Sefer Shemos Like Never Before - Live From Jerusalem {Neve Yaakov}

This Torah class is brought to you by tora anytime.com. Everyone, my mother surely will enjoy hearing that introduction and I want to assure you that Har Barkley is a very great for saying all of that because uh the Gar tells us that it's a d of to speak and gma. So thank you for the very warm introduction. Thank you Ravier. We we learn together almost every morning. So it's a honor to see you in person. Thank you Rabar for organizing tonight's event. I want to thank my friend Ramnasen Weller for helping bring me to Israel. So tonight we start safer. Actually, I was in RBS for Shabas and a young boy came over to me. I don't know if you've ever heard the Shiran before. So, a young boy came over to me. He said, "Rabbi Gladstein, my seat belt is fastened." Actually, a little while ago, I didn't even realize why I was saying that, but I think uh we'll discover the answer in para sham. I once saw something amazing from says why is it before we say you know we say before we say we say we have these little intros before we say we have little intros what are these little intros so the zire says before you engage in shabda you need to activate it, you need to introduce it, you need to begin it, you need words of so you say you say but the question is before you learn what are you supposed to say before you learn it's like so you say fasten your seat belts it's you need you need to activate the limud perhaps that's the reason why we know everything in the world of kaduca has a corresponding element in the world of so says Rashi says is a preparation. Why did he need to prepare? He's he's enslaving the Jewish people. No, everything in this world to activate kadusha or to activate tuma, you need words of preparation. Tonight we begin a new safer safer sham. So it's a good time to speak about what exactly is safer sham. We have a breakdown of the five books of the kish. But what is it about the pario of bacius that makes it a safer? What is it about the paras of shm that makes it a safer? Can we say that there's a common theme in all of the paras of shm? Is there a common theme or it's just by convention that these paras just happen to be grouped together? But if kazal give it the distinction that it's called the safer it must be there's a certain theme to these parios in safer that's what we would like to explore this evening you know it's interesting rabuay writes that the five books of correspond to the five senses the only thing is raenobkay doesn't say which book corresponds to which sense rabbay just says that there are five books in the Tory. There are five senses and this shows that the importance of the five senses because they corresponds to the five books of the and offers that say for corresponds to vision sight. He even says the first word of bacious is borious which could be unscrambled of of seeing of seeing. He says that's how you link the end of the to the beginning of the end of the is and then it links into the beginning the by the way just with that little yady that boratious is the book of vision it happens to answer a number of uh different questions. For example, Rabin Bay asks, "Why would Leia name her first child and the second child?" He asks, "Maybe Shia is more important than Riya." But it seems like in safer whenever there's an opportunity to express senses, Ria is always given primacy. It's the book of vision. It's blatant if you just take a look and pay attention to the sense discussed and say for boracious it's a dominant theme in voracious vision but as I mentioned rabbay does not tell you which book corresponds to what sense and fagi in his opinion he says offers that the book of is the book of touch Mishosh and Kalisaw was redeemed from its because they were careful in the sense of Mishos. I think you could offer another approach. I think you could make a very compelling argument that the safer of Shmis corresponds to Shia. You can make the case the most famous expression in safer sham isma and you look in just paras and throughout the safer you can make the case that the dominant sense discussed in the safer is okay so that's one way to categorize safer it's the book of listening it's the book of listening Let's begin with the Ramban. How does the Ramban label the second book of the Ksh? The Ramban refers to Safer Batius. Ramban has a kdosh. This is not mentioned in the Gomorrah. The Ramban says Safher Batius is called Sepher the book of creation. And the obvious question is that may explain the first perk of the first para you know par safer paras maybe is the book of creation. But why would it be appropriate to refer to the entire cafer as safer maybe parasyan goes on to introduce a concept where this is the origin of the concept of a siman where the raan brings out a principle from kazal that the activities and the lives of abraimit created the future the destiny the reality of the Jewish people for for all eternity. So actually everything we read about in Safer Batius is the creation not only of material matter but of the history and the destiny of the Jewish people. So that's the Ramban's that safer bacious is safer. But then the Ramban continues and the Ramban says in