The Sin offering of the Moshiach by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Parshat VaYikra

[Music] everybody thank you for coming when I want to do to notice I want to talk some some what about that oh and then connected to the matically different tissues in the parsha once again the haftorah for this coming Shabbos is not the regular hub tour of the Parcher of the week because it is the fourth of the special for car she out in the month of Adar ending with Rosh Hodesh Nissan and last week was part shots para this week is parsha ha'qodesh so what that means is that the seven alleles will be the parsha of the Shavua purchase Hydra there will be a master from para q days of the bush mouse which goes over the laws of the korban Pesach and the mats in the modern and the haftorah is connected to that math here and that's why it is called car shots how Co - right so that's what we're going to talk about initially the haftorah practice of ho - is once again from the nother UNESCO we've encountered him quite a lot that last week's of Torah for precious para was also of another UNESCO remember that the number unit scale is a Nabi very very unique among all the prophets because he is the only one of the prophets in Tanaka who got his navoi in hoods Lauritz in Babylonia remember that the Jews were exiled Babylonian exile took place in two stages the more average socratic learning classes were exiled 11 years before the korban they sonic - that is called the godless of yahoo Jochen or your Konya who was the King at the time and Mordecai was in that colors remember McGillis Esther she had glamour you shall I am in hog Ola share hog was on em you can yeah Melanie hooter so your testicles new vows are in the eleven years until the Horeb and based on Mick - he was a contemporary of your me Yahoo who was in Eretz Israel and you me oh of course was an actual witness to the destruction of the base on Mukesh so you have to look at your Bo and your task as the two great movie em of this to ku5 this very difficult coupon yummy Oh is giving new voice in Eric Israel the classical is giving the boy in bubble again you show y'all is totally different you show you always a hundred years earlier and that's the time of the Exile of the tenth right so you show yo is not part of this part of this group what is interesting though about your testicle is your testicle is what we might call a bricks-and-mortar prophets in many many ways most of the book of your tesco is filled with bitter bitter denunciations of the sinfulness of the jewish people he's a very very tough well he's speaking Bechet Michele but he continued continuously uses the metaphors of harlots prostitutes fornicator that is what the Jewish people are called in terms of being an unfaithful wife who strays and to be frank if you were to look at the actual Hebrew in your Cusco there was a lot of sexual imagery that would be censored in Boston meaning when he describes the the spiritual prostitution of the Jewish people he uses graphic sexually explicit terms to talk about their unfaithfulness but at the end of the book there are great great beautiful visions of comforts now the point I want to make is however if you compare for example the visions of comfort of yo-yo of Isaiah and even your meal with UNESCO you see a very very different type of description of what is Mahama what is going on what is mushy odda you shall for example yzma for son for his universalistic outlook you show yo it talks about all of the nations shall come together after famous verses in the United Nations they shall beat their their swords into plowshares plows and the right to only warning where all of these beautiful sentiments that all the nations shall look which God so you say Oh Israeli very much what you call the Universalist and his vision of goombazz Lima there is the theory of the idea of peace unification harmony integration the lamb will lie down with with the wolf etc right this is how you shallow perceives good luck your test skill is a very bricks and mortar person meaning he doesn't really talk about the other Guardium coming to Eretz Israel to believing in God he doesn't even talk about world's peace he actually gives you the actual floor plans blueprints for what Jerusalem will look like and what the third temple would look like technical blueprints tell you it'll be this here and this arid this year it's almost as if he wanted to give her he needed to give people a very very specific mental image of what the gula will look like as opposed to the beautiful poetic generalities of a show you now these messages are not inconsistent but they are different ways of perceiving the whole and this is the important you sowed of that there are a condom taught us that although all Nevada is messages from the Almighty but it is filtered through the personality of the prophets and the Prophet will perceive that spiritual message in accordance with their tendency and their propensity and their personality that is why Moshe obeying his prophecy is very different Moshe a famous prophecy is auditory he directly heard words from God it was not filtered through a personality of interpretation that is why there's a certain finality to Moshe of a news prophecies in the Torah but the other prophets is a combination of divine revelation and a certain subjectivity in which the prophecy gets colored and filtered through the nuances of the nobbies personality so it's always interesting we know very little about the personal life of the prophets the prophets don't discuss their personal issues the one exception is your mio we're not studying tonight yo-yo does talk about his various Agony's but neither you nor your cusco really tell us a lot of autobiographical detail about their struggles and about their feelings but you work backwards from these themes that they emphasize and they talk about you get a sense of what their inner psychology is