Parshat Terumah: The Revolving Keruvim | Rabbi Ari Kahn

so um I have over here it says a gentle reminder so I think I'm supposed to read it with a very gentle voice I'm not sure if that I don't know if this is the stage instruction or this is like the instruction so it says a gentle reminder for our YouTube viewers I don't know if this means that the OU officially is sanctioning YouTube could be please make sure to like comment and subscribe okay that's your gentle reminder can we put in YouTube over um I'll send I'll send on my list the the link where it is okay so we we we are in par truma so just in case anyone made a mistake and did not intend to come today we are in uh we're in par Trum H happy birthday Ma did you bring a cake for everyone okay okay continuing with paraa truma the the thing about truma is is that there is this extreme sudden shift from everything that happened till now even though you could have argued that last week's paraa was an extreme sudden shift from what we had before essentially we had a really nice story book with some really nice some disturbing but nice story going on taking us all the way through rid we had some nice stories and then kind of interesting how God did this he snuck in a couple of laws and paral bow but the laws were all part of the narrative so we were okay with it didn't and and also was an overwhelming and and then we come back for this rendevu that we were told that we're going to have by Mount Si and then before we know it we start getting laws and and laws and laws and laws and then we get to par Tim and we get laws and laws and laws and it just increases and you know what the laws were interesting and for the most part this is where we got to last week for the most part the laws were interpersonal and things which were about social justice creating Society keeping a society Rules of Engagement that will all get along with one another there were a couple of things along the way we had some holidays we had some other things but then we get to this week's par and then boom and and we enter into a whole new world so I want to try to understand a something about this world and we also need to understand our own biases so let's think about this as follows when we look at the mishan and for that matter the things done in the mishkan or the BET mikdash which means the corbane we could use one part of our brain and say well this stuff is really complicated maybe this stuff is really mystical and maybe this stuff is really Beyond me so this is just what it is and they just kind of leave it at that the other thing that someone can do is as they read this is that they could look at it and say well all of this is really primitive and we have evolved as a people and therefore we don't do these things anymore essentially making the claim that that we are far superior than they were in the past now one of the things that modern people do when they look at the Ancients is that we tend to look at their world as being a world of primitive thinking and behavior but there's a there's a again and I want to get to the bias the bias is is that we look at the things that they're doing and we take them all quite literally on the other hand in our own world we completely forgive this and we look at things symbolically and sometimes we don't even do that because we don't work that hard we don't think and I know you don't know what I'm saying yet so I so and that's fine so I I have a phone over here which is probably not dissimilar to a lot of your phones it um but it it is made by a company named Apple they don't pay me for this or not for this what I'm about to say but you look at the phone it's got a little apple on it with a bite which is missing so I would say if I were an anthropologist and I lived in the future I would say well it's quite obvious that whoever had these phones with devil worshippers because they're worshiping the serpent because the serpent is the one who enticed man to take a bite out of the apple and whoever is using this phone obviously wants to get to the world of knowledge the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil and therefore they have signed a PCT with the devil and therefore they're very interested in evil and that's what most people do with their phones anyway they am certainly are doing things which are evil so now some of you are going to look at me and say what in the world are you talking about about and of course your question is going to be do the people in apple ever think about and I think they did I think absolutely they did in terms of taking a bite from the Tree of knowledge I think absolutely that's what this thing is meant to symbolize but look at all of you you never even thought about it unless you heard me talk about it before and again I could say again Michael for you we'll have to move over to a sports metaphor someone in the future is going to say that in Detroit they worship Lions right and in Chicago they worship Bears right and and and and you know I can keep on going over here and you're going to say well what are you talking about the this is just symbolic and doesn't mean all that much but that's exactly my point Modern Men and again all of us are guilty of this will pay extra money for an article of clothing because it has a certain symbol on it and someone's going to say well why do you like that particular symbol and you can have a hard time explaining it other than it's some kind of perceived you'll say no it's really better it's better quality but it's actually it's some kind of perceived stature involved in wearing that particular thing so I'm going to say yes we live you're looking around yeah yeah so so so again we we live in a world where our appreciation of symbolism is it's almost up conscious we don't even think about it we take it as and and it registers because say oh that guy's got a lion's hat on him so he's he's probably from Detroit and he's a lions fan but but it's not going to mean all that much else to you so I want to go back and think about things within Antiquity and my first thing is to say don't be literal with them don't go and judge things that happened in the past with things the symbolism and and and quite the opposite I think that