Rav Aaron Dovid Poston: For a Priest's Lips Shall Guard Knowledge Malachi 2:7

Heat. Heat. Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the Iban Bait Midash. Welcome home to Torah. A warm welcome home to Torah. We are in the safer called the gioreim. Of course, it was written by the very same Schlommo Ery Milunit. the clear car. He always begins with a a medish and sometimes he relates to it, sometimes he doesn't. But we want to mention that this is highly textual, right? We encourage you to learn Hebrew. So grab yourselves a Hebrew sheet and if you're online, there's a link in the description box below uh to the para. You just have to uh look for the right book, the right para, the right year and uh the original Hebrew sheets are posted on the website. So we're in parasa and he starts off with the verse. Okay, you can see that in source number one, right? So God is saying to Moshe to he should speak to Aon and say to him by there's there's so much to talk about. I don't want to get too sidetracked, but even the word via does it mean speak and speak only? Very interesting. There's a verse. Try to find it. I'm sorry that I don't have my own uh source sheets delineated as well as I would like to. Um, okay. in number 15 page four when God says you have selected the Lord this day right I mean Moses is speaking it's Deuteronomy 26 verse 16 and 17 so the word what is selected right it's bir and we're going to see that word in our parha but it also means in Hebrew vartm Ham, hamarta means distinguished, separated. It's amazing that word. Now, if you talk about the word amar to say, we have to ourselves understand that we're created in the image of God. God breathed into us the breath of life, right? As Ankala says when God right in the Pik that says that God breathed into us right a a a um the breath of life the breath of life according to ankalis is a speaking spirit he translated a ru mala a speaking spirit and we're going to talk about that the soul when it says everyone translates it as to ignite to kindle to light. But what's the real root? Aliyah, like to go up. And and we know that the soul is like the candle of God. So we're going to see some mystical ideas here without getting too far ahead of ourselves. I just want to let me just finish that verse in number source number 15. So not only did God say that you the Jewish people have selected the Lord this day beginning of verse 17 and the Lord has selected you this day also the same word right don't forget the word amore and you know in French means love right so let's go back to the beginning of this medish we we had the verse The measures tells us there were four things that Moses found difficult. The word is he was perplexed. He couldn't figure out exactly what it was or h the the exact measurements of certain things or how to make it like the minora veu. This is the list of the things that Moses found perplexed perplexing difficult. the minora skullim corban and the roshesh the new moon the truth is that all four of these items says the word z the very fact it says z it's as if god as if ku god pointed with his finger to explain when you say this you're pointing this right so the measure says Moses was perplexed about these four things until Hashem showed him. Of course, God doesn't have a finger, doesn't have a hand, doesn't have a body, but it's as if God pointed it out to him. And each one of these verses has the word, like we said, the new moon in Exodus 12:2, right? This shall be the to you the head of the months. It should be the first of the months of the year. The word z is used by skullim zitnu. This is God had to show Moshe what exactly the shekele look like the measurement by the corbonos which is interesting because the clear brings down this is when god when Moses was speaking to aon this is the corbin of Aaron and his sons during the inauguration it's in vikra Leviticus 6:13 but the original medish is talking about which animals are kosher and which are not kosher now this corbin that Moses that arm was bringing was actually a minos not even an animal. But if it means z because the word z corban we can somehow relate that it was also to tell them which corbanote were kosher for the altar and which were not. And the minor of course which is our para zoo. Okay. So this is the production is how it's made. And it says Z. So as if Hash Moshe had a difficulty with all four of these things and God went out of his way to explain or to show what each of these things were would look like. Okay, let's begin with the nuts and bolts. This is the discipline of Makshava thought philosophy and I'm bring that up again and you'll see why later on we're going to talk about the seven branches of the minora. how there are six branches of wisdom that all point inward towards the center um and philosophy or philosophizing metaphysics is one of the disciplines and that that's what we do this is philosophy this is something that's well known I mean when I read this I thought back to Jacobu and when Jacob the Gomorrah says he was BK Shalom. That's when the rogue shows he was looking for peace. He he had a hard life and he wanted peace. He wanted a sh of tranquility and Hashem caused a disturbance that Yseph was sold. Sadikim should not be seeking it. They'll get it hopefully maybe. No guarantee in the world to come for sure. But in this world there's no guarantee. And if you're looking for it, this is a time for growth. What do they say? That there is no growth in a safe space. Right? I think the world, they're all looking for what they call safe spaces. There's no such thing as growth. You need that friction. You need that irritation. It just happens to be the way it is. So here it is. The whole time that a person experiences sha he's living in a tranquil state. He will I'm going