Israel's Priesthood is for Servitude & Authority and Available to All with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] to the iban and beit midrash a very very warm welcome home to torah we are in parashat bahala taha and you'll find that numbers chapter 8. now truth be told we're going to be dealing with verses i guess 5 through 22. so i want you to really become familiar however we're really only going to be dealing with a few of the verses and with using the clear car of course and that is become most familiar with verse 6 verse 16 18 and 19. that doesn't mean that you should ignore the rest just get a real perfect overall view of what we're talking about here we are talking about how special the levine are and of course the konim are part of the levine this is what we call the priestly class and how not only were they chosen okay but that they replaced the firstborn the first born in egypt hashem they were saved there was a whole you know we have a lot of karsatov to hashem even before that it seems like seems i put that in parentheses like there's something very special about a firstborn of course there is but for some reason through our own history we can see that it wasn't always the firstborn that was chosen for a leadership position okay it's called meritocracy perhaps i don't know what what term to use it but that would be a reason to move away from the firstborn lathey on the other hand even while we were in egypt did not participate in idol worship that's a big merit to them and when we were involved with the golden calf for sure the levine they're like our heroes you know they didn't get involved with the sin of the golden calf so for some reason hashem is tailing moshe you're going to exchange we we made a census right in numbers that's safe from kudeem right the whole idea is taking a census and we found out there were 22 000 levine and how many first born like 22 275 something like that right i mean really close so if there's going to be exchange made the exchange is not equal so there's a surplus a little bit of money doesn't hurt and there's an exchange made however we're going to talk about a lot of things to do with let's say the anomalies within the verses the the grammar and the anomalies and we're going to get deep deep deep down into the just jewish fundamentals what we as jews believe or should believe i wanted just to remind everybody that we really encourage you to learn the hebrew on our website there is i should say like this in the bottom of this youtube video there's a link to our website and you can find well you won't find the beautiful hebrew sheets with the the color codes but you'll find black and white hebrew sheets and i encourage you to follow because we want you to learn hebrew right this is lush and kodesh okay we want you to follow along now if you actually sign up and get the emails that i send out to the participants then you get my special english sheets that are just translations of some of the sources in other words it assists you if you don't want to just keep looking them up to try to understand them okay so let's begin the cleo car really opens up with three questions he quotes our verse if you look on page tough pay it says verse 6 in the middle of take the levites so the verse actually says in english hashem spoke to moses saying take the levites from among the children of israel and purify them in israel okay that's the verse now i just want to point out the rashi mentions with the word taking usually you think it means to physically take and pull or move or do whatever and rashi right away says take them with words now it's interesting the words he has to take them with basically that moshe should say how fortunate are you that you have merited to serve hashem i mean that is you really have to convince somebody you have to entice somebody you know what it's it's a lot of work right there is physical labor involved so so there was an enticement you know what you get to serve hashem that's what rashi mentions in other words it's not a physical taking but it's with words okay it's very important because we're going to see another rashi later on that says the same thing somewhere else so the clear car right away he says it reminds me of you know truma right take truma you're taking or you're giving truma so here in our parsha we're going to have like if i told you to become familiar with the verses 6 through 22 you'll see there's a switch in the language between taking and giving so he wants to know what is that all about this requires examination and clarification and explanation that's the first question why are both terms used seemingly interchangeable and the second question is malwa ketho why is at least the word netina used duplicitly is that with the word in other words numerous times several times in a multiple fashion as it says in verse 16 hemily look on the sourshi number two i know that the english here says for they wholly given over to me in the arts that's by the way they are holy meaning w-h-o-l-l-y in the art scroll it says um what does it say verse for presented comma presented are they to me i would have translated surely whenever i see a double language it's an emphasis uh right so surely they are given over to me but either way in the hebrew you do see the word netonium twice okay it's clear that's the second question why is there a double language and then the third question i believe is the acharch sattar devarav there is this seeming i'm using word seeming a contradiction because if god says they're surely given at the very end of verse 16 he says i've taken them for me again we have a that language of giving we have the language of taking if they're surely given then what does it mean that i'm taking them and that is i think the third question now what the cleocard does at this