Tetzaveh Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Exodus Ch. 27 vs. 20

[Music] in chapter 28 verse 20 find it here we are I'm sorry it's 27: 20 27: 20 is and you shall command the children of Israel and you shall take actually they shall take so this is a double finish here I'll call you back after when it says and then it says he's going to focus on the fact that it's a double U you don't need you twice you he'll he'll explain it should have said one or the other other words you could have left out the pronoun he'll explain that and then I'm sorry and then they shall take for you that's also awkward they shall take for you this this um clear olive oil that's kti that's crushed L for illumination to bring up the and the word here we're talking about one one um One n constantly or continuous ly whereas in parous it uses the word neros so we have to discuss that we will also discuss the next verse which I might as well just read as well where is this to be placed in the oh but outside of the curtain the which is upon the near the testimony who's going to Aon Aon is command he's commanding Aon to a to arrange it and his sons Israel so it says from evening he's going to arrange it with his sons from evening until morning in front of hasem but it's an eternal decree for all the generations from the children Israel so he starts off by saying you should like really carefully examine this and then the word why do you have it's like in other words it's is you um pronoun and then T is the verb command but it's you shall command to um what's the word um second person okay twice it's mentioned second person no no means that's right so right first person is I second person you right third person ke right so he's saying it's twice the same pronoun you don't need to emphasize that it could only it it should have only been written once could have just said it needed just to say you command as opposed to you you command even the word you is totally Superfluous k m not necessary at all because on the other hand he could have just said command and it's understood because we know any beginning no it says and you shall command the children of Israel okay so that's uh T what you would say he said no what he's saying is no he's saying the fact that it didn't say that okay it still could have just said it doesn't do that anywhere though really it say but it doesn't say here what you're saying it say in the beginning of a so the word v is replacing you're suggesting the word at replaces and we Now understand that Hashem said to Moses saying there's like five he could you could have just cut that out anywhere going come up with a different reason why correct you're right this this language we just spoke about is is mentioned over in when we discuss the the same monora but there are how many handles seven and regarding what the ran had written lar saying that this H is coming to tell us that M Moses should be very careful and concerned to do it himself or to when he's commanded to Haron that they should do it themselves and and it should not be done through we're talking about the actual command the command should come from Moses and through someone else to tell we're talking about the command must be the command command has to come from from Moses himself nevertheless it Still Remains a question you don't have thisa that it only Moses that tells them or it's only them to do it without a right you don't see that by any other mitzvas this extra concern in chapter 28:3 which is a few verses later it says very much the same language again a double pronoun a double you so to speak and you you shall speak you shall say over to them so to over there it requires a resolution we have to figure out what it is the commentators asked also mitvah why is this Mitzvah right here the rest of the par is dealing with the clothes of theim of the priests the prime place the main place it should have been was after completing after creating or producing the Tabernacle and then the placing of the and all the details regarding its writing you had to have a place to put it that's and now explains there's no question the prime place for this Mitzvah of lighting the Min where it's placed is over there in but here it does say meaning to say what does God want to get across he wants to get across that a few pares later in the future you will command the children of Israel and according to his words meaning the then the whole P the whole verse is Superfluous and extra and not necessary because what what's the point of telling him now that in the end he's going to command them later and what does the I think when he means he's talking about the what is theel what's he going to do with this verse that comes three verses later notice you open you answered up by saying over here is referring to command that will happen in the future well what about here when it talks right now about the Holiness of theim and the and the sanctity of the garments it's happening right now it's not something that he's going to command later on that's mentioned right away and furthermore he ask it says right you should raise up this constantly it's not one n it's not one candle it's seven it's a bunch sh there were seven so why is the language in there singular furthermore K another so the word implies continuously but we know it wasn't weren't they lit only from night until morning so why is this word used here to say that at least one air has to be lit always continuously is another definition of t like uh say if you have a Corban tummy okay it doesn't mean you bring the corbon tummy all day long consistently cons so that that's how he's going to answer I don't think so a further question that the spoke about it says oh mo inside the Tabernacle inside the tent of meeting but it's outside of we're talking but where the placement of the minor is it's in the temp in the Tabernacle in the ohel but it's outside of the curtain which separates the holy of holies so this which is by or near uh the or well that's the AR Cod for sure so we come upon the testimony so this whole source of the arrangement appears not necessary at all why it could have said the verse could have said why do we need to know where it's placed you we know that the arrangement is all is done on the man itself so we already know the place where the manora is located it says in in chapter 2634 and 35 it says specifically Place manora opposite that is near the so we already know where it is so what is all this being told again now we also don't mention it's only mentioned one candle