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Join me as we learn Chumash for
Wednesday, the fourth Torah reading of
Parshas Naso, chapter 5, verse 11.
Today's Torah reading tells us about a
suspected adulteress, as well as the
laws pertaining to a Nazirite.
Verse 11. Vayidaber Hashem el Moshe
leimor, "And God spoke to Moshe saying,
verse 12,
daber el benei Yisrael, speak to the
Jewish people, ve'amarta aleihem, and
tell them as follows,
ish ish, any man,
ki sisa ishto,
when he is when she is when his wife is
unfaithful to him, u'mala bo imal,
and thereby
they she is accused of being unfaithful
to it goes as she as she goes astray,
and therefore she was unfaithful to him.
Ki sisa ishto, when she goes astray,
u'mala bo imal, when she was unfaithful
to him.
As we know, as Chassidus explains on the
word ki sisa, which the word comes comes
from the word shtus, that generally a
person does not want to do evil, a
person does not want to do bad, doesn't
want to listen to the evil inclination.
As the Talmud says, elim ke'nichnas bei
ruach shtus, they get this
uh spirit of folly that comes into them
and thinking that this is the right
thing to do. That the evil inclination
convinces them, and therefore one must
realize that this is a deterrent and a
disconnect in causing them to disconnect
from Hashem.
Rashi, ish ish ki sisa ishto,
mah kashur le'ma'alah mineyan v'ish
kedosh la'Hashem lo yiyu, what's the
connection between the two? What's the
correlation between the two aliyos?
Right, yesterday we spoke about the laws
pertaining to I think and the laws
pertaining giving the gifts to the
kohen, and today we're learning about
the suspected adulteress. Why does it
why is it connected? So, he tells us as
follows,
being that it said before v'ish kedosh
la'Hashem lo yiyu, that a person must
give the gifts the coin, teaching us in
makifim matnas kohen, if you're going to
withhold from giving the gifts to the
coin,
I can guarantee you should just
you're going to need the coin because if
your wife is going to behave
inappropriately, then you're going to
need the coin to bring the sota to him.
Why does it say twice?
To teach you.
That when a woman goes astray and rebels
against her wife and acts in an
adulterous behavior, not only is she
rebelling against her husband in this
world, but her husband in the world
above
rebelling against God.
Our rabbis learned in
the communist Russia to receive sister.
The word terminology
means that a woman would only do this
nonsense only because they have a spirit
of folly that enters into them.
We find this that also says in the book
of Mishlei, it says
a woman who acts promiscuous is because
she's lacking heart.
And the simple interpretation
the word
doesn't only mean from folly, the simple
interpretation comes from the word
sister not to go off the proper path.
Take me down to the question enough. She
acts in an inappropriate way, goes off
the path of modesty and causes him to
accuse her of misbehaving.
Don't go off the way and stay on the
proper way.
Don't allow your heart to go off the
path. And
she was unfaithful to her husband.
What's
the concept that she was unfaithful?
That that she was with another man,
which is a continuing in verse 13.
And she was with a man
uh inappropriately
as she was meant to be with her with
another man the way she's supposed to be
with her husband.
from her husband's eyes. Then he stood
up
and she was
hid and it was she was hiding. And she
was defiled. The 18 but but there are no
witnesses.
But she was not seized.
What does this mean and what are all the
three different steps that it's
referring to here?
First of all,
first of all, there has to be a man.
That excludes a child. The mission of
one who's not a man, for example, an
animal.
The very fact, meaning that she was with
that individual, that in itself would
make her unfit to be with her husband
any longer.
However,
her sister being with her husband would
not make her unfit to be with her
husband.
Meaning that the only reason when we
talk about this example of this case
when a woman is promiscuous, this
specifically would cause that the
husband that she would not be able to be
be with her husband as well.
It was concealed from her husband's
eyes. This excludes a blind person.
Because if he did see and he knew that
she did something wrong, and he makes
himself as if he didn't see it,
then the water doesn't help. That means
when we talk about the laws of Sota, it
has to be about a man
who not that he saw it and then he said,
"Oh, he doesn't care."
That he just didn't see it and therefore
it was unbeknownst to him.
But
if there was a witness, you know what I
mean? If there
that if there was even one witness that
will come along and say yes I saw that
she became impure like
she wouldn't drink at all. When we're
talking about over here specifically
when the woman drinks that if the
woman's considered an adulteress or not
where we were discussing the laws of
sota it's a suspected adulteress. So if
there's a witness she's not suspected.
If he saw her and he didn't care about
it it's not suspected. So we're we're
specifically talking about in cases
where she would have to drink the water
the potion to test if she was adulteress
or not.
There is no witness but two more of she
became impure over yesha
but we do have witnesses that saw her go
and secluded with this man. Nisbaso
meaning what does the word nisbaso mean?
Loinensa wasn't against her will it
wasn't that she was captured. Bashak
came with a toss bashak aviva like we
learned previously when a person is
taken against her will the word is that
she was seized. Obviously she wasn't
seized she went willingly to this
individual.
