Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: We Are All Servants of Hashem / Post Shavuot Isru Chag Torah of Chabad

my [Music] baby's brother and once again we also have an anonymous donor so I do want to thank on behalf of myself Mr Mrs or Miss Anonymous may they be blessed with all of the blessings for those who support Torah I hope that everyone had a a wonderful inspiring you know there's a very famous Fort that is said that shavuos is called the day of Matan Torah the day of giving of the Torah it is not called the day of receiving the Torah even though when Pierce talks about the Torah being transmitted it always says kibel he received he received he received so why isn't she was called the day of cabola Satora and the answer is Matan Torah is what God did so God gave us the Torah on a certain day Kabbalah Satora is what we have to do that every single day we have to renew our commitment you know people sometimes think oh Shibu house that's the day I accept the Torah the rest of the year you know I'm back to everything just like the no there's no Mother's Day or Father's Day in Judaism because there's a Mitzvah of the aim the whole year Kabbalah satara we do every year not every year every day and therefore we don't we're not magdir shavuos as the day of Kabbalah Satora because every day because every single day the Torah has to be something new and fresh and we pray every day that Hashem should make it sweet in our in our hearts and in our minds so uh actually today maybe in honor of the million notes tomidos I'm not sure I do want to say over a very beautiful thought from the barbershire levy relevant to the period right after shavuos and he points out hola quickly from his from the altar rabbit from the who wrote a great great Cipher the kharab which is a very very very significant source of not just for Chabad I mean all the possum deal with the shloken of the mission everyone always looks at the shohana made an observation that we know that every single holiday the day after the holiday is called which literally means you tie it to the holiday it's really a pun it's taken from a person to heal him which we say in halal but the positive can tell them is a totally different meaning there's a phrase and to heal him now what that literally means is you tie the carbon of the holiday in ropes when you bring it to the mizbayak it's an animal you're going to share so is means to tie up the animal that you're going to bring as a sacrifice when you bring it to the base of miktas but by rabbinic pan they re-translated hog not to mean the carbon of the Khan but the holiday itself and is means you tie the day after the Haag to the hag so there's still a kadusha of the khag that comes the day after now we have israuch of pesach we have Israel Khan of sukhas which is after some pastora and we have Israel as far as they know there's no direct concept of israuchad after Rosh Hashanah but that's because you move into that Sarah is well that's a whole other different thing because you're already getting ready for circus and the light but for the shallis regardless have a concept called so the Elder rabbee writes in the shogunarak however that the Israel is more important and more significant than the Israel of any other holiday is has a greater kadusha than the Israel height of pesach and the Israel of sukkas why is that so this is going to get a little technical it actually is a very technical explanation but there'll be a beautiful message at the end of it so I hope uh you will bear with me for a little bit of a while it is because has a unique name which is called Yom Tavo the day of Slaughter now that sounds ominous but what does that actually mean we know that during the shelves were gone them during the pilgrimage festivals every male Jew it's a Mitzvah only on the men must physically go to the Courtyard of the base the Azara and bring with them a burnt offering that's called an ola in fact it's called an olasria the Ola by which you are seen by God oh lasriya now you can bring the you only have to bring one oh lasriya and you have seven days to do so meaning if you didn't bring it the first day of pesach you could bring it you just can't bring in a Chavez that's the thing and for sukos you actually have eight days because we allow shmini at sarit to be one of those days now how many days do you have for Shabbos now logically you might think well gee I just have one day because for us is only one day but we say that you also have seven days shavuos plus six more days because we were makish we compare shavuos to pesach just like pesach you have seven days to bring the oh lasriya you also have seven days for uh now the gemara asks why do you compare and only give you seven days let's compare shavuos to sukos and give you eight days like why do you go with the Lesser numbers I think more says quite logically because the Lesser number is the only number you know for sure meaning to say if I'm in doubt whether I have seven days or eight days because I'm not sure if I should compare shabuos to pesach or to sukis then the only thing I know for sure is I have seven days this is the famous expression to faster meruba when you try to grab onto too much lotafasta you don't have anything okay now here's the thing though even though for shavuas you have seven days meaning Shabbos most people would want to bring their carbon the first opportunity that they had and that would be the day after the antif and therefore it's called the