Parshat Vayakhel: Yehuda and Dan - Divergent Paths to a Common Destiny by Rabbi Ari Kahn

I I had seen this week that Joel golany has had passed away now I don't know how many of you remember his name Joel when we were downstairs he would come every week he would sit right in front on my left he was a Harvard educated lawyer and he was a uh he was a true Zionist he was uh on the head of a number of different organizations he used his uh his I'm sure you if you see if you saw if you saw him you would know exactly you would know exactly who who it is but he he he was yeah he was such a fine such a fine person so the the person who had posted I asked you know what happened he said that he didn't feel well and he went to the doctor went checked up did blood work and they said he has leukemia and died two weeks later right so we will we will learn today again he was uh he was one of the group and and the whole time that uh since Co I think he he'd really stopped coming but he would he would listen and he would write to me every couple of weeks he'd write to me and have comments and questions and and so on so what's interesting here is that when it comes toel we get like the full Gambit of capabilities of blessings if you notic you and which is right standing there but it's more than that it's which means it's not just this capability but on top of everything else and if you look at some of the commentaries you'll you'll come to the realization that we're dealing with abilities which are given by God you're dealing with prophecy you're dealing with uh with understanding which is is all you know quite incredible but then again it adds in at the end which itself is an interesting name you see the oh oh oh there and you hear he's going to help his brother as it were so so you you you see something over there but I want to stay with I want to stay with Balo for just a moment one and we're going to see some of this later on and some of it is going to be quite confusing first I'm just going to tell you what Rashi says and what Rashi says he knows because K say it how you then trace it down and figure it out in terms I don't want to say on a factual basis I want to say on a shot basis it becomes a little bit more challenging almost every time is mentioned Rashi tells us that is the son of Miriam now I just have a simple question how exactly does he know that I mean where does that come from so that itself is going going to be a challenge so let's let's leave that for a moment but what that would say to us is that balel is somebody who comes from the tribe of Yehuda and we know that Yehuda is a very important tribe I know some of you will tell me they're all important tribes but okay you have important and you have more important and Yehuda is a very Central tribe and if I had to go back and the first time that we see the significance of Yehuda most lik the first time will be very subtle it's yehud it's it's it's right right back in in in saer braid with Yehuda and his brothers that that that moment already you realize that there is leadership y's taking responsibility and that gets fully articulated by Yakov on his death bed when he says that leadership kingship will go to Yehuda and that that verse I have a little later on Source number two so you have this that the brothers are going to know and the enemies he's going to you know clutch them their their necks as it were his uh his sons of his father will bow down to him G yud is compared to a lion the will not depart from which seems to be eschatological times of that means this again Mal is yehud all the way till we get to the time of the benid that we're waiting for sometimes called Ben Ben David mashia and all that is right there in in yakov's blessing so therefore to to identify Yehuda as the leader and and know some of these things are going become clearer when we get to sa midbar when we're going to find out that yehud is going to be first yehud is going to be first in terms of the marching formations yehud is going to be first in terms of the Nim when they bring the offerings for the 12 days right nak is going to be first so therefore Yuda is if you're going to say they're all equal he's the equal of equals but he's uh he the there should have been no surprise now again on a different level I could say that capabilities artistic capabilities desire to donate one's time and efforts and energies and skills to God could have theoretically come from any place and not just Jews it could have come from any place in the world somebody could say you know I just feel this need to do something for God and I have these capabilities and I was blessed but when the person is bitel and the person is coming from the from and the person is coming from the tribe of Yehuda so it's not just that it could come from anyone there there's something right about this there's also something terribly wrong about this but for this moment there's something which is very right about this and that is this is Yehuda but then we need to do something else and then we need to consider the his partner I don't want to say his partner in crime but his his partner and that is done and and again you can't help or from the tribe of done but and you can't help but note that the way the two of them were introduced was very different because it could have said hasem B I mean it could have been that that God calls both of them and then enumerates all the capabilities with both of them but rather you have a very clear description of one balel he's the leader he's the one he'll get the school named after him right he he is the