Shabbat is the Atmosphere for Peace in the Home and The World with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] to the important big madras welcome home to torah a very warm welcome back to torah we're in parishes of the yacow now before we start everyone is aware of a war brewing in the ukraine between russia and i just want to tell everybody this is my own thoughts metaphysically whatever is happening in the world is happening for the sake of israel obviously we don't know what's really going to happen but ultimately in the end everything's going to be good so we should have a moon in faith of course you have to do what you have to do to stay alive but know that the heart of the king is in the hand of hashem whether you think of putin as a king or not is irrelevant he still has a lot of he wields a lot of power and so does zolenko and there are laws there are jewish laws of how to create a war and always diplomacy is the best policy is the first policy and there are reasons to go to where even for resources if you truly need them which i doubt that's the case here and again the name russia right that's what we call this evil empire and it's not a accident that the name russia just look it up i won't even tell you what it means in hebrew just look it up the word russia everyone knows what that is right it's evil pure evil anyway so we should pray for the peace of the world and it all begins here peace in your shelling and what i'm going to tell you tonight it parses the arkhel the whole reason to gather everyone together was for the sake of peace so there's no better partial to discuss than with the parts we're discussing tonight we're in part in chapter 35 of exodus and just to like a few pieces of information again i always like to start by letting people know learning hebrew is not a bad thing it's actually a very good thing how else are you going to feel the torah to let it go into your guts go into your brain into your soul then to hear the hebrew itself number one and in the description box below we have a link where you can get to the the source sheets the hebrew source sheets you can follow you won't get a colorful uh copy like i have well it's so beautiful right all these different colors but if you are interested in following with the english source sheets you can always email me and i could you know send me send them to you by email on our list so i just want to mention about this concept though called the chronological order of the torah so we have what we call an oral torah for those who are familiar with that i'm not going to go into that now but you understand what that means that we were at sinai and we received the torah and we we the jewish people are the teachers we're going to tell you what it says and what it means and therefore this concept called chronological order is a dispute it's it's a really a minor dispute it's not a major dispute between ramban and rashi basically everybody agrees there is no chronological order to the torah however what does that mean in hebrew it says literally there's no earlier later in the torah there's no order meaning chronologically time wise however the ramban does say that it is in chronic logical order except where it's obvious from dates or very specific circumstances where you can see that it's not in order rashi says no it's totally based on the oral torah you cannot guess when things happened it's it's outlined in the oral tour itself and just as an example if you go to numbers um chapter one verse one you'll see it's already talking about the second year true but in the in the um in the in the second month and if you go onward to chapter nine it's chapter nine verse one of of numbers it specifically says that it's in the first month of the second year which doesn't really make any sense because he's talking about chapter 1 verse verses 9 you would expect chapter 1 to come before chapter 9 but that ain't the case okay so keep in mind now what we're going to deal with is this concept of moses gathered the entire assembly of the children of israel together and in hebrew the yaa kel moshe at kol adot bin israel moses gathered he assembled the entire assembly the entire group of the jewish people and the verse continues the omer allahem and moses is supposed to say to them right these are the things which hashem commanded for them to do okay so rashi right away tells us this day that moses gathered everyone together was none other than the day after yom kip the first year the very first jump kipper and he gathered them together why we're gonna have to discuss but just to go back to parsha parsha jethro because that's going to play an important role in what we're discussing here if you go to the english sheets number four it's exodus chapter 18 okay so you're talking about quite a few chapters before uh chapter 18 verse 13 it says it came about on the next day me maharat and it was on the following day that moses sat the yoshi moshe the yay shaved moshe lishbot assam he sat down to judge the people let's just continue with the verse because it's going to play an important part the amo moshe and the people stood by moshe now interestingly it says from the morning until the evening now we're talking about moses actually sat judging the people from the morning until the evening and the people are standing around waiting to be judged during that time but what does rashi say there when did moses sit to judge the people it says in the hebrew the maharat it was from the following day rashi says this was the day after yom kippur so chapter is the day after yom kippur chapter 35 is the day after yom kippur why is that so significant and why is it also significant that he sat from the morning until the evening and this is one of the seemingly allegedly complaints or maybe constructive criticism that jethro had perhaps it was because the people were standing around not necessarily because moses was doing the judging but we'll see let's investigate let's go back to the clear car and right away the clear car says paris rashi on our verse 1 of chapter 35 regarding this gathering of the congregation of israel we already saw that and then he brings down impartials israel which is chapter 18 verse 13 of exodus we saw that also and he says parish rashi sham rashi says there khiz so it's very strange i mean i already gave you this background that the torah is not in order it's fine okay