Purim and Parshas Pekudei: What Happened to the Beis Hamikdash?

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com hey good evening everyone of course is approaching quickly and we're going to try to uh take a look at some of a very interesting aspects of the and the Milla story and how it relates to this week's para we have a fascinating medish the medish tells us that M comes all the Y are going to become ble no says all the are eventually going to become except for will last forever even when Mia comes there'll still be a you'll still get dressed up you'll still drink on P they'll still be a sh because says these days of P will not pass away from among the Jews now in general this matter is hard to understand the Raj and the he wants to know we know when comes all the MIT will still be here we still be obligated to keep the mitzah so how could the med say that all the will become B will become nullified but in any event whatever the medish means we have to try to understand why is p different than the other y why is it that P Su sh everything they become B and Pur is the one y that's going to stay you can even make the case p is not even a you're allowed to do but of all the is the one y that's going to last even when mhia comes something we have to try to understand okay let's take a look at something in the Milla and we're gonna analyze something and when we take a look at it we're going to see that there's something extraordinary over here there is a theme in the Milla that reiterates itself again and again and that is the Milla seems to be obsessed with hanging people just one after another this everybody just wants to hang the other guy first right remember H sees H finds out from that that es only wants to invite him and to the party so M says he's walking on the clouds right he very happy when sitting in the king's gate doesn't bow down right he gets all go gets all Angry so Zar says I have a great idea look at number two says why don't we make a tree 50 anal to in the the on thee and then you'll be able to enjoy the party this way you know you'll really be able to eat on a full stomach you'll be you'll be in a good mood is there you know bent over killed over on The Gallows you'll be able to really enjoy the party so says says good idea dear Zar I knew I married you for a reason that's a that's a good idea you got we're going to hang you we're going to hang then what happens the tables turn and Esther reveals to that H's the guy he wants to who wants to exterminate clel so says I have a great idea you know that tree that you wanted to hang that H want to hang on let's hang h on it they hang H but there a lot of ways to kill a person right I think says there ways there are over um 973 ways to kill a person person could die 973 ways so they have pink they have to kill them with by hanging them I mean in the ancient days that's the typical way they would have they would kill someone but you know why daa this way a TV show thousand R to die yeah so they could have picked one out of the a thousand ways why why hanging that was the only way they could think of killing morai and then killing hon but this really taps them tops them all look at this it says that the clel on the 13th day of AD the day they were supposed to be wiped out they went they attacked their enemies they killed out their enemies they killed out thousands of amim and then Esther makes a special petition you know what in shushan let's get an extra day of killing our enemies not only the 13th let's kill our enemies on the 14th and then Esther says to the king says if it pleases the king please allow the Jews in to do what they did today meaning give the Jews and another day of killing their enemies and let's hang the 10 sons of hamon that's very nice you want to hang the 10 sons of ham there's only one problem they're dead already you the mill has already told us that they they k with the sword so what they want to hang 10 dead guys it's one thing you know you want to hang Mor he's alive you want to hang ham he's alive but here the the sons of Hamm have already been murdered well you going to take the dead bodies and hang them up that's only some of the sons right well there were other Sons but these were these were the sons that were talk that the Milla speaks about you know I don't know whether they're main sons and secondary Sons but these 10 sons that the Milla said that hamon had they right they killed them so when you going to hang them how you can only right you can only die once cat has nine lives the 10 sons of hamon they only have one life so why is EST making such a big petition to the king to hang 10 dead guys okay every month has a astrological sign has a mazal right for instance the ma of el is the masle of is Right Twins What's the masle of Adar Ma you ever see those posters is a picture of a fish right the ma is dug him fish says the medish that when H was trying to determine what month to exterminate the Jews he went through every month and every month he uh he got very nervous when he saw the astrological sign when he saw the Del the bucket he got nervous because the bucket has aob used the bucket to draw water for ra and every every astrological sign had a certain had a certain had a certain Z but when he comes to look at number three in the the says when saw the ma of fish that serves in the month of he didn't find any Merit to it he was very happy said there's no not only that moshu passed away in the month of AD and the Met says he didn't realize not only did mosha pass away in ad he was also born in fine then the med says H said like this if what's a fish a fish comes along a big fish comes and swallows a little fish so I'm going to come along and swallow the Jewish people because look at the masle the masle is a very auspicious mazzle for me I see a big fish oh so that means that means I'm going to go swallow up the enemy come on I mean that's his big that's his big