Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Discusses Parshas Ki Sisa on JM in the AM (5786)

Good morning. Good shabus everybody. Whoa. It feels like it's like moas. It's the day after purum. I know it's a few days ago, but Barashem I'm still under the influence of and I'd like to share with you an exciting insight into Paras uh which according to the has nine mitzvos, three positive and six restrictions. And this is the third of the fourth special shabas or special parios. This is parishas porra that the maktier will come from the 19th chapter of vayikra the paraduma and I hope we'll be able to tie the two together. Just hold on tight. Okay. Now in one word the central part of parasa is two words the sin of the golden calf. Oh my goodness. The obvious question is how you talking how is it possible that Moshe comes down after 40 days of their miscalculation. Okay, that they were expecting him yesterday and they couldn't wait. Unbelievable. And look what happens. Moshe comes down to Israel. They're dancing around the golden calf. How's this possible? And not only that, but there's a beautiful essay by Rav Viktor Neo, the Ravikim. He should live and be well. a beautiful elderly Jew who writes the following essay, the first of his essays on Kisa in his safer sikos to the book of Schmos. And he basically says where does the sin of the agel begin? So you're going to tell me that it begins with Moshe or seeing the people. We're no no says Ranso. It begins at the end of Paras Mishim. If you take a look at the last few verses of paraspim, so Moshe says to the Jewish people, I am going up to Hashem to Sai. I am coming down. And he says to the Jewish people, listen carefully, right before Maftier in chapter 24 in Mishim, he says, "Unbelievable to the zakim Moshe said, stay here until I return. And behold, I'm leaving two people in charge. There's an emergency number to call in case there's a problem. Are your leaders? They are in charge. Lest any problem come about? Well, I ask you, did a problem come about? No, not a problem, a crisis. And that is Moshe is gone. Oi, Moshe is gone. And what does the Raman understand this at the beginning of his commentary on the Ael that we're dealing about and with a nation that had at Sinai a vision of the Merova as described by the Novi. Unbelievable. and he sees the chariot of God and one of the forms in the chariot is a shore. Unbelievable. So, there's something going on with the axe. And they realize, says the Ramban, that they're looking for more spirituality now that Moshe is gone because they saw as the Gomorrah tells us in Shabis that the Sultan shows them up in the sky. Moshe as if lying on his deathbed, Moshe is dead. Oh my goodness, where are we going to go from here? And they're worried. Come on. Maybe the Mun will stop. Maybe the beer will stop. They have what to be frightened about. So they're looking not for a new god. They're looking for a replacement of Moshe. Whoa. But listen carefully. The problem is says Nebula. They were warned. You have a problem. Here's what you should do. You should come on. Come on. Uh consult Aron. So what do they do? They go to Aron. Take a look everybody in chapter 32 5 aon saw and he built msakov. He built an altar before him. Oh my goodness. That's how you're reading it. So the rabbis tell us you're making a big mistake. Look in the Gmorra Sanhedrin and Zion and don't tell me he saw and he built. No, but he understood Bina. And the word the balor better say Ms. Beak. But the Gmorrah understands the word to mean not Ms. Beayak but misovak. He saw from the one that was slaughtered before him. who was slaughtered, Aaron's nephew, Miriam's son, when he they came to they say, "Hur make for us a god." He said, "What are you crazy? They killed. Oh my goodness." So now that they killed Aram was afraid they might kill him. So what are you going to say? It was in self-defense. No. The Gmorrah in Sanhedrin 7a says that lest it be fulfilled through them like it says in chapter two. And if God forbid now that they killed noi they'll kill him as well and there will not be any taka. There will not be any way of forgiven. Let them worship the Auroro. Whoa. That at least there'll be chuva. Unbelievable. That part of the reason for the eagel was to show the ability of chuva to erase even the sin of a vodor. But let's get back over here. So Rab Nebul says so profoundly that this of the Ael begins with their looking to replace Moshe and their meaning well but the idea is they unfortunately acted on their own and they thought they didn't have leadership and Therefore, what they did on their own was lacking the approval and the command of Hashem. And therefore, it turned out to be a terrible disaster. Okay. Having said this, we go now to the following. What was so bad that the Jewish people went to the party of aashro? So the gammora 12A says that what does that mean? It means that they were not forced to drink wine which was