the more we understood the symbolism of the mishkan of the Coran note the more or we would understand what is taking place then actually be able to penetrate the the inner wisdom and and understanding of all of this but as I said we stand on the outside the one who probably did the best at this is rers so if you're and I did not look at any comment of rers pring today but I'm just telling you that rers is the best when it comes to this he understood this he looked into this and he makes suggestions on this so I'm saying that is one way absolutely one way of uh of pursuing it so what I'm actually going to be stuck with today is something towards the very beginning of the par mikdash which itself could be something which is beyond our understanding we we know it's not that God is homeless prior to this and God you know has no place to live and it's really really sad and therefore we want to be benevolent and good people and give God a place to live we we we understand that that's a complete absurdity but when we get to some of the descriptions and again I I can start this week's para till I till I get lost I can start this week's paraa and look at things in a very functional way mosha goes up the mountain 40 days and 40 nights he's going to bring down the the tablets I'm I'm very much today ignoring Rashi even though it's constantly in the back of my mind and I'm very much following a ruman approach to all of this if you're wondering what is the difference between the two whether everything is following the proper sequence ran or whether the whole book is inverted and uh and Confused in order to create a narrative which is which is Rashi and Rashi would go so far as to claim that the building instructions for the building of the mishkon come only after the golden calf by the way all that's going to be quite relevant to some of the things we're doing today but nonetheless I'm really following the rban so mosha goes up for 40 days and 40 nights in order to get the tablets and then you have a problem you come down to the tablets what do you do with them so God says well you build build a place you build a building and then what do you do with them in the building well you build an arc and you put them inside the ark so I'm I'm I'm really good with the functional understanding of this until I get to one particular element and that is and then you make these things made out of gold and you put them on top of this Arc and it's at that kind point you kind of lost me and it's at that point that I want to try to enter into the world of symbolism so I'm saying that that that that's exactly where I'm going to with all of this [Music] so how do we understand this and again if I want to be annoying I could ask you what would have happened if God would have said to put on top of the Ark two little golden calves and that's what should be there and then later on they worship when mosha is gone they worship one of a cre right whatever a cherub they they offer they they worship a cre so is the whole thing going to come down to Simon says this God said to do and this God didn't say to do sood Zar is what God didn't say to do and this ises God did say to do this but in terms of essence you want the Hebrew H it's the exact same thing there's no difference so that that I hope is a very disturbing question because because you would love the and me no that they are completely different and because it's holy is why God chose this and that is something completely different so keep in mind my question because uh my question it really is a haunting question and and I want to say another thing as we uh proceed part of what is going to concern me now is again in trying to unpack this and to understand this and to understand the symbolism I'm working with a certain type of of an assumption which as we continue you'll understand my assumption I just have to try to prove it but I'm not I'm just saying it before I prove any of it and that is that there may be something about the crew in which are involved in various Revelations which had taken place which means without bringing EV any evidence to this it maybe not even being able to bring any evidence to this wouldn't it have been interesting that if as God spoke by Matan T that there was some kind of a vision of the crew by the way if that's if that's harder to say I'll bring an easier one because it's almost there and almost and that is the Mikila tells us that when the sea was split again how do the people respond they say which the which the they pointed a finger they say this is my God and I will try to elevate God in any way that I can and worship God in any way I can so on that the Mela says this comes to teach you that everyone even the most basic person who was at the splitting of the sea saw a vision which was equal to the vision of ycel some versions of this are cited from ycel or from yes now just in case you're wondering whates sawes saw something called AA so what is AA which by the way is not at any point mentioned Ines what ycal sees is he sees a chariot he sees a chariot which kind of goes up into heaven so there's something some way of connecting and going up into heaven what what he sees but the Kim by the way will make their appearance by that or the Prov by that particular Vision so when we're told that the people see something and it's what YCO saw so then I have to wonder and by the way just to make Reena happy we can now ask if there's a theory of conservation of uh of Visions which the gamarra goes in the direction of saying yes how so it says oh by the way whatever saw yesu saw they saw the same thing but what was the difference and this is also going to be important as we we move further the difference is is that yeshayahu saw it as he's standing in the built Temple and jesal sees what he sees when he's far off into Exile and part of the issue of what's going to be beneath the surface of everything that we see today will be one of directionality are we moving towards Israel are we moving towards meaning are we moving towards Exile are we in Exile looking in One Direction or are we headed off into Exile or are we in Israel looking in a different direction maybe in Israel you're looking up maybe that's exactly the issue