Parshat Vayikra and Purim 5784 (2024) by Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay good evening everybody uh we're doing this week is uh a Shear on puim and VRA so let's start with I have two pieces from rutner on page one on page two we have uh Dar morai and Kon I don't know that we'll get to everything but let's start with rev hutner because the number one on the sheet is actually a par PM idea this is in his on and the opening is like this very appropriate the opening of our calls you see from this even mosu the Mish was finished right so even mosu who knew the ends and out of the Mish obviously the great M called him into the Mish he wanted to talk to him right but even Moshe Renu cannot go in unless he is called to go in right imagine mosenu can't just walk into the mishkan right so theor says if he would have walked in without being called he would be considered a a Torah scholar without without knowledge how so so he wants to explain this statement based on a gor that's actually a statement in the medish in but he's going to explain this now based on a gor we know that the essential that we make is not necessarily on the wine it's in the when we dove in Mar we say hav and the the of hav is in the first of the Bak we know that Theon is divided into three sections the first three BR the first bras are sh Praise of God the last three bras are thanks to Theon in the middle 13 are Bak are requests the first Bak the first request is we ask God for knowledge we ask to give us wisdom does so why is Hava is actually put in that first bro so You' think well it's the first bro let's put it in there no nothing is by accident if a person does not have knowledge he can't make the ability to distinguish between things between items between is between day and night right between light and dark you have to have knowledge we've discussed this many times and the reason is the the real treasure the essential Treasure of knowledge is is about the attachment that it creates once you know something you can attach yourself to the right thing and detach yourself from the wrong thing and he puts in Brackets he's referring to the P at the beginning of theous when ad he knew of they had they knew had children what does it mean he knew kava when we say he he created children with kava right it's it's not a physical thing he understood his purpose in this world was to embrace his wife and together to create a world to bring in children and to bring spiritual through those children right he knew listen well to this a person who does not know how to distinguish and to separate himself from something that he has no business getting involved in someone who doesn't know how to separate himself from something that not for him doesn't know how to attach himself to something that is for him it works the other way around also if you see a person who we know he's on the level to engage in a certain thing he's a doctor and there a medical question so we know that a person has this doctor has an attachment he has the right to engage in medicine you can assume that he's not going to get involved in accounting he's going to get involved in what he knows right he knows how to move away from something that's not his field he's a doctor he's not going to get involved in dentistry right and that is the sense sense of the statement in the gor if there's no there's no abdah if you don't have SE to know where you belong then you don't know where you don't belong and if you don't have do to know where you don't belong you don't know where you belong therefore if Moshe would have come in to see the without being called would approved that he does not separate himself until this moment he has no place going there in God's presence right if he would have gone in it would have demonstrated that he had no idea who he really was and who he wasn't so he would have been referred to as this Torah scholar who has no se he's going in where he was doesn't belong the Crea creates a relationship between himself and a that he does actually belong there only the calling motion this was the clarity to the the the rightness the correctness of the relationship and that's where he belonged he belonged in the Mish with it was only after he was being called that there was a Clarity he understood where he belong so the the the calling him in created the hav of understanding this is where I belong I belong to the Ron he heard the voice of Hashem speaking to him so now we're going to slowly move into purum on this idea rautner continues Torah Scholars who who have a desire to reach new s of understanding of the Torah new levels of embracing there's always a voice whispering to them maybe I'm I'm getting involved in areas in Torah in perhaps in Caba in cabalistic literature that I don't really belong to get it's not for me right maybe it's not maybe I'm going I'm going too high or in any field that a person is in sometimes you know the Peter principal right the Peter principal I'm going to get involved in something that really is not for me right so he's saying it concerning sometimes wants to go higher and higher he wants to engage in areas of Torah esoteric Torah where maybe he doesn't belong there that's all year long it's true should feel that sense of humility maybe he doesn't belong there but purm is the one day year which is the other way around the miracle how did it begin tells Esther go into now is