Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Shabbos Before and After the Sin of the Golden Calf

my baby [Music] thank you thank you for coming uh you know I was racking my brains I was trying to think I honestly didn't remember what I spoke about last week and I panicked a little bit because I was afraid I would repeat what I said last week my wife reminded me last week was poorim so there was no cure last week which kind of explains my lapse of memories again I'm a little under the weather I uh you know someone gave me a abort which is a Rorschach test regarding your personality it's an amazing thing uh you know in the mcgillah something right fill in the blank for years so there are actually two different verses one is it was confused and perturbed and the other is the city of shushan rejoiced so they say if you're a literature temperament uh you will think of the plastic if you're more of a Hasidic temperament you'll go to right away but you're sure so the person gave me the test without telling me what he was trying to prove he says if I say ear shushan what do you think of right away so I said novoca he said huh okay so I guess maybe I'm allergic to too much joy I'm not sure because I uh somehow and poor him um I just got very very sick and I described it as having a hangover even without drinking so I felt like I had a hangover and I didn't didn't have a drop of alcohol but be interested in I hope you like to have a refuge and we have a number of people that again have dedicated to share first is Leia Bas Basha henna who's the mother of Moshe citrine and since is a member of my old community in Silver Spring I I know I know her very very personally very well uh she's a she's retired now but she said she was an eminent a clinical psychologist who helped many many people and the very sweet and generous and kind person and certainly our prayers are for her to have a refuge limit uh in addition we have an anonymous contribution for a blessing for a civil qagon for Aaron Bennett come to pass and then finally we have an anonymous contribution in honor of Hashem you know we don't get that too often but we ought to think about it a little more often than we do uh to honor akadesh barkham in everything that we do in addition my wife asked me to ask uh offer a prayer for her voice Lima for Rafael Dove Bender Rachel who was undergoing some tests in Sharif the hope would be that the tests would be negative so there wouldn't be any need for a refuge limit but either way hopefully there should not be a holy and if if there is a holy there should be a refuge Layman uh in Egyptian we have the following special dedication by Rina and Mark questel for the entire month of Adar one is an appreciation of Ruby writers in the story that he shares two is a circus foreign but the rest of the month still and we have two more announcements registration to participate in the Ivana pesos is approaching one can register by email to pesach p-e-s-a-c-h at ibanez.com and as well a link can be found for the kimcha de piska drive and 100 of the funds raised are distributed directly to those in need so there's no like overhead or expense deduction or the like and it's an old manager of Israel what do they say they say a famous Miser going all the way back over 100 years ago I think it was the first Russia I may have the personality wrong so don't tell me uh accountable for this I think it was the First dress at the debate salavi the famous reviosity of salavechik gave when he was rev of brisk and in Europe the rabbi commonly did not speak uh during the year they had preachers Magan who would speak the rabbi only spoke twice a year His function was not to give sermons and the twice a year was Shabbos chuva the Shabbos before Yom Kippur and the Shabbos before pesach and these dresses were very very long they could be two three four hour dresses and the tradition in Europe was that at least the half of the Shabba Sagat old Russia was a very erudite pilpal that would only be understood by the London the typical person didn't know what was going on and the rabbi kind of showed off that he knew his stuff from everything else and typically the way it worked was like oh Poo Poo Lim you usually start with a question in the roundabout that's famous he says uh astira a contradiction in the roundabout and then you offer some ingenious complicated answer that's kind of been at least in Lithuania and Poland that's our Rabbi you know made his reputation so the base of Av got up and said I have a great great contradiction uh in the rabba he says one rambam says there's a mitzvahn pesach to have wine and eat matzah and have meat and enjoy and then another din of the rambam talks about uh a poor person who doesn't have anything like what happens to a poor person well how do you reconcile the contradiction the poor person doesn't have anything so how is he supposed to fulfill this mitzvah so instead of giving a pillistic answer he said the answer is by giving stuck up you will enable the poor person to be able to fulfill his Mitzvah and the base of life he said and the base labor was