sign a fish you know if he would have seen a wolf a crocodile a shark fine that's a scary animal you know an animal of pre a predator so then you could say yeah this this month I'm going to really Feast on my prey but I mean anybody ever get scared when they saw a fish swimming in the the fish is like the most harmless animal well you ever got scared of a tuna fish like a filter fish sharks filter fishes aren't that scary what sharks sharks scary some of the yeah okay but of all the animals maybe if you have seen a lion but a fish right if he would have seen sartan the crab that's that's a that's a scary maszle but the fish not that scary right blows bubbles it's a harmless animal in general it's very interesting of all the maos only ma is plural let's say for instance one month is the Scorpion Acra is in singular or KES the bow singular G the goat singular Del The Bu the Sheep AR the lion one of yeah but but Doug it's not Doug not Doug it's Doug fish plural why because ad is the only month that could be two right Al and AD B so that's why the ma is two even though the ma of is scales which is which is but you can't have one scale there scales by definition is two or twins by definition is two to is two but why is it Doug him why not doug because Ador is the only month that could have that could have um two that could could be two it's interesting wrote a different dreams that he had of T that Hashem revealed to him things in dreams and he has a whole saer of things that were revealed to him in a dream a whole and in the saer he writes that why is the only month that could be doubled why don't we have sometimes two Nissan two why cuz every month of the year corresponds to a different sh a different tribe corresponds to y y is y broke up into two it's the only one of the that divided so that's why which corresponds to ysf could be possibly two months and that's why by which which were given the of right were giving the that they should multiply like fish and that's why the month of Adar corresponds to Y interesting also just scientifically fish multiply in the month of more than any other month it's known there in the month of okay in any event what was so special about the fact that the symbolism of ad's fish that hum said oh now got them there's a month of the year that's symbolized by a lion H didn't take advantage of that the fish of all the animals the fish is the the maszle that represents attacking the enemy okay we go on to something very very important remember when Yosef and bamin reunite after many years so what happens look at number five he fell on the neck of B his brother and he cried cried on his neck okay you hear what's happening over here Ys and bamin meet after many many years y falls on Bam's neck and cries falls on yep's neck and cries when you when you meet someone after a very long time and you cry you don't cry on their neck who cries on somebody else's neck neck you cry on their shoulder you fall on someone you Embrace you're not crying on their neck who what you you put your weeping on the person you're not weeping on their neck you're weeping on their shoulder but look even more carefully it says he fell on the necks of Benyamin plural what bamin was a two was two-headed he had two necks says he fell on the necks of bam his brother and Byam fell out on his neck so was only born with one neck but what had two necks so these questions seem to have been bothering Rashi there's a Rashi that everybody knows but it's not something we focus what was he troubled by says Rashi you know what and were crying about he fell on the necks of was crying about the two the that we built in who the was built in the and two of the were burnt down were destroyed so when y meets B what does he cry about the bikash two of them when it says he cried on the next of bam it doesn't literally mean his necks it means what the neck represents he cried over the two mikdash that were in sh is and what does it mean cried on y's neck what was in y's share the mishil when Kao came into they built a mishil for 369 years that stood in yosef's portion in is and Ys cries on Bam's neck RAB say what do you see from this Rashi that when the PUK says he fell on his neck what does the neck represent the neck represents the bikash or the Mish in other words when it says he cried on his neck Nobody Cries on somebody else's neck you cry on somebody's shoulder when when he says he cried on his neck he meant he cried about his neck or Yos cried about Bin's necks Benyamin had two necks two B mikdash two temples throughout if you look through the whole tan the base mik is always symbolized by the neck look in right say sometimes for shabas right right look at number [Music] seven your neck is like the Tower of David meaning the is like the Tower of David or in you see sh is literally a a love song between a man and a woman but really it's much more than that it's it symbolizes a love between hasem and cl soem says your neck is like a Ivory Tower meaning the bik is like an ivory Tower and the question that we need to ask ourselves is why does the Torah compare the bikash to a neck what is the symbolism why is the bikash symbolized by the neck okay this is a very incredible concept of all the parts of the body why not the eyes the ears the nose the mouth why the neck so this is something that the explains in a number of places and and it will lead us into something mindboggling what is the function of the neck in the human being to turn the head to turn the head support to support the head neck controls the head what's in the neck muscles but most importantly the main arteries of the body right the main arteries of the body when you sh an animal you sh it by the neck the arteries that carry the life blood to the brain the neck serves as a conduit a medium connecting the head to the heart the neck is the the highway the byway the road the medium the hallway the conduit that connects the head to the