Parsha Perspectives for Today (Vayikra, 5782) - From Chance to Meaning

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appreciate it okay sabermaker perrick 550 page 554 in the arts girls stone hummus the third book of the torah begins with god calling moshe it replicates what appears in the torah itself the balcory the one getting the alias see it but the aleph of the word vayikra is a miniature aleph it's what we call an aleph zira it's a small mini aleph musa of moshe moshe was humble he was modest for the torah to declare that god called him that would seem arrogant moshe would look like he was gloating he was showing off look at me you know who i am god calls to me directly moshe preferred without the aleph without the aleph the same letters spells which means mikra chance happenstance randomly god randomly tripped on me could have called anyone he screamed out i was the one who answered kardashian number it's a villain and where do we see that word used with bill maharasha near la hashem with bilaam the torah specifically depicts as if god stumbled across bilum it was chance it was happenstance it wasn't by design and moshe says let me look like billam i don't have to stand out i don't have to be special i don't have to look like god called me i want it without the aleph let it just say mikra who god said nice try that's your job to see mumble my job is to produce a torah so put the aleph in i'm the editor-in-chief i got the final say hashem says i'm the editor i'm the author of the publisher and we're going to do it with the aleph so what did they compromise what did moshe albania do he snuck in an isle of katana an olive era he insisted no aleph he wanted to look humbly like god chanced upon him god says i didn't chance upon you i came to you specifically by design put in the aleph what does moshe do makes hashem he puts in the aleph but gets his way makes it an aleph kitan and allah's era which is a bizarre thing when you think about it i mean it sounds like an impetuous child sounds like something my child would do right fine they'll give in they'll do it but they'll still do it their way a little bit they won't entirely do it your way i insist you do this i mean okay but they slip in a little bit they have to get some victory it's moshe rabbenu he's supposed to be humble the whole driver and motivation for why he doesn't want the aleph is because of his humility and yet despite his humility he's insistent it has to be his way is it a peculiar okay you expressed your humility he said no don't honor me at the dinner don't give me master yona don't give me the alia no no no i said no three times that was your job but now we call you up for the aliyah so when moshe albanu had to give in after hashem told him it's my call why did he still insist on a small alph how is that an expression of humility in some ways it's an insistence of arrogance of the holy here says that whenever god speaks to moshe first he calls him before he tells them what he's going to say first he calls out why do you first call out i say you have a dear can i ask you a question she's sitting right next to me what i have to call you dear you're sitting right next to me because it's an expression of affection use that expression we repeat it in our kedusha vikara zelda why not just say what you got to say angels you're all on the same frequency why the carousel is there first you have to call before you say the answer is an expression of affection you say someone's name you call them can i talk to you can i be frank with you can i say something to you can i ask you something you call first as an expression of affection um when it comes to the non-jewish prophets when it comes to bilaam there is no affection there's no can we talk for a moment bill come over here dear i've got something to tell you no it's hashem happened upon billam he stumbled on bombilum so once he jumps upon bill and he had a conversation so what's going on over here cesaro say the abstinence which i now have the two volumes which i have never heard of before the pasture shear but then you quote people and you meet their grandchildren in the parking lot you get this farm so the election says the following similar adam when you call out to someone what you're saying is could you come over here you're over there i don't want to shout or let's pick a rendez point let's meet at starbucks i want to talk to you to call out to someone is a to initiate is to express affection that i want a connection so when you call out is to establish a relationship it's to create a foundation it's the desire to connect as opposed to chance and happenstance was the most humble person ever of all time the most humble of all people and yet humility does not mean you don't know who you are or what you are humility does not mean that you think less of yourself it means you think of yourself less often that's humility humility is not you think less of yourself as you think of yourself less less often so moshe knows exactly who he is he knows he's categorically different than all of the people he knows he's unique and distinct he knows he's exceptional but he also knows that his worthiness does not come from himself he knows whatever talents or skills he knows whoever he is is not because of him it's alone and it could disappear any moment it's not part of his permanent connection his greatness is because hashem empowers and enables it if hashem wants him to lose his memory his genius his emotional iq his talents his skills his assets they could be gone in a heartbeat in a heartbeat moshe said look it's not that i want to omit the aleph because i'm not so great stop saying that i'm not so great moshe says no i know i'm great but here's the deal with my greatness it could disappear tomorrow i'm only as good as my latest russia i'm only good as my latest leadership i'm only as good as my latest interaction tomorrow i could stumble upon my words i could develop a stutter or a stammer tomorrow i could be in a permanent vegetative state whatever gifts or talents i have could be gone tomorrow so moshe says it's not that i'm in denial of hawaii i know exactly who i am but part of knowing who i am is knowing that the wealth physical material or in talent or skill is from you and it could disappear and that's why i don't deserve her to say vayikra in the full form in the full format anyway so it's not that motion defied god by writing the small aleph god consented to the small aleph because by writing the small aleph it captured both of their intent moshe says it's true i'm great but my greatness only comes from you and hashem says wow you're right so i still wanted to say aleph because in the end you're great because you connect to me and you recognize me but leave it a small aleph in the recognition that the greatness only stems from the connection with me and it could be gone any moment so we see from here person has to know their greatness it's a false humility it's a fake humility to pretend you're not good at something you're good at is not only a false or counterfeit humility it's