absolutely capable of giving the most complicated to Russia if he wanted to and indeed other years he did but there he said he I think he sat down he says my only dress is if you want to answer the contradiction of the robot you have to be generous with your charity because we have the needs of pesach and we have the situation of the Ani you got to bridge the gap and this is an old old Dominic of claw Israel hopefully that we will all respond very very generously um what I want to talk about tonight I really have two different topics I'm not sure if I'll get to both if not I'll I'll just carry it over uh is the relationship of Shabbos and mishkan all of the partios we're reading right now till the end of the book of shmos are involving the construction of the Tabernacle truma titsava kisis are devoted to the details of the Michigan in fact the Torah is normally said to be quite economical in words and yet there's an inordinate amount of repetition we are told what God told to Moshe and then we are told what Moshe told to the Jewish people and then we are told what the Jewish people did the the whole detail is repeated three different times Israel and binay Israel actually doing it and of course the general significance of repetition is that when something is very beloved to God he repeats it and repeats it and repeats it because I'll say it's like a miser who loves his money or loves his jewels he counts it and recounts it and recounts it so everything about the mishkan is very beloved to Hashem because hashem's desire to to have his divine presence live with us it's not that Hashem wants to fancy building but the God is the is the Markham of the balotanya writes actually it's based on a medrish actually greatest desire is to have a d-rabba tactoneum a Dwelling Place in the slowly world so the Michigan is repeated over and over again but you'll notice that in two places there's a juxtaposition between mishkan and Shabbos the mitzvos of mishkan and the big day Kahuna kisisa Hashem finishes up with the incense and and the oil for Preparation and then he ends with a paragraph this was last week's Power Trip fish shop real very famous thing because many actually say this kidish Shabbos morning and then he say this Friday night in my room before the amida the shamro vinay Israel sashabas the Jewish people shall keep Shabbos lasso says to keep the Shabbos in all of their Generations brisolam as an eternal Covenant so there's Michigan juxtaposed with Shabbos now Shabbos is already in the ten commandments so why is there a need to juxtapose it again so Rashi says based on the camera that the kiddish is that what God is saying is even though I gave you a Mitzvah of building a mishkan you must not build the mishkan and Shabbos because Shabbos has priority over the Michigan indeed many you probably know that the whole source no the Torah says don't do work on shot don't do malachan Chavez now the Tory doesn't prohibit specific things the story doesn't say don't cook the story doesn't say don't write the Torah doesn't say don't Harvest don't do so what's malacha I might have thought Malacca is don't go to work don't go to your office don't go to the uh don't go shopping but our tradition is that the definition of malacha are 39 activities that were involved in the construction of the mishkan so every one of the 39 molokos has to be correlated to an aspect of the construction of the Michigan now you might think well cooking how is cooking correlated to construction activities well yes they had to cook herbs to extract dye which they used in dying the curtains of the and the wall hangings of the Michigan Right so everything in other words if you can't identify something as being involved in the construction of the mishkan it's not prohibited on Shabbos so Rashi says okay the juxtaposition of Shabbos and mishkan is even though I gave you a mitzvah mishkan Shabbos is more important Shabbos is more important Rabbi Abraham Joshua maybe it's a little controversial for me to quote him prominence uh he personally from a very Orthodox family very very uh but he was affiliated with the conservative movements but he was a wonderful writer and one of his best books many say is the book called the Sabbath and he points out that in Judaism there are two types of holiness there is the Holiness of time and the Holiness of space we know there's the Holiness of space there's the temple the holy of holies Eric Israel yushalayim we recognize that spatially certain areas are holier than other areas in the sense of proximity to God but then there's the Holiness of time certain are given kadusha Shabbos Yom Kippur so Judaism basically says the Holiness of time is more significant than the Holiness of space and that's why Shabbos overrides the construction of the Michigan because the Mish gun is creating holy space Shabbos is creating holy time overrides the idea of space because time so to speak is not bounded in any physical location and therefore time is a dimension in a sense that's a bit closer to God's Essence although God himself is beyond time as well but as an abstraction time