticed them he encouraged them he spoke words in which they all came together so we're going to discuss what it was what was so unique about this the a this Gathering or this assembly that you don't find other other places where Moses gathered everyone together but Rashi says right away it was it was the day after yamor yum kipur is when he came down from the mountain with the second set of tablets okay okay so it was on Shu in which the tablet the The Ten Commandments were spoken it was on the 17th of tamuz in which Moses came down the first time with the first set of tablets which we know he broke as a result of the sin of the golden calf so this is already um much later this is chapter 35 in other words the The 10 Commandments in Exodus are given over in chapter 20 famous chapter of Exodus chapter [Music] 20 if we look at the clear card let's just begin because he right away tells us about what happened in Paras yro yro is in chapter starts with chapter 18 okay in chapter 18 yro gives this fantastic advice for mosha to set up we call a hierarchy or some kind of court system where he is not the one who is giving uh who's sitting and judging all day remember Y is concerned about his own daughter and his own daughter which is Moses's wife that the husband should spend some time right if you're there all day when do you have time to spend with with my daughter but that's not really his motivation his motivation is in what is most effective okay so let's look at the clear he begins by telling us the Moshe K Isel perish Rashi he quotes rash we saw Rashi it's the this time that Moses is gathering everyone together is the day following yam kipur and he brings right away in parro chapter 18:3 and you can find that on the sour sheet very easily in number four we'll have to look at the Rashi there too but the verse says see the same word it was the following day MOS that Moses sat in which he um judged the people just a little bit of some background here we're saying this is chapter 18 this is before the Torah was given in chapter 20 well Rashi says right away no this actually was the day after yamat from the word in the in day what day was it following the Torah doesn't tell us well we have an oral Torah it was the day following yur it's a very interesting Rashi now what does it actually mean the next day and Rashi says it was the day after Moses's descent from the mountain which took place on yam kipur meaning he came down with the second set of tablets on yam kipur this is taking place before we even received the first obviously the Torah is not in order you must admit that it's impossible to say that the next day means anything but that Moses sat down to judge the people on the day after yam kipur now before the giving of the Torah it would certainly be impossible because it actually says in verse 16 right chapter 18: um uh I and I make known the statutes since the statutes had not been given yet right in other words in chapter 18 he's already saying I made known past tense I've made known the statutes so the the the Torah wasn't given until chapter 20 so it has to be not in order in other words Moses is there discussing law right people are coming as with court cases so what kind of complaint would you have if you didn't even know what to complain about and how could he judge if he didn't know how to judge so that's what Rashi says so and from the time and not only that from the time the Tor was given until yam kipur Moses didn't have any time to even sit right so the 50 days we left Egypt he were walking through the desert so it didn't happen before he didn't have the the laws so from the time of Shu he went up to receive the tablets came down on the 17th of tamuz he wasn't around the people he was up on the mountain and then after the the sin of the golden calf he goes back up to the mountain he pleads with AEM for our lives until God forgives us on the first day of Elo and says back up another 40 days so Moses is busy whe however you count it the 80 Days From the 17th atos or even 120 days from sh so the only free time he ever had to sit and judge the people was the day after yam kipur and because he received the law he can actually use the law in to judge people so that's what the Rashi says from the time that her was given until yamur Moses did not have a chance to sit down to judge the people and he goes through what I just said on the 17th of 17th of he goes up the mountain we know he broke the tablets I'm sorry he went down from the mountain he broke the tablets the next day he ascended early in the morning and stayed 80 days and descended on yum kipor so Rashi says obviously this section is not written in chronological order we'll stop there for the time being uh in the Rashi going back into the clear he says rash it's the third line down clearly Rashi says it was the day following y now it seems like we can explain it the following way this is well known and you should know that this Gathering why did did Moses gather everyone together in order to inform them of this great Mitzvah to donate not just to donate but the whole Mitzvah of the Mish and that we had all contribute to it just as we're going to explain shortly meaning in the Torah itself from verse four onwards is really all about the Mish what was Moses concerned