Vayakhel: Sewing On the G.O.A.T.

okay good evening welcome everyone we have an amazing for tonight we're continuing the this is a pen UL are again dedicated by Dr are dedicated by the Yum toian family of Great Neck in memory of Miram Bas whose 12th yard s isar we have a number of sponsors tonight okay first we're going to mention David Weber he's here with us um in honor of his grandfather's yard site alter Abraham Ben Alana family tonight shair is dedicated we'll go to R AI he's on uh he's with us on the zoom rman for his father's yard site family tonight sh is dedicated Byer the author of the H series guidelines in memory of his father his mayor alander family and tonight's sh is dedicated by my dear friends RA in honor of theah of their son becoming a Mitzvah they should see a lot of you and okay that's the first half of the share now the second half of the share um oh I have very important announcements to make first of all uh make sure you get your ha and even if you got last year but you took off the shrink wrap now you don't have one with shrink wrap so here's one available in the shrink wrap now um maybe in past years you said the ha in lashes or in English this year this hag is now available as of today it was born in Spanish and French so you could say the now not only in yides could say it in Spanish you could or whatever country uh South America in pan Panama or in Argentina Colombia V Venezuela what do they speak there I don't know if they speak but they know it okay um and also uh you could say the Manana in French and of course uh these are all available okay we have we have a very interesting share tonight I was debating between two topics and I chose this this is really out of the box okay so the P says in every wise-hearted woman SED with her hands and they brought the spun item the blue wall the purple wall the scarlet and the silk so it says all wise-hearted women spun with their hands and what about wise hearted men now men don't sew okay we're going to see men don't SE sewing is the job um is be careful sewing is a the craft that women are expert in okay and the P then continues and all women that their hearts elevated them with wisdom spun the goat they didn't spin the thread all wise-hearted women all women whose Hearts catapulted them with wisdom spun spun the goats spun the goats okay so Rashi says what are these two levels you have women who are slave spun with their hand and all women that their hearts propelled them that catapulted them spun the goat doesn't say they didn't spin the materials they spun the goat itself so Rashi says that is a added that is an added feature what's the added feature this was an added craft an added expertise that they spun it from on top of the goat in other words they didn't cut the wool and then spin it while the wool was still attached they spun the wool attached to the goat so you had a goat what does a goat say anybody know Ira what does a goat say B ba not sure about that I think uh I think a a sheep says B I'm not sure what a goat says what does a goat say a ping PA of probably no so the goat was sitting there they combed the wool they combed it and they spun it while it was on the goat and after they spun it then they cut it which is not the usual way to spin wool usually you cut it you process it then you spin it no in the midmar the extra special the women with extra special experti they spun the wool on the goat so what I was wondering about this week is why in the world did they do that did you ever did you ever wonder about that I was losing sleep over this actually I was losing sleep what I would speak about and it was either between this or something regarding p p which is really good but it's so good we're going to save it for next year so I decided to speak about this unusual practice that the women with the highest level of wisdom they spun the wool on the goat itself comes the spno the spno says why on the [Music] goat so that the spinning will have extra luster it shines more everybody knows that if you spin the the hair of the goat while it's still attached it will shine more than if you cut it off and then you spin it so in other words you know if you if you want someone's hair it's going to be it's going to have more glamour it's going to have more luster while it's attached than once it's cut off so therefore uh the the says they spun it while it was still attached to the goat because this way it would have more shine and then the says many things that are removed from their life Source will lose some of their quality when they're uprooted from their source of life like when honey is taken out of the honeycomb it loses some of its taste when it comes out of the cone Oria cashia you know what cashia is type of cinnamon if it's still attached it has more flavor and shine than when it's disattached or milk so there are many things that while they're attached they have more shine so these women had a special expertise they were able to spin it while it was still attached to the goat and the advantage of doing that was it had a it presented nicer it looked nicer was it had more of a shine if they spun it while still attached to the goat that's the answer of the Sarno the thing is we do find this phenomenon in a number of other places so for example the Shem hamar the Shem and hamar Rashi seems to imply they didn't cut off the Olive and then squeeze it it almost seems like they squeezed it while it was still on the tree where else do we find this phenomenon the husband didn't say y give me your nose ring he took her brought her to MAA wearing the nose ring