in our verse parous and more it says you show you know AR was supposed to arrange the candles so we see plur furthermore our verse said so in the outside of the curtain whereas in parous EM it switched the order and it says first me outside of the curtain and afterwards it says inside of the the Tabernacle inside the tent of meeting the again we mention it says over here but he wants to add another Point here outside of the which is near the the the testimony but over there it says the itself is called the test right outside of the the curtain of the testimony so almost they're both saying the same thing partially here and Par almost it's almost like two different people are are writing the same thing and now you know why these bio critics who are so I can't even say the tape recorder on I'm going have to add this out they claim that there are five different authors and they take these things but they're all intermingled it's not like uh there's any Sor to that anyway that would certainly I wonder what they do with the codes they just dismiss the codes Al together okay so we're going to continue on ran it seems like we can resolve all of the questions that we asked according to what the ramban had written remember we said it it's it's the verse says to bring up the candle again it's a continuous candle or continuously we're talking about the most western candle that was always lit but regarding the other Six Candles remember we just said it was just from it was only live from the evening until the morning to now with this proposal with this understanding it will answer up all of the the questions we had mentioned after Moses had been commanded by God regarding the Tabernacle and all of its vessels there was a a division within the structure of the mishkan to three uh we call portions three distinctions there was the most inner we call the holy of holies they had the other part where the king were and then you have the outside where the outer altar was or the right is that what we're talking about as it says regarding all of them in verse in chapter 25: 8 and they shall make me a sanctuary that includes everything I may dwell among them and this Veil this curtain we call the separated between the holy of holies and the holy mes desired he wanted that each portion each one of the divisions should have something that would ref or teach the fact that the holy presence dwelt there amongst Israel he inside of the holy of holies you had the ark and within the ark sat the tablets The Ten Commandments the two tablets that hasem placed this testimony it was a testimony that the is faithful that the would reside there because through the Lucas themselves that the tablets had when they were written and the script they were written in there was a way that if I was on one side you the other you would see it written correctly and I would see it written correctly which was I guess the first n above that you had certain letters like like say take letter O for example the s for the men we have that total cut out but the the the piece in the middle hung or levitated the Don H well with the space in between it was just levitating that they were read readable from both sides as Rashi mentions and the me and the those are two letters they in the in the tablets they were hanging by miracle and there's no doubt that anybody who went into this place the holy of holies they would see with their own eyes that the name of hasem is called upon it it's open miracle and therefore now that you have this curtain that separates the ankle of the sh and not every person can actually enter there we're talking about only the co God the high priest one day a year then God forbid someone who's thinking wrongly might come and say that this whole thing is a lie that there is no testimony therefore thought it necessary to make also there in the he which is the outer room it's still the call the inner room but not the most Inner Room also a constant miracle and that would be through that most western light that always stayed lit so that everybody could see it I guess you can see it from the outside cuz was it was an opening may may may shame hasem this is an Isaiah I can read the verse just mentions that from the West people will fear the name of hasem and from the rising son his glory so there's this concept of fearing Hashem because of the N from the N that's most westerly will come to recog recognition of Hashem that he does well there whereas if this curtain the perus was not separating or covering the arm of testimony the Ark of testimony there would be no reason for this miracle meaning the most western candle to remain lit forever and according to this proposition or proposal we can actually say that our here not and more but our par here is not it's not intended to the command regarding the candles of the V only really over in that other that is really the prime place for the command the the here the main of the Prime command is regarding that most western mechan it doesn't say near in the singular in the next account in right to reveal to mosha that even though theil covers the Arc of testimony n nevertheless it shall be also a place meaning in the inner call the outer room it should also be a place where you have a holy Miracle constantly and the to publicize that hasem also I added that word also dwells there you know you already know Shalom regarding Moses it was said the Y now this verse in Deuteronomy 33:21 it's really towards the end but not exactly sure because it's really amazing verse we the first part says he chose the first portion for himself for that is where the lawgiver plot is hidden he came at the head of the nation carrying out hashem's Justice and his ordinances with Israel so he chose the portion first you saw it chose it it sounds like what we're trying to say is that Moses like and we're going to explain it much more in detail is the source he's the he's he was the first and the beginning for all things that stand in in a miracle there's somehow the miracle surround or stand for who he was like this most westly candle like he was you know when you have a candle and you light another candle so you still have the original size of the flame there's nothing lacking from the flame that you originally had to light I don't know 100 candles it's not like only have only have 100 left of the original flame you have the original size and kamut quantity and probably quality as well so when Moses is going to be the source for we're going to see all kinds of things whether it's prophecy wisdom as we're