one with this he's the creative genius and then he has a right-hand man somebody who's helping him out and again what's interesting is are these two tribes and that's really where I'm going to be staying with the rest of today is these two tribes and why these two tribes there's first of all complete difference between the tribes and secondly there is commonality between the tribes I'll go to the commonality but oh you know but first I'll go to something which is very different back in Source number two right at after Yehuda was introduced and Yehuda was given kingship and Yehuda is a lion and so on and so forth in we get to done so it's interesting that by it's is already something that legislative it has to do with with law and and and establishing law and then done y now let just notice that it's not just that it rolls off of your tongue it's that Dan the name is is as it or and if you pause there for a moment and you look at the name Yehuda you see Y and and it's the first and the only of the sons of yov that H actually has he has all four letters of God's name in his name y he hey or there with a doid at some place but the name was a name which goes more towards so over here have Dan who is unmistakable and on the other hand you have Yehuda who's coming from the the shame sh the shame of so again going towards this distinction between the two but then it adds Israel so I didn't bother bringing you sources for this but I can absolutely assure you that there are those going to say oh which tribe is he like he's like Yehuda why because yehud is the one who's called the m so if yehud is and the M needs there to be more judges who who is going to be the judges well the judge is going to be Dan Dan is going to help that other sh right like no he is a shavid so which shav does he compareed to so over here you have something which is interesting comparing them but then it continues and it says so I don't have to remind you I know somehow we always get back there that uh or or serpents are not always in our tradition something which brings us happiness and joy that quite the opposite that when we see aash aash is something which represents sin it represents death it represents uh pain and the the description over here of these two tribes one being associated with a lion and the other being associated with a serpent they are very different and just looking at them again the lion is the king and what exactly is the the Nash but I'm just saying is that we have room again to pause when we make this comparison again what all that I'm doing now is I'm saying just like we have when Balo is being introduced and we have oh there's someone else helping from Don which is sounds almost like an after thought we have over here Yehuda being introduced as this leader of the tribes and then someone else is introduced but also to help him so I'm saying this interesting Dynamic which is taking place over here with the building of the mishkan is a dynamic which arguably again I want to be very careful now because you can of course point out all the reasons why they're different I mean the fundamental difference would be is they were talking about a legal system we're talking about judgment and over here we're talking about something whose very Foundation should be rah and that's the Mish which will help us be close to God help God dwell in this world as it were help us bring offerings which are so I'm saying actually the the appearance of Dan in a structure which is all towards m is itself really interesting but I'm what I'm saying the dynamic is something which we have if we paid attention which we had seen before that that in again it's the interesting turn of phrase and it's this judgment of done after you Huda already was declared as the person as king who's ultimately in charge of judgment so you have again a really interesting Coalition of two of Yehuda and Dan and that's something as I said I want to explain a a little bit more on the other hand right there's always an other hand when mosenu gives AA for the tribes Z in Source number three when it comes to Yehuda he says I mean everything is here except what's not here well one thing which is not here is not compared to a lion but what he is it's it's Yehuda in terms of his strong hand and yavo but then we get to Dan and something unexpected and interesting appears so at this point when I when I now ask you now now that you've become educated now when I ask you what is the possible connection between the two again I said it in two ways I said on the one hand there's absolutely nothing in common between Dan and Yehuda right and I showed how different they are right and how different they are and one is in aash and one is in AR so they're all completely different until we have this this guil right this thing which M reveals to us oh yeah Don Dan's an AR so now Don's an AR and yud is an AR so Dan's an AR and yud so suddenly we have our lion connection which again I don't know if right away any of you were saying of course they're connected they're both described as lions now of course in the background now you now have another problem and that would be why does Moshe describe him as aash and why does yob sorry other way why does yob describe Dan as a Nash and why does mosha describe it as an AR and what exactly is that Dynamic that's something which we still need to uh to figure out but so far we note this and and there's another thing and I already alluded to it but I didn't allude to it sufficiently when there in marching formation the one that goes first is Yehuda right Yehuda Yehuda goes