to say likely does it's not a guarantee but he'll likely rebel kick because of the abundance of goodness. Now I think about the curses one of the curses and one of the worst curses like a summation of all the curses in Deuteronomy is that God gave you so much goodness and you weren't happy. And it sounds like it's really a culmination of all the curses that it's a really big I'm not going to call sin. It's a big mistake to live your life with all the goodness that God gives us and we're not happy. So it it's a nod. It's it's something you have to work on to have really the that means is the hem. Okay. So this is going to be the theme. We may not like it. Because when we think of the Jewish people, at least many of us, there's an affluent neighborhood. Many of us grew up somewhat affluent or new affluent people. And you know, the Jews weren't always affluent, but uh it says like this that because of such abundance goodness, they're likely to rebel. And he brings a proof from Gomorra Bro uh 32a and it brings down two verses to start with in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 15. So and Yeshurin became wax and fat and rebelled right that's a nickname for the Jewish people and it's also written in chapter 31 verse 20 and they will eat and be satisfied and live on the fat of the land and then what will happen then they will turn to other deities right let's just look where do we have it on the source sheet That would be where >> number nine >> number nine. Deuteronomy 31:20. And I will bring them to the land that which I have sworn to their forefathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey. They will eat and be satisfied and live on the fat of the land. then they will turn to other deities and serve them provoking me and violating my covenant. Elohim. So look, we we we see that these are now I just want to stop also because one of the biggest pitfalls or should we say mixture stumbling blocks for us is that we think that because we have such a strong army and we have such in great intelligence and we rely on ourselves. We should re really recognize and remember always that we have a good army and we have great intelligence because it's a gift from God. It's not because of me. And that is I'm going to just say one of the uh the pitfalls over and over again. God says don't get cocky. Don't think it's you. Remember you're not the balabay, right? Don't because of your abundance and goodness you might come to forget me. Okay? And we're going to see that theme over and over again. So, but this is the surprising part. He says, what mid are we talking about? The mida of rebelling because we have abundance of good. He says for some reason, I mean, we look at the world and we don't think we're that much different than anybody else. Apparently there is one difference maybe among others that there's something unique about the Jewish people maybe perhaps if you look at history I mean we've seen it with the kings you know go back to the Bible and the kings so you had a good king and a bad king a good king and a bad it's good you know sometimes the good kings the sorry the bad kings because things were really well and then they got I guess you wax and fat and uh and lost their their ump to serve Hashem properly. So we see it. I mean I just think you know why are we any different? Uh the Roman Empire fell because of prosperity. They were so wealthy they they stopped having children and they whatever they um they were u they're very corrupt and it was their downfall. So he claims, right, this is unique to the Jewish people that whenever in history we had it really well, we ended up going sideways off the Derek. So Hashem, I'm going to say he reviewed, he checked it out. He looked at all the positive traits that the Jewish people have and he picked one one mida that is the best for us. It's like crushing a an olive and getting the best oil. He says the best situation for the Jewish people. I'm going to use the word poverty. Now, poverty doesn't necessarily mean financial poverty. It could mean, and we'll see it, humility, a certain level of humility. And we'll see when we get to, which we're going to quote in a second. But I want to translate the word hakna as obedience. It really means submission. And maybe there's no difference between submission and obedience, but he says again, if you think it's your power, you your ego is big. You're on top of the world. You don't have to listen to nobody and therefore you're not submissive to Hashem. That's why I'm using the word obedient because it just makes sense. You'll fall into line. Now, in the future, Sophia, which you look at the the verses before and after, it certainly seems to be talking about the the messianic time. And yet, even then, look in Spania 3:12, number 10 on the source sheet. And I will leave over in your midst a humble and poor people. Now in Hebrew it's anal but Rashi uses the words anal and he explains it's a humble people that submits to humiliation. In other words we before Messiah comes I get it that we're a humiliated people. You look at the news and you know all the fake news about the Jews. It's all about trying to humiliate us after the Messiah comes. I don't see that happening. And you can see even I think the verse before it says you will not be humiliated at this point. So I think it means that we're humble. In other words, the people a humble people that submits to humiliation and other ones we should be vatim but there's a word I was looking for be to be a vatan to allow. >> You know the idea in Christianity they say to turn the other cheek. It's it's far from Judaism, but there is within the metaphysics the idea that everything comes from Hashem. It's always for our best. And in fact, if there is something insulting to you personally, you're