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Why were the sons of Merari not given the honor of having their 'heads raised up?' Why does the medrash go out of its way to point out the honor of the families of Kehas and Gershon? Why did the family of Merari have significantly more family members between ages 30 and 50? What was their unique job in the transporting of the Mishkan? Why were the Levite families counted separately and then all counted together? What is the significance of the service of the Levites in the Mishkan, which was the song which accompanied the sacrifices? What is the true song as embodied by the Levites? Find out in this week's Parsha Podcast.
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you're listening to the weekly partial
podcast with already goldway I recorded
with a chums never-ending assistance in
rubbish muscies around 57 79 2019
this week's barcia's parts just not so
includes Lords participle of saw in the
Land of Israel and we're going to speak
of a partials not so and at the
beginning of the part we have a
continuation a bit of what we spoke
about last week we discussed the the
fact that the co-hosts family were the
ones who carried the Calum of the
Mishkan the beginning of our partial we
have the Gershon family what their job
was which was the character you really
some Ishq on the curtains of the Mishkan
and finally we have the Bonet memory the
third family of the Levites whose job
was to carry the boards of the Michigan
and the pieces that were connected to
those boards now the measures tells us
something which at first glance seems
not so complementary to the Binet murari
and I'd like to try to understand it I
want to point out a most amazing amazing
idea that I think that we see or it's
very clear that we see in these Midrash
them it sounds like it's been a memory
the mishima callosum been a cos of an
Englishman never behind a sous rush when
it comes to the two families of Gera
Sean and chaos so we see that the Torah
says raise up their heads raised up
their heads shackle a clavicle to
support cool cover wise idea of raising
up someone's head Nassau is rush been a
garish on mrs. Rosemond a chaos raise up
the heads of this these families it
doesn't say that by my neighbor Ari it
says only by garish Anika's which idea
of raising up their heads so it shows a
certain honor that a college for who is
giving to those families the cost of
work of adoring the family of costs they
received honor why as we said last week
because of the fact that they were the
ones who carried the RDoc a dish they
carry the most exhausted of the vessels
of the Mishkan of the Gershon Australia
before Carol also received a certain
honor because they were the firstborn
okay I'd like to point something out
which I which I saw one of them of
fortune and that is that why were the
why were the Bonet
why were the Veneto Hozuki how did they
have the merit to be able to carry the
Orang or was the what was special about
them it's because of the toiling and
Torah of motion our own as a result of
their efforts that they put in in a
certain sense it made them to be greater
than the Binet garish um even though
garish was the before okay so we see
from that that depending on a person's
efforts so they can receive great honor
I've obably the name of re Chalet how
you alla been a poet they weren't the
first born and they didn't have this
opportunity to carry the heavy vessels
or the not the heavy vessels I'm sorry
they did carry heavy vessels actually
didn't carry the harsher vessels the
important vessels are on etc so they're
from whether that's massamba and the
Karishma brief my movie made on him or
they carry with the boards and the
different pieces that held them together
they never been necessary she doesn't
see the raise up their heads doesn't
tort doesn't give them this this
language of honor okay now very
interesting let's keep reading here let
me speak wisely evasive voice um tiff
chorus and the verse tells us that we
need to count them to their families to
the house of their fathers lawmen every
Banega asked the manager wants to
understand why is that when it comes to
the family of Cass Reuben a murmuring
miss for quite some evasive voice some
heaped image Kuznetsova some so here we
see actually an advantage of the family
of garish on overcast and Merari Luba
garish a nicked him the base avoid some
yaker
a Marla miss police enforce it speaks
about in regards to been a garret and
says count them based on their the
houses of their families houses of the
fathers to the families based on the
families but in regards to get to the
other families to Murari and gas we're
not the first born so it just says to
their families and then to the houses of
the fathers the fish and his co swish of
inauguration balmy base Absalom the
reason is because as we said before that
they were raised up the people of the
vinegar shul raised up because of the
fact it had to do with their fathers has
to do with their with their lineage as
the firstborns policy of racial Minich a
seattle-based a visual
unisys are the the honor of cos had
nothing to do with the family not to do
with the fact that they chose emotional
men chose to be someone who's a Torah
person and therefore they all had that
opportunity to carry the our own to
carry the ark came an umbrella how you
keep me being southpaw sure they weren't
a firstborn the catholic team enjoys the
vase obviously had no advantage based on
their family line based on their fathers
so therefore it's not mentioned okay
and one more point here in the marriage
which i think is important visitors must
my son ever says this is what they
carried zeiss philia harris this
specifically this and not anything else
but lavish even a memory a simulation of
lava masha Banagher Shan Shan I survived