but why was it so important then that moses was doing the judging and it was all happening then keep in mind our parsha begins with three verses that are talking about shabbos and then right away from verse 4 it's talking about the gathering or let's say what you need to give as a gift to the basa mikdash for the ingredients the materials to build the beta mikdash so that starts on verse 4 and it goes through the ingredients the the materials sorry okay so that's all for the sake of building the mishkan so right away we're on the third line down in the clear car remember we're using the clear car for the purpose of the outline for the discussion he has i would say it's okay but he says nira lafaresh it seems that this is the explanation what i'm about to tell you that it's well known at this particular gathering before we go on i just want to mention if you go back to that rashi of our verse um is it our verse one second yeah the latter part it's number two on the source sheet english sushi so not only was it the day after yom kippur but it's hiphiel meaning it's it's causative okay and therefore he caused them to assemble but rashi specifically says he didn't assemble them by force he didn't assemble them by using his hands which i think it means it's an expression of force but rather they assemble through his speech like what does that mean wait till you hear what we're about to say and why that's so important that rashi said that anyway so let's go on why was it so important for moses to gather everyone together to inform them of the mishkan now he was concerned lest somebody donate give free-heartedly something some kind of material for this for the mishkan something that didn't belong to that person what would be the problem with that we're talking about building this great and awesome edifice called the mishkan the tabernacle and eventually right similar to what we have as a temple a mikdash the concept from anything that's stolen this is where we would find our kapara our atonement can imagine this great and holy place being built with stolen material very important not to have that vise i'm sorry i skipped once at one point imagine whether it was on the night of the tenth plague when the jews went to different houses of the egyptians and they were in the middle of taking something which they had the right to borrow and take that another jew was in the same house and they both reached for it at the same time and each one thought he grabbed it first meanwhile he didn't it already was in the hand of another jew that's called thievery but he didn't know it might not have thieved the cavanaugh with intent or by the sea when the egyptians drowned and the loot the booty came up on the shore can you imagine two jews bending down to pick up an item and each one thinks he picked it up first similar to the mishna in um in bab mitsia right where two are grabbing a talus and each one thinks it belongs to him and we cause them okay close them to make an oath and what not and we want to get to the bottom of it who does it really belong to so he says no it's not um it's not logical it doesn't follow through that we would build this house for hashem from anything that would be stolen this holy edifice now he brings down a verse in cohes that's ecclesiastes now the shot over there does not exactly match what the cleo car i believe is trying to say the verse over there it's chapter 3 verse i think it's verse 16. okay it's i'll just read i think verse 16 and 17 you can read moreover this is king solomon moreover i saw under the sun in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness i said to myself god will judge the righteous and the wicked for there is a time for every matter and for every deed there it seems from the forcing from the commentaries that what king solomon is talking about is that within the justice system there's a tremendous amount of corruption that's what it seems the shot the explanation is but i think what the car is saying that look when two people come before us one of them probably is guilty of course we have to look at both of them as guilty and when they both accept the judgment we look at them both as innocent but nevertheless i think that's what the clear car is saying that there's always going to be issues with the possibility of wickedness amongst the litigants themselves the verse the part of the verse he brings down is pat shama haresha anyway he goes on alkane hickory's motion to heal this is exactly why moses first announces we're talking about the day after yom kippur he comes down from the mountain the first thing he says is who owns something that is going to donate for the for the base of mikdash for the the for the tabernacle that's under dispute yigash alaila mishpot approach me moshe for judgment in a way in a fashion that the entire people will be able to be in a a state of mind a situation in their place so to speak will come to peace because that's going to be the ultimate goal right that's why we're praying for the peace for the world we really want it the no de la collect and therefore he informed every individual whatever you own you want to donate something you have to know that it belongs to you if there's any let's say hashash any suspicion any worry any thought you know that maybe it doesn't belong to you someone made a complaint let's get it clear now come to me for judgment in a way that what you they sh if you're not sure let's clarify it through judgment and it was only then from that point onwards right he first gathered everyone together then he explained all the all the ingredients that were necessary and how you should give and then look at verse five right chapter thirty four thirty five verse five you'll find this in number six it says right take from yourselves and offering for the lord right every generous hearted person shall bring it right and then he goes through the different materials but what's the word mean from you from what belongs to you let's take that word out for a second couldn't it have made sense just to say they should take these gifts or the right to the gifts and bring it to hashem why does that word appear so the clear car is explaining that that shows you it means that it has to belong to you that's what the word itself means and it was not extra if it was extra then you're right i mean it's it is it's not extra let's just go on he says it has to belong to