supposed to let it go. Right? When someone insults you personally, you actually supposed to turn the other cheek. When they insult God or Jewish people, that you have to stand up for. But to be a vatan is is a big is a big thing. Um, hope I'm not getting too off the subject, but here the the Hebrew was and that the the people will not only be uh let's say poor and humble, but they will find refuge in Hashem. And this is a messianic prophecy. There's also um it talks about in in in the Tanakh also that poverty will never cease. So if in the messianic there's a makus but let's just say according to that the opinion that after Msiah comes there'll still be poverty. So the idea is that we'll all be giving sodaka. We still have the mitzvah after Mashia comes. So we still have a mitzvah of giving saddaka and they'll be well taken care of. So it's not the end of the world. In other words, it's not a reason to, oh, I want Mashiach, so I get out of my debts, right? There's a bigger reason for Msiah and it's national anyway. Since we say there were times at those times that Israel would be prosperous and they would rebel, therefore there's a beer. A bureau is a separation like the word to distinguish and to separate like we saw in that verse that God separated from the Jewish people. He separated the priestly class so they could be servants of the supreme. I I I I still like to translate it as supreme servants, but I think servants of the supreme. And by and by the way, it's not just them. In a certain sense, even though they're separated from Israel to be the supreme servants or servants of the supreme, who do who do you think the Jewish people are? We are a mit kohanim, right? We are kadosh. In fact, when we started the month of Sivan, we looked into it. Why are we not saying taken for the first 13 days? So, I get it. Rosh kesh. We're not going to say tanun. The three days of preparation, we're not going to say, we don't say taken. And then the six days of tashim, we don't say taken. But what about that stay after after roes? It's not it's like an oddball. It was that day that God um designated the Jewish people as a kanim and that's why we don't say takun on that day. Okay. So we were distinguished as a nation of priests a priestly nation and these theim were separated from the Jewish people to be just that servants of the supreme. Now, this is strange because, you know, you look at the maps of Israel and you see the 12 tribes and how they're all situated. Where's Ley? Well, how many tribes are there? We have 12 tribes that have spots. So, it depends how you count. When you count Yoseph, you count Ley. But when you right, Manasha and Ephraim are the children of Yseph. So, you don't count Yoseph, you count Manasha and Fry. You have 12. When you count Yseph, then you have to count Ley or or you have 13 tribes, which is very possible, but that's how that's how the count works. Ley does not have a portion in the land of Israel. There are cities and there are green areas around the cities, but it's mainly for recreation and for a little bit a little bit of farming. Okay, it's more like maybe uh for agriculture and for noi, for beauty. Uh a city should have right a healthy city should have um I'm not say just playgrounds but a place where you could I don't know you know not be in concrete jungle you know you need to see a little bit of green Tel Aivian okay so they're not going to have a in the but are they going to benefit from they have to eat they have to live they're going to eat from God's table, so to speak. They're going to be given the trumas and the maestras and the corbanos and the different, you know, first first fruits. There's a lot of things that are going to be given to the kanim and the levim. They're basically eating off the high table translated God's table in order that they don't become through their wealth. I happen to know a lot of and they broke Hashem. They're doing well. Either they invested well with old money or maybe because they blessed the Jews. See, it says in the Torah that if you who those who bless you will be blessed and they have they have the special mitzvah of blessing the Jews every single day right just in fact the clear brings up in another place it says thustly you shall bless we already know there's 24 gifts that are given over to kim he says there's actually a 25th gift cafe to thusly you shall bless what does the kuff represent What's the 25th gift? The mitzvah of blessing the Jewish people. That's where their wealth will come from. That's where that's the gift that they're blessing. I just want everyone to know you bless the Jewish people. You're going to you're going to do great. You're going to do great in life. Okay. So it says here that these and will not become rich be in other words in order not to become by becoming rich they weren't included in becoming wealthy because in agricultural society has land whoever's got the most land or let's say the best land and the best workers and the marketing and whatever it is they do to become uh wealthy their in hem. They trust in hem. And wait till you hear this. Perhaps because of their poverty or perhaps because of their humility. I'm not sure. It might be a combination. They trust in Hashem and because they trust in Hashem and they're doing the vote in the base of Mikdash. However it is, they will have the ability to atone for the Jewish people. Sorry. And that's what it means. Now this is a very complicated cifree on Dvarim Kuamdal. And when I say complicated because a lot of people are not familiar with some of the background and I'm going to try my best to give it over. Okay. So this is the background in Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 2. It's um number 12 on the source sheet. So the Levitical Coanim, the entire tribe of Ley shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel, meaning in the land. The Lord's fire offering and his inher inheritance they shall eat. So they're eating off shan gavo, but he shall have no inheritance among his brothers. In Hebrew, What this medish does, it breaks this verse into two this statement into two things. There's the and there's a shiva. Let me just the background just to keep it simple that when Eritra was conquered, Moshe and Yahosua when they were dividing up the land they they there was a conquering of there were seven no seven sorry seven Canaanite nations here and some of them were were conquered early on many were conquered later. So originally Moshe and Yeshua distributed to five of the tribes of the 12 tribes with peace, let's say by getting rid of the um the Canaanite nations only on only on certain areas of Eric Israel. Later on after Moshan Aaron passed away then the remaining seven tribes there was a conquering of those remaining um um Canaanite nations. So what it means is but he shall have no inheritance among his brothers simply simply that he's not going to have an inheritance in the land of Israel. But it's broken up into five and seven. If you look down on number 12 at the very bottom of Rashi, Rashi now explains this version of the cif. The first reference is to the inheritance of the five meaning five of the 12 tribes. The second meaning the seven is referring to the inheritance of the remaining seven tribes. Seven and five is 12. Now Moses and Yeshua portioned inheritance only to five tribes. Okay? So Moshe gave to Ruv and to God half tribe Manasha. Yeshua gave to Yehud and to Aphry and the other half of Manasha. So that's five. The remaining seven tribes took their inheritance by themselves after Yoshua's demise. So for some reason there's this distinction distinction between five former tribes and seven later tribes. But it's all referring to the land of Israel just broken up. So knowing that the clear says right there won't be a portion to him that's the whereas amongst his brothers that's going to be the portion for seven. So there are many commentators that explained right there's many different answers according to their ability to give it over the car says but I'm going to tell you something it's going according to what we said what is what is the theme we've been saying that an that poverty is some again right is somehow good for the Jewish people because otherwise we're going to kick rebel so the levim and the kim do not get an inheritance so they don't get caught up in wealth so they can be clear-headed and do what they serve Hashem properly and atone for us and not get distracted right they're going to be the true servants they are not going to have the ability to become wealthy through agriculture as he say they were separated ated selected amongst the Jewish people from within the Jewish people they weren't given a portion in the land so they don't become wealthy they're going to atone for us while we're not allowed to make mistakes but we may make mistakes so somehow or another they're going to remain uh clean of this sin and they'll be able to atone for us. The next paragraph begins, it's actually in Vikaraba, um, we'll call chapter 2, section five, paragraph 5, not four. It says in the para, now look at chapter 8 verse 19. You're going to find this as number 14 on the source sheet. Notice I highlighted the children of Israel how many times? Five times. You have one verse and the Jewish people's name Ben Israel is mentioned five times. I've given the Levites as a gift to Ara and his sons from among the children of Israel. Time number one to perform the service for the children of Israel. Number two, in the tent of meeting and I underlined and to atone on behalf of the children of Israel. That's the third time. And the children of is so that the children of Israel the fourth time will not be inflicted with plague. I underline that when the children of Israel approach the sanctuary. So five times in one verse. You got to find that odd. And if we stop here, you won't be able to sleep tonight. Right? Yeah. We have to go on. We have to find out what's going on. The background is there's this special number of five and seven. Right? Somehow another there's going to be these five traits that are not good and there's going to be seven traits that are not good and that leim and the cone will not have a portion in these character traits. Okay, but there's also we know five is a good number. Five books of Moses we seven sadik falls down seven times and gets up there's seven names to the to the there's seven categories of sadikim so five and seven is like you know free will okay it go either way but he brings a mesh he says based on this verse right it mentions five times the Jewish people What exactly is this analogous to? Latino. It's analogous to a young child who goes every day to school. Now, the father is asking about him. He has a member of the household that takes his child to school. And he asked this custodian. He asked him five questions. Not insignificant. Five questions. He wants to know if my son is eating healthily, if he's drinking properly, if he's getting enough sleep, how is the school? Was it safe and uh on the way and on the way back? So that's five questions. based on this five questions you can ask. You need to really think we want to think deeply and analyze this analogy. Why was this analogy go? What what what does it mean that a child's going to a school or why is it mentioned about how he eats, how he drinks, and how he sleeps? Is he is he eating well, sleeping well? He's going with the same theme. He's going to explain everything according to the same thing. Garmlehem he's now bringing it to let's say the forefront here that there are five things that wealth