Parsha Perspectives for Today (Tzav & Purim, 5782) - Hashem From Beginning to End

good morning bogarto welcome back to our parasha perspectives for today so glad that you are here as we have the privilege of studying parshastsava as well as giving a few thoughts on the magilla first of all as always we begin with gratitude to our generous sponsors partial serious sponsor for the year dear friends becky and audi cats and family in memory of becky's father david grossman this morning sheer sponsored by michael goldman member of his in-laws cancer mrs abram bruin formerly of long beach new york and aliyah thank you very much for your generosity and your sponsorship and this is the last week if you help us get to our goal this is the last week of mentioning the brs global campaign if you're a member of brs thank you for your membership thank you for enabling all of our learning and teaching and streaming and writing if you're not a member of brs and you are benefiting and enjoying which if you're hearing this right now either live or later that means you are hopefully 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us that the way we commemorate one of the ways that we celebrate and we honor this miracle we survived an extermination attempt the jews of shushan not only survived but they thrived and we have several different ways in which we express and reflect that miracle express our gratitude commemorate it and one of them is mishlochmanos we deliver to a friend two food items not now for the analysis well how you define two separate food items two food groups raw versus cooked salad versus liquid all the halachas that go into the definition of mishlochmanos but one of the ways that we commemorate and we re-experience so to say the miracle is mishloch we give isla don't spend too much money don't spend too much time don't be competitive with your neighbor about it but if you have limited resources and you can either put them into matanos you could give more money to help others or have fancier more impressive more competitive mishloch manos the ramban is clear the halacha is clear put more money into helping others than impressing others with your mishloch manas gives a fascinating reason by the way the rama says you know why if i were giving that muslims i'd say you have underprivileged people you have people suffering or struggling you have those who are going to have mac and cheese for the purim sudha they can't afford meat and wine of course you have to help them helping them supersede comes before impressing others with the immigrants but that's not the reason the rambam gives you know what the reason the rambam gives us what's the essence of the holiday of purim what are we trying to experience i'll give you a hint we're experiencing not only purim we're experiencing the entire month of aadhaar you know it will give you more simcha nothing gives you more simcha than helping others it's more joyful it's more pleasant it's more pleasurable to help others than it is to impress others so if you have unlimited resources and you could put them into either matanos you have to fulfill the basic mitzvah manas one has to fulfill the basic obligation but basic obligation doesn't include lose sight personalized containers doesn't include expensive over-the-top special order whatever somatano okay that's a personal pet peeve of mine so in that context there's a discussion should you specifically deliver mishlochmanos rather than give directly should you ask somebody to be your agent your representative and to give it on your behalf there's a debate wonders from sure what happened to the principle of mitzvah i thought the whole idea is we do mitzvos it's preferable not to delegate it's profitable it's preferable not to outsource we show our love and our affection that we cherish and value a mitzvah when we eagerly do it ourselves when we outsource or delegate we look like we're trying to simply unburden ourselves from it so what happened why don't we apply that principle the gemara derives that principle by the way in the context of preparing for shabbos turned friday into arab shabbos the gemara talks about our great rabbis they didn't hire help to wash the floor and set the table and shop and cook they did it themselves rav mahrezia he would cut off the head of the fish and this one would go clean the meat and this one would go we do it ourselves we don't delegate it to others so what happened to mitsubo yoser short quotes had a very beautiful idea he says this is an unusual unusual feature of purim ordinarily every other mitzvah every other holiday we say better to do it yourself than through an agent but the exception to that rule is purim and why is purim the exception to that rule why shouldn't why specifically should you do it through an agent to deliver the mishlochmanos rather than do it through yourself and he says basically the following ordinarily there's a wall as a barrier ordinarily there's a division between people there's you and there's me there's i and there's thou we're different we're all together different independent separate and apart but the myth of mishloch is to create a sense of we're trying to generate a sense of that there's a camaraderie companionship a connection that we're all in this together that we focus on what we have in common not which that divides us so therefore on purim specifically whenever there's an ego there's an i there's an anohi so i'm the one doing the mitzvah i want the geshmaq i want the thrill i want the satisfaction i want the fulfillment i want the credit but sometimes there's a point where we realize you know what even all that i do i'm not really doing when the surgeon successfully heals the patient they're just an agent for hashem when the lawyer successfully makes the argument to defend the person they're an agent of hashem when a rabbi gives a speech or offers up sack or comfort or counsel they're an agent of hashem every one of us in any capacity we're in we realize that as much as we should be proud of the effort that we exert but its success is not us we are simply agents we are messengers of hashem the whole says we're here is to represent him we are here on this earth to be his angels to hold that door to say please and thank you to call and check in to show up and support to heal and to help all the people around us in this world one of our names we're just defined we're called mitzvah it's why we're here we're just agents you know dakota certain great series we serve at the pleasure of the king not the president we serve at the pleasure of the king so if you serve if you've been recruited to the cabinet the most powerful person on earth would you ever feel like it's me it's i i'm responsible you say i serve at the pleasure of the king so we are his agents that's our mission that's our very definition it's our very identity here on earth the secret to our success is to never take pride is to never have