Three conditions to receiving the Torah

We mentioned right at the onset of the sheer that the Ramban makes the grace of the yak in the p'sukim. It says "Ba chodesh ha'shlishi l'tzeit Bnei Yisrael mei'Eretz Mitzrayim ba'u b'Midbar Sinai." And then the next pasuk says "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim va'yavo'u b'Midbar Sinai va'yachanu ba'Midbar va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." And look here, the p'sukim are three consecutive eggs. They're out of order. It should have said first "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim va'yavo'u b'Midbar Sinai va'yachanu ba'Midbar va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." And then the Torah should say somewhere in that pasuk if you wanted it to be another pasuk. "Ba chodesh ha'shlishi l'tzeit Bnei Yisrael mei'Eretz Mitzrayim." That's the day that "ba'u b'Midbar Sinai." And we mentioned what the Ramban says and we mentioned what the Or HaChaim HaKadosh says. Or HaChaim HaKadosh says "Ashura." But Or HaChaim, if you look at it inside, he has another mahaloch in terms of why the Torah threw in this pasuk "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim va'yavo'u b'Midbar Sinai va'yachanu ba'Midbar va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." He says "Achein kavanas ha'pasuk l'hachak dem." It's coming to give us a little bit of a hakdamah to kabalas ha'Torah. And that is that there are shlosha inyanim heim ikrei ha'chronological kabalas ha'Torah. These are ikorim. These are things we have to have in order to be mekabel the Torah. Shebe'emtzosam nisratza Hashem l'hamchilam nachalas shakai. Hi Torah seina hanima. And it's because of the fact that the Yidden were willing to sign up to these three things that Hakadosh Baruch Hu was nisratzis and he said "I'm going to give you my Torah hanima, my very, very sweet Torah." And all three of these ikorim says the Or HaChaim HaKadosh "Amurim in this pasuk. Va'yis'u mei'Refidim va'yavo'u b'Midbar Sinai va'yachanu ba'Midbar va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." What are the three things? Says the Or HaChaim HaKadosh. Number one, "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim." Chazal say Refidim was called Refidim she rafu Yedeihem min ha'Torah. The Yidden were lazy when they were in Refidim. If you're lazy, you can't be mekabel the Torah. The Torah wasn't given for people that are lazy. The Or HaChaim HaKadosh says that's why you always find the lashon to be oisek b'Torah. Now, what does it mean to be oisek? It means to be busy with it. You find hishtadlus b'Torah. You find ameilus b'Torah. Because a lazy person is going to be very, very unsuccessful when it comes to Torah. "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim." The Yidden had to first leave Refidim in order for them to be able to be mekabel the Torah. The second thing is "Va'yachanu ba'Midbar." They had to be in the Midbar. The Midbar, we know, is a very, very humble place. There's nothing going on in the Midbar, right? It's an eretz lo zarua. And the Yidden were being told that if you want to be mekabel the Torah, you have to be in the Midbar. And by the way, the Midbar Sinai, because what's the mountain that Yidden are going to be mekabel the Torah? They're going to be mekabel the Torah b'Midbar Sinai. You know, the Kli Yakar says in parshas Shmos here a davar nifla, that when Hakadosh Baruch Hu came to Moshe Rabbeinu um he told Moshe Rabbeinu "I want you to be the one that's going to take the Yidden out of Mitzrayim." So, what Moshe Rabbeinu say? "Mi anochi ke El Paroh?" You have the WRONG GUY. "MI ANOCHI? I'M a nobody." I'm not the person "Ki otzi es Bnei Yisrael mei'Eretz Mitzrayim." You have the wrong person. And what does Hakadosh Baruch Hu tell him? Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells him that I'm going to be with you. And then he says "V'zeh ha'ot lecha ki otziacha es ha'am mi'Mitzrayim ta'avdun es ha'Elokim al ha'har ha'zeh." That when they leave Mitzrayim, they're going to serve me by this mountain. And if you remember when we went through that shiur, we spoke out the p'shat of Rashi and the p'shat of the Ramban and the p'shat of the Rashbam and there's more p'shatim than that. Everyone has a different p'shat of how the answer fits the question. "Mi anochi ke El Paroh? V'zeh ha'ot lecha ki otziacha es ha'am mi'Mitzrayim ta'avdun es ha'Elokim al ha'har ha'zeh." If you take a look at the Kli Yakar in that pasuk, the Kli Yakar says "I'm going to tell you what the answer was." Moshe Rabbeinu said "Mi anochi? I'm a nobody. I'm not the right person." You know what the Eibishter told him? "I'm going to give the Torah. And when I give the Torah, I'm going to give it on this mountain. This mountain, this is such a lowly mountain. Why would I give it on this mountain?" The answer is because I LOVE ANAVAH. THE FACT that you're saying "MI ANOCHI?" "LO KACH NIVCHAR." THAT'S WHY I WANT YOU TO BE THE ONE. "V'zeh ha'ot lecha ki otziacha es ha'am mi'Mitzrayim ta'avdun es ha'Elokim al ha'har ha'zeh." Is the teshuvah to Moshe Rabbeinu's "Mi anochi?" "Mi anochi? Who am I?" Exactly. That's why you're the person. The person who thinks he's the guy, he's not the one I want. Because you're walking around with this hergeish of "Mi anochi?" That's exactly why I want you to be the person. And the raya is "V'zeh ha'ot lecha ki otziacha es ha'am mi'Mitzrayim ta'avdun es ha'Elokim al ha'har ha'zeh." Right? The Vilna Gaon says "Moshe kibbel Torah mi'Sinai." Everyone says "Moshe kibbel Torah mi'Sinai." It should have said "Moshe kibbel Torah b'Sinai, al Sinai." "Moshe kibbel Torah mi'Sinai." Moshe Rabbeinu was nisratza to be mekabel the Torah mi'Sinai. When he saw that the Eibishter favors humility, he says "Okay, you're right. If the Eibishter didn't take the nicest, shiniest mountain, so to say that I'm someone that could be the one that's going to go ahead and do it as well." But al kein upon them, they needed to have this hakdamah. They had to have the hakdamah of "Va'yachanu ba'Midbar." They had to be humble. And then finally, "Va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." What does that mean? Does everybody know what that means? "Ke'ish echad b'lev echad" like Rashi says. Klal Yisrael were told that if you want to be mekabel the Torah, you have to be b'achdus. And if you're not going to be b'achdus, then you don't have a shiyachus to the Torah. Says the Or HaChaim HaKadosh "This pasuk was interjected." This is al pi drash. Because there's three yesodos in this pasuk that are the ikorim that every single Yid needs, that Klal Yisrael needed in order to be mekabel the Torah. Number one, "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim." You can't be lazy. Number two, "Va'yachanu ba'Midbar." Humility. And finally, "Va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." Klal Yisrael has to be "Ke'ish echad b'lev echad." The emes in the Or HaChaim HaKadosh, I think, is the Mishnah says in Avos "There's mem ches dvarim she'haTorah nikneses bahem." There's 48 things that the Torah is niknes. You go through it, it's a long list. It's 48 items. But there are three ikorim says the Or HaChaim HaKadosh. There are three ikorim. Those are all protim and not them. But if you want to be like Micha and you want to be "heim midan al shlosha," you want to go ahead and take all the hakdamahs and turn them into three, it's all in this pasuk. "Va'yis'u mei'Refidim." You can't be lazy. "Va'yachanu ba'Midbar." You have to be humble. And finally, "Va'yichan sham Yisrael neged ha'har." You have to be You have to be "ke'ish echad b'lev echad."