uncosha. The food was glad kosha. The wine was not yay. Unbelievable. Akashro was such a great host. He said to the Jewish people, "Come, come to my party. It's going to be glad kosher." And guess what? The Jewish people went to the party. Ouch. Now listen carefully. Morai told them not to go. What? Do we have a rejection of the authority? They went thinking, "Come on, what could be so bad? What could be so bad? We know that what did Akash veros do? Whether he put them on or displayed them. But he he said, "Everybody look at the big day kahuna. Look at the clothes of the high priest. The Jews are not going to need this anymore because there's not going to be another bas." So they attended the party celebrating there will not be another bas. That's a big ouch. So listen carefully. So that's why the Gomorrah says in 12A in McGill there was a threat against the Jewish people because of their going to the party because of their rejection of of excuse me of Morai's direction. So listen carefully. If I until today if I would have asked you what's your favorite puzzilla? Uh hard question favorite pusk in the mcgilla. So I would tell you what I would have said until today. Until today, I would have said go to chapter nine poke 28 which says that these days are remembered and practiced and fulfilled in every generation, every family, every medina, every province, every city. And the days of Purim 2500 years ago was written by Morai Esther. This used to be my favorite. There'll always be purim whether the purim was observed in shul and you heard the mgilla in shul like many people in fair law New Jersey or unbelievable my friends in Erit Israel. Where'd you hear the migilla? I heard it in the garage underground because that was a safe place. Where did you hear the mcgill? I heard it in the miklat. I heard it in the mad. Unbelievable. And where did you have your suda? Not like Udin in his uh dining room, living room, whatever it is. Both. Come on. In Fair, New Jersey. Where did you have yours? We had the first part in the house and then we went to the Miklat. Then we went to Mad. Unbelievable that this is we lived Purim literally in front of us this year. You have to realize how exciting it is. So now I'm going to tell you what my favorite puk is. It used to be like I told you chapter 9 p of 28. What do I know? Look at this. I want you to take a look in the mgilla. The last puk in chapter 4 in the mgilla says to Esto, please go to the king and beg for your people. Okay? She says, "I'll go, Booby, if you listen to me. Three days we all fast. You fast for me, I'll fast for you. We all fast together." Okay, so watch what's the last verse in chapter 4. Here's my favorite. Vavore Morai. So art scroll, and I love them. Translates and Morai went simple thing. And he did. He listened to his wife like a good husband. Oh my goodness. What's going on here? So the gamura in McGill where 15a says vyavore says rav that it comes not like artscrow translates and he went. No, it comes from the Hebrew word ara. Oh, where does oscro get it from? This is the gum rashi gets it from the gammorrah in migilla 15a where the gammorra says that rashi against he went against our religion that he declared a fast the three days included the first day of pes that we fasted 14 15 16 of pesak and therefore we abstained from the biblical mitzvah of come on of eating matzah. Whoa. You need big shoulders for that. So Morai said to the people don't eat matzah. And guess what? We listened to Mori. Oh, we listened to Mori. We followed instructions the instructions of the Rabonim, instructions of the Jewish authorities. Ah then go to chapter five. On the third day Esther Mal Esther is adorned with royalty. What's the royalty? The royalty is that the Jewish people listened to Mori. They followed instructions. What was the sin of the golden calf? that they did not follow instructions. What does Rashi say at the end of chapter 19 in Bidbar where the Torah says that the quintessential is the porum? What do you mean the quintessential hook? Rashi says, "What do you mean the poradum? The red cow. The red cow is to clean up the mess of its child, the golden calf that made a mess in the palace of God. So the mother comes and cleans up the schmutz of its baby. So the cow which is the pora aduma is coming to atone for the calf. Ah what does that mean? It means that there's a very significant takeaway from this entire purim from this entire episode. The episode is probably that my previous favorite pok is probably still my favorite pok even though the last verse of chapter 4 is my runner up. But the idea is to listen to theim and borakashem. We've been listening to them for all these years and take a look how special this past was for all of us. May we continue to see Nissim vinos and please God to celebrate gula to gula the gula of purim with the forthcoming gula of pesak with happiness and joy throughout the Jewish world. Shabbat shalom to all.