him these teachers that that the
children of Merari were not permitted to
carry that which the Benecke Erin were
were carrying and and they so they
couldn't mix up the services this was
the service of vinegar Shawn this was a
service of vinegar sauce this was a
service of Anna Marie each one had their
specific services that they did later on
in this message it says something else
which is an interesting point which was
worthy of mention with Shamus together
disclaimers my son the verse tells us
that they were assigned based on their
names exactly what they would be
carrying okay and as I'm a fortune
pouring down here the ACS have explains
that the been a mirroring so they had a
very that which they carry was much
heavier okay so things needed to be
specifically assigned so there won't be
any fighting zero my college Bronco Jim
academic all of him ish ish Oliver does
Obama circulation I avoided a McLucas
each person was specifically assigned
exactly what it was so even though
within the family Murari they could
switch around and say okay you carry the
the pieces that hold together the walls
and you carry the walls they could
switch off that those those things
themselves nevertheless it was assigned
to way that there shouldn't be McLucas
kaho a snitch planning lady you think
Russian and they would say this
particular person who's a Levite shall
carry the board's each planning lady you
time briefing
maybe you time I moved in with Hancock
lyrically each and everything was
specifically assigned okay that's
interesting point number two all right
now comes point number three which seems
to be the opposite of the first of the
first point because what we seem to say
over here is that there's a an advantage
of course of Gershon firstborn advantage
of cos gets to carry the are our number
a star the Ark of the Covenant and
there's a disadvantage of any memory
they don't get to do as great of a thing
and they don't get the same honor but we
see the measures points out later on
that there is a different advantage that
the name of Rory has interestingly the
name of the CUDA Misbah has the glimmer
so the the Torah gives us accounting and
accounting a numbering of the benek of
the of each of the families of the
Levites now nicknamed man named eben a
murabbi mini-mesh mojave Lebanon Kaos
will have been a garish on the measures
points out that it says there were
mishpokhe ice more times it says the
word families more times in regards to
the many murari the family which seems
to be on a less honorable level but says
there were mish bajas more times why is
that if he should be named re how you
move in la vida de humahuaca is an
amazing thing that the children of
Merari the family of Merari they had
more families that's why the Torah
mentions were family again an extra time
in regards to been a memory because they
had more families why because they
needed more families because there was
more work for them
show your Shi sha la fameuse name may
ice very interesting it says that they
were if you look at the count there's
two counts in each family of the Levites
there's account from one month old until
much older not remember the exact number
and then so there's a count from the age
of thirty to fifty now what's
interesting is in the count amid this
what the measure says I'm not gonna read
it inside but in the account of the Bene
murari the the full number was was well
maybe I will read it inside get the
numbers right this family maturation may
i yes I'm excellent even high dish okay
the full amount was 6200 okay the full
and I was 6200
let's get the math is important 6,200
members of the family of Merari how many
of those were between the age of 30 and
50 3,200 okay 100 more than half right
3100 behalf of 6200 there were 3,200
more than half however when it came to
the other families of the Levites so the
numbers were not were not the same the
the between the age of 30 and 50 was a
third or less the numbers were much less
when he came to other families so you
see that the the people between the ages
of 30 and 50 who are able to do the
avoided to do the service in the Mishkan
the number was much higher in proportion
and actually actually in regards to the
family of Merari what is the idea here
okay what's the what's the idea here so
we see that there was an advantage there
was a greatness in a certain sense in
numbers perhaps not in the quality of
their service but certainly in the
numbers of how many people were
available to serve Hashem and be able to
carry these parts of the Michigan which
were necessary there was more of those
pieces there were more of them it was
very interesting so you know they didn't
have that exalted honor but there was
more of them there were more people that
were available to do an avoid they
avoided to do the service of the
Michigan to carry those pieces it's very
interesting it's remarkable I think that
we see that there's this this contrast
now the measure she tells us something
and this is the the point here and I'm
actually gonna do something unusual you
today I have two points usually I have
one and we'll see that there they're
connected but the first point is the the
wrap-up of the first point is as follows
konpaku tamasha puck at much of a gamer
the torah tells us of the four verse 44
that these are the whole all the numbers
that motion are being accounted when it
came to the families of the Levites now
after shaquiesha Bellavia mishpokhe is
Banega as lavada mishpokhe has been a
gosh nevada has been a winner Murari
Levada we find that the Torah gave us
three different counts of the three
different families each family
individually cause every column in Yahya
had and the tour gives us the full
amount a full number of all of the
families of LaVey together why is it do
that LaHaye Gede - teacher she cool I'm
