Parshat Teztaveh: Head and Heart by Rabbi Ari Kahn

but but this one I wanted to stay much more in terms of the clothing of the kohen and and the word clothing is not exactly the right term because he yes he has clothing but the Coen Godel also has these other things that he wears that it's not precisely clothing but it's part of the the vestments yeah it's it's part of the Cohen ghip is to have these things I'll read a little bit and then I'll tell you what was in my head that kind of uh I had to contend with so as much as we started talking about aish so on the one hand we spoke about the building of the mishkan and the things in the mishkan the the the Aon and the Min and the m and the the mishkan itself and now it moves over to those who will serve in the mishkan kohanim which of course you can ask a question hold it I I thought that you know especially in the ran everything is going in the proper sequence so what isn't it the first born meaning why are we talking about kohanim at this point weren't they only replaced after the golden calf if we did have a share next week I would talk about that but I'm not going to be here next week that means that these coin are going to serve so these are the things that the coin Co G needs to wear so again you may or may not have noticed that I didn't translate anything and that I didn't say what anything meant but I do want to get to where the Torah is going to tell us some of the purpose involved in this we'll skip to p now whenever we have a list of all 12 tribes or for that matter six and six we're always going to have the same kind of question which is going to come up who's included and who's not included and what's the sequence and my sense without getting into the the sugya the gamar the discussion my sense over here if he's going to represent all of B Israel then all of B Israel should be represented which means what's the tension do we include Ley or exclude Ley what I mean right what happens if Ley gets excluded then you have a Fryman manasha I mean that's how you get up to 10 so my sense is is that on the one hand Ley should be there and on the other hand ysep should be there because if ysep isn't there even if ysep gets two portions instead there's something which is missing from the the collective and if this is supposed to be a group which represents the collective then obviously you would want all of the collective there so I'm just saying it's it there's just two moving pieces over here one moving P piece is L Ley being removed and the other is ysf being removed of course yosef's removal is very different from Le's removal although if again if you want to be creative you can still argue and you can say that Ley is there because Ley is there in person holding the names of the others and it's okay but as I said my sense my sense was that it should it should have ysf and it should have Ley because and especially with that with that emphasis yeah my suspicion my suspicion is that anybody who said nishma was was part now where would they be so that later on that later on was mentioned that you have the that you have have done that all the others were were there with Dan so again that we only learn later when we talk about what is going to be the exact formation around the mishun but that that's what it sounds like when you hear the the statement over there so over here you have this representation of all again we'll skip a little bit so you notice the word being used twice now what's interesting about this is right now we're dealing with something which is on his body on his torso and not on his mind so I would have thought that something which represents zikaron should somehow be connected to the brain and something and if there is something on the Torso again closer to the heart then it probably should have had some other type of uh of identity to it so that that's just the starting point of what's of what's concerning me as we move further again in we have a similar thing over here we're talking about the so again we have the list of the 12 tribes so again here is the you know I said torso but here it's even more specific on the Heart by the way those were not the same things I'm not getting into right now but there was something which is up more towards the shoulder and there's something which is a little bit further down on the heart so over here it says that he's going to wear this so again there's this interesting expression that you have lazaron but it's on the heart so and I know I I'm not going to go so quick and say oh this is a mixing of metaphors you know I can't get this person out of my heart right I I I can say that I don't have a problem with that but nonetheless I find this emphasis especially because there's going to be another element that we're going to see in in a moment and so on which is generally this part about the bells and so on is generally not considered at all but there's also something interesting there which I'll see if I can get back to but so this is something which is going to go on the head the so this is something which is going to be on always but it's interesting the word zikaron is not mentioned over be here it did mention something else which was called Rito so now he he I told you that I had to contend with something I called it a demon it's really strong and unfortunate to use that term so I'll tell you exactly what it is it was a speech which later became an essay which Rob salvic gave so the speech that he gave was in 1940 so 1940 I guess in terms of Rob salvic speeches is pretty early so here's a man who's born in 1903 and he arrives in America uh in the in the 