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From Revelation to Legislation- Rabbi Joel Kenigsberg
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body thank you for coming again
wonderful to be here teaching with you
this morning um there is a handout don't
worry we'll hand we'll give it out
shortly the truth is it would probably
make more sense to do the sh with the
but we'll we'll I have a we'll make do
with the handout the topic for this
morning is i' say one of the catch
topics I've managed to come up with is
from Revelation to legislation and that
is what what do I mean by that topic
what are we talking about so I think
when you think about the sh the para
that we're reading this week you know
every year we move from
to and there's a let down there's an
anticlimax right we get to we're
building up building up building up all
the time up to
Mad divine revelation Ten
Commandments right doesn't get more
doesn't get more inspiring than that
that is the moment that is the seminal
moment of Jewish history the ramban
writes we'll see later on but the ramban
has aning language he says that that
moment of it is not a moment we have an
obligation to remember it is a moment we
have an obligation not to forget he says
that our eyes and our hearts should be
there all the time we'll talk a bit
later on exactly what that means but but
that is that it doesn't get any more
uplifting any more powerful than that
okay so what comes next what would you
expect to come next after mad after
divine revelation something you know I
would think equally as uplifting equally
as or inspiring at the very least what I
definitely would not expect to come next
is
this six years seventh year slaves civil
damages laws it's very very dry it's
very very technical this long list over
50 mitv again the basis
of it's all important it's
all but again slavery monetary laws
Oaths thoughts civil damages this is how
can this even be in the same breath as
M's divine revelation it really really
seems like a let down now the truth is
today if you add the
words yeah can that there's two pages so
you know when you talk about the words
Mish so now in in the state of Israel in
the past two and a half years it's very
very exciting topic you know it gets
people out into the streets with
placards and all sorts of things but
until two and a half years ago speak
about laws you speak about Judges you
speak about courts again it's not that
interesting to most people so the
question
is the question is number one why is
this the followup to mat T why is this
why is this the the uh continuation of
the Revelation right why why should this
come now of all the topics in the world
and all the things why do we have this
and I want to suggest to
you that actually if we don't understand
why mtim appears now now then we've
really missed the entire point of
revelation we haven't understood mad at
all we'll get to that but that is
question number one what is the
connection again really what has MIM got
to do with what hases it got to do with
and in order to understand that in order
to explore that I want to try and look
together at the chronology at the
sequence of events that takes place at
mamad that takes place afterwards the
truth is it's very very confusing and
I'm not getting into right now in terms
of when did we receive the Tora was on
was
how that there's discussion in the gar
about that that's not the topic but just
in terms of the sequence of events you
know if we picture it in our minds and
we ask ourselves what actually what
happened at har what took place what did
the people have to do what were they
told what did mhe tell them when did he
tell them when did he go up what
happened we'll see when we start
thinking about it and we start asking
the questions it's not actually very
clear it's very very very confusing and
the reason why it's so confusing is
because until this point the Torah has
primarily being a case of telling us
narrative and now it switches this is
probably the first time we have a very
very expanded set of laws set of legal
definitions all of all of a sudden we
leave the narrative behind we're going
into the laws we're going into the
details we've had until now a few
MIT we've had a few MIT details here and
there but by and large it's been
narrative it's been a story and from
here onwards certainly
towards we have large sections of the
Tora which are no longer narrative
talking about laws talking about alties
and we always have the question when was
this said what's going on where was it
where does the narrative continue where
does the narrative go behind Etc right
um just say just say one one other thing
a story in terms of the uh this moving
from The Narrative from the story which
is very very exciting onto the details
the technical details so this week we
have Mish which of course is dealing
with the Civil laws and damages Etc and
all those sorts of things all the more
so next week we move on to Truman to and
we going on to all the details about the
mishan and about the building it's very
very dry get very very technical I'm
reminded of a story The Late Rabbi
Jonathan saaks so when he was Chief
Rabbi of the UK he had a k at one point
with the Prime Minister the Prime
Minister Tony blow of course not Jewish
but uh they would they would learn
together I think he said once a week
they would get together and they would
learn and saak tells he says Tony Blair
would read the Bible as he called it and
every day every night he would read to
himself he' read some chapters and then
he would come and they would have their
together he would tell him what he's
reading and they would discuss together