Verse 14 the over a lot of
and a spirit of suspicion has gone up
upon him the key nays he stand therefore
he warns his wife for he need to know
and that she might have been defiled I
over love
or if he had a spirit of suspicion that
come upon him the key nays he say and he
warns her then he light it my and she's
not impure we don't know it's a
suspicion.
Rashi
the over a lot of key know
Koydum listida before she went hiding.
Rua king of the king name of Persia we
saying nasara meaning he warns her
he warns her and says I'll taste the
explain I'm
suspecting you're going with that
individual and therefore I'm warning you
don't go with that person for he need to
me over a lot the who he's above
he warned her and she transgressed and
she abrogated in that warning for any of
doing it
we do not know whether she was actually
with that individual or not and if did
she become impure or not.
Verse 15. So, because we don't have
actual proof, what he does is the way he
usually does it, the man must then bring
if all these conditions are met. That
means we don't have any witnesses
clearly to say that she did or she
didn't. We do have witnesses that he was
she was warned. We know that she went
with that man. We don't know if she
became impure or not. We know that he
all the different conditions that we
mentioned, then
the man has to bring his wife to the
cohen. The heaviest carbon and will
bring the offering with her. What's
going to bring the offering? I see the
1/10 of an offer. Come actually of
barley flour.
All of them will not put any oil.
They will not put any spices
because this is a
a um
a grain offering of jealousies. It
is an offering of remembrance.
Often recalling iniquity, recalling of
what somebody has done wrong. And
therefore, we do not beautify it as
we'll read in Rashi.
Rashi
Come actually it should not be from a
refined flour.
You're bringing barley
and not wheat. She was a nice because
she acted in an animal way. The carbon
therefore the sacrifice that she's
bringing is going to be animal food,
which is barley as well because we don't
usually give wheat to animals. We give
them um
We give them the barley, which is like
second grain.
We
don't pour oil cuz we don't want it to
look nice.
Oil is called light and from niceness
and therefore he has a
she did it in dark. She went and hid
with this person in the dark. Therefore,
we don't bring light onto the sacrifice.
Being
that the matriarchs were called spices.
She never as it says we'll give us a to
the valley or to the to the
to the to the point of the which is
referring to in the merit of the
forefathers and the matriarchs. of
partial with our came and she did not
follow in the ways of matriarchs because
she acted immodestly.
Kim Min has can I assume? This is a meal
offering of jealousies. I came up the
camera question talker. He's using the
when he talks about flour.
Therefore he says do not pour. So he
uses a male terminology. Min has can I
always which tells us now is the cuz Min
has is female. Min has can I always
married her to stay connected and causes
her two jealousies. Kindness I'm working
for kindness about. This the fact of God
and from the husband because the Torah
told you not to be promiscuous as well
as this causes the husband to be upset
and it breaks up the marriage.
Verse 16 the he could have I say I can
and the coin will then bring her forth
the ham middle of the ash am and play
and present her before God.
Verse 17 the lack of a coin my own
condition the coin will then take holy
water. What does it mean holy water?
Water from the cure from the lever.
The clean heart is going to put in the
earth and wear vessel. I'll mean I often
will take from the earth of cotton
Michigan from the earth of the actual
floor of the Tabernacle. You can have a
coin the coin will take it for nothing
on the mine and mix it with the water.
Rashi my own condition what does it mean
holy? She cut you be here that became
holy because since they are in the lever
that were in those in the cure. She not
secure my own condition the reason why
you're taking the water from the cure
from the washing basin cuz the washing
basin was made from the copper. What was
the copper from our ancestors?
From the copper that the women made that
from their mirrors that they were there
to beautify themselves.
And there to be able to be with their
husbands. And this woman went with her
partial with our came. She went away in
the the opposite of what these women did
because these women trying to follow us
to be able to say I can to be able to
walk. These women used to go and be with
their husbands under the apple trees as
it's we read in as it says in Shira
Shirim the song of songs. The apple tree
under the apple trees where I inspired
you and this woman did not follow the
ways of those women that were in Egypt
that did it appropriately and make sure
to be with her husband in the right time
in the proper way. The zoo kill color
after the body by and therefore she went
and ruined it and was with another
person and acted in a promiscuous way
and went with somebody else and
therefore what's going to check this
same water that comes from these mirrors
of women that acted in the proper way.
The clay cottage and earth and wear
vessel. He
I am a shoe box. She gave the individual
who was with her
good wine because it's a shoe box and
beautiful cups. Therefore teach that she
is going to drink my mama bitter water
instead of good wine keep the booze
and in a cup which is disgusting of
earth and wear.
Verse 18
as they usually
and the coin will then place her before
Hashem present her before Hashem. Who
power is ratio he will expose the head
of the woman the nothing I'll cap her.
And then he will take the grain offering
and place it on her hand.
As men
and men
the grain offering of remembrance and
the grain offering of jealousies.
We are the coin you will may I want to
matter of while the water will the
bitter water in the fatal water will
remain in the coins hands.
Rashi The
following five doesn't say that the coin
already presents her. Why does it say it
again?
The family of Hashem and
the town will tell us that they would
take her from one place to the next and
make her wander around the daily hour of
the yard of the day that she should get
mixed up and confused and hopefully this
way when she will say then she'll
acknowledge and admit and this way she
won't have to drink from the water.