is closer to Infinity than is the notion of of space although I have to tell you a story that happened to me when I was in seventh grade and it's a great great story I went to a uh oh co-educational Day School in Hartford Connecticut and it was Orthodox but most of my classmates were not show more Shabbos and uh you know it was like seventh grade and our students were having bar mitzvahs so one of my classmates was making a bar mitzvah in a reform synagogue which was around five miles from my home and there was no area in Hartford in those days so I was walking to the uh through the summer I was walking you know started walking five miles to this reformed synagogue so on the way to the reformed synagogue my seventh grade English teacher was driving she was Jewish by the way she stopped her car and she offered me a ride so I said well uh I can't I can't really go into a car around Shabbos so she said why not so I started explaining well you know you go into a car you add some weights that causes more fuel consumption and the burning of fuel is a forbidden work on Shabbos so you're not allowed to do work on Shabbos so she said to me so let me understand this you're not allowed to do work on Shabbos so instead of going into an air-conditioned car that can drive you to the synagogue in three minutes you're going to walk five miles in the heat without water in order to avoid doing work on Shabbos don't you think that walking five miles in the heat is doing more work on Shabbos than getting into a car so at this point you know I was I was kind of confused already so I just kind of somehow ran away whatever whatever it is I disengaged but it's a real good question don't do work on Travis therefore walk five miles so reception to follow Hirsch makes a very very important point that we need to know and that is the definition of Malachi which is translated as work does not mean physical labor it's very very true that there are many things on Shabbos you're not allowed to do although the physical labor is minuscule if there's no aerith and I walk outside my house with a toothpick in my pocket I could be executed in the time of the Temple in my house I could schlep you know big table and chairs and everything else no problem right so many many things are not physically that difficult but they're defined as malacha so refresh offers a very very significant definition he says does not refer to physical exertion it refers to the exercise of my Mastery over the raw materials of nature my control so to speak over God's world that on Shabbos I acknowledge that God is the creator so every single aspect of malacha involves the creative transformation whether it's plowing you're making the ground suitable for planting whether it's planting harvesting threshing grinding cooking writing preparing hides or knitting weaving this takes the raw materials of nature and it demonstrates your Mastery and control even carrying even though you haven't changed anything but you know you've changed its location so in a sense it's situated in a different place so therefore our first points out anything that does not involve the creative transformation of raw material is technically not malacha so the issue that people raise people will sometimes tell you maybe you thought this yourself oh we say you're not supposed to turn on an electric light on Shabbos at least the old incandescent bulb I'm not talking about LEDs which are different issues but the old incandescent bulb because that's making a fire and indeed an old incandescent bulb is considered to be making a fire on Shabbos because the current goes through the filament until it becomes hot and glows so people will say to you well wait a second in the olden days making a fire required taking two sticks and then rubbing them together for an hour that was real hard work flicking a light switch isn't hard work but according to reverse it's the opposite point if the point of creating fire is Mastery over nature in many ways as we get more Mastery over nature it should be more prohibited okay so that's a very important idea of reverse that malacha is mastery and on Shabbos we refrain from exercising our Mastery in order to acknowledge God as the source of creation Now people do ask an interesting question if we were to ask and I don't have a complete answer to this what is the greatest Act of Creation the most Godly Act of Creation that a human being can do we would say the creation of life the creation of a child excuse me that is the one Act of Creation which not only are we not prohibited from doing it but it's considered to be meritorious I'm sorry it's considered to be meritorious to have intimate relations on Shabbos right so that's an interesting question that on one level Shabbos is about stating that we're not God that God is the creator not us on the other level this particular aspect of creation we are we are allowed to do okay but be it as it may Raji tells us that the juxtaposition of Shabbos and mishkan is to tell me that Shabbos overrides Mishka that's the that's the lesson now which is departure this week is already after