point i think he validates his questions by quoting a medrash neera shemehrach kushiot elu masik it forces or there's a necessity for these questions based on a midrash and the measure goes like this it quotes our verse right take the levites but the so the measure says me take them from me or take them from my name take them for my sake le shame serara serara means an authority or let's say position of authority i mean that's what the mattress is telling me the truth is when i look at the medrash and it's number three it does imply there's a servitude right if you look what i underlined it says he loved the levites but from the very beginning and i should have underlined that somehow this is going to play a very important part from the very beginning hashem loved the levites so he chose them to serve him there's a choosing of by hashem that they should serve i'm underlining that word serve him therefore the holy one blessed me said to moses the levites are extremely dear to me take them in my name which is the quote we just said the shmee or me but what leshrara as a for a position of authority i want to stop there with the medrash because i i'm reading into it two things there is a servitude and there is a position of authority and this is what the cleocar will then do he will describe the reasons or the sources for both of these ideas based on them you know from the medrash but really the makur would be the torah itself the actual torah itself describes these kinds of descriptions servitude and authority and now the clear car says at the end of this paragraph i don't get it but he says this answers all the questions which he will but not this moment in other words it's true later on in verse 19 to be more specific and all 16 we're going to find taking regarding the the um means like the switching the uh the transfer of the authority from the firstborn to the levine and the verse in 16 says what's takas mean it means in place of instead of meaning instead of the firstborn the first issue of every womb i have taken them for me with with that in mind we'll begin the next paragraph i hope the three questions are clear number one why do we have um both languages of kija netina number two why is the netina used in a multiplicity you you know said several times um and the third one is why use kikhara when at the end of the verse the opposite is implied of taking so the the khleikar begins i think he's still laying a foundation who the clarification of the matter is as follows he's now basing it on three ideas that is why the levine were chosen because of three things now he divides them the we only saw earlier in the medrash it seems like they're shebu and serara meaning servitude and authority he somehow is going to divide the servitude into two separate categories and the authority into one now we'll describe the sheboot the servitude now i don't want to make it sound like it's a bad thing we will stay tuned at the end i and i and i really implore you implore you guys at the end we're going to find how great it is to serve hashem it's not at all to be considered as a burden in fact the rambam brings down and shemitah that in that you wasn't going to see it in chapter 13 halaqa 13 how any human being not just jews can elevate themselves to this status doesn't mean literally this status but to be a true servant of hashem and what it means so shania shibu hainu shibu torah gufam the first type of service maybe service is a better word than servitude that is the the um the serving with effort of the body the physical efforts that the body makes to serve and to carry right we're talking about the lee and the kokonim are involved in not just the carrying of the mishkan but the the service in the temple the singing the washing of the hands at least now that we don't have the temple the washing of the hands of the kohanim but there's a lot of service that is involved and then he says shibu masira's gufam as if this is a second type of servitude on a physical level i personally have a hard time understanding how it is on a person physical level because i think that it's more spiritual but let's think of it on a physical level that the the services they give their bodies they're giving over their lives to atone for the jewish people at this point i just want to mention actually i should wait till the end of this paragraph he says as i've explained in parashat the yikra and in parshas pinchas maybe i will describe what he says over there i don't have this on any of the source sheets but i think what i'll do is i'll put in the link below to the sheer i gave on parches pinchas and maybe even vayikra where explains these concepts when aron was told to put his hand on a burnt offering it was one hand because the burnt offering atones for makshava alone okay so therefore one hand is necessary where arun was told to put his hands on the scapegoat the the the seer eziem that goes out to azazel is um he put two hands and that's because it's atonic for the jewish people for makshava thoughts as well as maasim keep that in mind parshas pinchas when moses is told to put his hand on joshua he he violates seemingly violates god's rules and he actually puts two hands on joshua the truth is he's not violating at all he's actually as rashi would say he is i think this is number nine and no that's not number nine sorry number eleven it's so it's so weird because if you look at the verse where god told them to take um one hand go to number 10 it's in numbers chapter 27 18 take for yourselves joshua son of none a man of spirit and you shall lay your hand upon him that's one hand but in numbers 27 23 it says that he laid his hands the ismo yadav with an extra unit allah and of course we would translate that as he laid his hands upon him this is the rash i wanted to show you in 2718 when he was