you below michelle it cannot belong to someone else now the im locain if that's not true what i'm saying then that word then it would be totally extra and we all know there's not even a single extra letter let alone a word in the torah everything is there to teach us something now we're going to actually just take a deep breath and we're going to talk about this so again he changes gears a little bit and he says even though there's no doubt that he was able there's no doubt that he was not able he's not capable no human being is capable of judging all these people in one day right from morning until evening now how many people were somewhat six hundred thousand okay so not maybe not everyone had a dispute but we're still talking about a lot of people so number one quantity wise it doesn't seem likely there's almost no doubt here that he's not able to and number two a filoboto yom lojai chauffe colium and even in one particular day how can one person sit for 12 whole hours they listen you have to go to the bathroom you have to pray you have to learn torah there's a lot of things to do right to judge and yet what did he also do he also explained to them and taught them what they have to bring in terms of materials from the mishkan on that day so there's no way that he sat for 12 hours but that seems to be what jethro was complaining about you're sitting there from morning till evening so and that's why we have this verse he brings down the verse in exodus 18 13 minha boker adarev even though it says that he sat there from the morning until the evening that's not what it means whoa what do you mean it's not what it means rashi that what does rashi say over there shikol hadan din annette la amito i want you to go back to number four where it says you know what i did i actually split it up go to number seven number seven i put it separately it says from morning until evening right is it even possible to say this that moses actually sat in judgment from morning until evening no but rather what is this coming to teach us that any judge who issues a true verdict is truth demands it okay before that's what it means here when he says shakol hadan din mislamito any judge who sets out to try to arrive at the ultimate truth in judgment allah vacatuv that's what rashid continues to say that scripture deems it as if he engaged in torah the whole day kilo nasa that what it was as if he was a partner with the holy one blessed be he in the act of creation that's amazing so in other words it's not telling us that moses really sat there from morning until evening although maybe maybe he did but this is what the cleopatra is explaining no that when you do this as a judge you're becoming a partner with hashem in the whole not just the creation but the maintaining of the entire universe um and there's a verse we're about to see in genesis that's not the only time it's said but in genesis chapter 1 verse 5 where it says at the end of day one the era of the evoker and it was evening it was morning now i have a very simple question i think everyone should ask is well over there when moses is judging it says from morning until evening but in genesis or you know not just day one but you know through the whole series of the the days it's from there was evening and there was morning so i recall seeing a clear car that discusses the idea that god judges at night and he wants us to set up our systems of justice here during the day we don't judge at night we judge during the day and if god forbid we don't do what's supposed to be done remember we're partners with hashem in maintaining justice for the benenoch out there listening try to listen right that our job human beings is to make sure that there's justice in this world and the jewish people have a specific responsibility to set up these courts just like the non-jews also have a one of the seven commandments to set up systems of justice that if we don't do our part hashem will do the judgment which is not that's really not acting as his partner but in a dis associated way and the outcome is not necessarily good okay i'll leave it at that okay the cleocard mentions that somewhere else so now we're on page two of the hebrew source sheets and he says everything i said has to be true deem locain because if it's not amazing we already know that he gathered them together to tell him about the construction of the mishkan so he there's no way that he judged from morning until evening it had to be some time was left over to teach them torah about the construction of the mishkan which we see that there's five chapters right this five parshiot right there's so many words in the torah that describe the construction of the mishkan and and you know what they started donating they started donating right away and it's just in a few days they had everything they needed so we know it was that day that he discussed it so there's no way that he discussed that he judged them from morning till evening nevertheless keep in mind even the gifts were not completely uh you know received and given on one day took a few days perhaps this is what he was explaining to them shakol dava that any object anything that you guys own where there is any kind of dispute over s that don't give it don't even think about it don't give it until it's been clarified first who is the owner now the clear car continues outside remes nomar from a deeper level from a hinting idea that this gathering actually served a great purpose the purpose was to mitigate to mediate peace between them amazing and it happened on the day after yom kippur one second and what's the first three verses about shabbos kashabas also is about peace the day after yom kippur will say carries a certain flavor you can feel it anybody who experienced the true young kipper right would know what it means to have this camaraderie that still lingers in the air you can taste it right because you had listen we should really be thinking about this all year round but at least 40 days before yom kippur we're in the beginning of ello and we're already in a certain mode of trying to find things to do true before of things to forgive other people for for things that we should be asking forgiveness for so keep in mind is like the pinnacle this is like the sea the right the the climax of of 40 days of efforts to bring peace to the world and bring peace between man and man between man and god so that's yom