Parshat Shemini: Bringing Hashem Back Home - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

good afternoon everyone today we will be talking about partial to shinny partial the week the partial begins with an interesting phrase it's interesting word actually via he biome hashmi knee it wasn't the eighth day now the context of what's going on over here let's understand we have to know what is it the eighth day of you know we keep calendars you know there's the eighth day of the month there is no eighth day of the week so it can't be a day of the week so of course we have to know this is a continuation of the story going on in safer shimoda and we're continuing in sheriff's every mode we complete the all the donations for what is to be the Mishkan and of course the all of the utensils and the actual part of the mission con are built and everything's ready and for the first seven days we there's an inaugurate of period where we where we dedicate the Mishkan and those seven days moshe levin who does everything and there it's completely considered like a temporary period of the mission calm it's not the official services don't begin with moshe is just you know doing it in place of the Kohanim and it's the seven days of inauguration now after those seven days are complete we arrive at a very special day the rabbi's tell us that the rosh chodesh lee sun is the day that this takes place so it's really the first of the month of the nissan and the second year to the user in our in the desert on that eighth day of the inauguration meaning there were seven days now this is the first day of the actual official service which is the eighth day in relation to the seven days of inaugurating the michigan on this day arm takes over and with all of the priestly garments and now we begin the official permanent service of the mishkan now it's very interesting day what does this day represents a very special day in the jewish calendar the rashi brings from cuz i'll bet that they took ten crowns 10 special things happen on that day and we are going to discuss probably the greatest thing that happened on that day and you know perhaps the greatest thing that happened in the history of mankind after of course the sin of the after the first sin of man so this is like the greatest day ever so to appreciate it let's just put ourselves in there in what they're going through that when the Jews left Egypt so their goal was to go to her scene i received the torah and go into israel that was what the plan was but unfortunately what happened they reached har sinai and we've mentioned before that they reached a level of perfection and they got the torah and they were going to go live happily ever after in the Holy Land of Israel and that would have been the ultimate googler then we would ever had to go through any of these difficult times that were going through except that the sin of the golden calf occurred and after that it was decreed that they had to stay in the desert now that was a terrible sin we see the gods reaction he wanted to annihilate the Jewish people and most romantic leads on their behalf and we are saved now we are saved from annihilation but it doesn't mean everything's back to the way it was you know take for example a relationship of husband and wife you know when when one betrays the other it doesn't just does the betrayal hasn't become erased you know we could say sorry but it's hard to undo the damage that's done and here to what the betrayal of the Jewish people it wasn't so simple to undo the damage and so we go through an extended period of time where we the Jewish people you know go through a process of Chuba where we regret what we did where we try to better ourselves and we want to try to find favor in a shams eyes and that we can be together back with him the way it was before we sinned this is that this takes place over a long period of time and happens that rosh chodesh nissan in the second year which we can see how long it is because you know when did we do the sin of the golden care if it was at the RC night which was since even the first year so it's a very long time after all this work that we're doing to do chuva so finally here our chuva is accepted and things are go back to normal so to speak but even this day wasn't so simple because the Jews themselves were afraid that they weren't being accepted by a shame because the Divine Presence did not you know reveal itself to them when they were doing the service in the mish con 47 days they didn't have any indication that I chemin forgave them our on himself was embarrassed to take the leadership role because of his involvement in what happened and urban who says that you've been chosen for this this is your purpose you are the one to lead us and he begins to lead the process and fire comes down from heaven and the divine presence fills the mishkan and all Jewish people see and know that now her shame has taken them back and a sham so to speak has returned to us the way that things were before to a certain degree and this is a very special day that's what makes this the most special day in that you know our relationship is restored on this day rush waters Nissan in the through his God dwelling with us in the Michigan okay that's why this is a very special day now let's appreciate so with what we said we could appreciate actually the rabbis in miss Eckert Megillah bring bring up this whole story of the building of the Mishkan on Rosh Chodesh