A Portrait of Moshe

as it relates to raid going back to yesterday's daf one and that is a lot happened in yesterday's daf the latter part of it had one general backdrop and that is a conversation of iiku that took place between kruis who was a roman sar and the great ramen one of the questions that countus asked ramen is that he did the math of the big Mishkan campaign that's discussed in Paris Truma and he thinks that the numbers are off meaning he literally audited Mosher Rabo and he flagged the accounting in a very very significant way in fact he thought it was off by more than half based on the 300,000 plus shekel which are come out to 200 plus kickers and 11 monas, right? Without going into all the miners, but in's mind took a massive fee or something went on over here as it relates to how all the accounting went down. He tells, you know, either he was a thief or he was a gambler and had to do things that were unethical to pay up some gambling related debt or he just simply didn't know math because the way I see it, he raised all this money and he kept more than half of it for himself. >> [snorts] >> And Zach responded to the Roman. He said, "Let me explain to you exactly how the arithmetic is supposed to play out. bring an envelope, flip it around, and we'll work through this together, which made up almost the entirety of prayers. You know, you read this that this Roman can look between the eyes and tell him like, how could words like this even come out of his mouth? What came to mind was the over there says it's a it's a hill says the what does it mean? What it means is that every single husband warned his wife said, "You know, if I see you having a private conversation with Rabenu, I'm telling you, I'm going to take you to the Mishkan. I'm going to make you drink the me. I don't trust Mosha. And therefore, you better be very careful when you're around." Can you imagine this? every single and again how could we say things like this about now is a he's a Romanus right again but says that the even they went ahead and they were and at first glance this is a the first thing that came to mind was that we've mentioned so many times. This is in it's where was talking about a that says Israel that there's an idea that aid has to be knocking in the eyes of Hashem and he has to be knocking in the eyes of the Israel and writes that I want you to know it's much easier for a person to be than it is to be who knows what's going on in a person's heart. So, and if your heart is in the right place and you live with you live with and you live with and you try a person like that could be even if he's not doing everything 100% right but he could be but to be how you going to be people are flawed people's judgments are flawed for you to be you would essentially need that every single year there's going to be how in the world is that something you're even going to come to and he says not just that if a person is so that he's makes it even more complicated to be you know why because the more a person is the more people like to try to find nitpicks about that person just to read a little bit of [snorts] he said unfortunately you find today that people say things as follows London this guy is such a London. I look at the way he behaves. I hear this all the time. People talk this way. And very often big deals. What did he do? It's baseless. It's based on a Now think about that London. Let's say that London did nothing wrong. And that London was perfect. And he literally is serving Hashem in a way that's that's incredible. But he wasn't careful enough. So that get drunk and start spewing. Those people could didn't somehow know to be done every single thing this person did. The he was caught in their trap. The crier should cry. People that take things seriously should be very worried about this. Should be very troubled about this because at the end of the day it's says something frightening. I've thought many times. This is what was holding in says I wonder I've thought about this many times. Was there ever a person in history that was able to come to a where he was? Regarding this that said these are the words of the [snorts] could be could be again we can't say this out of our mouth but the gumar says we're just quoting the gar and to a lesser extent the gumar Info there's the there is a concept that sometimes as it relates to the the greater a person is the higher the a person is on the more and vulnerable he is to be caught in these trappings and maybe that's a little bit of a a really to what is saying and a little bit of a shot in howenu in is being accused of and howenu in is literally being on some level of ish but the is there's a whole another approach to this and this requires a tiny bit of an introduction fascinating it's sort of well known that rais lipits the baltares Israel the classic commentary on Mishnay one purish that he wrote was called Yin the other perish that he wrote was called hence for the last few hundred years we've had the gift of the but at the very very end this is almost the last piece it's on the side of the it's on the ironically that says but over there rais lipshits asks Aasha he says a ter