first Yehuda leads the way Yuda flank by Yehuda marches on but who's in the rear who's all the way in the rear flank at the end and and the answer to that that's done so if you look in Source number four um it's also interesting that again a EZ over here is mentioned when we had before when we were introduced when we were introduced to the fellow from down there was and here it's so it's interesting that there is some kind of this helpful attitude that the people on Don are naming their children that that that yeah they seem to they seem to have this sense of uh of helping others Amisha is also very interesting because the MIM who talk about actually say hold it should it be because as as it were so therefore over here that's also something which is interesting so Yehuda is first and there last let's look at a couple of ways that the understand that Rashi understands mot the one who again is like it's sort of like the collector of all the camps so we'll see that there's various levels to understand that so apparently again two possibilities either has a tradition or thei maybe is sensing what we sense or right so what exactly does it mean this so Rashi understands that if anybody lost anything then they would help them so again that really fits in nicely with the names of the various people they're they're helpers the helpers so they're keeping their eyes open they they're traveling last and you know they're they the guy okay you know you left your sweater there you left this and they're the ones collecting everything they're the lost and found they're the traveling lost and found so that that that's tradition number one number two we're going to find in the that's K by the way if you want to channel your briska terminology they are collecting the right the objects but if you look at source number six that was the people that it was the stragglers the guys that kind of getting lost people that were getting lost so then Don is is there waiting for them and they're the ones who are they meaning they are the rear flank and they're taking care of all the people and making sure that they're the rear flank and therefore anybody who's kind of getting lost they're protecting the people so I'm saying it's it's in both of these formulations you have an aspect of Dan which is an articulation of either right interpersonal either being the ones to find the missing things that people are leaving behind or finding the missing people who are about to get left behind and either way they're taking responsibility which itself is an ex is really a nice expression of an Amel kind of thing again if if I had to then go further and if had to end right now right if you only needed two minutes of our Torah I know it takes me 10 minutes say two minutes T but if you only that's part of the tri but if but if if you had to then end this up you can say that yeah that's perfect for the mishun because the mishan is about and therefore destroys it and here you have a people who are cons concerns about objects and people and they want to keep things together and and and by the way all of this actually could come from a sense of justice it could from done from DIN and therefore somebody lost something this belongs to them which means it's not mine I can't pick this up again you you you have certain people oh I don't know who that belongs to and they go you know they want it they want to keep it but somebody with the really good sense of justice is going to is going to say that no I have to make sure the right person gets it I I I enjoy reading the ethicist of the New York times not because it's ethical and not because I like to read the New York Times it's Mish and uh and I and I have not been able to use even one thing that they've written like and I teach a class in ethics I've not been able to use anything because because because it's it's so bad and and and and and this one was bad as well this one was bad as well it was that somebody had passed away and there's that that they hadn't paid their credit card bill when they passed away and they had the money in the account and they could could have paid them and the credit card company approached and said you okay we want to settle for 50% so apparently that's the policy when they have to deal with an estate rather than deal so the person that hold it is it ethical for me to only pay 50% you know they they would they would have wanted to pay their debts in full so the ethicist the New York Times said that yeah I understand that but nonetheless that's how they do business so therefore only pay 50% but I can see someone shave it Don saying No this is the right thing this belongs to somebody I want to pay their debts and especially I want to do the last will of somebody who would want to then I'll put a religious flavor on it they would want to stand in front of the Heavenly Court saying I don't ow anybody money I paid all of my debts and just because the credit card company is willing to settle the will to settle because I guess a lot of people you know die to get out of paying the next Source the B Source number seven so very good so Source number seven the B writes he's on the same place this is per Cafe in bid in the same place now by the way we really need right now some ominous music in the background I don't know you know what's with the OU here why we don't have speakers and we can you know do this class the way that we're supposed to do it but there really should be some ominous music right now because he just now brought something else in and that's p p is not good and and we're going to come back to that