Vayakhel: The Monumental Dispute Between the Radvaz and the Chacham Tzvi

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that uh I find the more things change the more they stay the same the meders tells us that rabaka was daring the name and the people were dozing off they were falling asleep sounds like a very strange phenomenon people falling asleep during a she I don't know maybe it was like the third Agro theare of the day it was the end of the day and people were dozing off wanted to wake them up he said as follows what did Esther see to it that she should rule over 127 medis in other words why was Esther to rule over 127 provinces says the let Esther come who's the grand grand daughter of s s was 127 years to sim and Esther was to rule over 127 in other words why was Esther Roy to rule over 127 medino in the Merit of her righteous ancestor Sarah who lived 127 years and in his introduction has a very important question over here number one really that is so interesting that wow that's so exciting why was Esther over 127 Med in the Merit of EST of s's 127 years wow that's fascinating I don't know about you but if I was tired and the rebi start with that maybe I would be out cold what is so interesting about the fact that Esther ruled over 127 medino in the Merit of the 127 righteous years of Sarah and second of all what's going on over here there there seems to be a uh we're we're playing favoritism here to Sarah why are we attributing Esther's 127 provinces to 127 years of Sarah what Sarah is the only one who lived 127 righteous years what about Abraham Abraham lived till 175 he recognized Hashem at 48 years old says in that case through the math 175 minus 48 is 127 so AB also lived 127 righteous years so why are we attributing the 127 diners of Esther to Sarah's righteousness maybe it was because of Abraham's righteousness asks the in his hak in this week's Para we discuss a special donation to The mishan in Shuma we talked about the donations of many of the precious items in we talk about the donations of the says why did the N donate to the m first you know in many many you read about the donations of the to the and they donated last so Rashi says the made the following they said let the seor Donate what they donate and whatever is missing we will complete so when they came to mha said mha okay what's needed what left what what's left left mha said uh nothing nothing so what did they do the only thing they could bring is the so by the they brought first but because they were lazy in the beginning there is a letter missing from their name and they're called okay which is interesting to try to understand what exactly was the of the and why in fact did they make this offer at first first glance it would seem was a good offer I mean imagine any wealthy person comes to a Shaw and he says you know what I want to build you a new Shaw and uh here's the deal make a building campaign or whatever is needed at the end we will donate wow that's great that's very magnanimous but here there there was a Tina on the N for saying okay let everybody else donate and we'll be Mash what's missing so exactly what was the of the and what did they do wrong by the way it's interesting regarding the location of where these a came from said says the Clouds Of Heaven went to P to the n the and the A and they deposited these things in the midbar for the to bring and then the clouds went and they went to Ganan and they brought from there the sh lar and theim The Bu and for theas you know it's interesting the truma is bothered by a question why by the A and the aim are they listed after the other 11 items that were brought they were so special they were so eminent they were so valuable um they should have been mad before the gold and the silver the order should have been why were they mentioned last so the says that because the N brought them last after everything else was donated and by doing so they acted him properly and they acted with a degree of atos so therefore their items were listed last as well okay so again this this tradition of kazal that the N donated the items last explains why their items were mentioned last or the um says that the anony would bring them the from G so it was without without without and kiss so therefore it's missing a y and it's listed last okay be it as it may we're trying to uh uncover a little bit what was the of the in in fact donating uh last after everybody there is a classic you know there's a status of learning T that you need to learn sh and you have to learn Tam and you also have to learn po So today we're going to learn some of the a classic among the and we have a very interesting sh brought in the Shas Sim the r of DAV lived from 1480 to 1574 he was among the Gad he moved toas then to shim then to Cairo where he was a r in Cairo for 40 years he had eminent Reit Sal asazi theet Aral he wrote almost 2500 shis let's say you have a guy who's in [Music] jail and he can't get out but captors will not allow allow him out the Davin with a minion to do Mito and he begged he begged before the warden and they didn't want to listen they said you know what once a year we'll let you out which day should he go out so the RAS says that he saw the that one of the of his generation swam in deep Waters and all he brought up was pottery and emptiness and his whole building is built on faulty terrain first this wanted to say he should go out on yipper