about and we should all be concerned God forbid somebody should donate to the mishkan to the Tabernacle or even the the the the temple itself when we give our yearly head tax it should not be from something that doesn't belong to us meaning if it doesn't belong to us who does it belong to someone else that would be called stealing right that's the simplest uh uh what's the word definition of stealing you're going to donate somebody else's stuff well how did how did the Jews at this point end up with stolen property that Moses needed to judge we'll find out first of all so he's telling them you're going to have to give but you have to give from your own as we'll s we will'll see shortly so everyone had a give from their own you're not going to build the temple the mishkan the the Tabernacle from stolen property so it has to be from your own so the clear says that a person donating something might think that he acquired it properly when would you ever have such a case so I'll take you back many years to the the plagues themselves when we were in Egypt during the ninth plague the plague of Darkness we went into the homes of the Egyptians and we walked around remember it was light for us and dark for them so we were able to see with our own eyes where they hid their their their their riches their gold and whatnot and when we left Egypt we did leave with what would be considered ours at this point but where was The Big Miracle when did we end up with even more riches by the Sea we this is really a from Hashem if you really think about it if we would have had to take out all the gold and all the riches of Egypt we it would have been a big burden so what happens is we're standing on the other side of the sea after the sea had returned and all the Egyptians were drowned and a great miracle occurred and all of the riches and all the gold came up on our side of the shore and that's when we bent down to grab it and anybody who's familiar with Bubba msia in fact we have people here making titas imagine bending down you and your friend and trying to grab something something that's hefer something that is ownerless so you may actually think that each one of you may think that you grabbed it first so you'll say oh it's all mine and the other guy will say it's all mine well it can't be so therefore you have the whole silia in bah how to divide how to make an oath and what whatever entails a judgment to come out to see who it really belongs to so in the meantime the clear said well the person grabbed it but didn't or he thinks he grabbed it properly and there's no way we're going to build this holy great edifice whether it's the Tabernacle or the temple through stolen property the clear quotes a verse in Calis if anybody wants to write in a better understanding I think what the clear is just doing is using the phraseology it's coelis 3:5 15 and it says 16 sorry 3:1 16 and moreover I saw Under the Sun in the place of Justice there is wickedness and the place of righteousness there is wickedness I said to myself God will judge the righteous and the wicked for there's time for every matter and for every deed there as it says in verse 17 what I think it's referring to is just if you have two people to come to court usually one is righteous one is correct and one is in the wrong but that could be the shot but over here I think what he's just trying to say is that the Sanhedrin is going to sit in the temple or next to the you know next to the temple itself and that's the place where righteousness is supposed to be so even though normally you have someone who's righteous and someone who's not in a court case but the court itself has to be in a place of righteousness and therefore you cannot use stolen material to build this great edifice where the St hedin will sit so he continues this is why Moses first announces or publicizes who is the owner of things now not just anything but things that are in doubt in other words if you are going to donate and you know this belongs to you there's no problem but if there's a doubt that maybe someone else has a claim on it therefore maybe it's not fully mine let's clarify before the donation takes place so anybody who is maybe Barm could mean anybody who's in a dispute however you want to look at it you own something that is disputable Moses is saying come forward to me for judgment shalom in this way in this fashion the whole people will be able to enter a place or a space of peace and tranquility and he informed each person or basically it became known to each person Mas shal what actually belongs to him or her oh shal right or maybe it doesn't belong to you and you can't donate it you have to give it back to the proper owner through the Judgment that's going to take place amongst them again this is talking about well it's taking place in meaning it's the same day the same 24-hour period the day following yum kipur which is going to be very significant and then he would inform everybody regarding their their um uh gift the truma as it says in verse five you you have to take they should take from their own means it has to belong to them Bel and not belonging to someone else and that has to be the case because otherwise the whole verse is at least I'm sorry not the whole verse would be extraneous would be