cool enough nomicon Makeba
a beautiful thing that every single one
of them all three of those families we
count them separately to show that
there's a certain cash Rivas and certain
significance certain honor this one's
the oldest this one is the that has the
the most important job
this one is not as important in a
certain sense but we count them all
together as well to show you that when
it comes should Coulomb schoolers never
come back even when it comes comes love
for these different families who have
different individual jobs different
special jobs chefs love for each of them
is equal God doesn't doesn't have
favorites so to speak when it comes to
his love and his feeling of connection
towards each of these different families
it might be true that there's a
hierarchy and hierarchy is important it
might be true that there's a hierarchy
this one is more able this one has a
larger family makes more sense that this
family be the one who's gonna carry the
pieces that have more pieces this family
is the the firstborn they get a certain
honor this family is the one that
carries our and they get a certain honor
but each one has its own individual
specialness importance and and Shem
loves all of them equally that's the
mattress it was a very beautiful thing
and I think it's a gonna incredible
lesson that many times more there might
be people who are more important or less
important might be people who you know
do more important jobs or you know I
always wonder and I think I've mentioned
this previously but I was one of people
send me songs and a Shem for some reason
decided to send songs to me better mind
for you know that I would perform or
that I would sell to others that those
songs became very popular many of those
songs and I always wonder when I get
song people send me their songs that
they've made up and why does a sham do
that exactly some people have the merit
to be able to sing a song that many
people will be able to relate to some
people have less of that opportunity I
always encourage people I have a guy who
calls me every once in a while we
encourage him sing those songs to to
your friends sing those songs in your
context in your opportunities it's nice
to to be very famous or is nice to have
a song that everybody sings it's also
important give you a song for where you
are in your context and that's the kind
of the message here is that every single
person has its place not everyone has
the same Kashif was not everyone as as
honored as important firstborn carrying
this thing
but everyone is important and a Shem
also gives everyone exactly what they
need for exactly what their purpose is
the B'nai Mari they had exactly how many
people they had much more people and
much more people between the ages of 30
and 50 to to stress the fact I believe
that that's the purpose when you do what
you're supposed to do that is the
ultimate thing you don't have to try to
be somebody else you don't have to try
to be somebody higher in the hierarchy
it's not important it's not necessary
all that's necessary is that each
individual do what they're meant to do
their specific job that's the first
point kulamish coolers Nemec Makeba all
of them are equal Shems eyes when it
comes to love his love for them now the
next message immediately after this and
this is I believe connected to what we
spoke about last week the next message
the next metric the message of the next
measure has to do with what was the
other avoid of the lithium we know that
the Kohanim the priests certain side of
the Mishkan so inside the base I mean
there's the temple they brought the car
bonus the sacrifices we know that the
Levites as we spoke about this week and
last week when it came to the moving of
the tabernacle when when when everything
was was moving so then they would be
carrying it right you know that but I
have a secret to tell you there were
other there was not the job of the
Levites there was another service which
they performed the Kohanim did the
avoider of them is baya they the priests
did the work of bringing the components
the sacrifices and the Levites had their
avoid oh they had their special service
what did they do
Tony Asher Mac gave us a carbon never
had made in Morocco they would sing
right the Levites famously even until
this very day many times you might you
might have met some Levites yourselves
they're very musical I know many myself
I'm not a Levite maybe a Leo enough he
will come and reveal and I'm a Levite
but there are many Levites who are very
musical and this is something that they
had as we mentioned last week when
Sheridan who composed the greatest song
of all time
Moshe Rabbeinu was Yasser Myesha okay
and so they were involved in the Shira
what was the songs so we know that this
a song of the day of emo you ever vase
I'm English they sang a special song
each day but when was there a song sung
when did they sing a song they sang
their song in tandem to the hot crevice
a car bonus to the bringing of the
sacrifices and now the question here is
which I read already but I didn't
translate that is that singing is the
singing of the levites
excuse me is this something that's my
Aki visa it's a carbon is it something
which prevents a person fat if there's
not proper singing does that ruin the
sacrifice which is brought that's a mock
like as as as as are many things in
Jewish law we have an argument mayor
says that if you don't have proper
singing if this Levi's didn't sing by
the Corbin it's not a good sacrifice how
I'm saying no it's still a good
sacrifice of course you need to have the
singing but it's but it's not something
that's gonna ruin things okay so we find
for example a rememberings from this
verse Edna Sullivan is unum we the verse
in in numbers chapter 8 verse 19 says I
placed little Levites there there look