and then they took it off in other words they didn't take the nose ring to mha they took the lady to mha wearing the nose ring so three times we see the phenomenon they didn't take the item off of its source they took the source with the item they spun the yarn on the goat they they squeezed the olive on the tree they took the ring with the lady so that tells rashash Liv from 1895 to 1955 my grandfather met him in the DP camps he says a very interesting idea and I want to bring to your attention we're going to learn tonight nine different approaches of why they spun the yarn on the goat and each approach is reflective of the M who presents it in other words they're all like a classic interpretation in the D of this particular Maes so the spno says something somewhat practical that the reason why they spun it on the goat is because it was more mud it was more beautiful it had more of a shine when they spun it on the goat rebelia May in the in tells they emphasized the value of thought of coherent uh intelligible thought so this is a very deep says the reason why they spun it while still on the goat is because it showed a certain spiritual quality that they wanted to attach kadus to the item while it was still connected to its Life Source it shows a certain honor and veneration for something which is holy if you present it not disconnected from its Life Source but when you when you present it connected to its source of Vitality it demonstrates a certain honor and value of kadus so instead of taking the yarn taking the wool cutting it off and like bring bringing dead yarn when you bring it still attached to life it shows a certain COV for the for the institution that you're donating toward so instead of cutting the yarn and then presenting it they brought they they they twined they sewed they Twisted the string attached to the goat they wanted it to be presented so they squeezed it while it was still on the tree they brought the nose ring while it was still on the lady right so in other words they showed that this thing comes from a greater from a great source and that added honor and Prestige to the Mitzvah that's the he gives two answers I'm going to share with you first the second answer we'll discuss the first answer a little bit later the way the benai asks the question is granted it's nicer to give it in a way where you spin it while it's still attached to the goat okay but ultimately the goat is going to go because you're not going to make curtains and the goat is still attached to the the you know you didn't have coming out of the walls of the mishun So eventually we needed him yeah eventually you're going to cut it eventually you're going to cut it so once it's present to the Mish would anybody have any idea what whatsoever whether you spun it attached to the goat or you cut it and then you spun it it's nice in the giving it's better but ultimately once it's received nobody could tell the difference me again not like the farno that it shines more but at the end of the day nobody could tell the difference if you spun it attached to the goat then you cut it or you cut it and then you spun it so what's the Mila of spinning it attached to the goat so benai says something phenomenal benai says what's the purpose of the mishan it's a kapar for the K AAL yeah who sinned with the AAL the men not the ladies the men said take off your jewelry and she said no spincess said I'm not taking it off she said I'm not going to I'm not going to donate so they had to yank it off so the Mish is not a is not a tick for the women it's a tick for the men that's why you only give for the men not for the ladies so the ladies knew that this whole donation is for the sake of the men and not for the ladies so they said like this but here's the problem Houston we got a problem because sewing is the the expertise of the ladies not the men so if we're going to sew we'll get a z but they won't so and they're going to lose that on a ton so we have a great idea because in something is considered attributed to its final step so we'll spin it on the goat they'll cut it off so they'll be accredited with the spinning but if it's cut off and then we spin it we did it so as a as a way to as a as a um a gift to the men as a way of benefiting the men the women spun the goat the the wool on the goat the men cut it off the men are accredited with the Mitzvah of spinning because and this way the men get a tick for their M okay so that was and that's why this was an extra special right the PK says the Wise Women s the and the women who had extra special They spun it on the goat why because they knew the lumus that if they SP if they cut it and then they spin it then they're going to get credit not the men and the purpose is for the men to get credit so the women who were L who had extra they spun it on the goat you got that so so far we have three reasons why the women spun it on the goat number one the farno says it shined more number two says it shows an honor to the MIT if you want to keep it connected to its source of life and the says that by spinning it on the goat and then the men cut it the men are accredited with it now the the progenitor you know satmer hails from the I told you actually my grandmother in after the Holocaust was with a woman Mrs Natan who is a descendant of the so close that she had his Gart and uh she told her son at her Laya he should wear the G satmer wants to buy the G for a handsome son but they're not going to sell it so anyway that's my connection to we have we we were connected to his G okay the was a contemporary says like this you know why