Superfluous because how could you read it let's read that verse without the word may we said it is you'll find it number six on the store sheet take from yourselves an offering for the Lord let the verse say take an offering the very fact that it goes out of its way to say Rashi says it comes to teach from yourselves what not stolen that's what it comes to teach so the last thing we said was that has to be the case other way otherwise is is totally extra we we we saw how you can read it without it it would make total sense so it must be coming to tell me not from stolen property as Rashi says now the F now even though that there's no doubt it's impossible that it would that one person like Moshe would be able to deal with all the people number one and all in one day so any there must have been a lot of uh complaints or whatever tin is claims on property people wanted to make sure that really belonged to them they would come forth so not only would he be not be able to deal with all the people but how can he do it all in one day even in one day how can you sit I mean 12 hours 12 hours sitting down I mean whether it's a bathroom break or a lunch break or a rest I mean Moses was already uh how old was he 80 81 whatever he was 80 right 81 so um I'm sure that he wanted a little bit of nap time in the middle of the day right there is a concept it actually says in in in um chapter 18 verse 13 of of um Exodus we read already um where it's pares ISRO and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the evening now the verse actually says it now I want to make sure that we all understand we have an oral Torah you cannot read the Bible literally and think you understand it okay an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth that never was never is part of our tradition it refers to Insurance types of policies that basically responsibilities that people have to pay you never God forbid ever took out someone's eye for an eye so we have an oral Torah even though it says it says it literally says that he stood there from the morning until the evening you can't deny that the word says it however hu perish Rashi if we actually look at Rashi he say a very important point if you look at number seven Rashi explains this I mean I'll say it outside that if a judge is sitting there making his judgment based on the evidence and his whole goal is to come to the ultimate truth the truth of truths right the most objective correct outcome then the verse itself applies to him as if he is a partner with a kesu in the creation of the world world and I would add the m m maintenance of the world because we find in Genesis right in the very beginning of the Torah by each day it says and there was evening and there was morning not getting into the mystical Parts but there is a concept that man judges here during the day God judges at night and God forbid if we don't do proper Judgment at day God will then justify his judgments I just use like a phrase like that at night so it's very important for us to maintain a proper uh justice system because if we don't there are serious consequences to God then judging at night but anyway as long as we are maintaining judges proper judges who their whole goal is to not be bribed and not to be corrupt but to come to the truth truthful judgment that judge is partner with with God in maintaining now remember God didn't just create the world and that's it every moment every nanc God is actually we Jews believe that God is constantly creating recreating the world okay so Rashi says that in number seven Exodus 18:13 is it possible to say that this Moses actually sat in judgment from morning until evening but this teaches us really that any judge who issu a tree a true verdict as truth demands it even if he only spends one hour and Moses probably spent 6 hours okay not 12 reaching his judgment scripture deems it as if he engaged in the study of Torah the entire day and as if he were partnered with the Holy One Blessed Be he in the Act of Creation as it says in Genesis and it was evening and it was morning on each day any questions comments about the actual is that clear is it interest objective truth exactly oh that's okay we're talking about the judge has to have that in mind so he's going to evaluate the evidence that's not what he thinks I mean obviously he has to put it Shad but it's based on the evidence right and so he goes to school for a long time to learn how to evaluate evidence right and the laws so if he's not corrupt he's not corrupt I think he'll get remember he's not alone also he's got other people to argue or Hager with what they see and so if he's humble he doesn't know the answer he'll go with the majority right if he knows the he'll stand up and say no you're you're incorrect and have a so I'm I'm not sure this is really answering your question you're asking a very deep question and that will'll have to deal with another time but you're right how does one come to the ultimate uh truth there is a truth in Heaven by the way you should know and there's a truth Down Below in Earth where which truth are we looking for one down here that's right because that's all we have whatever is in front of us the evidence is here in front of us it's it's it's we may even go against the truth in heaven and we we see