Parshat Shemini: The Gang (5784/2024)

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perspective I'll explain exactly so let me let me say what it is and then you know what I'm talking about we tend to look at things from one perspective if you want to be fancy we can call it monochromatic right I I know that sounds much better we we to you as well yeah so monochromatic in the sense that we're only looking at things from one perspective and the reason for that is because we're intellectually lazy and we see something and then we we we understand it as we see it and then we kind move on and in this scene which is going to unfold and of course it's going to end up with something which is again really quite uh tragic and that is going to be the deaths of Nadu but as I said that that's a little bit later on and and one of the things which therefore is important and this we have discussed in the past is understanding everything which unfolds as n and a who saw it as as opposed to the way that perhaps others I'm going to I'm going to explain what I mean by this we we have pericet and then we have peric peric yud is where another take action pericet is the lead into it so when pericet takes place right away we'll start reading and then we'll start looking at the various players see how easy that was that we have moshe's way that he's going to see it we're going to have aon's way that he's going to see it and then we have aon's children of course we know that two of them are going to become quite important moving on and then we have the zik Israel zik Israel most likely would be the elders in the sense either leadership wisdom age chronology but it's people of significance so right over here we have we we have a sentence and by the way similar sentences not exactly similar sentences were right there when mosha goes up to Har to receive the Torah pretty again pretty pretty similar by the way right away then we know that there is a necessity to bring a sin offering which means there may have been a sin along the way the fact that it's an eagle which is brought you know kind of makes this easy Hashem and that that those two words Hashem are going to come up again and again and again along the way over here and presumably what we're trying to do is to create a relationship with God we're trying to fix relationship with God and this this this being in front of God is really going to be the major issue the El again the were brought in but listen to the way this says so who's supposed to speak mean this isn't God speaking to mosha this is mosha speaking presumably to Aon Aon so he's telling Aon that he should tell B Israel which now just then something interesting happened now now Aron is being placed in charge y there were seven days before this the seven days we don't have to guess we can look at last week's paraa the seven days those are seven days that were seven days preparing for this day during those seven days presumably mosha thear discusses this that mosha was the Koh ad during those seven days because mosha was in the teaching position at that point showing how to do all these things which God had told him to do and now he turns to Aon and he says Aron now you speak which means right there you know between these two actions Aon you're going to bring this and and and Aon you're going to speak to the others Aon is in charge at this point right and we've discussed that as well the significance of the sirim we're told from the midash that that represents the cell of yos and so on and so forth by the way almost every corbon is offered here with with the exception of which may explain somebody's uh religious sensibility why Tor seem still seem still needs to be brought because on this day there's going to be a revelation that's also quite important now really the only thing which intrigues me today this is it this is the whole thing is what the word Adam means and who are these people because a moment ago or two moments ago we had zik Israel after that we had B Israel and now we have so what does AD mean who are ad now I've done not again I'm afraid to say every single time but I pretty much in the next couple of pages collected wherever the adah is and I I was pretty convinced at one point that aah again I don't want to say it's always something bad because again there there's much more Nuance to this but I I did find it at least at least IR at least ironic that I I looked it up finally I have this wonderful uh Biblical dictionary right it's it's a dictionary of biblical terms biblical usage which is not the same as missionary usage which is not the same as modern Hebrew just as things are used in biblical terminology so he writes aut right a group but by the way I was almost willing to call an ad a gang right see I wouldn't call it a congre I wouldn't call it a congregation because I think a kahal is a congregation so he write he writes a group of people gathered together for negative purposes Kone right and then he'll give some of the examples that we're going to bring up but then he also writes as a second paragra as a second thing he writes but there's also sometimes it's use in a positive and he writes for example and but by the way he goes to the hilum to find those see what I did is I limited myself to so he has a number of examples he also writes that it could be used sometimes Mish pan is some kind of religious service that but a gang it's a gang it's a group together but for okay I don't want to get too far ahead of myself right now a cult a a cult would be a word that you could use but again what's cult in religion depends excuse me right right right right so what does AD do mean in this see I also would be tempted and and you know that this is not you know my go-to to deal with words and and and the shim I would be tempted or at least