Semuchim M'yad - Connecting Parshas Tzav With the End of Vayikra

Okay, I'm going to have Shabbos Hagadol. Welcome everyone. Make sure before you go into Shabbos, you hear last night's clip about how to greet someone on the Shabbos. I'll give you a little heads-up. The name of this Shabbos is Shabbos Hagadol. So, you say not a gutten Shabbos, a gutten Shabbos Hagadol, or Shabbos Hagadol Mevorach. Anyway, we have uh three shiurim today. Our first shiur is going to be Smuchin Me'od. Before we do that, want to uh remind everyone that this Shabbos, being Shabbos Hagadol, the drasha this week is 5:45. Which, if you start walking now, you should definitely get there on time. You know, you have plenty of time. And if you're If you live in Florida, well, make sure you get to the airport 7 hours in advance. 6 hours are not enough. 7 hours in advance. Uh you might as well drive. Drive as much as you can. Start now, and then you'll walk the rest of the way. 5:45 this Shabbos. Smuchin Me'od. Connecting the end of Parshas Vayikra to Parshas Tzav. Um here we go. The Baal HaTurim says that the connection between the parshas is as follows. Parshas Vayikra ends with the words La'ashmaba. La'ashmaba, to be guilty. And then Tzav begins Tzav es Aharon. It teaches that you should be zariz baTorah u'vamitzvos. Why? Because shigegas talmud oila zadon. Unintentional wrongdoing because of failure to learn >> [snorts] >> is considered intentional. In other words, let's say a person says, "Oh, yeah, this looks like a good food. What's the bracha? I don't know. It looks like mezonos. Uh baruch atah Hashem borei minei mezonos." Then it turns out it's not mezonos, it's sh'hakol. He says, "I I didn't know. I didn't know. I'm a shogeig." No, you're a meizid. Failure to learn is not unintentional. It's intentional. Error because of lack of learning is considered intentional. So, therefore, the juxtaposition of the parshas is La'ashmaba. It's guilt. Guilt, meaning it's considered guilt if you don't execute properly because you didn't learn. And therefore, it's Tzav es Aharon to be zariz baTorah. The Tzur HaMar says that the kesher between Parshas Tzav and Parshas Vayikra is explained in a sefer called Midrash Hashkem. What does it say? Vayashiv es hagzeila asher gazal. Zois toras ha'ola. We know that Nevi'im Yeshayahu says God detests something stolen in an ola. So, therefore, the end of Vayikra, return your your stolen object so that you'll be able to be successful in bringing the korban ola. Now, if you notice, if you remember, Parshas Vayikra ends La'ashmaba. Now, La'ashmaba is a is somewhat of a bad ending. You're really not supposed to end on a bad note. The Mar'eh Mekomos brings down a minhag that when they [snorts] would conclude Parshas Vayikra, the whole tzibur would chime in La'keil asher shavas bayom hashvi'i. La'kol asher La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. Why would they end off that way? La'ashmaba is rashei teivos. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. And the reason they would chime in is because the words La'ashmaba have a bad connotation. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i has a good connotation. In any event, this would give us a way to explain the juxtaposition of Parshas Vayikra to Parshas Tzav. The Sefer Nefesh HaChaim of Rabbi Refael Katzir Tzav'an, he says as follows. He brings the minhag from the Mar'eh Mekomos that when the ba'al korei finishes Vayikra, and he finishes La'ashmaba, the people chime in La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. And nobody knew the reason for the minhag until Rebbe Mendel of Rimanov came along and he said, "Because we don't want to end on a bad note, La'ashmaba." Also, with that, we could use to explain the juxtaposition to Tzav. Tzav means to be mezariz me'od u'vadoros. And uh Rashi brings down that the Tzav is a lashon of >> [snorts] >> energizing. We need to energize people when it comes to something which is a lack which is a chesaron kis. So, the juxtaposition is as follows. La'ashmaba is a remez to shmiras Shabbos. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. And afterwards, immediately afterwards, it says Tzav es Aharon. Tzav is zariz. It's energizing. Tzav is warning people. Uh What is it warning us about? It's connected to Shabbos. Is there any mitzvah that is more of chesaron kis than Shabbos? There's no mitzvah in the Torah that costs more money than Shabbos. Other Besides the fact that the food that the food prices are out of control, so it's actually quite expensive to make a Shabbos. I remember [snorts] when I first got married, and you know, back in the ancient times when dinosaurs roamed the earth and there were still dodo birds, a whole Shabbos cost $50. Now, it's like 10 times that amount. Okay? Since Since dinosaurs have become extinct, the Shabbos food has really gone up in price. So, and besides that, you lose an entire day of work. You lose a day and a half of work. So, if there's any mitzvah in the Torah that we could say it's tzorech zeros b'makom chesaron kis, it would be Shabbos. And therefore, the juxtaposition is La'ashmaba. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. And regarding that mitzvah, Tzav es Aharon, we have to be mezariz Klal Yisrael. >> [snorts] >> Here's one more idea in the same vein, where Vayikra ends La'ashmaba. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim. Connecting it to the beginning of Tzav. Because the Baal HaTurim says Tzav Vayidaber Hashem el Moshe leimor Tzav es. The sofei teivos Moshe leimor Tzav es, the Baal HaTurim says is Torah. Moshe ends in a hei. Leimor ends in a reish. Tzav ends in a vav. Es ends in a taf. It's sofei teivos Torah. So, now the juxtaposition is as follows. La'ashmaba. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. And what should you do on Shabbos? Torah. You should learn Torah. As we know that the main objective of Shabbos is limud haTorah. You know, there's an idea that if Klal Yisrael would only keep two Shabbosos, we would be immediately redeemed. Just two Shabbosos and we'll all be right. You know the song, the famous song, Just Two Shabbosos and we'll all be free. But, it's a stira to the Midrash that says just one Shabbos and we'll all be free. So, what will it be? So, the Ksav HaKabbalah says it will only take one Shabbos, but there are two dimensions of Shabbos. There's cessation from melacha in order to be able to learn Torah. In other words, if a person says, "Friday night, I slept 14 hours. Shabbos afternoon, I slept 6 hours." Okay. They were mechallel Shabbos because they didn't do melacha, but they also did not fulfill the objective of Shabbos. The objective of Shabbos is limud haTorah. That's the juxtaposition. La'ashmaba. La'keil asher shavas mikol hama'asim bayom hashvi'i. To do what? Moshe leimor Tzav es. Sofei teivos Torah. Okay? That's what we got. Smuchin Me'od. Okay. Recording stopped. Mhm.