the time you have to go in and she says he never called me I don't belong there we know that in really understanding the depth of the Milla every time the word Mel you is used it refers to so really he tells her to go into the Mel because the Mel is orchestrating all of these events of Pur and she said I wasn't called to go into the Mel didn't call me the order of is just the opposite anyone who's hard on and maybe with a little bit of a a person feels kind of bold and his spirituality increases and his heart is beating that he wants to get closer to Theon to the m right he could do it the extended his sword to Esther to come in again by Vi Gabriel the Mal tells us right but wanted her to come in you're G to tell me you're not supposed to go in without being called right someone who goes in without being called there's no ask what's she doing the answer is the absence of knowledge is not a it is a Milo what do I mean what do we say about Pur that the obligation of sim is until you no longer know the difference between cursed and blessed Mori right so puram is a time of the beautiful piece I just want to add that um somebody once ask of hutner a very good question that if we're supposed to reach the level that we no longer know the difference between humm blessed blessed Mor and cursed H that's why many people have they drink because when they drink they get after a little bit too much drink they really the Rama says the best thing to do is go to sleep sleep for five minutes that that's the safest way of not knowing the difference but there's a deeper meaning to this why is we the song that we sing on is if the if the Joy on Sim is knowing that not to know the difference we should say so why do we why do we do it this way I think the answer is is very simple and it's a beautiful understanding of what means we know that for a for good news theor says in the same way we make a blessing on bad news we make a blessing on good news but the blessing is a different is a is a very different BR the BR on good news is that God is good and he does good the blessing on bad news is he's the faithful judge why because today until there will come a day there will come a day as I'll tell us there will come a day that we will even say on bad news the fact that there is bad and good the time we're living through right now it's very hard for us we have to reach deep down into our resources of am and and our strength of Faith to understand that there is good and bad even if we don't understand it we don't understand it and if we would say the on what's going on today it would be a right right we say on good news we understand it the fact that there's good and bad we we it's an Act of Faith it's an article of faith we take a step backwards we say he's the faithful judge we don't we we it's not a it's not anybody who says he understands it as a fool we don't understand it and the proof is and the pudding is you can't make the BR we make a different BR it's an act of faith we believe that it's so we believe that it's so that there is good and bad right but the ideal situation is to know that there's no distinction between good and bad in the in the ideal world that will everything is good that the idic time when M comes when when all of this is over we will see there's no we will there's no difference between and there's no difference between good and evil it all is part of Yem and we will we will finally understand it for us now is to to accept it as an article of faith and not to ask why that's not what the Rabon wants from us he ask wants us to ask how and what what are we supposed to do to get closer to him and to bring us closer to that period of AD that's the uniqueness of Pur okay let's go to the second piece on the left this is also from put around and he says like this there's a Mitzvah of there is no Mitzvah of Shabbat there's no there's there's but it's not a right but there's actually a Torah prescribed MIT of rejoicing on the says with and now IDE by the way this refers to the basar of the Corban of the sacrifices that we offer up the theim offering these Coran and the that is poured on the but and therefore I mean really if you want to know if someone not that I can understand there is such a person who doesn't enjoy me right I don't that maybe not politically correct today but if someone enjoys mil a dairy meal more than meat then one can certainly have a y sud or a shabas suda of of of dairy because that's their Sim right Sim is a is a relative a relative idea right it's like the BR ofu you can't make the BR of a new fruit if you don't enjoy it right I remember as a child when we went to and we were given a bag on of fruits of and and we would take out the boxer which was hard like like a like a pencil and we made a br of on it probably you don't enjoy it boxer when it's fresh growing off the tree it's green it's enjoyable and that's the din by the way of you have to enjoy it to make the BR but ideally right drinking wine but in eating meat in eating and in drinking there are shim there are there are perimeters and parameters for example R when a Rus when you drink wine it has to be a minimum of Rus right whatever that is let's say an ounce and a half to three ounces depending on how you hold K it has to be the size of an olive a piece of bread to make the BR it's a relative thing we speak about about increasing right at the end of fact the is a very important