and his terret he bases is on a neck that he saw somewhere doesn't give it in a source but he says I want to share with you a we read it inside all the nations of the world heard about it and they were very very frightened and they were very uh intrigued to know a little bit more about there was one Arabian king that had the inspiration. He had this idea that you know what let me send an artist the greatest artist in the land. I want him to draw a picture of Rabenu. I want him to bring the picture back and then I'm going to have all my all my all my smart people. They're going to look at this face of and they're going to be able to tell me I'm just so intrigued by this person. I have to see him. But not just cuz I want to put a name to the face, right? But I I need to see him because I want to see if I can tap in through into this person's essence. Either way, so this king goes and he sends and he literally met draws a picture and he goes, he brings it back to the king after the king received this picture, he went and he brought all his smart people. parts of said, "Can you please analyze this face? I want to know the secret behind this great." So they all got together and they did what they do. And then they returned to the king and they told him as follows. He said, "If we're going to assess this person based on what we see, we're going to have no choice but to tell the truth." And that is he's a very, very bad person. It has every bad meter that a person could possibly have. Singled out. I'm struggling to say these words, but this is what they come back and this is what they tell the king. And when the king heard this and got angry, he said, "Somebody is uh somebody's mocking me. Somebody's making fun of me." Right? I've heard just the opposite. And all his all his people, they got very, very worried. So, you know, the artist turns to the king and he says, you know, king, can I have a word with you? And then the turn to the king and they say, "Can we have a word with you?" And each person went and pointed a finger on the other person. They said, "Uh, listen, I drew a perfect picture. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm not mocking. I This is him. This is They're obviously playing games with you." and these and they told the king as I'm telling you with we know this business we have PhDs in this field we are the worldleading experts we know parts of I can read literally every crevice on a person's face I'm telling you exactly what it is the artist is playing games with you anyway the king didn't know who to believe and finally the king decided [snorts] says you know what I'm going to figure this out by myself so he gets on his horse and on his chariot and he goes with his whole uh entourage and he decides I'm going to travel to the midbar. I'm going to meet. When this king arrived in the midbar, he started running towards him and he pulls out this picture. There wasn't one here that was off. He got it 100% perfect. So he enters the oil the oil of he enters the he bows down to him. And he told him what's going says I don't know you know I had artist come. He drew the picture. I see it's you. It's exactly here. It's mishu but my question is are they making fun of me? Like what am I missing here? What's going on? What's going on? I'm I'm very I'm very very confused. I'm not sure how to deal with this. So responded to him. He says, "I want you to know your artist is clearly perfect." He says, "I'm speaking a little bit. They're incredibly incredibly competent. And the report that they gave you, the evaluation, the analysis that they did was [snorts] spot on. What they described me as is exactly is exactly who I am. >> [snorts] >> stating that but at the same time I want you to know 100% everybody would be better than me. Could be. It's even worse than that. I want you to know that everything that they said was 100% true. But at the same time, I was able to overcome all of that. And because I was able to overcome all of that, that's why the fact that they wrote that report really has no bearings on who I am today because at the end of the day I was able to be m [snorts] and somehow or another lipids and his uh pirish used this to answer his kasha that he had in the so was a very very popular Mishnay during the 19th century. extremely extremely extremely popular and as a result of its popularity this story that Rabis Lipshitz told about Mosher Rabenu you know started making its rounds and there were people that were very very disturbed by it how could anyone talk this way about Mosher Rabeno Rabeno is is is the kadosim of kadashim how could you say I just let's hear these words again it's it's it's just unbelievable How how could you how could you say things like this? And then in the late 1800s there was aid. His name was Arin Rapaort. He was known as the mag of who at that time had made aliyah. He was living in. and he decided that I already have to take this uh piece of the Israel and I have to put it where it belongs and people have to understand that it's it's a horrible story and I don't care who's the one that brought it in in his parish this is this is a terrible terrible story to be told