the golden calf and Moshe Robin was come down from the mountain on Yom Kippur and the day after Yom Kippur he gathers the people vayaquel he gathers them and he commands them about Shabbos and He commands them about Michigan but note the following note that the sequencing is reversed when God spoke to Moshe he first told him about the Michigan and then said fish Israel is assembling the people the day after Yom Kippur he first tells them about Shabbos and then he commands them about Michigan there is a reversal of sequence Rashi does not help us here at all Rashi interprets the two juxtapositions in the same way in kisisa it means even though I've given you mishkan but Shabbos is more important Rashi says I'm going to command you about Michigan but I'm giving you Shabbos first because Shabbos is more important there's according to Rashi the juxtaposition has the identical meaning in both kisisa and in vayake so the obvious question is if the two juxtapositions have the same meaning then why is the sequencing reversed why in kisisa that trauma to salvakisa there was first mishkan and then Shabbos and in particles there is first Shabbos and then Michigan according to Ashley both they mean the same thing so I want to share with you a very very intriguing thoughts in which he points out that when God initially gave Moshe the details about mishkan this was before the golden calf this was in the first 40 days and he wants to differentiate between the way the mishkan would have played out had there not been a sin of the golden calf versus the way the Michigan plays out once there is a sin now this is all hypothetical because we never had a mission without a golden calf but what would have been and he says it would have served two different functions before our relationship to God was very intimate very close we didn't need a specific Sanctified area to draw near to him we didn't need a specific ritual we didn't need a group of people like kohanim every Jew could be a coin in that sense every Joe could bring a carbon anywhere they wanted there was no need for a designated sanctuary as an enabler of the sacrificial right well so then the question is if there's no need for a Michigan in order to bring carbonus then why did God command the motion about the Michigan the purpose of a Michigan before the golden calf was not as an enabler to bring corbanos but it was a carbon in and of itself it was an act of homage to God the same way the homage could take place by animal offerings yeah not that God cares about the meat but it's a way of our showing covered so the Mishka was way of honoring God a Corbin of gold and silver of teflus in our government in other words the mishkan was not an enabler for avoda the mishkan was an Arvada in and of itself ah now this is very interesting once you categorize some once you categorize something as a Voda that has some very interesting implications Agave Chavez on one hand you're not allowed to build the Michigan or build the base on mikdus later on Shabbos on the other hand there were many many corbanos that were brought on Shabbos you know if you would walk into the basement Shabbos you would be shocked at all of the desecration of shabbas that's going on they're slaughtering animals they're burning meat on the mizbayak they're lighting Menorah they're burning insects I mean those guys who like to throw rocks and Barbie land Street or whatever it is they would come into the basement they would disrupt the service but what's the Clown there is a cloud there that is the general idea is that corbanos seabor the offerings on behalf of the Jewish people now if I as a private person wants to bring a burnt offering or a sin offering I cannot bring it on Shabbos that's true but if it's on behalf of Chloe Israel the avoda is that's why we bring the Corban Tabit which is brought every day that's why we've rigged the carbon musaf that's why we light the menorah that's why we burn the incense the Michigan would have been an act of sacrifice to God an act of homage an act of direct Debona the reason why talk about mishkan before it talks about Shabbos is to teach me mishkan is more important than Chavez ah but what happens there was a change in our relationship with God initially Parker wanted to destroy us through both your abandon's prayers and through our chuva Hashem forgave us but even after he forgave us he then said you know I don't want to be with you directly I'm going to send an angel to take care of you and Moshe had to pray for that that we need you so God did agree to everything God agreed not to destroy Obby Israel God agreed to keep us as his Nation God agreed to be directly in in our midst but it wasn't quite the same as before now God is saying I'm still going to be with you but I gotta have a special place special people special rituals special rules I'm not as accessible as I was before so it turns out says Ramirez the role of the mishkan was redefined as a result of the eagle instead of the mishkan itself being a Corban to Hashem the mishkan became a prerequisite to be able to bring carbonus to Russia now these we