Parashat Vayikra Moses The Greatest Prophet

So, one of the most important things that we see every week in parshat shavua is a little bit of a secret in every parsha that's relevant to us individually. About a year or a year and a half ago I did a or 2 years ago I uh not a year and a half either a year or 2 years ago the parshat shavua parshat Vayikra we're starting a new book the book of Leviticus I mentioned one of the hidden shiem that I heard from Rabbi Nissim Yagen. The parsha starts Vayikra el Moshe vayidaber Adonai elav me'ohel mo'ed lemor daber el benei Yisrael ve'amarta lahem adam ki yakriv mikem korban. So he called to Moses and Hashem spoke to him from the tent of meeting saying speak to the children of Israel and say to them when a man among you bring an offering to Hashem and it continues. In so many words the first couple of verses of the of the parsha talk about how Hashem is requesting from Moshe Rabbeinu to tell the people that now that you've built the tabernacle you've built the Beit Hamikdash of the desert you've worked very hard on it. Moshe Rabbeinu went through major mesirut nefesh to build this Beit Hamikdash to get the money he wanted to make sure there's right accounting. When something was lost they blamed him for it. He started crying to Hashem till they find it because you know if he took it out of his pocket to give it don't blame him. He started crying to Hashem Hashem please let them find it show them I didn't steal the money. Then they thought that he's stealing the stack on the side anyway. Then there was problems with this PROBLEMS WITH AND PROBLEMS WITH EVERYTHING they blamed it on Moshe Rabbeinu. Finally builds the Beit Hamikdash of the desert and he waits outside. Why is he waiting outside? Go inside. Go to Kodesh Kodashim. Talk to Hashem. You built the place. You're the leader. Go inside. We don't even build a house. We go to our friend's house we don't even knock we go inside cuz we feel comfortable. You know those people just come into your house they feel at home? Or they come into your house they already put their feel first time they come to your house they put their feet on your table? I had one of these kids young kids millennial generation come to me for a job interview. Young guy handsome looking guy nice suit all sparkly. He comes to my office and he's got this resume that has a lot of words on it. And I'm asking him some questions and next thing I know this guy sits back gets comfortable on the chair and he puts his feet on my desk. On my desk he puts. He felt so at home if he put his feet ON MY DESK. FUNNY THING IS I DON'T EVEN DO STUFF LIKE THAT at home. I wonder if he does it at home. He didn't get the job by the way. So we do anything we give tzedakah we feel like we could call the the rabbi 500 times a day. I got a GUY SAYS HE PROMISES TO GIVE TZEDAKAH he promises. He hasn't given tzedakah yet but he promises to give tzedakah but he wants to talk to me every day. He's not giving he hasn't given a tzedakah yet and it's not even like he's promising listen I'm going to fund your chesed fund that you have $740,000. You know we try to give out 25,000 CDs a month we're giving a couple of hundred kiruv packages a month all this stuff costs money it's not free actually costs money. So we're trying to raise $740,000 maybe I'll actually one day make a salary. You know few years of working for free you figure maybe one day I'll get a salary but no big deal. Hashem pays anyway. So we figure we're going to raise some money. So I'm thinking oh maybe this guy is going to fund the 740,000 he wants to talk to me so often. He hasn't given $10 yet. $10 he hasn't given and he's not even promising to give a big money. Maybe he's going to give $100 if he gives. But he wants to talk to me every day. Text messages every day that come is uh It's just He feels comfortable. We feel comfortable. We're very you know like I don't have anybody else that that calls me and texts me and has problems also. He's the only one left in the world and I'm left in the world Moshe Rabbeinu is him and I'm you know Yehoshua bin Nun. Waiting to learn. I don't know what's going on here. We feel very comfortable with ourselves. Moshe Rabbeinu himself Moshe Rabbeinu never felt comfortable. Even though he SPEAKS TO HASHEM FACE to face he doesn't feel comfortable. Even though he BUILT THE BEIT HAMIKDASH OF THE DESERT