Who power and he'll expose clear cider
Shigella rage can I learn. What he would
do is he would take apart her hair,
apart her braids, and reveal her hair.
And from here to be able to embarrass
her. From here we learn actually Rashi
mentions that Jewish women
must cover their hair. That revealing
their hair is something of an
embarrassment to them. That meaning
because until now her hair was covered.
That means that's the appropriate way to
be covered. Now because she acted in a
promiscuous way, they revealed her,
which is not an appropriate way to be.
With Nasham, where was the place in the
actual holy temple that she was placed,
which was Bashar Nicanor and Shaar
Nicanor Shaar Azarah Mizrach. That was
the eastern gateway. Derech Kol
Ha'anashim, that was the way where
everybody entered. Venatnah al kapeha,
why would he put it on her hands?
Liagah, again, to make her tired. Uli
titaref ta'atah bin ta'atah, maybe
she'll feel so tired and she'll realize
not to be so stubborn and she will
confess.
Al ha'mayim, in this way we avoid having
God's name be erased. Hamayim, the
reason why it's called bitter mayim,
because at the end this is bitter water
and this is going to cause her if she is
guilty that this will cause her to be
fatal as well. Hamayim, the fatal water.
Hamayim ha'me'arerim,
which is going to make her be missing
from this world. Lashon se'ah,
me'arer. And from the word
fatal or something which is going to
hurt, penetrate. Lo yetivu lo yetaku
mayim, parush mayim me'arerim. Generally
one might want to translate this from
the word arur, cursed waters. She'ani
kedoshim, you can't call them cursed
waters because it's holy waters.
Lo leykos arurim kasheh la'kos, the
Torah does not say cursed. The Torah
knows Hebrew, it could have wrote the
word arurim. Ela me'arerim as acherim,
it's because it ruins others. It makes
people bad.
Baf unklus lo yitkam leytaya, also if
you look in the Aramaic translation,
usually for a curse it would say the
word leytaya or leyta. Over here it says
mil detaya, that it makes others bad.
Mar ish kelo lebufo shazuf, it shows bad
signs in another individual.
Verse 19.
These be Isaac and the coin will then
make her take an oath and
women in Malaysia
if no man has slept with you if you
taste these two of these two
of these two more.
Tarkus
and you have not gone astray to become
defiled under your husband. He knock him
in the arm and you will be absolved
through these bitter waters
of these fatal waters of these.
Rashi
Maya what's the oath that he makes her
take? The oath is that he tells her
if you did not if you did not be with
another man. He knock you will become
clean and you shall have but if you were
with another man
it's going to make you it's going to
kill you
but the shame on him from the opposite
from the negative you understand the
positive.
>> [snorts]
>> Because whenever it comes to matters of
life and death. The Sanhedrin always
have to start with bringing out the
merit of the individual. And therefore
he says if you were not with another man
then you'll be all right but if you were
with another man then you're going to
die from it.
Verse 20. But as for you if you have
gone astray
under you
with another man. You can eat may send
you became impure if I eat but I shall
have the issue and you have therefore
been with another man besides your
husband.
But I had kissed her teeth. Kim is
shamash
this case key means if.
Verse 21
and the coin must then make the woman
with makes her swear with the oath of
the curse. The armor
the coin then tells the woman eaten and
I shall
may God make you for a curse over the
shoe onto an oath the same
amongst your people the same
when he won't cause that your thigh.
Where your your your but say so
they fell us when he makes your thigh
rupture this beat
and your belly to swell.
The
other verse 21
oath of
that comes with it a curse which is
going to happen you which is the
following words.
People are going to curse with you
meaning that person wants to curse his
wife or get upset at his wife will say
You can end up like Mrs. So-and-so look
what happened to her.
It should happen to you like what
happened to that woman.
People
are going to use an oath.
I don't want it happen to me like what
happened to that woman.
In Isaiah
this is a promise prophecy that he talks
about the punishment of the evil that
after they'll be
destroyed from the world
their names will be used as a so to
speak as a curse for people
that the righteous will use the names of
the evil to be able to say oh look you
look what happened to them. You don't
want the same thing to happen to you.
The new behind you
that you people will choose to use the
Jewish people you should be blessed like
the Jewish person you should be blessed
like Abraham and so on.
Ask you your thigh. Why does a thigh
begin first
when he talks about the curse that's
going to happen it begins with the thigh
then he goes to the stomach or the womb
because she began.
That's where the sin began with the
thigh therefore he continues and that's
where the curse begins as well.
Suffer what does it mean suffer? It will
explode. It will
swell.
Like the Targums uses it that
terminology.
Verse 22
And then the priest tells her that these
that these waters these fatal waters
will enter your inwards.
They may within your stomach lot space
better to erupt to swell it will go into
your stomach to swell the land peel your
your womb to swell the land peel your
into your up to thigh to make your
rupture to rupture your thighs the arm
and the woman must answer she accepts
this oath amen amen.