it feed our ego is to never think it's us or we're independent but the more that we realize whatever capacity we serve professionally and personally that we are just agents of above that we are ambassadors of hashem that we are here to advance his mission on earth will be successful any success we meet is only is only because of the force and the will of hashem the one who sends us not because we are the shliyak so when you get to that point where you realize i'm just an extension of i'm no different from i don't have an independent identity then it doesn't make a difference the michelle or the kikan lahuvala so really when you receive my mishloch manos it's not from me who and what enabled me to buy to organize the purchase to put together and to transmit to you this mishloch it's all from so what's the difference whether you got it from me or you got it from another person i don't need the pride i don't need to ego i don't need to impress you i don't need to feel good about myself i don't need the credit because really all i am is an agent of hashem so specifically when it comes to the minutes of purim where a person is supposed to live with such an acute awareness of hashem with such an ongoing faith in the presence of hashem there is no me there is no you all there is is us as an extension of him of hashem so whether i deliver it or whether you deliver it for me unlike other times where i'm focused on getting the credit or having the positive experience all i care about is the result because equally we are agents of hashem the khanerez and this is how the shore concludes those walls those barriers those divisions that normally divide us they're erased they're gone on purim you know where they were gone on the way to the gas chamber you know they were gone in the moment of liberation from the camps the jewish people are threatened and when we survive we don't focus on well you have a different yamaka and i do you send your kids to a different school than i do you voted for the different party than i did so therefore i can't stand next to you on the way into the gas chamber and i won't sing and dance with you on the way liberated out of the camp no one said such a thing when you're collectively threatened and you collectively survive nobody says such a thing nobody cares about the differences in the divisions all we see is the commonality all we see is the unity so purim we were threatened and purim we survived in purim we acknowledge that even when hashem's not name is not in the megillah it's really all from him we feel connected with him so those artificial divisions those man-made unnecessary absolutely gratuitous divisions that normally break us apart they're gone and therefore normally we say yo-sun better for me to do it than for you to do it better for me to do it myself better for me to show that love that affection that eagerness to do it myself but purim is the exception she's there is no me there is no you all there is is us as an extension of him you deliver it i'll deliver it it doesn't really matter this is the one mitzvah we do i think a second explanation he doesn't mention the survival of shore that you could suggest is purim is all about bitter purim is all about getting rid of our sense of das all year round i think i understand i comprehend i see purim i realize that i have no idea and whether it's through a medium of a little extra lachaims or whether it's simply the mindfulness to say adeloyada i don't know anything i don't understand anything everyone comes in a costume i don't even know who everyone is that's the origin of the costume the world is venajapahu it's upside down i think i can predict anticipate i think i understand i think i control purim i let it all go i let go and i let god i don't understand anything i can't predict anything have these last two years not taught us anything if they've not taught us anything it's we can't predict we shouldn't anticipate and we shouldn't think we can control anything nothing nothing about this virus nothing about the geopolitical war that's taking place and god forbid won't escalate we don't know we can't control we don't anticipate anything vinahapahu the world is upside down we world costumes to say we can't even understand on the surface the superficial we don't even know who one another is or how we appear is not really what is everything is upside down and backwards so specifically on that holiday it's not about me there is no anoki i have no sense of i i relinquish i absolutely nullify my sense of i i submit and surrender to hashem in the ultimate way that's purim and that's why i can do it one other quick thought and then we dive into partial together dive in and that is from muri varabhi rabbasha weiss minha sasha he says such a beautiful idea you know unlike normally the safer torah the way we read the torah is it's rolled to scroll and when you're done with one column and you turn the column you turn it over and you roll the torah to the next column that you're now going to read if october's ever read from a cloth mr schafter read it from a cough to specialist so he read it and it's rolled it's a scroll and you turn the scroll so you can read the column the mcgill is the exception the megillah we don't read it scroll how do we read it we unfold it and the reason given is the gill is called iguara sazos it's called nigeria it's a letter a letter is not read in a scroll so we open up the letter and we fold it we keep turning the folds of it but it's entirely open y summary of arabic says i think very very beautiful and powerful idea he says rather than rolling up to the left side of the mcgill as it's red the left side is folded over and over so that when mcgill is finally completed the entire story is exposed at once each incident of the megillah presents no proof of hashem's involvement only when you see the entire story from the beginning to the end you go oh that's why that happened that way that wasn't a coincidence that wasn't chance hashem wasn't hidden or missing or a mystery only when the whole thing is open can you now see the entire picture from the beginning to the end so normally we roll and we scroll and it goes and we cover up what we've just read but when it comes to purim we unfold it and the whole thing's open and we see it all at once because it's only with that thirty thousand foot perspective we can look down and now we see hashem's guiding hand and the entire story of purim as it unfolds the arizal notes the great reviews of glory of the great kabbalah the arizona notes that although hashem's name is never explicitly mentioned the megillah it does appear as an acronym in several places one the beginning of the miguel hamel at the end when esther says let the king and hamman hashem's name or the acronym the first letters of excuse me name in its first letter is depicts someone's rise to power and the threat of disgust destruction that loomed over klaus israel