that in the whole story of the famous you know the story I'm thinking of the oven the the the snake oven we're not going to get into it now but there's a whole story where doesn't matter what it says in heaven even if rezar is correct even if a boxos comes down even if the tree jumps 400 parangs even if the the the stream goes backwards even if the walls of the bit MJ close in we don't believe in signs from heaven we take the evidence and sh chat but anyway let's move on we're turning the page um we're now at the top of the second page now this has to be the case according to the clear aai where else when else was Moses able to give over the instructions regarding the construction of the mishkan right we already said he was extremely busy number one even if he got the instructions earlier on but we're saying that it was given over by yum kipur and he comes down with that instruction by the way this was probably the greatest fundraiser um exercise ever because within a few days they actually had everything they needed and Moses had to tell them enough stop we have we have all we need however we're going to see a whole another I'm going to say explanation and a whole another understanding of that shortly so the people brought it over the next few days perhaps what he was explaining to them but that anybody that owned something where there was a dispute there was another person who disputed it he shouldn't give he shouldn't donate that gift that truma until it had been clarified first the din of who it belonged to okay so that's his introduction now he says from a certain aspect of a hint we're actually able to say the following that this gathering this Unity of everyone together was for what it was in order to mediate peace amongst all the Jews very strange gor you'll find that on number 10 and basically I hope I don't get in any PC trouble here but I probably won't because it's pretty forward straightforward the gamor explains that if there were two deaf mutes right a male and a female who were deaf mutes that they could actually get married when someone gets married they're getting married according to the laws of mosha and Israel so that means the rabbis the rabbis wanted to ensure there's going to be peace in the home so a de mute female with a deaf mute male can somehow communicate and love each other and not get um let's say not be shortwire to a the word is imbecilic man and an imbecilic woman so let's just use the phrase someone who is um incapable of uh maintaining their emotion and therefore if you have two crazy people the rabbis will not allow them to get married because they're probably going to kill each other so that's what it says a person cannot reside in a basket meaning closed quarters with a snake therefore the sages would not allow them to get married the Hebrew in our source sheet that we brought down was I'm sorry um it says a person cannot live with a snake under the same roof that's B okay so you're talking about someone who's let's say extremely mentally challenged let's use that and that would probably be are you guys in agreement with me that's probably the PCY way to say extremely mentally challenged okay you cannot allow that marriage to take place meaning under holy matrimony as we do okay so the continuation of the after the fact that he wanted to inform them Moses wanted to let everyone know how to construct the mishan remember all of us are all Partners in this edifice not that we're literally living in the Bas of mikdash or in the Tabernacle but all of our money is going towards the construction of it therefore we are Partners in this edifice in which God is housed so to speak it's it's as if we're all dwelling together if we all put our Blood Sweat and Tears money into this edifice we all have an equal share it's as if we're all partners and living together this is the beautiful octus wouldn't it be nice to have the temple built in our lifetime and see a whole another sphere of life therefore Moses needed to gather everyone together first so that we would all be United Rashi that's why actually rash is telling us this took place that it was the day following yum Kipper what happens on yam Kipper there's a buildup there's a cresendo right you got the month of el we're talking about the whole 40-day period the whole month of el building up to rush yamur then you have the 10 days of chuva besides Rashana where everyone is like asking people for forgiveness and wants and then there's this like a a not a heavy dark cloud but a really light Cloud on yam kipur where there's like this Haze of Shalom that somehow over you know surrounds the Jewish people like the is present and everyone loves each other everyone forgave each other what happens on the next day it's still there but you know what couple days later it's no longer there but the day following yam kipur people are still in the spirit right they still got the spirit so listen to what it says all the different encampments in the desert right right it was always and I'll just use the word vuuu they encamped they encamped but when we got to Mount Si we'll see it says we were as we see in Rashi if look at number 11 Israel en Camp there meaning singular Israel together Rashi says it was we were United and we we were United in heart the whole time