and he goes and he writes a whole pmic he writes a contress he calls it right that's an appellation that you find in the context of and he goes and he writes his close to and the ideas that were going to be this is what he writes and he says just like were called that because they were I'm going to be of and in the year 1895 he prints this 20page contress to show the world and to prove to the world that everything that's being said over here is 100% the It's a fascinating little kris. It's 20 pages. I went through it. It's made up of several pro. Each peric has its own agenda. Perrick alf which is the first per he goes and he brings rise from that this can't be true. This is something that categorically can't be true. number one say and then the says and the says few days what does it mean so it's a big house FILLED WITH ART DOES IT SOUND LIKE WHEN THIS CHILD WAS born he was around and he had this moment etc etc says It says what's always it doesn't sound like he started off literally on the other side of the spectrum and he had to make a 180 degree comeback to somehow go ahead and figure it out. This is this is how you're supposed to give with that literally from the day he was born he always had he quoted another desire is fired says that we find that a lot of the sadikim their names are mentioned twice in the but every time a sadik's name is mentioned twice in the there's aik right there's a line that separates the two names it starts already by hashem hashem hashem hashem right there's aik between the first hashem and there's aik after the other but either way says there's always a between the two names what's the reason wasn't always aim their says in the beginning that was together with his family But later he became a then at some point he became where he had there was the first and then there's the second and that's why there's the same way is the same way I'm skipping because from the day that he was born he was already So from the day that he was born says is the only one where you don't find this sick. Why? Because he brings from was born they saw they he was born and he brings after many zars. It's poshit that this is not a true story and if that's the case this must be as if this must be as if he goes on in one of the later proim and he says you know I've seen people already quoting this the Pharisees and other I've seen that unfortunately unfortunately fell for this ze this forgery of a story and it bothers me very very much one of the he quotes is from the s that we've quoted many times over the years from he wrote a kadush is an epic classic four volume work and he says in his because it's based on which believe it or not we learned last week feels like a long time ago but we learned this together last week says and says it says why is it that name is it's a funny thing. So he says he said how didenu become how do you come suit to a moenu IT'S BECAUSE mosha was and he quotes the gamar that says bera and mob was a able to overcome his natural tendency of busha and remma to reach great heights and when A person is able to overcome natural tendencies AND BECOME GREAT. THAT'S WHEN YOU BECOME A MOHENO. BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE BORN PERFECT, you can't BECOME half of a fellow brought it to say can you imagine such a hearten was that's the that's the pmius of this that because that's how he was able he had from the day he was born There's no s between you find this you find this you find this there's no even there's no before and after by the right in the says was from the of the midbar maybe the biggest miracle the midbar was from the talks upon him says the maggot from I'm I'm this it's a beautiful it makes for a good rap But could YOU IMAGINE THAT BISHOP that's the he writes in one of the later pro that he discussed this mish with the guy at the time one of the great therein was living in he goes to disc and he tells him from this piece that's brought down in the heard it and he was so disturbed by it he was so takenback he said it's 100% And then he brought three rias. I mentioned two of them. The first was so tells after gives the advice. Let me ask I'll get back to you. He says I want you to go and I want you to the people that are appropriate to sit on the Sanhedrin says what does mean I want you to use. I want you to look at the face of the people and you're going to know who's who by you knowing who's like this you're gonna be able to go ahead and pick says is the way OF WORKS IT'S NOT BASED on who a person was when he was BORN BUT IT'S BASED ON WHO THE PERSON IS BECAUSE IF YOU CAN BE AENU AND LOOK LIKE AND BE FULL OF this m THEN THIS IS A WORTHLESS PROPOSITION AND IFENU HIMSELF WAS TOLD THAT means of course we know you can change your nobody's arguing no one's debating that but the question is WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR HOW YOU GOING TO LOOK SAID IT'S THAT THAT'S THE WAY IT'S GOING TO BE IT'S INEVITABLE AND then said I'll bring you another ayah LEARN THE END OF PARAS WE JUST LEARNED it together we literally just learned it together what happens in the end of parasa when comes down from the mountain for the second time what happens