maybe there's like this vertical experience which is taking place but nonetheless I'm going to say it again the gar tells us again the gar says that saw the same thing but one saw it from standing in the BET mikdash and he sees it versus jesal who's far away off into Exile which by the way that's the reason why the prophecy of ycal is so important is because it's so much more detailed because he is so far from Holiness he has to describe all the Holiness so much more so so therefore became the absolute f favorite text of mystical inquiry in Antiquity are we good so far okay so I will keep on trying to lose you as I uh as I proceed because what we're going to do is delve into a world which is maybe not very unfamiliar world but that is a world that deals with mystical visions and I'm more concerned with visions than experiences so don't worry we're not we're not we're not doing a class trip okay we we're not we're not going anywhere we're uh yeah yeah we're not we're we're not going anywhere but what we will try to do is to understand certain things and I am going to work with this assumption that this thing which is seen is seen again and again and that may help us a lot in this and I I I want to say one more thing about this and that's specifically for today or even more specifically for yesterday when I was doing a lot of the of the thinking and a little talking about this as well the the Ken themselves the consensus of what we understand about them is one of looking very looking like babies looking very innocent and innocent is I think the best word and and we're going to see as we move on that even this is not going to be so simple it may be very contextual but seeing something which is very youngl looking and innocent and of course yesterday as the funeral was taking place for two innocent children I kind of even imagined for a moment of the two Kim having red hair and having these uh these these innocent uh children who who were killed and what what unfortunately tragically perfect paraa to be talking about Kim and innocent cherubs and and and and so on and of course there are people who do not like innocence and do not like Purity and do not like things like this and rather bring the world into a place of pain so we'll keep that in mind as a background as well and I think that now we have enough to start one of the things that we told right away in Source number one you see I've skipped and so there is a V when I when I talked about the vision part of this mosha also is the beneficiary of vision Mo mosha here sees something now that qualification of seeing something if you look at source number two you're going to find regarding the min and again you're going to look and you're going to see it's going to become a vision that takes place up on the mountain later on in ver number three how you build the whole thing again it goes back to this vision of what you've seen above I don't it could be more of these and but I I I figured bringing three or four of them is enough in order to uh establish that there is something over here which is taking place of of course there are two possibilities to this one possibility is that God gives Moses some kind of a hologram to look at and the other possibility is that this is a reference to the BET mikdash Shala and that's something which is quite popular in uh in various MIM and therefore what what God is showing no he's showing him what exists up above and therefore he he sees it if we go back to Source number one when it describes the these they're going to be made of gold made out of one piece you'll put them on the two sides and they will also have wings so Wings also for me is really interesting interesting generally Wings Birds wings or something which allows one to fly fly man is very much connected to this earth to the land terraferma and what Wings allow someone to do is to do something which seems all but impossible and that is go up towards the heavens so over here as well the the the Kim looking like humans looking like babies but being able to somehow to transcend is interesting and then we're told that this is going to be placed on the ark and in the ark if you want that goes to that first functional Point you're going to put in the tablets into this Arc and then is more interesting I can't say more but is further interesting is that something will come down from heaven as it were to fly down from heaven and that's the word of God is going to come down and will somehow emanate from on top of this Ark so therefore the arc is going to have two purposes one purpose this thing which we already received in the past from God will be placed inside it and then a continual revelation will take place as God speaks to mosha the sound will come down to this particular place between these two kurvin with their wings standing over there the sound of God is going to come down and is going to communicate to Moshe are we all good so far and if things are still making sense we are happy in Source number five we're going right after s we had one verse which seem to talk about extend oh you you saw I spoke to you from Heaven Again sounds coming down from heaven and then it says don't make graven images by the way right there if you start looking at Rashi it says don't make graven images when you make the creen make them the right way which is which is of course you realize sidesteps the problem but maybe it just goes back to this point of Simon says or God says if God says that's the way you do it and it says don't do it in the wrong way you make sure you do it in the right way but again that is really at least ironic and then it tells us as the third thing which is introduced there is to make a m the thing which intrigued me about the M because over here you have a mbak but you don't have a building so to what extent is that a possibility which means we're always concerned that maybe something changed and maybe things are not the way they were originally supposed to be and I just want to read the elements one is M right what's it made out of it's made of so that that's GNA Intrigue us next you bring the you bring the now that second part of the verse kind of let me you know led me to this conclusion that this m could be