Parshat Tetzaveh 5784 by Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay good evening all right um let's get started I have three pieces here I hope we can get through all of them the first is from sham mm we've seen many times before and uh I just have to apologize for the order of the sheet there's little confusion but just very simple go to number two first okay number two is some introductory Pim which will affect the next few pieces the beginning of the par right at the beginning of the and you speaking to mosu the says and you will command this is the preparation of the manora the lighting teaching of the lighting of the manora take pure olive oil to you really prepared refined for the light to light the the singular the constant light the it's just outside the there was a that divided between The KES Kim the holy of holies and the aare the the which was on the meaning the The Ten Commandments the two tablets which were in the AR and in the you you set up the A and his children son should set up the from evening till morning the light there's enough light from evening till morning before a forever for is okay those are the pukin to number one okay so he talks about v um you command B is so he's going to quote a medish here comparing the Jewish people to olives right you command the Jewish people to take olive oil Min he quotes a um means a beautiful verdant richly veget vegetable of beautiful verdant Olive uh is what calls you we are the olive to Theon um Ella the med continues what about this Olive umine we pick it we take it off the tree the Olive Tree we bring it down we beat it we squeeze it we wrap it in in cloth we bring Stones we press it down we press it down with the stones to to all these Pro these three processes to get the olive oil out of the olive so that's how we get the oil so to the Jewish people the nations of the world and they attack us the whole medish they take us They smash us they bang us they cover us right something that we are all too familiar with right now at this very moment in to in Jewish history Chua and after the suffering from the nations of the world it brings us to do chuva in fact we've seen a great deal of chuva in our world today who will answer them you the you're the not the apple of my eye the olive of my eye because you've been squeezed and pushed and crushed and yet you survive you do Chua so he has a question on this medish I'm shocked he says this is the description of the Jewish people that the Jewish people will only return to him and live a spiritual life only after suffering Shalom but this seems to be what what is the medish saying this this is the essence of the Jewish people that's what the what the PK is saying lar can't be what the medish really means there has to be a deeper meaning to this medish that there is a mush and a Nim to what the nations of the world do to us but more precisely what we do to ourselves and that's the between the lines of this medish this is the explanation this is not a praiseworthy kind of CH we unfortunately we'll take it if the Jew does Chua this way we'll take it but this is not the idic situation the med is coming and saying this is not what God wants this is the the essence of the olive that the olive will in fact it's true bring out the the pure olive oil after all of these Deeds but this is the of the in ourselves every Jew is impure we are not perfect nobody is perfect a there's nobody in this world that is not sin so a person has to view his constant struggle spiritually in this world the next we have to constantly be crushing ourselves removing the dross removing the that the the items that inhibit the pure spirituality of the olive oil which is what we are compared to this brings out the true essence of us this is the Jewish people the Jewish people are essentially good people we are all good we are holy people but sometimes by mikra by happen stance we fall in toit we fall into waste into negative forces when we remove that the Jewish people the real Jew comes out that's the process that the medish is alluding to of pressing and pushing and squeezing the olive oil out and the r gives an example very wrestling example this is the last if someone refuses to give a get Pres forces him the community forces him to give a get they force him and force him until he says I'm willing to give the get because remember cannot be given by force it's not a get a get has to be given by Free Will so we force him the last get is we force him until he says I want to do it how is how is this evil person this terrible person who's aing a woman how does does he say Rabbi the truth is he said suffering will eventually bring out the true Jew the ra writes the reason why we force him we force him he says uncle say I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it the rabbis mean next in other really this Jew an evil Jew any Jew who sins really in his heart he wants to do the right thing even though it's there are layers and layers of evil covering that heart that Nish but if you uncover it you're cofen you force eventually he'll get to the point right eventually the true Jew will come out so too if we we hit our hearts so to speak we that's going to bring out the the true of a person his internal that's what the R means that they bezden forces him not until he gives a get that's not a good get they force him until he realizes that he has to give the gets the right thing to do and he's going to do it okay that's the Sham is now let's go to three and now three is at the bottom now you see three is at the bottom we'll come back to 3B that's the large paragraph now this is from the kakar the kakar was a principal student of the moromi Prague and he's going to say something very profound on this whole P that we