1930s and after a number of years there so at this point in 19 this point specifically he is he is in Boston he is considered to be the the chief Rabbi of Boston he's young he has his PhD and there is a Confluence of things that take place and it's very hard for me and I'm I'm I'm not a historian and I didn't dig deep and listening to people comment afterwards is of less interest I would have liked to know exactly what was taking place at the time but on the 5th of a that summer which would be August 25th 1940 the person who most likely at that moment would have been considered the god hador passed away and that was The Unofficial Chief Rabbi of vilner the reason why I say unofficial Chief Rabbi is that even though the vagon never had the title of Chief Abbi of vilner he never had the title of anything in VNA he he didn't have any title any job any anything the first full-time Colo member was uh the villain the G and by the way he was supported by a fund that was put away by his own ancestor they put the money away for a descendant who'd be sitting and learning and he he had his money by the way the person who managed the fund did not always give him all of the money and uh there were some uh I mean all kinds of but the villon did not have any official job didn't take anything from anyone he had his family money that he uh and by the way a lot of people say the villain gon's last name was Kramer ELO Kramer no he had a he had a grandfather whose name was Kramer but his name wasn't Kramer Kramer is a storekeeper so the storekeeper Kramer apparently had some money and was put away and he was never called Kramer in his lifetime only by clever historians today who know oh his grandfather was Kramer so he must have been Kramer but it's not Kramer is someone else and if you know Seinfeld you know who Kramer is and this I can assure you has absolutely nothing to do with the villon okay okay no I I I skipped a little bit Von died in 1797 so from the day that the villon died it was never seen to be appropriate again as far as like I don't know the next day the day after was it was never appropriate for someone else to be oh I'm the chief Rabbi of vilna you can't be the the chief Rabbi of villa like like what you what do you what are you talking about the chief by vilna so they had other terms the head of the baon so who was the head of the baon who died in 19 1940 that was with ginski okay so was seen to be the absolute godar at the time by the way may be of interest to you that moer had a first cousin I believe first cousin maybe maybe slightly different maybe once REM moved but I believe was her first cousin who became the rabbi in Omaha Nebraska om you can look up ginski Omaha nebras you'll find there was a rabbi ginski there who was was who like learned in the same Yas and whatever and he ended up and he had a Stell in omahan Nebraska no no no he no no yeah yeah not he lived in Vilma so he was he was again let's get back and make sure you can all Focus now in 19 in 1940 in a couple days before Tish the person who's considered the god passes away andin okay so now he's passed away in in America at that point probably the most important Orthodox rabbi was a rabbi who lived in Cincinnati and who would that be rebi Lear Sil rebie Lear silver who was a huge Tom and a character he was uh he he again a lot of what emerges in America afterwards in terms of the establishment protecting koser laws and other I mean he was involved in a lot of this again great deal of Charisma and uh and again everything you know that you would want he was once and called in in a I believe it was a senate subcommittee to testify and I think it was about something about conscious and for the record state your name elzra Silva and who are you so he was arguably the greatest the greatest Rabbi in America and Canada he would always say and Canada right in America and Canada and then the response was Rabbi that's not very modest of you he goes I'm under oath okay where did he live again Cincinnati well a bunch of places Harrisburg but but he uh but he ends up in uh in Cincinnati which will now will explain why something then happens in Cincinnati not not not all that much afterwards so I'm reading now right now it's an old Journal which is called ha Paradise you can find them online although this one was not there this one was the one that I wanted is not there I don't know why I had to find it someplace else but there's a thing called Hebrew books that has lots and lots of the old uh journals but in haares and I'm reading from year 14 it's not you don't have it you can look but you don't have what I'm reading from and it writes to B which means Thursday till Monday they made a convention I had to read a I couldn't say Cincinnati Ohio so now if you want to know why the second annual Convention of the aoda in 1940 is in Cincinnati Ohio it's because the head of the aoda lives in Cincinnati Ohio so if you live in Cincinnati okay everybody come to Cincinnati and it says that on the days of Cincinnati it started with with prayer and with pleas and they lit and so on and so for is so again he's one of the founders of is and here is here having convention you want to know which ones from Brooklyn so the noin he's the one who uh who said that to Hill him and and that's how they started off their convention I can actually give you a day byday session by session what took place by the convention but I'm supposed to talk about par and somebody May at some point accuse me of uh of deliberately moving uh moving on the side but now it's says as follows at this particular convention one of the incredible individuals