Lisa they say over there in a discussion about the word via he because our partial begins with a vibe I you biome hush mini and over there they're really it's the second McGillis what they're discussing the megillah of Esther and that michela also begins with the word why he says by he by amish meanie rahi be America's veros so they introduce an idea that every time the word why he shows up it's a bad thing it means trouble they've been a few proofs first one of course is from the megillah itself by he America's railroads and her mom came to try to wipe us all out another proof they bring is from you know when there was a famine in the land from safer show in the times of the shift team that were judging each other it's a vie he beam a shortish of team in the days that we were judging the judges were judging being judged so there was a famine so again there the indication why he is that there was famine and family is one of the worst things to suffer through you know there's no food for anybody there being a few more proofs and then the camera decides to argue on this line of thought and says wait a minute how can the word ye be something bad consistently meaning always bad when we have a verse here it's like up from our parsha via he by oh hush meanie and we said as we let's play this is a great day this is the day that that the Divine Presence comes back to dwell with the Jewish people matter of fact the they bring from the verizon there that says that the this joy of God the happiness of a Shem on this day of the Amish meany was equal to the happiness he had from the be in the beginning of creation and the day that he created heaven and earth and the Camargue so the gamarra the argues back and says no this is considered also via by Amish meany this day here even though we said it's a very happy day was actually one of the happiest days of creation but because the two great said he came the devon avenue the sons of our own died on this day that also God has saddened by the death of sadiq him and so this also represents a day of sadness and negativity and therefore the gemara defends its approach at every time Phi he comes up its bed also so the camera of course doesn't begin doesn't end its argument then proves from other places that why he is good it actually brings the red part of its argument is that it brings the rest of the days of creation because on every day of creation it says why he and they're not all bad you know you can argue that this via he of Schmidty was bad because I have an aveo died but on the first days of creation they were there was all good and happy she was very happy so the gamar and then concedes that why he doesn't always mean something bad it can but they conclude it when it says ye by itself it can either be something bad or something good but when it says why he be made the way we see it in the megillah that's always going through a bed and that's the Gummer they bring and they bring connection to this week's parsha but I want to try to elaborate on is what makes this day so special so we said that the specialty of this day is that the two ver the repentance of the Jewish people is accepted and a sham comes back to us and the relationship between us and I Shem is restored that's beautiful but the truth is a much greater thing occurs when we think of the history of creation history of mankind and to appreciate that let me go back to the very beginning we said that the word via he in creation indicates God being very happy and God was very happy to he ate his world where he chose to to dwell the rabbi's tell us a metaphor about that the shreena the ekosian are the main indwelling of Hashem the main presence of a sham resided in the slowest of all worlds it didn't reside in the higher heavens Edith was in this world unfortunately though all that changes when man sins so the happiness of creation is really a shortened it's a great happiness for the first six days but when man sins that happiness ends and God actually leaves this world the rabbi's tell us on the verse that it says that Adam heard God in the in the garden so that were there strolling in the garden the word therefore going is written in a passive manner and from there the rabbi's tell us that this actual indication that when Adam sinned the Divine Presence went from this world to the heaven above the subsequent generations of inache and and and the Mabul and then of course all these negative generations that came later pushed the Divine Presence up higher and higher till they tell us that the presence God's presence was already in the seventh heaven which above then they tell us this beautiful story of avrum our forefather and it's hockey a cove and the siddiqui move the jewish people in each generation for seven generations bring the Shana back down level by level until we collect the climax of this is that Moshe Rabbeinu the seventh of the leaders and of course greatest prophet ever speaking face to face with Hashem he succeeds in bringing the Divine Presence back into the actual physical world that we live in and that story of God's presence coming back home is the bigger story here and that's the bigger joy that represents the great great joy of the oh hush meanie it's finally after 2500 years or so where God was kicked out of his world unfortunately from our negative deeds so the good deeds of the righteous and I mr. all as a nation and righteous nation following the ways of Torah through our hard