that we shouldn't go overboard there's a limit to is what he's saying right there are limitations you can be with a re wi with an ounce and a half right there is's a limit here right and therefore the ra writes that would set up he would set up there were police that bezan would set up to go out into the gardens the fields to make sure that that young men and women older men and women were not going overboard with the right they shouldn't go overboard in drinking on Pur right on on y right on y not Pur see a minute there's no limitation on at the right and by the way the essential din of eating and drinking on purum especially drinking is not until the purum sud right okay somebody should tell that to everybody that lets loose on Pur okay we say there's no there's no there's no perimeter parameters on now I want to explain this he says and it's a beautiful example why is the it's an uncommon denominator theim of is totally different than theim of listen how he explains it a sick person should who is healed you make a today a person makes a Kish and Sh sometimes he makes if he gets well he makes a major meal for family for friends the the kind of he's gonna make is the equation of that sud right the amount of sud size of the sud depends on the illness and how much he was healed right if a person let's say a person has has cancer and he's healed he'll make a major suda right great suda let's say a person is sick for a long time with clinical depression he has no sim he has lost the passion he's lost the ability to be right terrible terrible illness right when this person who has this disease of not having Sim when he is healed he makes a sud right for his healing right but there's a big difference here you can't compare the SIM for this person for the Sim of any other illness that he's making a sud for this sud this celebration yeshu the Sim is the the the healing that he was given back Sim it's a it's on a totally different level the illness was he had lost the ability to feel therefore when the S comes back to him his healing that that was the that was the healing right the celebration that an ill person who was who was who has a makes a that's one thing his healing and his Sim are two different things I was healed now I'm going to make a right but he's happy because he was healed from whatever he was healed from but someone who had clinical depression someone who was unable to to feel Sim he lost his passion he's making that meal for the healing the healing is the and the is the the the suit of the healing comes out this is a completely it creates a new there's a totally new there's no limit to this the healing is simp it's it's it's beyond the greatness of the is what it obligates the now we're talking about which we celebrate the destruction of the defeat over of what did it says to say in the Torah by that he weakened us he weakened us he took away our our passion made us unhappy he cooled us down perod rash the first explanation rash he he he he cooled us down he he took away our passion took away oural this cooling down and this this this lukewarm they they do a terrible terrible damage to the the observance of but in terms of the to do have they're Killers they're Killers you take away a person's passion person's ability to feel happiness right you destroy the person is uprooted from one's life imagine a life without that is the that is what amik wanted to accomplish so when we destroyed when we defeat we have restored to this which was taken away from us it was a a national a males of clinical depression that put on on and now that is returned by defeating him every every drop of that enters our heart it creates a brand new for us every stream every stream creates another stream and go he says draw out from the from The Well of sim should know that thesei were said at at the purm sud over the years okay I want to add one other thing Rashi continues here and he says what did aik do everyone was afraid to touch Amel they were afraid to start up with cl Isel so amalik was like a Rashi gives the example brings a medish of a boiling cauldron and he jumped into this boiling cauldron and by going into this boiling cauldron what did he do he took away the heat his body temperature was lower and he lowered the heat he made it more possible for everyone else to jump in to the water right and to attack CLA Israel that's the simple way we understand that medish but that medish is a very strange medish is this really do this make sense that he's going to jump in to a boiling cauldron and kill himself right it's a suicide mission that's exactly the point that amalik was really teaching the umos that you want to destroy CLA Israel you have to be prepared to die you have to be prepared to have a suicide mission which is exactly what we see that these rho are doing what's happening right now that these evil people are putting themselves in and their and their people in the line of fire they don't care they're ready to die rather that CL Israel should should live isore at this eight sov and he should bring home the hostages the two kinds of hostages the actual hostages and the theim who are also hostages everyone should come home and there should be Shalom on Israel and hopefully a Simco Forum will bring that about okay let's go over the page we'll do uh number three I don't know if we're going to have time for number four number four is from my my Hebrew say from