causes let me just read again if if we were wealthy there would be five things um this is what I'm going to use the word cause but he uses the word it's basically the essence of the rebelliousness and causes fighting riv and nega and plague okay which we don't we want to avoid alfil he claims and he has proof that food can cause hardiness you know I just thinking back to why do we have a special mitzvah after eating right you look around the world I'm not I just know about the Christians I don't know what the Muslims do but we a special mitzvah from the Torah to bless after we eat, after we're satisfied. And in order so we don't forget the Lord our God. See, when we're all about to sit down and eat, we're all hungry. And when you're given something, when you're hungry, of course, you're going to you're in a state of hakna submission. Of course, you're going to thank the Lord. We have a rabbitic. It's in other words, it's really um it's like a koshik. Even though from the Torah after you've eaten and been satisfied, how much more of course you're going to bless before but we have the special mitzvah after you ever watch I'm sure you know by the non-Jews you don't see them holding hands and thanking the Lord after they eat just before which is logical but afterwards you need that special oomph don't forget the Lord because you're satisfied so in Hosiah Hosea 13:6 six, it says over there, they were sated and their heart became hotty. Therefore, they forgot me. I mean, you can't get more, you know, clear than that. Once you're satisfied, you know, you turn the TV on or you put your legs off, you're totally you forget about God. But that's what it says in Oshia. And then he says that's by food. So, boy, the arm live up. And what about can also cause uh hardiness in Habacook 2:5? It's specifically talking about wine. But okay, that's a good beverage. And surely he when wine does that say with whom wine betrays a hotty man whose dwelling shall not remain. It's not a good thing. So you have food, you have drink and we said remember the questions that the father asked the caretaker. Did he sleep well? Did he eat well? Did he drink well? But is he sleeping well? Sovah if there is like either laziness or procrastination I'm not sure which but it means laziness but you know many of us are not really lazy we're just procrastinators or maybe it's the same thing I don't know so I' I'd say l so the person is hesitating to do a mitzvah but what are they doing tardimat hmon on. They're basically sleeping. They're they're wasting time. They're not uh quick. The time has overtaken them and they're just sleeping. And it says in Psalms chapter 90 verse 5 regarding Rashin, regarding evil people talks about as a flood like a sleep. Okay, so you can look at that verse a little bit deeper, but it's talking about Rashim and it's like they're asleep. Okay, so he wants to know if his son has slept well. And what about the fourth because of the rebelliousness that causes one to separate from Torah which is of the next step and what about so that's going to the bait safer which we'll see and what happens at the bait safer on the way home. So the fifth thing is so even we do learn but what if we're learning for the wrong reasons? We're not learning but we're learning to um for self aggrandisement for to make ourselves you know feel better. Um is like yoraughtiness for reasons you're learning for reasons. So he says these five things. So, it's not that they don't have, it's true, they don't have a portion in the land, and we said the land is like these five and the seven, but they don't have a portion in these five character traits because they're going to separate themselves from um except for eating off of the king's table. They separate themselves from regular food and from They're only going to eat what is given to them and granted to them. They have a lot of trust in Hashem. Even let's just say the as a class, right? They're not allowed to serve if they drink intoxicating drink, right? They we know on certain holidays where we have a big kittish and they're going to still do. So, they have to stay away. They don't drink and don't do right. That's a mistake. I'm sorry to say. I've seen schuls where none of the none of the con on let's say Torah is an example. It's wrong. I'm sorry. Don't drink. You have the whole day. Okay. So that's my I heard it from people bigger than me. the even they're com they're warned they're exonerated right about being lazy that's why right we have this idea of they're fervorous the are fervorous it's that's why God gave them I'm going to say backbreaking labor you know it says a kaf is shoulder they shoulder a lot of work whether you We're talking about moving the base of Mikd the Mishkan. But just imagine Pesak. Can you imagine, right? All the car are working like there's probably like 3 million sheep, right? And they have and they do it just in the afternoon. You're talking about a small window. It's a lot of a lot of work in passing the jugs of blood to be splattered on the altar. Just there's work all year round. But I'm just imagining one particular day. can imagine all the holidays and anyway so there's a lot of work involved they're also warned they just can't walk out of the basement the ba mikdash when they're doing the aod right it's like leaving school right meaning right what is that about school what is so unique about the temple mount that's where the Sanhedrin's at but what does it say about the kanim kisham hate say Torah, right? That's where Torah comes from. Look at Mali chapter 2 verse 7. For the priest's lips shall guard knowledge and teaching should be sought from his mouth. Right? We go to the judges in those days. We go to the kohanim and they're supposed to sit and learn and and know what to answer so that