Weekly Torah Portion Vayikra part 1 according to the Kli Yakar Leviticus Ch. 1 vs. 1

good morning everybody that would be Leviticus chapter 1 verse one and we're going to be dealing with the small Olive right this issra with a small Olive every safer Torah has a small if you notice right here on the page you see small Olive okay down below the first word in the main paragraph elos he called to Moses and God spoke to him okay there's obviously issues here with the pronouns and who's speaking to who because it's third person he spoke to Moses and then and maybe it's not even he I mean we know it's Hashem but what is it he called Rashi says the word v is a language of endearment every calling the word calling preceded every statement every saying and every command L it's a language of affection and he mentions that that's the language that the ministers uses the ad ministering angels as we sayar kados kados kados so it's a very endearing calling yeah right you want to make an appointment with somebody right so you call you initiate it you approach as that word implies as opposed to just bumping into somebody you ever bump into somebody say oh my god i' I've been meaning to get together with you it's very different than when you call somebody and say can we get together you know that there's a certain amount of intent and um affection by making that call as opposed to just running into somebody and it's interesting that that's the language that the Angels used for uniting with each other and one called to the other and said holy holy holy and you'll find that Isaiah 6:3 but when it comes to the goam Rashi says the prophets of the other nations of the world so it doesn't apply to Moses applies to the other um prophets and the example that the cleard brings down is concerning who bam so he says as the says elim El so what's the difference or what's the similarity between the word v and our word the it's the same word except for ol the olive now think about it the olive is made small in God's wisdom he made it small it really has the implication of a calling with endearment and that's used with mosha with an olive on the other hand the same word without the alive has negative connotations could have negative connotations at least by the nations of the world and the similarity that we have here is we have two prophets one being Moses the AL is used when Hashem calls and approaches when it comes to billum viar which means just happened God happened upon billum there wasn't a a meeting set in advance now we will discuss the idea cu the he says the language of arai and Tuma when at least when it comes to the Nations it has both implications arai is the opposite of Kev arai means temporary transitoriness right fleeting happen stance happen chance like by chance when it came to Moses it's at a meeting God wants to have a meeting he wants to either make a statement a saying or a command that's the first idea now the clear is going to bring it down to us like this he said say the olive of is K is made small it a small Olive as if God said to Moses or was addressing Moses V car as if the word says not that he called to Moses but as if he just bumped into him but there is an olive so don't don't think that it's totally right without Rashi says when God calls it's always by making an appointment calling him and that's why you have the olive but it's as if it's read by chance and we'll have to see what that means T sh the reason why the ol is made small and as if it's not there is to understand this re this this main point and the main point here is that there's going to be either a comparison or an equation between the prophecy of Moses who was the Hol prophet and billum who I don't what I don't know what words to describe him but he was a manuver right how do you translate manuver a lowly creature yeah okay the opposite of Moses and yet their prophecy there was some comparison or something I'm not saying in its entirety but there's some equation to equate the two Shar V because when you look up when God happened upon billum in bid that's numbers 234 right that's what the PK says the god happened upon billum viar as opposed to V which we have over here by by Moshe and we already know this is a famous statement towards the end of thees L Israel kosha that there was not there will not be another um prophet in Israel like Moses ever now it says L Israel there won't be established in Israel anybody like Moses come but amongst the go there would be a prophet like Moses now what does it mean like Moses when we think okay billam is like Moses we automatically think he's like him in every way it doesn't have to mean that and he's going to prove it ofu and who is that Prophet amongst the go that was like Moses billum and that's from the med you cannot explain and should not explain that billum was equal to Moses in Prophecy God forbid meaning that would be your first thought when you hear such a statement but don't make that mistake elak perha this is how to understand it and now he's going to take this theme this is going to be the thesis and the theme of the paragraph of today that what what did Moshe reach moshe's prophecy he reached to a higher level than what he himself was able to reach on his own through his own preparation Prophets go to Prophet school and they get graded okay so Moses was they they estimated right I'm using this as an example obviously he was the top of the class but he wasn't 100 you know plus plus plus he might have been only 95 and yet he reached 100 how did he reach 100 because Hashem gave him the additional we can call rues the Holy Spirit but it's something that descended on high and was added to what he himself was able to reach and guess what