heart the head sends down the messages through the through the neck neck to the whole body where the how the body should move how the how the muscle should move what the body should do and the heart pumps the life blood and the nutrients up to the head that is the function of the neck the neck connects the head to the heart the basik is the neck of the Jewish people how it connects our head to our heart who's our head Hashem Hashem Hashem God is at our head what's the heart us the Jewish people theik connects God to us yes mosha at least once complains about the Jews and being stiff NE people is there already connection with that um I never thought about that but maybe maybe that's something worthwhile to think about maybe perhaps it's a interesting point okay now the B servicing as the neck between us and Hashem what does that mean all blessing comes down into this world through the temple through the B mikdash tell us that when the destroyed the B mikdash if they would have only known how much they're going to lose out by destroying the B mikdash they never would have done it all blessing comes down through this world through the the medium of the bikash and the bikash likewise is the the Gateway of Heaven all prayer goes up through the B mikash so it's an incredible concept the B mikdash is literally the neck of the universe the the the comes down through the mikdash the and the Torah go up through the mikdash okay that's what says in therefore listen to this when that Benyamin would have two necks he realized that a neck is a very tenuous connection it's a very dangerous connection because a neck could always be severed it would have been better off the way things will be when Messiah comes when mhia comes we won't need the says we won't need a connection we won't need a conduit you know why hash will dwell in US ourselves we will be the B mikdash just like Theos ab and yob what were they called their Mara they were the Chariot God rested on them God rested on them they didn't need any kind of medium any kind of Channel better for have to have the head and the hearts right on top of each other than to have a pipeline because when they whenever you have a pipeline it could get clogged up it could get stuffed up it could be severed when theik com says the in many places and this is not his original idea Theo writes this clearly in Pas that when when Mia will come the P says God will dwell in us without an without an neck in us the head and the body together okay why we do we need that why we praying for the third ah good question says in another place that when the third Bas ofl will only will be a place to bring caros but in terms of a place for Hashem to rest it will not serve that purpose we ourselves will be on the to house ourselves that is the way the world was before the of before we sinned with the agel you ever hear anything about a mishon t didn't say anything to build a mishon before the sin of the agel you know why you don't need a mishon you don't need a neck better to have the head and the body right next to each other right sometimes somebody could go to the doctor the doctor could say you have a clogged artery right and then you know you have to start going on the medications to the blood thinners because the the neck right those are the main the main arteries so it better better if we didn't have that better if The Head and the Heart were right together that's the way it was before the that's the way it will be when Mia comes but because of the we needed the we needed the neck we needed something to connect it and therefore when y sees he sees his necks the two he cries cuz he knows whenever you need a neck a neck is a tenuous connection and we don't have it so how is the connection the connection has has been severely hampered we're like the Von says that right now we're in Cardiac Arrest the spiritual state of the Jewish people is in in a very dangerous situation actually says more than that he says we're not alive the was the house of our life without a it's like we're we're we're dust that's why we say Lift us up from the Dust not lift us up from the dust where we are Lift us up from the dust that we are we compared to the level a simple Jew was on when the Bas ofler stood now listen to this okay the same way who's our head God God we're the LA what's the neck neck is a bicas right the neck connects God to CL the nations of the world also have a head and they also have a heart and they have a neck for instance remember MIT has a minister has a angel remember when CL were leaving M it saw it says they saw chasing after them says they saw the angel of MIM chasing after them every nation deres its strength from its Mal Jewish people don't have a Mal we have God every nation in the world has a Mal and they need some kind the same way we need a b M to connect us with hasem the nations of the world need a they some type of connection to connect them to their s to their officer to their Mal there is one nation one one nation of one Gentile nation that is so impure and so T and so defiled that they don't even need a neck them and their Minister and their Mal are one and the same are the head and the body together with an neck who is that as ASV when when uh Daniel had a vision and he saw there are four kingdoms there's b b is represented by the lion it's the head of all of all Nations the Persians were the beer the beer what what was asav Edom represented by right remember there four animals in pasini three of them chew their cut and don't have split hooves there's only one animal that has split hooves that doesn't chew its cut the pig what is asov called inim the pig take a look in number in number [Music] 12 as is compared to the in the forest there's only one animal that has no neck the pig you ever see a pig it's a head and a body smacked onto each other there's no neck that's why they don't do they can't do they do it through the heart they they put