Rabbi Nissan Lifschitz - So close but yet so far - Ki Tisa

if I actually see sir a word that comes to mind is the word sincerity why so so we know the main ball comparison species how they patiently or shall we say impatiently waited for moshebanon to come down from harsinai they decided to build an eagle and to use that eagle to worship to do their abunda moshevano when he discovers this destroys the a girl and uh terrible things happen Hashem was ready to destroy the entire nation both the commentaries are baffled and really bothered over here how could it be that Bene Israel who just saw the Revelation they just saw everything in harsinai all the Nissan that they went through how could they commit something which apparently seems to be about the Zara oh the commentators deal with this review the lady in the kuseri he explains as follows that the city of Bene Israel the aveiro the facial dead of the ego was not one of distancing themselves from Hashem rather the the eagle was one of trying to come close to Hashem the attributed lady says and it wasn't that Bene Israel were trying to remove themselves and and saying everything we saw is no longer true on the contrary it was everything we saw we want to attach ourselves to it we we want this we want the screen that we were the revolution we will continue this and we were hoping that this was going to continue with moshebenu and they were according to the kuzari they knew about the Michigan or something of that story was coming their way and that's what moshevade was about to announce them when he came down and they wrote patiently or shall say impatiently waiting for the moment to come that they can serve Hashem through physical mean through the Mishka but they were getting impatient and because of that impatient they decided to take the matter into their own hands they were when they when they were concerned that moshebane was not coming down from our Sinai so they said we will have to now do this on our own but their goal was and their plan was ultimately to come close to Hashem and not to distance themselves from Hashem end of the day it wasn't available and in fact the first thing that benesra told impartials in Israel right after the search of dibros is everything you saw over here that arsenia is all amazing but don't make any images of this of this Vision this should only be in your mind and it cannot be and that can be for real so Bene Israel still committed the crime but the crime was not one of distancing themselves but rather was trying to come close it was still in aveira the lesson over here is a very important lesson that sometimes we judge our actions based on our sincerity and based on how much we're trying to come close or come far from Hashem and forms the Trap sometimes that any action that we do that is ultimately trying to come close to Hashem have the key of the Hashem must be okay and must be fine not necessarily everything that Torah has what to say about everything and part of keeping the Torah is knowing that that the Torah has what to say but everything in life has guidelines and you gotta accept that not only the Torah say on how to do business and not monitor say on how to keep Shabbos the Torah says You Gotta Serve me on my turf the majors tells us that every single nation of the world was given an opportunity to keep the Torah and Hashem then challenged the nation in the one area that was very weak for them for the nation knows that was very difficult for them in the areas of murdering Hashem revealed to them that the Torah says you're not allowed to murder are you willing to accept it on those terms so Hashem shows the area that was most difficult for them to see if they were to accept it and they would not the naked Trail although they didn't answer it please some explained that benazel was still challenged in the area that was most difficult for them right before but Israel got the Torah Hashem says to the Jews listen who really gave me one commandment before the Torah and that is I'm drawing a line around the mountain Mount harsinai don't come too close to the RC Night can you accept that and in fact that was the benestro's biggest challenge because Bene Israel all they wanted was to come close to Hashem that is the biggest desire that Hashem says you can you can have the Torah but listen accepting the terms that don't come too close to now then even serving me there are there are rules involved and if you can accept the Torah under such terms that you will serve me even an old quantity my guidelines so that you can have the Torah was that of era the day so tripped up the lesson was learned right after Bene Israel were were atoned to the fake to Ego so we are told that the mishkan Rashi says that it's called the mishkana itos because it was a caporo for the hector ego where she mentions this beginning of a cool day awesome schmini mentioned in Italian mentions that the Michigan was a part of the height the days the lady explains that one of the one of the areas that was a cup of the Kate Diego was because there's one major difference between the mishkan and the ego they're both physical means of serving Hashem they're both ways of coming close to shambaya something physical but the one difference is the mishkan had a commandment of Hashem of approval machine and the hate and Eagle did not when peniso built the Mishka the words here over and over again because that was the ultimate kapura that we're doing it because Shem commanded us to and that is the lesson of the ego