in fact offensive to god who gave you that talent and skill and wants you to realize it and utilize it to its fullest to pretend you don't have it is just false and fake and counterfeit but more than that it's disrespectful because i shouldn't give it to you to use we should embrace and lean in and utilize the gifts and the talents that we have physical materially and resources in skill but we should always leave the small aleph in our life to remember that whatever we've been given is on loan is not part of our permanent collection it could be gone at any moment at any time so what is that elephant is telling us is in this bizarre conversation moshe says leave it out i'm not so great hashem says you are great i insist to be in moshe says i'm not so great and the evidence i'm not so great is that i'm so arrogant i'm gonna put it in olive and get it my way god over you that's the question the answer is that's not the conversation at all that was happening moshe didn't say i'm not great don't put it in he said i know i'm great god but i'm only great because you grant it hashem says true but in the end of the day your greatness is that you recognize i grant it so put it in so the two compromise and say how can we capture that how can we reflect both the greatness but that the greatness only stems from connecting hashem make it a small aleph put it there and leave it small so zedel's giving an entirely new explanation or understanding of what this conversation is i thought it's a very beautiful insight and it's also very instructive to each and every one of us and to our children to to life when we speak about humility we have to speak about it accurately humility does not mean pretending you're not good at something that's not what humility is humility is to recognize and we as parents i think one of our primary responsibilities we're living in an age of tremendous insecurity instead of meeting yesterday but it could be a meeting any day with anyone and if we're honest we feel it ourselves where we have this impastor syndrome i'll be honest with you every week when you show up i can't believe you're here i'm still waiting for people to figure me out and i'm just taking from everyone else's forum i'm just sharing it that really i'm somewhat of a fraud i can't believe that you show up and we all have that voice inside our head that says i'm a nothing i'm inconsequential i'm invisible i'm incapable i'm unworthy i'm not really so good i'm not really so talented but that's not healthy we're living in an age where there's an enormous spike of mental health challenges and there's a lot of children who are struggling with their own value and their own worth and we as parents and we as educators i think one of our core essential primary responsibilities is to build them up is to make them feel their greatness now you'll say but you know is that really the challenge then they'll lead to an arrogant generation an entitled generation so the answer is the olives the era this insider of the elephant is exactly the marching order and the mission statement of every parent and every mechanic is to instill in our children here's your greatness let me tell you your greatness let me build you up but your greatness brings a responsibility your greatness doesn't entitle you your greatness doesn't give you license your greatness is not about what you can get from it it's what your responsibility to give what's your duty to the world how does your greatness position you to make a difference what's your mission with it and whatever your greatness is remember it's not yours forever it could disappear tomorrow i don't care how wealthy someone is the world economy can change i don't care what a great speaker orator you are kurdish borough who can a tiny small little illness can take it away in a heartbeat and a heartbeat i forgot which great rock star was on tour the top of his game and developed a polyp of laryngitis not to cancel his entire tour you could wake up one morning with no voice you could be a great singer a great speaker you could wake up on the moon with no voice and the examples go on and on and on where whatever we have is on loan it could be taken away tomorrow okay that is number one election let's move over to the girl of nothing this new safer that i love this beautiful savior to be clear the safer is not quoting rav nachman the quote in safer is using the teachings of nachman from iran and elsewhere and then connecting it to the parsha or finding wherever talks about the parsha in those forums and then organizing according to the pasha tutorial it starts it launches with how hashem called moshe to come to the au maui to give him to transmit to him the mitzvos allah so that's what we've been talking about why is it a small miniature aleph as we've been talking about moshe wanted to look like chance happenstance a person who thinks that whatever happens to them in life is chance is happiness they are a victim of randomness they're a loser a lottery winner or a lottery loser that they happen to be diagnosed that they happen to lose that money that they happen to have that incident or accident happen to them if you feel that you're a victim of randomness or chance that what happened just was a fluke it's very difficult to accept it's very difficult to get through and the person who lives life and says it's a fluke it's chance it's randomness and i don't know why i have to be the victim of it can lead you to a life of heresy a life of loneliness a life of depa of feeling depressed and despondent but the means the mighty the strong the providential the king the creator the source of the world his name hashem is everywhere and everything even within that which is painful even within that which is tragic even in the challenging times hashem is there it's not an accident it's not a coincidence it's not chances by design it's from above it's not a coincidence the small letter is the letter aleph the word aleph that spells the letter aleph aleph means the one and only the one and only the unique distinct god who's the aloof shalom he is the creator of the mighty rule of the world how do you take the va of life the attitude of this was chance this was random this was happenstance how do we take the vayikar this was chance and we add a little alf you add a little hashem and you say this wasn't chance this isn't random and this comes from above i'll tell you something personal many years ago 20 years ago now my wife had a stillbirth it was after our second girl was a stillbirth little boy it was a very very challenging very difficult incredibly painful time and they had no explanation no understanding it was almost full term beautiful little healthy beautiful little baby boy but uh it was a stillbirth and it's very painful i don't need to elaborate when they have to induce you and you have to endure labor and you have to go through all those pains in the recovery and then your milk comes in and your body tells you you're supposed to be nursing but there's no baby it was an incredibly almost unbearable time bar hashem we've