day of Slaughter because that was the primary day where people brought and that's unique to the Israel because you see the Israel of pesach it's already too late to bring Leola three because the holiday is over the israuch of sukhos it's too late to bring Viola Surya the only Israel which you could still bring the old lasriya is the Israel and since people would want to bring it the earliest opportunity that would be and it gets the special name of okay so far I hope it's relatively okay now this year with Shabbos so actually you'd have to bring it the night the next day for sure but here's the question why do we describe as the first opportunity you could bring in all those Rihanna yamtov itself Young Thug is the first Friday is the first opportunity you don't have to wait till the day after in this case this year will be two days after so in reality there's a fascinating in the mishnah between base shamai and basilo can you bring an olatrya on YouTube because remember when you bring an Ola you're shechting and you're burning these are malachos you're allowed to do malachos for cooking so you could certainly bring a peace offering on YouTube because you're going to eat some of the meat but a burnt offering is going to be totally consumed by God so base shamai actually takes the position that you're not allowed to bring a burnt offering on yomtov because the Torah permitsov only for human consumption and not for divine consumption this is Bay shamai it is very very true that the first opportunity to bring an olatrya is that is true but they sell El Argus with baishana basil actually says you make a call if God allows you to do malach for human food how much more self or Divine service now as is always the case whenever you have a machlocus is of course like basila which means in other words the no later can be brought y so the Kasha is why do I glorify Israel by designating it as the first day that you could bring the Allah that would be true only according to beijamai that's not true according to basilo according to base Zillow yeah you could bring it the day after but you have you know but that's no better than the other days you have six days after in terms of a first opportunity yep is your first opportunity so the shock says something that's very enigmatic he says even though for sure when there's a much Locus by shamai and basila is like base hello but now Gohan the people adopted a custom in the time of the Temple that on this they would follow bait shamai and they would not bring the olatrya to laughter yamta and that's why is gets glorified as the day of the olatrya because even though according to baselo you could have brought it on YouTube this is very enigmatic why would it be why would they follow beijama if Allah does not like bashamai in fact we have we have another mission in Brazos that actually talks about it's not even proper to follow by shama in a lot of situations do you remember this is actually a famous mishna nothing to do with with our subject but it's an example of not following it says by creation you shall read the Shema when you lie down and when you get up mclokes hamai and basila beshamai says literally when you read the Shema of the evening you should lie down and read the Shema when you read the Shema of the morning you must stand up and read the Shema that's what peshamai says what does basil say no the terror is not talking about how you have to read it the just means that the time of this man the evening is when people would begin to go to sleep and in those days people often went to sleep when the night you know when the stars were out there wasn't electricity means you read the morning when you get up commissioner then gives a story that rabbit tarfon says you know I was once traveling at night and it was time to say the Shema of the evening so I figured I'll do what they shot my says because even basilo wouldn't pass up doing like bashama so I lay down on the ground to say the Shema of the evening and I almost got killed by Bandits because I was vulnerable so if he expected sympathy from his audience unfortunately he didn't get it the sages said back to him you know you were high of me so you deserve to die because you're not following okay tough love you know don't be such a big Sadiq Allah you do like basala so in light of that mission in particular the altar rabbi's explanation is a little enigmatic according to the they could have brought the Allah and yamchief but the custom was they deferred it to after you why so this is where the reviews explains his great great grandfather very very beautiful and I'm going to add some things that rubby doesn't mention so this is not going to be a literal chapter in verse but the basic idea is taken from his explanation that is the morale talks about the facts that many many aspects of well the Lauren Shabbos says many aspects of Matan Torah are connected to the number three there is a statement in the gemara blessed is Hashem who gave us a three-fold Torah Torah nivim kasuvin to a three-fold nation kohane leaving Israel in the third month of the calendar counting from Nisa Nissan here Sivan after three days of preparation so apparently just as it's a well-known idea that the number four is connected to many aspects of the Seder the four Sons the four questions the four cups of wine the four terms of redemption right four is conducted to pesach apparently three is connected to matantora but the gamara doesn't say why the guard just makes the observation