to suspect that maybe a DOT has something to do with testimony nonetheless and and and maybe and yeah and and maybe that that what what brings them together is some kind of a word or some kind of an experience or some kind of an idea or something which has been communicated by that group let me put it this way I wouldn't necessarily use the word a to describe people that don't have a commonality to them they're not an aah which means there's a crowd out there a crowd is not an aah right a PE so it's also interesting a kahal could be people that gather together but it doesn't necessarily mean they gathered together for one particular purpose but maybe it's more geographical or or so kahal would be really two different things one would be the people that are gathered but ad that may be because there is some again other kind of commonality so again let's let's not go too far I'm just pointing out there's a reason for the positive way which we we'll come to that as well okay my last Source here is Rabbi salvic so you're always ahead of me there is reason to use it in a positive way as well but as I said let's give me give me a little bit of time but so over here so far we have Moshe speaking Aon Elders Aon Sons offerings but then some again in hey who are these people and why did they come here also did that just now tell us everybody just now came and again which more interesting is the word but it also so comes in again and mosha said says this is what God commanded and what's going to happen is that God's glory will come down so let's now consider a little bit more of the background going back going further part of the problem of behind all of this you know the again we' said this too many times not the elephant in the room it's the golden calf in the room and that is the golden calf and that the golden calf essentially is Aon and the people doing something aera which means it's Z it's not what God commanded and again on on a more technical sense we've also explored this if God would have said to make a golden crin so then it becomes okay if God would have said to make golden calf and Aron and the people made Kim then that would have been the sin which means the the problem over here is doing something which a that's the problem now the other problem is going to be when Aon sons are going to go and do something look at source number two you have over here but you have a which they were not commanded to so you're you're in a situation whereby we're trying to consecrate the mishkan and the mishan to a certain extent may very well be there in order to heal the relationship after this end of the golden I'm saying it may I I don't want to say that I don't want to say that too strongly it may be there to fix that relationship or at least otherwise even if it's not there to fix the relationship there must be some kind of anxiety or angst will this mishkan actually work which means maybe we're undeserving at this point maybe because of all that we've gone through maybe because maybe specifically Aon has some responsibility which means the the anxiety on aon's part or for that matter the guilt on his part and on on the other hand B Isel which means that's why I want to go back to again not our monochromatic way of looking at it to look at in terms of uh multiple perspectives so therefore what exactly is Aon going through what does he want to experience again Aon wants forgiveness Aon wants the whole sin of the golden calf to be erased Aon wants to do what mosha has told him that he needs to do and that is that he needs to be the coing ad now which could be viewed as something which is ironic on the other hand mosha you know who doesn't have his hands full of uh golden calf dust on it on it mosha on the other hand he's trying just to you know he's really in between the two sides trying to make sure that everything works well but Moshe keeps on insisting that God is going to appear and that's going to come up again and again I mean we're not finished with that yet and maybe these people who are gathering as an A so now your question could be is this something which is positive or this something which is negative or is it undecided which means they're they're there to Bear witness okay and and and that's why I'm saying maybe that's the best way to describe what they're doing here they're here to Bear witness and that's why they're in aah they're here to Bear witness and what are they going to witness and what's the answer they don't know which means will everything work and then by extension I be forgiven and let's be honest about something this does not go as smoothly as uh perhaps we would have hoped that it goes it's actually again quite quite tragic and traumatic what actually takes place and they bear witness to that and what's going to be the implications of that on the other hand mosha keeps insisting that the glory of God is going to come down and something's going to happen over here and something does happen maybe even multiple things happen so therefore there is something to Bear witness but now the question will be what will be those what will be that conclusion and what what will be the testimony that they there for or how are they going to bound together as this community or kahal but we you know what I don't want to use that word what's going to be this ad which is going to emerge from this whole thing so but I but I do want to say that I I I think that that there is some aspect of of bearing witness and that's what creates and that's what this adah is and that's why they're here and that's why the term just now shifted so again let's keep that in mind and let's move forward but again a couple of words to pay attention to that's going to be very important in terms of what the golden calf was not and in terms of as well which again is going to be