somebody who comes from the most illustrious families the incredible you know not just regular the great the Great Sage the man of all kinds of skill is somebody who possesses all abilities he is on the on the board he was in and he's now on the on the board of the national board who this is an incredible thing that got such a person and he showed his power in Torah what he inherited which means the greatest Rabbi his grandfather bris and was one of the founders he has inherited his grandfather's approach to learning has he has shown by his incredible lectures with his ability to show depth and explanation to Boston as he showed in the by the way at that point he's not in Wu yet something's going to happen very soon that he's going to get to Wu but at this point he has yes in Boston which is called yes and there were two rabbis working there one was the r and the other was his cousin M Feinstein who was R moshe's nephew and and he also has inherited his family's approach to politics and he's inherited from his grandfather his political and his and his ability and his Torah and his fear of God Y and and he again play on the word yose he has inherited this ability in terms of you know every he every single possible uh thing now why why did I just now waste your time other than I think that it's interesting and ultimately as long as as long as I'm in charge so then I I could uh I I could I could say whatever I want so yum alive on Sunday night was skipping a lot of what happened beforehand but you just to see the names of the people that were there it is really quite interesting because everybody's there that that's really part of it everybody's there rmos is there every I'm saying every everybody is there it says that so finally on Sunday night after Shabbat it talks about how the Shabbat was and and everything and after Shabbat it says so now this session is dedicated to o it says they again they L again they said to this time and the same and then RAB Lear silver got up and he started to describe the loss somebody else who had been student says something and then we get to the main event and the main event was R soic and the whole place he was the one now I'm just going to give a little bit more of the history and then I'm I'm have to get back to our learning um I've heard of sheh to refer to this a couple of times that the raav used to come to uh to vilner for we when he was learning in Berlin he used to come to Villa for weekends every now and again and he would hang out with uh with so I actually looked and how long it would take by train today to go from Berlin to uh from from Berlin to Villa and it's around 18 hours I'm I'm not so convinced how often someone would do that for a weekend yeah like he could fly to New Zealand or something last time so so I'm not so sure how much she actually went but I can say is that his parents no longer are there especially before he gets married so he is really alone in Europe so who does he hang out with so he goes to Villa who can he talk to he could talk to P moer now a couple more things are rim oer and then we'll get to the main point oer was an incredibly exceptional individual from some of his true vot you come to this realization that he probably didn't have any time to learn after he was pick of the age 15 16 17 years old and everything that he knows he learned beforehand and he knows everything and R salv would tell over the story a number of times that he would sit and work all week or month on a thing and he would learn he would work everything out he' come to say it over and mo would point at the Shelf book and say yeah he wrote that and and whatever is he would say that that always knew and he said it was very frustrating that you said and you learn knows it already and could tell you who already said it before you so there was a mentorship I can say another thing is that when the r did get married r m was his M kadan okay and and there was certainly a relationship again how strong to put mentorship whatever they there I did see quota that one time they talked about the Zionist Congress and uh talk about the possibilities of having a a country a Jewish country land of Israel and who was known for his political Acumen as well not just his Torah he turned his hand over and he said you know the same odds of hair growing on your palms were the odds of ever having a Jewish country in in Israel he says he says it's just not going to happen he like he goes politically this can't happen so some of you may know that that's not how it worked out so now let let me get to the point of all of this and that is I have the entire hpid actually that's not fair there's at least three different versions of the hpit one version is what he actually said I don't know if in his notes if the RV had left his version of it I know what was published in one of the r books down the line and there it started at a particular place and it ended a particular place in her Paradise in the next Journal it said here's a synopsis of what he said so I have the synopsis is bigger than what's published in the r saer and it starts earlier and it ends later so there's a bit more what can I say but but why now let's focus why are we here because the topic or at least the way that and this you do have in in your in Source number 15 and we called so that's a little small and I don't know how well you can read it yeah but but over here somehow it did get bigger so among all the things the co would wear there were two things which really were acceptional and one is the and the other is the which we saw again one thing which is interesting they flip