the second passage in which hashem's name appears and the last letters is haman's downfall this highlights the central lesson of the megillah that hashem's name appears the beginning to spell the words of destruction in the end it reveals his name really spells the words of salvation that hashem's name is there from the beginning to the end even when it seems hopeless and helpless doom and gloom even when it sounds like destruction hashem's name is embedded and when it all works out and there's salvation when there's reason when we can make sense of it hashem's name is again embedded from beginning to end hashem's name is embedded at the start and at the finish because hashem is with us all along so we don't read it rolling it like we do everything else we read it where it is all open at once so we see it all at once partial stop page 568 euros crosstalk spoke to moshe saying we continue with the laws of the sacrifices of the karbanas the goal of the karbanos is to become karov to breed and to bring us close to hashem that is the essence that is the goal that is what they are about so tsav command arun and his sons rash already notes that this is a relatively harsh language command it doesn't say emor speak to say it doesn't say da bear communicate transmit what does it say sound means tab means command sound is a relatively harsh language command we've spoken about this year's past so if you're listening to multiple partial i know we've spoken about this year's past but we're going to bring some new insights this year so what does it need to say command why such a harsh way of communicating rashi tells us you know why there's an expense involved costs money so when i tell you to do something that doesn't cost you anything you're more likely to do it but if you have to reach into your wallet like for the global campaign express gratitude enable and help you to continue everyone partial class is amazing could you help us get it out there it's not that amazing i wish i could i've already allocated everywhere ukraine which of course is a priority give to the ukraine certainly before you give to the global campaign kiss the moment there's an expense the moment we have to dig into our own pocket ah maybe i don't know it's not that great i don't love you that much is there any other way do we have to i can't really afford so moshe has to come along and say south here we have the strong language of because of the kiss we have the strong language of now we have to understand ask sergio fesco levitchling to whom is this command directed to the cheapest stingiest least enthusiastic member of claude israel no tomb is this command directed by mitzvah it's not only that the coming goddess is supposed to be distinguished in their righteousness and virtue so that one wouldn't think that the expense would hold them back one wouldn't think they would need extra encouragement or cajoling not only are they supposed to be among the most righteous and virtuous but they're also supposed to be independently wealthy commercialization says maybe not independently we're supposed to make him wealthy because you know people respect and admire wealth if the coin gondola was a schlepper with worn tattered clothing driving a jalopy who didn't know where his next meal was coming from and couldn't play his mortgage how would anyone respect him so our job is to bolster it to hold them up so you're talking about a kohen goddale who had money and you're talking about a coin godo who's supposed to be righteous this is the individual that moshe has to say this is the person that we're worried and afraid if they find out the cost of matzah they're going to throw away pesach this is the person this is the kind government you're talking about this is the highest level of the land what are we talking about what are we talking about moreover we find the end of the pasha didn't deviate right or left aaron didn't hesitate whatsoever so here the great iron who doesn't hesitate who with alacrity enthusiasm and zeal and passion and this is the one that moshe needs to say because it's going to cost them a few shekel are you kidding me seriously you know what event says and the answer is there's a piece of all of us that doesn't want to spend there's a piece of every one of us whose first instinct is hashem isn't there a way for me and you to be close without it costing me isn't there a way to feel connected without digging into my wallet every one of us including the great calling cuddle no matter how wealthy and no matter how righteous even somebody for whom the money won't make a difference remains aware of whether there's a cost involved or not even the person for whom the money doesn't make a difference is aware is this free or is there a cost there's a book called scorecasting which is a very interesting book statisticians and economists did an analysis of sports a fascinating book can you freeze out the free throw shooter if you call timeout does it really work if all kinds of stats that we assume you'll only appreciate this if you like sports but it did the data analysis to determine is it true is it true that superstars always get the call from the ref is it true that all kinds of these things if you're interested in that it's fascinating so one of the things it talks about in there is when athletes or celebrities or superstars are invited to make appearances so they're offered a hundred thousand dollars to come make an appearance at an event or compete in a tournament let's say a pga star so the the book gives the data about how often those superstars say no that money's not worth it to them and then they say i'll fly out your whole family now if you're the superstar what would you say fly out my whole family i could fly out my whole family i'm a millionaire or a billionaire plus the hundred thousand dollars you're offering me i can allocate a little bit of it to fly out my family how much money is that after all if they were offered instead of a hundred thousand dollars will offer you a hundred five thousand dollars they'd say thanks but no thanks i don't need the money i don't want to go but the moment they say we'll fly out your family they say i'm in there's some psyche there's some mental switch that's flipped when you oh you fly my family what a deal what a bargain what a saving even though financially mathematically it doesn't add up the wealthiest person in the world can have all the money in the world in which that cost won't impact their lives whatsoever yet they remain very aware of the cost so reviewing answers you see from here something very powerful not negative about are not going this is not a criticism of him but rather it's a observation it's a reflection on the human psyche and the human condition that we were designed in such a way that the moment something costs us we're aware of it and we hesitate because of it and that's why it's sad we have to push through and we have to persevere