Shnayim Yomi - Behaalotcha - Rishon - #1

foreign [Music] yomi an incredible way of staying connected to the parasha sashavua we are going to be discussing parsha's mahalosa and the first Aliyah Rishon is a fascinating allele begins of course with Baja loses Aaron is commanded to light the menorah and then the Aliyah begins to describe the construction of the menorah exactly what it looked like and exactly how it was constructed following that we have the story of the consecration of the levium the consecration of the levim was a multi-step process in the beginning the VMware sprinkled with the water mixed with the ashes of the paradum in order to purify them the levium were then shaved all of their hair was shaven off their clothing was washed certain carbonos were brought as a as part of this process Bene Israel then consecrates the levium and then interestingly Aaron and Moshe both waved the levia that's right they actually waved them hazal tell us they picked them up and this shows the Incredible strength of motion I don't know that they were able to pick up 22 000 levian and wave the levium and the question is whatever however we understand this process of waving the levim as part of the consecration of the levim into their avoda but why exactly was it done twice why was Aaron commanded to wave the livium and then Moshe commanded to wave the levium and amalbum offers a fascinating answer and he says that really this process of waving the levim had two different purposes to indicate the two different roles that the levian played first Allen was commanded to wave the levium to consecrate them as assistance to the kohanan we know that throughout their time in Davison kohanim were the ones who did the Abode in the base but the levim assisted them in their avoda that waving was of of Aruna Cohen consecrated the levim and formalized their roles as the assistance to the kohanim but there was another role that levian played and that was not just to assist the kohani but also to represent binay Israel and for that Moshe rabena was commanded to wave the levia because was the ultimate leader of binay Israel was the one who could wave the levium and formalize and consecrate them to serve as representatives of Claud Israel thank you