and then he said no yipper him because of Puma says the RAS it's all nonsense you know when he should go out today he should go out today why [Music] it's a nobody argues with the principal therefore that it's the jail he should do that mitv and it doesn't matter whether the Mitzvah comes is a small mitvah a little Mitzvah you want to know which day you should go out not not not Kipper not even Rite when should he go out he should go out today as soon as he has the opportunity why we do not pass over MIT and that's one of the reasons we're learning this year because uh as Passover is coming I don't want anyone think we could pass over mitz so although we have a y of Passover that's passed over our homes when it comes to 1660 to 1718 and in Sim he brings down the Shila of the RAS he brings down the R's response that and he asks he asks the following bumba he asks a bomb question on the Rodas again [Music] says says a that doesn't have the carbon T it and the and they can only get one animal which one should come first so gamar says wait a second the case is the mus of today and the Tet of Tomorrow the mus of today or the T of tomorrow do we say tomorrow's or the and if the is right even if you want to say and therefore you should do right the sh is what's more important orash the of the if the is right then even if the comes first it must be we don't say that's only if they're both equal of both mitz are equal or within one mitvah we say but if one is better then of course we're going to wait for the greater one meaning the what's greater or makash even if T is great G but the comes first it must be no if is greater that we're override so from here we learn that more important than is to do the greater Mitzvah so while the says when you have two Mitzvah do the Mitzvah that comes up first says no we see from this gar that you do the greater Mitzvah the greater Mitzvah takes precedence says well there are limited circumstances where I would agreed to the to do the Mitzvah that comes up first in the first per of as the one PK says um weigh the circuit of your feet another PK says do not weigh the path of your feet so the gar says if it's that's one thing then you don't evaluate it says Rashi you know when you evaluate Mitzvah and you try to determine which one is greater and you do the greater one that's if it's possible that the other Mitzvah somebody else will do but when it's says don't evaluate it that's if nobody could do the other Mitzvah so you have to meaning if it's if someone else could do it so you do the bigger one and let your friend do the smaller one but if it's not possible to do through others then just through the first Mitzvah so the who says just do the first Mitzvah he's talking about a Mitzvah that you can't do so if a MIT that cannot be done you do the first one but if either way they'll both be done then do the greater one so the opinion of is you do the greater Mitzvah the opinion of the is you do the greater Mitzvah when do you do the first one you do the first one when it's when it comes to basana that the Rama says you wait until [Music] um the best time to do it even let's say onab so why do we wait over there why don't we say it's so just do it right away that's because there the Mitzvah itself is going to be done in a better way later therefore we want to wait to meaning like this the opinion of the is when you have two you're going to do the greater um greater Mitzvah even if the other Mitzvah presents itself uh sooner so you can always wait to do the greater Mitzvah unless it's when it comes to you're going to wait because that mitvah itself could be done outside or by the same reason why over there are we going to say we'll do the greater Mitzvah the answer is because it's one Mitzvah they're both caran so if they're both caran you're going to do the greater Mitzvah but if it's if it's then in fact we'll say so basically the is usually quoted as holding that if you have two mitz you do the greater Mitzvah even you'll even wait meaning the seemingly would say if you could get out of jail one day what day should you get out yipper or PM but today no the says get out today go go immediately and go do the Mitzvah even if it's a random Tuesday put on tal put on you could wait two months for Yumer no that's a different Mitzvah you do the Mitzvah right away is of the opinion no let's do the better Mitzvah the question on the RAS is that had a show C on the that said the mus of today or the T of tomorrow do we say or do we say mes the opinion of the the gar says that that's the sh so says what do you mean even if you're gonna put out you're gonna bring the carbon M because it's immediate it's now so we see from there that we don't necessarily perform the uh first Mitzvah that comes its way in other words says perform the first Mitzvah that comes your way and the said if that was the case then why is asking the mus of today or the T of tomorrow even if you say that t is better than mes but the one the mus is is presenting itself right now so that shows not like the RAS that we don't necessarily do the Mitzvah that comes its way first so actually the brings this question of and he says you know this is a question on the and the answers the question on the by quoting the and what's very interesting is that the defends the rvas from the question and the gives for the it's interesting is a different than what we're going to see in the says what's