so one day they're sitting in the office
and Tony Blair says to Abbi sax he says
says okay what what were you reading
prime minister and he says Jonathan I've
gotone into the boring bit and he says
which one prime minister he says I'm
reading about truma about all these
details the technicalities again the
point is that to the unacquainted here
to the unacquainted ey we get through
these Pim they can be they can seem very
very boring and they can seem very very
technical so what are they doing here
and what's it all about Let's uh let's
try and explore so I think you all have
the hand outs by now so if you have a
look on the first handout there are two
pages one is a double-sided page and one
is a that's followed by the single page
so
what
uh okay hopefully hopefully you'll get
it by the time we get there we've still
got a while that's that's going to be at
the end of the show so in anyway let's
let's look at the double-sided page
Source number one the first thing to
point out because you might say to me
okay was last week this is mish this is
a different par there's not necessarily
a connection between the two this just
one comes after the other it's got
nothing to do with it so the first point
and again the thesis of the sheer is
going to be no these are deeply deeply
inherently connected and we said here in
Source number one the very first of
says these are the laws that you will
place before them not I just
mistranslated and these are the laws
that you will place before
them have a look at rashash tells
us he
says you know that every single letter
in is significant every single letter is
is important so it could have said when
it is a these that is starting a new
topic that's got nothing to do with what
came before where it is
that is adding on to the previous
ones just as those which came before
which were from
sin that clearly took place at so too
all of this all of these details in are
related to as well okay and then he
says then Russia gets a little bit more
specific he says okay why are we dealing
with these laws of Judges Etc the final
P that we saw in last week the final
section that we saw in last week's par
we'll get to it spoke about the m so he
says mikdash okay the place of the the
mikdash we have the that is where the
sanedrin that is the uh Supreme Court
essentially that's where that's where
they sit and that is that is the
connection okay taking this a little bit
further Source number two
is R cook the famous Rook his son was
also rook and that is
he write he has a books
on so he writes the following by the way
is a very interesting thesis that all
the par of the Tor are given in pairs
right we have to look at the par in
pairs if you think from the beginning
right that is the first pair that talks
about the creation of the world talks
about Humanity in general from there we
have we're going
to and which talks about Abraham the
next two are the par of the next are the
par of jakov etc etc you can go through
the whole and you can see how all the
come together in pairs So He suggests
that are a pair as well what is the pair
of that both of these are to do with
Revelation both of these are to do with
M with the giving of the T
says this is the pair of the giving of
the who
are okay there are sources I didn't
bring them for you here but he says not
only are they pairs but the way that
these pairs work is that the first one
is the general sort of the overview and
then we get more specific we get into
the details so is the CL that is General
we have all the mitv are hinted at in
theer if you know how you know how to by
the way the aser BR so everybody knows
are not actually Ten Commandments
they're far more probably about 70 there
are categories but even within those if
you know where to look and you know how
to extrapolate you can get to all 600
we won't do it now but it's an
interesting exercise for another
time yeah we have details we have over
50 which are listed
explicitly so these two are one
sequence now further proof how do I know
that both and this this was given so
when he writes he's talking about last
but how do we know the textual proof
that they go together because it
says that
expression that's B's answer saying we
will do that term appears both in and
appears
in by the way how many times does it say
in the how many times do
say three times right we have in we have
we have later on we have again and only
later on we
have okay so this is all this is all one
sequence we go from to okay that's all
it's all one sequence that is connected
but let's try and dive a little bit
deeper I want to say even more than that
even more than one sequence of one comes
after the other again let's explore
through theim understand the chronology
understand the SE of events which we'll
see in a moment is anything but clear
and that will help us to understand
what's uh what's really going on over
here so let's look first of all at the
end at the end of parat okay so we all
remember what happens in parat we have
mad we have
theer and immediately after immediately
after we're T of the 10 the 10 he
brought we have as follows parf this is
Source number three that you have in
front of you this is the immediately
after everybody saw we saw the sounds we
saw we heard the we saw the mounted on
smoke Etc everybody moved
back right at that point people said
okay Revelation is very nice but it's a
bit more than we can handle right so M
you go up you hear the rest
he says don't worry everything will be
fine at that point everybody stands back
everybody stands away goes up onto the
mountain okay now so that's the
narrative I would say at this point up
till there we have narrative we have