been blessed so many times over the beautiful family and i don't say it to you for your sympathy we're incredibly blessed why am i telling you this story because while we were going through this you know they did a chromosomal analysis they did analysis of the umbilical cord they couldn't figure out why it happened there was no explanation and in many ways that made it harder it's no explanation there's no understanding why and it felt like a fluke why did this fluke happen why did this random thing happen why did this random unexplainable chance happenstance painful thing happen and someone gave me great physic at the time and they said you know when something's unexplainable and the only way to explain it is that it must be by design when you can't attribute it to something that you could point to you can't attribute it to a lab result but you can't attribute it to something that happened or went wrong or somebody's negligence when you can't attribute it to anything you have no choice but to say this was by design this was meant to be and i have to tell you it gave me great comfort i remember 20 years later i remember it profoundly that the thought that this happened on purpose and by design and from above didn't make it less painful it was still very very painful to endure but it made sense there was a framework there was a reason there was the ability to accept that it didn't happen for no reason maybe in this world we would know the reason maybe it won't be till the world to come that will meet that child you know when you have a stillbirth little boy you give a bris the raman quotes you give a brisk to the little boy and you give a name it's a very beautiful reason the rama says because that little boy will come back to life and you'll meet that little boy the little boy needs to be come out little boy needs to have a bris when they come back to life and they need to have a name so they know they have a name and you know what to call them when you meet them this is not some he bgb kabul mystical now transfer me wiring me a lot of money this is you give a bris and you give a name so inside i somehow made this very sad and other shady very sad partial perspective but it's not sad i'm trying to make a point of adding the little aleph the little aleph we go through moments in our life says that feel like we go through these moments in our life that feel like this is just chance this is random why do i randomly have to win this terrible lottery why does this random negative event have to happen to me where are you i feel all alone and i lose my faith and it feels like vayikar you've got to put in the little aleph the little aleph is hashem the one and only the aloof we add the little aleph to vayikar to chance and now we give it meaning we give it context we gain support and we feel that there's reason and that it makes sense we add the little aleph and we transform vayikar to vayikra and what happens when you add the little aleph kosher zoholovinzos whoever hears this chameleon when you add the little olaf to vayikar when you add the little aleph to chance and happenstance and randomness when you add the olives you get the word vayikra that god is calling you that god is telling you something that god is talking to you through whatever happens to you in your life and then the question is to decipher what is he saying what does he want from me what is he telling me what is he calling me what is my calling throughout our lives and throughout all that occurs hashem's calling come home i want to spend time with you i'm talking to you i'm communicating with you lokulam showman sakulas and not everybody can hear it not everyone has the frequency not everyone owns the antenna gamma lakos that even though audibly it was loud enough that potentially everyone could have heard no one had the frequency to pick it up only moshe rabbenu heard god speak everyone else was within range to pick up the sound waves it's not that he wasn't speaking loudly enough hashem was whispering to moshe he was speaking so loudly anyone in theory could have heard but they didn't have the frequency to pick up the message [Music] sometimes hashem speaks to us but we have to have the level of ammuna and faith we have to be so plugged in that we could pick up the frequency i dabbed at a wedding on sunday night we stepped outside we made a quick minion and the sibo was he asked if he could leave darling no problem and he took out of his pocket not a garthel he'd never seen this before he took out a usb charging code and tied it away on his waist as his garter and i thought it gave new meaning to plugging in for davening it was a usb code a usb code was the garter around his waist interesting innovative precedence to figure out when you don't have a choice he plugged in so sometimes you have to be plugged in to pick up the frequency but we turn the moments of vayika of our life the moments of chance and randomness and aloneness by adding a little aleph by putting hashem in the picture we turn avakar into vayikra we turn feeling alone and a victim of chance into god's talking to me god's calling me what is god saying to me what gives us the strength to endure the resiliency to confront and to face whatever we have to is to know that hashem is with us he's behind us he's next to us he's lifting us he's holding us he's crying with us he's right there the al of zaira the little aleph the little voice of the aleph the little sound of the aleph it's right there it's with the mourinho it says when you put me so when you put the aleph into when you give hashem a dwelling place then you want to be happy in life then realize hashem is with you everywhere and in everything that everything is for a reason there is meaning there's order to the universe submit and surrender to him aleph the aloof dar give him a dwelling place here on earth not when you enter the calendar of adar but mishaneknas when adar enters you when an attitude in a philosophy of aleph then we're going to feel an incredible sense of incredible sense of joy so that's the that's the effort that's what we're supposed to be doing that's our mission and our mandate that's our responsibility and then we're going to get past the first word of the passion promise but if you look in your hamish the little aleph we're not going to get there yet because there's a lot more to say about this little aleph this beautiful little aleph let me show write a storybook about the little aleph that could but the little aleph the little aleph moshe's compromise with hashem number one number two put the little aleph in the car of your life and turn the vayikar into vayikra instead of feeling like a victim of chance listen to hashem talking to you listen to hashem calling out to you but it's up to us to put the little elephant we have to put the little elephant next vayikra el moshe the majestic i don't know that we do this i'm sure in certain hamish schools they still do that when children begin to learn hummish the first comments you give them is not gracious good stories it's not schmooze more good