The Unique Special Spiritual Status of this Eight Day with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] and everybody welcome back to the ebony big midrash welcome home to Torah a very warm very warm welcome home to Torah we're in parashat shmini we're following the holiday of Passage and I just wanted to thank every single one of those who donated not just for the piska fund but throughout the year you know we provide and well people came out of the Woodworks people really needed the money for the holidays but people who don't even have money on a weekly basis come to us throughout the year so I wanted to thank those who have contributed this past let's say month leading up to pesach and all year round it really goes very far and wide okay so we're in parchat shmini that's chapter nine of Leviticus now we use the Clear Car for those who don't know we use the Clear Car which is a Hebrew text mine's all colorful but you can get a link down below follow what year what title of the shior of the class and you can follow along in the Hebrew which I definitely encourage and those who would like the English it's not a translation it's just a source sheet that where the Clear Car brings certain sources that I I make a sheet that makes it easier for those who want to follow the sources without having to go from one book to another or to flip pages I I try anyway to lay it out right sometimes it's uh it's easier today is actually going to be a little bit complicated but anyway if you're interested in the English lore sheets you have to email me and I can add you to the long list of people that have asked for the English short sheets okay so we use the clear cards I mentioned and what he does is um I mean how can you explain it it's absolutely unbelievable uh first of all reading the Hebrew text and he asked brilliant questions questions that perhaps you and I and those here would not have asked based on anomalies within the text things that scream out you know things that pop up and say this doesn't make sense grammatically this doesn't make sense um how should I say it um not thematically grammatically you know terminologies that are used that basically much of our orator explains um and let's begin so the very first sentence we're going to deal with is in Leviticus chapter 9 verse 1. I'll read it in English and in Hebrew it was on the eighth day we'll have to figure out what the Eighth Day means because right that Moses summoned our own and his sons and the Elders of Israel so it was the eighth day of what okay so if you're reading on you know you read the last week's Parsha you know that there is this whole inauguration for the Kanye for the priests and their initiation rights so to speak and it was a seven day process um just to get an idea if you go back into Leviticus chapter 8 verse 33 it mentions you shall not leave the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days until the day of the completion of your investment your days he will inaugurate you for seven days we're going to deal with that verse but that just shows you that we're dealing with the eighth day of this seemingly uh seven day process now you should jump in your jump in your pants right what do you mean an eighth day of a seven day process so right away let's look at the Hebrew that's chapter 9 verse one and it was on the Eighth Day karamosha liaron Moshe close to our own and to his sons and to the zikane Israel very nice Rashi right away tells us it was the first I'm sorry it was the eighth day of the miloismi says the Eighth Day of the investiture or the inauguration for the priesthood but as I already mentioned the Clear Car actually points it out right away that it's a seven day process so how can Rashi come and tell us it's the Eighth Day of a seven day process doesn't really make that much sense but we'll have to deal with that I want to continue in the Rashi because it's the Eighth Day this Eighth Day is a very specific day in the Hebrew calendar it was rosh kodesh of Nissan it was the very first day of the month of Nisan and that was the day in which the mishkan was erected now we're going to say that Moses erected it but he didn't take it down in other words for the seven day period prior Moses put together what we call the mishkan the Tabernacle each and every day at the end of the day he disassembled he put it away okay but on this day on the first day of this first month of roshkosh Nissan Moses was told not to take it down so it was it was what we call erected now also what happened on this day which we will discuss There Were Ten crowns now the ten crowns were taken by the day were if you want to translate as it was placed what do you do with the crown you place a crown but interesting the language is natal that the day itself took these 10 distinct distinctions these crowns and that was enumerated in a very famous book called seder Olam and one of the other things we're going to deal with in this Rashi because Rashi says what do you mean he called also the Elders of Israel so the clear card points out that Moses never speaks to them there's no conversation recorded and Rashi says it was to inform them that it was by the express command of God that Aaron was entering into the status into the role of the high priest of the coing godo of the Kahuna and why should they be there why should they be present so that they should not say that he entered of his own accord with nepotism right they might say you