keeper itself so this read this gathering this assembly was the day after ki en adam dar imna now what we're about to describe is that what we do when we're all donating our own resources to this tabernacle the tabernacle itself we already discussed it as being such a holy place a holy temple this is where we find our atonement it's all true but think about this that if we're all partners in a edifice that is going to house hashem the srina we're partners we're all partners in this edifice and it's not just that we're partnering with hashem we're partnering with each other and the word shutoff means a partner a partnership but it also means a roommate now we're not saying that we're living in the house god's living in the house we're in and out right if we're lucky but nevertheless the word shutoff so taking this gemara in your vamos you'll find this on page four number ten now this is discussing that point at the bottom the last line says a person cannot reside in a basket meaning like in an overturned you know like a not an igloo but let's say you know a bucket you can't be in the same close quarters in the same room with a snake now snake to me means something evil right and therefore the sages do not allow on a rabbinic level a marriage to take place that this whole gamora was actually discussing it so let's go back to the beginning of this this paragraph of the gemara it's talking about a defu a deaf mute male and a deaf mute woman meaning that these are people that have seijo they have intelligence but they're just not able to communicate and there are ways let's say they don't communicate the normal way but there are ways to still communicate so the so rabbinically there's nothing wrong from the torah from them getting married and the rabbis accept this and encourage such a marriage no problem that that kind of marriage can be maintained because these are two thinking intelligent people and therefore the sages enacted the marriage for them now i don't know how to translate the word imbecile man and so you have a man let's just say who's mentally challenged and you have a woman who's mentally challenged and it could be emotionally mentally i mean it could be really just i don't know what words i can use but you you can use your imagination that there's no way these two people can live together under the same roof there's no way shalom can be mediated between them and therefore the rabbis don't allow such a marriage to take place if one is seijo is there and the other one isn't so that would be okay apparently but in this case so this is the famous words that are used here that ain't adam dar imnaha basically if you have let's just say in our case if there's jews who are donating to this mishkan and one is just irreconcilable i mean there's no way that there's any way of peace for this guy so that's going to be a problem so what did moses want to do he wanted to create a and mediate peace with have peace between them in a way that would be lasting so let's continue the achasharotza lahodiyam mishkan after moses wanted to inform them of the concept of constructing the base of mikdash where every one of these jews would be a partner with each other it would be as if or the equivalent using your imagination just try to imagine that it was as if they're all sitting in one dwelling place because they're all partners therefore moses saw that it was necessary to gather everyone together first to become bound together to become one group to feel the unity of the people al-kim now that's why rashi actually tells us well rashi's tones because that's a fact according to rashi this is the actual day but he goes out of his way to explain yom kippurim this was the day following yom kippur the fish vitaramus that up until this point and unfortunately also after this point many if not all of the different encampments of the jewish people were filled with arguments and complaints much locus except for one that one encampment when we arrived at mount sinai you can find this in chapter 19 of exodus verse 2 where by the way many other places right they they traveled they encamped right you have day in camp plural they in camp but here right before mountain torah it says israel that israel singular they i should say they but let's say it him her it israel encamped singular israel in camp cain if that's true um if that's true how would it ever be how would it ever be possible to gather them to assemble them at a time where they were disparate where they were an argument of state of mind where they didn't have a peace among them they're aimed at where they were not all in the same frame of mind much what other time would it have been best fit for moses to have gathered them together except for the day after yom kippur how the i mean i should say meaning the time they ended up at mount sinai this time 120 days later actually more than that right no it's exact plus a few days right 124 25 days 123 days whatever it is right so you're talking about they're still at the same place that they joined for the for the revelation so he says [Music] this is why it's the same encampment the day after yom kippur is the same encampment when they arrive for the revelation kibi yom kippuri mashallah metadata and the day itself created well let's say metadata is a mediated intervened so to speak peace among them uber yet and therefore not just yom kippur but the day after right so in other words yom kippur created that and that feeling lingered even that day and we'll explain why or how are you because yom kippur creates such an atmosphere and it lingers it's certainly easier to gather everyone on the following day kozman the whole time that the peace of the previous day still existed amongst them now at this point he's now going to change gears a little bit so you understand but if a couple days have passed when he says a day or two they they stood like this without gathering together as lo you come a shalom there's no way to establish they couldn't stand up on this peace that existed and in fact what would happen the dark opponent as the days progress the the package of peace unravels just imagine what was built on this day of yom kippur that such a package would become unraveled as the days progress and each person goes along his merry way to so to speak each person goes in his own direction thinking about himself and in order not to let's say go against this towards this