there's a lot of threes in matantore but what is the significance of three so says the morale a very beautiful thought three symbolically is a number that represents synthesis integration and harmonization of opposites the way this works is visualize a triangle so you have the base of the triangle where the two points are moving in opposite directions there's Point here and point here opposite but then you draw lines from those opposite points and they meet at the top it synthesizes it harmonizes forces that are moving in opposite directions and the notion of three as synthesis emerges in many many different places in Kabbalah and again at rivers and durable is here until she brought in an excellent book on the three wrote so you can actually get the book and see a full explanation of this but the notion is that let's take the first three of the lowest females we have loving kindness which is represented by avraham avina and then we have gevora inner strength and discipline and judgment that is represented by yitzra these are opposite forces they get harmonized and synthesized in the third sphera that is called tifferis which is beauty or Splendor which is representative of yaakovino and that is why avraham that is just pure cassette there's still going to be a little bit of a posoleus a little bit of a soul that comes out in Ishmael and yet Scott that represents pure devorah there'll be a little bit of a basolus that comes out in asaph it's only yaakovino that harmonizes synthesizes and by the way to Ferris is also called MS because Ms by definition does not go to one extreme or the other it harmonizes all of these forces and that's why yaakovino meet Uso shuleima all of yaakov's children are we've had our problems to be sure but all of us are part of the Jewish people we all have that destiny that Hashem gave to of Rama Vino right so three is integration synthesis harmonization of opposites so the morale says the human being inherently is a creature of contradiction we have a goof a body we have a nishama we have a Godly Soul we have an animal cell we have a yes or toe we have the HR I mean they're different aspects of how you describe this we are pulled in many directions on one hand our bodily urges we seek Comfort we seek laziness we seek acquisition we seek power we seek ego and at the same time our true essence wants to be unified with God in kadusha and spirituality and even a person who is totally so to speak enmeshed in the physical in their innermost Essence there is this yearning even if they don't know it on a conscious level there is this yearning to be connected to God but body and spirit difficult situation I'm being pulled in many many different ways without a Torah there is no way to reconcile the body and the spirit my body is moving in One Direction my rookiness is moving in another Direction but Torah this is all the morale Torah is the number three because the Torah teaches me a new way of life that I achieve holiness not by escaping physicality not by rejecting physicality not by trying to become an angel but by eating and drinking and earning money and getting married and having families but doing it with the right intention you see that's why other religions would sometimes say the only way you could be holy is by being celibate got to separate from the man woman connection or you have to take a vow of poverty or you have to fast all the time or lie on a bed of nails or wear a hair shirt because they see physicality as a contradiction to the ability to serve God but by definition that's not a sustainable level because after all eventually you got to eat you got to sleep eventually by definition you're going to go back and forth in a schizophrenic you know rat race the Torah allows a harmonization of these opposite forces right get married have families earn money eat eat with the Cabana to have strength to serve Hashem eat but they could run into honor Shabbos eat with the Cabana that even if you like the food you use it as a means of gratitude that gave you something delicious to eat right and the Rambo himself writes the rambam writes uh in the mission of Torah and also in the introduction to pierce called the Shimona program that he quotes the Posse in mitchley you must know Hashem in all of your ways meaning not only when you're doing spiritual things like davening and learning but in your eating and you're drinking and your intimate relationships in your vacations in your jogging and you're playing basketball if you have cavana that I'm doing this to be able to serve Hashem in a better way that becomes Hashem this is a tremendous thing you know a person goes to work you can have two people and they're both doing the same thing they're sitting in an office all day doing the same thing and nobody's breaking even everyone's doing okay after 120 years one person will get a lot of all them above because of his office work and the other person won't because it all depends on your makshava if you look at you know I'm going to work to earn money to take care of my family to give stucca to support Torah to make a kidish Hashem that's my conscious thought then every moment you're working in the office becomes a votes Hashem if you go through the motions without that thought then it doesn't in fact somebody has told me you're from earlier about beyond that when he would see street cleaners in Eric Israel he would say you know every street cleaner who's making the street look nicer is doing the Mitzvah of