were no longer worthy of bringing corbanos wherever we wanted now halachically that becomes what is called a machir a maksha is a preliminary act let me give you an example from brismila because you'll see how this applies even today if a baby is born on Shabbos and the Eighth Day of the bris is Shabbos so we do abreast even on Shabbos even though a bris technically desecrates Shabbos good causing bleeding and everything else but the Mitzvah Mila is so important that it overrides what would otherwise be desecration of Shabbos now what if the moel lives far away from the baby and the Moa wants to drive on Shabbos and tomorrow's argument is hey if a Brisk can be done on Shabbos that means I could drive on Shabbos in order to do a risk that doesn't work and the reason it doesn't work is very simple it is only the mitzvah of breaths that override Shabbos not the preliminary conditions that you need in order to do the mitzvah driving to a Brisk is not the mitzvah it is a preparation for the mitzvah our rate is the same thing the Avida of the Michigan or the base of Magnus is pushes aside Shabbos but a preliminary to be able to do the Avada is so the message says before the egal the mishkan was in itself in our Voda and that's why it would override Shabbos after the ego it's a makshir it's an enabler of an avoida because of the distance and that's why it's not Dr Shabbos and that's why when Moshe speaks to binay Israel he puts Shabbos before Michigan as if to say Shabbos is more important so this is obviously not the way Rashi learns but the message understands that the change in secret thing reflects a perspective of pre-michigan I'm sorry and after now I don't want to get into too lengthy and digression there is a very very solid reason why Rashi could not yeah I'm sorry but please yeah we didn't need a mission wow wow okay I'm gonna get to that right now y'all get to that right now uh the reason why Rashi could not say the MetroCast is we talked about this a few weeks ago that according to Rashi Rashi applies the principle does not always account for things chronologically and therefore all of The Commandments of Michigan we're only after the and we explained that according to rashi's own view had there not been there wouldn't have been a need for a Michigan so if everything is after the Cradle ego then how do you explain the change in sequence and Rousey doesn't Rashi can't give the answer so you are correct that according to Rashi uh had there not been there would not have been a Mishka but let me remind you that ramban very much does argue with Rashi and the ramban tries to keep the Torah chronological and he says there would have been a mishkan it would have taken a different form now one reason why I find this very intriguing I mean first of all it's very intriguing shot that it's kind of the first draft of the Torah the Torah would have had a certain application that turned out to be a hypothetical that was never realized in concrete reality right version one 1.0 of the program is you could build a Michigan even on Shabbos we I'm not sure if I call it an upgrade it's really a downgrade but uh the downgrade is we can no longer do that because of the eggo now this is unusual I think because most of us assume that the Torah that Moshe got the first 40 days on the mountain is the same as the Torah that Moshe got the second 40 days on the mountain the Torah is eternal especially with the idea that the Torah exists in shamayam a 2000 Generations before the creation of the world on black black fire on White Fire there's this primeval Torah that's unchanging and yet suggesting that the Torah itself changed in response to the sin of the golden calf how do you reconcile that with the notion of this eternal primeval Torah that's in shamaya so there are two possible answers that one could give to this answer one is yeah God happens to know the future so okay it's true that had we surprised them which we couldn't and not committed the sin of the golden calf things would have been different but God knew ahead of time that we were going to sit with the golden calf so the Heavenly Torah up there presupposes in other words God just knew the end of the story and the Torah was formulated in that way and the message point is simply the theoretical idea that had things been different the Torah might have taken a different form but another possibility is based on a thoughts of the Vilma gone that's very interesting the gemarian Bava Basra discusses who wrote the last eight verses of the Torah what's the problem with the last eight verses Moshe died who wrote the words Moshe died so according to one opinion the last age verses were written by yahushua benon Moshe ended the Torah before the discussion of his death and Yeshua have been unfinished around the same day now this doesn't mean he made up the words and we still believe it came from Hashem that's not the question but did Hashem dictate it to Moshe or did I show him dictator according to one man the Omar this was dictated to Yoshua which is pretty amazing actually because the rambam says one of the 13 principles