anywhere and anywhere my name is mentioned I'll come and I'll bless you now what exactly that means just hold on a second just go to the next verse again it goes back to don't use steel don't engrave don't don't don't let the metal touch the stone the metal can't be put to the stone and but we went back to M which means the m is something which gives life the metal is something which causes death and there needs to be a separation of Realms and that can't work together and and you saw I just now did it I just now explained symbolically what is the problem with using metal on on the stone and don't go climbing up this ramp going to the in way which is so just note then and all are talking about but it's the second half of K Al which we're not sure because it sounds like m could be on Wheels and go any place and just take it any kind of place and I don't necessarily need a building I don't necessarily need there to be a mishan so I'm saying that that's what really was intriguing me Rashi sidesteps all of this and in Source six when he talks about and he plays he said any place that I give you permission to use by the way he just got to the exact opposite but you're not you don't know yet what it is that he's saying so what did Rashi just now do what did he just now say first of all he introduced the BET mdash right into this so even my thoughts of maybe that no what he's saying is is that there is one Temple service that could be done in all over the place and which Temple service is that that's beer kohanim beer Kim could take place any place and therefore you may have been in a sh this morning where they did beer him and that's perfectly fine but if they did do be him this morning in SCH I'll tell you what they didn't do they didn't use the Sham for when they said they didn't they did not say what it says they just said the way that we normally pronounce it they did not say the ineffable of course you're going to say if it's ineffable then how can you actually say it but that is exactly the point but in the bet mikash the kohanim would use the sh and they would say God's name and over here he's saying again it's interesting because the actually said and instead of saying first of all Rashi took it away from the whole question of the secondly he says means only one place and what's that one place that's in the mikash so I'm saying it really is interesting what Rashid did over here but let's move let's move to the in s exactly the opposite over here by saying yeah there could be this possibility of a mishan being in various places but he's not saying you can randomly build a m in any place rather than M as part of the Mish so part of what this did for us is that at least the way the Izar is looking at this that at the end of parro we actually have foreshadowing to the beginning of truma beginning of truma is going to tell us about building the mishkan and he's going to say yeah we already started that back at the at the end of yro and it continues see how much further should we go with this yeah we'll we'll we'll we'll leave it at this we'll leave it at that that is enough look at source number nine because now we're going back because just trying to follow my bizarre thought process here that we we just now talked about a so if you go back to Source number nine we're talking about the creation of man so in case you're wondering it's there that interests me which means Rashi used that P that we just now read that man is made out of some kinds of physical you see physical self let me go back and start that sentence again when you read this verse You' see that man is a hybrid we're made and we have this as well but now you realize that even the physical stuff that we're made of actually has a spiritual component because Rashi sayings our physical part comes from the ad and that's the same ad as and that is part of this uh of who we are if you look at the tarum yonatan over here in 11 which is aric or 12 which is [Music] in and so on that man is made again the physical part of man has at least Elements which comes from the bet mikdash we are no I'm not to say we your Stardust and so on and so forth and you'll start singing The Age of Aquarius but we we we are made physical our physical stuff is made out of something which is holy and it is so interesting because yes can be for scham and fora it also could be for which means yes man can mess up and but built into US is this ability of fixing things and I'm I'm and again I I hope in some way you're following you know the path that I am over here taking I don't know what to tell you all that I can do is I don't know what to tell you I'm not I'm not responding they built man out of that I don't know what else to say in Source number three when we're continuing back into The Narrative of uh of man in the Garden of Eden so of course the previous Source was back and peric B so that's when you know everything is brand new and man was just you know is made and everything is perfect I I can throw in a couple of other descriptive terms about man at that point but but man is uh again it's great by the time we get to the end of chapter 3 things kind of uh messed up a bit and it's at that point that we probably need a little bit of healing so that is a perplexing verse what is me menu me the easiest thing to say is that like the angels this God who's God speaking to God speaking to the angels so what do I want to note now I want to go back and I want you to think about I want you to go back and to think about yes yahu I want you to think about the possibility of being in a holy place and seeing holy things and the possibility of being expelled from a holy place and then perhaps seeing something from afar that man gets sent away so therefore here we have our first experience of Exile taking place so now we're back to the again which okay good see you shook your head even before I explained anything so and by the way when man was made he was then placed in the Garden of Eden I gave a class on this a couple of years ago it was called Eve is from Eden Adam was made outside and brought in but Eve was from Eden therefore the experience of Exile was probably very different between the two of them aam okay he got kicked out of the fancy place