Rashi
lead space better
lot space better he says what's going to
happen like it's going to swell the
stomach to those
this is like a short word where he uses
the which the has the
like we have in other places
to be able to leave them in the way
instead of the word
some. to show you the way
instead of
the the
removes the need for the
so my
because the water would make the stomach
the belly swell my pillow
and cause the thighs to rupture. by
the why over here does he repeat it
again and why does he use the
terminology just in general a stomach
and a thigh because at the same time
while this woman would be imploding and
it's swelling and falling apart while
she's in the holy temple the individual
who she was with that she committed
adultery with as well his
stomach and thigh will explode as well
as she
any other Cain or is it only talking
about is it referring to that the other
guy would happen as well or is it only
about the woman gets this punishment
so therefore [snorts] when it says the
word is better
it's coming to tell us to include that
at the same time while the woman
standing in the holy temple getting her
punishment the individual who is with
her receives this punishment as well.
Amen amen why she responding twice amen
Bala S'shua, accepting upon herself the
oath. Amina Ola, one Amin is on the
oath. Amina S'shua, and one is on the
promise on the curses that come with the
oath. Amin as well twice im ish zeh,
whether it's from this person im ish
acher, or im from another person. That I
was not warned about, that I wasn't
supposed to be with that individual.
Amin she'leitzah tisi, Amin that I was
never been
uh with another man, that I haven't gone
astray. Arusa v'he'enasua, when I was
engaged or married.
She'meires yavam k'nusah.
As well when we're talking about it,
Amin that I have not gone astray while I
was waiting to marry as in love right
marriage, or as well uh when I was
already married by this individual.
Verse 24.
V'hishkah es ha'ishah es mei hamarim, uh
sorry, verse 23. V'chasav es ha'alot
ha'eileh. Then the Cohen would write
down these curses. Al a a coin the coin
write it. V'vasaifer on a piece of
parchment and on a scroll.
U'moch el mei hamarim, and he would
erase it into the bitter water.
Verse 24. V'hishkah es ha'ishah es mei
hamarim, then he would give the woman to
drink these bitter uh marim fatal
waters. U'vo'u vo hamayim hamarim
l'marim, and then the water then these
fatal water will enter her becoming
bitter.
Rashi.
V'hishkah es ha'ishah, ein zeh seder
ma'aseh. The way we have it here wasn't
exactly the order of what actually
happened. And he says as follows.
What actually happened was first. She
dib'chilah k'dei v'chasah, first thing
you did was bring the meal offering. Al
ha'koset v'al ha'petach, the Torah says
um v'vaserach k'she'hi sh'kanah yavil
ba'al hamarim to all the Torah is
telling us here that when she will to
drink it, then it's going to come and
it's going to be bitter. V'fish ein amar
because it says of your beten yarech,
may I not show the kuf hadam and not
about the rest of the body? Tamud vo'u
vo, that has to go what's going to go
into her body. B'chulah into the whole
body. Im k'mat amru beten v'yarech, so
why does the Torah use only about the
stomach and the thighs? P'she'hi
nischalel b'veilah v'chish k'man
b'varonit, but if here the Torah is
telling us that this is going to affect
her whole body. Her whole body is going
to be falling apart, but what's going to
start is the thigh and the womb because
that's where the aveira, that's where
the sin began from as well.
It's going to become bitter. When she
drinks this potion, this potion is going
to be so bad for her, it's going to
cause her to be destroyed. It's going to
be very bitter and fatal to her. And any
bad thing we use use the terminology
bitter mar
for it.
Like you find in Numbers it says in
their end is going to be bitter. Meaning
their end is going to be bad, it's going
to be terrible.
Verse 25.
The coin will then take the grain
offering from of the grain offering of
the jealousies, take it from the woman.
He will then wave it.
Before God, he could have wasted all his
money and then he will bring it on to
the altar.
What is the word
waving it up and down
to all the different directions.
She would wave it together with him. Her
hand would be on top of his hand. Shall
the coin of the coin
and he will then bring it. The
place that this would be present was on
the southwestern
corner of the altar
before taking the actual fistful like
all the other meal offerings.
Verse 26. Then
the coin will scoop out from the grain
offering as
that memorial portion which we mentioned
is a fistful. He
will bring it on. He will bring He will
burn it on the altar.
Only does the woman drink the water like
mentioned previously that the drinking
of the water only came after the
after the meal offering was brought as
an altar. As you also who are that's the
comets, that's the fistful show you
there after
by bringing the fistful the rest of it
is considered as a sacrifice to God as a
remembrance to God.
Verse 27 the hishka samayam
The hishka samayam she will then drink
the water the husband will be aim litmas
if she was actually impure with the mal
mal should be built against her
husband
my mother name and then this water which
is fatal and bitter the mother will be
bitter for her with tough subitna and
her stomach will implode with noffli her
and her thighs will rupture the
and this woman will be a curse amongst
her people.
Rashi 27 hishka samayam rabi said to
tell us she am she says so If she says
I'm not going to drink
after you already erase the scroll on
the water my added in a cell we force
her mash can I sell
we just we don't listen to her and we
force it down her throat.
Imk LM came number
the only time this if she says I am
impure yes I was wrong then we won't
pour it down because the only reason why
you pour it down is to be able to find
out if it's true or not. Now that she's
admitting it she's confessing so there's
no reason to pour it down. The tough
subitna after
you are saying the stomach first even
though when you mention the curse it
mentions the thigh first. Okay I'm
when the water checks the water goes in
from top so it enters first into the
stomach then into the thigh therefore it
mentions the stomach first.
