NASO: The 25th Priestly Gift with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] fundamental message regarding birchat kohanim you can find in parches no so chapter 6 verses 23 through 26. these are the famous verses that every father says and blesses his children with on friday night and it says like this speak to aron and his son saying so shall you bless the children of israel saying to them and then the three blessings may shem bless you and safeguard you may hashem illuminate his countenance for you and be gracious to you and the third may hashem lift his countenance to you and establish peace for you the most amazing concept that the clear car wants to bring across is we know that a kawain the khanim receive 24 gifts his here is that there's a 25th gift in fact when you read the verse itself it says ko tovar who as if it's saying with 25 you shall bless how is it that there are 25 blessings in fact the cleocard points out that the word ko in jen and breishit 15 5 ko yezareka hashem promises abraham with co shall be his seed and as a result later on in bamidbar 25 when we see in parshas balak with a conversation between bilaam and balak he got saved used twice balak was saying or let's say in this case bilum was saying to balak we can't curse them we're not able to curse them until we can cause them to have a fall in their relationship with hashem through sin therefore we have a plan a strategy a plot to cause them to sin and how many jews die as a result of the sin of the daughters of moab 24 000. so what the cleo card is saying is that bilim is saying we got to get rid of 25 000. how many jews were there in the census there was six hundred and twenty five thousand meaning six hundred and three thousand jews plus another twenty two thousand levine six hundred and twenty five thousand total if we can reduce the number through their sin and get rid of twenty five thousand that means that the shrine would not have the same protection and kotavaru is the bracha that the konim do bless the jewish people and even in the conversation between balak and billam in baby bar 20 verse 7 when he says maybe i could smite them here even the word nake is nun cafe again even though the root of the word has to do with hitting nevertheless the cuff hey once once again he wants to diminish the word naked is also to deduct to diminish he wants to diminish 25 because the bottom line was that if he thought he could diminish those 25 000 jews that the bracha of kotavaru and the bracha would be negated and diminished so as we know this is a very very powerful bracha in fact i mentioned already that this is a 25th blessing to the konim it's a gift it's actually a gift to them in what way as rashi mentions in the very first baraka where it says hashem the ishmael in verse 24 rashi then this is physical property and by the increase the blessing of increase on the jewish people's physical property would only increase the true muslim mass wrote the tithing that the jewish people would give to the konim in return but that's a physical level on a spiritual level so on a spiritual level the cleocard points out in bray sheet 3. that i will bless those that bless you just imagine for a second who's blessing the jewish people but the order of the words is i will bless you already before you bless meaning first you're going to be blessed first as opposed to the language used by the kola which says like this that those who curse you i will curse only after one curse is the jews then they would be cursed so the idea is that the khonim are actually being blessed first by blessing us and another and this is why the khazan is saying the words he's feeding the words to the konim he's not just feeding the words he's actually blessing the khanim they're going to be blessed first and he the clear car compares it to a climale the gaduce an overflowing vessel so they begin as regular people like a vessel that's almost full but when the chasing comes and blesses them first then they become like an overflowing vessel and then through that then they are blessing the jewish people and the jewish people are like the regular people that are not yet full and by the conan being blessed first having an overflowing vessel it then is transferred over to the jewish people in order to bring them to the point where they too would be like an overflowing vessel so we see that the 25th gift is the bracha itself because it's only going to come back and bless and increase the kauanim themselves so the power of abraham when you bless the jewish people you will be blessed keep that in mind and it's physical and spiritual blessings so with that i wish everyone a shabbat shalom [Music] is [Music]