some editions it's the last Ramban on say for Batius and other editions it's the first Ramban on say for Shm that now that we finished discussing the creation of the world and the future events of the Jewish people. Now we're ready to move on to the exile and the redemption of the Jewish people. So we have para goes down to mitim and in boy we read about the shiva to mitim and in boy we read about the redemption of Israel and the splitting of the yams. So the rabban is bothered. Okay let's stop right there. No. Well, we need we need because the so included in redemption is What's that doing in safer sham? And then the Ramban has an amazing idea says Ramban because we're exiled. And if we're exiled, we're not considered redeemed until we're restored to the level of Abraham. And what was the level of Abraov? The Raan quotes the PK al the essence of Abraov was the divine presence resting on the tent of the so we were not considered redeemed until the rested on the Mishkan in the way it rested on the tents of Abraham Yitzk and Yakov says says the Ramban Ou. The safer is not closed. Safer will not conclude until reverts back to the level of Abraham and which is theina dwelling on the Mishkan. Now it's very interesting because that means that theina dwelling on the Mishkan was only to restore Clal Israel to the level of Abra which means in a certain sense the greatest divine presence was on the tent of Abraham and the Mishkan was a national attempt to restore the toel like the tent of Abraov. So actually you know Victor Miller wrote an entire book on this line of the Raman. The name of the book is career of happiness where Miller develops an idea that the purpose of a Jewish home is to bring the divine presence because actually there's more hash in a Jewish home than in the Mishkan because that was the tas the purpose of the mishkun was merely to replicate in a certain sense the was in the tent of let's try to extend the idea of the Ramban a little bit further if we're allowed to. The Ramban says that what is safer? It's the book of exile and redemption. Okay. So why do we need because we're not redeemed until when? Until we get back to interesting that means as soon as we bring things back to the way they were in so now the Tory has come full circle. We start off where the is on the tent of by the beginning of Shimo it was lost. We went into exile and then finally after we got the Torah and we built the Mishkan. So now we're restored back to level of Abra and Yakov. But maybe we could extend this idea just a little bit and this will open up for us a new world of understanding of exactly what the Mishkan was. Because if you look in the medish rabba when the mishkun was erected the says says says the medish. What does vay mean? Vi implies something that used to be and stopped and was restored. We find that when Hashem created the world, the came down to tom. So think about it is in Gan and the is in Ghana and then because of the sin of Marish and the sins of the subsequent generations the went higher and higher and higher and left this world. Therefore, when the Mishkan was built, he implies something that was, it stopped and it came back. Which then means based on the Ramadan, we could say that the reason why is included in Shay is not just we're bringing the world back to the way it was in the times of Abra, but we could say even further, we're bringing the world back to the way it was for Marish and Ganed. So now boracious and sham the Tory has come full circle. It began with the inhen and were not considered restored to that level until the rests on the Mishkan. So it's not just going back to we're literally bringing things back to boracious. Now using this Ramban and using this addition will give us a lot of insight into some of the materials that were needed to construct the Mishkan. Let's think for a moment. What's the Mishkan made out of? So let's let's pick a few of the materials. So you know the the item that held the whole Mishkan together was something called the So where did the come from? Where did this come from? According to some it literally miraculously extended through the walls, made a 90° turn and then made another 90° turn. It was a miraculous piece of wood. Where'd they get the wood from? I don't think they have Home Depot here in Nayakov, right? It hasn't made it yet. Just what what do they have? Mayan. What? Where are the I'm allowed to make jokes in the Yakov. Yeah, I didn't get permission yet. Where did they get the from? So, the says Abraham Shabba. They got it from Abraham's tree that he planted in Beva. Okay, it's interesting that they needed to take the tree of Abraham Aenu to hold up the Mishkan. So that's that's of note that the the main bar that held the Mishkan together was from the tree of Abraham. Okay. What else was the Mishkan? What else did it consist of? What were the planks made out of? Their crushe. Where' they get the crush him from? Theisa esakush him. They made the crush him says Rashi. What? Why crush him? It should say crush him. No says Rashi special crush him. Jacobu forawesh and he planted because he knew one day would build a Mishkan. So now the planks the walls of the Mishkan came from Yakov Aino. What's holding them together