somewhat ironic and that now particular term which K the glory of God is going to appear and what's going to happen then Aon will be achieve his and the people the will be forgiven which means if we're going to say they're going to be forgiven which means they require forgiveness so I'm saying that there is you know something very very strong here in the background As you move through towards the end of everything was gone mosha everything was done in the proper way afterwards Aon lifts up he does this that's going to be interesting and ironic we'll keep that in mind but the corbon is going to be lifted up and finally in and this I've gone into in the past I'm not going to overstate this now but completes everything he does and there is no Divine response and that that may actually trouble there is no Divine response at this point it's only after the next when it says at that point MOS joins in and at that point only at that point does the glory of God become manifest and the people then respond and all the people they see this and they break into joy and they fall on their faces No I want again I want you to pay attention to each and every one of those elements there is this emotional there is this falling down there is this praying it actually seems to be one of of ecstasy I I would almost say that everything works the mishkan works there is Forgiven iess now the next day when this is written up in the newspapers and you know that the various reporters are there watching and Reporting one reporter you can choose which newspaper will write it was a glorious day and everything worked and the glory of God came down and we have complete forgiveness and someone else is going to write the article and say well it didn't actually work the way that you know we had thought it could work and obviously Aon is not fit to lead because Aon was unable by himself it was only mosha who was able to do it and therefore Aon is is clearly uh he he's the extra weight over here and he needs to be replaced so I'm going to say it again that that that goes back to meaning not just different perspectives different people watching the same thing or bearing witness to what happened and they may and they may perhaps bear witness in very different ways because maybe they saw different things or focused on different things I think if you keep that in mind then the response and again I don't want to spend too much time on this either then the response of B Aon where they go and they do something Hashem and then they bring the fire Hashem they may see themselves of having been a complete success because this shows that the Aon family is able to bring the fire down and is's able to do this without the help of mosha and therefore specifically without moshe's word blessing involvement orders or anything it is the family of Aon that is quite holy so again we always will we always tend to look at the sons of Aon as some kind of Sinners or failures and that may not have been the way that they looked at things and for that matter when mosha speaks right afterwards he may not have looked at it that way either and uh let's just keep in mind about that but let's now pivot and let's move over to a place that you did not necessarily think that we were going to get and that's going to be Source number three and I may have missed some uses of AA I may have but then again I may not have so let's go to chapter tmot per and the elements over here which should be paid attention to are quot Hashem complaints which we don't see or hear in this place complaints quot Hashem but then in a is going to be there but now let's get to context here the reason the people are complaining is because they have a lack of uh of of resources they don't have food they don't have drink as far as the way that they're complaining and moson both mosha and are involved in the evening you're going to know that God did take you out of Egypt Hashem and there's going to be a revelation so again be very important and you're going to see something now if you're going to see something then there and there's a revelation I hope you realize that it's almost again we would not have thought this way 25 minutes ago but now we when looking yeah well there's going to be a revelation and you're going to see something maybe it automatically then indicates that there will be afterwards a need to Bear witness to this mosha makes reference to the complaints all the complaining that they're doing that by the way that word complaint it's I mean it's again and again and again okay I didn't bold that one that word it is now that's going to continue in the next section it's right afterwards a couple verses later same chapter but now in both of these cases again and therefore again something miraculous happens and this miraculous thing is is the man and again they're called in this context what's going to happen is that each day they're going to go take bread or M and on the sixth day there's going to be double and they're going to come and question regarding you know what is this all about and they're going to be told in shabb shabb no this is Shabbat by the way Shabbat is also in it's also something which is considered to be a testimony but then something goes wrong some people go out and they anyway they go look which means they draw the wrong conclus illusion it goes back to this idea of the there's something negative that took place here was an opportunity for the whole Community to keep Shabbat they did not keep Shabbat and in a certain sense this may be called the first Shabbat why this is the first time that we have this sense six days the mon fell and with double portion on Friday do all the cooking on Friday for Shabbat Shabbat comes and and then Moshe says oh no this is the Shabbat this is what this is what God referred to and again