and we have to make sure what do we care about and what do we value that's what i wrote about the weekly last week imagine if somebody found your credit card statement what would it say about you do you pay more to stream entertainment or do you pay more to stream torah the global campaign you're willing to pay to stream entertainment what are you willing to pay to stream total it's a simple question but really all of our all of our bills and finances all together what do they say about us what do we what are we willing to spend on what do we run eagerly to spend on what do we hesitate and demure and argue and rationalize and justify to spend money people do not like to part with their money visa solante once visited a very wealthy person to collect stukka and the man opened his safe to give the money and he was called out of the room for a moment so he saw salons or sat there in shock and he got up and he ran out of the room so the viewer the wealthy individual when he came back to give him the gift said why did you leave the room you're review the founder the father of the muslim movement if anyone could be trusted with an open safe filled with cash it's you why'd you run out of the room so listen to what israel said to him tells us there are two things that the human being is drawn to desires yearns there is no apotropist for and they are gazelle we love money and if it's easy to cut corners or bend the rules or misreport on our taxes it's so tempting every human being is tempted by it not every human being gives into that temptation but every human being is tempted gesell and arias promiscuity licentiousness sexuality everyone struggles and is drawn to it so which one is a greater there's a greater desire so the gemara there says that and barayas very few people actually cross the line of promiscuity but most people still at some point at some point they're using their business phone for personal reasons they build an extra minute that they weren't working as hard as they could for that minute they took a pencil home from work that did ruba most people at some point struggled with being completely honest so said review if fewer people violate the boundary of promiscuity than of gasoline of stealing and yet when it comes to promiscuity you have a prohibition called yehud you're not allowed to be alone with someone with whom you're not allowed to be intimate extentation would be too great there's a prohibition of yichur vice president pence observed that prohibition you're not allowed to be alone so if the violation of yichur applies to another person and more people steal than cross the line of promiscuity then there was an israelite for me to be alone with the money in your safe so when you left the room i got up and ran out i wasn't tempted i wasn't going to steal but if the human condition the human psyche is programmed to be drawn i didn't even want to be tempted just like if i were alone with a woman in a locked room i wouldn't do anything but i'm not allowed to be so too i'm not allowed to be so you see what a person values what they care about and we see this observation of in general what we're tempted by by the need to have the lash on itself command such a strong language needed it why did aaron needed even the great our own he was wealthy and he was righteous why did he need it because once there's a historic once it costs money everybody reacts differently it changes the equation all together okay next next insight on this so we'll look at salvation salvatrix says sav the torah often uses variants of the word salven discussed in his service in the mishkan viata titsava partial rashi on this puzzle provides the following background means zeros the word means immediate moment for future generations and urgency torah must especially express urgency in a situation where there's a loss of money many mitzvos involve monetary loss so why savvy specifically when it comes to carbonus you know what else includes monetary loss pesach it says seven days months as you should eat it doesn't say tsav do you know what a handmade shmuramatsu is going to cost saab you know what else costs money jewish tuition it doesn't say when you teach your children sav dig deep go in debt for years to come for tuition you know what else costs a lot of money you're a little of an estrogen it doesn't say dig deep by the deluxe set four species little of an asteroid so why is it specifically here when it comes to carbonus that's the question of the roof the loss of money is intrinsic to certain mitsubs such as the midst of giving charity so the possibility says the word sam is used when a loss of assets is intrinsic to the mitzvah offering a sacrifice similarly involves such a loss of assets rashi right so in other words someone can gift you these other things but then there are intrinsic when you give stucco by definition you're giving away money it costs you by definition so to over here the carbon you're giving away something that costs you what are you giving away that costs you can't someone gift you the carbon like they can gift you the dalai minim rash uses the term zeros or urgency and describing the myths is fulfilled there's an urgency associated with mitzvos that involve monetary loss what is the meaning of the word ledoros in this context what does it mean blessing for generations the midsoles of mesozoic filament chambers are closed doors too thousands of years have gone by and these missiles are observed as they have been when they were originally given but in what way are the missiles the mishkan practice today there has been no carbon talmud for almost 2000 years in what sense does this mitzvah the dodos the word savier means urgency zerus it means miyad immediately and the dodos do it for generations but you don't do it for generations this is about to spell out our parish is about to tell us all about the laws of sacrifices which ended with the destruction of the basmitas so where is the fulfillment of the lodoros for generations for counts of conversation between in the context of the brisbane absarom i have him asked how he has how he was to know that hashem would not forsake the jewish people if they sinned hashem answered it in the merit of the karbanos avraham insisted the merit is fine when the qurbanists are in existence what happens after the destruction after the quran hashem replied that if bane israel learned the law surrounding the karbalanos he would consider their study as a virtual sacrificial offering when we cannot offer sacrifices we recite the halakhas pertaining to them as a substitute there's a mikdash in our day as well not physically but where in the study of halacha this is the masara of torah shabbat today we read parashat shkalam as if the best was still standing pasha's power reminds us to be ritually pure could bring the carbon passa although we no longer offer a carbon passage we read pasha's para as if the base of natasha still