yeshu of Erich Israel because doesn't only mean living here it also means to make it a nicer country that if the person doesn't have an awareness that they're serving Hashem it may not turn into about the Sasha right so the Torah connected to three says we no longer have to have a dichotomy between physicality and spirituality we have the capacity to sanctify the physical and therefore we're no longer living in the schizophrenic world of body versus soul but the body can be enlisted so to speak in the desires of the soul and the yearnings of the soul and the light that's a tremendous thing to sanctify the physical rather than reject the physical now this actually explains a very interesting idea Martin Chavez has a famous story that when Moshe was in shamayam getting the Torah so the Malachi yashares didn't they were arguing with God you shouldn't give the Torah people they're going to ruin it they're going to mess it up they're going to violate it because they don't deserve the Torah and Hashem said to mosha Moshe give him an answer what's the answer emotion was afraid he's surrounded by these millions of angels of Fire and Moshe rabena was terrified so Hashem says hold on to my throne and you'll have confidence he owes on to hashem's throne and then Hashem says to Moshe Moshe give him an answer and moshe's answer was a long answer he was basically saying to the angels hey Angels yeah you're purely spiritual but you don't need a tower the Torah says don't eat meat milk do you eat because even by Abram they ate but they fake it they really weren't eating honor your father and mother do you have a father and mother don't kill do you have a yachohara this you don't have a yes or you're not you're not involved in the physical world the Torah has no meaning for you because you're not in the physical circumstances in which these misses are carried out so we got the Torah because of our connection to physicality because the Torah is the Madrid it's the instruction manual how you elevate the physical and those who have no connection to the physical have no real connection to the Torah because the Torah is about sanctifying the physical in fact this may explain another interesting anomaly you know it's it's brought down that on well we know this from the telegraph that the the meal offering that's brought on pesach is of course the barley offering that's called the all-mare and the meal offering that's wrote on shavuas are two loaves of wheat bread that are called now the obvious distinction between barley and wheat the gemara already points out barley was commonly fed to animals at least before the invention of children's a wheat was eaten by humans so freedom pesach freedom without Torah we're like a wild animal when we have Torah we have human dignity okay that's the weak part of the barley wheat but there's another difference that people don't often note and that is the Omer offering was non-homet it was not allowed to I did not become promised now you might say well that's obvious because it's pesach but that's not the reason that may be a reason but it's not the only reason in point of fact all meal offerings that are brought in the base and make this the whole year can are not allowed to be hummus the base of mcdosh is largely a chromate free zone but the uniqueness of this is it is the only minha at least a communal offering that is actually chromates have to be when it's forbidden to have comics in any mental offering not just the Omer which happens to be pesach during the year you are not allowed to either bring a Mithra that's because or even eat them in eat the leftovers why would comments be permitted in the case of this day Allah so the morale says quite beautifully tomorrow says we know that hamate is an allusion to the Yates it's puffed up it's arrogant now the only reason we got the Torah was because of the Yates that was moshe's arguments so how can I exclude the Yates of harah when we're celebrating matantara in other words the concept is uh what am I going to tell we can't have comments in the base of miktas and shavuas because you're the Yates hey without me you wouldn't have gotten to Torah so you can't exclude me from participation in matantara and to put in a slightly different way through Torah we can even deal with the Yates so now the Ace of horror can be safely controlled and directed and this explains yet another interesting gamara how do you reconcile two verses in the toilet one past success at Ceres La Shema local is to serve God and another plastic says for you so how do you is it for God or is it for you mclokes Rabbi Eliezer and rabbi yahushua Rabbi Eliezer says you have a choice how you decide to keep your yamchev you can dedicate your totally for God learn Davin you don't have to eat according to abuelizer I don't mean the pesos hater but on the day of yamch if you're allowed to fast if I want to sit and learn and Davin and Nadi I'm allowed to do that I'm making it for God or I could choose to be a bit of a hedonist and go to a fast minion and spend most of the day eating or drinking says either or we don't pass them like grab aliasers don't be sure you don't uh you know follow him Ravi Joshua says no no no the turret doesn't mean either or the terror means you gotta divide your day half of your day or you know slapped after 50 50 but some of your day is for Learning and davening and some of your day is for eating and drinking and you're this is how we pass again to eat or drink okay liezer and Rabbi