the order around from the way that they were actually presented in forgave all kinds of things that were so let's translate a little bit so what he just now did is that he moved to the location of the two that one is on the one is on the head head generally would be in intellect the other is on the heart heart is generally going to be emotions and he says therefore the tis is dealing with the with the with the mind ofon and the on the ofon which is the place of love for Israel and therefore the names of all the tribes that's why again that point of all inclusive everyone has to be there the sits would be POS questions of things allow not alloud now that whole sentence over there I don't know if one word of that is correct what he did is he again if there's something which eluded me then I apologize I just don't know that that's what the ti was really for the ti was as we saw what it says it's for and it brings about over here he's using it in terms of all things that all T and and as a rabbi would P it in those areas but what go to war or not essentially turned all of this into political questions which means politically is this something do we go to war not go to war and and these are questions do we have a rally do we protest all political questions so essentially he now moved the sits into all areas of intellect and things which are pure Torah and then the of all areas which are political which are a different type of a question and so on and so forth and again now he's going to brilliantly explain how the heart of the Cohen would be the realm of all of these things and I'm not going to read the rest of it I do invite you to and if you want I can send you a much bigger uh version of it at the there's this other section at the very bottom which is on the right side I also searched for this and could not find this that there was two questions asked of the same Rabbi one was a question is this thing C or not and the other was a question about somebody who apparently was a false Messiah they were both asked in the same question to this Rabbi the person who had the aimen to be able to answer the question also know how to answer this much long larger we can and he's would be calling it a political question somebody knows about the of the lungs also knows how to regarding is the Redemption coming and he then went on in in this hped to say that in this world we you know have there seems to be a lack of respect for the rabbi who's the big and maybe think that someone else knows a little bit more politically and somebody else understands more and what his whole argument over here is how the TI and the together on the co now if you're not understanding what's going on RV just now gave one of the most eloquent and Brilliant arguments in favor of Das Torah which essentially is that all questions need to be asked of the rabbi the rabbi is the one who knows the and he's therefore going to be the one who's going to have this ability he's going he's going to have this K he's going to have the he is the so therefore he knows magically everything that to everything to do now again what's really interesting is here's R salv before the age of 40 years old who is at aoda convention arguing the a gooda line in terms of d by the way he later on told people who asked that he never heard of the of the concept of dasara before he came to America that in Europe nobody ever you never heard of it there's also what to say that D Torah was created and um I may be guilty of overstating my argument but it was created and utilized in order to show that the religious Zionism or Zionism generally did not have authority and that then therefore the person who is the biggest he's the one who knows when you know if it's time to go back to Israel not time to go back to build a Jewish State not to build a Jewish state to force God's hand whatever that would mean and so on but I'm saying what's really interesting is R salvic is there and and he was close of moer and he is and he was a phenomenal speaker again there's other descriptions of what happened that weekend how he lit up the room and everybody was following him around he was very charismatic do you remember or you uh not really yeah yeah so he was very very charismatic and he was uh and again he was able to get up in front of 5,000 people and be absolutely spellbinding and those of us who knew him in English we're told English I mean that's not his first or second or third language I mean in Yiddish he's really was his uh was his uh ability to speak and and and he and he was a phenomenal speaker and clearly he was very very smart man but in a certain sense I want to go back to what I said from the beginning my almost default think thought process about the ti theen went back to this essay which I had known for years and years and years and then I started to go back and to think a little more critically and that this of course will be an act of deconstruction and saying hold it is that really true is this really true is and it's it's it's this great overstatement by the way if the RV eventually moves over to the mrai and and which is very much a post Holocaust late 40s 1950s moves over to the mrai and there's lots of different ways to uh understand it but it could be that he felt that uh that the way that religious Zionism was handling certain things was the correct way and uh and it doesn't mean that his religious iism religious iism of of of any or or any other person but he he aligned himself there I I do want to say one more thing it's also interesting that not long after this there will be two tragic deaths which almost could destroy