exists says the rav we don't have a base of test today so where is the dodos where is the message in perpetuity of this because the answer is when we study these laws it is as if we have done them the truth is in some ways it's even more because these laws only pertain to certain time time times the carbonus can be offered only during certain distinct times but you could learn about them anytime so you could tap into the energy of the carbon by learning about it in some ways that even surpasses the performance of them so where do we find hashem today that after the basal mites was destroyed where can hashem be fanned it can be found in the four cubits of halacha says what does that mean once the mesa is destroyed where can hashem be found in the four cubits of what does that mean it means one went to the basal mikdash in order to have a rendezvous with hashem in the basa nita she felt an intense presence the shrine is a shahrain he was available he was accessible there was a closeness there was an intimacy there was a connection where do we find that today when we learn torah when we sin we learn torah hashem is there we transport ourselves into a virtual vasatas that same feeling and that same result that came from being present in the base of makdash is what we can achieve when we immerse ourselves not the best i make dash but when we immerse ourselves in the study of torah and in allah we find hashem in that place is another interpretation we're going to get you past this passage i find myself saying this weekly but we're going to get past the first puzzle of brussels breast love has another beautiful insight here it says the halogen of nachman inside of the sub-zeros you could lose money there was the cost of the carbon and if the carbon was puzzled let's say the carbon was illegitimate then you had to bring another carbon that costs money you had to dig deep into your funds so torah says because there's a cost associated we need a little extra encouragement do it even though it'll be expensive do it even though it costs money however yes [Music] again we're looking this one doesn't explicitly say these ideas they're based on his teachings in the mu and apply to our parsha so iran writes the following a person who wants to merit being lit up by the light of hashem we walk around and we're in darkness a person who's down and downtrodden and depressed and despondent describes i'm in a very dark place i hear from people sadly too much i'm in a very dark place dark place means i feel alone i feel abandoned i feel like struggling a dark place means i'm struggling with faith with connection a dark place so who doesn't want to break out into the light who doesn't want to become enlightened in the most positive sense who doesn't want to bask in the light of hashem so what do you need to do in order to achieve that sarah lacazette is you need to sanctify and purify the seven candles what are the seven candles what are the seven prisms or windows into the light of hashem are you ready they are the two eyes the two ears the two nostrils six uh so these are them two eyes two ears and two nostrils and the mouth sorry i left out the mouth so the seven entrances of the head are the seven candles the seven windows through which we experience the light of hashem meaning our senses the more that we sanctify the more that we elevate what we look at what we listen to what we smell what we speak the more that we sanctify these entrances into who we are these seven candles these seven windows these seven entrances the more that we can experience and be lit up from the light of hashem now the robot such most of the entrances have a cover show mara layum most of them have a cover that protect them um and they protect negative things from infiltrating and compromising corrupting lay nayim yesh our eyes have eyelids our eyelids close all right let's protect our eyes our islands create tears show them sugars terrifying something's coming at your eye and you have a good response time your eyelid should close our eyelid is there to protect our eye it snaps closed quickly it responds to the threat in order to protect it you know what else it can protect us from if there's an image opposite us that we shouldn't be looking at close your eyes we have eyelids we have the capacity to close our eyes whether it's from a particle that's about to fly into our eye and threaten it or whether it's from or whether it's from an image which is about to infiltrate and invade our eye and threaten it we have violence yes with your ears i go to weddings and i see people come now with music is so i know i've reached that age and now i'm complaining about how loud the music is then when you don't hear the music that's the next stage but i'm at the stage where you complain about how loud the music is so now people come to weddings and simchas with earplugs they put earplugs in their ears in order to protect their hearing and the mark zuba says you know what your plugs are really for superstaff why are our persons fingers shaped like spades the reason our fingers look the way they do is you're supposed to plug the fingers were designed by hashem to fit perfectly in your ear why that's disgusting you don't pick your ear in public why your fingers fitting in your ear because if something threatens to infiltrate to invade your ears that will corrupt and compromise i.e la shanhara profanity vulgarity gossip slander if a weapon of mass destruction is about to enter your earlobe your eardrum who designed the fingers to put into the ears to protect them it's not my cute little drush it's a mark superstaff the kumar there says that's also why you have dangly ears earlobes your earlobe can fold up and fit right into your ear someone's talking lashinari you should fold up your earlobe put it in your gaze i can't hear you kurdish barco created an opening a window but if you want the light of hashem to come through you have to protect that window keep that window clean keep that window open and if there are poison contaminating poison that enters the images through the eye or the poor speech through the ears we have the capacity to protect it what about the mouth the mouth the mouth is such a weapon of mass destruction if we say the wrong thing we can murder and kill and destroy that it needs to have two boundaries two walls what are the two walls first we have the teeth and then we have the lips you could close your teeth which will hold back your tongue and then you can close your lips so each of these entrances the seven candles the seven windows to the light of hashem two eyes two ears and a mouth have a covering a kiss a kiss is a covering which is the one that doesn't mean the nose doesn't have another name the nose doesn't need to be protected from forbidden smells because there is no prohibition to imbibe a prohibited smell so what is the nose a symbol of anger how do we describe anger kharon af anger is described in