is the bar from Abraham. Okay. And what was Yeak's contribution? He didn't seem to have given any specific item. But yet the medish tells us that the Mishkan was completed on Kis. But Hashem said, "No, no, there's not it's not a good time to complete the Mishkan. We're going to wait till because it's birthdays's birthday. We got to get involved." So it's interesting. All the other they seem to have a specific role in the construction of the Mishkan. Why? Why? Why was it necessary to take special ingredients from the to construct the Mishkan? So I saw in the according to the Ramban that the of the Mishkan was to bring to Clal Israel to revert Cla Israel. Not just that we should leave Egypt proper but that we should be restored to the maj of the el to bring back to the level of the tent of we can understand why there were these mystical ingredients in the mishkan that literally came from the ofu fromu and that's why it was made on the day of's birth in order to bring clalis back to that state of the of they needed to have a certain degree of contribution to the Mishkan. But what about according to our own addition that it wasn't just that Claus is being restored to the level of Abraov, but we're suggesting that safer sham brings various full circle because we're going back not only to the level of Abraov but to the level of Marisha in Ghana. So perhaps you remember at the end of The eshab, the hashmen, the nim brought special items. Who are the nim? Sashi famously says the nim were is spelled kaser because the princes of they said you know whatever clus doesn't bring we will donate. So rashi understands nim refers to those individuals. However, the balatur says, "No, that's not what the word na means." Refers to the clouds, says an says. So the clouds went they went to Egypt they got the and the miluim and then says the anonym and what do they take the and the she in other words according to the the boy and the shemen to anoint the mishkan and for ctor came from none other I don't understand what do you need to go to forum you need to send send now clouds to go to the garden of Eden and get special ingredients and by the way the says that and they came from butid says no he says is just like the nim the clouds went and got the she and the also took the sham and the miluim from Ganed. Why do you need ingredients from Ganeden? If you're building a Ganeden, you need ingredients from Ganeden. But if you're building a Mishkan, why is it necessary to take all of these ingredients from Ganeden? But according to our extension of the Raman that safer sham is the book of redemption because it's restoring the world to the level of Marish and in Ghana. It gives us insight into why it was necessary to take certain items from Ganeden and use it to build the Mishkan. Now it's very interesting. We hope we're uh we hope to go in a couple weeks. We're going to We're going to the old cemetery inv. And buried in the old cemetery in you have a number of great alltime. You have, you have themed, you have and you also have the was the great great grandfather of the actually on Thursday I went down to Harim down in the Kidin Valley because I discovered that the grandfather is buried within Amos of Hanavi. There's no mata. I think it was destroyed by the Jordanians. But within the dal of is a the grandfather of his grandfather was someone even once asked the shila to the why do you keep on talking about the as your grandfather? Wasn't he your great great-grandfather? So the wrote a chuva that it's okay for him to call his great great-grandfather his grandfather. There's a chuva in the regarding that topic. The says something amazing. He says when created he was in Ghana. So then was there was there a bar park? Was there a flatbush? Was there a myi or there was just ganed? Was there the rest of the world? So the says yeah there was a rest of the world. Whenever the ganaden of the marishine was the bameikdash or like a bhakesses I'm going to see if they listen to my shirum. Okay, let's see if they've heard this before. You know my thing. Okay, about the thorns in the shaw. You Yeah, you know about it. Why does the ladies always know about it? The men, they've they never heard it. You know, the same way nobody would bring a phone into Bameikdash. I don't know. Unless you know you're a doctor or you're a pois and you're expecting uh an immediate phone call a phone doesn't belong in a base medish doesn't belong in a bikdash. I just I wanted to get that in you know just in case. Okay but just to make it real you know they want the real experience. So the says that the gan of other was like the basikdash he what he he would learn there he would d in there he would do mitzvah there and the rest of the world was for inyan gashmi he would go out if he had to take care of his physical activities but think about the analogy what is saying is that was like the bikash but we understand that in light of what we're learning that the tlas of the mishkan was to bring the world back to The madrega of marishian. What is that madrega? That is a realm of mikt. Marishian was living in a bikto. And then when he was that was a certain sense like mikt. So maybe it now sounds familiar to you. The letters aa and