quoted at the opening of the para so he's gonna ask a number of questions the first question is what's this you now we've talked about this in the past that the ronam spoke to him int more intimately we're going to go in a different direction here the it's not only he's bothered by the grammar of the it's too speaking to him person properly say you command means you command so you you Moshe command B Israel right what is that all about gum the truth is the word is is I it's m it's redundant the whole thing is we have that in other exactly that's that's really what is said in par concerning the lighting of the of the candles of the manora so he quotes here which is going to be a very valuable source for answering this question and the others that are going to come and the ramban says why did he do this why is it you you command for some reason for some reason the did not want this mitzah to be done by lighting the is very hard to understand why is the mitvah of the lighting of the nor in the mikdash in the Mish why was that D had to be you you light it so it begs that other question now go back up upstairs here to 3B on the sheet okay odha another question ask why is the Mitzvah here right right here it really should be after the Mish is completed right next paragraph says remember the number two command him to light the constant light what do you mean shouldn't say it should say there are seven lights to the candle abam to the min another question hello says the lights went from evening to morning why does it say Tam tamid is 24 hours not 12 hours another question it says in the outside the right which is between the kashim the holy of holies with the with the Aon with the ad with the two tablets of stone SAR ofus right and the the the with the right what does he need this whole uh Geographic uh presentation we don't need it could have simply said just light the we already we already know we know where the is and he says again right one L where the the lighting of the candles of the takes place the MIT takes place it says there seven I think this is the question he's going to ask it says here you do it in the and then it's just the opposite it's the same thing but he says it the opposite but here there seems to be some significance of attaching the Min to the and and here's that's all his question so what's going on here so here's his answer here's his answer basically what he's going to tell us is that with all of the the you'll excuse me for using the expression the holy props and the mitv that we have and all of the Holy items and the clayish that we have the vessels there's aside from the individual individual vessels there are going to be a number of vessels which are headline headline vessels headline Caleb right to show something that the other vessels don't not necessarily show right let's see what he says it's really based on what the ran said light says a constant constant light that in fact is the naravi the Western Light of the of the minur lights stays on the entire time there is one light in the in the Min that's on the entire time thei it was constant but the other six lights they were May what is that all about we can answer all the questions that we ask let me show you tells us that God commanded and all of the vessels all the the holy vessels but he divided the Mish into three parts each of those parts in each of those three sections of the mikdash there was a general statement make me a mikdash and I will be living I will live there will be there in other words all the other play cage represent a specific item specific myth that we do but there's a certain kind of Mitzvah that has to remind us that Rabon is with us constantly he is constantly in the Mish he's constantly with us right not just when we do the Mitzvah we said that parus that curtain divides between the and the the holy of holies where the are with the the tablets of testimony of gave us the t is with us constantly mosha wanted that in each section of theik of the Mish there would be some significant Central Motif that will tell us that is with us constantly on the other side of the you have the tablets of stone the law the tablets the of testimony that God gave us authorities with us is testimony that a God is with us we have a God who is faithful that God is resting there is there how do we know that is resting with the L because the L are actually two tablets of stone which are actually miraculous he gives one example the they were inscribed the letters were inscribed but the me in the Su were not attached miraculously they stood in the middle of their area anyone who comes into the which is only the but anyone who would come in there he would say eyeball to eyeball that God is there because it's a miracle that you can create those and there are letters that are standing alone but now you have the par so where's the message that God is where's the where's the where's the constancy of presence once you close it with the and the truth trth is we can't go in there it's for the co someone will say that God is not really with us all the time right God also had to create a constant miracle in the Ben that is the Western Light lamp of the minora kades that everyone would look at it they see the in the constant light is dwelling with if not for the we wouldn't need the miracle of the manora we could see through would be able to see through the whole distance of the of the length of the mishan we'd see it well the next paragraph and therefore it's gonna answer some of the questions this para is not about lighting all making all lighting all seven lights of that's the Mitzvah the mitah of the Min is in par here the whole bringing of the man and this para is not to teach the Mitzvah of lighting the that's the empasis is on