story and at this point the switches we
thought it switches at the beginning of
before we get to these final
four or five right so he says like
this now hasem is until this point we've
had Revelation at this point Hashem is
speaking directly to Moshe and he says
to mhe is you are going to go and tell B
is so we're expecting whatever hasem is
telling Moshe right now later on at some
point in the we'll see that Moshe is
telling B is right that's what it says
so what does he say and he gives him
have
three do not make gods of gold and
silver
right when you make
the when you build them
is okay you don't use you don't use
metal you know you don't bring because
metal is used for a sword metal is used
to shorten one's life we don't use that
for the MB which is ultimately going to
lengthen your life and
finally there is a ramp going up to the
uh uh going up to the MB rather than
steps in order to keep it as a more
modest more modest way of approaching
again based on the way that they would
dress in those days Etc why the by the
way why these three mitzvot now I mean
all the things we've just had a we're
going on we're going to have a list of
53 why these three suggests as well very
interesting the three cardinal sins
right we
know there is idolatry there is sexual
immorality and there is murder so these
three these are hinting again the idea
that we're going from the general to the
more specific we're hinting at the three
general principles on which the Torah is
based he says the first
one that is obvious that is related
to the second one in terms of how you
make them is don't have a sword don't
have metal going on relates
to relates to murder and the last one
relates to modesty relates to immorality
as well so those are those three Mitzvah
but in any event that is how ends okay
so again just just to place ourselves in
the framework where are we we've had
Hari right what happened in Hari the
people were warn they had three days
they had to separate they did the whole
thing they stood aside from they stood
away from the mountain Hashem came down
on the Mountain Smoke great big sound
and light
show all of that's finished that's over
we've had M has taken place it's
complete now we get told seemingly uh
again we're not so sure yet what the
connection is but moshu is told these
are the three mitv and then it continues
okay what what is the very next p the
problem is we always have a week in
between so when we read the par we read
each par isolation we don't see them as
one as one RF but as one sequence but
that is essentially that we have these
three and then it
says list begins with these three
continues with the next 53 and then at
the end of that section of all those
mitv now the end
of so now we're in Source number
four at this point it
says okay let's let's skip the first
twoim for the moment but then it says
like
this now comes to the people and he
tells the people
what okay so what so what is it at this
point this so now the narrative is
continuing again we're off to we're off
we've received all the mitv and nowu
comes to tell the people
what so remember when we started off and
go back into Source number three and I
put it here in bold for you so it's easy
to reference this whole section
started Hashem is talking to Moshe and
he says go and tell the Jewish people so
now we have the list the Torah tells us
all the things that hasem told Moshe and
we get to the end of
that and it
says comes and tells the people okay
what's he telling them
presumably is those three mitz we had at
the end
of
and
is okay that all makes
sense there you have it again the people
say okay that's good we're in everything
that you've said everything has said we
will do over the
page okay at this point they build a
underneath and they bring Coran and they
they have all the blood
they bring all these they take the blood
who takes half the blood and he
sprinkles it on the M he takes half the
blood and he sprinkles it on the people
this is the entering into the Brit by
the way how did he know how to measure
half and half strange question but
that's rashi's question Rashi says you
can see it underneath
the says how did how did you know that
it was h the implication has that he had
to have exactly half on the and exactly
half for the people deal with a lot of
blood came there was a miracle an angel
came and Mal came to separate the blood
in half okay why is that what we need a
Mal to come down and we'll discuss later
but
then we
have right now again I'm I was always
used to thinking when did take place
we always thought was it was before
according to the Torah according to
theat again the way we're learning right
now is that was only after okay
interesting
interesting he sprinkles the blood
okay Etc okay so just to uh just to
convince you I'm not making all of this
up this is the sequence again this seems
to be the SE of the we don't until this
point we don't have a reason to think
that the Torah here is written out of
order okay and the one amongst them who
is very very adamant on this principle
that the t is not written out of order
unless we absolutely absolutely have to
say that it's written out of order is
the ran the ran says the Ran's approach
throughout the Kash is that things are
written in chronological order unless
it's impossible to say so there are
places where it's impossible to say so
for the example the beginning of of of
the say
if you have a look over there and you
open up you'll see it tells us the dates
and tells us when things happened and
it's clear that it was written out of
order the reason there that it's written
out of order is because did not bring
the and the idea P should have been at