when people come and ask questions, this is who will have the answers. So it's very important that they dedicate themselves that they're free to dedicate themselves to learning Torah. They're also warned to learn the Torah in order don't become arrogant but only to come to the proper answers or let's say to learn for its proper reason for its true purpose and that's to serve Hashem properly and to give answers when people come truthfully. So they're warned, right? They should learn Torah not for the sake of self aggradisement but only for the tr its true purpose. And this is the reason why the are warned not to drink because it leads to it's moly. It it it results in and gives off arrogance. I'm not exactly sure what he means there, but I assume that we are going to rely on him to give over proper judgment. This is what it means that they're not going to have a portion in the land meaning the five nations, the five tribes, but it means the five land, the fi means the five character traits, right? Even though they're not going to have a in the physical land, they shouldn't have a in those five bad character traits because that's the reason those traits is what caused rebel rebelliousness amongst his brothers he's not going to have a he says what is this of It's referring to the Jewish people when they follow their evil inclination. The har there's seven names to the Gomorrah points out in sukus 52a right you have the word ra e evil you have orel uncircumcised you have the word tame which means impure another name for the is enemy another one is mik miksha and stumbling block ean like a stone a heart of stone and sony which is means the hidden one so There are seven names that the evil inclination we call them the Satan, the Satan, right? that has seven names and unfortunately we we're human and fortunately we're human but we unfortunately follow sometimes and all this right why would we become rich if we didn't have God gave us the so we can create cures for cancer so we can become famous it's not a bad thing right we have a desire to advance things in the world not always altruistically but for hashem we also have inclination perhaps either become famous or or wealthy. So that's what the can do. So the they don't have a portion not in the five and not in the seven. So therefore the are not going to have a portion in where they can get wealth from agriculture and in in land real estate deals. So they don't come into these five character traits and to end up being in the category of those seven let's call them the seven names of the but he says on the top left however in spite of this there are actually seven categories of um I think it's um 21. Where do we have that on the sheet? Anybody see it? >> Yeah, number 23. 23. So, I underlined here in the middle. There are seven groups of righteous people who are destined to receive the divine presence and their faces are similar to the sun, the moon, the firmament, the stars, lightning, lilies. Now, that's six. And what is the seventh? The pure candelabrum. I think that means the minora candalabrum that was in the temple. Somehow or another there's all everything's related. Somehow it all comes full circle. And now we're going to get into what is this about. So he says that these seven groups of in the future somehow they're hinted there's a hint to them to the seven branches of the minora right we have a minora for Hanukkah there's eight but that is it's a madeup it's a fabrication there's no such thing as an eight right in other words you're not allowed to replicate what we have in the to in the temple that could be one reason why there's an eighth day of Hanukkah. Of course, there's 500 reasons why there's eight days of Hanukkah. This is not a sh on Hanukkah. I suggest you look that up. But, uh, one reason that the and you need an eight branched manora because you can't make a seven branch manura. No, we recognize the miracle, right? The miracle of the the uh the oil. Okay, here we go. What's the hes? How would you like to translate that? This is the spiritual reward for the soul. The lamp, the light, the flame of the soul, which has five names. We discussed this a few weeks ago. You have the nephish, you have the ru, you have the nama, you have the and you have the there's five names. It's really one soul or five levels of the soul. So he says there are five names and that's the so now just think about we're talking about five and seven over and over again the verse says I'm not sure about language if you could have gotten without the hea the definitive he but he says what does it mean to raise up hos to raise up the five candles the five flames the meaning your soul which has five levels. That's what that's what it means. It's amazing how he got to this point. So that's what he says on the first word of the I think sixth line. It says heyos. What does it mean towards the face of the minora? By the way the clear car asks other places. It says the seven lights will shine towards the face of manora. Rashi says the face of the manora is the middle candle. So the clear car is bothered if you have only six >> and the wicks are towards toward the seven towards the middle. The torque should have said you have six candles that are towards the face of the monora because the face of the monora according to rashi is the middle. Clear explains like this is a maklocus if the minor was facing east or west or north or south. But let's just assume for just practical purpose it was facing north and south. So you have the three candles not real candles they're called cups with oil. The wicks were pointed towards the middle. That's what it means facing towards shining illuminating towards. And then the seventh, the middle one, its wick was facing towards the holy of holies. So they were all ultimately