of faith is that every word every letter of the Torah was written by Moshe rabeno from akadeshbargo and if you don't believe in that you will not be chorus and heretic and the like and yet there is Amanda says the last state verses were written by Yeshua okay but then there's another man the armor that says no every single word was written by Marsha Ramana ah he didn't die yet so it says he wrote it bidema he wrote the words with tears you know he was crying as he was writing it because he's writing about his death so most understand the word demma means tears but in a sense that's kind of an irrelevant thing like why do you have to bring in that he was crying what's the significance of that so the Vilma gone offers a radically different translation of the word demo a translation that is not connected to tears at all that is Denmark refers to a jumble or a mixture where does he get that he gets that really from the mishnah when the mishnah talks about trauma getting mixed in with non-trauma so if you're not a Cohen you won't be able to eat it the word that is used is di Moa dimua the same you know the name with the yarn di MOA means mixture so what does it mean he wrote it with a mixture the graph points out that the Primeval Torah in heaven two thousand Generations before the world black fire and white fire if you could somehow be transported back to that time and see God's Heavenly Torah which you would never be able to do would you read the words voracious avram para he says no the Primeval Torah was an unbroken sequence of letters that were not yet divided into words and the ramban points out in the hakitama to the Torah that there are approximately uh on 305 000 letters of the Torah and they spell out the totality of God's Essence meaning you know God has a four-letter name God has a five-letter name God has a 42 letter name God has a 72 letter name which we don't really know God has a 305 thousand letter name that is the Torah that's his complete name everything else is only a partial name that's why the ramban says interestingly enough this is why a safer Torah is puzzle even if it's missing one letter that does not change the meaning of a verse because you no longer have the Divinity of God's essence encoded in the Torah because you're missing a letter so the grass says if the Primeval Torah was an unbroken sequence of letters and that could be called demo a mixture then we understand the issue because the problem is the following we have two issues that contradict each other one is every letter of the Torah was written by Moshe Rabino that's principle number one principle number two is every letter of the Torah must be absolutely true it can't be a lie so the problem is how could most share rights and Moshe died if at the time those words were written they are a lie yeah they'll become true an hour later but they're Shaker right now so how do you reconcile Mosaic so to speak authorship or composition with absolute truth answer Moshe did not write the letters as words by yamat Moshe Moshe wrote the last eighth verses as an unbroken sequence of letters and only after he died miraculously like this opinion like the first opinion Yoshua wrote it but like the second opinion you know sure was not involved what happened was Moshe wrote for the last eight verses an unbroken letter sequence after he died they separated so therefore the idea that the Metro says that the Torah could have taken different forms had there not been a sin of the golden calf is not necessarily a contradiction to the black fire on the White Fire because the letters themselves could have been configured to create different types of words in ways that we don't fully understand it so it wouldn't have said don't build a Michigan in fact it obviously wouldn't have said the story of the golden calf had we not then documented that other so the point is once you understand the notion of the letters as opposed to the words so indeed it's possible for the configurations to take on different aspects in fact I don't want to get into the controversial idea of of that subba kubalum have in which they claim that gazal say the world exists for six thousand years and then there's a thousand years of like Messianic Redemption but some understand that this keeps on going meaning to say six thousand a thousand years of redemption and then the world is recreated at a higher spiritual level the analogy is that just as you have six years and then shemitah and then you have seven shemitos and then yovel so the world goes through that in terms of Millennia meaning uh you have six thousand and then a thousand but then you keep on moving until you reach the great Jubilee uh which maxor are we in now so some say we're in the second and some say we're in the sixth okay that has a lot of implications regarding age of the Earth issues and the like but what makes the doctrine a very very controversial is not so much the timing of it but the claim that in every maxor the Torah assumes a differential configuration based on the spiritual elevation of the new existence that has been generated so in our world