until including yum kipur so the clear explains that all the different encampments there was mlit arguments vet and complaints except for Tor right when we arrived at M Torah we were United as it says that we were um that Israel singular encamp there if that's the case even k how would Moses ever be able to gather them all together where there would not be any right how's it possible to ever gather them when there are argumentation and they're not on the same page with or not if they weren't on the same page which time period would be most fitting for this Unity m the Moses would be able to find that they would be gathered together willingly and according to his will one could say it would be the best time the day following ypp as I just described and we all are aware The Unbelievable spiritually uplifting day of yam kipur the holiest day where we Mish like Ascend to like the status of angels and we're all nice to each other right that would be the day that peace has really mediated between them and certainly the essence of the day itself we are all considered unified therefore the most easiest day I don't know if the easiest is the best translation the the e but the easiest day to get them all together would be the day following uh the following day after because the Peace of that day still exists but if several days pass Shalom that piece we know dissipates and would no longer be there at that point the package unravels that package of Peace has unraveled dark and each person his own way he leans he right everyone's going in different directions [Music] now now again because like Shabbat we don't deal with money right we're not dealing with any of the normal stuff of business so in order that nothing opposes this Shalom such as words of of argumentation like when people deal with money I mean that's like you know when I I I've seen people go nuts like absolutely off the charts when it comes to money and B we should all figure out how we can can ourselves deal with money properly where that does not rule our emotion but I get it right it's Blood Sweat and Tears to go into it but anyway so nobody's dealing with money shom certainly right there's no business being done on that day according to the CLE car already on yumore when he brought the tablets down he already started to deal with court cases in order to keep that peace going because then that would be the most fitting time for everyone to really feel they're all you know unified in this in the Mish remember the Mish we're all equal Partners okay now after the fact that we all became totally United became totally united through the Mish in which we all are Partners we do find through the 40 years that we're in the desert we Moses did gather us together those other times that he gathered us together were not the day following Yer and how much more so according to what Thea has written in in in somehow advocating for the Jewish people or presenting to the Jewish people this idea as it says in chapter 35:3 if you find that on the sore sheet that would be number 12 it says do not Kindle Fire now we have 39 Mal we don't have all the Mal mentioned in the the Torah we do seemingly have don't what don't go out of your boundaries so right we have the idea of not carrying which we'll talk about again shortly and do not Kindle a fire but otherwise the 39 M are learned through the or Torah or there's an opinion it's through the or Torah but it says different forms 39 times in the Torah so over here should not go out fire of mlo argumentation on Shabbat what happens on Shabbat most people are at home with the family TV is off you're not answering your phones you're not going to the stadiums you're not playing poker this is the time where you're not doing much what happens when people are bored sometimes they get in arguments that's what happens sometimes so he says so this idea of do not ignite a fire on Shabbat is don't get don't provoke and don't be uh provoked because um because they are weakened in terms of work in other words they are soft they're they're not doing any work and we're going to talk about that very shortly we have to be concerned or more concerned that the fire of argumentation will be ignited because people are bored they're not doing anything of course by the way shabas is set up for us to learn Torah okay that's what shabas should be uh obviously to spend time with the family teach Torah talk Torah sing songs eat nice food but it's it's time for Torah the according to the cleard then it makes sense that it says the that Moses got that everyone together therefore he gathered them together in order they should all be united through the Commandment do not ignite do not get in mlus don't separate yourself and he says rash says that it was through his speech he got everyone together it was pleasing it was nice enticing he got everyone together um Alim that they all gathered together okay we're at the bottom last paragraph and a half on page now I want you to look in the first few verses so in pares umak so we have here in um verse 35 I'm sorry chapter 3 5 verse1 so it says that Moses gathered all of the Assembly of Israel together and it says he said to them aim you see aim if you want to see on the English sheet so that would probably be Source One uh sorry Source