the torah as nostral's flaring the akash is we reinterpret this entire teaching when do you need to encourage someone when do they need lashon when do they need the stronger language of encouragement of tsav in a place of gesture and kiss so we interpret that until now to mean when do they need most encouragement when there is an expense a cost but it says means when there's no covering the eyes have a covering the ears have a covering the mouth is a covering but anger has no covering and it needs the greatest protection the threat and the danger of losing ourselves to anger that requires the greatest the greatest protection kiss is the thing that has no covering it's a whole new interpretation i guarantee you've never heard this before i never saw this before what is the place that has no coverage that there's an expensive cost he saw a kiss at the place that has no covering what has no covering the castle is because person could easily get angry with whatever bothers us when you're angry you lose your mind when you're angry it clouds your judgment when you're angry you make poor decisions when it comes to anger there is no natural response if a particle's flowing at your eye without your thinking about it your eyelid shuffs your ear you can close it up it's so loud it's the end of the wedding with the hand over your ears if there's down or danger or damage you instinctively cover up when it comes to anger we fly into a fit of rage and anger without even thinking about it it doesn't have a kiss it's kiss it's missing it's covering and that's why it needs allah because when it comes to moderating anger we need an extra emphasis extra enthusiasm extra zeal that is the teaching of the helicopter okay let's go right there let's go further let's go further let's see reuben feinstein so we now move to the opening service that's being described is what's called the truma sadeshan the truman seduction is taking away the ash whatever burned on the altar overnight created a pile of ash and the first service of the morning was taken out the garbage we've spoken in years past that judaism taking out the garbage is a dignified service there's nothing it's not beneath any of us when you walk outside you see a piece of garbage it's not beneath anybody it's not someone else's job but taking out the garbage removing the ash from the altar removing the ash from the altar so ruling feinstein and this new safer nowhere shallow masks the very first service before the daily was the trimmer sedation coin taking some astronauts moving it to a spot near the eastern side of the ramp where it miraculously sunk into its place what exactly was the lesson of the service some people under the oppression was simply an act of housekeeping right the easy understanding is if you're going to bring the next sacrifice you need them is back to be clear so you got to remove the ash if you're going to have more garbage to throw away someone eventually has to empty the garbage so that's a simple understanding that's a simple purpose however this approach is incorrect we must bear in mind he writes that there was room in mizbeh for a fire that was 24 hours square there were offerings that were burnt upon it all day the fats and limbs were offered well into the night the mitzvah sudden is to take a mere shovel full and place on the side of his back the rest of the action that needed to be cleared was moved but not part of the service what then was the lesson of the abode of the trimmer's addiction meaning it was to take out the garbage it's kind of peculiar you didn't take out the whole garbage you only took out a little bit of the garbage you have it says it's garbage data market you take out all the garbage and then i take out one bag and i leave two full garbage drums get into bed you take out the garbage i take out a bag that won't bode well i don't suggest trying that at home if you're supposed to take out the garbage you got to take out the garbage so why is the coin not taking out the garbage he's only taking out one bag he's taking out one shovel full of ash clear out the top of them as bail it's time for the new carbanos a b where does he put the ash mattress she said did you take out the garbage yeah i put it by the front door front door that doesn't help the garbage man don't come to the front door bring it to the curb bring it to the edge of the driveway what are you doing so here too the coin took the shovel of all the ash and he put it next to the ramp what do you mean take it to the dumpster take it out to the garbage if you're doing the trimmer sedation if you're taking out the garbage go all the way don't do half a job why didn't he keep going why didn't he keep going so previously we've shared an insight of rehearse which i love it's a yes insight i set it over at a yusker the insider refreshes what are you doing on top of that mizbayach what are you about to offer and bring not a trick question people corbin sacrifice before i could bring today's sacrifice i have to honor and remember that there was a sacrifice yesterday what do i think i'm the first big kanaka to bring a sacrifice i'm the first person who's been asked to sacrifice i'm the first person about to be mostly nephesh before i make my sacrifice today i remember there were those who came before me yesterday and made a sacrifice yesterday and i honor their sacrifice by taking the ash and putting it next to this bach this is not functional this is not simply to be able to take out the garbage that is not the point that is not the purpose of this taking out the garbage this is a service they're calling put in special clothing for this going didn't put on a sweatpants and torn t-shirt take out the garbage there was a special clothing special wardrobe because this wasn't functional pragmatic taking out the garbage this was a service you honor the sacrifice of yesterday before you approach the mesbah to bring your sacrifice of today but reuben feinstein brings a different answer to the torah recounts that avraham offered the ram that was tangled in the bushes and ola in place of the sun rashi there cites the exposition of the major that with each of oda that havram performed with that ram he prayed hashem should view the service as having been performed on yitzhak instead rashi writes on each service that he performed with it he would say may it be the will of hashem that this was done to my son as if my son was slaughtered as if my son was sprinkled as if his skin was flayed as if he was burned and became ashes the significance of these prayers was great we reference the ashes of yitzhak who of course was not touched in the blessing of buddhists and chakras monastery in the first day of rosh hashanah in the pewt of tala zoo we mentioned the ashes of yitzhak it makes its way into the dominating of rosh hashanah additionally you shall maintain this cites one opinion that the reason the ashes were placed on top of the iron kodashi the