stories napa midbar some difficult stories not varam great muslims first book you learn with children is time and memorial since the torah was given the first safer we give children to start learning is the book of why purity and impurity the karbanos that achieve these children innocent and sweet and pure before they are contaminated we start and we learn the book of vayikra yavo hatahoram i said that those who are pure come and learn from the book of pure the fifac characters how do you know that you should start teaching children from the book of operations means a small little child a cute adorable little kinder so you start teaching the children from the book of ayakura so i asked her i don't understand we said take the pure innocent child and teach them from the book of the pure and innocence of kapara and tahara but why can't we start fabricious and we'll get to vayikra i don't understand lamar's the key was before they get to the age of mitchells before their bar mitzvah get the vayakra so no problem start from gracious and make sure you get the vajra by their bar mitzvah why do you have to start from vayikra to begin with so he says he sold godot for you foreign and the answer is because when you live life even a little bit you become contaminated you become affected you become corrupt our goal is to have them engage these sugars in these topics while they're still innocent but fewer before they become compromised or contaminated while they're innocent is when we begin so you take the pure child and you give them the tools and the instruments for purity before it becomes too late why is this a very important partial perspective for today in my opinion in my mind because i think there are a lot of parents myself included when our children are young we take a lot for granted and we make a lot of assumptions and then when they start to mature and develop and get exposed to and engage the world and now we worry now we try to play ketchup now we talk about hashem and amuna and now we talk about bitachon and vegas and mitzvos now we talk about giving hashem we're trying to play catch up when we first get the hint that we're a little bit worried oh they use that expression they want to go on that device they have that friend they saw this thing now we're trying to play catch-up it's so much harder to play catch-up than it is to ingrain and imbue these values and these habits from when they're young and pure there are so many parents who can give big lectures about the regret they have how differently they would do things if they could do it again don't be that parent if you're a grandparent don't tell your children that's not your job it's my job but parents young parents who are listening young parents who are listening we should have a panel of people who would have the courage to talk about their regrets and speak to the young parents you know that i think was the stepler they came in the hasanesh and you know a woman who was pregnant said when do i need to start to learn about about my children and parenting and he said you're too late before you got married when you were single when we start working on ourselves and we work on the philosophy of what our home will look like and what our dining dinner table will look like i will get the kids into the carpool in the morning and get the homework done at night and our attitude towards shabbos and yantef so it's hard to start again it's hard to get a new beginning but when the children are young and innocent pure what we ingrain within them then the assumptions that we create within them then the habits that we form within them there's nothing like it and that's why that's why the allah's era start the children from safer vayikra start them from safer fighting there's other beautiful reasons we've spoken about the parsha perspectives in the past i'll let you listen to those online and let's keep going another obsidial upstream still impossible but we're moving past the opening word by al-mosha good we got that down he called them and then vayidabar he spoke so rashi says maybe hashem called them even for the break we know the torah is filled with breaks sukhos and stumos there are pauses pregnant pauses within the conversation awkward silence we would call today awkward silence the deeper eyes to create allah would dictate to moshe the torah he would teach moshe and moshe would say give me a minute let me think about that i need to absorb that i want to process that i want to assimilate that knowledge into who i am give me a minute so there's a small break and it continues in the same line he needed a minute when there's a complete break and the torah continues in the next line he needed more than a minute so today's leptin points out the greatest teacher of all time who is the greatest teacher that ever lived even though he gets the name raveno the greatest teacher transmitter of torah of all time is none other of course than hashem hashem is the greatest teacher ever and with that with hashem being the greatest teacher of all time what did moshe need a pause some margin a break the capacity and the ability and the time to process you have the greatest teacher of all time transmitting to the greatest talmud of all time how do you know mosh is the greatest talmud of all time he went 40 days 40 nights learning total with no break didn't eat then sleep didn't take a break for one second and it's still mosher abenu the greatest teacher ever the greatest student ever still needed a moment needed a break to a mass to assimilate to be able to listen to accept everything that he was being taught says there is an election what do you see from here if that's true for the greatest teacher and the greatest student how much more trouble is true for us and has there ever been a generation that needed this more than we do we're living in this hyper super speed sonic speed generation we never pause for anything we never absorb any conversation we had because we're already on to the next conversation we've pressed play in the next podcast we're watching the next news we're on to the next event conversation we're living in such super speed we don't build in the margin that even moshe albania needed you fly through the daf you close the gemara you pick up the next after you fly through the next day do we stop and absorb do we create the space and the margin to think and to be loved if moshe albano needed how much more so we need it build in that margin give ourselves that space it's so critical i've showed you before in publishing in books remember what those things are the paper the things that you hold me books in books there's white space around the page why you can make the page shorter you'd save more money you could still charge the same price if you had the ink go from the edge to the other edge from the top to the bottom why is there margin in publishing there's margin in publishing because your eye couldn't take it no one would read a book that didn't have margin you cannot why is there space between the lines in between the words because our eyes and our