kazal draw a parallel between aa and all the balanim come up with all kinds of interpretations. What's the connection between aa and what's the connection? It's the exact same thing. You don't need to come up with complex or sophisticated explanations to understand the connection between aa and you see in ganed was literally in a bikdash that's where he was involved in all in kadusha and his banishment from Ghana was literally mikdash and initiated it with and therefore we also lament the destruction of the basikdash with the word but this tops them off. So when Hashem chases out of what does the public say Hashem positioned where are these what does Rashi say are when were they created? Did you see anything about uh on the second day or the third day when did Hashem create however says Hashem chased Adam out of the place where his dwelt min from before. Where did it dwell? Bane train kaya. These were not Malikav. These were there were two cu in upon which dwelled says the original state of Marishian was he was in a place of which calls and the dwelt onto. So you could imagine that when Hashem tells Moshe to build the Mishkan, we understand now why there were Krim, the Kruim was a replica of the state of Marisha in Ghana. So now we understand the purpose of Shm is to bring the world back to the Madrega and to replicate the Bamik that was Ganedan. And of course ends So simply everyone understands it means Hashem we used to have a BA mikdash you destroyed us you destroyed it bring us back the B mikdash like yester year no not just when the mikdash stood And that's what the letter says. saying we understand what safer sham is. of is bringing the world back to the level of not only the sakim which all the ingredients that the donated contributed to that it was also bringing the world back to the level of marisha and so let's try to uncover a little bit more of the essence of sham you know there's gam the garra offers a very interesting name to say form. Okay, brace yourself for this name. Says the you ready for this amazing name is called book two. Very creative name. A very creative name. Book two. says, "The words of our giving us great insight." The did not just pick book two because they ran out of names. You know, sometimes somebody tells you their name and you wonder, "Do you have 19 older siblings?" You know, where where did you get that name from? How did that name come? Book two. What happened on the day the gathered together to determine a name for the book? They couldn't come up with a different name. What's the in book two? Why is it called book two? So over the years, we've tried to offer a number of very interesting explanations for the significance of why it's called book two. By the way, the bahag also refers to safer shmise as book two. Why book two? So here let me let's try a couple of approaches. Why is safer sham called book two? Safer bacius is called the book of creation. Hashem creates the world in seven days. How many statements did Hashem create the world with? am however sabah says there's a a guy named parro doesn't believe in the creation of the world so Hashem has to show parro you know you don't believe that I created the heavens you don't believe I created the earth you don't believe I created the water watch this there's going to be hail from the heavens that shows I created the heavens watch this the earth is going to turn into lice watch this the water will turn into blood. So, Hashem demonstrated his complete dominion and sovereignty over all elements of creation. But the moral in gurus and take this even further par was a heretic. Par did not believe in creation exha denied the 10 statements with which Hashem created the world. So what Hashem did was Hashem said, "Let's try this one more time. You don't believe I'm going to try and demonstrate just one more time that I indeed am the creator of the world." So the 10 plagues, the 10 mis was a second attempt to create the world. This time that the world was audience that was the one who created the world. Therefore the writes Friday night we make we say and then we say so make up your mind or the answer is it's the same thing through authenticated and verified that he indeed is the creator of the universe. So in essence and by the way we we explained over the years how each statement of creation is verified and authenticated by one of the 10 mak. So for example batious the beginning of the world is verified by makas. it works backward meaning the the last Makkah authenticates the first statement of creation and so on and so forth. So in essence what's taking place in is the world is being recreated. It's a second attempt of so therefore the book of gracious is called safer. But what's shm is part two. It's book two. What do you mean? What's the name exactly? There's and then there's book two. This is the recreation of the world or the authentication the verification of safer braces. It wasn't lack of better terminology. It is the most precise terminology. There is no more apt expression to capture the essence of safer shammise. The himself offers a different interpretation in book two. Then says that even though it seemed like Hashem created the world in book one, did the world actually