The hishka is a lala what does it mean
the woman be for a curse my rashi like
we mentioned earlier
that people will curse using her as an
example of saying don't be like that
woman.
After she been Adam navel
The makam shinika the main Adam
the makam shinika what does it mean
amongst her people that the Torah is
saying that this is an added punishment
to this individual. There's a difference
between a person who gets embarrassed by
the fact that he has a terrible death
where people know and therefore
everybody knows about him, comes the
talk of the town, where a person who has
a terrible death that nobody else knows
about it. Over here is this woman that
everybody watches that people should
know that this is not to behave this way
is a another added
um another added punishment to this
individual.
The Torah now tells us what happens if
she was actually uh honest if she
actually did nothing wrong. If a woman
is not impure, what happens if the woman
is not impure?
She was pure, nothing wrong. Then mix so
the knees are zero.
Then she will be exempt and bear seed.
What this means Rashi explains.
If a woman is not impure, what happens
if the woman is not impure? She was
pure, nothing wrong. She was pure,
nothing wrong. She was pure,
nothing wrong. She was pure, nothing
wrong. She was pure, nothing wrong. She
was pure, nothing wrong. She was pure,
nothing wrong. She was pure, nothing
wrong. She was pure, nothing wrong. She
was pure, nothing wrong. She was pure,
nothing wrong. She was pure, nothing
wrong.
Then mix so she's then clean from these
fatal waters. She's then clean from
these fatal waters. She's then clean
from these fatal waters. She's then
clean from these fatal waters. She's
then clean from these fatal waters.
Get harmed by them, but she even gets
blessed. She will now have children. She
will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
children. She will now have children.
She will now have children. She will now
have children. She will now have
Verse 29.
These are the laws pertaining
of the jealousies when a woman goes
astray with someone other than her
husband and is defiled.
Verse 30. Or whether this is talking
about a man
because of that he has a spirit of
jealousy. He wife. He warns his wife. He
warns his wife. He warns his wife. He
warns his wife. He warns everything that
we just mentioned regarding this law.
Verse 30,
or a man
or because the man decided that he's
going to warn his wife and she goes
against his warning and because she goes
against his warning he then has to place
her before God.
And the husband will be absolved from
any iniquity and the woman will bear her
iniquity.
The husband will be able
will be absolved from the iniquity.
Rashi, what does it mean the husband
will be absolved from the iniquity?
If the water checked her. And we find
that she was now impure.
We shouldn't be worried that the husband
may say, "Ah, I am the one that liable
because I warned her because maybe it's
my fault that she's killed."
He is absolved from any sin. Because he
did what he was supposed to. Another
explanation is
From the moment that he gives her to
drink, she's now allowed allowed to
return to the husband.
Because from the time that somebody
warns his wife, the sota now is
prohibited to be with her husband. Once
she drinks from the water, she then can
return to her husband.
Chapter 6, verse 1. We now go into the
laws pertaining to a Nazarite.
And God speaks to Moses saying, "Tell
the
Jewish people
man or woman
Hashem when they decide to take upon
themselves an oath they utter a Nazarite
vow to abstain for the sake of Hashem.
Rashi K'yafli, what does the word
K'yafli mean? Yafresh, that they
explicitly state with their mouth.
The question that Rashi asks is Lomar
Parshas Nazir Sota. Why is the Torah
reading of Nazir next to the Torah
reading of Sota? To tell you
whoever sees a Sota in her destruction,
in her in embarrassment,
should separate himself from wine.
Because
he should know wine brings to
promiscuity.
Neder Nazir, what's the terminology in
oath of a Nazarite oath?
Nazirite means to separate.
So too over here when he says a Nazarite
oath means that he wants to separate
himself from wine. The word again as we
mentioned is to separate. The
reason why he's separating from wine is
for the sake of heaven.
Verse three. Wine and strong drink.
He shall not drink. He must abstain from
new wine and aged wine. He's
not allowed to drink vinegar made of new
wine or vinegar made from old wine. He
should not drink mixture of wine and
strong drink. Or any
anything that which grapes have been
soaked in or steeped in. He's not
allowed to drink
or dried grapes or wet grapes. He's not
allowed to eat either.
Fresh grapes or dried grapes, he's not
allowed to consume.
Wine or wine
or
wine or aged wine.
Because wine as it gets aged it gets
stronger and therefore it's called
strong drink because it causes you to
get drunk. The word mixture means if you
steep that if you put you put grapes in
water it changes the color of the water
or any other liquid.
The word soaking is found many times in
the Mishna for the person is not to soak
ink and into you can't soak things into
ink on Shabbos or a Nazirite to put his
bread and wine.
Verse four. Call you may Israel all the
days of his Nazirite
anything that's made of uh any product
that's made of the grapevine may
whether it's from the seeds or the skins
he
shouldn't be eating.
Those
are the seeds.
Those are the peels.
uh the skins of the of the grapes.
Because when the seeds that are in a uh
a grape are like a piece of uh metal
that it's like and you know you have the
little bell that goes into a the bell
that's inside of the actual stick that's
inside the bell that makes the noise.