work and doing chuva nobody's perfect but we married it that God came back to us and rested his Shekinah in the mishkan together Jewish people in the desert that is the beautiful happy so the ending to our story we would think however but I'd like to explain now based on based on the Gomorrah that we brought up the game over there discusses via he being an indication of sadness of something negative and it also pushes it away by saying why he could be an indication of happiness so if precisely think about gamarra there would show us that you can look throughout the scripture to find why he meaning goodness something good or ye mean something bad but the one time that were the one proof of all the proofs in the gamarra this one here rahi bio Mahesh me biome hush meanie it becomes a proof for both because if you the two sides that were arguing both used this puzzle to prove their point they first suggested that vie he is something positive because of the happiness that I sham had on this day of SH meanie but then the other side pushed it off by saying no God was also sarah on this day so it comes out in conclusion that vibe I omish meanie was a day of both happiness and a day of sadness together happen at the same time and we can have these dual emotions within us so what is the deeper significance of the idea of Schmidty being a happy and sad day so the truth is based on a famous safer Kabbalah safer Charlotte oh ha he explains over there we we would think that this is the perfect beautiful happy ending to our story but everyone sitting here today he knows that this story is not over we're in Gullas and things didn't always work out so perfectly we have C to beside me to to obey Semak dash destroyed so this is not the happy ending of our story it's just it said it's a nice you know beautiful part of our story but not the complete happy ending and let explain what he explains there so imagine a sham he created his world so obviously hashem is a creator says if you be the beautiful big world but let's take an analogy he really gives an analogy you know any one of us could appreciate like this imagine if any one of us were very rich and we had a beautiful mansion that we custom designed as our home and it was place where we felt most comfortable and we spent our time there and it's you know you're all beautiful home everything the way you wanted everything you need it's there I'm believe in place to spend your days no now imagine unfortunately that you lose all your money and now you're stuck homeless so you went to having this unbelievable mansion now you're homeless but fortunately for you have a good friend who says you know what you're homeless you know I'm a good friend I'll help you out you can stay by me you could be my guest in my house now he's certainly going to be happy that he has a place to stay and he's not on the street but can you compare the happiness that he's going to experience as a guest in someone house sleeping on someone else's couch which is a little bit she's a tall guy so it's a bit short the couch you want something from the fridge you don't want to go in if you feel embarrassed you want to ask permission to you know it's very uncomfortable to be in someone else's sounds it's not your house where you're most comfortable so the this that's what he explains the shower all explained like this that even though the Divine Presence returned to the Jewish people on this great day youngish meanie but it didn't return the way it was before from the beginning of creation it came back like a guest in someone else's home imagine a queen in her palace but then that nation is destroyed and now she's has to run somewhere else and she's no longer in her palace you can't compare so although the Divine Presence did return to the Jewish people and it was a tremendous joy for us and for Hashem but think about it a sham had to squeeze himself so to speak in the Michigan a temporary building that move from place to place between the rim between the two angels it wasn't like in his mansion so to speak and that's the the deeper appreciation of why this parsha begins with a via he which is an indication of something negative and something positive the positive thing of course is that you know a Shem is back in his world and through the Jewish people we have we spread God's light in the world God's Torah in the world but in a different sense it's not God's home yet God's not a king in his palace that rules the whole world like he should and Mikey would have because there's people that do sins in the world and there's people that go against him so he's like a guest in this world because we don't allow him to be fully in his world because we don't follow him fully yet but this is obviously a prelude to what's coming through the hard work of the Jewish people in galoot we're going to merit the ultimate gula she acts should come and then of course God's will be one and his name will be one and he will be king on the entire world and he will no longer after the divine presence will no longer have to be in that cramped situation of being in someone else's home but this world would be if shams home again and his presence would rest with us in the entire world in a perfect way because we know that then the level of one is that we're going to reach with Hashem is going to be an unprecedented unity and goodness that we're all waiting for so we should reach that day and that day she'll be super may remain you