and your Cusco must have been on one hand an extremely practical person because he is extremely interested in the practical details of how the temple will unfold and the service of the temple much more so than the other an event at the same time it's ESCO and maybe these are connected was an extremely visual person because he saw justice as Albert Einstein is sometimes described as a visual physicist in fact some have argued that because he perceived things like relativity in terms of visual phenomena the mathematics were not as fully developed as a professional mathematician would have done and as a result the theory of relativity is actually harder to work with than would have been the case had there been a more highly developed mathematical system Einstein just literally saw things and in fact he said that he writes in various places that he never was that good with words he sees reality in terms of mental images that he then tries to describe but usually the description is not going to be the same as the actual visualization so yes testicle is a great visualizer remember even his vision of God I mean god of God is a visual key Ceja cupboard the divine throne of glory the divine chariots all sorts of graphic images that other prophets do not have and similarly if SQL is unique for his graphic descriptions and blueprints of the third temple and that is the last third the latter third of the book of your festival and the haftorah for practice our Hodesh which deals with renewal and Nissan UCS mitzrayim Redemption which is a forerunner of Messiah so the October deals with the ultimate redemption and certain aspects of the third base emitted by the way when I say third base and mikdash I have to make a very important point it doesn't say anywhere that your Cusco is talking about a third base of it - right your festival is telling us there's going to be the destruction of the temple by the Babylonians and then he says God promises us a rebuilt temple now theoretically many of you Tesco's listeners and maybe accessible himself thought that God was talking about the second temple that will be rebuilt after the Babylonian exile it was not a foregone conclusion that the second temple had to be destroyed and indeed there's all sorts of her in Muslim that perhaps when Ezra came that could have been the Messianic era and the like but we were not worthy so the assess Coase prophecies turned into the third temple only by virtue of the fact that there was a gullet and the destruction of the second temple it didn't have to be the third temple it could have been the second temple well that's exactly right what happened basically was that by the time they built the second temple they realized that it was going to be destroyed they realized that this was not the messianic vision of the festival well they realize I did because of the circumstances of their return that number one they have they returned not through some miraculous supernatural way they returned through the permission of a foreign occupying power namely Persia only a small minority of the Jewish people returns so the sages and the prophets already had a sense that the Second Temple was really a transitional temporary stage odd kid Acosta Maimonides actually writes the Rambam actually writes that they observe Tish above as a fast day during the whole 420 years of the Second Temple because they never got back even the holiness of the first temple they didn't get that prophecy and and and the light so your Tesco goes over the what we know now is going to be the third and final base of Mukesh and he describes a lot of core Panos now I think I had mentioned before when we first read I observed from your Tesco that yes Tesco was a controversial prophet that when the Hebrew Tanaka was undergoing the process of canonization what books make the sacred Canon what books don't there was actually a considerable number of sages who felt that the book of accessible should not be canonized and in fact should be consigned to oblivion because there is much in the book that apparently contradicts the laws of the Torah and the guimard gives us a story that a certain a rabbi in the time of Hillel and Shammai amanuensis Kia locked himself in an attic with 300 barrels of oil means burning the midnight oil meaning enough fuel to stay up for a lot of nights and he resolved all of the various problems and eventually the book of his festival was accepted in a canonized form now we don't have a transcript we don't have a record of exactly what his resolutions were but the central problem is precisely in this part of the book that is when you testicle describes the temple service of the Emoto machiner he describes things that are very very different than the temple service as laid down in the Torah and therefore the accusation was made that your testicles prophecies cannot be deemed legitimate because they contravene the mosaic revelation unless you find some ways to resolve it so to go through the particular details I'm I'll mention a few things but you know it really is a very very technical point because you have to go through the equipment and then you have to go through the prophetic descriptions and then you find discontinuities and contradictions and inconsistencies and it is precisely this part of the book that is makes you festival controversial I'll mention one how about for example that has nothing to do with the temple itself but where there's a seemingly a contradiction yes Tesco says in this section he has different laws of the Kohanim the laws of the priesthood and he says a calling can marry only the widow of another coming a Cohen cannot marry a widow of an ongoing now this is a statement that is unknown to the halacha as recorded in the Torah the Torah says a regular Cohen cannot marry a divorced woman but a regular Cohen can certainly marry a widow a calling God all cannot marry a widow but he can't marry the widow of