SW in the heart they that's yeah really it's interesting it could be that's also why they can't Che its cut doesn't it says says when M comes the pig is going to be kosher again means it will return to its state of K it will chew its cut the pig is the only animal that doesn't have a neck why why because asov is represented by the pig as is so T so has so much T that it doesn't even need a connection to attach it to its Angel it and it and it's Mal they're the same thing it's one thing they don't need the way the Jewish people will be with Hashem when Mia comes the way the Jewish people were with Hashem before the S of theel is the way asov is with its Angel no neck no neck when as comes into and he says have my so says I can't what do you mean I gave it all to I to he was frighten he was scared he realized he made a mistake so ASA says you have anything left for me no nothing left but I'll tell you one thing when when you when he gets you upset you will remove his yoke from upon your neck you'll be able to remove the Yoke yob has put on your neck what does this mean when things are going well for the Jewish people we don't need a b we don't need a neck when things are going well for as he's like the pig he doesn't need a neck either but there were certain periods in our history when we really started to subjugate ASA in the times of we circumcised all the we circumcised them and it was almost as like like figuratively they began to grow a neck because they became distanced from the by the way what's the name of the the minister of asov his name is s the by the way what's the G of is 100 100 that's why someone who something 101 times is much greater than someone something 100 times because 100 times you're still under the domain of the 101 times 101 is mik mik is the Mal who is appointed over memory okay that's just an aside but listen to this in the times of King David we circumcised the endites and it was as if so to speak their neck was growing and we had the Noose around their neck we had our Yol around their neck but says to when they started grieving you and you start having the ability to fight back you'll be able to throw off the Yoke they have put on your neck and you will be one with the you won't need a neck says but when comes CLA you throw won't won't need a neck like which animal CLA you throw is compared to Doug him Doug him is the only other animal that doesn't have a neck it's just a head and a body together there's no neck right you ever see a picture of the fish there's no neck it's a head The Head and the body are the same thing by the way there's one more animal that Isa is compared to who is ham the the is just one also one long thing there's no neck it's one long neck it's one the body The Head and the body are the same thing so on the one hand when mhia comes CL will be like a fish won't need the bash we'll be like a Doug it won't need the it won't need the connection it will be more than connected right when you talk to someone on the phone you need a connection but there will be so close to we won't need a connection the same way as is when things are going well he's like the he's like the pig no need for a neck remember when yob and as meet each other for the first time after many many years so what does the PK say look at number 13 runs to him he hugs him he falls on his neck he kisses him what's on top of the word by dats what do dats tell you the opposite of what you would have thought you so Rashi gives different brings down from that there is a okay that means it's there's a natural phenomenon as hates yov so therefore what do you think as wanted to do to yov want to bite his head off yeah he wanted to bite him but what part of the body does the PK say the neck the neck the neck but Hashem you know made him have mercy on him and gave him a kiss right ask any kindergarten Mora the kids bite each other they're not biting at the neck you know they bite the hands of but Isa wanted to bite jakob's neck why the neck why the neck because as realized that the K of yov is what the bikash he wanted figuratively sever the connection between us and that's why he went for the neck and in fact the night before the officer right the attacked yov and say by attacking him in by attacking him he was able to gain control over the B mikdash that's why is went for the neck he went for the jugular right The Jug Dracula right he went for the jugular because it's our life blood the neck represent represents the B mikdash and therefore when H saw that the ma of is dug fish so he figures what does that mean fish that means me and my my S me and my officer are one and the same it's like the kazir the fish is like the kazir there's no neck that means things are going well for me that means I don't need any kind of connection to get to be able to to be yic and nurse T through any kind of medium I and my s i and my Mal are buddies we're right next to each other now is my time of Good Fortune what he didn't realize was Doug him represented the state of clausal at that time Doug represented the fact that CL didn't need a neck CL was m was attached to Hashem you see why did ham think that he'd be able to sever our neck because the b m was already down for 70 years this was the celebration of the 70th year that the no y promised that after 70 years the Jews are going to return back and rebuild the Bas and it's not happening the neck has been severed plus the constellation is dug him that means their their their attachment has been severed my attachment not only has not been severed but I don't even need an attachment that's how what does H want to do to Mor he wants to hang him by the neck where do you hang somebody you don't hang him by the foot you hang him by the neck representing the fact that the neck of the Jewish people has been completely severed B mikos is down for the count the 70 years are over it's not being rebuilt the neck has been destroyed that's why H wants