when comes down from the mountain the second time he had a masva he had a mask The only time he took the mask off was when he spoke to the Israel when he spoke to he said I don't believe this Arabian king he was definitely not when he was there when he was talking to even when HE WAS TALKING TO HE SAT down and chair and he listened there's NO WAY LO THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED OVER HERE HAD THE MAS NOBODY WAS ABLE TO LOOK AT HIM AND this artist this Leonardo D something was able to look him in the eye and somehow draw a picture of him it's impossible there's no way in the world something like that could have happened. SO SAID IT'S positive if he had another well either way in this made a huge fact he has a husk the from the soim and they all had their how we know it was as if he said there's no way in the world this is a true story he said it comes from a non-coosher source it's different it's different and he writes in the safer that what you need to do is do one or two things he says either cross out go to that piece because he's the stroll But at the same time that piece you have to go ahead and be or if you want he says this is a good marketing plug take my and attach it to that piece. So like this you're going to know you're going [laughter] to know that this is a you're not going to have to worry about it classic right so I'm going to tell you something fascinating I saw in the kadash from [snorts] and this is in pars and he brings it to and the fact that it wasn't received so favorably by everybody and then he says as follows But I want you to know truth has to be told that in as much as the magi vil wrote this very very strong diet tribe against this piece from lipits [snorts] and even though he had as from the from and this piece was considered this was a piece that you were not allowed to learn and needed to be addressed either by crossing it out or just by the put it there. He said but I want you to know So as much as it's true, this was a seer that was off limits but at the same time and he goes on like only and he brings mus I'm just going to tell you some of this for him that he quotes the benus which was written by the balatus The safer who was a bash. He brings this story. The highish in the shabas he brings this story from the who is the hisbi brings this story the brings [laughter] this is a story that a version of him is brought in every single one of the to the point and everyone said it in his own way. One of the that I saw in this piece from Wise is in the safer and this is in the end of Paris. You could see why it would be in the end of Paris. He brings that he heard from his the holy he said that with this med that is brought down you [laughter] could understand two. One is a and the other is a says in they told their wife I don't want to see you talking to I don't trust and TURNS HE SAYS EITHER HE'S A GUNNER OR HE'S A GAMBLER HE CAN'T HOW'S IT possible so the holy said this is quoting from the deed Islam in the world. He said over that he heard from his zeda that his zeda said is because if you looked at him there was some there was an audis made people a little bit suspicious because mitadawenu was not theu that we know but was midasenu was AND that's how used to be a and the theme of all the is that a person thinks who am I? I'm gonna go and I'm gonna reach a madrega. I know that I'm know I'm know that I have all these. It can't be a person like me. I have tas this and I have ty that. Yeah, there are certain sadikim. There are there are people that are literally me. There are people like that. But someone that's born with a mid, someone that's born with nephesh to to want things that are not okay. There's no way the expectation from that person is to reach any maj but [laughter] but to to reach a major and to reach a level that's not something I'm shy to and say look at the history of mobu was really somebody that should have been the opposite of butenu worked on himself that's how he was able to overcome it now how answer the kashes of the mag this but at the same time I think the message is clear you know whether the story happened or didn't happen whether it's a z or it's not a z there's an element here probably of different but at the same time the message is 100% true the message is and that is that not only is a person who maybe has and he has nas and tendencies you know Maybe for [clears throat] not only is a person like that capable of accomplishing in life but it could be it's just the opposite. It could be it's a person like that a person who has such an it's if Hashem gives a person a to to the dark side of the world that means the gave him an equal level of mash to the bright side of the world and if his is so strong the pull is so powerful that means the push is equally as powerful that's how it works it has to be there's always an equilibrium in the world and it's dka the person sometimes that has and it tears sometimes that person who naturally is that person dava has the kayak to accomplish great things there's an element of either way this is a little bit of the rest of the story as it relates to that exchange between and the Great rev.