more so let's just pause to a second is that that they were out they were in a sense Shan were in the rear flank but they were not necessarily in this B by the way I think a second if anakov is our source for Suka these guys were kicked out of the Suka it's not not not like not like not like the the suas that you see sometimes where it's a very small Suka and the two men and the two men sit in the Suka and all the women are outside of the Suka right so they're an you didn't think about that right they Anan kicking those people out so over here as well what he's saying is but why were they because they so therefore the real easy way to kicked out of the anod and that is walk around with idolatry so you have some traveling idolatry and you don't get to stay inside so as I said right now everything just now took we have some dark clouds that just now came in and just now things took a turn and then he continues and says and they were the ones that Amal attacks because because the whole again if you start thinking now hold it amalik attacked the the those who are outside of the camp who were the ones who were outside of the camp the ones who are outside of the camp are the ones who are not being protected by the Anan so why aren't they protected by the Anan but that's going to be the rare flank why aren't they connected so he just now strung together a couple of things he did it even better than Dr Stu did it and that is he he he threw a mik into this he threw the clouds into this he threw pesel M which he weren't there into this and and he says so I I just have to pause there for a second because as I said we just got to a dark place and but I I want you to think logically now for a second because there's something else which we'll see we'll see in a moment but I just before we see it inside I just want you to know that it's that you should have all figured it out so even though that some people feel good because they figured out the next step the rest of you should feel inadequate right now because you haven't yet figured out the next step and that is when you think about the 12 tribes and you think about the encampments and you have three and three and three and three and there is someone else also and the someone else is the a of RAV right the a of RAV you know how does the a of RAV fit into all of this because the a of RAV doesn't fit in the tribe of ruen or Shimon or Ley and then you keep going they don't fit into any of the tribes because they're not part of those tribes so where exactly are they meant to in Camp so now you go back to this point the the one who kind every all the shagas all the it but but it's not just that it's all those who don't have a place to be which means they they they they take in everybody else and be before any of you figure all this out by yourselves I'm going to help you because otherwise this will come as a big surprise later and you know I I don't want to give big surprises some of you are elderly I don't want to take the chances and I want to do I want to I Wanna you know do this in the right way and that is that on the one hand you have Yehuda and Yehuda is y and Yehuda is the BET mikdash and Yehuda isav on the other hand you have Gan ah you didn't see that coming right you didn't see that coming and I'm not talking about ancient history I'm talking about today and you have two different israels you have the Israel of Y and then the Israel of tviv and just keep all that in mind because all of this is staring at us right now and we were and we weren't necessarily paying attention to it and just remember now where we started but on the flip side of it and who built the beta mikdash who built the mishan it was the two of them together that's really interesting but on the other hand now when you start talking about shave and they're they're not oh I'm G to get lots of trouble for everything I say today right they're not no you're good with it that they're not they got to vot a Zora there with them and they have p and they have uh and they have all kinds they got the airv and they got all kinds of people that are kicked out and so on and I'm the reason I'm saying all of this is because I want you to understand and and unless I would have said that then I just would have you just wouldn't kind of crawling behind me the whole time instead of saying oh right I'm allow to say this now that's more interesting than I thought it was going to be because this is not just something that happened a long time ago could we could we continue and now now we're going to get to what really is the central place and now you can see it's all staring at you and you just the only thing you may worry wonder about is why you may have missed it and that's going to be Source number eight this is Rashi describing the building of the agel they made they made an right that they magically the A and I I keep saying this I'll say it again it's always good to have a around you can blame for everything right I wish I would have known this when I was young what happened to your room it's the AR R right it's the a of R the a of R did everything it's it's good to have an A of R to blame but so first it's the a of and and can we say this uncomfortable part right now according to kazal who resp responsible for the ER Moshe so just keep that in mind because when it comes to National tragedies the one who's in charge is the one who needs to take responsibility should I say should I say anything else okay because I mean God says it according to the midash your people sin because what mean your people not my people no your people