a Cohen either so either way you look at it your testicle statement is not accurate because your testicle says a calling can marry only the widow of a Cohen well if we're talking about a regular Colleen a regular Colleen can marry any Widow and if you're talking about Cohen Godot a calling Donald cannot marry the widow of a Cohen either so that would be one example where your testicle seemingly contradicts the Torah the commentaries give different different approaches to this now in the haftorah for this week the main contradictions are your testicle lays out the special Corbin note for Shabbat and Rosh Hodesh and the the shoulders radula and it totally is it is totally different than then what the Torah says and the question is what do you do with that what do you do with that so I just want to mention a two basic approaches now maybe two and a half basic approaches the half approach says we don't know elio and now he's gonna have to clarify it meaning we just don't know what it means okay that's an approach really that's just saying you know you don't die from a question there are going to be there are going to be many issues about the Messianic era that will not be clarified until it happens okay but the two basic approaches are this and they actually are fairly important theologically the reduct revved up in Timothy one of the great great biblical commentators of the Middle Ages does posit the possibility that maybe emotes a machine is a different type of world who says the old rules have to apply a meaning it's very very possible that the Torah is the binding revelation of God for this stage of mankind but yumoto Messiah may be different things we do find for example even in the Hagaddah of Pesach coming up that there is the possibility of certain mitzvahs getting discontinued in yamoto Messiah for example the midst of narrating the exodus if you remember just I don't want to go over the whole passage but there's a passage in the Haggadah from rabbi elazar ben Azaria reveals urban Azaria says behold I am like a person who was seventy years old and you know the interpretation that he became head of the Sanhedrin at the age of 18 and his beard turned miraculously white now the Gemara sense of people would respect him I would say maybe it required that the anxiety of the of the position but whatever it is and I didn't know you're supposed to talk about the exodus at night until Ben Zoma thoughts that since the Torah says you must mention the exodus all the days of your life all the day and we just would have said the days that would amend a time all the days includes tonight but the Cohanim say no that's not the Drescher days means this world all the days means even when Messiah comes you will still have to talk about the now the gomorian brothers explains that Ben Zoma who says that all emphasizes the night actually takes the position that we're not gonna talk about the exodus when Messiah comes because the miracles of Messiah are going to be so great that they will supersede any need to discuss you see estimates right so you do say that that at least according to Ben Zoma that same is for this going to be abrogated so we've done it typically the result says you know listen if you find the discrepancies between the torah's ritual and your festivals ritual that's simply a reflection of the idea that you mota mushiya maybe kind of a different world now let me point out that this is in direct contravention to Maimonides one of the Rambam fundamental principles of faith is the Eternity of the Torah and there are many includes that to the messianic error as well and of course your Joseph Volvo who criticizes Maimonides formulations actually raises Ben Zoma as one of the questions of Maimonides that if I manganese posits the Eternity of the Torah then how could Ben Zoma say we're not given mentioned you'd see at Smith's ryeom when Messiah comes here revolve oh you uses that text as a question on Maimonides and my role tries to answer it by basically saying that when then Zoma says we're not going to mention it it doesn't mean we're not going to mention it just means it's not going to be as dominant as it was because of mushiya prices so there are different ways of interpreting the text okay but this is Rosanna adopts approach basically is things can be different they can't be different because Mashiach is a different world different type of existence of course let me point out the fact that Maimonides rejects that is actually equally consistent with his view of Messiah because Maimonides has a very naturalistic view of mushiya that the world is not going to be so supernaturally different so in a sense Maimonides view that the Torah will not change remote Amasya fits very nicely with his understanding of your motor machine as being relatively naturalistic okay but this is redonk and again but that was a great it was a great commentator very very authoritative commentator and the like I do want to point out the one interesting thing and that is so if we're Doc simply explains the discrepancies in your festival with the idea of oh my gosh it's a new world new laws new principles again I don't want to over exaggerate it I mean the structure is basically the same shabbos for show that you have nothing but but the numbers are different the animals are different the quantities are different but I do want to point out but the one thing you can't deny you cannot deny this is that your testicles vision does include corbino's in other words you might have thought if you're simply no thinking okay new world no Kerberos you know we only worship with the heart etc it's absolutely clear that even with all of your testicles innovations he is wedded to the notion of the slaughter of animal offerings okay so one has to understand that as somewhat radical as his deviations are they are well within the old established structure so it's an interesting point when people sometimes