that's going to be the same thing with billum billum also ended up being 100% for him right not to be compared to each other because they were not on the same level but they each WR reached 100% now let's say billan was only able to reach 5% and 95% was given to him that's thees here that is the that's the novel idea here when we're going to say that there's a comparison between the n of mosan billum not that they were each on the same level but they each had as opposed to all other prophets they all these two had something call bonus an extra level of Prophecy beyond what their capabilities were okay and that's going to be the theme as I mentioned commo now it says in the rest of that verse that we just mentioned in um in the end of Deuteronomy it's Deuteronomy 34:10 if we look up over there it says AER Yu Hashem which Hashem had known as opposed to which which who he knew Hashem we're talking about Moses Moses was the greatest Prophet that ever lived because Hashem made himself known to Moses as opposed to which Moses himself came to an understanding and knowledge of okay and that's literally what the words mean AEM Hashem informed him of right whatever it was that Hashem wanted him to know as opposed to what it doesn't say is AEM as saying that Moses knew God we're not saying that M didn't know God but the the the knowledge was something granted by God as opposed to we call it top down as opposed to bottom up now we're talking about the basis of course it comes from Moses is bottom up but the additional stuff the toit the shef the Providence that was added is top down what is it all teaching you that from his own aspect of preparation right as and and capabilities he did not know Hashem this way but it was only through God informing him and giving him that bonus prophecy the additional Providence that he provided now the PK also says that it was in Israel now we we say in Israel we're not talking about the land of Israel we're talking about the people of Israel there will not be there right L Israel another Prophet like Moses there won't be established in Israel another Prophet like Moses so it says be Israel there's a bet as a prefix meaning to say is on in the Merit of Israel that's how Moses ended up with that extra level of Prophecy Beyond his own capabilities I'm sorry the is now regarding all the other prophets all the other Jewish prophets none of them not one of them was able to reach a level that was above and higher than his own capabilities he worked on himself went to school got good grades right but he was only able to reach a certain level there wasn't this additional bonus prophecy given to them okay that's by Israel by Jews but when it came to the non-jewish Nations there was one prophet and we we already mentioned who he was that's bam how how and why was he able to reach a higher level than he had prepared himself in his own capabilities notice that it says for the honor of Israel by Moses it said the the Merit of Israel over here it's for the honor of Israel that billan was able to reach a higher level than his own capab ities now this is something that is well known that all what any of the prophets are able to grasp and reach that would be fitting to him for his own uh capabilities that prophecy basically stuck to his Essence it was cleaving to who he was it was a reflection of him and once you created some kind of a Kenyan an acquisition of your essence and the prophecy stuck to it that never left him that prophecy would be part and parcel of who the person is but if we talk about something that is a bonus something that is beyond your capabilities that's transitory that can come and go and that is what the extra prophecy that Moses had that's how the word arai as Rashi uses is included in the word v because it says V the olive is made small we're talking about the type of Prophecy that Moses had not in his Essence because he still had a great deal we we said it could be 95% or more but that extra tophit the extra bonus points of Prophecy came in a transitory State meaning it wasn't really part of him that wouldn't depart from him but any of the prophecy he's able to reach more than his own capabilities that came to him in a transitory way or a nonpermanent way and it's not really part of his essence verak it was a gift it was given to him by God that's specifically why this word v or V with the small Al is used specifically and only by Moses and by B to teach you that they were equal in this aspect not in all aspects not in the level of Prophecy but in this aspect of the level of Prophecy that each one reached a higher level than their own preparation allowed for in what that it was amongst both of these people Moshe and billum both of them reached in a transitory way this addition or this bonus on what was really fitting for them according to their own capabilities and now we'll continue with the next paragraph Masashi now this will resolve and clarify what Rashi had already explained remember Rashi says that the word vakar is a language of arai and auma now what the what problem can we have with this first of all we we are applying it to Moses we say that the word viar I'm sorry VRA is read or understood as if it's varar and viar has by net by the by the non-jewish prophets a negative connotation so why put that by Moses so I'll tell you the truth he's going to explain that's why you have the small Al to reduce the understanding that it's not both it's only arai and not Tuma you can't apply the Tuma to moses' prophecy Tuma means impurity so we said viar has the language of transitoriness and the language of Tuma but guess what it would have been the CLE says it would have been enough just to use one of these two adjectives