pointing towards the holy of holies, meaning towards Hashem. And that's where I wanted to mention about the we're going to see shortly about the different um groups of wisdom. What we do is we take all of our earthly wisdom or the maybe the different disciplines of Jewish wisdom and it's all pointed towards service of Hashem. It's all pointed towards recognizing Hashem and our and our obligations and our service to him. We'll see that shortly. So that's what he says here. The five can meaning the soul is let's say it's towards Hashem and ultimately that the soul is going to face the face of the manora and will illuminate the seven candles. Who are these seven candles? These are the seven different categories of as we will explain. So that priestly class the living and the going to separate themselves from these five things. Remember we saw that verse chapter 8 verse 19. the children of Israel are mentioned five times. Besides the five times, it also mentions that there's going to be atonement and there's not going to be any plague. This is what the con that's what their job is to make sure that we're atoned for and that no plague comes upon us. So he says this is mentioned in the verse the five times where Israel is mentioned. It says they're going to atone for the Jewish people. The reason Israel is mentioned five times because they're going to atone for these five mistakes that we do. And this is what it means in the mush. We hide that mush in the cphree where the the child is walking to school and the father asks the custodian these five questions. Who is this? In the m it's Israel. How do we know it's Israel? Hosiah chapter 11 verse1 says when Israel was young I loved him right Israel so that's the youth Israel is the youth shaher and he's going to the bafer what's that laarsi on his way to hari which we were there remember I spoke about this over shuis but basically it doesn't sound nice for the non-Jews but it's just a fact we Cena hatred came into the world. Why kind of what is anti-semitism? It's really self-hatred that they didn't take the Torah. They were asked, they were offered the Torah and they didn't take it and now they hate themselves for that decision they made and they're going to pay for it. Okay, let's leave it at that for now. But it says that we went to receive the Torah. to exclude, right, the non-Jews, the the the nations. Shalom. They turned it down. They not only did not accept it, they said, "What's in it? Okay, we're not interested. That's our whole essence." But they didn't accept the Torah. God, I'm not going to say he's not concerned with them, but he doesn't he's not exacting with their actions. They're not going to receive the worst punishments and they're not going to receive the worst rewards. I'm going to say it's almost a little bit of indifference almost, which is really the worst thing you could do in in a relationship. At least Hashem loves us and he corrects us and he gives us muser, right? It's very difficult. When someone loves you, they're going to give you m ande is show. Look what it says. He's more exacting reward and punishment with our behavior regarding these list of five things right that we talked about already. So, Hashem was he separated this priestly class and they're not going to have a portion in which we thought meant physically the land of Israel which is true but it's these five character traits they are going to atone for the Jewish people, even when we're making mistakes. Obviously, we shouldn't make mistakes, but we're human. We're not angels, right? The Torah is not given to angels. Let's just finish this last paragraph on the third page. Uh just on the right side, right? We saw the verse that mentions Israel five times. That was in Numbers 8:19. Fine. So that is connected the food meaning these five things when we said we're concerned about their eating. So rest in Vietnam. So what you fill your stomach with what you put in your stomach it could come and lead towards sin. But that's us. But it says in Psalms 40:9, um, "Oh God, I desired to do your will and to have your law within my inards." Now, interestingly enough, just you should know that the Levim, right, the um and the Coim, they're going to be counted from the age of 30 days and upward. And I think there's a ping in Jeremiah that I was already sanctified in the womb and he was a Cohen. There's something unique about the the tribe that they're not waiting until they're 20 years old like the rest of the the Israelites, but already either from 30 days. And the 30-day mark is really an idea that it was a viable baby, but they're already counted while in the womb. But this verse is referring on a pashup shot to us eating kosher food. If we eat kosher food, so then I have the Torah in my inards, right? I'm living I'm a living Torah. I have I keep I keep kosher. But I think it also means the Torah itself. Meaning the Torah is in the inards. What we eat, not just what we eat, but you know, becomes your blood and it's in your inards. I'll vote voted Ben Israel. Remember these are all based on on the pukim that has the the Ben Israel five times and what they mean. So to serve the Jewish people, they're going to serve the Jewish people. That's parallel to the idea of of what we said good sleep because they're not going to be lazy. They're going to do backbreaking labor. And it says that the going to have they're going to have fervor to serve Hashem. I'm sorry. Remember, it says that they're going to atone for the Jewish people in that verse. That's referring to the fact that they're not going to drink, you know, excessively or they're going to have healthy drinks, not wine. And that's um which wine brings you to sin and therefore they're required to atone. meaning for the Jewish people, but they are able to because they're