the to reveal to mhe not withstanding the fact that the par curtain is covering the the tablets of that God God is constant also in this place in the will also be a a miraculous constant presence of same which will highlight is there he's here now here's the third constant says about him this is this is actually where is this the end of the Torah in the BR is God God asked his place should be in in a certain place where he wanted to be buried because mosha rabenu was buried there the play of Rashi points out because Moshe is forever Eternal MOS is eternal resting place but mosha mosha rabenu is in every generation he's constant presence of hem was the beginning of all things that were miraculous coming from he is like the light thei which lights the other candles so you have the the of testimony prin the base of the Torah the the constant Torah the constant Torah or then you have the the manur the constant Nar which lights all the other lights and then you have lights all the other lights so to speak all the prophets received their inspiration through the inspiration of mosu came after him the Moshe was like the was like the sun right constant presence of hem so okay think iip did I skip a line so to thei the constant light in the candle in the the constant one miraculously the light of because Moshe is the is the the man the man in between the light that came from is he's the man in the middle the lights that come miraculously how do we know that famous rashash when mosha was born the whole house was filled with light familiar Rashi inish to teach us to demonstrate to highlight to highlight you excuse the the pun that he was the first to receive the light from the constant light and through him is from that that light will will be wherever there's something miraculous constantly going on I.E the Mish therefore the Torah says to answer one of his questions you you right twoo grammatical um I'm speaking to you in the in the familiar form right from your essence of who you are it's about who you are Moshe that only you can do this or you can bring the light you command so you could take that that light and you can your spirituality will your your spiritual energy will be transferred to that light and it will be forever it'll be last paragraph now we can understand it had to be in outside of the because you had the which we couldn't see that constant Miracle of the so it was lit from from evening tonight the same amount of oil was put into that Nar there that that was the miraculous part of it and it went all night and all day the exact same amount of oil was put in as he put into the other six candle noras but that not withstanding it was a constant we don't know which which candle but the says before that's the Western the Western n of the Min which is close to the in the west next to the facing the you have two witnesses now you have two witnesses he's qu all the are not mentioned here where the of the lighting is mentioned I mentioned earlier and over there doesn't say it's about all the also we mentioned thei over there but okay so this a fascinating um I love the way he asks a bunch of questions and then answers them really with one essential Central answer right all these questions all these questions deal with the fact that there has to be a central motif of God's constant presence through out the mikdash from Moshe to the to the to the okay final piece I don't have anything this week from the G alar RAB Al last week we'll have something in next week I hope but I brought another source that we've never seen it's a saer called what's shabat one of the of is you have to eat warm food theer the is coming this is a safer recording the Dres of the to at Mal every week right I happen to have the saer on theer we've never I have to give we have to do a lot more of these contemporary for an amazing person uh he also has some sources in in G some the G but the Tolen Reb is someone who uh like the the rash many many many influential people politicians secular politicians politicians come to see the to rebba for advice business businessmen come to see him to Reba I should tell you let out a little bit of a secret his Source his his family comes really there's a Toronto connection um uh he was a student in nativ Mayer you know what nativ Mayer is some of you should know what nativ Mayer was AA High School in yush an excellent high school so that's about so you can figure it out yourself he traveled he was a grandson of the to rebba his father did not be he became the rebba and as I say very very special and we'll see it brings something very nice here actually it's a question that in past years and I've given an answer from R but he has a different approach it says in our here we're presenting in this of were very busy with the big deuna so we see all of the clothing that the the Coen wears when they he does the aod inash right what does it say that the coin will serve under him right his children under him of his children teach if the has a son he takes over for him he becomes a coin go in his place now he brings this in the if the king or the Coen die or all the other appointed positions his son is appointed ohy or someone else who is fit to inherit so if the sun's not ready you go in in legal order of who is in line in line to be the co like in line to be the King right it goes by right but of course he has to be he has to have the right it's a technical position a lot of technical things he has to do but there has to be and fear of even though maybe he's not as smart as his father right but he has to have a certain sense of right the next however there's an exception to the rule exception to every rule the Cain in charge of war the chief chaplain of the Jewish Army his son never replaces him the