Wu they lost their rhiv and they lost their president the Riva was his father rosha salich and the president was Dr reville and R salek put himself up as candidate for both positions that very much follows this is that no the same person should be the Shiva should be the president and uh and he's ready to to run everything no he he by the way he almost didn't get either they didn't want they they didn't want to give him the biva because they thought he was uh he was too uh much with the aoda he was too much and by the way the aoda is fighting for him to get the job so you know why you did they hired him but almost didn't give him a salary and they said sure you can work here we'll try out for a year but by that point it was uh obvious but he was very lucky that he didn't get the presidency because I think his life and things would be very different but I'm just saying is that that desire to do both I think goes back to this speech of saying that no it's the the same source and eventually he he backs down and you could find all kind of letters and all kinds of Expressions subsequently when he's asked to become Chief Rabbi of Israel he says no I'm just a teacher I don't know the other Realms I can't do these other things but the other thing is if you look at some of the speeches that he gave to the mrai and that that's in a book in English the r speaks originally it was the the for rot and it was in Yiddish and then or and you can find and then became uh the five Dr and orig there were four now that's five I think now there's even more they found more now also and one of them is Yos from the brothers and it is an absolutely anti-as Torah speech and then essay by saying yeah the're big sadik and but God pined against them they were wrong and and and and again the Holocaust weighs very heavily on this but I I do now want to go back and again I just showed you one way that this is taken and I don't when don't I say that I have a hard time with this I I think we salv in subsequent years would not necessarily have signed off on everything that he said over there and it's it's interesting it's not just that to the he was that's who he was at that particular point and that's that that's the way they had seen the world what's interesting it says that that he's following his family's footsteps his father was much more in with the zionists than uh than his grandfather was and uh and his father suffered a lot by this that his father went to America may have been because he couldn't get get a real proper job in Europe and he had to move over he ended up being in a again I don't want to do too much with the history he ended up being in a place that uh that he was marginalized in America then he became a Riva but tragically he died uh he died relatively young and uh and nobody saw it coming and and and therefore salvic felt that he had to take the place and and he does but excuse me no no no of nor of Sil is is a little different he takes the place of his father so let's get back to where of his father as we sh Inu MOS elev so now now let's try to get back and try to make sense out of uh some of these things one is that I want uh so so so it's interesting because that we actually touched last week it means acceptance from the words accepted from God which essentially means you want to go to that last in Source One the last last verse in Source One essentially what that verse says that if something got messed up in the bringing of a Cohen bringing of a Corban then they will nonetheless be nonetheless the Corban is going to be accepted so I I I want to back up and look at source number two for a second Source number two is last week truma build the mishun but right away build the build the Aron and on the hour and put the C and on the C and put and then we're told so will be inside the and the whole covering of the arc so you know as much as I can then try to put an argument for the and the and communicate we have a different apparatus whereby the Hala really or God's speech really can be articulated that and and that's has nothing to do with the Coen per se that has to do with mosu this is how God speaks to Moshe so I would say presumably what does God say to mosha well a lot of the things that reel put into theen could have been there but I also want to show you something else where where this eventually goes cuz you could say to me yeah that's true when there's mosh raenu and mosenu is the so therefore for moshu receives the prophecy but what happs what happen subsequently so I'm going to read to you something in the Kari and we'll look how what R cook did with it and then we'll see something in the rambam and I'll tell you something else about that look at source number two sorry it's just Source two look at source number three the Torah has its source at SI and or it has its source from Zion and as I said you can read the rest of that section but look at rook in Source number four this idea that you have to listen to the rabbis by the way that would go back to this if you want a you have to listen to the rabbis that's only that's not any Rabbi that's not any Rabbi existed in history that's only the power of the Sanhedrin who you need to listen to but why why do they have that Authority so first of all you could just say because that's Authority you get Authority so right first of all when the Torah talks about it says that place it's connected to the place and the point is is that there is this understanding that The hases KES is that that's part of being by the mikdash and again I may have touched this last week when I talked about the sulam and the sulam is up and the