That's the same idea. That's the same
terminology
um that you have over here. It's called
the word zog.
Rashi uh
verse five. Call you may not
all the days of his
vow of his abstinence
a razor may not pass over his head and
the lights are yummy until the days are
complete that he
dedicated that he's made sacred. He
that he abstained for Hashem. Call the
sheer God will pay the sayer issue.
That he must allow the growth of his
hair for his head to grow wild.
Rashi
his hair becomes uh holy God will pay
the sayer issue that he has to
uh grow the hair of his head that he's
not allowed to cut it and it has to grow
wild. The word
because it goes with the word of the
hair of his head. Para shall say or para
shall para gidlo shall say means the
growth of his hair like we find in other
places like we had before in the book of
Leviticus as ratio of the effort that
his head he should not shave. Then karu
para the word the wild only means pakos
shloshim yom a minimum of 30 days.
Verse eight uh verse six.
Kol yemei naziro laShem all for all the
days of that he abstains for God al
nefesh met lo yavo he's not to come in
contact with the dead.
Verse seven laviv le imav le achiv ve le
achoto to his father, mother, brother,
and sister lo yitama lahem even to them
he's not allowed to become impure ki
nezer Elo Elo Elo Elo because he has the
crown of abstinence on of Hashem on his
head which means his uncut hair.
Kol yemei naziro all the days of his
abstinence of the days of all the
duration of that when he refrains all
the days of his abstinence kodesh hu
laShem he is holy to Hashem. Rashi
zui kedushas akuf mal tamei meit what
does it mean he's holy to Hashem that
he's not allowed to make himself impure
to touching dead bodies.
V'chi omes meito alav what happens if
this individual die if somebody dies
unexpectedly or suddenly be pesach pisam
unknown to him it was un- he was sitting
in a room and suddenly somebody dies.
What happens now automatically he
becomes v'timas nazir. He becomes impure
the head of his
impurity the head of his abstinence now
becomes impure. That means his
big gilachrei he has to shave his head
b'yom tarasi on the day of his purity
b'yom hashvi'i yigalchenu he must shave
it on the seventh day.
Rashi be pesach suddenly zeh ones that
means it wasn't purposely. It was a
mistake. Pisam zeh shogeig so there's
two there's inadvertent and then there's
actual ones which means it was something
he couldn't do anything to with to stop
it. For example if he was sitting in a
room and a guy died next to him. Shaygig
means that he could have stopped it. If
you have shame and pesapism david or
some say it's the same and it's not a
difference. The mikra shall pesapism
it's talking about in the case that
happened suddenly and there was nothing
he can do to stop it. The yom is mesa
love but oil shuba how's it possible
that a person should die on him? What
does that mean? He was in the same place
where somebody died.
The yom terase yom yase the day that he
gets sprinkled with the holy blood with
the blood of the red heifer.
Oin ain al shmini is it actually on the
seventh day or is it on the which day
are we talking about here the seventh
day or is it the eighth day shul tar le
gamri that he becomes actually pure
completely? Tamud lemer therefore the
verse says by yom ashvi on the actual
seventh day ishvi if you say it's the
seventh yachla would think he's even if
he wasn't sprinkled by the blood tamud
lemer by yom terase it has to be both it
has to be the seventh day and the day
that he gets um
that he gets sprinkled with the blood so
you in order to shave his head he needs
two things. Number one it has to be the
seventh day. Number two it has to be the
day that he gets sprinkled with the
blood.
By yom ashmini and on the eighth day he
states he shall then bring two turtle
doves.
two young pigeons.
to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
By yom ashmini he states
he does to exclude on the seventh day
which then he's not allowed to bring the
sacrifices. Oin ain al eitz yashi or is
this coming to exclude the ninth day?
Shakav is malik that there's a special
time when you have to bring the
sacrifices. So therefore what does the
Torah tell us? What do we learn from
here?
The sacrifices [snorts]
you're allowed to bring these things
you're allowed to do from the eighth day
onward and it doesn't make it doesn't
make it it doesn't invalidate the days
before it.
The things that he has to bring
also the same way he can bring those he
can bring the sacrifices from the eighth
day onward.
Verse 11. The
now with these pigeons and birds the
coin is going to make one person
offering and one for an ascent offering.
Therefore, now he'll be atoned for the
sin that he became impure with this
individual that he became impure with.
And then he will sanctify his head on
that day because now he resumes growing
his hair back to another count.
He needs to bring it to dismiss because
he wasn't careful and he became impure.
The reason why he has to bring a
sacrifice is because he caused himself
pain that he's not drinking wine.
Meaning that he took upon himself a
stringency and this is that there was no
reason for him to not have wine because
now he became impure.
He has to sanctify his
He has to start all over again and count
the amount of time that he considered
himself in other.
Verse 12.
Now he will abstain to God the days of
his Nazirite of his obstination.
Then he will bring a lamb which is a
year old for a guilt offering.
The first days are now cancelled because
he became impure in between.
He counts again third another 30 days to
a new abstaining as in the beginning.
The first days are not part of the
count.
Verse 13. This is the status of a
Nazirite. This is the law that applied
to a Nazirite.