this is before Matan T and then nonetheless some people go out so we'll talk more about them in a moment which means that certain people continue with I don't know about the complaints but they seem to have drawn the wrong kind of testimony the gamarra in Source number four tells us meaning had they kept that Shabbat would have been everything would have been different again I I don't want to go too far into it but they they see it right then as yeah something went something terrible happened that even that first Shabbat they could not keep and there really is something catastrophic about that and then the next line is where the famous teaching had they only kept two shab if they would only keept two Shabbat to then uh Redemption would take place okay so that was example number one number two Source number five this is where this is in and again I'm not going to get too much into this this is merely this idea of the kot Hashem but the quot hasem there should very much be seen as the quot hasem which appears by the mishan but leave it we don't need to do any more than that in Source number six the reason why this is important is that this is per in which means this comes right before per in which means this is the introductory chapter to the whole story of the consecration of the Mish so it's interesting again this must be to Bear witness but what are they bearing witness to they're bearing witness to the selection of Aon this is when Aon is being lifted up in a sense God commanded this which means this is the next chapter will be the consecration of the Mish this is the consecration of Aon and that we need witness why do we need witness well you know the answer why we need witness because they going to some people who are going to say well ain's not good enough for this and at the end what are we told over here that all the things he was invested maybe that's the word that they use today right this was the investment of Aon he was investment he was chosen and and and and again at this point every all the clothing was put upon Him hasem Moshe right as God Comm and then this leads into chapter 9 where again the adash shows up so now now you realize that that adash showing up to bear witness well they just bore witness to Aron but to what extent are they really uh you know or which direction this is go I think may be interesting in ch in Source number seven which is per so what's per it's the it's the chapter right after Woods right then this is immediately after the deaths of right this is these are the remaining children so it's interesting that the is again right here my my point is in this whole section selection of iron selection of the mishan consecration of the M of the mishan and then deaths ofu there seems to be this I I don't know what to call them there is this is is the entire people some of the people there are people on the side who are watching and there's been amazing things but what's the problem with the amazing things the problem is how you going to report them how you going to spin it what's going to be your your conclusion as you as you move on it may again be interesting that we find it again by so so far where did we find it we find it by the MF falling which is a reason to to Really um that's a revelation on the other hand there's some people there who just drew the opposite conclusion and they break that first Shabbat we have it with the selection of Aon and we have it with Mish another view and now we're going to have it by another negative event and this negative event is the Mel the one who curses but by the way again means we essentially skip through lots and lots of places over here by so again who's killing the M the one who curses ma now this next turn of phrase May really be interesting whoever now whatever the word no cave Shem makes a hole in the name of God blasphemes the name of God but no cave is interesting right it really means make a hole literally it means make a hole in the name of God now just notice now in the of or the people from the who were called who were summoned so again you could have used other words here but it's really interesting so that's such an interesting turn of phrase compared to the ones who were called by name and so on over here the these are the people called these are the people who are going to be around the tent these are the people who I could have used the word just I could have used the word um so it's interesting to me nonetheless a is used but there may be another negative reason for this and that of course and this should have been there's two things that should have been anticipated from the beginning Maybe this one it depends how depends how you think or just to make you feel better both of them should have been anticipated Source number 10 is really what what you should have thought about right from the start because when I said that there maybe there are people who are going to draw the wrong conclusion maybe they're going to people going to say well maybe Aon is not necessarily worthy maybe this is something that reason for him to be replaced so you know who that's to be and that's going to be K so for us to get to Source number 10 and get to K that should not be a surprise that is now going to again be an interesting turn of phrase and who are they referring to are they referring to the entire people then why use the word ad again why not use the word K Isel why not use the word just everybody is Holy why over here which is also interesting because that theme of falling down with something which we had seen before and of course which means the appearance of the over here where Moshe says okay you know we want to see who really is worthy so how exactly do you Nuance all of this one easy way way to do it is to say that inic is co inic his son's mess up how do they mess