piece of what would happen what goes against the piece words of of fighting or even money matters i mean i've seen people who are like totally normal and all of a sudden like money comes up you don't even recognize them anymore right it can really take a person out of this world kian le shalom remember on yom kippur none of this matters we're not dealing with those ideas because there's true peace therefore moses sat to judge the people on this day which called the following day kadeshimi called sadiyah shalom in order that the peace that still stood still remained with them and they were actually fitting to be like doing it as if they were living in one roof in one place nobody's a snake that every one of them was dwelling ilu as if in a mishkan because they were partners in the mishkan as if they were right as as they were all partners in the mishkan itself now after the fact that they were all truly unified aydah mishkan and mitsurufan through this command to make the mishkan and they're already donating they're willing to donate their their partners in theory now we do find there were several times throughout the torah i should say that moses did gather them together even though those kihilo those gatherings were not any time even in the future the day after yom kippur they were throughout the 40 years they're the remaining 39 years the kosher lama shikatu lamasha kattav akeda derek malitz alapasuk the the clear car wants to share share with us something that the the balocada the the author of the ikeda writes in a advocacy fashion right a defensive fashion he wants to present this idea that if you read right we said the first three verses are dealing with shabbos what is the verse three verse three is look number 12 you shall not kindle fire in any of your dwelling places on the sabbath day and then it goes into the mishkan so you have these first three verses of chapter 35 dealing with shabbos we know that there's 39 creative acts that are forbidden to do these 39 creative acts all are what went into building the mishkan and whatever we're doing to build the mishkan to create the mishkan we're not allowed to do in shabbos okay we talked about that last week a little bit so um basically why is this one out of 39 pointed out many people talk about it the clear car explains shalom even though let's just translate you shall not kindle fire right on shabbos day you shouldn't kindle the fire now we don't know that the jews right we like candles before shabbos we enjoy hot food on shabbos we enjoy shalom bias by having those candles that we can enjoy on friday night right there's all kinds of things that we use fire for before shabbos that we're allowed to and you know the sadducees and maybe the carrots i don't know there's a lot of different cults yeah i don't know what the christians do i don't think they even have shabbos but there are different cults amongst the christians and they will go out of their way the kyorites the sadducees not they would not like candles they would specifically blow them out right before shabbos they would sit in a cold house no fireplace and they would not eat hot food they would suffer right very different very different uh outlook on life and this is our shabbos so the clear car is telling you that yes it's true you're not a lot of light ignite the fire but it means also and perhaps this might even be a bigger point that one should not create argumentations should not should not go out much locus disputes on shabbos and why specifically shabbos is so fitting to make fights is it shinier pim hema melaka because during shabbos nobody's going to work and what happens when you're sitting around with your spouse or your kids or who knows what your neighbors you're sitting around doing nothing it's so easy to fall into let lush and horror this and that and getting arguments so that's what he's saying he says make sure and shabbos when people are not busy right there is to be more concerned it's so easy to fall into and there's a worry there's a concern much more on shabbos than any other day of the week that you would ignite the fire of argumentation because of your i'm going to use the word board he doesn't use the word board he says because you're doing nothing okay see amar now we understand greatly when rashi said remember the word of the yachal the yakal he says he gathered them with words he didn't use his hands meaning he didn't use force she that he actually gathered them together with his own voice through the command the command of what don't start up with your fellow jew don't ignite a fire on shabbos no argumentation let it go learn how to let it go and that's what it means he just quotes rasheed diburo hemna safim that it was through his words that he gathered together because he wanted them to come you know like let's say you know with a free what's the word a free spirit they wanted to follow moses directive and become a good so what do we learn from this i hope we can bring this home right this lesson is so important the truth of shabbos is for learning torah it's true it's for spending time with your family but if you don't have the torah in that relationship with you and your wife you're bound to get into fights you're bound to right so hopefully the torah itself will help you work on your character help you understand the beauty of shabbos right the torah is just it's wider than the c it's longer than then the earth and it's incredible and it can create peace in the world right so through incorporating into your life so i wish everyone a real true shabbat shalom that's why we say shabbat shalom right you say good shabbos i get that but to have mama shalom on on shabbos so i wish everyone not just a shabbat shalom but a great shalom dick life right and um in two weeks time we're not going to have a share because i have a wedding i just want to mention the shabbos hashem three of the girls that we dealt with through conversion are all getting married in the next couple weeks so we're having a big kiddish if anybody wants to come if anybody's in jerusalem and wants to come share khadash on endocrine 5 45 around i don't know quarter 11 so we're having a big kiddush for let's just remember their names simbra and moshe and shoshanna and hanukkah and rifka and assaf okay so as ron hashem those three couples should have a lot of shalom bias okay so we'll see you all next week [Music] here [Music]