public fast was to recall before hashem the meredith who was considered to have been consumed by the fire and turned to ash what is the significance of ash in these statements of khazal we know that an offering is offered with its slaughter and that it affects atonement with the sprinkling of the blood what is the symbolism of the offering being reduced to ash why such a focus and emphasis let this ash be in the honor of yitzhak i understand when you say lo the shrita let the slaughter be in the honor as if i slaughtered yitzhak let the sprinkling of the blood be like the sprinkle of the blood of yitzhak let the skin be flayed like the skin of your sucker flame let each part of the sacrifice correspond as if it happened to yitzhak but the ash why the ash the ashes the garbage the ashes the garnished the ash is the nothing why are we so focused on the ash i believe the answer says that the ash is the physical representation of the idea that we have taken a given commandment to its absolute completion this is what avraham prayed for with the ashes of yitzhak he wished that hashem would keep perform the merit that havram attained by carrying out the instructions of hashem through their final stage when the coin removes some of the yes the previous day's offering he is ceremoniously capping off the service that took place the previous almost 24 hours with an action that demonstrates that hashem service has been completely and optimally carried out to the last detail not only were the mandatory services performed through the rika but even the fats and limbs that were offered were consumed and rendered ash the way the mitzvah is supposed to be performed with this declaration regarding the previous day's offering the coin starts the new day with the same commitment to see to it that service of hashem will be performed optimally and will reach the level of absolute completion so the rehearse said the ash represents the sacrifice of yesterday we have to honor that before we move on to the sacrifice of today reverend feinstein shalit is certainly different you know what this emphasis and focus on the ash represents hashem yesterday i didn't bail i didn't leave in the middle i didn't give up i didn't mail it in i didn't do half a job i saw it all the way through this ash represents the completion you know it reminds me we do this at the seder when we finish the seder what do we sing there's no other myths that you do you know shake the little vanessa and put it down and say hashem i did the dalai minim i entered a hundredth coal of the shofar we did it these corbanos so there's this notion the ash the true masadesh hashem i take a shovel of the ash and i put it next to them is bach because i want to show you and demonstrate to you and i want to demonstrate to myself that i completed what i started yesterday i got it done i made it to the finish line i saw it all the way through you know sadly that's so unusual how often do we start projects how often are we excited at the beginning of a project but then we abandon it we bail on it we run out of steam i told you before that writes and this is the chapter of zerezis it's reasons alacrity zeal enthusiasm he says there are two types he needs reasons to start a project and you need resist when you're going to run into the wall and project project in the beginning is easy to have the reasons so excited gonna finish all shots to dafyou me so excited i'm gonna lose 100 pounds so excited i'm going to train for a marathon so excited i'm going to paint the garage and then in the middle of the project you run into that wall it's not so exciting anymore it's not so fun anymore i'm not so motivated anymore that says that i'm carlos when you need the second burst of his resus so we take that shovel full of ash and we say i didn't give up even when it wasn't so exciting anymore even when i ran out of steam even when i ran out of time i didn't give up this ash represents seeing it all the way through all the way until completion pericvav removes his clothing and he puts on other clothing and he removes the ash to the outside of the camp to a pure place the coin puts on special taking out the garbage clothing put on your take out the garbage outfit why does one have a taking out the garbage outfit what does that say cesar of gifter shabbos begotten you know why he changes his clothing because the clothing that you wore to cook in the kitchen is not the same uniform you wear when it's time to pour a cup of wine you take off the apron you change your clothing and now you pour the cup of wine it says gift to the rashiba tells me what do you mean you change the clothing it's the same person you know you don't have the same person who's in the back who's cooking is not the same as the sous chef it's not the same as the dishwasher it's not the same as the maitre d it's different positions of distinction when it comes to the service of hashem there is no hierarchy there is no high and low there is no prominent and there is no lowly when it comes to the service of hashem everything is a privilege everything is everything is a a privilege you're collecting the sudarmed you're organizing the chairs you're picking up the garbage outside the shul nothing is beneath anyone it's all a privilege and you learn that from this puzzle from this rashi even though when it comes to others there are different people who do different positions and they have different status different title different compensation and we view them with different prominence but not so in the world of abode of hashem in the world of hashem there is no class system there is no hierarchy anyone engaged and involved in the world of serving hashem anyone who's advancing the will of hashem anyone who's advancing the vision of hashem we're all equal in his eyes and we should all be equal in our eyes because we're all part of advancing that mission very well possible finally turn the page page five seventy in the articles a permanent fire should remain on the altar permanent fire the shlock writes in the name of he says i found the manuscript it says who says i have a i found a manuscript that a man taught him and who was that man eliot navi and what was the teaching of elio navi that when a person's mind is wandering when a person is feeling tempted when a person is about to give up what should they repeat what should be their mantra over and over again a permanent fire must burn on the altar ulurov on a person who has frivolous thoughts person with negative thoughts a person who has thoughts of temptation should say this passage over and over and over again why so the answer is sophia explains because if the fire is always burning inside you if you're always on fire then you'll be able to dispel these thoughts fire consumes what comes in its way so if you are on fire it will consume whatever temptation whatever distraction comes in your way the key is to be on fire and this is the battle