the reason why holds just do the first mitah that comes your way you know why we're afraid you might die you're going to wait for a greater Mitzvah you might not be around tomorrow to do the greater Mitzvah so therefore the says the of the is you might die you're gonna wait around in jail till yipper you're GNA tell the Kamas captor oh my my niceas captor I'm gonna wait five months until yam KRA to go out of jail who says you're gonna be around in five months says that's a good when we're dealing with an individual but when we're dealing with carban and dealing with aore aore can die so therefore the H of theas doesn't apply there's no Kasha on the RAS from the gar that talks about carbano yeah the gar that talks about carbano doing the mitzah right away is not a factor why is it not a factor the whole reason to do the mitzah right away sh is not applicable by aore it's only applicable by a so one thing here in the is we see that he holds at the of the what's interesting is in the writings of the very often plays around with this and supplies a completely different for this for this for the than the you know the says guard the because in middle of this very day I took out your hosts from the land of Egypt Rashi says that guard the why because I took you out of Egypt on this very day what does doing mitz with alacrity and energy and have to do with the fact that took us out on that very day says I refer you to the famous what's better or throughout the writings of he always sides with the r say the reason why for the RAS of why you should do the mitah right way is not because maybe you're GNA die you know why so what if you die you wanted to do the Mitzvah and then you wanted to do the Mitzvah and if you want to do a Mitzvah it's considered like you did the mitv so what maybe you'll die but you wanted to do it you're an it's like you did it no no no no no says that's not the the is not maybe you'll die the is maybe you go off the like say that Ser for 80 years and then he veered off it's not it's because maybe thear will convince you not to do the Mitzvah maybe the Yar will persuade you not to not to do the Mitzvah what are we worried about theara really me but I have a long beard and I wear a long black coat so I'm for sure going to do the Mitzvah theara doesn't start up with people who look very from no no no no no we tell theara you never know you know why you have to do the mitah right away cuzz I took you Adam MIT on that very day why did Hashem take us Adam M on that very day because we're in danger what were we in danger of we're in danger of falling to the 50th level of T CL Isel falling to 50th level of T but they were they were wearing very religious Garb yeah even if you wear very religious guard you could still sink to the 50th level of T so the says the that the RAS is concerned for is not because who cares you still can activate the reason of is the reason for the is you might Veer off that's what the PK says the says you better do the M make the Matos with energy and don't be lazy because you never know theara could convince you ultimately not to do the Mitzvah where do we learn that from [Music] another place where the uses this is you know there's a famous sh talks about by the way what I just spoke at is in the now let me tell you what it's brought in the you know there's a sh what's better saying sh early in the day or so let's say you want to say sh all the way in the beginning of the day but you won't have a minion then so you're going to DAV in later or to D later in the day it better to say earlier or to be and the and the conclusion is is better than daving earlier why why so isn't that is then otherwise why would we say wait to be earlier say already told you what's the reason why we the r says to do the mitah right away oh he says to do it right away because not because maybe you'll die because uh we're not worried sh because you wanted to do the Mitzvah so you'll be accredited as if you did it the reason is because maybe thear will get a hold of you but not for shma shma is a matter of amuna amuna were not concerned that Jew will Veer off you know when said that when it comes to we're not worthy it's is going to get a hold of us so again utilizes he understands that the reason for the is not maybe die it's maybe the will get a hold of you and he says that doesn't apply to amuna by the way here's another fascinating sh that this says may be dependent on and in this case usually we do follow the is let's say a woman or even a man who has a hard time fasting and he says you know if I fast s Galia I don't think I'll be able to fast kippa what should you do the guy says if I fast Galia I don't think I'll be able to fast y Kipper so sh do say look comes up first so fast Galia even though it's minor compared to yam Kipper or do we say and at first glance says it's dependent on would say fast right away ier no you know you can't wait don't wait it's not it's not advisable to wait and the says no dear friends when was when was the first time this came up this see by the way it's interesting who do we passing like you know the writes three even though in general there are three exceptions to the rule if you're not able to keep both of them you go after the more summer one would mean it would mean it would mean M even if it means waiting till tomorrow so Anar if you're a family ofanim better to wait till the next day if it's to do today however