he got to move to but he went back home but Eve it's much much more difficult because she gets exiled to a place that she had never experienced before So Adam and Eve who kicked out but it says now one of the reasons that that's interesting this man when Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden what was the purpose so there was some kind of in the Garden of Eden and now we're told there is an aod outside of the Garden of Eden in the Garden of Eden said over here it's and man was sent away now that's a real interesting word because you recognize could have the root of it so that's that's real interesting and God then caused there to be by East there of Eden by that particular gate so now you know exactly why we're here because theim make an appearance and then of course I say of course because then you'll say yeah of course then you're wondering about the connection between and the other thing which is interesting of course about is that you look later on what is the so here you have the Ken with their revolving swords which are you're guarding the path to theim and now you have the creen placed upon the ark which are in a sense guarding and protecting the Torah which is inside the inside the ark inside the mishan so just again for a moment to realize that on some level there may be some kind of a connection but when connections take place they take place very often in different ways which means they can be a connection because it's the same they can be connected because of the contrast and I I want to read over here first of all something I said in passing Source 14 like one of the Angels men will become like an angel okay and what happens instead man is kicked out and what's placed there instead Kim now I would say if I didn't know better I would say that the K certainly sound Angelic they even got the wings right they sound very very much like Angels so man is not going to be the angel but the kimma place there but then we look at Rashi in Source 15 and by the way you want to continue that midash 14 R AA doesn't like what R Papa said if you look at source 15 rash says that these are destructive Angels so now that's not what we necessarily would have thought of you know what happened to our ni innocent and so on cherubs right Valentine Valentine's Day image we we thought that this was all very nice and uh and now we hear Rashi saying and and the Kim means images which right away what he's really telling you is that they I I know that you're going to say did he just tell me that but he is because he's saying that they can take upon different faces they could take upon them different images because soot could be different if you want you could getting ready rodes tomorrow or tonight you can say masks you can say it's but it's different kinds of masks different types of ways of uh I want to say disguising but of of appearing and in case you're not convinced what I just said the evidence for this [Music] is so right away just now if you didn't know this he's saying well what does a cre look like a cre looks like a Shore what exactly is a Shore an ax what exactly is an ax an ax is a beast of burden it's a beast of burden and now there is this beast of burden in this place and you have no idea how we just now got here and the answer is we just now read the Ezra it's going to become a lot clearer as I continue but first I have to haunt you all a little bit and that is the recognition the realization that when I asked you before about the crew versus the agel I hope you realize that a Shore and an agel are not that different from one another in fact they're the same species but one is the agle that is all grown up so now when I asked you if you would have put instead of instead of a cre you would have put two agos what if you put an agle that grew up what what would that have well you basically just now got back to the izra here no it's not just the Ezra if it were just some random comment of Ezra everything would be easy and uh we would probably just ignore it right you'll say why did you bring such a strange thing but what I'm telling you now is actually so much more prominent and so much clearer than you realize but that's why we have to start looking now at some other sources he continues and he says a couple lines down and I I will note this is the E and I told you last time that espe on Bara there's three different Ian ezas so this may not be the one which when you open your books up and look for it at home home you'll say hold it it's not there okay you just have the wrong books but as you continue he says well maybe I'll just read a little bit more by the way that is the parentheses are wrong it should not say bra it should say something else there prob I know you didn't get that now very close to rash these are frightening things normally we call that which is which is sharp on both sides which is good for killing going forwards and backwards right you can far more efficient to Massacre so over here you have this scary this scary Kim looking like a Shore armed and dangerous that's that's what we have over here and of course you're saying how and why did we get here so remember I mentioned the book of ycal now part of why jesal is important is that jesel is in the gah and he has visions of things which are holy he sees what we call a chariot but he also sees and later chapters he sees the beta mikdash fully built actually said that he sees the third beta mikdash which means he sees the future he sees Holiness but it starts off from the very beginning and that's where we're going to start and that is yeah that is Source 17 the HEB so really important and I am in Exile on thear those who are interested in such things the word is an anagram of K it's the same letters so is RA there's there there's a whole bunch of them that are all connected so again again what I said from the beginning about having visions of God and you maybe say we're asking well why did why and how did I get there well now you realize that that's right here and gives you the date and see it's even more tragic aain to be off in Exile and it looks there are those who will rightfully say that is a term is a mystical holy term and should not be a okay and in it there is this Vision