one of these two descriptions to understand the difference between Moses and and b or to understand the difference between V and V he's actually helping us understand Rashi also understood this and that's why he specifically said the word viar without an olive altogether is used by the go by the non-jews in both Fashions remember our our word has a small Olive so you can't really apply it but ating of it can be is a repetition of the point we said above that the prop prophecy of Moses was in a happen stance or in V car kind of way and it was was not part of his Essence from his own abilities therefore Kos this would have been a very hard thing for Rashi to deal with L below CL so the question we really left is why did the Torah not write the word V without the ol at all don't write the word v but V car if you're going to make the comparison and say right this is how to read it then read it without the olive at all and maybe it should not have been put in at all but no that's not the case actually it's there and it's made small so here's the answer rash is really coming to explain and the answer by saying is Mas since that language of v it happen is a is inferring a language of trans theu happen St coming and going Tuma but guess what we're stuck with this idea that it's also inferring a language of impurity and the next six words are going to put us on our face you cannot apply this idea of Tuma with hashem's approach to Moshe it just doesn't fit we're talking about Holiness you know you know transcendental and and um real intimacy with The KES there's no Tuma there and yet the word seems to be used as Rashi mentioned so therefore the AL is included in the word when it when God calls out to Moses to exclude it automatically removes any any idea that there was tomb involved and why is that what does the olive o Olive always represent shouldn't say always it does represent Hashem first of all an olive is one right God is one the olive is made out of v and two Ys you know how it's when a scribe writes it there's a v that is in an angle and there's these two little Ys on the upper side and the lower side and as we know the gatria of two 10 is 20 right the ud is the 10 you have two of them and the V is a six so you have the gatria within the letter Al if of 26 and what's the 26 represent in Judaism the yud and the he and the V and the he that's God's name so you have Holiness excluding and pushing out any possibility to even think that there is Tom involved so now we say like this so we do have the by Moses calling out to Moses as we just mentioned nevertheless the was written small as if you're reading it not to teach you what again to drill home this point that also the prophecy of Moses was we call temporary meaning a bonus it was transitory in Happ happen stance kind of way from the aspect that it was an addition it was a bonus to what addition to what his own Preparatory State and capabilities were as we have said and to say the opposite is impossible to say you cannot apply Tuma to Moses's Prophecy so that's very possible this is exactly what the med is trying to get across as mentioned in the on this verse this is the language of the med what was the point of God having a relationship with Moses and speaking to him and communicating with Moses for what for us it wasn't Moses um what do you call it like a monopoly and a lone wolf right I don't know any other word it wasn't like a solo he was an intermediary to get the message across to whom to us so it wasn't like Moses you know he's going to do 613 Commandments and we're not doing anything everything was told to him in order for him to tell it to us so Tom lar laymore right every time you see these words God spoke to Moses saying the word saying means to say over to the Jewish people God spoke to Moses saying not we already said God spoke hello it's saying meaning tell over that's what you have to do I'm telling you God Moses everything I'm telling you you you're that's your job to tell over to the Jewish people it was for the sake of the Jewish people for the needs of the Jewish people that God spoke to Moses and not for Moses's own sake what does he get out of it now that was the me but it obviously needs some more clarification how would it ever come upon your your mind to even think that all the Commandments were told over to Moses for his own sake and not to be told over to the Jewish people why would you even think that what do you think that it was only Moses that heard the first two Commandments it was all of us we heard them all they're applicable to us so that was the point Moses was just a conduit it a intermediary to for communication sake we rather we're speaking about we're speaking about the high level of Prophecy that Moses had that's the whole point here and what did Moses Merit to this extra boost this maybe that's what it is a a booster you're in this car that has this extra turbo Turbo right this was extra that it was for this extra prophecy this prophecy that came as a happen stance kind of way transitory kind of way that was added to him more than his own Preparatory State spoke to him face to face on whose account on our account because we deserved it right we were on a high level and he was a conduit it not for Moses own sake he was doing he was a servant of God he was doing God's Will and this is what it means that for the sake of Israel he spoke to him it was for our needs that Moses merited this extra level of Prophecy and not for his own sake now as it says right AI would not appear would not be established in Israel like Moses ever again so it says be Isel you have a prefix of the BET and that's in other words the usage the the the grammatical usage of the bet in