up they take an H Zar and then mosha and I would almost use the word cynically right I don't want to use that word with mosha Reno I really don't want to use that word but mosha almost cynically says oh you want to be you you want to be a fake cooh sure why don't you try to take the the toret and some fire let's see how that works out didn't work out that well before and and I do want to say something about this parenthetically the religious meaning I could read the sin I don't I don't want to use that word I can use the I can read the action of N and then use it in a in a b midbar kind of context it's not a bidur story it's viik Story the problem is it's viik story that sounds very much like a bidur story so therefore and I've said this before had this been in Bidar where should it be it should be in paraso paraso is the same day paraso is they bring the the sacrifices it's it is the day that you know nakon and so on the the 12 tribes bring the Nim bring the offerings it is the same day let's just say presumably yes but I I don't know the exact sequence but it is the same day so had the story been told on that day it would have been fine you know the one of the things who told you that a blesses the people so presumably he said where is it's in paraso which means had this been in naso this been Aid story and we keep all of boring the way it's supposed to be you know that that that would be fine no nobody would say oh you know why don't you put that story here so if we read this through the bidra perspective so then you take you know you go over here and and it becomes interesting almost I'll say it again almost a cynical response on M's part but let's just pause for a second what happens if I read it as viik story and the VRA story is if you go through all the all the offerings that were brought that day on yashi they B are very similar or very strange similarity to par which is Yum Kipper except for one thing which is missing and what's missing what's missing is when the takes the and goes by the way there is some debate where exactly who did this did they go did they do this inside or did they do this outside as I said there is some debate among in the gumar and we shown him exactly what really happened over here but if let's just say that it was broad inside so then what you have over here is religiously or they were correct I mean their intuition is correct by the way the other big question on all of this which I haven't seen anybody question were they working in tandem or did each of them inde independently come to the exact same conclusion I know that you you would have always have said that they've worked together I would just love there to be any evidence that they work together then perhaps they perhaps each one had this intuition and their intuition is correct I'm going to say it again that's what's interesting is that later on when we get to Yak kipur yorum is the day to get forgiveness for the golden calf think about that for a second and then God says oh yeah by the way you know on this day take the toret you know on a on a theological perspective we've uh We've mentioned the teaching of the is yes where he says that in the Garden of Eden all of the senses were corrupted except for the sense of smell so therefore to specifically use the the sense of smell theoret in order to go in and try to get forgiveness is interesting the other thing which is really interesting is the debate that takes place regarding the wine immediately afterwards Aon is told right but God says to Aon that not to drink and be intoxicated when serving so therefore there are some who will say oh therefore they must have been drunk and there are others who say like thei for example says no nothing to do with drunk that normally you give a you give them wine and that say and the gamori says that's why God created wine there's also a a there's also a verse in mishle which says this it says give to the person who's bitter and so on you give you give them wine to drink you give them beer you give them wine and so on so therefore the giving of the wine could have been or or the the mentioning of the wine could have been that normal MERS can drink wine by the way there is a the is that uh mourners can drink wine during there are some especially Moroccans who don't drink wine during Shiva right I'm saying it's allowed and not only is it allow the gamor says that's why God created grapes was in order to uh to help mourners to to deal with their pain but it it's interesting because on top of all of that because says no you can't mourn you're on duty you're the the coin no one else you're working there's no one else you're on duty you can't you can't take off and therefore that distress no you can't drink wine but the cabalists going from the zohor onwards through the the leem they say is that they were trying to do a tkon on this day they're forgiven for theoretically for the golden calf they bring the goat so there's one more sin hovering back from you know the early days of history and that's eating from the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil which the zor says is grapes so therefore they're taking grapes they're trying to doka and that would be interesting because then you take the thing where the sin took place again the zor it's grapes you take the grapes the wine on the one hand but then you take the Tor the place where there was never sin the incense and then you're armed with sin and with the antidote and you go together into the holy of holies I'm just saying is that spiritually what's taking place is a bit more interesting than I think that sometimes right than we uh than we think about but nonetheless if I do a VRA approach Then I then I analyze what they're doing and that's pretty good what they're doing because God's going to again that's