with amalek how often are we on fire we're excited we're exuberant enthusiastic and then our fire runs out we fail to continue to fuel it or someone else extinguished it cynics cynicism nothing extinguishes a fire like cynicism sarcasm amalek that's the battle of the mulligans the battle of purim that's amalek says that amalek attacked you ashrae means they happened upon you means mushroom core we were on fire talk to a kid who comes back from the year in israel a seminary girl hashem is amazing don't look at that you can't have that are you sure this is kosher on fire fired trust me they consume everything in their way on fire we were on fire we came out of a triumph on fire ten plagues splitting of a sea harsinai revelation wow hashem what a drusher i'm on fire davening in mitzvahs my nishama i'm on fire and then i'm always coming the ice bucket challenge a molly comes with a big ice bucket of ice water and they splash it right on our fire right on our fire there's an expression among kids which i will not use i will paraphrase that says why do you have to put out my fire i wanted to put out my fire you know they get all excited about something you say really but i don't think that's true look at this or did you think of that that won't work out for this reason they say what would you have to put out my fire we put out each other's fire all the time when we ask that question when we insert that doubt or that uncertainty or that cynicism or that sarcasm we take a big bucket of ice water and we pour it right on the head if somebody's on fire you know why most often because we're threatened by it when you see someone else is on fire singing during dominating your longshot an essay or refuses to engage in talking with you when you're trying to talk to them oh yeah you're such a holy well and now you're not talking last week you talked to me the whole darling said your holy relation look what you're aware look at your kid look at that why do you say that they're on fire for whatever reason they don't want to talk right now they're dominating whatever reason they have launched one that's right for whatever reason their eyes are closed they're in caduceus they're swaying and singing for whatever reason they're coming to charlottesville it's like a good jew not sure and you're going to go and put out their fire you're a malik that's a malik in our own head the voice in our own head that says ah who are you kidding your lungs want to ask for your shackle and who are you kidding five minutes from now what you're going to be doing and watching and saying who are you kidding that's amalek it's the voice of amalek put on our fire so slokadosh has a tradition from martial devera who has a tradition from eliyahu and navi himself though when you're sitting at home you're tempted by a sin when you're thinking about giving up on yourself and who you could be simply say to yourself over and over again i have to have a permanent fire on this altar i have to stay on fire i gotta light my fire i gotta go figure out who do i need to listen to that makes me feel lit on fire what do i need to be around what comes is what i bring in what tish what person what personality which shear do i have to turn on what podcast what song what music do i have to play because to me i'm not letting anything lower this flame i'm not letting anything extinguish this fire you know what we have to be like trick birthday candles anyone ever you ever see those trick birthday candles ha ha a person blows out they go back person blows them out they're back on fire i don't believe in blowing out candles they're making wishes that's a wholesale the grinch who stole birthdays but that's a whole separate conversation but let's say you believe in blowing out candles they have trick birthday candles you keep trying to blow them out they keep coming back we have to be trick birthday candles try blowing me out with your cynicism and your sarcasm and your skepticism try putting out my fire i'm a trick birthday candle i'm going to keep coming back at you because i'm on fire i'm on fire because to me to cuddle i'm here to be on fire my life is about being on fire i'm on fire ben adam i'm not done talking about ukraine and raising money for the ukraine and caring about the people in ukraine i'm going to be bananas to make sure that i don't give to the most popular people you know how i come up with i try to think not who's getting the shlock from everyone who's not getting who's unable to go out and experience be on fire to care about other people be on fire to show up to that sheer be on fire to sing and let yourself go be on fire don't let anything put out that fire stay on fire always always bye tell you what could we do it's an hour time is up even though there's so much to talk about but we have it for next year there's a plastic at the end of the parsha perfect lemonade then we'll feel like we read the whole picture we'll feel good for one more second 30 more seconds at the entrance of the omo it shall dwell day and night for a seven day period and you shall protect hashem's charge so that you shall not die what is going on over here taishvil yo mambalila sit day and night let's end with this an insight of rav salovey an insider of salvation um you shall not leave the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days proper preparation is a necessary condition for any encounter with holiness for example in the prelude to receive the torah moshe warned the nation be ready for three days don't go near a woman similarly i don't have to submit to a seven-day preparation period prior to the dedication of the mishkan every coin guddell subsequently went through a similar sequester priority on kippur the prohibition of mooks is centered on the need for preparation you have to be instead of being muktza because you didn't designate it you have to designate it among the prohibitions of moksa's food that was not prepared prior to shabbos one does not marry nor is worthy of celebrating shabbos unless you prepared for it the midst of how we prepare for the receiving of the torah one counts the years before shemitah yova's preparation holiness does not arrive suddenly it comes only by invitation inherit in the act of preparation it's a beautiful insight that's turned friday into arab shabbos there is no holiness without preparing for it anyone who tells you they stumbled on holiness it is a counterfeit holiness genuine authentic real holiness takes preparation it takes work it takes mindset it takes effort you don't stumble a trip on holiness it takes work and that's what the end of the parsha is telling us have a wonderful purim everyone's invited to our home from 12 30 to 2 on purim in front we're having a big black party with french fries apparently i will be dressed as a french fry what you do for shaolin bias so everyone's invited 12 30 to 2. afraid of purim stay happy stay healthy stay holy pick it up hashem next week