minds were designed to need margin in order to accumulate absorb in order to be able to accept and assimilate what we're reading into who we are we need margin and what's true physically graphically is true spiritually we need margin in our lives even in a conversation you know let me think about that for a second it's so interesting let me think about that do we ever do that we're just when the other person's speaking we're just preparing our response and while we're responding they're preparing their response so we ever stop and say so interesting let me think about that for a second let me think maybe you're right maybe you've changed my way of thinking maybe you've taught me something new let me think we don't make that time or space to think motion the greatest student who had the greatest teacher nevertheless needed to think we need to give ourselves the space and the time and we need to make sure that we think as well moving right along of the mirror the great rev like motion by diversion the measure says i love this mattress we've spoken about it at length in the parsha perspective sheer in the past we're not going to analyze it at length again you should listen some great insight from a footner but the measure says you see from a putrid rotten carcass is better than him that's a pretty low lot that's a pretty low statement it's a pretty the kids would say that's a pretty big diss i haven't heard kids use it yet maybe we'll introduce it you know you want to say something someone else you're more putrid than a rotting carcass don't try it at home i don't recommend it but that's what the major that's what say you see from here that a tamakhacham a great torah scholar shayne bodas who lacks das is worse than a rotting putrid carcass the greatest human that ever lived moshe the catalyst of salvation for the jewish people moshe threw his hand countless miracles occurred and yet and yet and he brought the torah down from the heavens and gave it and he's the one who orchestrated the building of the mishkan and yet with all that pedigree with all that resume with all that on his cv can you imagine moshe's resume yeah i just i saved them from egypt brought about 10 plagues split the sea went up the mountain came down with the torah orchestrated the greatest moment of revelation of all time architect and help build the mishkan and now with that moshe can't go in without knocking lo nicknas he doesn't go in until vikrail moshe he waits outside the almoid until god says moshe i'm ready come in so the measure says you see from here what do you see what is das what is das in this context what is das what is das rabbi rocham says it's not just that moshe has all that on his resume not just that motion did all those things and if anyone had the right to have the confidence to enter without being asked it's moshe it's not only that he did all those things the message leaves that one last description says god himself says i love you i love you you're been biased by me you're moshe you're everything you're the most trustworthy reliable dependable so moshe who's the ben bias at hashem namanu this motion needs to wait outside this motion used to wait outside then it means if moshe abruptly entered he didn't wait to be invited in if moshe just casually walked in because he felt like he belonged you know what would have happened done his legacy would have been over he would have been considered a rotten putrid horrific malodorous carcass really walking in the all-mode without being invited would undo and negate all the positive yet accomplished because he forgot to wait till he was invited in and he just walked in as he felt like he belonged it would undo and negate ten plagues splitting of a sea redeeming a people bringing a torah building a mishkan and so on and so forth says yes one moment of a failure of derek one moment of a breakdown of a common courtesy could undo an entire legacy you don't walk into a home without your ass you don't walk in without knocking according to rabbi what does it mean what is das in this context das means their hearts just like the missionary navas talks about torah in their hearts das you have to have there are hair it's common courtesy if moshe would have walked in the fill you could be the biggest time of him in the world you didn't hold the door for someone there goes your whole legacy it could be the biggest time of the planet you didn't say please and thank you you didn't leave a tip you weren't honest you lost your whole legacy i've shared before but i'll quickly share again because it bears repeating ravana luchstein has an article that's called with no das there's no das torah whole concept of das torah is there an infallibility of the rabbis das torah when rabbi says something are they always right that we believe in das torah the infallibility of of rabbanim of rabbis do we believe in das torah i'll tell you our fly into new york two weeks ago we've met with one of them what's goliatora who are the biggest proponents of that story in the world and when one of the members of ever asked him how do i understand or reconcile people who are gidola israel yusuf have been on the wrong side of certain issues i care about whether it's corona and others and i was shocked this enormous goddess on the doliya torah the body that most stands for the biggest proponent of das torah said who told you that he's not wrong he was incredible he who told you that that that person is not wrong they're wrong they had bad information they came to the wrong conclusion and they're wrong who told you he was like so upset at the person who asked it from our side you think das torah means that he's not wrong yeah if someone said something he's on the wrong side of an issue be a corona be it abuse be whatever the topic is they're flat out wrong they're wrong being a ishta mahakam doesn't give you infallibility das torah means that the people of torah have a perspective have a vision that we gain their insight that we defer to their judgment that we ask for their judgment when we come to our conclusion but it doesn't create an infallibility so the footnote tells rev lifting stingzadzal in that article says that if you don't have das you can't have das torah and why does he say that because he writes a story his rebbe was referring and he tells he went to go pay shiva cultural reform returned to his talmud and he said at the end of that show he said you know just here before you was a great rosh hashifa a huge tomahawk and he was trying to comfort me by telling me why it's good that i lost my loved one and i'm lucky to have it for so long and just really moronic comments on helpful painful comments so i've learned to return to the scene and he said the measure says listen carefully said ravner it doesn't say kolama or a chain bodas it doesn't say when you have an ignoramus who doesn't have common sense it says who lacks common sense you could be the world's biggest and have no common sense being a talmud doesn't mean you have common sense you could be a super genius you could have the greatest torah knowledge