choosing joshua to be the leader remember he's going to serve that's what our leaders do they serve it's not just a position of authority right but they're actually serving look what rashi says take for yourself right the puzzling said where is it um rashi says encourage him verbally meaning tell him fortunately are you that you've merited to leave the lead the jewish people in the service of hashem right it's unbelievable it's a very similar wording that is used by mo but the moses should encourage the the levine to move forward and take upon themselves this position because what a merit it is to serve hashem but the point here really is again what does it say in that verse about yeshua he's a man of spirit i share ish a share ruach bow because let me just back up a little bit we know there's a mitzvah to give to to give rebuke now rebuke can be done many different ways it can even be done silently the main idea is to be a role model and when you see publicly things going on you have to rebuke the same verse that says you shall surely rebuke it also says so you don't carry the sin of the people i hope you understand that if you had an opportunity to rebuke and you didn't did not rebuke then you are carrying the sin of the people once you're elevated to a leadership position the assumption is people will listen to you where people should listen to you i mean i don't know how it works today nobody listens to anybody right it's a big problem but we so the person in that position so what it was unique about joshua joshua had ruach bow he had the spirit the spirit was with him he was able to determine what people were doing in private so in other words he was able to give rebuke again how rebuke is done imagine a rabbi who has this ruach on him and he knows what's going on in his congregation he knows certain sins people are lacks in certain things it's his responsibility not necessarily to point out and to talk to people individually if it was done in private but at least to educate them to bring to educate them right to bring this idea to the forefront so people should be aware that this is something that people should become stronger in okay so that was a unique thing about joshua but also the cleo car mentions over there in pinterest this idea that and it says in deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 13 you'll find that number 13 on the shore sheet it says over there when when moses is told to prepare these leaders prepare for yourselves it's i said it's deuteronomy 1 13 right prepare for yourselves wise and understanding men known among your tribes now the english says i will make them heads over you in the hebrew it says i will place them as heads but the word and i don't really get it because in the in the text there's no you that's missing but rashi says halfway down the word lacks a yud now what i think he means is in the hearing in the korea not necessarily but in the way it's pronounced right this teaches us guys you have to have your seatbelts on you have to be sitting down that israel's transgressions the asham it sounds in other words the sin and the shin are interchangeable because of the dot on the left or the right um i said sinuses right so the word asham are hung over the heads of their judges since they the judges meaning the leaders should have prevented them from sinning and directed them along the right path so what are we saying that literally the jewish leadership are carrying the sin and therefore also atoning for the sin and i think i understand now it's more physical that's why uh the cleo car said the shibud there's two types of shibun one is the carrying the servitude the singing and then there's also the kipara al-nafsham somehow another they're going to suffer physically as leaders of the jewish people for the sins by the way if you go to number 14 in the source she deuteronomy 29 28 and when it speaks the hidden things belong to the lord i want to just quickly go to this rashi what does it mean the hidden things belong to the lord now you might object to god saying but what can we do you know what you're going to punish the entire community because of the sinful thoughts of an individual scripture says perhaps there's a man among you that's in verse 17 just above this verse after this scripture continues seeing the plagues of the that land and the diseases that which the lord struck it which seems to indicate that for the sinful thought of even one individual the whole land will be struck down with plagues and diseases but surely no man can know the secret thoughts of his fellow so how can we ever prevent collective punishment in the answer to this god says i will not punish you for the hidden things because the hidden things belong to the lord as the verse says and he will exact punishment upon that particular individual who sins in secret but what about people who sit in public however the revealed things apply to us and our children and those letters over there have dots there's a whole understanding of those little nukudot when it says not going to get into it now but the rash you lose to it i believe later on he lose to it but let's just continue why does hashem then the revealed things he'll take out his vengeance so to speak that is we are responsible for detecting the sins committed openly in our community and to eradicate any evil among us if we do not execute judgment upon these open transgressions over which we do have control then the whole community will be punished because they would be remiss in their responsibility and the rest of the the rashi goes in to explain the dots but this is judaism we are call we're all responsible for each other this is one of the reasons we're very hesitant to take on converts in others we want to make sure that you're sincere only god knows you're sincere but he does allow us