Yoshua all right that's fine but then the gemara throws you for a loop a little bit it says the Marco Locus rabbielliasu uh is on pesach and sukhos but when it comes to shovelhouse even Rabbi Eliezer who normally gives you the option of learning all day says You Gotta Eat you gotta have your cheesecake because that is the day that the Torah was given now wait a second that's a bit of a non-sequitur I almost would have expected the other way that even Yeshua that says you have to eat I can give the whole day to Torah learning that's what I might have thought right it's not the case the guitar says the opposite point even rebelie Ezra that says I can learn all day on YouTube and I gotta eat because that's the day of the Torah but why why do I ask you the answer is because if the Torah was given because we can Elevate the physical then I gotta take the physical and elevate it I can't say I'll just be spiritual because if I just want to be spiritual the Angels win the Angels win because whatever spirituality I can I can approximate will not be their spirituality so if I want to establish why I should have the Torah I gotta be physical I gotta be physical so now the rebbe says the following I love you really happy we have to go back to the question of the Allah and that is let's look at carbonos for a month right we have many different types of carbonos in every Corbin part of the Corbin is sacrificed on the misbeck that's true but for things like peace offerings I eat some of the meat the case of an Ola it's totally burnt on the altar so the perfect shot is the Ola represents the Holiness of renunciation and asceticism you're giving everything to God I yet no benefit from it the shalomim where I eat part of it represents sanctifying the material rather than escaping it so so here is the rebbe's interpretation of nagoham even though it is true as a matter of technical halacha that the Ola could be brought on shavuas because that's but since shavuos is a celebration of elevating the physical rather than repudiating it it was a Minogue among Claudius rail to de-emphasize the role of the ola anshuas and focus more on the so when the outer Webbie says it was the minerg of the people to follow by shamai he doesn't mean on every umptive for pesach they brought the Ola three on the first day although if they didn't they had a makeup time on sukos they brought the Ola three year and the first thing when the alter rebbe says they were no Hague like beishamite he means very specifically only on shavuos they were no egg like by shamai because they wanted to de-emphasize the role of asceticism and repudiation of the dashmi of the physical to celebrate the capacity of taking the physical taking your animal parts Universe Bahamas and elevating consecrating using it for the service of of Hashem just as the torahs compared to three and the idea that this and the idea that everybody admits that once you have to physically eat even the opinion that gives you the option of fasting because all of this is about taking the physical and elevating it in fact the rebbe says that this is the explanation of a well-known Madras you know the source of the Minag of um staying up all night the first night of us which originated in the time of review Cairo which was not a Minogue in the medrish it was not a minor in the time of the Gomorrah in fact there's a very interesting academic article I saw that traced the spread of the minute of staying up all night with the introduction of coffee in Europe you know coffee you know it's actually it's a very interesting correlation coffee is not native European coffee is native from the Americas so coffee didn't get to Europe until the 1500s after Columbus and and the like and it reached different countries at different times so this historian started figuring out when did Jewish communities begin to stay up all night's first night and they found that it correlated with the introduction of coffee into those particular countries and you know again I uh actually I I think that's probably legitimate hypothesis because after all I mean if you're too tired to stay up you're not going to be able to stay up so you need something something like that but what is the basis of this minute of staying up all night because there is a Madras that says that the night before matantara the Jewish people went to sleep and when Hashem came at the crack of dawn to give them the Torah they were asleep he had to wait for them so in order to rectify the sin of going to sleep and keeping Hashem waiting we get up early that's why I tell people by the way if they have a choice of learning let's say they can't stay up all night should they learn late and then get up late or should they go to sleep early and get up early it seems that the men again is getting up early is more important than learning late because the The Anchor Point is to be there when Hashem comes at the crack of dawn to give us the Torah so better to get up at five than to learn until three and then sleep till late if you had to make a choice in that particular way now should the rep be asked a very simple question he says how could they sleep this is the generation remember this is this is before this is after they purified themselves for 49 days how could they sleep and if they could go to sleep how could they sleep late how could they oversleep so the Remy says it's a different Pasha that they were sleeping a deep spiritual sleep they wanted to reach such a spiritual madrega that