quote for of cook and I really should should look at the quote because it couldn't mean this exactly where of cook says that when we will go back to being vegetarians the carbon owes to Hashem will be only a vegetable material or grain and there will no longer be animal sacrifices I just don't know how graph cook is going to interpret even than a vote of yes SQL in that way which talks about cows and sheep and goats and and the like so that's one thing to keep in mind that even with their words acts approach we still have carbon oats now the second approach to your testicles deviations is that which is Rashi the malbim the Abbar Bunnell this seems to be the more favorite approach and that is yes SQL is not changing the tourist laws he is simply adding special one-time ceremonies of inauguration so for example when your testicle says on Rosh Hodesh there's this Corbin and I'm pay stuff there's this Corbin and they don't correspond to the Torah he is not saying that his corbino's are replacing what's in the Torah that's struggle to be done nor is he even saying they'll be a permanent addition but the first year there are going to be special dedication ceremonies in honor of the inauguration and therefore yes ESCO is not this loud referring to permanent legislation he is simply referring to specialized inaugural ceremonies and that way the fresco is it doesn't bother to repeat what's already in the Torah because that's a deborah postulate that's going to be kept he is simply adding these extra details so these are the two basic approaches the approach of red duct which theologically is a bit more daring because there is actually posits the potential abrogation or change a various business of the Torah and that's a position that would be somewhat similar to rev Yosef album came around a little later versus maybe a more conventional in which of course the Toreros laws are going to be kept and your festivals Corbeau notes are simply special inaugural inauguration offerings called milu in which we'll only applied to that first to that first year okay so these are the two basic approaches armored foursome have but again for people who are committed to halakha these are very very problematical chapters again for many people they're just be bored by it you know you're just reading details and they wouldn't even know what the Torah says anyway so they don't connect but for those who are committed to the halassi system these are actually very very serious problems in which we're looking at rituals being described that are foreign to the Ring Jools in the turret and as I say this was the primary reason why the haha men did were conceived really considered not canonizing FS Co now even that has two possible meanings either they thought he may have been a false prophet which would be an extraordinary statement or they thought that his prophecies would be misunderstood and missile I'd and therefore his book would be withdrawn not because it was heretical but because it was dangerous and could lead people to her ethical thoughts and behaviors even though the prophecies themselves did have you know an ultimate meaning that that probably is the more probable interpretation I don't think there was any hvar Mena that yes testicle himself was heretical or a false a false prophet but there's still a concept that even a holy book again is also interesting repercussions even the holy book can be censored or withdrawn if people might be misled nun yeah that's an interesting proposition in and of itself in terms of censorship and in a much less elevated context that's kind of what happened to Rabbi Slifkin Russell Slifkin who wrote books trying to reconcile we've been actually ISM with science and basically he developed the idea which is not original with him but he articulated the idea that although the sages the colombians views are binding in Halawa but when it comes to science the rabbis could make mistakes and their science was fallible and there's Evan and eminent Authority for that going back to the Rambam and before the rabo going back to the cajon him but if you follow the Slifkin controversies over the year over the years he got in deep deep deep deep trouble with that and as a result e is no longer not some slogan he's not tongue Slifkin and he changed his affiliation to there's a teeny of me world because of that tremendous controversy and again the argument that people made I mean some people call slipped in an epic RS which is absolutely unfair and not justified whatsoever but others you know took the position hey you know maybe you got a point but it'll confuse people a little little mislead people you know that that's not the thing is that that's always the problem with with censorship it's a major major debate do you try to give people the truth and they have to know how to handle it or is there a concept you know we don't give people the truth now I tell you I personally in my own life I always tried to follow the the first approach of giving the truth but I once had a discussion with one of the Russia she was in or Sameach in which my early years of teaching I was saying things that we're not totally the standard Yeshiva line so one of the students informed on me and filed a report against me I'm not sure exactly what it was so I had a conversation with one of the Russian Shiva's and I was fascinated a fascinating conversation the receiver told me you and I both know that these issues are a lot more complicated and nuances then we normally present them but when you try to present them they're in their full complexity you will be confusing people and people need something simple and definite that they can hold on to you know it was so it was so mine it was not anything even major but there was something I was just talking about that there were different approaches toward Zion ISM at the time that they were there were many great rabbis to embrace on ISM as a