From the day when he completes the time
of his Nazirite, from the time of his
abstaining
He will bring it to the entrance of the
tent of meeting.
What does it mean he will bring it? Are
we talking about the sacrifice? We
already said that he's going to bring a
sacrifice. He has to bring himself.
This is one of the three we mentioned
previously in a different parsha that
were three S's in the Torah. The higher
of small came
with explain them differently than any
other place.
Okay, so baby see you have an
S
by
who covers the same thing also when we
talk about that he was buried in guy
which is talking about motion that he
buried himself. S the word S of here
means the person himself so too in this
case when it talks about it will bring
it say who's he bringing? He's bringing
himself to the holy temple to be able to
bring those sacrifices as the time of
his Nazirite abstinence is now finished.
Verse 14 he carbon and now we will bring
the sacrifice to God
lamb in its first year
it has to be without blemish
one for
sent offering the half
one sheep
female sheep
but in its first year to me my also
without any blemish for a sin offering
the
one ram coming without any blemishes for
a peace offering.
Verse 15 the sound matters and then a
basket of unleavened bread soil is
diluted by shaman of 10 loaves of fine
flour kneaded with blue is the shaman
needed with oil
the 10 flat unleavened
crackers cakes which were smeared with
oil
together with the grain offerings and
their libations.
Rashi and in this game I shall
every time in a sent offering and peace
offering were brought they were meal
offerings and libations that were
brought with it the fish again my
because since they are part of all the
other sacrifices
coming to tell us something else that
this sacrifice has besides the libations
and the meal offering she had
also have to bring those loaves of bread
therefore he mentions also the other
things she didn't
but didn't
being that he tells us about the the
loaves of bread and the masses of there
the Torah has to repeat and tell us that
not only are they bringing the extra
loaves of bread, but he also has to
bring the regular meal libations and
what meal offerings and libations that
were brought with every ascent offering
and peace offering.
Estimate how many how many loaves of
bread and how many masses? 10 from each
kind.
Verse 17.
I'm sorry, verse 16.
And the coin will then bring it all
before God for us to say and will make a
sinner offering and his
ascent offering.
Verse 17.
The ram is going to be for a peace
offering to God
together with the basket also to
sanctify the basket of the unleavened
bread for us
the coin will then do
offer the grain offering together with
the ram
and the wine that comes with it.
slaughters the peace offering you should
have intent that this will also sanctify
the bread and loaves of bread that come
with it as
of the lamb offering. of the ram
offering.
Verse 18.
After he slaughtered the ram, now the
next step is that at the entrance of the
tent of meeting you will shave his hair.
As the duration is right the head of his
abstaining. They lock
and then you take the hair that he
shaved and
put it on the fire
which is underneath the peace offering.
You
got to have a sorry you should take a
haircut in the actual
in the actual courtyard of the base of
English. You may ask
isn't this an embarrassing what is it a
barber shop did it cutting up the
cutting the guy is getting a haircut?
The guy
called Nazirite has to take a haircut
like he does a Shlomen. After the
slaughtering of the peace offering
Shikasa Ben because it's Shikasa Ben
Shikasa Ben that he has to slaughter it
at the entrance. And therefore the Torah
doesn't say where necessarily
it has to be that he has to do it in a
place that has to be that's telling us
the time where it's going to happen.
So not necessarily was it done in the
Azara. It was done at the time after the
peace offering was slaughtered. Ashar
Takhas Zevach Hashlamim. Takhas
Vashal Bay. They would put it under the
actual pot that was cooking the peace
offering. He would put the hair there as
well. Fishar Nazir and Mashal
Mazara cuz where would they cook the
peace offering of the Nazirite was
cooked in the actual Azara. There was a
place called Lishkas Nazirim in the
women's gallery. They had different
chambers and one of them was called
Lishkas Nazirim and over there are you
Mashalim. They were that's where they
would cook the food. Reason is Shitzur
Lishkas Nazirim Mashal Anaf Lifnei
Hashem because the Cohen has to take as
we're going to see in the next verse. He
has to take the special gift and wave it
before Hashem. So it had to stay in the
holy temple. So they cooked it in the
chamber in the holy temple. Then the
Cohen would take it as we see in the
next verse what he did with it.
Verse
19.
Vilakach Hakoyen and then the Cohen must
take
the Ezroa Beshela, the cooked foreleg,
Min Hail of the ram, the Challahs Matzos
Achas Min
of bread from the basket which was
unleavened and one flat cracker cake
from the basket. Vinasan Al Kapei Nazir
he would put it on the palms of the
Nazirite Acharei Hisgalchus Nazir after
the Nazirite already shaven off his
head.
Ezroa Beshela Acharei Hisbashela after
it was cooked.
Verse 20. The Hanif Min Achas Lifnei
Hashem and the Cohen will then wave it
with him before God.
This was holy for the Cohen.
This was truma. This was together with
the breast of waving and the thigh of
uplifting. And
once all these procedures were done, the
Nazirite is allowed to drink wine.
What becomes holy to the Cohen? The
cracker and
the uh four and the four leg of the ram.
All of this now becomes the Cohen's and
he's able to eat it.
Al truma.