because you're the ones who you're the one who took the AR R out that I mean that's that's kazal Kaz say that God blames mosha the ago mosha is not there mosha is the only guy who's not there goes no the guys that you brought out why do you bring out the AR just t as I said it's a no to mades that mosha actually that God blames Moshe for this so so hold on maybe we'll see more about this so we are here with we are here with the building of the agle and number one is the a of RAV responsible but Moshe is responsible for the a of RAV so now see that also just got so much more complicated because you have ostensibly the lowest members of that Society who kicked out of the of the Anan a cavod and at the same time you have somebody who's the most important person in that study the person who's in the the person like who enters into heaven as it were who enters into those clouds so I'm just saying this wonderful dichotomy over here is something that we need to pay attention to because it wasn't just the Yehuda and Dan dichotomy right now we just now met another dichotomy and that's the mosha and a deconomy which also should be as I something that we should notice if we continue it says some say again M yes don't ask questions if you ask questions then you won't understand anything M was there this is a great riff like you know like a tart there's a great riff because what they're doing is they're riffing M from from the word says that was one of the babies that was killed which also we were dealing with current events one of the babies that was killed and it says was killed in uh in Egypt and they actually was made into one of the bricks and there there is a whole subtext of Moshe complaining to God how can you do such thing how can a fair God do this and what do the babies do and they must be innocent and so on and so forth so somehow mik gets saved by the way notice who was blamed again on that it's mosha again gets blamed mik then comes out and say and he had this magical name of God in his hands and he had that thing that MOS had written on top of it Al by the way we just now got to blame somebody else who who do we just now blame over here ysf yosf so he say so so by the way if you miss this this is rash so talk about the blame game somehow we just now got to the a we got to mosha we got to M we got to yose I don't know anybody missing over here and Al Al Al Al according to the mid mosha goes to look for yosef's remains doesn't know where he is and then s says oh he's he's in the Nile he takes and he writes the name of God and something again magical name of God and he says Al Al and yose then then comes up so it say so how does an agle emerge what's an agel it's a little Shore if you missed that yes you did miss that what am I going to do what am I going to do and it says Al and then magically somehow this AEL appear appears so who do we have we have The Magicians of the a of R we have again some want to put the focus on mik yose mosha again by the way yeah Aon what happened to Aon we just we we just kind of Aon is the one who's telling over the narrative oh oh you when was on it was crazy this is what happen by the way talk about an excuse right me I didn't do anything they look look look what took place over here but this is such a great Rashi because part of what you have to ask yourself is what in the world is Rashi talking about I mean that that's and yes of course rashi's getting himself but but what is going on so give me a couple seconds v v shti that that that one second one second one second one second second that is not in Rashi that is a dangling source that the source got cut off from it I know where it's from it's from someplace else but let's leave that we we did we did we did the Rashi let's look at source number nine Source n is B so again just trying to explain where the agle came from so they took some gold and they wrote the sh and then they wrote Because of and again this kid who was saved by mosha who should have been killed but he was saved by Moshe he goes and he takes this so essentially what this is saying is Aon is total delay tactic Aon okay give me the gold and he throws it puts it all together and then this mik by the way done see see we're not getting this yet are we no it's okay so let's go back and step to what we all do know and that is when mosha goes uh to get the Torah he tells the people if you have any issues then talk to two people who are the two people and andon and Aron is his brother and Rashi is gonna tell you that is his nephew it's Miriam's son again how he worked that out I'm going to say it again is not so simple when you read the part of it is when you associate Miriam with one of the women who were bringing the baby and it says so it says what are maybe we'll see this inside so it says what are so that's M and and some say and that's so what comes from now how comes toam so that as I said is going to be a little more challenging apparently Miriam does marry somebody in the yehud tribe but who and and the problem is going to be if we actually look in the so give me give me give me a couple of more seconds um so what happened to H then H was gar tells us and disappears never hear from him again so was murdered was murdered so is Mur murdered now this just keep in mind now when it comes out to building the mishan his grandson Bala by the way the gar also has a wonderful time trying to figure out how old Bala is right now and how old his father was and how old his father was because it's somewhat challenging over here to work out all the ages of all of them but apparently is really