messianic it was there nothing nothing particularly exceptional I mean these are probably commonplace ideas in the street sometimes in the Shiva world they're they're revolutionary even though they're they're not revolutionary at all and I think somebody complained I was legitimating Zionism or something and the rabbi said you know and it was really interesting to me that this concept and again I I think about it I conjugates and you know I think all of us have to deal with it that is are there things that you censor are there things that you hold back are there things that you don't say even though they're true because they're prone to being misinterpreted and prone to being misapplied what is that a lack of respect for your audience right it's one thing to say I don't tell my three-year-old certain things that's a different thing you're talking about educated and thoughtful Joe Joe yeah it's it's gonna be too big stance okay are you yeah you know so all I'm saying is the reason that the reason I'm doing is I had I don't want to rehash you know my old my particular my particular fights in our Savannah but the reason I'm rehashing it is that it's striking to me that the not VFS code was it was subject to a similar type of process where the sages wanted to censor or withdraw his book because they thought there was potentially heretical material and as they say I don't think it was likely they thought he was a heretic meaning they believed his book was a true book of divine revelation but they said too hot to handle too dangerous we're going to put it put it away just an interesting connection to some modern events in that in that way okay so these are the two approaches again I'm not going to go over all of the details and discrepancies but when you approach those chapters in UNESCO be aware of the Razak approach which is theologically more daring and the more conventional approach of malbim a barber know and even Rashi that simply says these were inauguration offerings that are superimposed on the standard for the notes of the Torah now there are some other details though about the Third Temple that are quite interesting and it mentions that the main gates of the Beit HaMikdash the gate that you entered the courtyard where you had them as bad is normally to be kept closed not to be opened but that's Shabbat and hug him the door would be open so that all of the people who came to the base of McDonough Shabbos and Yonkers would be able to gaze at the divine some type of image of the Divine Presence now it's interesting that the second base of miktex we're given a very detailed blueprint of the second base on McDuff in the Mishnah and that is a home acceptance of the Mishnah there's no Gomorrah on it this is called masochist meadowsweet out here means dimensions and this is really a description not really of the original second temple which was built in the time of Ezra and that was relatively small but this is a description of the magnificence Herodian temple but that's what you'll see in the the israel museum exhibit these because the Holy Land exhibits etc like the greater Rodian temple and were given a very very detailed description Josephus also gives us a description and there are some discrepancies between the Mishnah description and Josephus description and archaeologists you know try to reconcile those descriptions but the one common denominator is that the Herodian temple does not match up your physical doesn't follow your testicles directives and the Rambam explains that since the sages realized this would not be the enduring temple they didn't want to make it with Ezekiel's plans because that's the final based on victors but the Rambam says they did incorporate various features of the you testicle temple so they would have a memory so to speak of what that Basin mixes is supposed to look like and one of the details is that in the gates of Nicanor the gates of Nik North was indeed the main gates to the courtyard of the temples to the east right you're when you walk through the temple courtyard towards the Holy of Holies you are walking in an east-west direction now although there are gates to the temple courtyard to the north and to the south as well but the main gaits was to the e to the east there in these and it's called the gates of Nick Nick Nick NARR was actually a Jewish man who donated those doors and as a result they were named in his honor the gates of Nicanor and the gates of Nick nor was a was a very tall gate 20 animals like 40 feet high but there were two smaller gates on either side of it and one of those gates was kept permanently closed and was never used it was called the gates of the Divine Presence and that is based on the ethical statement that the gate should be closed and so in a sense that was an incorporation of in the rule of the accessible but in your customs based on make touch the gauge is going to be open for every Shabbat in every Rosh Hodesh and every young chef and its mentions that did not see the must-see is the king or the messianic king will come and bring special quarter notes and then the other people will follow and then it gives us a very interesting room then I see then I see it's the mela HaMashiach the no see comes to the main gate and then leaves from the main game everybody else they enter the courtyard from all the different gates but there's an interesting hahaha the testicle tells us that you cannot leave by the same gate that you entered if you entered by the northern gate you must leave by the southern gate if you entered by the eastern gate you must leave by a different gate and this is actually stated as a however you must leave through a different date than the gateway that you entered the temple courtyard to bring your carbon out so why doesn't say why but the commentaries explain that this physical tangible ceremony is an allusion to a spiritual idea that you don't leave the temple same way as