Meaning
besides the thigh and the
uh
besides the breast and the thigh that
the Cohen got from any piece offering,
most of all
when it comes to the piece offering of
the Nazirite also got the four leg.
What's the reason?
Cause generally the piece offering of
the Nazirite was part of every other
piece offering. Why does and the Torah
and the Torah comes to tell me something
different that this one has a unique
which is
Why does the Torah have to tell us like
we found previously whenever there's a
new rule to the exception? Meaning there
are laws pertaining to piece offering,
what the Cohen gets, and then there's a
separate law pertaining to the
Nazirite's piece offering. So the Torah
tells us the exception of the Nazirite's
piece offering and repeats and tells us
what the other piece offerings included
as well and that it should be included
and part of it that it's no exception to
this piece offering as well.
Verse 21. These are the
These are the laws of the Nazirite who
vows to bring an offering to God on
Nazirite because of his Nazirite because
of when he made a promise of his as a
Nazirite. This is
with the this is the in addition to what
within his means that he may do
according to his vow if he need he there
according to the vow that he makes can
you call it right this is an addition to
all the other vows that he may have in
addition to the laws of the Nazarite as
the Torah prescribes.
Rashi, what does it mean besides
from whatever you can afford?
If a person comes along and says I want
to be a Nazarite so I shall be able to
have the ability to shave my hair and to
bring the sacrifices I'll
make a shalom. I want to make a hundred
ascent offerings and a hundred piece
offerings then he has to bring all these
things and he can't drink wine until he
brings those hundred offerings.
Whatever
if he adds on to whatever his Nazarite
laws require him.
When he talks about when a person says
if he says I'm a Nazarite for five times
30 so I shall be able to shave at the
end of 500 days.
Only with these three animals. That's
not that's not the same as if a person
says I have to bring a hundred animals
at the end of my Nazarite.
It's just that what he has to do is he
has to have five different levels of
Nazarite and each one of the 30 days he
only brings three animals not that he
brings the five animals it's each one
becomes now a separate Nazarite
level of Nazarite.
We now come to the final part of this
Aliyah which is the blessing that the
Kohanim are charged with that they
should give the priestly blessings to
the Jewish people.
And God spoke to Moses saying verse 23
speak to Aaron and the sons saying
so you shall bless the Jewish people.
Say to them.
Rashi say kimoi zachor shomer balaz
The word Omer comes from the word
speak.
Like the word zachor shomer.
Omerlechem, kaiso she you kulam shaimim,
say that everybody should hear the
blessing. That means if you're going to
say it quietly, it doesn't count. Omer,
the word Omer here has a vav in it, the
mallei. Meaningly [snorts] to far him he
positive a hollow, don't bless them in a
rush or confused at a bakavona believe
shalom he should do it with proper
intent with a full of heart and you have
to make sure that's why if you look at
the words of the blessing when it says
that the Jewish people that the priests
make when they bless the Jewish people,
it says the word ba'ahava that they're
blessing every Jew with the fullest of
heart without bearing a grudge to
anyone.
What's the blessing they're going to
say?
24, yevarechecha Hashem yishmerecha, may
God bless you and watch over you. Rashi,
what does it mean yevarechecha? She's
boruchim as chosacha that your
properties that everything you have,
whatever you own, should be blessed,
that it should be be successful.
Vishmerecha she layvo ilacha she didn't
meet one manacha, you can have a lot of
money, but then people come and steal
it. So therefore that nobody should come
and take it. Chanisa matan lav day, eni
yichol shomer bekal adam, if a person
gives a gift to his servant, he can't
protect it. V'kivan shebol list him a
love, if people come, robbers come, and
they take the same manner and they take
it from him, so what use is the gift?
Ma'an oyer al Hakadosh Baruch Hu, but
God
when oisen of Hashem and he gives you
the gift and he watches that you can
keep it. V'char b'midrashim d'rashim of
the Sifrei, but Rashi just picks one of
them. Verse 25,
yisa Hashem panav elecha
v'yachuneka. May God shine His face upon
you and endow you with grace.
Yiro l'cha panim shechichas, God should
show you a smiling face. Panim to who
face? A beautiful, happy, illuminated
face. V'yachuneka Rashi, yiten l'cha
chein, he should give fine grace in the
eyes of people.
And 27 26 he says upon
may God be
partial towards you. And you are saying
and grant you peace.
He says upon you come Rashi meaning he
should withhold his anger
even though you may be worthy enough
that God should be upset with you. He
shouldn't get upset with you and thereby
give you peace.
27 God tells the Kohanim that when the
Kohanim give this blessing to the Jewish
people for some wish me a blessing
Israel you the Kohanim must bestow my
name upon the Jewish people. And me I
will
and then I God says I will bless the
Kohanim themselves.
Rashi some wish me
you will bless them with a of you will
bless them with a special name the godly
name of
the way it's written. This was only done
in the holy temple that they use the
holy name to bless the Jewish people.
And me I will
I will bless the Israel to the Jewish
people. And asking in my coin and I will
agree with the coin. That's one
interpretation. The another meaning is
that
if you go ahead and bless the Jewish
people I will bless the coin and to the
coin.
This concludes [snorts] the fourth Torah
reading for parshas naso.