know not just that not not just that Moses appointed him without God's approval but that perhaps our own stepped into a position that perhaps even Moses had not decreed but let's assume for the moment that it was not by God's decree but by our own's own decree so let's begin with the clear card with that brief introduction the clear card begins and it was on the eighth day clear car right away says and he's quoting this is the Eighth Day of the inauguration or the investiture of the of the konim well the clear car right away says near me now that would imply if rashi's telling us it's the eighth day of this inauguration process it certainly seems apparents that this day was included in the full um you know the full inauguration of the days that that that came prior the days that led up to it we just read the verse in chapter 8 verse 33. it's number two on the source sheet and the Hebrew says like this yamim right by the entrance of them of the tent of meeting you shouldn't go out for seven days now I could take that little part in the middle odd young until the day where the completion of the investigators took place because the word odd means until it doesn't always mean up until sometimes it means including so it could mean including the Eighth Day that's how I could read it but anyways as the rest of the verse says he will inaugurate you for seven days so right away the clear car is pointing out listen The Eighth Day Rashi says it's the Eighth Day of the inauguration we all know that it's only a seven day process now he's going to ask a very good question at this point I thought Pete even though she yoms in Milo now let me just give you some background even though it's the day following the seven days of inauguration for the coneem it's also the first day of a 12-day process of inaugurating the MS Beth the altar in fact during Hanukkah which right which means really to inaugurate the altar which we know we re inaugurated the altar in the second several period That's the Torah reading of the 12 Nissan and the gifts that they brought okay and there is a custom during those 12 days the first 12 days of Nissan to take the safer Torah out of the Ark after prayer service and read each day the different prints that brought the different gifts on any particular day you know one through twelve so the question the clear card is asking it's very nice this day is is what is the first day of the following 12 days it's also seemingly although he already said it's not that well it is definitely the day following the seven days of the investiture but is it part of the investor itself the question he's asking is now even though it's the first day of the following 12 days nevertheless what exactly is the connection like why is it here what is the concept of overlapping our own and his sons their inauguration into being uh priests what does that have to do with the dedication of the altar that is his question and I think it's well founded so he begins with his answer ulai perhaps Leticia Russell I would ask for drum roll please okay like in other words this is going to be not just the perhaps but an indication of what's really happening here because God wants to say it needs to be said by the Torah itself that the essence of this particular day which is the Eighth Day of the um the miloem the inauguration of the colony but it's day eight the day following seven uh itself that's the day that God appeared to them to the Jewish people not on the previous days even though we were involved in erecting and disassembling I should say Moshe was erecting and disassembling it was all in preparation for this day there were seven days of erecting and disassembling and there was a process of inauguration for the quanim God did not appear there was no appearance of Hashem of The Cloud of Glory and it's all in all of its Glory therefore we need to give a good reason there has to be a reason behind it why this day in particular is different than any other day meaning different than the seven days prior ready La fisha Hoya Young's ashmini because it was the eighth day there's something unique about the Eighth Day where hashem's appearance would come to fruition and yet and it's this day meaning the Eighth Day that is the cause for God's well let's just translate literally that causes a greater amount of Holiness or as my Hebrews would tell me a greater consequence or consequential difference between this day and the previous seven days because it has more Holiness there's something very more much more holy about the eighth day than about the previous seven days and now the clear card says something that is absolutely fantastic because I always think of Shabbos as very spiritual there's no question that it is but he mentions that the number seven is considered whole and the Miss barshmini is considered kodesh meaning we do call Shabbos Shabbos kodesh it is the holy Sabbath there's no question about it but the number seven is ho and the number eight is Holy whole means I don't want to say mundane but it's at least it's mundane in respect to the eighth day which is kodish holy so I want to translate like this that the number seven how do what do we mean by ho that it's perfection in the physical world it's physical even when we think about Shabbos right it is six days you shall work there's a physical involvement in this world and if you don't physically prepare mentally and emotionally but certainly physically then you don't have