encyclopedic in the world you could be the biggest but in bo das if you have no common sense you're worse than an availa you know why you're worse than availa because by being a tomahawk people expect you to have the greatest deaths should have the most common sense should come to the most sensical conclusions and when you don't you're worse than a putrid rotten corpse person who came in right before you and then writes this article maybe maybe not we believe in da's torah but i'll tell you this if you have no das you're not a source of da's torah you could be a huge time of hachem but if you have no das if you're on the wrong side of really obvious critical issues if you have no das it could be a big time but you have no doubts torah so if your rokham says das it means if moshe avenue had walked in without knocking without being said without hashem saying mashallah come in he called him with that saying come in then he would have lost his entire legacy this is moshe rabeno the greatest human being that ever lived but one time walking in without being called they would have lost it all that's how important common sense common courtesy that's how important derek is okay let's keep going i'm to get past the first possum too i promise all right moshe was called many names rashi the medrash tells us here in the beginning of vayikra what does god call him moshe the mattress right here at the beginning of the says has ten names moshe has ten names i love nicknames i give all my kids nicknames each of my kids has at least ten nicknames we all call them at least ten different names shy shnoki shaiki ishmaeli swirly what they all have 10 names moshe had 10 names he had 10 names and then the marriage goes through and tells us how he got each of those names what each of those names stand for yeah red shower because he created a connection between children and her father in heaven each of these names of all the names that you have you know which name i'm going to call you moshe now moshe got his different names from different people including among them the ribonus himself one of his names was bestowed upon him by god but god says you know instead of using my name for you you know what i'm going to universally do and get everyone to universally do we will singularly use the name not that i gave you says god not that your parents gave you at your bris you know what name we're going to give you and use for you the name that aina but she called her moshe and god says moshe wonders why god differs shouldn't we defer to god our names are mere mortal names our names are original human creations god's name is a omniscient name shouldn't we defer and use the name that god gave not the name that bisi about that bishop gave this non-jewish princess we're using her name it says it's an incredible insight we're running out of time so i'm not going to read it to you inside why did she give him the name moshe but takerushima moshe go back to schmos the second parrot she calls the moshe y ki minhammayim mishi because i took him out of the water mishi social motion was been serious nefesh atsuma bisiya bisiya risked everything to take moshe out of the water first of all she risked her life she reached far beyond where it was safe to be she could have drowned and died she brought a jewish baby into the palace of her father this little baby would be his greatest adversary of all time bissia displayed she demonstrated enormous mysterious nephesh she took tremendous risk to stand for what was right to have conviction and she instilled in moshe because a name is a description a name is not a label a name is a description and by giving that name she actually helped form and forge a man whose life would be characterized by masirus nephesh she helped define him with a name and she gave him mysterious nephesh so it says moser he says that's why the name that we use is not the name from hashem it's the name of bisya in order to elevate this quality of nasirus nephesh we see how important we see how core we see how critical the willingness to compromise to sacrifice to make an effort and i would argue i have in the past previous partial perspectives but i'll tell you again you know why i think we start from vaikara the al of zaira the little kinder why do we start in the fader with a little vayikra safer vayikra pasha's vayikra you know why we start teaching children from there because what is the essence what is the essential theme of the book of the offering of sacrifices you know today when children want the world feels sacrificed why should i sacrifice i want to be happy i deserve to be happy i'm entitled to be happy what do i get what's my entitlement what are my rights how can the world serve me the idea that sacrifice breakdown in marriage is horrific the growing friction and divorce within the fruit community in marriages is disastrous because we're a product of our environment of our greater culture and we're living in a time which is all about you know i got married because you're gonna make me happy what you're gonna do for me the pleasure and joy you're gonna give me how fulfilled i will be but whoever told someone getting married it's about their happiness whoever told you you get married to be happy you get married to make someone else happy and you know what there's nothing in the world that will make you happier nothing will make you feel more fulfilled than completing the other person when you have two people who are each committed to make the other happy you have a happy marriage two people ready to compromise and sacrifice and give in and cave and submit because they want the other person to be happy you'll have the happiest marriage in the world when you have two people who are in it to be happy then you're going to have a lot of friction and a very quick divorce whoever told you you're alive for your happiness life is about duty and responsibility and obligation and mission and giving and it happens to be all studies will show you that when you live life in that way you're the happiest person alive and when you live life for your own happiness you're the most miserable person around whoever said so i think that's why we start with children with safer vayikra you think learning torah is all about geshmaq to be a year it's the wedding i told you the other night that there was a point during the dancing where the band was playing geshmach to be in these young men i happened to be on that side of the dance floor these young men were jumping and bopping and hopping and bouncing and you know they slowed down the beat and they're jumping and jumping and i wanted to video it but i missed it because my heart skipped a beat i actually had a tear in my eye and i said wow i have such confidence in the future of cloud israel when a room packed with young men are jumping up and down and singing to how great it is to be a jew it's great to be smacked getting emotional now even just telling it to you it gives you faith in our future to see young people get schmacked to be a year and it is it is so geshmak to be a yet but yom kippur