there's appearance of four different animals so it says one of them it looks like an Adam now you have your wings and if you want to get a little more frightened again regel and on the bottom it looks like an agel and we'll skip a little bit and we'll Skip and it says in keep that in mind you count can you count to four you remember up to fouram good good and and they glow they glow by the way gold also glows should we skip a little bit more in one of the most famous passages during dealing with the parades is reik says when you get there don't say May so here there is a call of Mayim so just note that going to this was really the refer to early it wasn't it was here no keep in mind the that's also important the Throne of God good in chapter 10 he comes back to some of this and he says I saw again got back to the the sound of the Wings and so on and again if you want you will read the rest of this but I will say look at so these are the same that he saw earlier so what just now happened the C just now replaced something what did the C replace the shore so now now I hope we are sufficiently confused but we're not we're not really confused are we yeah I I know you're confusion the first question you're asking yourself is why did I come today the second question the second question you're saying does he know what he's talking about that's that's the next question but what I actually just now pointed out is what the ezzar had said the ezzar had said that the Creo and the shore somehow there is this really interesting switch off and again I want to make this a little bit clearer Source 19 Renu right there the that are placed by oh you want to know what this is go and look Ates so what did we just now do we looked Ines okay good before we get to the B I'm going to read a in batra because he's going to make reference to this I know you have no idea what we're talking about here now the what the issue is is this word Kira Kira what does it mean and for our purposes notice that it looks a lot like the word CW that that that's the issue now if you actually I gave you the English over here the steinel translation to English and you'll realize that it's talking about this talking about how long it takes to plow and it talks about what's the practice in in in bille compared to here TR in bille with the land the size is the area of a day's plowing which means you hired somebody for a day's work how much work they have to do all of this is has nothing to do with holy visions and so on but it does have to do with one thing the word plowing in English is kurava K has to do with plowing why is that important now this is like great because the guy who's going to tell us I'm sorry calling the guy the the Reon who's going to tell us this is of course the Bor Shore okay so the B the Bor Shore is now going to explain to us about the significance of the shore so I just hope like just in terms of uh Torah is a lot of bull you just said that then in terms of in terms of Torah Aesthetics I I have to get something for the Aesthetics of bringing out the to explain to us about the shore good good so what are they're angels that look like bulls and and of course you're you're you're saying to yourself what is going on and he writes why are they called because what do they do they plow how does he know this and just quoted the we just now read out so you see that that's what it is and the language there is the language of plowing we're getting someplace here don't worry and if you look in you see in one place he says that one of those four again you only have to be able to count to four that one of those four was a Shore another place is called the C so now we have our theory of conservation of and is the same thing and that's essentially what he just now told us about this what is a cre K is like a young person K is like a baby but now you say what does a baby have to do with a Shore and now again you're completely lost which means actually thear says that a c is is is a cherub really is what the just said that ycel wanted to go about and make a shift in the Mera between the bull and a person because of the agel so now maybe even you think you understood something just now which is very good could also be very bad but but it's but but it's good because now you realize that there is is so much more going on [Music] here originally man was put inside the Garden of Eden to do what now we don't know what that means yet what is what what what was Adam supposed to do in the Garden of Eden Gard of Eden but supp to work and to guard but we don't know what that means which means essentially what he just now said is that the Kim who are guarding the path the Gard of Eden took the place of man man is supposed to and therefore originally the Kim could look like people and and by the way I I ABS even before I saw this before sure I wrote this I don't know 30 years ago I claimed that especially the the Ken made out of one piece of gold Adam and Eve were originally made out of one piece Adam and Eve placed in the Gard of Eden were completely innocent eating from the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil is what took away the Innocence when they took away the Innocence they got kicked out but what was placed there in their place was the Kim who have this look upon innocence which is essentially man at his Apex is placed over there or certainly within the mishun that's what's there which means that the point of the mishun is that man can go un undergo a transformation we can be people who are involved in World of sin but nonetheless we can revert back to who we were beforehand so therefore part of what I now hope you realize with that last like 20 seconds what you now realize is the changing face over here of the Kim is really interesting because the changing face may very well reflect the change that undergo that human beings undergo when we go from a world of Innocence to a world of sin we go from World of sin to try to reacquire a world of innocence and therefore constantly seeing these crew of him who themselves may have an evolving face becomes that much more interesting because these images are actually incredibly symbolic and significant when it comes to trying to understand what