going to see that emanated from him all of the influence of the Holy Spirit upon all future prophets all the prophets that came after him received from him it's hard to say what it is the the ability to even the ability to have rues the ability to prophesy came through some quality that Moshe had the word is emanate it it came from him it somehow from him the power that he had gave the ability for other people to have prophecy the face of Moses was like the son right we know that when he came down from the now and he had to cover his space because it was too bright because from him emanated this light upon all of them upon all the prophets this is exactly what the Western most candle did that its light was continuous by through a ace through a miracle because you know what they put in they put the same amount of oil in all the candles get the all them and they put in enough for 12 hours 12 Jewish and it went out in the morning except this one didn't so I so this emanation that was upon Moses shown from his face shown from light was lighted from Moses cuz he was as an intermediary between the light of God to all types of Light which stand in a miracle talking about this candle was a light that stood in a miracle so just like his face shown but also when he was born the whole house lit up and as a proof let's say a proof to this it says that when he was born I mean I'm sure they had candles but he out shown the C whatever Lake they had in the house when he was born the whole house lit up with a tremendous light to teach us that he was the first to receive from the superal light this is Moses we're talking about and it was through his being an intermediary that he share that influence of thislike to any other place where there is standing uh Miracle now we understand why it says you you command is a word you which is totally unnecessary just say or even you two pronouns of you saying you the first word that from the essence of who you are and the additional light that's within you that's you so then whoever you are as we just explained you're the one that are to command the children of Israel that they shall take for you the the sh they're going to take for you meaning to say means to connect combine with you you're already this great light they going to combine the oil to you remember he's also like the candle in order to Moses should they're saying to him that you should continue to influence with your glory that's Moses glory in order to bring up the this this Western most constant candle this is the Western candle its ability to be constant or continuous or 24 hours was by a miracle and afterwards I think he talking about the now but either way even if it's we now we're able to give a reason of praise to why there was this necessity for this miracle of the western candle it says in the tent right in the tent of meeting outside of this curtain which is upon the or near the testimony is since this curtain is acting as a separation between the place where you do have the testimony that the is resting there with the Jewish people and the rest of this tent which is not the holy of holies but it's only the holies that's why it says thaton should arrange it from morning until from night till morning why it's actually it's AAL question what do we saying that he stood there the whole night arranged it the entire night what do you mean sugar his wife's gone to kids rather he placed in that light the same amount of oil as the other six it was exactly the same amount he didn't put it anymore it was exactly what he needed for the 12 hours I came nevertheless came the candle lasted much longer always till right before Sunset I imagine and still it's not explained it wasn't explained which one of these candles in our verse it doesn't say it's the Western candle it still didn't explain which handle has this uh Miracle happening to it AAR but the verse does say in front of God now we understand that it's the most western candle that it's closest to the that rests in the west because this from the aspect that the testimony this is acting as a testimony is similar to the candle which is by the Aon the iron does serve as a testimony and now this candle is also acting as a testimony and how do we know there's a verse we know it says a single witness you don't you you can't stand up but according to two or three Witnesses shall matter be confirmed right you go to court you're a single witness there no point wasting your time and everyone else's time it's probably just pure L and heart but if you have two is you can establish something something could be uh there could be a at the end so they are having two witnesses the candle and the Ark serving as two witnesses and both of them are actually came through Moses as we we know already the five books right the the Torah is in there the the tablets are in the Aron so that's through Moses but what were trying trying to answer up a little bit when they said they should take for you and they're taking from Moses this oil why would they be taking from Moses soil we already explained he's he's he's combined he's involved with that oil Loos and again we're not mentioning all of the candles we're only mentioning the one CU this is really not the place talk about all the other candles over there the other it over there upon that purified that's where you arrange ploos that's why it doesn't say over there either that double language of you because the prime command was over there regarding All the Narrows and it's just it does mention the Western most candle over there but that was just that was just by the way CU it's mentioned all the candles as it mentions over there as it mentions here right to bring up the sorry this is over there outside of the curtain as as a testimony in the why did I pause there CU he's going to explain why right now it seems to me that that that verse we just mentioned you have to read it the way I just read it stop after the word the this is what it means to raise up that candle that continuous candle that is outside of theet meaning this kind of like proves everything he said that what did theem want that he wanted one of those candles to be lit ly in a way of a miracle outside of the holy of holies and afterwards explains what the use of this miracle is that's why it says the use of the miracle the purpose of the mirle that it serves as a testimony within the that this n this miracle gives over testimony that hasem is faithful also within the itself remember we said that because you can't go into the holy of holies to see the other