you were when you entered meaning that you have to have a transformation that you don't go out the same way you came in and that's really the experience that it's supposed to be a transforming experience I once heard my tour guide that apparently these steps that's led up to the Temple Mount and you can still see some of the architectural steps on the southern educational school gates right the hold again which is on the south now that's that's the gates of the Temple Mount don't confuse it the main gate to the temple courtyard was to the east but the main gate to the temple mount's was to the south so you entered south and then you you know you enter through the eastern gate or the light so George I said again I am I'm not an expert in this that much but he says that the stairways going up the Temple Mount to the holder gates are like not not even there are different lengths different heights and he says that was intentional to force a person to be deliberate and thoughtful as they're ascending meaning you don't just run up there but you got to stop and look and think etc and that kind of made you focus on the significance of what you were what you were doing that this was hoping this was very very little elevated there are many of them there were many who loved us and there are still many of us now again most most religious Jews do not go on the Temple Mount today because of how logic problems that we're timing ritually impure we don't have the power I do myself most of us don't go at all but there are there are many religious Jews who have abstract that they do go in the Temple Mount because the outer perimeters are not subject to these restrictions on impurity but if you go in the Temple Mount there are many many other huh you know you go to the mikveh beforehand you're not allowed to wear leather shoes there are things you don't bring you're not supposed to bring secular things with you although sometimes people do it to masquerade what they're doing I mean you know that in the Jewish state of Israel it is absolutely against the law against the laws the law of the Knesset to Dobbin to say abraca on the Temple Mount the police will arrest you their concern is it'll trigger a riot or whatever it is so what people sometimes do is they bring a secular bring our rights they bring a secular paper with them and you know they have their you know in the paper so they actually have to do have to Dobbin by looking as if they're reading a newspaper fact there was like a wedding there like last year was a two years ago where somebody got married and the way they did it was like you know the guy is walking you know next to him next to a girl next to his collar and he likes lips her lips her the ring and whispers every we did you know intro to witness that would have to be a surreptitious wedding now was that a good idea I think not but okay okay but well daddy gets publicized somebody took a picture and it was circulated in the press I mean if the concern is that these types of activities could god forbid give rise to in to father like responses so one has to be relatively responsible I mean as far as I know there's no particular Mitzvah to get married on the hora by it you know you don't have to make your wedding vow to buy it so people want to make political statements and I understand that I understand the idea that you want to make a statement that this belongs to the Jewish people and etc but you know one does I also have to live in the world of realism in terms of not doing things that could trigger violent violent responses this was even a controversy regarding the decision to move the embassy although the brush of a British M it seems to be the right decision but but there were people that did express I think legitimate concerns that you know the leash you know should we move the embassy if there's a high probability of of violent responses I mean that's that's always well as a matter of fact the Briscoe ruff the brisker of one of the reasons he was against the establishment of the State of Israel was not because of the victory cards idea that you can't have a state so mushy of jokes but he said he's going to put Jewish populations in greater danger that was his that was his thesis and you know it's an interesting empirical question it's a very very interesting empirical question I'm not sure if we get over the affinity of answer has the State of Israel made Jewish life safer or made the Jewish lives more in jeopardy it's an interest it's an interesting thought experiment and you know you could make cases both ways on that and you know but but I mean many many many many people feel that it's saved lives it's made its may judge the world safer for Jews others have made the odd the opposite argument so it's an interesting issue I mean the validity of the state does not fall or rise on there and I'm not suggesting that it depends on that but that is a factor that one could one could debate okay so that's what I wanted to just mention without Torah again why is the afterwards now because partial Sacco - is the Curia cetera about UCS Mizrahim UCS Mitzrayim is the forerunner of the ghoulish leymah of Messiah and therefore we want to get a sense of what the ultimate messianic Redemption is going to look like and since carbon peso has focused on carbon out so it shows your Tesco who indeed has a car but no vision for what the future will look like again it's a very very interesting theological problem the issue of the status of mitts votes when you have the coming of the Machine and the like in fact the morrow itself discusses this it's interesting that now the government doesn't discuss will Mitzvahs be annulled when mushiya comes this doesn't say that but it does discuss what with his resurrection of the Dead and the Gemara discusses it in the context of an interesting practical problem that as you know when you bury a dead person so there are burial shrouds