Pekudei - Controlling Time | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is dski and welcome to the par and five we're in five minutes we try to give you an idea that'll be meaningful to the paraa now a special shout out to all of those Eagle ey observers who noticed that I did last week vako PUD and the problem is vako PUD is separate this year so by way of explanation just uh for for all of you uh pundits out there who uh wrote me in to point out my mistake um if you go back and look at all the par and five you'll notice that I'm wearing the same tie that's because towards the end of bous I do all ofos towards the end ofos I do all of VRA yeah so full disclosure I already did VRA yeah and if you'll take a look all the par from five on a particular uh safer I'm all wearing I'm wearing the same tie um maybe I should just give this away some times I wear uh I do two podcasts that are sitting in a row I change my tie just to differentiate between them yeah so uh um so I'm not wearing the right tie so it was at the end of braus I remember that last year was a leap year and therefore vak was separate and I figured I didn't bother looking at the calendar I figured this year it's um it's uh not a leap year so could they would be together I was wrong and then of course it turns out that I chose a ver from PUD onak PUD if was a ver on vak then I could do a vert on vud now but I really boxed myself into a corner so what do you do luckily if you were blessed with the level of creativity that God gave me I have a very simple solution and that is I'm going to speak about pares because as you know there are four special paros and this is the last one four that we'll talk about in five I don't know if I'm prob of wasted too much time already with this whole little Drury speech but um I don't care yeah so we go from schim to Z to toes now I understand is to remind us that everybody should get their shekele ready to give because we have to collect it during ad to buy the new I understand is because we have to do before we can do I understand is to remind us to MRE ourselves before uh we come to PES so we can eat the cor PES what's the purpose ofes why are we laning that this is the first month so the four par outline ad because ad is not the end of the year it continues it goes into Nissan and it's a new beginning the Jewish H thought that the Jewish people were created in Nissan so they'll be destroyed in ad the end everything that's created comes to an end but he didn't understand the Jewish people have a there's a power of there's something new and that's why when a gives the Torah the first Mitzvah he gives is you will not tell time like everybody else and anyone who's ever gone to a Jewish event knows this clearly Jews do not tell time like everybody else we go by our own calendar our own time we tell time by the moon and not by the uh I shouldn't say not by the Sun the moon and the sun together so that we have leap years of an entire month and everything gets moved around because our power of time means the Jewish people are in control of time KES Nissan is the beginning of a new time that we create that's what rodes is we decide when rodes is and so we decide when the yam are going to be we have that power to control time we are outside of time and not affected by time we rule time whereas everybody else lives within time within the limitations of time we don't and therefore CL is outside of it that's how we start clly Israel K says to moso this month is where we're going to create the Jewish people and they're not like any other people they're outside of time and that's why by the they don't call ites Nissan they Calles Nim Miracles why course the whole month is the month of Miracles as we say in the we start with a hav that maybe we could have the Seder already on rodes Nissan okay we have a p that says not but the havina is that already fromes when that Mitzvah was given we have the power of p and so we're talking about getting ourselves ready for pesak the first two have to do with per because that's the first GAA and then we the next two talk about P because that's the second GA the two GA we put the two redemptions next to each other and so this Redemption of PES which ises we say now the Gula has come and will begin and so as we read the last of the four paros and we finish ad and we go into Nissan the month of miracles in mem we should be to an good shabas