eight sh that everyone can see into [Applause] that that they're able to see from that most westerly candle that the name of God is within the Jewish peoples is dwelling in them and that's why it says that is supposed to arrange them from morning until night morning sorry thank you from evening until morning and it should be LIF in front of God always all right almost [Applause] finished and according to what it says over there charge or command the children of Israel and they shall take for you this infers there is something here that relates to all of the children of Israel if you're commanding all the children of Israel and they should take for you and also we have something that relates only to Moses alone that's says to you so we have two subjects in this verse therefore required to explain what what both of them were doing there and what what aspects each one has the aspect the matter that relates just to Moses and not to the rest of that's the matter that stands in the miracle of regarding Moses it says upon him maybe we're talking about yes Moses but we were saying Moses was reflective or represented by that most western the candle so you raise up n as we said it's one n until the the verse ends as a as a Eternal law for all the generations is and then explains what relates to the children of Israel what does it say that's in the par regarding the upon the Candelabra the pure candelabra Aon is supposed to arrange the neros that's all of the candles in front of constantly there because all of those other candles either face or somehow are directed in the direction of the West Western um candle Al talk about this is really in last week's part but um you didn't talk about how thei Works what was the anatomy of it we have to do that right now we did I think last time it's the M major mocus right whether it's the most western candle is the middle one that faces um somehow leaning to the west but um I think it makes more sense it's the most W in Campa but who am I just at least according to this Paradigm here so what is he saying here that all of them were facing this most western candle that's why it says regarding all them remember it's the most Wess and beond the per you have the testimony of so he says this is a very fine explanation we're just going to go on for a few more verses alternatively that's why he mentions this Source the verse here right outside of the curtain which is upon the testimony you should not make Mistake by saying that God needs the light that you have Darkness on the other side right there's no need for the light but this per neveress does separate between the candle and the place that theem dwells furthermore K plus and that there the test is the testimony and all of it is lit or light so you certainly the prime taking is for you meaning Moses the okay I'm not sure if we understand that but want to explain a little better in the it's brought down the way that the the windows in the temple itself and we can you know we didn't have any Windows here in the in the Tabernacle but it would be the same concept the way they were they were wide on the outside and thin on the inside like the walls around the old city low Arrow I mean over there was just for practical reasons to shoot arrows and not get hit but here if you were doing um architecture and you you wanted to bring in natural light You' probably do it the other way you would have the thin on the outside and it gets wider on the inside so that supposedly brings more light draws the light in but over here it wasn't necessary it wasn't that the sun light lit or enlightened gave off light to the temple El it was quite the opposite it was from the mikash itself that actually C any kind of light to exist in the world as it says Ines Ezekiel 43:2 I had part of the verse that's the whole verse actually and behold it's really the last three or four words and behold the glory of God of Israel was coming from the East it sound was like the sound of multitude of waters and the Earth Shone with his glory the Earth Shone with his glory the the light emanates from the mikdash came Beyond talked about that over there in on the verse that Yakov rested there maybe the Earth pulled him there but either way he rested in that place and he slept there because the sun had set and we talked about over there that he realized that had set 2 hours early and as a result the fact that the over there we discussed the idea that it was that that the light with the as opposed to the lighting the Earth and perhaps that's why it mentions for you meaning to you Moses the to explain even the face of Moses because his face was like the face of the sun it shown nevertheless you need this spirituality Moses needs this this light as well it's not that the Sun that that enlightens that illuminates the m just like you're the you need the mikash you need the to like to be the source of life for you because from it meaning the mikdash that's the source for all the light of the stars and the bright things in the sky the H and this par is like it's like a rebuke or it gives you ethical teachings towards those who would make a mistake that they spend all their money their choice money on Despicable and despised uh physical physicalities for you know let's say Fine Foods and fine drinks and all the the pleasures of this world that a man can find that's the word I was looking for there that's despicable despise that that it gives for the needs that what do you what you rather you should be giving for the needs of what we call the candle of God which is the soul of man that's what you should be feeding that's what you should be chasing after not all the the goshas but the r like what diden right after the the gmas the physicality and he he ran after the spirituality he you should following the ways of he took whatever he had in the physical world brought it as a gift to hem as it says he brought from the first of his flock and the choicest that's why also the the um the crushing of the olives bringing from the very first that is used for we say is for the light but we're talking about spirituality which is the candle of God which is the soul of man which is the eternal light says to bring sorry to bring up the doesn't say to bring up the candle consist continuously so the second drop of the oil you bring for the offering CU there's a flower offering that is mixed with oil that is what we feed Harvey and his family and this is enough of a hint for those that have some understanding or can understand anyway s thank you for your patience good J is