these burial shrouds are called time treason and our men against this acronym are plain linen but the Gemara discusses the theoretical question let's say the only burial shrouds I have are a mixture of wool and linen am I allowed to bury a dead person a corpse in a Jewish corpse in wool and linen and sadness now there's certainly no sin being committed when he said because dead bodies are not obligated in Mitzvah but the Gemara says but what's going to happen when there's resurrection of the Dead and he's going to wake up wearing shutteth he'll be committing a sin at that point so the Gemara says well this depends if the myths votes will still be binding after resurrection of the Dead you cannot bury him in sadness if the mitzvahs will not be binding you could right so you see that bakumaru itself has this discussion but the morale points out post resurrection is not the same as post messianic post resurrection is indeed a totally new world post messianic the Rambam says is a continuation of this world and therefore the Rambam says the mitzvahs are going to be binding in the post messianic era ok so that's what I want to say about the Torah now just to connect something to be partial which will be connected a little bit this is really more connected to Schmo stand by Ingram and that is we know that Moshe Rabbeinu comes down with the second Bluecoats on Yom Kippur and that signifies God's forgiveness of the sin of the golden calf and there is a bit of a conceptual chicken and egg problem and that is did God forgive the Jewish people on that day because it's Yom Kippur or did it become Yom Kippur because God forgave us meaning did the historical event make the Daniel chipper or did the historical events happen because it was Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur is the Day of forgiveness but be this it may one needs to remember that your Kippur is the Day of Moshe obey no coming down with the second blue coat and that signifies the forgiveness of I'm Israel and from that day forth from that year forward Yom Kippur is impressed with that special power of forgiveness provided that we repent and that we turn to our College barber and do do children now when Moshe obeyed Oh came down though something new had happened that hasn't happened before there was radiant beams of light coming from his countenance the Tauri uses the phrase Quran or Panov Quran is Russian of a horn like they were like horns of light did you know in Michelangelo's famous statue of Moses Moses has these little horns and from then on there's a belief that some people have in the South in the United States may still have it that Jews have horns and that's why we're going to keep up because the keeper covers up those little horns that's that we have and that comes from the mistranslation of quran or enough but it's interesting that most it didn't have that divine radiant light when he came down the first time he only had the divine arabian light when he came down the second time so the metric asks the following questions where did Moshe gets that radiant lights so the metric gives a strange answer the radiant light came from the leftover ink in his quilt that gave him the radiant light so quite literally this statement doesn't make sense on and many many levels first of all what inks Moshe Rabbeinu wasn't using a quill pen within mercury I mean the glucose were in great and they were engraved by God anyway so number one Moshe wasn't doing any writing God was number two it wasn't writing it wasn't grading there was no ink in number three how does it give you radius like anyway I mean think it's not a substance that's going to give you that light so there is a beautiful beautiful interpretation from the basal AV and not only is it a beautiful interpretation but I think it's also a window into interpreting the allegorical poetic imagery of Midrash this is a very this is a generally a very important idea you know majorem are all true they represent truths but the truths of Midrash are not always intended to be literal truth they are figurative ideas they are metaphors they are using vivid imagery to express deep spiritual ideas and you'll see that this is an example of a matrix that is doing just that the base allegedly quotes a passage in the Talmud you were shown me that differentiates between the first encodes and the second world now I don't fully understand this but some of you shun me says I'm the first little not only were there the ten commandments but all of the Torah was somehow written out with all of the interpretations all of the dress outs all of the conclusions that were later that has not been written out would have to be inferred meaning to say the concept of an oral law did not really exist on the first movement everything was spelled out so for example I don't know exactly how this would work first book would give you an answer does halakhah permit cloning right yeah well look at column you know 189 and we'll say something about cloning the second movement which came in the aftermath of the fate of a go Akhilesh bar who decided to work in a different way because barker decided to have a bifurcated torah in which the torah subjective is a sketchy outline and the Shem gave moshe a methodology of interpretation and left it to the sages in each generation to take those fundamental principles and apply them to the new realities that we face in other words the fatal ego made the torah and the holistic process a collaborative partnership between man and God instead of God giving us all the answers now on one hand that's kind of a punishment because by giving us the responsibility of grappling with the complexities of Torah we are prone to confusion ambiguity McLucas uncertainty we don't have the clarity that we would have had and we had direct divine revelation so you could say that's part of the punishment of the fate of ego but it also created enormous opportunities