the beginning of of of the but it's
brought later on we don't want to draw
attention to the fact okay that's a
share for another for another time but
says the ran and again he just spells
out the sequence of events that we've
seen and there's no great in what he's
saying over
here because because this is exactly
seems to be the of the let's read it
Source number
five says the ran immediately after mat
the same day but after mat after Hashem
says to Moshe go and tell B Isel right
that's what that's what we saw
that was
in that's the introduction to those
three at the end
of tells not
to he continues that with the
next and all the which follow
that okay we didn't read it inside now
but at the end towards the end
of you'll see there's another warning
about
ET then he says you andon come to
me right then the Torah says comes to
the comes to the people he tells them
everything that that had said
right that's what we mentioned it says
he told
them and accepted
that with happiness they said whatever
has said we will
do we believe you
okay right again the background is we
remember at the beginning there was
meant to be a revelation to the entire
nation there was at the beginning that
was too much to bear the people said we
can't uh we can't handle this m you go
whatever you tell us we'll we'll we'll
accept okay now the reason that all of
that is a inan now I did something a
little bit sneaky over here which is I
brought you the ran from halfway through
the halfway through his commentary
because he begins by quoting Rashi and
the reason why the has to give this
whole explanation of how everything can
be consequential and how everything is
written in chronological order is
because there are things here are not
written in chronological order and that
is Rashi as I mentioned this principle
and we have
this is not written in a chronological
order it's written in a thematic order
now again everyone agrees that if
there's no reason why it shouldn't be
written in chronological order so then
it is in chronological order but the
question is how far do we how far do we
extend it as I said the ran only when I
have an absolute proof from theim that
it's not chronological will I accept
that it is not chronological Rashi on
the other hand is far more flexible with
this Rule and he says no I don't need to
there there are many reasons there are
many times why I can accept that it was
not written in in chronological order
give you another example and there are
many in these last week the beginning
of comes along what was it we have the
the par of and then we have M so what
was it that heard that made him come
there are those who say there are those
who say there are those who say if came
before mat clearly he didn't hear about
mat but if heard about mat and then came
that would mean that it's not written in
order right
that's so rash
says and we're GNA have to look again
this whole sequence of events
of and realize that actually it's out of
order and when we understand that it's
out of order then our question becomes
much stronger why do I have this list
this Narrative of 53 mitzvot of all the
most mundane and all the weakest links
in society so to speak and all of these
civil damages and all of these laws all
these technical laws written not after
har but written during har written as
part of the Revelation it's not
something that follows on afterwards
it's something that was there and that
was part and parcel then the question is
why but let's see how Rashi understands
this again you all realize the question
when we were reading the and we saw the
that
said which is written at the end of
according to Rashi actually not
necessarily this was all this all took
place earlier see what Rashi says Rashi
says over here okay this is
in so if you go back to the first page
at the bottom we saw the end of the way
we understood until now based on the was
that all this took place after but have
a look at what Rashi says Rashi says
over here Source number six he
says all of this took place
first this was said on the fourth of
this whole section of what took place in
the camp the the dam and the and the
whole this whole thing that was not in
the aftermath of that was part of the
preparation
for okay very very interesting you'll
see the other section of this is much
earlier this is brought this is brought
in the
before before
the that is the intro that is the that
says to M he says to tell the people you
should know you are going to be an
you're a special people I've chosen you
this is going to be your mission right
and this is the the introduction to M
this all takes place when this is this
is written early but this is on this is
on the second of and how do we know
that M calls the people and he tells
them everything Hashem commanded
this is the first remember we said
there's three we've now seen all of them
there is two and there is one so the
first which is written in
before that's over here the people say
and then it says M mhe came and he
brought the people's words to hasem see
what Rashi says over there
says the next day when is the next
that is the third
of as we find many times is teaching us
teaching us the proper course of
behavior mosha doesn't have to tell
Hashem what the people said hasem knows
but that's the proper way he sent me and
and he goes and he gives the answer but
essentially so what we have here so the
way that the t is written according to
Rashi is as follows we begin
we have the story of what happens on BET
and gimon the second of San that's the
first time that the people say the
people
say then the Torah tells us about
M okay which takes place a number of