we have to talk about meat and milk and don't murder and don't commit adultery in the next maxar it will take on a different configuration addressing higher spiritual issues so the problem with that is people say well you're violating the rule about the immutability of the Torah the non-changeability so many do not like this idea but but the idea is based on the notion that The Unbroken sequence of letters can assume uh different uh different forms okay so this is the uh very very interesting hiddish in which he differentiates are you meaning that you cut the letters in different places well I'm not sure in other words uh in one meaning you can simply not change the sequence of the letters but just cut them and reconfigure them others say that the letters themselves could be switched by the way this is the basis uh this is kind of the logic of the Bible codes uh which I don't know I don't hear so much about it these days and I'm not sure if it's still in Vogue or not I mean again I'm not a particular endorser of the Bible because I don't mean to endorse it but the basis of the Bible codes is based on something called equidistant letter spacing and that is they print out the Torah in unbroken sequences of letters and they're able to discern certain patterns by equidistant spacing so for example in the Parsha of amalek they'll be able to count certain numbers of letters and get the name of Hitler or Stalin or whatever it would be and therefore they show that future events are encoded in the biblical text and this is thought to be proof of the divine origin of the Torah because there's no way that a human actor would know this now the particular methodology the scientific veracity of the Bible coaches open to question and I'm not an expert so I can't really give you a definitive opinion there are those who have argued you could get the same results with the New York Times And War and Peace through Randomness that different words are going to come up at different points another issue that's very interesting is uh that nobody has been able to use the Bible codes to predict an event that hasn't happened yet meaning it always goes back and shows that events that we know have happened can be seen in the biblical text but that already introduces a certain element of bias because you're kind of looking for what you want to look now it's true that I'm not really sure how you could use Bible codes to predict an event that didn't happen yet because you wouldn't even know what you're supposed to look for it reminds me of I think Yogi Berra's quip you can't know the future because it hasn't happened yet which is kind of what it is but still some have argued if you could truly predict a future event that would be much stronger proof in fact that's happened with Albert Einstein uh Einstein's theory of relativity he was very bold in doing this you know he created a theoretical structure and that he predicted based on his theory that a certain astronomical event would occur and indeed it did occur that really was the that was the Bonanza that established his reputation because his theory was so good that it actually predicted a future event the Bible codes have not been able to do that again that's not that's not a proof that they're not accurate just the inability to know what to look for in that case but the Bible coach thing is based and the notion of there are messages in the letter sequences and not only in the words and the sentences now I do want to raise a big question on the Bible uh the Bible codes methodology I'm digressing a little bit and really it's a question on the ramban ultimately which is a more significant question the ramban makes the halachic argument that if a Torah scroll misses even a single letter that does not affect the meaning of the word let's say our own our own is sometimes spelled with above and sometimes build it out of us it means the same thing but the ramban says the Torah is puzzle and the reason he gives is because it no longer reflects God's name well I hear that logically that's a powerful statement what the gemarian condition says exactly the opposite the Warren kaduation discusses a category that are called Jose Rose via ceros caseros are words that are missing a letter and you say Rose are words that have an extra letter right so picturesque would be called yatir or Malay the same thing and Pinnacles without a yield would be called around with above is so the gabbar institution says a very surprising thing I think Warren condition says and this goes back to the gabbar already that by the time of the amariam already we lost a definitive tradition regarding how words should be spelled in the Torah and we're no longer baqi in hasevos and you save us if they don't change the meaning and in the Rama says if I'm reading a safer Torah inshallah and above is missing from our own we do not take out another tourist girl because who says the regular is correct who says having the above is correct maybe having the love is not correct we don't know we're not lucky in caseros for yourself now the medical screener says if it is that would