quite young but but but so we Sorry buto is quite young so what we have over here is you have Bal coming from which leads us right back to theel we have on the other hand somebody from Dan and now you realize that Dan is the location where the air of RAV are Dan are the people who have P you don't know that yet we'll see that as we move forward and this now is a much more interesting because here's the guy who dieses to stop Theo and here are the group of people who are doing the and now oh guys come let's see if you guys now can work together and build the Mish by the way that that is just so much more interesting than I think we ever thought about because because you know how we thought we were stuck on Balo and we say oh he must have been a great artist maybe he went to Balo maybe he knew how to do all these things and God gave him all these gifts maybe he had these gifts and all that I all that I did you you know what I'm really doing today right I'm doing a midb here in schot which is like crazy because inid I always do that and follow Which tribes what are the tribal affiliation you know what's the history what's the back where is it going and where's it leading and I just happened to be doing it now so just in case you didn't notice that so now you can notice that in Source number 10 this is from the school of right this this explanation needs an explanation because we don't know what's going on they would kill the babies and make them as part of the building and mosha was very upset God said I've been micromanaging and knowing which kids were being killed and God says to mosha you want to test this out go take the sh throw it in one kid will be saved let's see what happens with that kid and he held on to that name of God so as as he said the parish needed a parish and that's the Parish of the parish this same M that he's saving is the same that's what come on come on we always deal with the thear of conservation of mikas that's a long time okay you'll have more of this you'll have more of this in Source 11 also from the B it goes along the same lines Source number karar B so what comes from yud and then it tries to work out as I said it went into and tries to work out who he is so on and so on does so in order to make this Association that Miram some got in they had to stick her into she's not there they had to call her afrat by the way they call her a bunch of other things that's also the problem Miriam like has eight different names over here by the way that's why the organization to save babies is called it goes back because of Miriam Miriam was somebody who was saving babies what which is really interesting cuz now you realize that there's this other subtext behind all of this from the word which is part of the which is part of theme going to Y naming his kid and so on excellent so there you have the two extremes of the tribes the greatest of tribes is Yehuda I don't know how you want to translate yud yud is the lowest the low the highest and lowest of tribes the first and the last Yim and T Aviv right that that that's what the this mid is saying any of the translations had to do with the so Dan is the son of bilha that Rael gives to Yakov and then says Ah God has judged very so that is this great statement of equality it's saying that they that God says no I want all people be treated equal it could be there's a greata tribe there not a great tribe but I want to create equality and that's why that's why I want the two to work together because that's what it has to be and it's also interesting just to go back to the trait that we saw of done that they that they are very interested and care about about equality now you could be cynical and say yeah if you're the lowest rung then of course then although someone in the lowest rung may be uh not at all care about others whatsoever but this midash actually said what I was hinting at before is that you have you and but but we saw it it was clear and It Go so it's the lion and it's the Nash and and so on anything else we need to say about this there's a lot more which is interesting of is where as I said you could try to work all of this out the problem is going to be that it's going to introduce the tribes you're going to have all the L tribes inim 13 and then it's also interesting that's a very interesting sequence I mean every time the order of the tribes is different you have to ask why but Dan is even before yose here because if you want to have the six Le so then you should have the two ra and then you should have the bill Z or z b but as I said that's interesting B and it start going through and then okay now you know where it's going and then you're going to find so we just got to that was pretty clear then afterwards how those two two lines somehow got got combined together I don't know what to tell you I just don't I just don't know what to say but uh but I mean that's that's actually the problems that Rashi says oh yeah that D is coming from right d is coming from Miram so I don't I don't know exactly how a lot of this is going to be explained in Source 14 it's going to be the Ben isti ah if do is an isti instead of saying the obvious he comes from a place called e no he's of that woman called her fraud and that's how you you you that's how you go back to Miriam and the afterward says but she was called a and as I said she has multiple names everyone has multiple names and I don't know how much further to go with this cuz let's see how we are here we have a couple minutes okay so in 16 it's going to tell you that so I'm just I'm going to say that again rash