he built it. Doesn't feel comfortable. He doesn't feel comfortable. I'm not talking about he doesn't feel comfortable to do anything special. Talk about GO INSIDE. GO INSIDE. JUST GO LOOK AROUND look what you built. It's like Kodesh Kodashim it's Kodesh Kodashim Aron Hakodesh it's where they're going to PUT THE KORBANOT. NO. PARSHAT SHAVUA SAYS VAYIKRA EL MOSHE HASHEM CALLED HIM COME COME. NOW YOU COME INSIDE. YOU HAVE TO CALL him to come inside. Why? He says why am I going to feel comfortable? It's not my house it's Hashem's house. IT'S NOT PROPER MANNERS TO JUST GO INSIDE. And then he says Rabbi Nissim Yagen zechut tzadik livracha says all of the mitzvot that Hashem has in the Torah it doesn't say adam keep Shabbat. A man should keep Shabbat. A man should do brit milah. A man should make sure his wife goes to the mikveh. He doesn't say that it says adam. But here in issue korban here when Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu tell the nation that when a man among you brings an offering brings a korban to Hashem and he gives him the steps of what he has to do. Why does he mention why is he adding this word adam? Why is it a cow going to give the korban it's going to give bring his friend? Cuz they listen I got a really cool place for you to go. What's it called? Oh it's a mishkan over there. Two of us go in only one comes out. Who else is going to do it? A man obviously has to do it. So why does Hashem add this word? Rabbi Nissim Yagen says Hashem tells you before you bring the korban before you bring the sacrifice cuz the sacrifice in essence what it says you made a sin. If it's a sin offering you made a sin. Instead of Hashem punishing you with death penalty he's killing the animal. In reality it's supposed to be you not the animal. This cow not the animal didn't do anything. What did the cow do? The cow did chillul Shabbat. The cow didn't smoke on Shabbat. You don't smoke on Shabbat cuz you forgot it's Shabbat. If you knew it's Shabbat you still smoked there's no korban. It's death penalty. But if you forgot it's Shabbat or you forgot something you made a shogeg sin it's a sin by that's accidental then you bring a korban. But he says before you bring the korban because we don't have korbanot anymore. So today as Hashem said to the prophet now since we don't have the Beit Hamikdash your prayers replace the korbanot. Every time you pray shacharit mincha arbit musaf every single TIME THAT'S INSTEAD OF a sacrifice. It's just like you went TO THE BEIT HAMIKDASH AND YOU BROUGHT a big cow. HE SAYS BEFORE YOU BRING ME THIS $15,000 COW cuz maybe you have money and I gave you money so you know it's not a big deal for you to spend $15,000 on a cow. You're going to be a gvir you're going to bring 10 cows. Before you bring the cow kodem kol tiye ben adam. First of all be a decent human being. Work on your midot. First of all work on your character traits then come talk to me. Don't come talk to me with your ga'avah in shamayim cuz I'm not going to listen. YOU HAVE GA'AVAH I'M RUNNING AWAY. Hashem says in the Gemara a place that's ga'avah I can't be there. A person has ga'avah him and me can't be in the same room. Because his pride makes him think that he's a mini god. Can't be two gods. Let him be god by himself. He's his own idol worship. So first of all before you bring me your prayer before you ask me for stuff before you say I'm sorry before you say thank you before you say anything kodem kol tiye ben adam. First of all be a decent human being. Work on your character traits. Where you going to learn this from? You learn FROM MOSHE RABBEINU. MOSHE RABBEINU BUILT THE PLACE. And his neshama was so tweaked and amazing in developing his character traits that he knew enough that if he would have just walked in into the mishkan that he built A DEAD COW IN the middle of the street would be considered better than him. Why? Cuz it's bad manners. It's not your house. Knock before you come in. This we learn from Moshe Rabbeinu. And this also answers the question of why did Moshe Rabbeinu have such greater prophecy than everyone else? The Ramban answers, he says that every time you overcome a character trait, flaw that you have, you immediately destroy one of the walls that separates you from God. You have ga'avah, you have the great wall separating you. Bigger wall than Donald Trump wants to build for the Mexicans. Ga'avah?