they spun it on the goat when Hashem said build the mishan the cloud you saw they were so motivated inspired to build the mishkan they wanted to build the mishkan Around the Clock 24 hours a day 7 days a week Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and they were going to do it on chabas that's why hasm says no no no you can't do it on chabas that's why in vak Anda in the in the message of building the Mish hasm says yeah but you have to keep chabas because even if you want to build the Mish it's notab so some women had aak how are we going to build the Mish on chabas we have a great great idea the is that you're only for spinning if you share it and then you spin it but if you spin it while it's still on the goat you're notab it's only and the r didn't come yet so the women who had extra special came up with an unbelievable that this way if they spin the wool on the goat they could do it on chabas and that was their kavana that's why the really Wise Women who did not want to be from the even on chab they spun it on the goat that's what the says so it seems to me clear also the Yi also offers this reason that they did it to be able to do this on chabas and then the printer says it's a shame he didn't know the already said it okay so that is the [Applause] fourth reason the fourth reason right in order to be pter on chabas here's reason number five I saw this in the quoting the you know why the women spun it on the goat they had such zus they could didn't wait for someone to cut it off the goat they just ran and spun it right away it was a display of of enthusiasm energy zus ality that they didn't want to wait for for it to be cut they just spun it right away by the way the says what's the next p after this after this P that says season what's the PK after this PK that says that the extra special women spun it on the goat you know what the next is remember the word the word is spelled missing a why is it by the way what did the bring and why because Rashi says the said listen listen you want us to participate you guys donate and whatever needs to be filled in what whatever needs to be uh completed we'll do the rest but that was considered on the part of because they waited until the end and therefore the letter y is missing from their name so says the J the position of these twoim is very compelling first the PK says the Wise Women they jumped on the goat and they spun it on the goat and they wouldn't wait and they did it pus but no no no no no they were lacking in they're missing a y they waited till the end so it's in order to contrast it to the furthermore the says furthermore the saer IM says we're trying to compliment the women they didn't participate in the AAL what didn't they do with the AAL they didn't donate their jewelry the men had to rip it off them so maybe you say you know why they didn't rip um donate their jewelry it's not because they didn't want to participate with the agal it's because maybe they were lazy maybe you'll say the reason the women didn't donate to the agel is maybe they were lazy so the aptic said no no no no no not these ladies these ladies they jumped on the goat and they were spinning it while it was still attached to the goat so that reveals their praise that when it came to the agal the reason they didn't donate it wasn't out of laziness is because they didn't want to participate okay here we go fast in your seat belts Ritz if you had a choice on a regular Tuesday night you could eat a bowl of of leaves or you could eat a steak the and the salad it's it's so delicious it's really fresh leaves and it's crunchy and it you know it has it energizes you R salad or which do you choose you said Tuesday night [Laughter] yeah I'm sick of meat all the weekend ready so maybe I'll go with the salad salad David steak steak seven days a week seven days a week seven okay thank you that's the correct answer okay you know the gamar says his the the AAR in shabas an amazing gar the gar says if you don't have enough bread don't eat veggies cuz it wets the appetite and you're going to be starving so if you don't have bread don't eat vegetables then says when I was poor I didn't eat vegetables and when I was rich I didn't eat vegetables you know this was very inspiring to me cuz at least I feel I have something in common witha you know one thing one thing I'm likea says he doesn't eat vegetables no I sometimes eat them it's not my it's not my go-to RDA says when I was poor I don't I didn't eat vegetables and when I was rich I didn't eat vegetables when I was poor because it makes you hungry and he didn't have what to eat afterwards when I was Rich why should I eat vegetables if I could eat meat you hear this says that when I was poor I didn't e vegetables when I was rich when I was poor because it is it draws a and I didn't have food and when I was rich why should eat a vegetable if I can eat a hamburger I feel very close to says the what he liked meat he was says in the name of that every food you eat you could extract of kadus Sparks of kadus it's much easier to get sparks of kadha out of an animal than out of salad there's it's very hard to get anything out of that salad you could have you know what nowaday when I was a kid you s they give you a little bowl now you go to the store they they they give you a bowl like I don't know yeah what you have a guy he's one guy's eating a slice of pizza the other guy has this Barrel like like a gigus it looks like the gigos Hashem was going to drop by Matra a whole thing of salad I tell you you could eat that whole thing you'll be starving you know I don't know how people