front of Isel it doesn't we translate is in Israel but the BET as the prefix he's telling us the language is for the sake of when you say a bet it doesn't always mean in it could mean on account of so would not be established in Israel on account of I'm sorry it wouldn't be established a prophet like Moses on account of Israel ever again but it was on account of Israel that he got it the first time therefore when the Jewish people sin by the golden calf if you look in Exodus 33 verse 7 God says to Moses at the top of the mountain raid go down right he was was like directing him to go down to the people but the the words go down is also applicable to moses' own level and status as a prophet and it's m go down from your greatness you lost your greatness now what did Moses do to lose his greatness nothing he didn't sin the Jewish people sinned and our leader loses his the quality of greatness what did he lose he lost that additional level of Prophecy that was originally given to him on this on account of Israel because Israel was not sinning once Israel sins our leaders lose here Moses's case he lost that extra after the Jewish people were forgiven that Moses did go back to that level of greatness that he originally had as it says if you look several verses later we were saying that was in lamid BET right 32 Exodus 32:7 now look in Exodus 33 verse 11 and it says upon Him Moses is spoken to by God face to face so we see that there was a reversal of his being brought low on account of the Jews but when the Jews did Chua Moshe is brought back to his level of Prophecy and he's able to speak to God face to face perak and he says this explanation is correct and a very precious and dear um valuable explanation okay so in the med brings down you know that all the schools in the more areas anyway they all begin with their 5-year-olds learning Kish where do they learn you would think Brit right in the beginning in Genesis no they learn VRA mhm VRA right here the 5-year-olds learn they start with VRA Leviticus why do we begin by teaching our children to the the laws or the the partial dealing with the offerings the offerings so the answer is just like the offerings theas have to be pure without blemish without broken bones with healthy organs right without any MIM so to that's the way children are this goes against the whole Christian idea that we are born into sin and therefore we're full of blemishes see the opposite the children are pure we're born pure we're putting this world in a pure state so too just like the ganos are pure so to our children are pure now it says you have to bring is a sheep the K of less than 12 months old so there's a little bit of play on the word the shin a k really a sin is interchanged with the S has the same sound okay so instead of reading it the Sheep of less than a year that what does the offering do what are Cubanos that they cleanse kibo is C like um laundering it cleans our sins launders our sins of a man and makes him like a newborn child a uh a person a child who's less than 12 months old that's what the coros do the offerings cleanse us of our sin and and on account of this that's why you have a small Olive to remind us to hint to that's where the children small ones begin to learn should learn from yes byra byra and this learning even though it's not Genesis but that's the beginning right it's the beginning here Ro just like the AL is the first of the alphabet it's the first of all the letters so you start there alternatively the clear says L you know the the um the root of the word opon is Alan Al is part of the the root of opan and what does opan mean to learn look at Job 3333 it says God says I will teach you wisdom it's the the root of I will teach this teaches you this hints to the idea that you're learning everything you learn in life your learning will not stick with you it won't even be fulfilled and established in you in in a person unless they make themselves small right whether it's talking about your ego you know to be humble on the other side you have to make yourself small ultimately we should be vatran we should be able to M right not let the ego stand in the way and hold our ground when it's not healthy obviously they going to be restrained obviously there going to be healthy times where you must hold your ground and there's other places where you give up and U so over here he says that only one who makes thems small will maintain or retain his learning remember the word God Called to Moses it's like a very inter thing that God had a calling for Moses right it became wasn't just here but this was a hint to the idea and we what do we know about Moses he was the most humblest is that a word most humble and so this hints the idea Moses was merited he merited this calling because he made himself small and he ran away he right Barak he ran away from Authority doesn't mean he you know Authority was chasing him down he ran away it means that it was God was granting him Authority he says choose someone else who am I is I am not a man of words that was his response you know many people are chosen I can't wait yeah you're going to be the mayor you're going to be the president going to be whatever I mean uh no no politics here but I remember seeing a trump interview I don't if it was 10 years ago he said I wouldn't want to be president it'll make you a very nasty person but if there's nobody else to do the job you know maybe I'll consider it it was a very uh interesting you know kind of like it's a Twist because you would you wouldn't think that he would have said that oh that's a good tactic right but anyway um so Moses says low low east of I'm not a man of words just as is mentioned in the anyway have a good [Music]