to kill morai by hanging him he sees ma dug him it's like the kazir his mistake was Ma do is for the Jew because p is the month that represents when mashiah will come what does that mean that means there's going to be a time in our history where we won't need a we won't need a neck we will be we will be attached to hasem hasem will dwell in us and therefore p is almost so to speak a day out of Theos mashia in other words imagine if mhia come tomorrow you know what perm is like God opened up the calendar and he said wow there are hundreds thousands of days of Messiah let me take out one of those days and pluck it into every year put it into every year that day is PM PM is like a page out of the future era that's why the ma of Adar is dug because when mashia comes we won't need any kind of neck we won't need any kind of attachment when mhia comes we will be connected to hasem directly Hashem will dwell in us without without a neck so perm so to speak is like a day out of Mia's time that's why all the are going to be nullified perhaps the med says except for PM you know why what do you want to say when mhia comes PM is going to become ble PM is a day from the times of mashia how could it become B the is a day out of that era it's like borrowed a day from the days of mhia and he put it into our calendar so of course it's not going to ever become nullified because because it is a day from that to a day out of that era accept yeah maybe that's why we were to have such a strong connection to because right the Z says the Torah andem is one so perhaps in the Merit that we accepted the Torah that's why we were able to connect with mikash tell you something very interesting the asks where is there a to in the Torah so gar says in last week's Pas in two weeks ago when it talks about the ingredients of the of the it says take Choice spices pure mirror the tum says pure miror spells out so says is alluded to in thees okay what's something that smells very good right something that smells good what is Esther called in the Mela what's her other namea what's what's a Hada what's it they smell right they they have smells good doesn't have a taste it smells good for some reason is like an ingredient in the something that smells good Esther is Hada something that smells good why are these important characteristics the says an incredible thing he says that if you look at the sin of the when marish at from the he sinned with all of his senses it says saw the tree she used her sense of sight okay she took from the tree so that means she used her sense of touch okay she right she listened to the snake she used her sense of hearing she ate the fruit she used her sense of taste the one sense that is not mentioned is smell she didn't sin with smell it doesn't say she smelled the fruit says that means that all the senses were contaminated with that sin except for the sense of smell the sense of smell has remained pristine pure it was never defiled right now we know that when Messiah comes the purpose of Messiah coming is to rectify the world from that original sin but that original sin only caused the defilement of four of the senses the sense of smell always remained pure that's why very interesting the only set the only pleasure that we say the gets pleasure from is smell that's why when shabas is over and you lose yourish what do you do you don't eat you smell B why Bim cuz well you want to get pleasure to make yourself feel better why B cuz you want to restore the Nish the only thing that gives pleasure to the Nish is smell cuz that's the only sense that was not defiled by marish that s that sense remains spiritual in nature okay Mia comes the says how do you how could you test the guy if he's really Messiah or not how do you know so says a court case has to come in front of him and without any circumstantial evidence he has to smell it out he has to he has to you know sometimes you could there's something over here right there's something right some a it's like a six sense you could smell who the who the villain is messia will have to use the sense of smell why that's the only sense that has remained pure and therefore was fighting the Jewish people with the force of a Kaz Kaz is somebody who is able to connect without the sa able connect straight his Mal and him are one and the same he doesn't need that connection the only way we could combat that is somehow to be on the level of Cl when Mia comes and that level is without a neck right without a neck like the fish therefore and their is the sense of smell Mor is compared to thees Esther is compared to the hadasa because this is a a a force that exists only when mhia comes this is this is a force the sense of smell is the purest of all the senses that only the gets benefit from that will remain pure when mhia comes and that's why mhia is tested with the sense of smell and to combat hon what did hon want to do he wanted to hang us why did he want to hang us he wanted to show that our our connection has been severed our neck has been severed is gone so in order to combat that our Omen in the month of ad is the fish the fish has no neck it's like a day from the pages of mhia will come when we won't even need the that's why the is the of smell one last thing when was daving was daving it says he let out a loud cry what did he say what did he say doesn't say what he said why we have a rule that one of the things during the when we make the tus we grind something why what do we say in is good for that's let out because his power was the power of pure and the says aoud the noise the call is so we have to realize is an opportunity where we could come close to in a way perhaps that we're not able to the whole year because PM is like a day out of the chapter of the future era and that's why even even though all the will become will never become because it's like a day out of our future history you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com