to do some kind of you know community preparation because if you come in and become a jew and then you're very relaxed we all suffer so all those who are very sincere we're very happy and welcoming you and happy to have you join us okay i think i pretty much summed up what the clear car says over there i just want to go back now to the clear car where we're at now so he says there's two types of physical shibun one was a physical servitude for serving like carrying and the other is giving over their souls to atone for the jewish people and now he says in like in verse 19 verse 19 is on the sheet somewhere you look at it i think we already covered it there is verse 19. it where number four so it's very important to become familiar with the verse and he wants to tell us the edna escalating the tuning the arun of the ovinav again the word natuna is basically used twice the attain and the tuning and we saw i think we saw the end of the verse okay let's not go there yet okay so we have though that's the first part of the verse think about what those words in order for the lithium to serve within the service for on account of the jewish people inside the tabernacle and the clear car says that's a voter's master meaning that's the physical labor of carrying and work but then it goes on it says israel this kapoor is a physical thing because the guilt right the sin basically the the sin of the people is hanging on their heads on the leadership heads there that's why it says in verse 19 so that the children of israel will not be inflicted with plague in other words i'm just interpreting really the word negev is anything negative it doesn't have to be a virus it doesn't have to be a disease but any negative consequences this is a result if we um if basically if we are deserving the the service of the levine will prevent the negative consequences from affecting us okay and he says israel their connection their ability to unite and serve is actually healing for the jewish people yes that's what it's saying this is the way it works this is the character trait that hashem set into motion and this may be hard to us to swallow but we already said it we already spoke about this idea that the leadership is going to somehow atone for the jewish people look in vaikara chapter 10 verse 3 you'll see that thank you it says in hebrew ekadesh this verse chapter 10 verse 3 in leviticus is referring to the when ah most after the death of nadav and avihu the two sons of our own aaron is obviously in need of a consolation moses says to arron this is what the lord spoke when he said i will be sanctified through those near to me and aaron was at this point quite quite um uh comforted i want to read rashi and i want you to understand that we're going to read this um to understand that obviously there's different opinions of what nadav and the vu may have or may not have done but there is an opinion that they were so holy that they were like and i used this word like kavyako ilu as if almost like korbanot in fact maybe the first corbin oath of the tabernacle to a certain extent but that they were serving as an atonement for the jewish people because they were so holy look at rashi um through my honorable ones don't read bik vody but read it bikvo die in other words and i will be sanctified through my glory okay that's what it means that means through my honorable ones so basically moses was saying to aaron aaron my brother i knew that this house was to be sanctified through the beloved ones of hashem but i thought would be either through me or through you like we would be the ones that would die now that i see nadav and avihu actually were greater not sinners that were being punished but somehow acting as a corbin to a certain extent now look at the rest of the rashi what does it mean those who are near me my chosen ones whoever is closest to hashem and it said before all the people i will be glorified when the holy one blessed be exacts judgment upon the righteous hopefully right he would become more feared and exalted and praised now if that's true then kosher came how much more so is it concerning the wicked right when you see the wicked or punished you realize hashem is is in charge as the verse says in psalms 68 36 you were awesome of god from your sanctuaries don't read it as from your sanctuary's mikdashe but rather mikta okay but rather read it because of your sanctified ones okay so this is a little bit more background but let's go back into the clear car because the last thing he said was look in vayikra chapter 10 verse 3. and now we understand wait do you hear this we understand now in verse 10. i hope i brought that down if anybody could find that in the english source sheet verse number six so over there what did the jewish people do in verse in verse 10 and you shall bring the levites before the lord and the children of israel shall lay their hands upon the levites again what's the point of putting your hands the whole idea of was when someone came to bring a sin off ring they laid their hands and put pressure and confessed their sins they put their sin so to speak whatever that means on to the corbin so now we're doing that as a people and putting it on to what you know zarak when i say the levine i'm also including the khanim in this right they weren't separated yet entirely but the idea is that they're still part of the levite uh tribe okay so now it goes on we just read that verse usmichas more what is this cut what is the purpose of this laying your hands hooray atem the kippara layhem i couldn't make this up right that you ladies levine you guys are the corbin of the people and you are acting as an atonement for them so far we've discussed the two types of shebood and he continues the last two lines on this page ushne devarim elu now i'm going to assume that he's only talking