Shabbos you have nothing to eat if you don't clean your clothes you have nothing to wear right if you don't cook the food before nothing to eat there's a tremendous amount of preparation in the physical world in order for now Shabbos itself is called means it's a similar it's like the world to come but it isn't the world to come it is teaching us an important lesson about Shabbos that's true Shabbos itself is a preparation in other words this world the six thousand years like the six days that we work the six thousand years is a preparation for what we called the world to come the world to come is nothing like this world it's not going to be physical it's going to be purely spiritual it's after the resurrection of the Dead okay so even though we think of Shabbos as holy it is Holy but it's not the Holiness that will take place in the world to come it's only like it's a taste of it's so we're used to it it's so that we know what we're working for it's so that we have a god-consciousness about us for the six days of the week we're actually in this world all together what we're looking forward to okay so the words he used was every time the number seven is used it's considered perfection in this world but it's this world whereas Yom shmini the number eight is something holy now we just celebrated the seventh day of Passage and one of the interesting Customs besides reading about the crossing of the sea the splitting of the sea the song of the sea there's an interesting statement here and he brings down from the madrish kadasa medrish it says that all of the praise of Moshe was always started with the word as not like The Wizard of Oz but as in Oz yashir right you can find that in in Exodus chapter 15 verse 1. but he begins with a different verse he brings a verse where he goes to pharaoh and he comes back and reports to God listen things only got worth worse but it's in chapter five of Exodus verse 23. um it's number four in the sushi since I have come to pharaoh to speak in your name okay since I've come to speak to Pharaoh in your name okay and that's exactly what Moses did expecting certain results that was his problem and then in like I mentioned Nexus chapter 15 verse 1. where we say Oz yes your emotion of nature then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord okay it's a beautiful beautiful part of the Torah the whole Torah is beautiful but that is a something we sing every day by the way and so the madrish explains that the word as is an aleph and a Zion the aleph in is the gamachia one and Zion is the Gematria of seven so it's always with this number eight Oz yoshir but it's not just simply eighth it's an olive that's writing over and on top of the number seven now the olive itself means one right so we look at God and we understand he's one so the olive represents the Oneness the uniqueness of God also the olive has made up a they love with two goods right you have above like a slanted line and then you have a yood on each side and uh the Gematria of a valve with two yards is 26 right 10 times 2 plus the above is six so the olive always represents Hashem and that's riding over seven in other words we're talking about eight the eight whatever is God is riding over above the Perfection of seven in this world you'll hear in a second how he puts it together he says like this when we use the word as it means that one is riding on top of or sitting on top of the writer's Master of the animal right when you have the Reigns not the rains outside but the Rings in your hand directing the animal whether it's a horse a bull or a donkey whatever it is you're riding on okay so you have Mastery you have the Reigns that basically is showing Mastery that Hashem has over this is a very interesting concept it says which basically means on all of the seven uh planetary or Heavenly orbits uh basically we're talking about the Sun and the Moon Mercury Venus Mars and then Jupiter and Saturn those are the seven but that's that's not for now just know that whenever it refers to the seven planetary star systems and orbits orbits it's referring to those that I just listed that that is the seven however I have this very interesting paper I don't have it I didn't hand it out to everybody sorry I have it here um but I put together I I don't know I don't have the count I'm 100 maybe uh different sevens important sevens in Judaism by the way there are seven words in the first verse of the Torah they actually contain 28 letters which is divisible by seven you have seven days of creation we have seven weeks between pesach and Shibu is there's seven Noah laws there's seven pairs of clean animals the note was command to take on the ark um there are seven colors of the rainbow the seven directions right you have up down besides the four uh in each Direction so that's six plus the one in the middle of where you are um seven represents wholeness and completion in kabbalistic terms uh seven days of Passover the seven days of Sukkot and believe it or not there's six additional days on shavuis in order to bring corbanos if you missed the first day uh seventh year we know the landlife's fallow it's called shmita then we have seven cycles of shemitah which is the Jubilee the Yeovil unfortunately when someone dies we sit Shiva as seven days for when a close relative dies there are seven of the closest relatives that a coin must mantami himself that would be when they if they die that would be a father a mother a sister brother