prayer go up and the or the Angels go up Angels come down but again what what he's saying is that by the beta mikdash we have a place of aod but we also have a place of a that has its special status and part of that special status is that the that Court somehow has rues because God gets involved in history and God has a will about what and how things should be practiced and therefore God gives this inspiration to the people that are there and he's saying and that's why you have to listen to them because daa in that place so therefore yes like the kar said it's by and it's by so therefore it's what made hasem we say again that's in the is that God gives that kind of uh of inspiration so and we'll read the robam in a second but now you realize that by claiming that all of this was part of you know any Rabbi at any time you know or let's say the godor is going to have this ability of of all political understanding and all this so that that in a certain sense what's the term they use today judicial overreach is is claiming all kinds of abilities which are not necessarily which are there although again you can argue that God has Will and God's will is going to take place but the but let me put it differently R salv was quoted in subsequent years they saying oh somebody would ask him a military question a general has to deal with a military question you know a rabbi doesn't have that ability to be able to uh to know what how you you have a medical problem you you go to Rabbi you go to a doctor so you go to a doctor you have a medical problem it could be it could be that if you go to a doctor and the doctor says listen here the here you know you you could take you could have this dangerous surgery and if it works you know then this or you can have this other thing and there's different so then maybe you could go to a rabbi and say hello here are my choices over here how do I approach my choices but that's not the same thing as the as the rabbi doing the diagnosis and telling you oh just drink this water and you'll be fine and don't uh and you don't need any kind of a so so I'll say it again so I'll say it again R salvic was very clear about this you go to doctors you go to professionals and again it could be that a rabbi then will have what to say but not that he has this V on him that any question which is posed to him he automatically has this divine inspiration and knows the knows the answer to these things so again I'm I'm going to call this this I know that there's this whole political and interesting religious background which is the reason why I went there with you know what exactly is this sit theen and where does it take us so let's um let's again try to get a little bit further the rambam in sorts eventually not was he in favor or against D Torah well he spoke very strongly in terms of O's D Torah right but then at some point when he moves away from the and he moves towards M he moves away from that and he says listen just because they have just because the great doesn't mean that they were right in terms of politics and and he said further he said God pin against God is the ultimate one who decides and and he didn't decide like they decided and therefore uh you look one of the very difficult conversations which can get you into a fight if you have to is to say that the vast majority of the rabbis in Europe before the war were saying to stay in Europe so again that's what's so interesting about the in one of the first there he says that the mistake and and he turns into Yosef and the brothers he said that the brothers which are the other rabbis who are great sadim and great rebes and great he goes they judge the future through the lens of the past goes what we've done in the past is what we'll do in the future and yoseph judge the future through the future and yoseph was the dreamer and saw the future and they only saw the past and the past is in Europe we're going to stay in Europe and yoseph sees that we're going to become farmers and we're going to be planting we're doing other things and ysep sees the future and God ping like ysep so that was a very again just to realize that in context now that is a very anti-as Tor approach but you don't realize who who he's attacking who's he attacking he's attacking Ros salivic from 1940 he's attacking his own position that he had articulated so eloquently so I'm saying that's what's really interesting this whole speech of theen he's really attacking this in his later uh in his later talk so as I said that's that that becomes that be yeah that that becomes very in very interesting and Source number five the rambam and this is the rambam in Hil sanedrin writes and sits with them so that that is you know perhaps the original then he continues and he talks about the head of the Sanhedrin subsequently and he writes and he's the one who sits in the place of uh Moshe which is also s r didn't have to go that far so you could argue here that the Rama maybe agrees with the kusari when it comes to the B which in then you somehow have I'll even say bizer anpin just to make people happy on a microcosm but it's still the power of mosu in a sense and therefore that there's still now that doesn't mean that you listen to the majority of rabbis outside of the B so again there's two points one is Authority and the other point is actually substance those are not the same Authority versus I'll tell you exactly Authority versus substance do what listen to the because they have the authority or they listen to because it's hasem is itm because he gave them the authority or isah because God is telling them what to do that's really really