exist after it was created? Says in the meds tells us not until the Torah was given did the world really exist. Why say because with the sixth day of Hashem completed the world, the sixth day of creation, the sixth day of Son solidified creation. You see, until the Tory was given, the world was wobbly. The world was in suspense. It was indeterminate whether the world would have continuity or not. When gave the Tory of the Jewish people, the world now has kum. In fact, you know, I think there's a rule when you give a sh in. You have to say that was one of the rules. There's a question. Could you make a could you make a on something that hasn't come to the world? So some want to bring a proof that you could from the fact that as sold the to so the reash says no it's not a proof because that was before the Torah was given and maybe only before the Tory was given could it be that's quoted by question is what difference does it make whether the Torah is given or not. Ain is dependent on a Kenyon is dependent on whether there's enough of an awareness and a cognizance of what the transaction entails to make a formal transaction that should be unaffected whether the Torah is given or not not given. What does the revash mean? That maybe you can only be before the Torah was given not after the Torah was given. So there's a a great safer called Yeshua Mal of Rabishual Mika Mikna was one of the great the end of the 19th century actually my grandfather's grandfather name was Pesak Mosha Goldman was a Talmid of Rabish Mikna he helped publish Yeshua Malai by the way maybe over Kaneka it's become a very famous dilemma on Kaneka you know what do you do if you have very limited funds and a person can't afford Shabas and you know if you have one candle for Shabas and what's the you use it for Shabas but if you don't have either or is you have to buy what to buy so what do you do if you sell your shirt to buy but now it's also shabas and if you have one candle you have to use it for shabas but I didn't have to sell my shirt for n shabas It's like a it's an imponderable and it's become very popular in the in the rebell. He brings that he asked this question to a number of gdam he asked it to he asked it to and he asked it to one other do you know where this question comes from the first the first to ask this question is in a little contress at the end of Yeshua's mal it's called sorry on the raam from Mikna in the last note in the mauri this was mikna's question he was madesh this Anyway, in that very safer Yeshu he explains the quoted by he says you know why maybe you can only beam before the was given because before the was given the whole world was the world was notam because ifa wouldn't have accepted the tyra the world would have ceased to exist so then how do we make kenyanim altogether if the rule did not exist until the Torah was given. How do we facilitate? It must be implicitly in order to allow transactions. There was a special dispensation to allow before the Torah was given. So before the Torah was given, we allow to be transacted. So therefore, the Nit says book one was book of creation. Book two meaning creation did not really fully come into being until the Torah was given. which still doesn't explain why do I need the Mishkan why do I need the pud so extending the idea of the nitiv we could also add the meds tells us that the Mishkan also gave stability to the world the word vay the medish uh infers implies eyes that something came into being. The lion of the medish is when the Mishkan was built the world gained stability. Actually the tells us that whatever existed in creation existed in the Mishkan. There was something parallel in the Mishkan. The med says the med says the in other words the corresponded to the which is not says the medish everything in creation had a parallel in the Mishkan until the Mishkan was built the world had no had no stability. Therefore, we could say continuing extending the idea of the of the same way is book two because until the Torah was given, the world did not have stability. Well, we also needed the hamish to give the world stability. Let's try one more approach to explain the significance of book two. Why is she shimo called book two? You know in the beginning of boratious and throughout safer boratious we have a remnants to the following concept. Says a matter That's usually understood to mean galos adim or you have the four rivers in ganed says the four golim and throughout say for beracatious anytime anything could be broken down into four the medish rabba says on the spot it's kga the four golosim But the big question is for gulim, we're missing one. We're missing the greatest of all. What about mitzim? Why isn't mitim one of the four golim? Why mitzim wasn't bad enough? Why don't we have five gimmlas yan? So writes in lutra that mitim encompasses all the golim is like the mother head of all the golim and all the other gulim are subsidiary in golus matim. Recently we mentioned from the bell zerba who has an amazing observation that the brothers go down to mitim four times each one of the various yuridos of the brothers. The first time they go down it corresponds to bevel. The second time they go down it corresponds to paras. That's