survive on that I don't know what they do with that anyway it's very hard to get even any Sparks of kadha out of greens out of vegetables a meat a steak oh man you know how much kadua you could get out of it that's why we say over here it's better steak than the salad cuz we feel it's it's spiritually accomplishing when you eat a piece of steak a salad you don't accomplish anything it's very hard to accomplish anything spiritually out of a salad meat meat is chalk full of kadha that's what that says there are a lot of Sparks of kadha in meat very little Sparks of kadha it's very hard to get sparks of kadha out of vegetables by the way rman was wealthy he was the son-in-law of the B he would say if I don't eat meat I can't learn without meat you can't learn gamar there's no way that's said say like this if meat if if a living thing it's a you're able to get a lot of kadha out of it and a plant you're able to get had very little kadha we have cracked the code of why the women were spinning the wool attached to the goat what do you want them to do cut off the hair bring the hair into the into their workroom what's hair when it's not attached to a goat it's not even a plant it's a rock it's a do try getting Kad out of it there's no there's no Holiness that could be generated in such an act spinning yarn when it's not attached to a Kai is a spiritually almost empty activity but if the Y if the wool is attached to the goat you're how much Kad you could extract from such a process say that explains theab didn't eat vegetables that REM means like this when he was poor poor means when he was on a very low level he didn't have the spiritual capacity to eat vegetables and get anything out of it and when he was wealthy in spirituality why would he eat a vegetable if he could get so much Kad at a piece of meat so that's why the ladies spun the yarn attached to the goat because once it's if it's not attached lots of luck getting kadha out of it but if it's attached so then you could maximize the kadosa uh access by spinning the wool on the goat so spinning the wool after it's cut off is like eating salad spinning the wool attached to the goat is like eating a steak there you go no I do not I'm not a fan of when they say eat the tuna steak it tastes just like a real steak no no no no it doesn't no it doesn't that's I don't I don't I don't accept that okay now you could get get more kadha at a fish than at a salad yes but you could get more kadha at a meat than at a fish but you have to know how to do it so it's not for everybody so if a guy says I just want to eat leaves he wants to play minor leagues let him stay in the minor leagues you want to play Major League Baseball you have to be able to play you have to be able to hold the bat you have to you know okay next we move on okay um so so far we've had a number of interpretations the Sno when it's attached it shines more rebell may that when it's attached it shows a covid for the for the institution that you're donating to the benai says that the woman kept it attached so that the men could be accredited with the spinning the says they kept it attached so that they would be putter from spinning it on chabas the says they kept it attached it shows says if it's attached it's a if it's you can get more Kad out of it you ready here we go this is the seventh reason the seventh reason is how many Jews were there at the time 600,000 were they all tar says it's impossible that in such a large Nation not one woman was not one woman was T now if the woman who is T would spin with yarn that was not attached they're going to be Mame the yarn so therefore the W the women who had extra they spun while still attached to the goat because something that's is not that's why they did it they did it because some women were tum is it possible to remove some of the if they were worried about Chavis they came up with this idea have an issue of ripping up they spun it attached they didn't rip it out it's very it's playing with fire I mean like right combing your hair so combing is pulling the hair but spinning it they were expert in it you know look the goat probably had long hair and they they uh they were careful not to do it and if it happens because then the T would be an issue then right yeah but they they did it while it was still attached that's the answer of the he says look we don't usually ask questions on but the this great giant this s to it seems that he momentarily forgot what kazal said that after M the Jews did not become T there were no there were no after stopped so talking about say openly after Nida is a that process is a phenomenon that is is a semblance of death but there was no death after Matra the Jews were going to live forever and that's when they got the of so the command to build a mishan was right after so what's saying oh the women they spun it on the animals so the need would not be what do you mean there were no so says okay maybe there are noid but if a woman what's if a woman gives birth and there's no dam is she t or she she's still T because as a rule so even if there were no there were still there were still y we we're going to explain this further let's take a look very carefully at the take a look back at number one this when it talks about the women is that not and then it says plural so why the first level of does it talk about the women in and the second level of talks about the women in says very simple the first level they were sewing they were they were sewing so not all women were able to do it any woman who was T couldn't do it it was only individuals who were or went to