different that's Authority I know but is it because are you listening to because God said listen to the Simon says or are you listening to the because it's and God God is communicating with them still by saying that he's in the place of mosenu that's a very powerful uh statement I I I would like to believe that most people don't believe that they're sitting in mosha seat right just one second just one second and what I'm saying is I think that the rambam I could force it into I don't know how much I'm forcing into what ruk understood from the Kari that God gives Torah to and God gives Torah in not just a question of authority quite the other way around why do they have the authority because it's hasem because got meaning because there is mAh because there's Essence as well and God is communicating no no no but I'll say it again yes God gives the authority but is it just simply that I have to listen because God said listen to the majority or is God still communicating and telling them what it is that they should be doing which means there's no prophecy there's no prophecy but I'm going to now ask you again what is those words words mean so is it because God is still communicating that's what the Ken that's what he emphasized again does every single Rabbi have that ability you know what subjectively really totally subjectively I think there's lots and lots of rabbis who will tell you that when they're answering questions they have this you know you happen to pull one book off the shelf look somebody asked me a question last shabas right I went to sh in a different I went to sh for in a different sh pull a book off the shelf open it up and it's the answer to his question right just opened up to that page it's the answer to I took a picture I sent it to him and he go oh that's great I said I just want you to know was totally random that I was there random I pulled that book off random I opened up to that page and uh there's the answer to the question there there's a there's a great story with the no to be Huda the no Huda was a at that point a candidate become the Rabbi of Prague and Prague had lots of who thought a lot about themselves and they all wanted to give this candidate you know give him a hard time to see you know how up he is and how good he is and how much he can answer so one of them then asks a question which is essentially an impossible question to answer and the no be listens to the question and he says let me ask you one thing he goes I don't know the answer but let me ask you one thing I don't know let me ask you is this a real question or did you make it up so the guy said I made it up he goes I thought so he goes why he said because whenever I get a real question I feel some kind of divine inspiration I know the answer cuz God gives answers to CL Israel but do God doesn't give answers for my ego which means when it comes to my reputation God doesn't care about my reputation but God cares about clel so therefore I felt that I was just totally blank had no idea whatsoever that's why I felt that you made it up and I have no idea of the answer that that is so interesting but I'm going to say I understand that completely I understand the no deuda completely he's saying when when when there's you need to answer something so then K is gonna help you because because CL needs an answer you you can't just that but just somebody wants to give him a hard time no KES didn't want to protect him Le let's again try try to make a little bit more progress and uh I don't want you to completely con be convinced I didn't we didn't learn anything today um in in Source number six the ramban speaks about the clothing of the Coen God this Raman is important more than anything else because he calls the clothing of the Coen God really clothing of uh of royalty the royal colors the Royal Purple the royal blue and so on he also makes a reference to Yosef the code of Many Colors I don't know if you ever thought about the Coen cuddles clothing as a coat of many colors I discussed this more in my other share I gave this week and we're going to leave that in PK lamid which is halfway down the line there in the a little less than halfway in the ramban he uh he starts talking about the whe first he quotes the Ezra where it's bold he wanted to be very clever and you know that this is not that sentence is not going to end well when you start like this he ends up Blum right he didn't say anything essentially izes in terms of an ability to discern and decipher astrological reality based on as ology and the ran does not love astrology thez did and he thinks that the was something which were divine which because he he he'll note in the rest of this paragraph here it doesn't say that they made it it doesn't say they but they placed it it's really interesting over here if you look again next paragraph where it's lower it never says to build it literally that the are something which is either a Divine secret or it's something which was given by heaven and it's re re really again as you're reading all these things you'll make this you'll make this you make this and you kind of think this must be the same thing and he's not saying that he's saying no the just a completely different thing so as I said that that is a really interesting comment by the by the Raman and clearly you see he goes on and on so there's a lot more to say make it there's a lot more to say about this look he says they never made it that's what he says doesn't mean they didn't have it he just says they didn't make it now let's get back to the word that you asked about before and that was rsui right this idea of uh which