that that's where rash is getting it from say it it's the gor it's the mid over here and in 17 the asks how is this possible this doesn't make any sense and then in Source 18 the is going to try to give you an answer and explain how it does make sense okay let's go to Source 19 cuz this is where Jerry's with wanting to go to for a while and in those days we're in so now remember something from Dan who's the most famous danite Shimon Shimon who is a chaet I mean he's a Chau he's a judge but he has a very messy life yes he has a very messy life now of course some of you can say well du it has a messy life SCH they're not as messy they're not as messy and he's got long hair can imagine what his wife Shiva would have said well not to his face obviously and he was and he was and he was and he was dating okay but he's from Don what do you want he's from Don what can what what can you do right is that now making a lot more sense yes okay he's and and he's with the AR he's with the plishtim he's with the foreign worker he's okay so let's go to so who's missing now Y is missing exactly is missing's missing is missing there is no yet so they they're they're stragglers they've been the last ones to try to figure out where where it is they're supposed to live so this is done why is done because they're the last ones why the last ones because that's who they are so then we have this really interesting collection we're going to skip all kinds of stuff ah so now look who we who we're meeting up with now so now harim remember like we said how did Yosef get dragged into all of this ysf just gets dragged into this who else is here so mik mik is there and they stay there and there's somebody who's Hali we're going to come back to the Ley a little moment don't get upset any Lev in the room don't don't don't don't don't don't get upset over here but let's let's continue cohain that this is the guy who got a promotion he was a Ley and now he becomes a Cohen that M made him a Coen was your father a Cohen was your grandfather no no he's a Ley he's the Ley and he becomes he becomes the co let's continue Shalom but it's it's much worse than all this and go tells you where they travel to and we're going to skip that again they come back to so what happens there what what do they find there those are not good things to find in a Jewish Home they find chachkas but not good chachkas they find bad ones they're finding they're finding all kinds of VOD Zara [Music] byan [Music] and what tell us is that there's a cover up over here and that the in minha is not supposed to be there and this is yonatan Ben Ben Moshe mosha has a son benon and this is Mos and this is moshe's family moshe's family who L they ever wonder hold it what have happened to Moshe well they got a promotion they became K him where did they be him by by by which is which is really inter sh of course is a place of Yosef but I want to I want to pause now for a second the the elements over here in this whole sin is this combination of epim of Dan of p and now you have to go back and look at the and say well where do and where did all this come from they're blaming mosha for this and Moshe gets blamed there as well because of the a of RAV which means it in theel itself all of you would have said if I'm going to blame anybody who should I blame I should blame Aon right that that that should have been it and who is the hero I should say the hero is all that I'm pointing out with everything that I'm saying today is one the building of the mishkan is much more interesting than probably you thought before we started and two theel impacts the building of the mishkan both in terms of B and in terms of somebody from Dan and the has this projection that's what is doing they're projecting the of PES mik coming back over here but why would they do that because they see a lot of the same elements in both places so once the elements are both places then all you have to do is figure out how exactly to bring them together so now that we've gotten this far the only question is going to be is how far you want to get in Source 20 because it goes on for the next three Pages which uh therefore my own feeling would be that I give it to you as homework and there'll be a test for the first 10 minutes of class next week where is it from it'sin and it's a book which is called Tak Tak is a book about chuva I know a lot of you are thinking now hold it it's not El we don't need to be thinking about chuva it's not s you may Chua what are you doing but but he works on the Dan Yehuda Division and and first of all he tells us that they built the mishun together one that's one point two is they're both called lions and he says that moshe's prophecy is about the future the yot mashia that Don will become a lion that means that Don Don spent a lot of time not as a lion but Don is going to come back and Don is going to be a liing that that that itself is very interesting and that the combination of Dan and Yehuda which essentially is all CL Isel because it's the two extremes but the combination of D and Yehuda is one who is going to be necessary in order for us to get to that Messianic age he says a couple of other things along again the only question is like how much you know should we do from this because you we're clearly going to be running out of time but he uh he says that the idea of Mal for example he says in Messianic times we're not going to need a Mel why cuz we're going to have a Mel is that God is going to be completely manifest so therefore is Manifest so therefore Jews don't need a m he goes so what do you need mhia