about those two types of sheboo wait till we get to the position of authority but right now he's talking about those two types of servitude lohiti hashem al-avi habbikori it has nothing to do meaning the servitude the ability for the lithium to serve is not on account that they disqualified themselves in any way due to the sin of the golden calf or anything else perhaps that the firstborn might have done but but this is the way it works so we're not disqualifying them at this point when it comes to the sorara there is something to do with a disqualification of the firstborn okay just keep that in mind because that's the meter that's how it works now this is a quote from a gemara i don't think we really need the gemara to understand the quote but it sounds so unusual because the quote is you're gonna one guy sins and the other guy gets punished and then basically is not we're saying the lever are let's say innocent they might even be righteous and they're willing to take on the sins of the jewish people so the punishment the plague is somehow going to affect them and not us or there's gonna be some i'll even tell you how is it that lazy is the smallest tribe okay so i can look back the more we were hit in egypt the more we multiplied they weren't working so they didn't multiply however there's another way to look at it the closer you are to hashem the more under scrutiny you are and therefore many livium died because they were so holy and therefore they were the smallest and remained perhaps the smallest okay so that's another way to look at it so i really just quickly want to run through on number 15 on the universal sheet same work sucking 113 b the gamora mentions that god loves three kinds of people and he hates three kinds of people who does he love he loves those who don't get angry who doesn't who don't get drunk or someone who is forgiving now who does he hate he hates one who says one thing with their mouth while they're saying another thing in their heart we'll call that a hypocrite what about someone who knows the testimony about another this is to their benefit in other words to get them off the hook and doesn't testify on his behalf that's god hates now i underline this because this is what we're talking about if one who observes a licentious matter erva performed by another person and testifies against him alone this is a problem because we all know that one witness may not raise up against a man right in deuteronomy 19 15. so what benefit is the person coming forward to testify in court when it's not going to do anything for justice obviously there are certain cases where that could cause the person to make a shavu an oath we're not talking about those cases okay so we're talking about where there's no benefit at all it's you're just ruining a person's reputation for i'm going to say for nothing okay there's better ways talk to your local orthodox rabbi if something like that comes up but don't go to court thinking you're if unless you have other witnesses okay now so basically the gemara says what you're doing is this is the incident where tuvia sinned where one guy sinned and ziegood came alone to testify about him so this is the case where truvia sins and z good is lash because there's actually a punishment for trying to i don't know libel that's the word you know cause pain and suffering to a person when you have no legalistic right to do so okay so it's interesting he's just using the terminology here even though i thought that gamora was interesting in and of itself it's not really um no again to our discussion except for the one statement that how is it that one person can sin and the other person gets punished rather it's because these two types of servitude are placed on the levine now we turn the page correct and the first words are it's unbelievable we we're in we're in numbers we think this is god's idea now in numbers we're going to take uh lithium and make them the leaders and we're going to switch them with the firstborn yaakov came out with this idea yaakov shiyakov israel saba yaakov our great great great great grandfather no sin master mikhola shalom he gave tithing he gave his master of all he had um noise and moisture's lady as well as his children they gave their tithes their master to levy now i know this is going to sound very crazy but i saw this other places and then we all know when we count the tribes there's 12 tribes sometimes there's 13. in other words whenever we count yosef we don't count menachem ephraim and we do count levy that would make 12. however whenever we count minos and ephraim then we don't count yosef and we don't count lazy and that makes it 12. but we know we have 13 tribes because you can't lay thee sometimes sometimes not okay problems like this it says over there meaning yaakov knew he had 12 sons but he made ephraim and menasha it says in genesis 20 48 verse 5. okay you all see that so what does that mean he elevated even though he still has joseph and levy he still elevated two grandsons to be amongst the tribes which makes it 14. okay i know how the count works we always have 12 or 13 but in this case he's explaining we have 14 tribes hare our bosser now say mayhem think about it we had four immahots rahuleah silpa and and each one had a bachar there's no doubt there were four women women give birth right women still give birth okay so we had four women that give birth and there was a firstborn to them so if the the let's just assume because we know levy still gives a tax to a certain extent but the firstborn will not give a tax let's say so what do you have out of the 14 sons of yaakov who is supporting levy the nine other brothers meaning there's one tenth lady's receiving one tenth from the the the remaining the all we'll call the ten brothers this is nishara asura so if 10 remained as nishara