number two these are the things things imply more than one thing you always have this idea that things is if it doesn't have a number it's usually two so there's at least two things but if you go down to verse if I'm not mistaken it's verse four and where do we see that on the sore sheet and actually it's it's number 14 it's verse 5 Moses spoke to the entire community community of the children of Israel saying this is the word well in Hebrew so I just want you to just think a second you have verse one and it speaks about shabas right verse two and three and then skip to five and it's only talk about the mishan so if it says Moses is going to say over these things but he only says shabas then there's a new paragraph and then it says this is the thing so just from a objective view the cleard is trying to say that first verse that talks about chabas is talking about two things it's not talking about the mishan because the mishan is being talked about in verse 5 as verse five onward it's talking about the mishkan so what are these two things we know shabas for sure but what else so let's go back into the clear he says these things which God commanded um for them to do to make so the word at least is two plural at least according to the C both these things whatever it's talking about is to do with shabas now shabas could mean just Saturday but it can also mean the week the word theim is not going on verse five and the mishkan and onwards that said later because we have a clear verse this is the matter this is the thing that God spoke to them about the Mish so if that's the case by the mishan it's talking about that's fine but what do I do with the word these are the things back when it talks about shabas that's question number one question number two it says it says with a okay two dots that look like this so what is that shouldn't it have say shouldn't it say has a command six days you shall work no it doesn't say that it says it says you may work but Raj but CLE says the very fact that it's with the say actually means the work is coming on its own and we have to what does that mean that doesn't make sense somebody's doing it well it's coming on its own is passive work it's coming on its own we will discuss it and the third question in this paragraph he says the whole the whole paragraph seems to be mut extra because if you go back to chapter 20 which I mentioned is where the Ten Commandments is listed and actually also in Deuteronomy chapter 513 the same words appear by shabas it says six days you must work okay you have to work which we're going to talk about very shortly now do have a little comment here on pares ISRO that I'd like to share with you and that's number 17 and 18 you all got you guys know who the rap is right you heard of the rap that's you oh yeah that's me raar posted okay so I quote the clear not me but it's me I'm quot the clear describes in parous yro the difference in the the phraseology is describing serving a master you have to have a master servant relationship for T in fact the word evid would be a servant and therefore that's referring to serving Hashem and the word Mal and Rabbi Bri spoke about this on Tuesday it's a Mastery over creation but basically indicates your own work your own work what you are creative and doing on your own not NE and you're doing it for yourself necessar not necessarily for God but we'll see how that fits in so I have here in number 18 the clear explains that over there and I'll just read it um he says very simply in the first two lines um why is this extra you already so he says in the verse in chapter 20 of Exodus verse 9 right right you're going to work and you're going to do what's the difference so the clear says obviously aod service needs explanation so the idea of working is only when you have a master and you're serving him so that's AEM if you're working for yourself who's your master you don't have a master you're you're your own master anyway he goes into the um the ol and explains a little bit more about it but let's go back into the clear the last statement was one second you already have the idea of ceasing work on Shabbat what do I need it again here in V okay so now he says now I will tell you what I think the clear says that the word divin we said it's plural it means more than one one thing that this command this Mitzvah that mosha is referring to yes it's it is referring in general to all the work done for the Mish but what should you do you should actually like it's a Mitzvah involve yourself in serving Hashem the six days of the week and on the sixth day you should not involve yourself with the mishan Turn the Page this is a famous idea whatever comes first always pushes off the second so shabas came first and therefore shabas pushes off the mishkan we cease we desist we do not involve ourselves in the 39 creative acts used to construct the mishan on Shabbat we stop but this is where the clear explains what are the what are the two things here we have two things the actual do the work for the mishkan so there is work for the mishan and the second is so just to take you and and so in shabas you don't involve yourself so we saw the difference in right is you shall work not you must work over in in in our para it doesn't say You must work six days it's the