the the says you only wait a day or two more than that maybe we are worried Shas another exception the of is only if you're involved in the Mitzvah but if you see the Mitzvah from afar you're allow to go to the greater Mitzvah instead of you're allowed to go to the greater Mitzvah however that's only if you're o in the Mitzvah if you're not O then you're allow to go see the other mitzvah or if you could tomorrow do this Mitzvah in a better way it's better to wait like we say by however the says if you could do it right away even not as beautiful do it right away friends you know we the first time the played out it played out in the year 2047 and you know who the ballet pla were Abraham and Sarah and Abra the guests were coming and Abraham and S were sitting around the table and they were arguing the and the guests were coming s said soas we're going to sift the flower with 13 sifts abam said no K you're going to give them coarse flour who knows what could happen if you wait and give them such delicious bread and what happened s became a she couldn't give them the bread when you have a little bit of atus you don't end up eating anything Sor said abraam said no K course flower now in the times of PM the Jews were spread out at 127 medis why why weren't we in one Medina why were we so spread out that's not good for us it's not good for righteous people to be so spread out it's better when we're all together the answer is because in the times of PM we didn't really have the requisite Merit to deserve to be in one place we had to be scattered really why is that what Merit were we missing what was our infraction in the times of tells us that because of the laziness that had that we were not o soem so to speak made himself poor from helping us on say what do you mean we know not everyone's AOW of sh we know that when it comes [Music] to women we do not rely on women for thear says a rule women have a degree of laziness more than men women also are not relied upon to check a knife for this very reason even though they have many talents and abilities and in some ways they have uh more proficiency than men not when it comes to this type of craft to be able to check a knife they won't have necessarily the same ality and therefore we can't rely on them to to check the knife or it's interesting in the times of P it doesn't say we didn't learn didn't doesn't say we didn't learn the problem was we didn't learn with we were violating you know the of ends off we were like a generation that was reborn but in it says is we have to be recreated because in the end of days then the Torah will be B but the times of P the tah wasn't B it was just we were and because we were we were not to rule to be in one location by the way way the is because times of we were like s the not like the because the M you need to learn you know let's say a person says I'm so tired now I'm just going to take a nap and I'll learn better later maybe you will learn Ty uh Tyra better or later but you still should do it now Trump in the times of PM kazal did not want to attribute the 127 medino to the 127 righteous years of Abraham because if we would have been in the 127 righteous years of Abraham we would not have to be scattered around the whole world the reason why we were scattered in 127 medo is because we were so to speak guilty of that little bit of Ulus that SAR IMU also had where do we see sar's Ulus because she said says that is how wanted to wake up his reab was telling his why was Esther zle over 127 Med wink wink why were clao scattered throughout the world and were not Z to be in one centralized location the answer is because we were following in the ways of Sarah who also had this degree ofas but it's not this is not the mid that we Aspire for we Aspire for the mid the theid if we would have been on the mid on the M we would have been in one centralized location so the way RAB was waking up his T is he saw that they had a degree ofus he was so to speak dispar in the to his it could be that the thought process of the N versus CL was also somewhat connected to this the where the said yeah we're going to do the mitah in the most beautiful way you donate first and we'll finish everything we'll fulfill everything and in fact that's very generous and very magnanimous but it's lacking in one area what is it lacking in Rashi says that because the there was nothing lacking in their their Nas was full what was lacking is it's true it's very generous to do it this way but it's lacking in zos and therefore the letter yud was missing from their name and this also supports the position of that when it's a choice between and Will trump and that's why um in America and most plac can say that in fact one as soon as it's three days after the do the uh do the right away why because as important as is but we have to also be concerned for the possibility that for whatever reason maybe the time will come later and you won't be as enthused about the Mitzvah and you'll lose that on the Mitzvah so that's the LI of the and it's written missing this is a class and and as we point out from who says in general we will say with some notable exceptions namely if it's we'll do the more important one or if I didn't start the Mitzvah yet maybe I'll wait for to do the more important one so the are very um nuanced but nevertheless this is that theam seems in his dasas to usually side with the RAS that um have a great day everyone