they felt they couldn't do so within the confines of the physical body and indeed it's recorded in many many different niacin that the nishamas in terms of all of us but for Sadiq him it's more apparent when it leaves the body it understands ideas of Torah that it could never really comprehend within the confines of the body so they slept the sleep of kadusha so that their nishamas could have pure godliness without the goof interfering so their sleeping was the shame shamayam now we shouldn't use that as an excuse to miss davening or whatever it is I'm sleeping with James for most of us maybe that's not going to work but there is such a Muslim I'm sleeping huh so if that's the case what's the sin the sin is that God says I don't want you to reach kadusha by escaping the Gulf I want you to reach katusha within the confines of the gulf that's the lesson of Torah that's the lesson right they made the mistake they were looking at kadusha as asceticism as renunciation as separation as repudiation of my physicality as opposed to the notion of taking it and elevating it and this is all connected with there with the balotanya's you know Immortal line that Hashem wants a derivative wants to live in this lowly physical world he doesn't want to create his residence apart from this physicality but within the Ola magashmi within the hrhara within the Hester within the concealments it's where he wants to reside so we bring out that godliness even in the most hidden places right so again as I say this is a bit of a technical in terms of Allah and the like and yamchawach but it's a very beautiful when you put all the pieces together it's a very very beautiful powerful thought which illustrates as the rambam says the great posseck in Mitchell you must try to know Hashem in every facet of your existence in every aspect of your being to know Hashem you know they tell a story now this is a story that comes in uh like all religions have their own version of the story there's a Christian version there's a Muslim version the Hindu version and the Jewish version you'll see an amount meaning it's not a Madras it seems to be a folk tale my guess is it probably was of Christian origin but they give a Jewish version for it let me tell you what the story is and that is uh three people and their lives were unbearable drudgery all they did from morning to night was cut stones and they Quarry day after day after day each person was asked to describe their life and each person who is doing the same thing gave a different description one person described their life is all I do is cut stones from morning to night when I finally get home I have a piece of bread I drop into bed and the next morning I do the same thing again meaning a life of drudgery meaninglessness over and over and over the same thing if we know a parent's purpose at all that's Story number one Story number two every morning I get up and I work hard so that my children will have a better life than I have and what gives me joy in my life is that with every all the difficulties I'm going through I'm making things better for them now that's a different perspective right you're still a stone cutter and you're still doing the same work and you're still just getting home eating bread and going into bed but you've given yourself a tucklist you've given yourself a purpose you've given yourself something that you're accomplishing and the third person even made it better so this is where the different religions have different versions the stones were being cut for a show a cathedral a mosque Taj Mahal you know put in whatever you want to put in and he says every day I get up and I glorify my creator by building a temple through his glory what's the point you have three people they're all doing the same thing and yet it all becomes different what meaning do you put to your activities right you can look at it as meaningless drudgery you can look at it as glorification of Hashem you can look at it as I said to your family right your mind is like the frame that you put on a picture right when you have a nice picture you know that pictures look very differently depending on how they're framed reality changes based on the frame that you put on it right so reframing is actually a major aspect of both of Otis Hashem and how we deal with our own traumas or difficulties in life right you put a different frame on it it looks different it becomes a difference a different type of type of reality so that was uh one thought that I wanted to share with you again I think it's largely based on on the reveal that I I did add just some other references let me mention something else it's also based maybe this is based on everything's based on Chabad tonight and this is uh based on you know we talk about um the Levine now levian have a mandatory retirement age from my perspective it looks like it's far too young because but basically levim work they actually they start late right the Liam start working from 30 to 50. and they start apprenticing at 25. and after 50 not at least for certain tasks certain tasks not all tasks there is a retirement age so the mission in Hulen makes a very very interesting observation about the difference between kohanim and Levine and it says what makes a Colleen disqualified is not what makes a lady disqualified and what what makes a lady disqualified does not make a calling disqualified a lady is disqualified on the basis of age when the lady hits 50 he retires early retirement a calling is not a