for he says to twist the arms of the non-jews he goes the non-jews are going to need a little they may not necessarily have the same level of understanding of Revelation so therefore they're going to need the Mel in order to help them make the right decisions along the way you know sometimes making right decisions is not always easy but he he also tries to work a bit the difference between the Nash and and between the The Lion and the lion he said and he even he quotes zoologists along the way and and he says that Lions even have a bit of compassion to them but snakes don't he says that that the the Dan aspect is one which is completely attacking but sometimes that's what enemies need and again that's what a Shimon is it need it needs to attack it needs to bring the walls down it needs to do whatever needs to be done and that's not necessarily the way of Yehuda it's not necessarily how how Yehuda or David I mean David still has the sweet eyes the nice eyes David still has this other capacity and it's also inter D also has this creativity to him when you think up at Salo yes there's a great deal of creativity and it manifests itself in terms of architecture in terms of building in terms of understanding how to use things doid also has creativity D's a warrior but he's a but he has creativity in terms of poetry in terms of playing a musical instrument and there is this other softer side of uh of David which really then leads you to think okay so when does he used the power and when he did not use the power and as I said Yehuda ultimately is still about YK okay and about R sometimes you could be the most compassionate person in the world but sometimes when you're compassionate you still need to face evil and to deal with evil in a particular kind of way and not to deal with evil in that way is not a lack it's not like you're being compassionate it's a lack of compassion sometimes compassion leads you to have to make some uh some very difficult decisions but it says that ultimately Don and Yehuda are meant to come together and to work together and that's why God puts again that's what is working on over here that's why God puts them together there because it would be easy to say what are you talking about that's gdan and that's that's the bet mikdash and that's you know the pubs and and the bars and and all the stuff going on over there and this is just completely different how can you even imagine that's p and this is the K how can they work together so he also goes along to say no even when they sinned they still didn't reject it's very interesting they didn't re they thought you need you need something more tangible you need but but he tries to argue even they they know about Ani even even even they they know about an they know there's one God and the only thing is how exactly do you celebrate it and how exactly do you express it and you don't necessarily you know follow the same rules and you're not again within underneath the an so then now the question comes one is I want to remind you of something because we're getting again we're getting and by the way he he actually goes into Ador at some point here towards the end he he goes into Ador and goes into Yosef and but but that that'll be your reward if you actually read through the the entire thing but it's it's not just that they have to work together so I want to remind you of something we're we're getting very close toes we're going to we're going to bench for the Kesh and we're going to soon get to par Z par Z is that amik attacks those who are outside that means those who get rejected those th those who are vulnerable because they're not under the an those are the ones attacked by Amika we go to war for them we go to war to defend and to protect and to get them back and to bring them back so just re just realize something that the mik is is an attack against evil because those evil went against the weakest and those who were most susceptible and those who were kicked out from the from the K that's very very interesting and that's very important and then when it comes time to build the BET to build the mishan so Yehuda does this together with and yeah it has to be that way because we need to bring those together and as much as again we saw in the M you imagine oh that's the best tribe that's the worst tribe God is saying stop it that's what matter God says stop it there's no best and worst over here these are everybody has roles and we need we need we need both roles we need Gan and we need but what do we ultimately need we ultimately need to figure out how in the world are they going to work together the thing about ysep is there's going to be a yam there's going to be somebody who's going to attack schlomo and he's going to attack schlomo for foro taking a foreign wife but then all kinds of mistakes are going to take place afterwards which means that even sometimes we think that those in are the holiest ones sometimes the ones inim also make mistakes but ultimately ultimately aash is about Unity ultimately Amy Israel is about Unity ultimately we need to defend everybody within the camp and even though those who somehow got kicked out of the camp or pulled out of the camp thrown out of the camp kidnapped out of the camp we still need to protect them I'll just end up by saying anybody who thinks that anything I said today has anything to do with any political situation which may or may not exist so that's all that's all that's all your imagination but we should uh we should all understand and experience Unity as as we are supposed to and that's what builds the mishkan amen