the big difference God's going to command it but it's even more interesting that He commands it after all of this that He commands the incense the to Afters on the other hand if I go to my midb bird and I hit that's why I'm back to mosha saying oh you want to be Co God you want it great why don't you take the incense let's see how that works out and the bigger surprise is that they go ahead and they do it what do you mean they don't know how this is going to work out it's not going to work out well so we we are in the K story now and again some of the elements there you have the ad you have the and again in so as however they may have used adah initially ad at this point now probably means 250 or so people so that's also very interesting just in terms of the number which means again the falling on the face which was there out of ecstasy in our story where we started but again here this becomes one of prayer next chapter now now why is that interesting because this takes us back to where we were in with the m with all the complaints they're saying it in a cynical way you killed everybody but don't you realize all these elements are again is there whenever there's something to be witnessed what they're going to interpret is going to depend on them but again the wicked adah is already that's what they're upset about the 250 are gone and now there's a new which comes immediately afterwards and they and they now have a revelation and then they pray and again what takes place now in order to stop the plague theor comes in as a healing so my point is did I necessarily explain a Nuance every single point over here no but what are at least are you realizing that ad is the key issue and with broad Strokes you realize that there is connections between these various elements now kazal notice them as well and you know this midash I just had to remind you of it what is it it says that then two people broke the sh so if you look at source number 12 these are the people that did not have faith and who were they in the story of which means this mid is focusing on one word but it's not just the one word there were really a whole cluster of words that linked between these two sections and therefore when I said oh let's take a look over there because you have the Adan you quem and the Revelation and bearing Witness so again the question is going to be when you bear witness what's going to be your conclusion what's going to be your testimony which means just because God CHS you a revelation doesn't mean that you're going to come out of it with the complete faith that one you Wen is supposed to maybe you come out of it what you go into it with maybe that's also a part of it maybe two people can see the exact same thing and one person's strong in their belief and therefore becomes confirmation and they know it strengthens their belief and somebody else who has a lack of belief then they are able to continue with their cognitive dissonance and be able to interpret whatever it is that they saw in a way which they feel more comfortable with but it also is very is is very interesting the midash notes it but that that really linked between the two places that we wanted to go um yes yes I said that from the beginning from the beginning yes um in Source number 13 when the tribe of Le is being chosen so it's interesting again the word is used in this and so on which means again we have that word being used bearing witness or the adah in this sense with the selection of Le SE selection of Aron so again this should be no surprise but that seems to be one of these major usages and again the korak and his people are rejecting that and they they're bearing witness to something which is different and I'm saying again this could go back to two different ways of reading it um in Source 14 as well per we're in B midbar now this is take the and it says right and again and which means it's never too far it's Le it's it's it's always there when the adah is being introduced mishkan again it's always bearing witness but there seems to be this really interesting commonality and I told you I pointed out what the problem was that no no there was no Divine response there was no fire there was nothing happened till mosha came out as well Source 15 we're getting to the other one that you should have guessed at from the beginning and K this of course is the beginning of or towards the beginning of the Spy story of the morlum in the next chapter that's again they brought back the fruit they brought back the report so now again if you you can call them adah for whatever reason you want they they drew the wrong conclusion and they all start to cry and and now you have complaints again so I'm saying that these elements keep coming again right only died and then once again which means these elements come again and again and they want to go and then the glory of God Appears so again how many of these clusters do you need to you realize that they just these things these elements keep coming together and all of them were right there those that are worried that I've W wandered too far astray from Shi No they they were all there in Shi and that's why I wanted to point out that this cluster appears again and again in different places and I think it does mean to Bear witness but now the question is what is going to be your conclusion but we also are seeing that you arguably in some of the worst events you know including the maragam we have the Rebellion of kak we have this idea which is being introduced this idea of of yeah it's bearing witness and and bearing witness to these events that are happening now yeah I mean they happening we're reading about correct um pered ornament what exactly you know where it comes from what's the origin I think is interesting but over here it seems to be in all the cases that