coin can if he's able a Cohen can do the avoida at 60 70 80 90. a coin does not get disqualified by age only a lady now conversely what disqualifies a poem for a vote in the basement physical blemishes a broken leg a mum a mum Apostles are coming but you know a mom does not pass a little baby I can still be a lady that sings Even if I have a broken arm or a cast and the like now the mishnah derives it from the sukkit in other words how you know this is very simple because the Torah mentions age only by levium and the Torah mentions mum only by kohanim so it's automatically the case that kohanim are puzzled because of H and Levine are puzzle because uh I'm sorry I'm sorry go on in Rapunzel because of mom and would be in my puzzle because of it so how you know it is is a simple question but the question is what is the logic of this why should there be why should age be important for a lady and not for a kind and why should mum be important for a coin and not for a living so there is a husband here that's at least Loosely based and it's a grandson and he says to follow me he says go even Lady represents two different aspects of serving Hashem the Cohen represents the one who meticulously follows details and rules anyone that studies the laws of corvanos know that there's no room in corbanos for improvisation spontaneity creativity individuality there is a Seder that has to be followed and the Seder has to be followed exactly and the smallest deviation from the way things are done can often be catastrophic the whole sacrifice might be invalidated I mean let me give you a small example of this a Colleen must wear big Dakota special garments when he does the avoda now part of that means he's not allowed to have anything extra if he has what's called Yi turbo an extra garment it's puzzle so if the colony would like to put on a nice scarf he's wearing be they can also put a nice scarf in honor of the base the whole of Voda that he does is going to be puzzled but he said well I have to look like every other calling yeah you do in other words everybody except for the colleague everybody dresses the same so kohane represents the idea of serving Hashem by following the rules exactly now there is a strength in that approach but there's also a downside to that approach the strength of that approach is consistency you're not you're not affected by your moods right we have different words sometimes we're inspired sometimes we're not inspired but if you have that consistency you're going to do what you got to do whether you're feeling up that day or not down today because you're not acting out of emotion you're not acting out of passion you're not acting out of feeling you're acting out of this is the way it is you know I remember when I was when I was in Silver Spring but I also remember growing up in in Hartford uh there were there were Bell about them that I knew who were not products of the Yeshiva World because they they grew up before there were yeshivas as it were they went to public school or tomatora but the concept of missing a minion was impossible they just wouldn't no they just know every day you go to show I mean I remember in my own community in Silver Spring uh there was a a 95 year old guy it would take him half an hour to walk the show he walked to show no matter what the weather if the weather was bad in fact more than a half an hour to watch the show but you know he didn't even think of it as any particular you know we said wow how heroic you know no this is what you do this is consistency you don't get affected by the mood you don't get affected by your emotions you do what you got to do that's a wonderful thing you stick to the plan the problem is no so that's the greatness of it problem is that there is a risk that it might become mechanical it might become superficial you don't have a feeling in what you're doing and then it becomes a goof a body without a neshama so that's Myla and now Levy represents the world of regish the world of emotion Shira zimra singing in fact Let me let me point out that although it's true that eventually with safer to heal him these songs that the levium were assigned were standardized songs but that was not the original the original plan was they would come in and say whatever they wanted to say right karaoke ready to come in you know praise Hashem with your own words and the whole concept generally of Nagina Negan is a world of emotion a world of feeling a world of passion so the coin represents the world of rules the Lady represents the world of feeling and emotion now let's look at the upside downside the Myla of the world of emotion is you're uplifted remember the Zohar says the balotanya brings this that love of Hashem and Hashem are the two wings that bring your Mitzvahs up to shemaim that's our goal that we should be feeling people the downside is that when you are a creature of emotion your connection will fluctuate with what you're feeling any particular moment right you see this a lot with teenagers especially right adolescence are very emotional hormones whatever the reason is so there are times they're going to cry in ecstasy and joyously experience you know Hashem then there are times you have to they just don't want to go to show it all they want to sleep till two in the afternoon or whatever it is because they're kind of running on emotion they don't yet have the sense of this consistency right that's part of maturation is the notion of consistency you know I go to work even if