is really what the tis was for there's a there's discussion about the tis does it work only if he's wearing it or what if he's not wearing it and what is it it's to and the simple thing that it says is that again I want to make sure that you see the turn of phrase that was the again in Source number one the last P that it's on his forehead what does that mean so it creates even when there's something that had gone wrong re means acceptance Divine acceptance so now look at just in order to argue this is really what it means there's a that's really towards the beginning of the paraa towards the end of the parha we have the same concept coming up another time and it's said so quickly and it's the end of the paraa you don't pay attention to it and only you have to pause and say what did they say and then you say oh that was really interesting and let's just read at the end of the parch now Source number which all seems to be like random kinds of things and then this is the end and he should bring about a Kap on the once a year what in the world is he talking about so if you look atash oh it says now what's the purpose of the and the to bring about from T of the mikdash so now we especially in a post Temple world we imagine y Kipper a day to bring about forgiveness for us right we sin please forgive us and let's have a good year right the problem is and now you just saw Rashi on that POS know this Yumer and but there's an aspect of kipper that it's focusing on and that aspect Kipper is not is not about us look at source 14 now because I'm reading now straight from y I'm reading from you should bring about k for thees from all of the T of which me essentially part of what we need to get forgiveness for is when we messed up with the mishan the mishan is something which is holy and we may have turned the mishan into something which was not holy we may have done things in the wrong way and for that we need forgiveness for that we need if you misuse the the mishkan the Mishka now is misused so now what how do you move for further now now think about what it said about the tits oh you did something the wrong way you brought something oh it's okay it creates redo anyway which means you know as opposed to what we saw from the very beginning what's the the is the intellect this not this is not no this is K that that part is true it's Kash it's like this you can pull out like this Ace right or this uh right this get out of jail free card it just changes everything you did something wrong but no K it's as if there's this overwhelming some see this in terms of the the coin can have this overwhelming Mak that everything should be T right directly and then even if we messed up along the way it makes it work anyway it's it's it's like this macro consideration even though we may have messed All Along on all of the micro but if you go and continue reading about about yum Kiper y Kipper is a dual holiday on the one hand it's to fix something which is kadosh which is the mishkan on the other hand it's to fix something which is kados which are people which means what is sin sin is when we brought about we brought about impurity in ourselves he brought about impurity in our hearts impurity in our minds impurity in our actions and we need forgiveness all of this but one of the things we need forgiveness for is that we brought impurity in something that was supposed to be pure and that was supposed to bring about forgiveness for all the things and that is we messed up the thing that was supposed to fix we messed up ourselves we messed up our souls we messed up the mishan we messed up the bet mikdash so yam really is a day to fix that and when you realize this is articulate the end of the parha and now you go back to the sits there towards the beginning of the parha you hopefully are not going to misunderstand what the sits was about this is about to bring about tahar even in a place where there could have been tum and bring about where God is going to accept our a even a place that there is and you realize I had to work hard to do all of that and it would have been much easier just to talk about the sit and theen in this uh in this D Torah kind of way but what could we do that even though we're very very inspired by rfri we take um we take salace in the fact that I think he moved far away from this talk as well and uh by the way others did even the Jewish Observer actually in the late in the early 90s published a part of that talk and argu in front of D Torah and I could just imagine you know he didn't bother writing a letter to the Ed or listen I moved away from that talk and whatever but it's interesting like one of the few things that they ever published from him was his uh his talk on D Torah and his eulogy for moer again it really is wonderful and it's beautiful but there I'll say it again we live in an age where there's some judicial overreach there's some overreach in that as well and uh we need to be careful about that also doesn't mean re has really interesting article about D Torah and he says listen doesn't mean the rabbis have the ability that some people think but on the other hand if you respect religion then you should discuss things with your rabbis again it doesn't mean that they have that ability but maybe they maybe nonetheless knowing lots and lots of Torah is going to be able to give great insight as well again don't don't overstate it understand what it is and uh we we we do need to consult but we need to know why we're Consulting and how we're Consulting again as you said not instead of the doctors but sometimes it could work very well in conjunction shabbat shalom