work will be done and remember we're talking about and we're going to the bringing the idea of bringing it's one of the which we're going to talk about shortly that is the Free Will offering out of the three offerings two are oblig atory you couldn't give more you couldn't give less it was a half shekele but the third was the ingredients of the 13 different um uh uh items that you could bring and you can give more or less and that is what you um are bringing automatically okay so as a preface for what I'm about to tell you and try to answer the question if you look in 15 which is chapter 35:2 6 days work may be done that's okay if you go to number 16 and that would be the Ten Commandments six days you shall work you must work and prefer more your labor it says okay so I want to take you on a small journey to Perot and it's chapter 2 mishna 2 okay raban Gamel said the son of rabuda Nasi he said Torah study is good to together with an occupation for exertion of both makes sin forgotten all Torah all Torah study that is not joined with work will cease in the end and lead to sin i' I'd like to read the rest all who exert themselves for the community should exert themselves for the sake of heaven and then the Merit of the community's forefathers AIDS them and their righteousness will endure forever okay nevertheless as for you I God will bestow great reward upon you as if you had accomplished it on your own now what does it mean to study with work now Yehuda asked me about K guys first of all k k is is a usually a two-year stint first two years of marriage that's all col really is after that a person should make a decision if they're going to Rabbi they're going to be a teacher then they should continue to study okay now what about a rich guy who can study and wants to study no problem should he have a side job of course so I don't know what K has to do with this right but what it does say and there are opinions I want to read this idea here this is in the art scoll little uh book on per vote too busy to sin right dissatisfaction is a prime factor in man's vulnerability to the Ws of the evil inclination unfulfilled people may fantasize that only if they had this or that pleasure they would truly be satisfied so re Gamel teaches that if a man studies Torah to satisfy his spiritual thirst in conjunction with an occupation to provide his physical sustenance he will achieve an overall sense of satisfaction that precludes sin the kutari told his followers I don't expect you to refrain from sin because you don't have an interest in it you should be too busy to sin right theim writes one of the devices of the evil inclination is to put unrelenting pressure on man's heart leaving him no time or emotional space to be introspective or considered direction or the direction his life is taking the mission our mission to stresses the importance of time in the prevention of sin by urging us to fill our hours with healthy Pursuits so the cleart ends by explaining remember it says which we said already was not active it was passive work being done what does that mean the prime command that this point was the actual bringing so we all know we live in cities that have aof right you can't walk out of your house carrying your key right we have all kinds of uh you know buckles butt belt buckles and tie clips and we figure out we're Geniuses how to get you know H instead of just leaving your key underneath your uh your flower pot but anyway that's also a problem but let's just say we figured it out and we have a uh we have an AR of but we know that you cannot just walk outside in general without an AR of carrying things so the encampment that Moses sat in was in the the called the Mak Leva okay that was a public thare and according to sums each one of the different um tribes we had 12 tribes surrounding that was called that was a private domain and people were bringing from their homes into this public area these these ingredients these materials for the Bas mikdash so we're going to read this verse a little bit different than most people would understand it let me just find my my English sheet I'm going to read it like this um it's uh it's verse 7 it's 36 verse 7 so look at number 20 on the swore sheet so Moses commanded and they announced in the camp that's also to pass over the co The Voice went around the around the camp saying right men and women they shouldn't do anymore what's the next word but whates stop giving don't bring the holy Trum and it says the same verse and the people stop ringing but this is another verse the next verse says the the was actually finished meaning they they they had enough you don't have to bring anymore I'm going to read it like this for you guys that before shabas right before chabas Moses says keep in mind we have a Mala called carrying don't carry on Shabbat we already got shabas the the actually before the Ten Commandments already in Mara there's a different opinion but basically everyone agrees that chabas was one of them some say it was 10 commandments some say it was three or four and there's a different order but everyone agrees shabas we already got at Mara a week and a half after we left Egypt okay something like that within two weeks after we left Egypt so shabas we knew about but perhaps either as a a reminder