I don't feel like it well I vote this Hashem too I got to serve God because I'm in heaven even if I don't feel like it the hope is I'll feel like it but you know so what if I don't then I don't so let's look at the so now based on this dichotomy that the coin is a voter sashem by following the rules and the lady is the world of regish and emotion we can Now understand the Cohen who follows the rules age is not going to puzzle him because when you have consistency you'll keep on going until it becomes physically impossible mom can Embrace a much bigger category Than Physical impossibility but a mum is a paradigm of physical limitation meaning the only thing that will stop the coming is physical limitation age will not stop him because if anything the more you continue something the more you're likely to continue it so that's why the Cohen's problem is physical impediment with the labia it's the other way when you're living in the world of emotion you can transcend even your physical limitations now I know I don't you know in these Labs on these Faith healers you know so they get the guy out of the wheelchair whatever it is and of course a lot a lot of that is fake to be sure but there is something to be said that a powerful emotions can overcome physical limitations an example would be sometimes you know these stories about the mother the baby that gets trapped under a car and the mother is able to lift the car I mean she may be in a hospital for the next six months but at that moment she'll do it the emotion is so powerful So Physical limitation will not stop the lady what what can stop him rootinization sometimes you stay with it too long the emotions Wax and Wane and therefore the lady gets burnt out with emotional intensity intensity so it's age that is his problem but not physical limitation the coin gets better with age but at some point the body may catch up that's kind of the explanation to the coin and the lady but be it is at night this is sowed that there are two modalities in a Voda sashem so how does it apply to us in a practical level the answer is we have to build a mishkan for Hashem in our hearts this is the famous phrase from the safer khered them it's been set to music I build a dwelling place for Hashem in my heart and this is also the meaning of the possible make for me a sanctuary Hashem says so I will dwell ham in them in them not in the building in them so our goal in life is to make ourselves a Dwelling Place him when we build our mission just like the Mishka need or the base I make this needs so in our mishkan that we built we have to have kohanim and levim we have to be the Cohen who sticks to the rules no matter what and we have to be the lady who opens our hearts and our soul feel the awe of Hashem and the love of Hashem meaning we have to be both the Colleen and the lady because within our mission we have to have both we have to have quranim and Ravine right so this is an explanation again based on uh the the somersetic as to why the VM gets burnt out by age but they are not stopped by physical limitation a co-ed will only get better with age because habit becomes more habitual but the coin may be stopped by the weaknesses of the of the of the body so be it as it may though as they say aravades to be both the coin and the uh and the lady at the same time we need to be the kind because inspiration is not constant so we have to have something that keeps us going even when we're not passionate and excited and again that's part of maturation generally that it applies to many areas even outside of Torah but at the same time we can't allow ourselves to become automatons and robots and people who only focus on the trees and not the overall Forest we have to try to develop a personal relationship with Hashem in fact I remember years ago it was kind of funny but um there was a certain sad truth to it I was once talking about um having a relationship with Hashem so if somebody said to me afterwards they're very uncomfortable to hear about having a relationship with God it sounds too Christian relationship with God he says Jews don't talk about a relationship with God they talk about relating to the Torah they don't talk about relating to God you know now there is a certain there is actually a certain truth to that because it was not knowable in the way that you know a human representation would be more knowable that that in fact was maybe is the great attraction of Christianity because by making God in a human form you've made something more accessible to me that doesn't make it true of course but you know but still the notion that I should just separate my connection to Torah from a connection to Hashem is really pretty crazy actually because the purpose of the Torah is to connect us to our other Sparkle like even the word Mitzvah uh certificate as it says the word Mitzvah which we always translate as Commandments is actually connected to subsets is connection Mitzvahs are connections right and you have to think about how you connect to to our kardashburger and it's something that even in our Yeshiva educations we don't always talk about I mean what the guy said is I think a true not it's not true but it's a true representation of a lot of people's feelings I'm not comfortable about talking about a relationship with Hashem and that's something we have to strive for in all of our Lives that's the purpose of everything okay so thank you for coming and you have a good wonderful week [Music] hey everybody [Music]