that God makes us part of the process when you learn a piece of Gomorrah I sometimes hear people say oh every word of the Gemara was handed down to Moshe or being there with our sea knight that's an absurd statement the Gemara is about discussion it is about hypothesis it's about arguing the only meaning of the statement that was given to Moshe bosina means the fundamental principles of interpretation were given to Moshe but God left it to human beings to grapple with that and then because of the principles of Tara's not in heaven even when we get it wrong God goes along with way with our imperfect decision God wanted a partnership that's why the first lookups God did the whole thing the second lookups Moshe cuts the Lucas and God inscribes the Lucas even physically the second lucas were created via partnership so the second Lucas created the notion of the human partnership between man and God and that's a deeper level of divine love a muscle that you could say is this let's imagine you want to make a tank for your four year olds for her birthday so there are two ways you can do it the best way is when the four-year-old is asleep or in done you make the King be twenty minutes everything is good but a deeper way of showing love is to involve the child in the process of making the game now the cake you're going to make with your four-year-old is probably not going to be of the same quality as the cake you could have done yourself no they'll be sure to run the floor they'll be cocoa on the counter don't be an egg show and the batter a part of the cake may be burnt and part of it may be under time you can do a better job yourself and if you do a better job going to a bakery even better than brubber yourself depending how good a baker you were but you see the ultimate point is not necessarily the quality of the product the ultimate point is the love that arises from the connection and interaction I hope it's not irreverent to say that the whole bucket process the way God gave it to us is very messy it is prone to confusion to interminable debate he told us to the Russian Shiva well beautiful statement yeah he trumped the messiness yeah yeah and you're giving it such a beautiful yeah well I try to I try to sneak in them since my office is such a mess I try to stick and I'm a big advocate of messiness no but the thing is this so in a way it would have been a neater cake had a chef just giving us the answered everything but a chef says I don't want to do that I want you to be my partner in bringing goodness into the world and yes because human beings are fallible and limited you're gonna make mistakes that's exactly how we have that's exactly how we understand it you're gonna make mistakes but our God is saying I'd rather live with your mistakes than was my perfection that's the second with us so now the base of lady says such a fantastic poetic imagery what is the extra ink and it remains in Motion's pen that's the poetic description of the fact that God said let's not write out everything let's leave it like that's the poetic expression here and that sanctified moshe because that meant that moshe as a human being and we as human beings are now the co-creators of god's torah on earth so you see I think this is very illustrative of how to understand image russian generally so the metrics doesn't mean there was a quill pen and there was a drop of ink and the ink generated light it's a way of describing a certain process in which the human being gets sanctified not by passively receiving final answers but by engaging and struggling in the process of trying to understand and therefore although on one level you can look at this as a punishment in the aftermath of the Golden Calf the God is not giving us the final answer that's one way of looking at it God is saying you no longer deserve me to give you a definitive response but then the other hand it creates the wondrous opportunity to be a partner with the republishing whether in the creation of truth and that is what sanctified because we know that the parchment of a Torah scroll is holy because there are letters of the Torah but now that we have the oral law we become the parchment of the Torah because those letters are in US and we literally become holy because those letters are inscribed in us right so that's the idea of the of the toe rush of all paths no Rev solavei tricked yoshito selves ancient describes the be the beautiful way and he talked about the fact that sometimes he's very lonely you know he was this is what he had lost his way with you lost his wife and lost his brother and lost his parents then he felt very alone in the world but when he sits down to learn all of a sudden the room is filled you know Rashi is here in Tosa see Aaron run bad different countries different centuries right both in terms of time and in terms of space and he is talking to them and he's engaged with them and he feels you know very much connected to all of those personalities that's why when we study Torah you know we always use the press enter Rashi says base Hillel says what do you mean base Allah says hello has been dead for thousands of 2,000 years but no pillows really alive his words are still here we learn from them we deal with them we address them and so this is what we monitor is about and this is the meaning of the radiant glory that Moshe had which was only the Lew Hoad shields and not the Lou so we show now and this is a shot from the basically by the way to basically be enough so the basics great-grandfather in fact rather Chabert solid basic is named after Rev Joseph DOS elevated the basal a being that was the dream and that was real crime self-ratings father so the basal amy was the first of the celibate qing dynasty to be the rather rather brisk so wish you all a wonderful wonderful shoppers approaches the kurdish may be a source of renewal and caesar and so I guess next week we'll still have a nation [Music]