a son daughter and a spouse there are seven species taken on circles I know we call them four species but there are seven individual things in other words you have one lulav one es Rogue the two are rovos two Willows and then you have three myrtles three um hadassi gistro had seven names he had seven daughters we're in the middle of counting the Omer so that's the same thing even though we said from pesach into seven weeks I have so many more the seventh of Adar Moses was born and he also died on that day there's really no point going through this you get the idea but there are seven um continents there are seven seas on and on and on okay let's let's not let's not get back down with all the seven just no seven really is a very important number of perfection within this world now knowing that we're going to get something in the next paragraph we're not there yet uh dealing with the number seven eight nine and ten we'll go into it further so the last thing we just said was that the olive over the Zion Oz represents the one God the one true God who resides over and controls all of creation everything that was ever created and let's hear the words he says like this meaning that God controls all of existence anything that came into existence anything and everything that was created during the seven days of creation that's why God appeared to them when on the Eighth Day the eighth day because it's the olive riding on top of the seven to show you that he's the master of everything because it is from the aspect of this number eight and by the way I just want to show you I think I have here on the source sheet a number 10. I think it's number 10. no sorry number 11. just to show you for those who are not familiar with the icon for Infinity the icon for Infinity is a figure eight sideways okay what does the dictionary what's the dictionary definition of affinity unlimited extent of time space or quantity means eternity it means boundlessness immense immensity okay and there cannot be more Infinities than one when you're dealing with infinity it has to be always limited to one one of them would obviously limit the other if they were more than one it's unlimited unboundless has to be one okay now that's what the clear card just said then he says that number is unique to God that number eight is unique to God it's interesting how who why I don't know the uh the the real history behind the symbol for infinity being what appears to look like a number eight on its side I mean that even though it looks like okay so there's no beginning and no end I get that but why that was chosen probably you could just use a simple Circle but okay I don't know if people are aware of this but the from the Torah itself states that a Corbin is not accepted a and meaning a Corbin A a animal offering will not be allowed to be put up on the altar cannot be used as a sacrifice as an offering until it's eight days old and onward now that's also the reason for the Brit Mila the Covenant itself which is placed into the skin it's a stamp okay it's a stamp of the Covenant that we have with God that is performed on The Eighth Day and wait to hear this normally you're not allowed to slaughter on Shabbat you can't cut skin right you can't cause this blemish however however when the Eighth Day actually appears on Shabbos in other words if the boy was born on Shabbos and he's healthy and he was born in the normal way through the womb and not a C-section so then the Shabbos is pushed off meaning in respect to the britmila the Brit meal is actually performed only when the baby was born on Shabbat meaning eight days later it pushes it off now why does why does it push off the laws of Shabbos when it comes to the Britney law which normally could not be done on Shabbat so he says me because the the spiritual is more powerful the spiritual power put well the laws of the spirit the concept of spirituality is more powerful and it pushes off the physical world Okay so that's a very important point have to think about that a lot the truth is I have thought about it we describe this world as an illusion why is this world an illusion because the real source and stem for this world is a spiritual source right God is pure Spirit he's not physical and yet there's a physical world that is limited it's physical okay without getting too much into any Kabbalah just think of what we call in Simpson God constricted himself and made space he made space for this physical world But ultimately this physical world is only an illusion to what is really going on in the spiritual world the spiritual world is the real world and it plays itself out so to speak in the physical world we say God created the world they say in I guess it's Latin EX nihilo I don't know what that means exactly but we say in Hebrew and literally means I should say yaish is substance people translate is from nothing there is something from nothing I don't like that translation yaish is physicality it's true but I in we call Hashem right ain't self pure spirit so basically we're talking about the spirit of the energy turned into physicality now you can tell take your time and learn through uh Albert Einstein's theory ethereum and that's not a theory whatever it is equal E equals MC squared I'm not sure what he even called anymore it's a law theory but um how energy can be turned into what actually is matter okay so let's go on to the next paragraph I mentioned earlier that that day received 10 crowns