and tisha bob it's not so smart to be a year and cleaning for peace okay it's not so geshmak to be a year and when bad things happen to good people it's not so geshmak to be a yidd and if we only sing geshmach to be a and we don't also teach children that when the tuition invoice comes for your kid's school nobody's singing it's not so good to be yet when the prices of meat and chicken for pesach are about to go up it's not so geshmak to be a yid when the price per pound for shimura mata comes out it's not so gesh we can't only sing ishmak to be a yidd we also have to learn say for vayikra we have to start with the al of zee era we also have to teach you have to sacrifice your marriage your finances and your life are going to take sacrifice so we start from safer vayikra that's where we begin from and that's what bisi names moshe and hashem says of all your ten names including the one i myself gave you put them on a shelf we're not using those names you know which name we're gonna use and give we're using the name moshe mishisu bisi basparo mesirus nephesh because that's what caulistral need where would we be and who would we be if we didn't have mysterious nephesh do you know that after ellie beer spoke here the shabbos describing what united hotel is doing in ukraine and there are so many worthy organizations whether it's united hutsella or others an email just went out with a list of ones you can give to all of us have to be doing as much as we can i'll tell you something amazing do you know how many phone calls i got on sunday and tell you this you know many phone calls i got sunday not from people who said how can i give money which were many but who said how can i go to moldova i want to help not doctors and pas and nurses not medical personnel people i'd like to drop what i'm doing and go and help that's my seriousness i'd like to go to the border of a war zone to live in not pleasant conditions to leave my family and take off from work to go and help jews who are fleeing war refugees mysterious nephesh if we don't imbue that within ourselves in the next generation we're finished because the only thing that got us until now the only thing because we could wave it off it's too hard when it's naked to be it yet i'll stop being a yid and that'll be the end of our story of our people the serious nephesh is key we don't celebrate we don't live and long to be mostly nephesh but you better be sure to be ready when we're called upon that's what bissya names said moshe and that's by the small aleph and that's where we begin the pedagogy the education of our children begins with the willingness to sacrifice the willingness to give the willingness to be counted among the global campaign brsonline.org global do you give the sacrifice you say but i want that money because i want another triple caramel latte starbucks i want it because i want to go out to eat one more time i want to put but do you give you love the pasha class you laugh you cry you laugh with you laugh at i don't know but you enjoy you enjoy enough to come cup of coffee beautiful we love that you're here we love that you're listening online listening offline are you counted among those who give barak hashem over 400 people have given so far the global campaign we're at i don't know 70 something thousand dollars it's a great start but we're not even halfway where we need to be to continue to produce to share to stream to make available everything we do so it's simple we can't do it without your help be most serene fish be like moshe maya misha here's the good news not asking anyone to go to moldova not asking anyone to risk their life in the river to save a little baby asking you to do something for that for some is even more painful which is reaching to your wallet that's it for united hats allah for ukraine for be that should be the priority be as global a second right now it should be a priority for all of us any other campaign is secondary to saving these jewish lives but everybody to reach in to dig deep and to do a little bit like we can like we can okay let's move on kosk katsuka we got to do a cut scar go to cutscore is peric olive don't get whiplash page 548 forever says we're here talking about the carbon ola from an oaf a bird ola offering right the opening of acres where we spend all of our time that's the beautiful uplifting then we get into the details of the carbons excuse me a little bit more complicated a little bit more challenging but here's a beautiful passage that tells us that he split it with its feathers and you need not sever it the coin causes it to go up in smoke on the altar on the wood it's an elevation offering a fire offering it is a reach says you know it describes that the wealthy rich person who brings a whole animal who brings the pastrami of the corned beef the first cut first cup pastrami is that what's called corned beef the person who brings the most expensive cut of meat when it rises in smoke it's described as a reaction it's a beautiful pleasant aroma of rashem and the person who couldn't afford the meat person who couldn't buy the brisket and just offers a little chicken wing when it burns it also produces a reaction says teaches us whether you're bringing something that cost a lot you're bringing something that cost a little fresher equally pleasing as long as you haven't is your heart in it hashem wants your heart hashem wants your sincerity hashem wants your mindfulness and your presence hashem wants you to be personally invested don't go through some superficial external empty act don't just mail it in don't get away with the bare minimum as long as you're sincere and you're heart sick and you're giving yourself and you're all whether it's whether you big something big expensive or small and modest so says the kasker libo for whom is that expression why do we share that observation so my my instinct would have told me that we're sharing that for him for the poor person even though your mammoth even though all you're bringing is a little just a little inexpensive chicken wing as long as your mojave don't feel bad it produces a reaction as good as the aroma as the brisket smoking for 24 hours says the cutscore be wrong this teaching is not going is not directed to the poor person see the poor person humbly and modestly says hashem here i am your lowly poor servant i wish i could buy a whole cow i wish i could serve you a bowl i wish i could smoke a brisket in your honor but all i could do is afford a little chicken wing all i can afford is the dark meat not even the white meat but i'm offering it to you with everything i've got hashem i'm giving you everything of myself i'm sacrificing and slaughtering this little chicken it's embarrassing it's humiliating it's not a brisket it's nothing but it's the best i can do the poor person humbly and modestly knows they're giving their heart but the rich person says hashem look at me i'm smoking brisket smoking brisket with an 18 year old bottle of single malt look at me look what i'm giving you that's what the torah says you think because you could afford