sarah o mayhem no sun slavi i think to read it two ways that they gave their miser to lady but that yaakov himself gave lady out of one tenth of his children to serve hashem lethe the fish on marco for one second in chapter 28 of genesis verse 22 look what yaakov himself says it's number 18 on the source sheet then this stone which i placed as a monument this is yaakov speaking shall be a house of god meaning that the place of the temple and everything you give me yaakov himself is promising hashem i will surely tithe to you the hebrew is which is a double language i would have translated just like this i will surely tie to you but the clear car is going to say that it's a double there's two tithing going on and perhaps maybe that's how we understand he's giving one tenth of his child and he's giving one tempt as well to his child perhaps but there's a double tithing going on and wait till you hear how the clear card describes this the america there's a gamora in kasubis 67b the most we're talking about in a normal situation where it's not going to affect your lifestyle the most you can give is twenty percent now twenty percent in hebrew is a khoimesh this means it means twenty percent means a fifth it means a fifth heinous name asteroids he's giving two ten he's giving meister twice he's giving ten percent and ten percent meaning ten percent of his children he's given ten percent of his wealth that's why he's giving also with hamesh the this this uh twenty percent meaning double 10. that he sanctifies lately to hashem liga boa in two ways one le shabbat to be serving with his body in the holy service of the temple nishma tom the kapara this is still talking about the physical thing that the for some reason that their souls their individual people are acting as an as an atonement it's as if he tithe twice it's as if he separated his tithing twice which means a 20th a fifth i should say right sorry 20 which is a fifth and now we understand why remember we asked the question why is the tuning the tuning used twice why is when it comes to giving giving it's used twice in verse 16 kina tuning the tuning himalay me together is these are the two givings as we mentioned now that's me talk banane now if you really think about it from himself meaning that's all coming from yaakov in order that 20 will be separated meaning twice 10. the same apostle in the same verse in verse 19 at the end it says the enes of natuni he uses the language twice i'm going to give the livium as a present basically his christine latinos there are these two languages of giving the ethno and the tuning now it's a semicolon who perished miata how do we know this is what it's talking about because it explains right away in verse 19. israel that the verse 19 actually divides these two types of service into two categories descriptions to actually serve the service of bin israel and to pr and to provide atonement for the jewish people i actually counted i looked through verse 19 and it's true the i never saw this in any other puzzling that the word israel appears five times in the verse and he ends by saying this is a remis nachon it's actually a good hint what is the hint the word israel appears five times in that verse in order to teach you that the giving over to the levine is a couple the right it's a doubling uh which is basically the fifth which is uh two times ten um and that's what even the word chomesh is in other words it's a hint to the fifth it's one fifth twenty percent uh and that is hinted by the five times that that israel has mentioned in the passage unbelievable so far we have discussed the sheboot aspect what about the serara aspect the authority the position of authority the very fact that the the very first word in verse six we said is right the taking the osmo below netinus yaakov wait to hear this that that hashem from the very beginning not only did yaakov from the very beginning meaning centuries earlier designate levy but so did hashem hashem himself sanctified them irrespective that's what it means below nathinas yaakov irrespective that yaakov himself made that decision hainu lakiha serara meaning the taking or partaking and putting them in a position of authority the nifsalu this is on account that the firstborn became disqualified the nitinos in and therefore there was a transfer of power or authority to the levine if you look at verse 16 it says tahas pitra right we said takas means in place of instead of the the first issue of the womb [Music] these are god's words i took them right i have taken them for me for myself right i am taking them in place of every single first born mikhail with baal madrish now the clear car is saying this is where the bala madrish when he used that those words caches livium to take the levium but wait till you hear this take the lithium for what for sorara for a position of authority that's what the medra said now these three words are more of a technical term it says which means like this you learn a paragraph and the beginning of the paragraph speaks about something and then later on the latter part of the paragraph will may either speak about something different or clarify and then you could reverse engineer so to speak you're taking what you learned later and applying it to what you learned earlier although you would not have had done that in the simple shot so when it says you learn above meaning the beginning of the paragraph meet tak tone from what you learned later in the paragraph what you learned let's say from verses 16 to 19 that's talking about serara what you learned later on la mata that is referring to authority that was clearly talking about um the the transfer of authority from the firstborn so too you're going to learn the kika above in the beginning of the paragraph that was that's what it means la mala serara it's what is