days later we're talking about probably
four four days later and then we have
the whole section
of and then at the end of this whole
list of 53 mitv the T goes back to the
narrative not of what happens afterwards
but what took place before so it tells
us again and it tells us we're talking
about we've gone back to and this whole
ceremony with the with the m Etc all of
that was in the leadup that was
before according to the ran it's all
chronological order all this took place
afterwards but according to Rashi it
took place it took place before so that
leaves us now with the following
question right if we started off the
question was why is mish following on
from so that's still a fair question
even according to the ran what we would
say and what we saw right at the
beginning was we have one sequence of
events we have one long one long journey
we go from to MIM why is mish the thing
that follows immediately of the okay
that's the question but according to
Rashi the question is far stronger
meaning M took place whenever it took
place but the continuation of the
revelation of what happened at har that
rest of the narrative which took place
earlier only appears at the end of so if
I was to ask you the question now you
know everybody knows right in which par
does does take place and everybody's
answer is that answer is incorrect it's
partially incorrect the answer is in and
in Mish okay so all of this why does the
Tora go out of its way to separate why
do we take this dry technical boring bit
lump it in the middle together and only
then go back to the rest of the story of
only then go back to the story of harai
go back
from legislation back to Revelation or
whatever way whatever way you want to
put it so I think the answer is as
follows if you if you look on the next
page again now we're on to page three I
hope everybody has it this is the single
page um brought you here a section from
the and this is this is in one of his
he's talking about m
but he talks about the following the
following idea he
says whenever the Tora talks about the
the right we know we have
two something very interesting the word
look at the way is spelled
yeah that's not the way that
the that second whenever you have the O
that sound right you can write the word
or can be so the word is written without
the it's
written so how do we know that it says
or it could be so we have an oral
tradition in terms of how to read the
Tora as well we have the way that it's
written and we have the way that we that
we know how to read it how to pronounce
it but because there are no vows there's
no punctuation but the word is written
in an ambiguous way
the difference is if it was written with
the V there would certainly be the
plural but it's written without the V so
it could be pronounced in theory it
could be singular so is it one tablet or
is it two
tablets okay we learned from this that
the were were equal it's written that
they one they have the same even
though mention the fact that the wording
on the one side of the versus on the
other side is much more there are many
many more words on the first uh on the
first tablet there are on the second one
but nonetheless we look at them
equally very nice so they're equal so
the two so what but what does that mean
what's behind
it he says this is in a very poetic
language yeah he says this uh this
equality of these two tablets right it's
hidden hidden deep down let's try and
uncover it so he
says in the second paragraph
now the event of the divine
revelation okay this is not just where
we receive the Tora but this was the we
entered the Covenant we enter the Brit
at that's why we have the whole story
with the and the blood
Etc the we saw takes the blood half of
it he throws on the people half of it he
throws on the M okay that certainly took
place according to the r maybe took
place just after according to rash
before right half and half
in other words says you have to
understand that this was not just a
coincidental event this is the very
beginning this is the establishment of
the Brit establishing the Covenant this
is the beginning of receiving the Torah
beginning of our mission as a people
every single step here is deliberate and
every single step here is significant
and therefore the fact that there is
half the blood this way and half the
blood that way that is very very
meaningful we have to know what what are
we meant to learn from it again I take
you back to rash go back onto page two
where there's the the where we said
right just before that it
said we need to come along and separate
the blood and the reason is the reason
why that is so critical what's the big
deal you know there's a few more drops
on the there's a few more drops on the
people what's what's the big deal says
I skipped a few paragraphs here but you
can see what his conclusion
is says that the distinction
between between us and
and between man and
man these are not just two
separate categories or
whatever you know unfortunately we know
there are people there are people who
think that you know I'm from and I just
keep
the not so important there are people
who think I have a K in my heart I'm a
good person I keep them
that's no not so important and whether
you say it like this or you don't say it
like this many people think it
consciously subconsciously whatever says
you have to understand we cannot pick
and choose we cannot decide it's not
correct to
say that one of these categories is more
important than the other that one is
more a part of T than anything else okay
and you would have thought you might
have thought and what many religions in
the world think is that there is my work
what they would call