and you're bringing all that you think because your shabbos or your table looks like that you think you're better you're holier you think your aroma that comes up to hashem smells better the reach is just like your neighbor who's eating chicken wings for shabbos lunch who all they could afford is some chicken your ray of nicole is no better so it's such a cutscore such a cutscore hamarava maybe pirate sarchio the wealthy rich person who's bringing the whole ox needs a greater warning he thinks hashem loves me and hashem forgives me and i'm close to hashem because look how beautiful my brisket is my neighbor good luck to you with your little chicken wings my brisket's getting me right into heaven hashem says you know the chicken wings got the fast pass brisket get in line let me make sure your heart's in it missed a brisket you're the one i need to make sure my heart's in it alright last i'm leaving out 10 insights not exaggerating i'm leaving out 10 insights but let's go to one last one because i saw a beautiful from riverwein feinstein i am living out 10. i have no idea to pace myself doing this for 20 years i don't know how to pace myself okay hopefully in in 20 more years i'll learn so the end of our passion on page if you want to see it inside para k is page 564. a guilt offering in the case of doubt what happens if a person is not sure they didn't have era till now the parties been talking about you know that you didn't have error you know you made a mistake you know you crossed the boundary you know you violated an indiscretion here's your way back here's your way out here's how you achieve atonement what happens if you're not sure so the torah says behavior is unblemished for him from the inadvertent transgression then he inadvertently transgressed and he didn't know and he shall be forgiven possibly reverend feinstein writes a beautiful new hamish in certain circumstances one is unsure if he inadvertently transgressed the prohibition that carries currys if he had done it intentionally he or she must bring up asham taloy special carbon called an asham taloi an ashram taloi means it's a carbon asham if i need it any golfers here not willing to admit it one come on in golf there's something called the provisional what's a provisional you're on the team you hit a golf ball and what happens you slice you're hooked there's water you're not quite sure if you're gonna find that ball you hit the ball it's not straight down the fairway it might have gone in the woods it's maybe in the lake you're not sure you're gonna find it so the rule is you're supposed to hit a provisional what's the provisional if you find your first ball you play your first ball if you don't find your first ball you had hit that provisional that now becomes your new ball it's called the provisional you're not sure whether you'll find your ball or not so you hit a provisional this is a provisional carbon you're not sure you made a mistake you're not sure you violated something you have to bring a provisional carbon it's called an asham taloi if at a later point it becomes clear that in fact the sin was committed then you have to bring ahatas now your ashram tully didn't cut it your provisional now you got to bring ahatas the value of the asham toloy must be at least two sloim why do we find this minimum amount specifically regarding one must bring in asham so there are two ideas that come to mind when addressing this question says revroving the first is the approach of the muslim and that is that a person should not adopt the attitude simply because he's unsure if he's sin nothing happened right maybe you'll casually say i'm not sure i did anything wrong let's go with i didn't i'm not sure i made a mistake let's just assume i didn't for a growing person a sincere person that's not the conclusion people have a habit of reflecting on their actions and saying i'm not even entirely sure if i sit in the first place we rationalize our behavior by saying i'm not even sure i did anything wrong i'm not even sure it was like that i'm not even sure i crossed the line i'm not even sure what shabbos i'm not even sure but this is untrue sin even inadvertent sin is a serious matter the fact that even one is unsure if he transgressed to sin muslim atonement with an offering that is a minimum value is a call to attention of the gravity of sin so the reason we have this thing called the provisional carbon and ashram taloy says revervane is to instill in us don't be flippant when it comes to the possibility you made a mistake if there's a possibility you made a mistake don't rationalize and justify and assume you didn't don't be flippant about it take it seriously because mistakes are serious business but then he quotes from his father the rest of shiva's that's all right he said the very fact that a person can find himself in a situation where he doesn't remember the details pertaining to a sin is itself worthy of criticism it's one thing to not know a halacha to lose sight of what's important and not treat the laws with the proper attention they deserve but to wander around in one's own life oblivious to the physical details of his own actions is a far more serious issue a person needs to be cognizant of his every action his journey through life is a string of actions that reflect right and wrong the service of hashem and it's on the opposite a person ought to be so afraid of the possibility of sinning that i'll never lose track of what he did because he was not careful to pay attention to his actions on this level this person ended up unsure if he committed a sin i'm not sure what i ate i don't remember if i made a barakah i don't know if it was shabbos says maisha the reason you bring a carbon is not because you can't be flippant about sin but because it is a sin to live a life that you don't even know what you did is a sin you don't bring the carbon because maybe you did a sin you bring the kaaba because you did do a sin and what was the sin the sin was living mindlessly when you mindlessly walk through life and you're not even aware of what you did you don't know what you ate you don't know what time it is you don't know the action that you took you don't remember what you said if you could live a life you're mindlessly not even remembering what you did that in itself is a sin so you're not bringing the provisional carbon in case you sinned the very fact that you don't remember have you sinned is a sin and that's the mechaev of the ashram taloi talloy thought such a magnificent insight of rabbisha the good news is next year's precious vajrasure is fully prepared we've got 10 insights ready to go on it this week is partial zachary for the women who live here the shabbos we have a fantastic women's kiddish and women's sheer after davoning for pasha zakhor so you can hear a special reading of zucker if you're not in time for the first reading woman's kiddush woman's sheer grateful natalia do not leave today without seeing her here's the rule on your way out if you're a brs member walk right 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