not involved in sinning. It says by a nazir in numbers 611 chapter 6 11 when the nuzir brings his atonement his offering and the kanim are going to atone on his behalf for sinning by coming in contact with the dead. But it specifically says that the are going to atone for this person's involvement with drink originally. That's why he became a nazir. um previously he sinned with the that's why he became he thought he needed to become a nause and that's also the Pik says there won't be a neg amongst the Jewish people some kind of a plague that's going to be parallel to the going to school remember in the original medish Oh, so when you separate at a time that they separate from the words of Torah, then God forbid, that's when they come into the possibility of a plague. Don't separate yourself from learning Torah. God forbid. And it says about this idea, I don't know if you know salmon. They always want to go back to where they I don't know what the word spawned from. Uh the Jewish people love locks. They love salmon, but we're compared to a fish. It says in Gmor on page 3B that the Jewish people are compared to fish. separated from the water, they're going to die. I mean, there are some exceptions. They don't die right away or but you know the idea is the Jewish people, God forbid, if we turn away from Torah, it says that we are basically as good as debt. And it also said in the verse, right? negative where there shouldn't be a plague amongst the Jewish people elodes when the Jewish people approach the holies part of the verse that's referring back to when you are going to the school that child is going to the school so that's when you're approaching a shem or approaching the holy temple elodes that's referring to the bafer and the are going to atone for them as we mentioned above if there won't be a plague when they're on their way to the school as if to say God forbid that we should be running away from God like a child who runs away from his school like remember the bell the final bell goes off and I don't know it's not the end of the year. I'm saying the end of the day, you know, you just throw your pencils in your in your teak and you run out. You can't wait to leave. The problem with leaving, right, because it says in the Gomorrah Shabas 116A based on a perverse in numbers 10:35, right? They traveled from the mountain of the Lord. We traveled. when you go just for example if you're running away from God so they travel one day here in this case they travel 3 days when you travel away from the mount you travel away from God so let's say it's a one day's journey so you turn around and you look back and you're two days journey I mean you didn't there was no sad you didn't miraculously get further what happened was just like when you turn away from God turns away from you. So God says, "Look, you act towards me with um randomness, I will act with you towards randomness." When you approach God, he approaches you. Right? There's a whole question who who comes first. But when you run away from God, it's like he's moving simultaneously the same distance, same time distance. So in other words, if we move one day, you turn around and you look, it's not that you're one day distance from God. you're two days because he also moved away. So this is the beauty. The truth is the beauty that he comes to us just like we come to him. I just I skipped over one little piece and I'll just read out loud. Um the six pillars of the Jewish world. So if you want to look in just six pillars of of Judaism, you have Torah, a vod and those are the three main pillars. But you also have three additional den, emis and shalom. Uh Rabbi um Goldshire spoke a little bit about some of these ideas that that would be in Judaism if you want to put together six pillars. But in secular wisdom, there's a list. And if you get involved in any of these, the purpose is to know God is to serve God is to use it to learn Torah. How can you learn Torah without knowing math? How can you learn Torah without knowing anatomy or botany or astronomy? You need all this. So this list uh logic and grammar is one list is one of the pillars meaning the discipline of rigorous thought argument building and language structural mastery. This is a wisdom that we should know teach your kids English teach your kids grammar dict mathematics specifically arithmetic because another is geometry. So arithmetic is just the discipline the discipline of precise numerical calculation and abstraction whereas geometry is spatial discipline of understanding structures and dimensions. Of course astronomy which is really physics is on this list. the study of the cosmos, natural laws and the physical universe. Music is one of the disciplines uh of wisdom. Uh the discipline of harmony, rhythm and acoustic mathematical relationships. That's music. And then what we're interested in in mine, you know, my uh little pet peeve is metaphysics, philosophy, the study of existence, the human soul, and psychology. There are others that put uh the six branches of manora into the six spherote. Um but we'll leave it at that. This is just an introduction. The kar actually this essay goes on for about 15 pages. This is only a page and a half but next year we'll continue with the the rest of it. Again, the irrig is not well publicized. Like every bait midrash most likely has a um what's it called? It's the mikroscadolos. The mikroscodos in the Ashkenazi versions anyway has the clear well read. People quote him, but there's other sarim like this the gubim that is not really quoted that much. So, I'm glad that we found the copy and we're continuing on with other um other spheres within the clear periphery. Anyway, everyone have a great chabas, a great summer, a great life, and we'll see you next time. You see your birthday tomorrow