the par I don't know that we're going to get to that let's do number three this is U from the D who excuse me we have um been quoting in the last few weeks one of the great mag of and he he beh oh so now he's what's he talking about going back let's go back back to the uh this is RA Mor du by the way I I think his son elderly Rob I think he's still officially the r of RAV if I'm not mistaken in any case uh the rabbi is talking about something we're all familiar with in the word VRA in the in a in a in a SE Torah and sometimes the Kish will will demonstrate this artistically the letter Alf is a small letter it it is for to put all the m to make it simple to demonstrate the humility of mosu mos he didn't want to write he was writing the Torah he don't want to write VRA with an ol if he called him so he want to write vakar the way that billum was called right you know but so he made the the olive small right so he's gonna ask an interesting question a lot of times until now that it says vayikra God God called mosha but he didn't make it small until now right that's what he's going to ask now forget about the title let's go to the first paragraph I'm taking this out from the middle of an essay why da here does mosha now at the end is he willing to put V with a small theor says now here's his answer beautiful gor Torah shims wrote a safer as magnumopus he dared every word at s in the Torah now you know that s really does not have a meaning right s does not have a meaning but he he it has to have a meaning right it has to have a deep meaning because the letter s is alive to it encapsulates the entire Olive Bas so there has to be a meeting to S he dared every s in the Torah right then it says it could just say fear God have have fear have awe for Theon but it doesn't says but he he he resigned I can't how can I add anything what can I add to this that this what can be added here to fearing God said what's going to be with all your whole magn what's going to be with your your whole work the same way that I will receive reward for what I did explain I'll receive a reward for what I did decided not to explain okaya says Reb AKA came afterwards and he to include that this is to refer to Torah Scholars the representatives of the of almighty God right so the at is to to include if you will okay so now he goes to town on this what's going on here when he started doing this sh was not just a guy you know like you and me when he started doing this first all he knew the he clearly knew it what was he thinking that he should write right and if he understood from the beginning that it's really impossible to compare a human being to why did he continue his work pish only after he did everything else then he he just couldn't go back to that P and say but it's clear he definitely knew knew and he knew this includes that word s all the but as he was growing as he was was working on his safer he was going higher and higher in his level of understanding and his closeness with and his awareness of the greatness of which is really Beyond description right as he as he grew in his learning over the years writing this doing this heed reached unbelievable unbelievable levels of ofus hasem and aod and spirituality and r until the point when he got to this he couldn't do it is like the I I have such an awareness of the now when I started out this work it was you know now that how do you compare a person to from all of the the knowledge that he had of the the greatness of before when he started learning this it was on a lesser level as awareness of God maybe I could put add now that I've after all the years of all these Dres I've read such a level that's why he reti he resigned now can't do it I cannot do this we'll get to in a minute now you're gonna give a beautiful example this from from it is well known would not go to sleep at night until he did Chua what not a you know the B teach us person should have a notebook and every night he should go through it what did I do what did I do wrong what I do right right every night every night on the on the mitv that he did that day it's going on here he said every day I have a deeper and more profound awareness of the greatness of that I I sense today I have to do Chu because the way I did the Mitzvah yesterday I would have done it stronger because of my my deeper awareness today is understanding now he looked at his Mitzvah from yesterday's a compared to his Mitzvah today right now we're back to our original question why is the a small Olive shova at first he was growing Mo he was his modesty his humility was not on such a high level right his modesty was not such a high level meaning a low level of modesty after he had the SC of taking out gave us the Torah built the Mish so so much more understand and awareness of who Theon was so his the more he found saw the greatness of the smaller he saw himself only now after now he wrote with a small okay just one more thing we end with this I once heard from from R gifter what did RAB AKA see that rimsi did not see how comes RAB AKA could write at you know what RAB AKA saw that didn't see he saw shims he saw this Jew who who after finishing his magnum opus of he he resigned because he couldn't in humility in all humility he could not WR he saw the greatness of this and that he understood okay everybody and we'll see you all next week will be Wednesday night and we'll see you all Monday after purum