son of the is like any other Co if he happens to be appointed he's appointed but if not not it's not a guarantee now in past years I've given the answer of R cook I'm not going to repeat it somebody remembers it you'll let me know and we'll repeat it next week right but here's his reason Le there's a a great distinction between theen and the he quotes one of the commentaries on the r quish all other positions of authority even though he might not be like his father M really like the spitting image his father and we're not it doesn't matter he he it's a lot of technicalities that he has to do he knows what to do he's smart enough he's he's got got a good is not just dealing with animals four-legged animals and going through all the technicalities in the mikdash he has to reach out to the heart and Inspire the heart of every Jew the soldiers before the war can't can't this cannot be inherited he has to have that ability now I drew these lines here because we go now to the top of the left hand column his job is to to inspire Inspire those who are going to war that they should have faith in is goingon to save them they're afraid there's a certain fear going into battle not to be afraid of the of the enemy has to say to them you're going against your enemies if you let them fall there'll be no for you don't be weak of heart when you hear the sound of the horses coming when you hear the the sharpening of the swords when you hear the shields being bang you hear all the the sounds of War don't be afraid of the horns they're they're blasting when they come God is with you they're coming with the victory uh artillery of people of human beings but you're coming with the victory the ultimate victory of the Philistines came with the strength of gas of Goliath Maho what was what was the end of him what happened to them they died he died and they all died not you're different is is ahead of you he's leading you he is our general this is this is what he has to say now guy doesn't have that inspirational quality and gets up and says that what's going to happen right it's a different thing right a lot of technical stuff he's dealing with the animals right doesn't have to inspire the animals and since this is the job of even if he has and he has fear of God but he does not have that presence the voice of a lion does not have that power that ability that Charisma to inspire the people then he's missing the main qualification right of the job he cannot take over his father's position now go to the right hand column under the line right he can take over as he is a he is he is an invalid but he doesn't have the ability to do this work so he say he's saying rather I'm sorry he's saying something else if the son of the is missing a limb missing an arm he can't take over his father so too he can't take he can't get the job his father was chosen not only for his not only for his for his year but especially for the fact that he was an inspirational charismatic a charismatic lead right so he says here can be a son Coen who's not but he speaks words of he speaks diamonds charismatic and he can do the job he is ready for this for this job therefore right he says here he goes in to say there what do we get out of this well he he goes to it he wants to say this has to do with how does a person become well I'm not going to do it inside I'll just say it outside how does a person become this great inspirational leader of of Torah it's he's not an actor he doesn't go to act school right it's years of mus of learning Torah of his is on such a deep and profound level the intimate relationship he feels with a kesu and he's bursting to get that out that can't be inherited that's the kind of thing that every everyone has to work on their own personal yay and his father was like that but he necessarily be on that level where it comes out from him that way so I just that's how what he basically says I want to bring it out in a in a in a very practical sense that this is really what he's saying one of the great tragedies in parenting is when mother and father want the child to be exactly the way they are and they don't recognize that everybody is different and I think that is the real lesson here that he's that he's flushing out here the TOA of why the m is not a hereditary position because not every child can be a m his father was a m doesn't mean he can be Mich right his father was a foreman in a factory I can't be a foreman a doctor his father was whatever he was I can't you know you can't make your child be what you are that is a great tragedy in parenting it creates we can a child by expecting him to be just like father and just like mother so that's why we we have this one exception where it's very clear the child cannot be like the father right and that's and to perhaps to give over this lesson to us okay what Ru cook said can I remind you what Ru cook said I'm sure some of you remember I'll tell you what he said he said that the Jewish people we have a great Army we have the greatest army in the world because Hashem really is behind us right like he was saying here but the Jewish people for the Jewish people the idilic society for am Israel is not to have an army it's temporary the H is permanent mitv are permanent is permanent is forever Mikes will be forever forever mitz are forever the Army is temporary this is not Plato's Republic it's a necessary and once we have it it has to be the best but therefore to indicate this said this therefore the position of M is not inherited because we hope that the next generation will not need okay and that let it be for us right now at this moment in history thank you all see you on if you come Wednesday we'll see you if not we'll see you Monday mem all the best everybody have a wonderful evening