right there are the there are the
spiritual things there are the religious
matters of life and those are the things
that I have to do according to my
religion and everything else well you
know what do you want from me what has
religion got to do with my home and what
has religion got to do with my family
and what has religion got to do with we
can go through the whole list is
between but we can expand the idea and
we can say in every realm of life we can
go through the MIT of one by one and we
can ask what has God God got to do with
the courts and what has God got to do
with the banks and what has God got to
do with when I'm when I'm working and
what's God got to do with when I'm out
at the Shook and what's got got to when
I'm cooking and when I'm doing this when
I'm doing that right he says no every
single thing is part of every single
detail of legislation is part of
Revelation that's the over here and
that's the of the and was a tremendous
when the Tora said it because nobody
else thought about it in those terms
until then and therefore he says were we
taking the blood and we you know why it
would be so H why would be such a
problem why would matter so much if
there was a little bit more blood on the
MB versus a little bit less Blood on the
people then everybody would think okay
because the MB is more important and the
other way vice versa you can't think
that we have to know that everything has
got exactly the same everything is part
of this
Revelation and that's why that's why I
said we have the two tablets and one has
got a certain category of Mitzvah and
the other one has a different category
of mitv so there are two they two
separate things but the Torah writes it
it writes writes it without the V writes
it meaning at the end of the day
ultimately it is one tablet it is one
category is one set
of the further says that I didn't
actually check which day it is but he
says that the Y side
of who was the founder of the mus
movement his always falls out
in right and they said that there was a
there was a message there was hint and
there because so many of these laws and
so many of these technicalities are
dealing with mitv
and these
are but these are things that people
tend to be tend to be somewhat negligent
about so that was what the mus movement
came to stress and came to emphasize
this is part of it this is part of M as
much as anything else and that's what
the Tora is trying to teach us by the
order of this we see this by the way
somewhere else we see this in a very
very
uh very interesting Way shows us inat if
you look inat IM
in known as there
the it goes through all the laws of the
festivals all the laws of the different
okay and it's very very clear the order
and the structure and the sequence it's
not a narrative section it's a legal
section but unlike what we've been doing
this morning going through and it's very
very confusing where did this happen
where did that happen you know you go
through even the in itself you go
through the mitv why does one come after
the other then discussed this at length
there are those like the izra who say
it's just the order of the T put it in
you don't have to learn anything from it
you don't have to ask the question why
it's in that sequence try and find Rashi
right try and find exactly what is
behind the sequence what's behind the
order but there are sections
like where we look and either we
struggle and we break our heads or we
look at the or we try and understand
what the sequence is there are other
sections of the Tor it's very very clear
where the sequence is you don't have to
ask any question
most of is like that by the way
and is extremely like that it goes
through it begins with Shabbat and it
goes through the from p
through Etc right you can't you can't
get confused if you have to uh go
through um you know students in in in
class sometimes have to go go through
and you know summarize the peric right
give a title for the for the peric so
that's very very easy you can't get lost
except for one PUK there is one pasuk
there that's in the middle and everybody
asked what is this pasuk doing here it's
completely out of place it shouldn't be
here it's as if somebody did copy and
paste in the wrong in the wrong section
have a look Source number eight I didn't
bring you the whole PA because it's very
very long but before that we like I said
the Torah talks about Shabbat and then
it goes on to p and then it goes on to
and then it goes on to
sh okay and he's talking about
now that's the that PUK is completely
out of place we'll come back to it but
just to prove to you how out of place it
is the
continues that's
right next
section then it goes on to and it could
if I had copied and past of the whole
you would see it goes on to Etc so why
in the section which is very very clear
and is very very ordered and very very
structured we have all of a sudden we
talking about sh we stop talking about
chat and we have again
when you are harvesting your
field don't consume the corner of your
field that's a corner of the field that
has to be left for
the
right what we
call different agricultural MIT things
that you leave behind things that you
forget things that fall out of your hand
when you are harvesting your crops you
have to leave that behind that is for
for the poor okay okay that is a Mitzvah
that applies all year around it's got
nothing to do with the so question is
number one what and and not only that
but the Tora talks about in other places
as well so why does the Tora feel the
need to go back to tell me about and
over here in the middle of the of the M
why is it telling me that after sh as
they say what's it what's it got to do