are the possibilities of man again man is created the image of God man right God blows in to man this soul of life so when man has created the image of God In the Garden of Eden I would assume that all of this Are Spiritual constructs nonetheless we go and we sin right take that bite of that apple don't tell me it's not an apple it's of no concern to me we take that bite of that apple and at that point we end up being expelled and we have to go we have to go so now man has changed man has lost their spiritual luster we're still in the image of God but something something is Jaded something is T something is damaged and now we're something else and now guarding that path is the these Kim now these Kim are very frightening that's also which is really interesting why are they frightening are they frightening because of who we have become or are they frightening because they're objectively frightening are they frightening because they took on a different phas part of what the B is saying is that they're now replacing man man's job now is to work the land what is that actually mean that man now has we have to work the land what Have We Become now a Beast of Burden we have become aore we have become the people who now have to work so now the reflection over there of these Kim now they look like a Shore they're very very frightening because they're frightening because they reflect who we have become hold it is this making sense now that should be scary for all of you now if this is all if if all this is uh making sense don't worry when you try to repeat it all of it's going to be it'll be all over [Music] um if you if you see the thing is the in Source 22 and there's half a dozen other commentaries who go in the same direction who understand first of all if you read chapter one and chapter 10 then you realize that something took place kazal took note of that therefore when the crew them are placed over here what are they doing they're saying okay if c k him here and K him there should have a similar type of uh of identity to them so now the only question is how much more time we have and how much further to go I'm ready to stop by the way I I I think I've gone far enough for today I I will point out that there's another chapter to all of this at least there's multiple ones but one of them will be Source 23 which will be the the sulam that goes up and down and the angels going up and down on the sulam and what Yakov sees and the zoh will tell you in Source 24 what does he see with the with theam is the same thing as which means that there are multiple times that's what I saying in the very beginning there's multiple times where this kind of vision is one which will take place in Source 25 the midash there's multiple that say that that by the way the reason for this Isam is always spelled without above and have the same numerical value this is one of the midashim that point at gatria and but they say it's the same because what is a sulam it's a way of getting up into heaven what is sini it's a way of connecting Heaven and Earth both places you have the heads up in in in the skies and the feet down on the ground but it's point and and but it's point out this is the same andon and there is a lot more to say about this what I will end up stopping for today because again we we we went far enough is to say that the Ken themselves represent this idea of man having wings and being able to connect up to heaven sometimes there's going to be a vision that will take place like yov has a vision of the Angels going up and going down again going up and then going down but we have ability to go up seni the word of God comes down and then it's placed inside a building together with something that looks like like man in a perfect in the perfect perfect occurrence of man with wings which again are able to connect us back up into heaven and the word of God comes down this is connected to the vision of ycal it's also connected to V vision of the yes it's con connected to the vision that takes place when they course through the sea and it's connected to what took place in gunen the one thing that we gained here along the way that maybe you never realized before and there's a frightening part of this which I kept on pointing out but never explaining because we still need things to say in more weeks and that is that the possible connection between all of these visions and theel and you already heard enough information to understand how these things may be far more related than you ever imagined before the ramban will go in depth explaining that particular point but now you realize where all this comes from it's that the it's not just that the sword is a revolving sword what we have over here is a revolving or evolving Kim as well I don't know if evolving is the right word but it really is the different faces could be shown at different times because different things are taking place man was supposed to be a spiritual being who was in the Garden of Eden involved in Divine work or work of the Divine involved in something which is spiritual and maybe the bet mikdash is the next time that a place like this will exist that we can be involved in something which has to do with the Divine and therefore the Crum are placed at the entrance when man is kicked out but now they look very frightening that looks like a Shore but again if you look at jesc you realize that one time it's a shore one time it's the cre and what just now happened well if man is living up to what they're supposed to be then they look very innocent and very Angelic and therefore the crew them have one particular identity to them man is expelled because man messed up then we end up having man becoming a beast of verted and that's what actually it says now you have to plow now you're have to work so now that we become this Shore and now there's this different element to it so as I said all of this as an introduction to Theo which we're obviously not going to talk about today you realize there's a lot more to this but the frightening thing is the extent that man can change within themselves and cause terrible things themselves to emerge and then to think about the domino effect that this has within a spiritual reality in which we living