right because now this is the first time we're actually commanding you to carry things and you may have thought on chabas you can still violate shabas by building the mishkan no mishan is secondary shabas is first and I'm reminding you everybody stop to bring so the first statement is regarding shabas and by the way come Sunday morning you don't have to bring anything either because we really have enough that's how I'm going to tell you it's going to be read at least the way I understand it we go back into the CLE car and he says right all of that has to do with bringing even bringing is called which we see in that verse 36 ver6 he's telling you not to bring he's telling you don't do M so carrying outside from a private area to a public area or vice versa is called and then it says at the end of the verse so the people stop bringing if that's the case we understand carrying from one domain to another is called and regarding that means is done on its own because these were the truma this was the free will offering that they were bringing the third ingredient right the the different ingredients not the half shek that were obligatory that's why it says regarding that you couldn't say that right to do it in in an active way dere wasn't a command cuz anything that was given with a free will heart heart you cannot use the command or think of it as an obligation but anybody whose heart motivated him he G he's giving like we said it's happening on its own that's why it says on its own becomes on the seventh day it's cessation stopping for the sake of God May and on chabas itself will be forbidden to carry and give this gift from one domain to another now the last three lines is very interesting because many people may not be aware of this even though it says in chapter 40 verse 17 which you'll see on I think the last sheet um in verse it's not it's 21 on the sore sheet chter 40:1 17 it came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month so it's Roes Nissan of the second year the mishan was set up the next verse says that Moses erected it how how is it it was set up but Moses erected it it's not in the right order and we understand the words H mishan if you look at Rashi in number 22 on Leviticus 39:33 it says now they brought the mishan to Moshe so it says in Rashi well let me just explain outside by the way so Moses attempted to set it up every day and he actually accomplished it seven days the last seven days of Adar then y the eth day he actually let it he The Eighth Day He erected it and it stayed erected God said don't so there was a 7day period of Moses putting together and dis that was sort of dismantled thank you dismantled it but but even one person couldn't do it these planks were heavy it took two people to carry them and they had to put them on agalo they had to put them on uh what's the word uh wagons they were extremely heavy so here it says because he could because they could not erect it and Leviticus 39:33 since Moses had done no work for the mishkan he was like directing you know he hired he delegated and the those other people were involved uh the Holy One blessed be left for him the task of of erecting the mishkan since no human being could erect it by himself because of the heaviness of the planks and no human was strong enough to put them up but Moses was able to put them up what happened it God made it appear as if Moses was doing it he did the he did the effort but it was by Miracle so Moses said to the holy bless me how is it possible for human to wreck the mishkan God said you work with your hand Moses appeared to be erecting it and it Rose by itself this is what it means the mishan was ham hukam mishan the mishan was set up it was set up by itself okay so this is another answer to T so the first T was Thea that was given should not be given on Shabbat and the other T is referring to the mishkin itself so the clear says very simply it's very strange because he says that the rabbis explain the mishna in the medish that the mishan became it was basically made a little bit on its own like the man the manur Aon and I'm sorry mosha threw the gold Into the Fire and it came out as a manur So to that come the m so too it also happened on its own and we see from the word h Mish and therefore it says that it was it was on its own okay there really is a lot more I always encourage you guys do some studying on your own you'll enjoy it don't be afraid of the Hebrew Okay um so this was a lot Sim in a certain sense along the um similar theme of aus that we've been speaking about it's so necessary to figure out away and it could be if we D for the Bas of mikdash because the mikdash itself is a way to uh cause um uh Unity now it could end up being Unity because of the you know the non-jews not so happy about it and therefore we already know that uh anti-Semitism has its place it's actually quite constructive in creating our own Unity but as Road North Weinberg always says if we create the unity then God doesn't have to force it on us it doesn't have to happen that way if we have the unity will Merit the building of the B mikdash and the coming of Mia soon in our days and with that I want to wish everyone a shabbat shalom and also a great life and we'll see you on the other side shabbat [Music] shalom [Music] oh