Shnayim Yomi - Yitro - R'vi'i - #4

[Music] the fourth aliyah riffy we've been waiting for this finally we arrive at our sinai pasik tells us the beginning of the aliyah that it was on rosh chodesh sivan the third month at that time they didn't call it siva they just called it bakura we call it sivan on the third month on the first day they arrived at midbar sinai they had traveled from graffiti they packed they packed up they went they arrived and they camped to posix says so many of you are familiar with the famous comment of khazal that cited by rashi va yikan they camped one in singular begins the conversation between us and him the shuttle diplomacy back and forth between our kurdish baruch and the people over the week preparing for our sinai hakuras who sends motion with messages they come back back and forth but in this aliyah the first message sends us is a crucial one it's a definitional one it's a defining moment in our history because who tells us you will be we will be a kingdom of kohanim of priests and a holy people why the repetition perhaps because there are two dimensions here number one is we are each individually kohanim whether you are biologically miserable or whether you are a jewish person who is a role model who is meant to be a shaliah divine emissary in this world to be a light for all humanity so you are part of mamlekas kohanim the collection of individuals who are kohanim but ultimately it's about agoi kadosh it's about those individuals those pratim those specific unique people combining to be a guy kadosh to its sibor to a cloud to knesset's israel that is the ultimate fulfillment of the jewish people where all of the yehidim become part of the pratim ravkuk the first rabbi the chief rabbi of the first of the modern settlement of the land of israel he points out in his akdama to the safer shabbat his treatise to the extent of which somebody is holy their kadusa it depends on their connection to kinesthetic as a whole to the sibor that's our opportunity on a daily basis to figure out how do we nurture our status as a courage as an individual but also how do we see ourselves as part of a greater whole [Music] you