the Mikvah soab the first level of those who sewed with the raw material it's the individual women ah but the second level of those who swed while it was still attached it was all women because even if they were T they were still allowed to do it so regarding the first level of sewing with the it's only individuals that's why it says but when it comes to the second level where they were sewing when it was attached it's that's the amazing of the by the way by the way in the Y he says on the words is that the women went to the Mikvah before they spun but the remes I would add is only in the first level cuz in the first level they needed to go to the Mikvah why because they were dealing with the raw materials so they could have made a t so they had to go to the Mikvah but the second level doesn't say they went to the Mikvah cuz the second level didn't have to to go to the Mikvah cuz the second level they're spinning it while it's still attached to the goat okay I just want to conclude by answering this question that they asked on asked that what's saying that the reason why the women swed while still attached because if they were Aid they would be Mame so by sewing it while it's still attached they would avoid T but there was no needid at the time there was no needid at the time so by the way by the way even though there was no nidos at the time the Y says that after the the came back and theid did come back another possibility is they could have been t m or sherat that's another reason why they did it still attached to the animal but I want to share with you something else also take a look at number 17 in other words we're trying to in a way answer the question of Onis says that the reason that they sww it attached to the animal is to avoid being but there was no Tuma then there was no Tuma so I want to sh with you something very interesting the CH says look at number 17 greater was the of the upper curtain the ones that covered the top of the mishkan more than the ones underneath it the it says the top curtains they sewed it while on the goat okay so the gar says the wisdom needed to sew the upper curtain was greater than the wisdom on the lower curtain says the mar the mar says that there were three dimensions of the mishan each Dimension reflected a different part of the world the courtyard of the mishan is connected this world the mishan and the lower curtains is like the middle world the skies the upper curtain was like the the highest Heavens says that's why the highest curtains were made attached to the goat cuz just like the upper worlds are not so too the upper curtains were made in a way that they cannot be maab so I think this would answer the question of maybe doesn't mean they sewed it on the goat because in case they were they didn't want to be matame it's not about them actually being matame it's about they wanted to make the mishan the upper curtains in a way that it cannot be ma irrespective of whether they are t or not t it wasn't it was it was inconsequential whether the women were nid or not nid were T were not t it's not about whether they are being Mame it's about they needed to construct the domain that reflected the upper Heavens that's not Mel so they did it attached to the goat so that they would make these curtain in the way where the curtains are not m t it's not because oh in case they were T they didn't want to make a t it's not about them practically making a t it's about constructing something that reflected a world that is not able to be maaba R laa one aine he brings that one should teach women needle point weaving and sewing so that when the B mikdash is built they too can be sewing the curtains of the mishan and if they want to achieve the greatest level of wisdom maybe you should buy them a goat so that they could learn the craft of sewing while it's still attached to the goat anyway um so that's the why the women they swed while it's still attached to the goat we actually gave eight reasons not nine eight reasons what uh why they sewed so attached to the goat number one the spno if you sew it while still attached it has a greater luster number two it shows greater and for the Mitzvah to give it while it's still attached to its Life Source the benai says that by sewing it while it still attached to the goat and allowing the men to cut it off they're now attributing to the men The Sewing and that would be a tick for the men who needed it for the the says they did it to be able to construct the Mish on chabas number five the says they did it as a display of in contrast to number six says that you could get more k out of a than you could get out of a and a number seven says that in case someone was T it would not beame and then we added from the it's not about in case someone is T it won't be Mame it's they wanted to constru struct something that could reflect the upper worlds that is not M so therefore they sewed while it's still attached to the goat which is something which is uh M which is not maab so this is just a little Glimpse by the way of one little detail in Tyra and you have all these Divergent approaches each one very much reflective of the one who says it so what the Sno says is very reflective of something the what say what says is reflective of the what the says what the writes it's like what says based on is Mystical and all these various we say the t is it shatters into so many different Divergent paths thank you very much have a wonderful evening one second one second what go back to the Ben's first answer is the same as a um is the same as so that they don't become T so I mean you could