with
anything ah so there is so there is an
opinion there is an opinion that says
that this is talking about the which is
a specific Harvest offering that you
have to go and that is that is connected
to the m and it's to come and tell you
that even though you're doing that and
it's for the BET mikdash nonetheless
don't do it at the expense of the poor
people that is that is one of the
interpretation there are many
interpretations and again always say
whenever you have a question when you
have many different answers that's a
sign that it was a good question okay so
so so that is one answer I think the ran
goes in that direction rashi rashi
writes over here to teach you that
anybody who gives to the it's as if he's
gone and he's built the BET mikdash and
he's brought okay it's a nice Dr but
again the question is the question is uh
the question is there and there are
other answers as well but the one that
relates to what we're talking about is
the
following and others have suggested a
similar idea which is this yeah we it's
again it's always hard for us to imagine
because we no longer live in an
primarily Agricultural Society but what
are these what this Mitzvah of p and the
Mitzvah of Le what is it saying
essentially it's saying that you the
farmer you go out and with Blood Sweat
and Tears and your hard work and your
toil and you're out there in the field
and you're giving everything and you've
worked so hard and finally you're able
to come and gather your crops and all
you want to do is just take them inside
and go and eat and go and sell or
whatever it is this is not when things
are easy this is not when you are and
again you're in the place which is maybe
the least religious place that we might
expect you're out in the field you're
out working but at that moment there in
the midst of that Harvest do you
remember har are you still there is that
still in your mind is that still in your
heart you remember right now that it's
not just about me it's so easy to say
you know later on when I'm finished and
I finished my work and I go and I have a
shower and I change into my into my
shabas clothes and I'll come to besset
and then then I'll have God in my
life or right now when I'm at work okay
it doesn't matter you can you can you
can substitute you know the
agricultureal right now when I'm in
whatever area whatever it is when I have
a challenge when I have something am I
able to stop am I able to take a step
back am I able to think what does God
want for me right now right here in this
place do I understand that mad is not
something that started and ended at a
mountain but it's something that is with
me every single moment in every single
realm in every single area of my life
that's the question and
therefore yes we've just spoken about
shat which interesting and we can talk
about when we give a but the Torah never
explicitly actually links the to to the
giving of the Tor that in itself is an
enik but we understand that it's
connected but we talk
about understand that when you receive
the Tor when you
start whenever it didn't end there it
continues and it's in every realm and
it's in every sphere of your life and
yes when you're out working the field
that's the place that's the least
religious activity that you might think
no that's the most religious activity
that exists you have to remember that
Mad is a part of this as well and are
you going to not take the crops for
yourself but do what the Torah said and
despite all the hard work and the toil
no be able to give up give up a tenth of
your of your master of your whatever it
is and that is why it's over there and
that I think just to
conclude maybe the ran doesn't say this
it may not be his intention but I think
that we can read it into his words and I
think that it's a true message I said
you right at the beginning beginning of
the we open up with the r thean in
his the r wrote he counts all 63 the
writes his includes the the r forgot
okay the for whatever reason the r did
not include as part of the and the ran
says these are part of the one of those
MIT is not to
forget right and this is what the ran
says
ran says don't
forget don't take it out of our minds
again not remember har don't forget
it let our eyes and our hearts be there
all the
days did not make it up the says don't
forget there are other places says
remember we're coming
right
remember
remember does not say remember it says
don't
forget that which your heart which your
eyes
saw don't remove it from your
heart all the days of your
life teach your children your children's
children the day in which you stood
before which is of so I was thinking
again based on everything we've
said thean says this don't ever forget
all the days of your life let there not
be a day when you don't think about but
maybe we can read in exactly the message
that we've just said not just every day
but every part of your life every sphere
every realm every activity let your eyes
and your hearts be there always har yes
har is with me when I'm at home when I'm
in the kitchen when I'm cooking how with
me when I go to work how ni with me when
I go to the bank when I go to the sh
when I get into the taxi wherever it is
when I get on the bus of course is with
me in the mid in the and on Shabbat and
all those places but it's in all those
places as well and that I believe is why
split
up whether we accept the explanation of
ran that is all one after the other
whether they except the explanation of
Rashi that it is encapsulated one within
the other the point is exactly this
always remember always that Revelation
continues every detail of legislation
that includes
that eyes and heart should be there