Habanera also to bring about an
atonement for the Jewish people so
yields from that verse we see the
Levites song is part of the atonement
it's necessary okay yeah but insane no
they have a different understanding of
that verse but just want to read you a
little bit of this because obviously
it's important to me to talk about
singing and see that it's part of the
avoid it's an amazing thing the the
music I once had a conversation with an
artist who came to my door who was
selling his paintings and I said them
you know it's an amazing thing we look
in that we don't we're not much of
ourselves we don't have a proper
appreciation for who we are the artists
whether it's somebody who was able to
paint whether it's somebody was able to
sing the note are you see in the Mishkan
itself in tabernacle itself the singing
was part of it I valued it was part of
the service of God and you see that the
artistry was part of the tap the
creation of the tabernacle was done by
own man named by artists but people who
had the craftsmanship the ability to
make these things these the the
beautiful things it's all supposed to be
part of our Vitus a Shamus amazing
message that this song the song in the
art
it's part of our avoidance of sham it's
part of our service of God I remember so
the the Metra she wants to know where do
we know it from where do we know um our
view the Bechet mission will mean
nightly cashier man attire how do we
know that the the songs are important
that the music in the Mishkan how do we
see in the tower that this is something
which is part of their vitae
so it brings different verses verse in
Deuteronomy Bashar special mission that
they would serve in the name of God very
interesting that this is a source they
would serve in the name of God what is
that a solution shirishama Shem what
does it mean to serve in the name of God
had he ever saw Shira we must say since
imagine that this is song amazing thing
what is the definition of song serving
in the name of God when we have a proper
song a Jewish song what is a Jewish song
it's the song of the Levites what's the
Jewish song how can we recognize a
Jewish song today something that's a
that's about raising up the name of
Hashem
it's about dedicating ourselves to
Hashem to our service of Hashem B so
government me so he says a different
source zero students so if the verse
says in some chapter 81 verse 3 raise up
a song and and bang on the drum Kenan I
am play the harp in novel or maybe a
violin with a harp play play the musical
instruments sue sue raise it up this
idea of raising up which interestingly
we saw regards the honor of the sons of
Kohath and Gershon there's a raising up
that happens when we when we play music
there's a rising there's a lift and
uplift the spiritual uplift that occurs
and it's when we focus it as we said on
the shamash am on the name of god and he
says over here at the very end of this
measure she's not gonna read all the
different sources but at the end it says
my 10 my vitamins bath i've hey my
vitamins back the it brings a verse it
speaks about Tom Haines gum item it
compares the Kohanim on the Levites this
is the teacher says Ruby on a son that
there's a similarity between you that we
need both the service the sacrifices
that are brought by the priests and we
need the
music that's played by the Levites these
are both essential components of our
service efficient and the final thing
here be economical avoid avoid acevedo
the verse refers to the fact that
there's a service of a service of a
service Asia he avoided Sri Caballito
what is the service that requires
service DMSO sheera this is song the
song is the service of the service and
he says an amazing thing you're an ace
ace have sheared sir have itis carbon
you need in order to sing a proper song
like we saw before that needs to be be
Seamus chemin needs to be something
which raises up the name of God there's
another there's another aspect of it
that the song needs to come in order to
sing a proper so he needs to accompany a
voice at Corbin the service of the
sacrifice anonym or Allah Allah and
Shawn Isla Carmen the verse does is
cotton maja sizes Allah a second loss
okay verse tells you blow those trumpets
the musical instruments you play them
when when you bring your car buns when
you bring your sacrifices this is the
moment of song when we're serving a Shem
perhaps we're coming to bring a carbon
because it's something that Hashem is
commanded us to do or Brazos because
we've seen then we want to come back
into a relationship with God but no
matter what the reason is that we're
bringing the carbon is accompanied by
song a true song is about service of God
a true song is about our relationship
with Hashem and like we saw last week we
spoke about the fact that when they turn
towards the when the cows turned towards
the Aron
then they started singing right when we
are turned towards our avoidance of sham
we spoke about the different aspects and
the different levels we spoke about the
vinegar been a cosmic garish my name
around each of them had a special
service of a sham but each of them was
loved equally bash em and when it comes
to the songs when what happens when we
serve a like we said last week what
happens when we serve a Shem right away
we burst out in song the song is an
integral component of a service of Shem
the song expresses something emotionally
it raises us up raises up our emotions
so that all parts of ourselves are
involved in our service of Shem I want
to bless you and please I ask you to
bless me some should help us we should
be zakat to have this true I've the
return the true service of God
and the true song of a Shem which
accompanies the service of God it should
be spli speedily and in our days thank
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