literally that there were ten crowns placed on that day um and he's quoting from the safer called um the Seder Olam and I believe if you look at number seven in the source sheet I just want to see it kind of skip something it's okay I would I would encourage you to look at the Rashi uh Numbers chapter 7 verse 1. when it mentions it was on that day that Moses finished erecting the mishkan it's a great Rashi don't miss out on that Russian okay so we're number seven on the source sheet it just mentions this is a quote from the Seder Olam which I translated I made a full list and it's very brief these 10 crowns that were given on this Eighth Day obviously these were 10 decorative crowns that were received in order to elude that were alluded to by the rabbis in erichan 13B and so fine now all these events took place on the first day of Nissan which was the eighth day of the inauguration as we explained already okay let me go to him real quick it was Yom Rishon it was Sunday Sunday it was a crown Sunday's the very first day of creation meaning day one right that's creation this this Eighth Day of consecration took place on the first day of the week which was Sunday Corbin Nissim was the first day of the offerings of the 12 different uh heads of the tribes that were brought over the next 12 days if you want to know where that is that's in Numbers Chapter 7. um it was going to be one of the main topics we're talking about here it was the first day the divine presence rested upon the nation of Israel in their new akola home in the new Tabernacle that's true that's going to be basically the theme of the the sheer today on schmini it was also the isserbama up until now if you wanted to offer um an offering you could just build your own uh barbecue pit or whatever you want to call it an altar and you could offer that on your own but from this day onward on the first of Nissan it was a year after we left Egypt then you had to come to the to the home so to speaks to the mikdash to the mishkan okay from this from that point onward you can only offer on the altar um who became forbidden for individuals to sacrifice animals and any other altar fine the Kahuna we mentioned this was the first day because it was the eighth day of the inauguration of the priests so it was the first day that the priest actually performed their service the previous seven days it was Moses who performed the service what we call birhat kohanim the koning performed the Priestly blessing for the first time in all of history on this day the first of Nisan that was yomashmini right we offer up many different sacrifices for the congregation but there were two deadly sacrifices one in the morning and one in the late afternoon so it was the first time that the daily offerings were offered okay this was as we mentioned was on rosh kodesh Nissan which was the first day of the first month of the calendar year as we count the months it was the first time that the konim were allowed to eat not just the colonium depends what's being brought but the first day the holy sacrifice is reading which can only be done for those that can only be done in the Tabernacle and it was also the first day of yurita saish where the fire came down from heaven and ignited the Fire Down Below on the altar which came and devoured the meat okay let's go back into the Clear Car we're in the second paragraph We only read the first line Nautilus and we just read them these are the ten crowns now what is that allude to okay it hints to what hazal tell us and I'm going to read it in Hebrew first then we're going to go back to the English I have it on the last sheet the very last sheet an English sheep from erichen 13B so it mentions the keynor shall yamosa mashiach now the quinoa is either the um the harp or the Leer and so the let's just call it the harp for a moment so the harp of the uh days of the meshiach when the mashiach will be here will have eight strings or eight notes however the um the harp in the world to come after uh the resurrection of the Dead there will be ten strings or ten notes and now the Gamora in arrogant goes through and proves all this but I'm just reading with the Clear Car wrote in short the fish liamosa right accordingly at the time of the mashiach when the mashiach was revealed and everyone's living according to the word of God neglect about Hashem then God's glory will be revealed every human being will see and know the God is one and he's that he's like the word us he is right that he is one that rides over meaning controls the physical world the seven heavenly bodies because that is what controls this world with faith we're not going to astrology there is a concept called kosher astrology we're not getting into that now we'll have to deal with that another time how people are affected whether they live a long life whether they have a lot of kids right whether the rich whether the poor it's not for now other meet those other character traits as well but as we know Jews and anybody who connects to the Jewish people connects to God without an intermediary can overcome much of what we call fate and live in faith instead okay but when it comes to the world to come now the world to come is the time of the resurrection of the Dead there will be a separation of stripping down from all physicality in its entirety and at that point in time yet Saga not only will we all grasp it but will increase we'll be able to increase this concept that everyone will