why the I believe the pin says that's why the second time says you better dare not come down unless you bring binyam because the second go corresponds to parasai. So ysef knew they needed binyamin because from beyammen would come morai who would redeem the Jewish people therefore was necessary for binyamin to come. So we we pointed out in that descent of the brothers the second time you have vayaru that's the only mention of the brothers getting drunk or drinking wine because that represents the the miracle of purim. We also mentioned there are many many similarities between those paris and migillas esester dava at that juncture because the second time they go down corresponds to parasi and then the third time they go down with yakovu corresponds to golovan and that's where you have the rem to the trad and you have other kaneka and I would add another re to kaneka is in the third descent this week's para mimu nist because that's you're a good audience. And then the fourth time when the brothers come down after the pet of Yakov Aino, that is Gulos. The fourth gullis is Galis Roy which by the way amazingly begins when Yakov passes away and when Yakov passes away who's killed that day as so look how Hashem is making the rafu before the Makkah in that descent as that descent is beginning which brings that creates the reality of gullis Roy Hashem says don't worry I got it covered I already destroyed Asab's already dead, so you just play it out, but everything will be okay. Then it comes out that it's the gul of mitzim encompassed all of the future exiles of the Jewish people. So what do you think gulas mitim represents? If golos mitim encompasses all of the exiles, what do you think the redemption of mitim represents? the redemption from all the exiles. Everybody knows there's a well-known idea that so to speak was also a mass of a sim labum of sorts. How was Mit aim of sorts? Because through Hashem taking us out of Mitzim that created the gulida. We've mentioned many times writes in at least six places that I'm aware of. He says the following words all the prophets prophecy in one vein namely that the future redemption will be a precise parallel to the redemption from Egypt. Says just like there were 10 plagues in Egypt, there will be 10 plagues on the nations of the world. And just like Hashem split the Yamsu before the gula, Hashem will take Clolo through the midbar. They'll stop at 42 maso and there'll be a Yamsu. Raay says how many dates were given for how long we were supposed to be in Mim. You got 210. You got 400. You have 430. And no one knew how to reconcile them until the day we left. And then they realize okay 210 in proper 400 from the birth of 430 from the brisbar. Likewise in safer Daniel three dates are given 1,375 and two other large numbers that we're not even sure what the numbers are says MK we have no way of reconciling them until the day the goolah happens says that was the pre-enactment the dress rehearsal of so if your kids ask again Boy, how many times do you have to review ancient history? Noah Medah, this is not history. This is not history. When you go to sh for Shabas morning and you hear the creas, this is not something that happened thousands of years ago. This is the destiny of the Jewish people. This is the road map of coming attractions for Clai Israel. So it comes out then that just like boratious was a mass of it was a safe of what? It created what? It created so to speak in a way the immediate history of the Jewish people. The Rabban says Abraham went down to Mitim. So would go down to and sorrow was abducted. So makes and Abraham was given and Jacobu flees from Lavan. So Clauro run from Par and Jacovino splits the river. So there's Yamsu Seratius created the immediate history of the Jewish people. It created what I would call chapter one of Jewish history. And what creates the last chapter of Jewish history? What's the mass of for the gullus today and the gula that is soon to come? Could it be book two? The reason why it's called book two is because boratious is the book of creation for chapter one of the saga of the history of the Jewish people. and say for sham is literally the creation of the is why the says the first day of pes always comes out on the same day of the year as tishab because since ultimately tishab will be celebrated as a yamt for the gula. Therefore the yumpt for the guula will always be the same day as the original gula. This is a subject that's very dear to my heart. Maybe you've heard my grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. He lived and he breathed being mit Yeshua. He passed away at 106 years old. His last words were, "I'm waiting for Msiach." He said those words of Nissan on the Hagu. So I always feel there's this very compelling connection between the gulasim and the gula and perhaps that's another reason why the bahag and the gar refers to safer shimo as book two. So the rama says shabas we're supposed to mention anovi it's his first opportunity to come after shabas. So we hope in the zus of reading book two beginning book two safer shmise which will create the future history of the Jewish people. Thank you very much. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by to anytime.com.