this authority ready for this israel everybody knows that if you have to pay taxes to somebody or something some entity that is what we call the authority and we do we have to pay to the konim and levine right the tribe of navy different types of taxes and what are they called true muslims right i don't know exactly how to translate them other than tithing okay alkane karishma levy and this is why the name lady was even given to him to begin with i want to take you on the last page on number 20 i believe it says over there she conceived again we're talking about leia this is her third son and borah's son and she said now this time my husband will be attached to me see that's what levy is is like a levia means an entourage right and for i have bore him three sons therefore he called him lady so i want to take you halfway down rashi whoever when it says therefore whoever is referred with the expression al cain has a large population except lazy because the ark or being let's say close to the proximity of the shrine destroyed many of them it's a big risk when you take a position of authority you have a lot more responsibility it says he named him lady alkane koreshmo right it's he called him lazy now who's he hashem or yaakov let's see rashi i wondered why it's written concerning this one meaning levy it says he named him while all the other children she named him then is an egotic midrash in divine rabbah that relates how god himself sent his actually a different opinion was gabriel and michael and brought levy before him before god and it was god that gave him this name and while he gave the name he he he name he gave him the 24 priestly gifts meaning in thought whatever that means because obviously he didn't give it to him then i mean in physical reality maybe he like said in the future you'll be receiving those 24 priestly gifts and because he accompanied them with gifts he named him levy because lady is associated with the gifts the 24 gifts that are given to the kohanim now i mentioned the beginning this is not just about jews we have 12 tribes or 13 tribes called navy and they are our leadership any i'm gonna use the word jew for a moment any jew can actually decide not that they actually become a lady but they can dedicate themselves to god's service and be treated in the eyes of god as a lady not that they are a lady and what's my i'm not saying this let's read the rambam i think you could become a coin if you pay the that's right that's right so the truth is that the rambam uses a certain language he says the cult ishvaish i'm sorry um means not only the tribe of levy but any one of the inhabitants of the world which implies in non-jews as well i'm not even sure because a convert is a jew there's a difference of opinion different opinion does this mean non-jew or does it mean any non-jew can convert whose spirit generously motivates him and understands with his wisdom to set himself aside and stand before god to serve him and to minister to him to him and to know god proceeding justly as god made him removing from his neck the yoke of the many reckonings which people seek he is considered yep as kodesh kadashim he's sanctified as holy of holies now there are some would say that means a non-jew dedicates himself to learning the seven noah laws or maybe even beyond whatever's permitted him to do i will acquiesce i will say for sure okay uh that god will be his portion and heritage forever and will provide what is sufficient for him in this world as he provides for the priests and the levites in other words any jew if you're not a lady you're not a cohen and you say i want to turn my entire will and life over to the care of my maker i want to serve him like i don't know a hundred percent so how are you going to work how are you going to do how you're going to you know you're going to be a teacher you're not going to just sit and learn obviously you're going to be teaching right so hashem will provide for your needs as king david said it says in the past god is the lot of my portion you are my cup you support my lot i think i believe i believe this is why there are many people who have dedicated their lives to learning torah make it a full-time profession even this country that we live in acknowledges they acknowledge they accept the fact they even give you a very small step end enough to buy your bread to put in salt water and to sleep on the floor um if you choose to do this because that's really you're not going to be you're not going to live a luxurious life you're going to be willing to live histopkut with the bare minimum but that hashem will take care of you and that's what i want to say i want to end with this idea that it is a reality it's not just a pipe dream that this is judaism we have a 13th tribe that anybody can join not literally join as in becoming the status full-blown status of a lady but in god's eyes and taking on the responsibility but keep in mind with the holier you are the more responsibility you take the more of the more liable you are but that's the truth about conversion as well why would anybody in their right mind want to convert to judaism it's a huge sacrifice you are going to be responsible for all the sins of the jews just like we're going to be responsible for you if you decide to convert anyway i'm not against conversion at all i love converts it's 36 times and the torah tells you to love converse because they made such a huge sacrifice right they gave up so much and they wanted to be under the divine providence under the wings of the shina and we can only have the utmost respect for these people and for bali chuva and for anybody else that wants to elevate themselves to a late thing with that i say shabbat shalom and have a good summer and we'll see you all here next week 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