we're noticing it that there is something to Bear witness to in in peric Ted is interesting because again we're byed where does Ted come after yal where does come after youim which means this is immediately after the of the what happens if people who are the leaders of the community that's what you'd want to say but what are the people are bearing false witness that's really what it is right and they call which means this is talking about forgiveness when there is really Mis misjudgment I'm just saying is that this just became a Little Bit Stronger um in moving a little bit further in uh Bidar which is still the same chapter couple verses later now you have somebody who is the makos and he breaks Shabbat which is really where we started all of this and what does it say predictably that and then afterwards and now the qu again there's something ominous over here but you can decide these are the people who are who are on the side of Shabbat these are the people on the side of Moshe but again it's interesting that wherever this aah is being used there's always something that you you need to uh pay attention when Aon dies yes which which you realize there's some kind of poetic justice over here even though it's quite disturbing when Aon dies it says right Aon is not going to enter into the land so again is so perfect but Aron's death now there is also going to be this as it were this bear witness that that Aon is going to die not surprisingly when mosha is told also that he you know the end will soon come in Source 20 right the opposite of what you expect mosha talked to God by the way where was that used before and we saw it it was when they pray for the rest of the adah after the sin of kak all the people started complaining are you killing the all of the and then MOSI uses the same phrase in Source number 10 right and uh When God Says move away from this and I'm going to kill all of them so it's interesting again that over here and right that that one so it's again it's interesting that the is all over this section as well so it's there when mosha is going to be replaced it's there when Aon is replaced so again this is really interesting going back to where we are where we started today in Shi maybe there are people who think that maybe you know something bad happens let's I'm not talking politics now maybe something bad happens replace the whole leadership just get rid of everybody and there people who want to do that but may okay maybe mosha maybe Aon maybe both of them and that's what actually what korak then articulates so I'm saying it it is very interesting because the creation of the mishan really should have been a time of healing and therefore this y hash should have been a time of healing now there oh I didn't put a number on it now there should be something that in the back of your minds at least some of you should be troubled with and that is Source number 20 Source sorry it doesn't have Source between 20 and 21 hovering there somewhat it's the gorah in Milla it's a couple places but we chose this one it says that right it starts off sorry ski the first words how do we know that a minion is 10 people 10 men sorry I'll get yelled at by some called d how do you know that a minion requires there to be 10 people at least now this should be so disturbing because along the way over here we all know that is negative and just now we noticed that the word to you can learn from you know the bad we were talking about over here there are bad ad what does that have to do with the minion afterwards another bad ad which means essentially oh korak's crowd or we have the the mirim why in the world are we are we learning out the concept of Minas I want to go back again and talk about the very I I I think the very basic function of what anida is once again from going back to the beginning anida seems to be a group of people who bear witness and when you bear witness you can bear witness in you in one of you know in multiple ways you can bear witness and be positive and bear witness and be negative so which way are you bearing witness which means you can see something and what exactly you do with it there's really a remarkable teaching in the beo in source 21 now this is Simon nun just in case you ever try to figure out now I wonder where he talks about this Simon nun is the law right it's it's the morning it's it's the beginning of it's where it's talking about ding n is where it talks about kades so by D maybe it's a good thing to talk about shama so d kades one of the things that brings up is a minion and how do you create a minion what creates a minion so over here the B Yosef commenting on the tour he and he says so in case you never heard the name before underrated we don't know that much but this is rosef K's rebi this is the one who he calls my re who says just pause there for a second you you have 10 people in a room and one of them sleeping can you count somebody sleeping for a minion so he says yeah why the 10 people together the is there which it seems to be that 10 people together which by the way what's the minimum where the term a was used that's really was the question the minimum that the minimum time going all the way through all these cases the minimal time that we saw 10 we saw adah being used was by the 10 MIM and therefore and therefore what's the minimum that you can have for a minion meaning had had I not gotten there I maybe would have been forced to say oh the minimum a is 250 right right and was close to that yeah he does he does all all that's true but I'm going to say it again the gamarra when it wants to learn how you understand that the minimum of 10 people creates a minion the gamorra learns it out from what would sounds to be unfortunate places because it's looking at some negative groups that were there but I'll say it