affect the meaning of a pasok for sure that there was an unbroken tradition regardless Agave that so know how lachas are going to be affected but still in terms of spelling we've lost the Messiah so number one is in direct contradiction to ramban's explanation that we have to have the exact letters because they are the name of God but number two does it not throw into question the whole Theory of equidistant letter spacing right you're looking at the Parsha of amalek and somehow I don't remember exactly what sequences they use but let's say you're using every seventh letter and every seventh letter you spell out Hitler or Stalin you know Mao seitang whatever it would be oh the bad guy was not particularly as I submitic but whatever it would be but how do you know that in the original Torah these letters were spaced apart by seven no six letters between them if we're not Bucky integral series maybe what you think is a seven-letter sequence might be a 10 letter sequence and at that point your pattern might be random instead of saying 777 you know maybe it's nine you know six fifteen twelve because we've lost the tradition of the letters so equidistant letter spacing big loud does not seem to work if we're not Bucky in caseros Via seros so that's just something you think about again as I say I'm not a I'm not a hasid of the Bible quotes but you know I don't want to negate it either I mean if you're asking me as a matter of faith do I believe that in the Torah all events of mankind are encoded the answer is yes in fact that was not invented by the Bible codes that is an old old tradition that every single event of human history both that which happens and that which will happen is encoded in the drawer the only question is how do you find it what is your methodology for for finding it in fact um two things the villain the gold said that everything can be alluded to in the first word of the Torah voracious voracious contains everything so there's a story somebody asked the Vilma God uh uh well where do you see the Mitzvah pijona Ben in the first word of gracious so the veil of God said right away oh it's an abbreviation voracious Ben reach out your first son young after 30 days tipta you shall redeem right so pigeon of bed now this in a way is kind of a disappointing board because there are 612 other misses if you're going to ask me uh where's thrilling words I don't know uh we all I mean I'm sure they've done the ground would have been answered everything the vort we have is only this one but it's illustrative of the idea that everything is there and then there's a famous Miser with the ramban the ramban had a student whose name was Abner and Avenue apparently went off the Derrick Avenue became a heretic and one of the rabban's teachings was that in Parsha tazino which is moshe's last Shira he says hazino contains not only the destiny of the Jewish people but the destiny of every individual Jew so for some reason avenir was very annoyed at this and avenir dared the ramban where is my history in this Parsha so the ramban answered right away in hazino there's a verse where God expresses because of our sins a potential disgust and anger and amusement although he said he will not destroy us but he says or Marty I said I want to destroy them I want to eradicate their memory from the human race so says the ramban if you look at the four words ashpisa I'm sorry him look at the third letter in each of those words it'll spell out avnir AF a ham third letter is aleph Ash bisa third letter is base third letter is none rum third letter is rich again the ramban is following his shita that we do know that these letters and these spellings are accurate so the ramban says hey you want to know where you're mentioned in hazino the statement that God is disgusted with you and he wants to eradicate you from the human race so it Bears the uh after it was no longer scoffing at this this apparently was a very powerful thing that frightened him and The Story Goes that he became a balchuva the short he died shortly thereafter but he died as a balcuba that is the story that is recounted uh with avnir and and Shira sazino so the point is that obviously on our level the primary message of the Torah lies in the words and the sentences the mitzvos the halachos the stories the narratives that's what we learned but one has to understand in the Infinity of the Torah there is significance in letters there is significance in gamatrius there are multiple multiple levels of meaning that go beyond the communication of the mitzvos and even the narrative stories and this is really what the Primeval Torah of the blackfyre and the white fire is is all all about but this idea that the posits this is an alternative version of the Torah he he uses it in other areas as well meaning to say this is an interesting you sowed in his commentary that he explores in a number of of other situations as well so it's kind of unique that there would have been a uh version one and a version two based on the way we respond okay maybe we'll stop here and I wish you all a good week and get back everybody [Music]