again 10 people together there the is there with them but now the question is which way is their testimony going to go and but so much so the even said and and I want to read a little bit further he then continues rever of that's the the one of the most important books in terms of by the way this this is the rumor that maybe some of you have heard maybe not that even used a baby foret somebody 13 years old even used a baby in a crib he says but nonetheless just in case you think this is a new phenomenon he says that we use people for a minion even if some of them are standing in the back and having a different conversation going on you can still uh there there's still a minion in the room that he's saying that 10 people create this thing where the comes down and now but by the way that is so perfect cuz what are we talking about from the very beginning we're talking about the coming down we're talking about the word a and the coming down says okay what's the minimal amount of the comes down minimal amount is 10 people 10 people are together comes down comes down now how are you going to Bear witness what are you going to do so talk about one of them sleeping doesn't make a difference some of them are talking it doesn't make a difference I'll tell you something which um maybe some of you heard me uh quote and then we'll we'll finish this that um you know Senator liberman passed away last week so and those of you who don't know that we I I was uh I was chosen to work with him on a book that he published and along the way we essentially had a Kut and we learned uh together we went through all the material and I had heard a story so I asked him about it and he confirmed it the story was that goes back to minion that when he uh when he was a candidate for vice president and he ended up losing that was the recount in Florida if you remember Bush's brother was governor and he had some other family members do the counting so if you remember exactly what happened but as the whole appeals process was taking place he still had his uh his secret security people who were accompany him and he would walk to Shou him and his wife so they would walk to sh and then he had people that sat with him and people that SEC the Secret Service who sat with him and some would sit with her and when the election was finally over and the whole appeal system was process was over everything had come to an end their security detail was supposed to end on a 10:00 in the morning on a Shabbat morning so they walk from T they get T at 10:00 sen liman gets up and walks over to the head of the team and says I just want to thank you for your service and thank you for your dedication and so on and you guys are now relieved and uh he responded and says no well we talked it over we we'll stay we'll stay we'll stay no no by the way didn't mean that you can count them for the minion necessarily which is really where all this comes in and he goes um you'll stay so the rabbi had told me the story initially and he said that when he heard that he thought oh they want to hear the sermon not at all he goes so s Leon says he going to stay he said yeah well wait for the kiddish and then he added and then he and then he added and then he added the chop liver the chop liver so uh so I asked him about the story he said yeah that's exactly again he told us me he goes That's he goes That's What happen we stay for the we want to stay for the we want to stay for the kiddish we're staying for the we we're staying for the kiddish so let's let let's just finish up there's some people the minion who are talking and some people that are sleeping and just in case you know you feel a little awkward chop and some people just there for the chop liver so just in case you feel a little you feel a little awkward about this he continues and he says and my teacher has brought enough shoulders you can rely on him so uh Yosef Kyo again Yosef K you can rely on my teacher if my teacher said it's okay to count somebody who's sleeping you count somebody who sleeping but if of course you count somebody who's sleeping we learn the whole thing out from people that are wicked and but but again the comes down that's the question in this world when when the comes down we then become an adah when we're in adah we bear witness and now the question is what are you bearing witness to how do you how do you bear witness what did you see what did you think you see what is it that you're going to report how are you going to spin it do you see something positive you see something negative and all along over here we kept seeing that the word together with something else that takes place and now again the question is what is it that you do with it if we do something positive with it then obviously what what of salv will point out in the last Source over here which we won't read inside is that this is also we learned the laws of Kes hasem laws of kesm that certain things that you that one is one needs to even sacrifice their life if there is 10 Jews over there this is the idea also Kem comes from the same idea is that it's bearing witness there is there is witness being borne when there are people over there and now the question is when we are in situations how is it that we look at things do we see the positive do we always see the negative do we see the G do we see that God's hand is over there or do we see some way to twist it and turn it and draw a conclusion well maybe we need to replace mosa maybe we need to replace Aron maybe we need to replace everybody which means what is it that you're bearing witness to that then actually becomes the becomes the question and now you realize that what takes place over here in shmini actually perhaps it's a Lynch pin but there are issues before and issues afterwards but all connected to this episode than