recognize the power of the king of the universe will be no doubts I'll calling the mispartation so we're not talking about when Michelle comes as the rambam says the world will not really be much different it will still be a physical world we'll still have poor people we'll still be doing mitzvahs right we'll still be giving charity but when the resurrection of the Dead comes then we're going to be separate from our physical body so to speak and we're going to recognize the power that God has over what again I would say drum rope please at this point but it says over the nivedalim El yonim meaning all Angelic forces uh anything that is supernal above the physical world which is many levels there's seven Heavens by the way we left you know that was on the list but there's so there's many levels of angelic forces and that God rides over all of them as well which is included believe it or not in the number nine okay so we went from seven in this world seven and then mashiach is eight and then as we're approaching there's going to be when I say oh my God we're talking about the resurrection of dead there's a point where we will come completely recognize that God controls it will be so clear all the Angelic forces all the heavenly bodies above eight include that's nine and just as a proof he brings down the our own the holy Ark in which the Torah was placed many other things as well but this is from where God spoke to us from just above the ark between the um the wings of the khruvim the cherubs how tall how tall was the ark it was and then there was a lid the lid the PO the caporus was one tefach the kapos was one tefer and then God spoke to us from just above that point 10. so as he says bestowed meaning in the fundamental mysticism we understand that the arm was Tisha the kaporis was a tefach that's all together 10. so then what happens is the eight goes up there's like this jump from eight to ten it's skipping over nine because immediately we'll understand that God controls number nine as well meaning the nivedali melioni all of the Angelic forces meaning that's why there is this hint on this Eighth Day then Rose that's why the the tradition is There Were Ten crowns taken for this day as if to remind us there's this jump from eight on the eighth day all the way to ten to teach us that there is in it that number eight this particular day where God reveals himself it's similar to what we will experience in Allah the resurrection of the dead because then there we will see all the whole entire glory of God with our own eyes so to speak and it's exactly for this reason if you look in Leviticus chapter 9 verse 4 which is number eight it actually says because God appeared to you today so I'll just read the whole verse in English and then auction a ram is peace offerings to slaughter before the Lord and the meal offering mixed with oil for today the Lord is appearing to you Hashem and rashi's mentions to make Sheena rest in the work of your hands meaning within the mishkan okay now let's go on with the Clear Car I mentioned earlier on when we started the words right when it says in um right it was on the Eighth Day Moses summoned iron his sons and the Elders of Israel we don't see a conversation where is Moses actually speaking to them he's not we mentioned in Rashi that he the Moses wanted to inform them that God chose honor for this job and nobody should say you know our own just pushed himself into that position so he gathered them for a reason as Rashi says let's hear what the clear card has to say Israel as and the Elders of Israel this was chapter nine verse 1. we don't find anywhere here in this you know narrative that Moses said a word to them that he spoke to them so if that's true before shame if we're going to go like some of the commentators explain that he what he did was he spoke to Aaron Moses spoke to Aaron in front of them Shalom ruins so that they the elders will not say that is that our own made this decision this executive decision he was going to be the current Godel no nobody should think that and they should know that it was chosen by God that arm was chosen by God now of course as the way the clear card usually does this he'll find reason to be not so clear and then he'll resolve it so he brings up we'll call something that doesn't seem so clear he mentions right away hello we're on the second page in the Hebrew hello doesn't it already say last week's Parsha chapter 8 verse 3. hell do we find it here okay it's number 12. and the assembly and assemble the entire community at the entrance of the tent of meeting if I told you that sorry to assemble the entire Community well doesn't that mean the elders are there so of course everyone is there everyone is there Rashi actually mentions this is one of the instances where a small area accommodated a large amount of people so everyone was there so the clear card says already entered into the service in front of the eyes of the whole congregation so why do you need to repeat it here that okay call everyone together including especially the zucchinian so they can hear that that God chose our own but they already knew that they already knew that he entered because it was a Divine command so the clear card says why do you then need a second time to repeat or to get this clear that wasn't clear before the near Lomar so he says it seems Seems like this would be what we need to say now this is a little complicated go back to chapter four in Leviticus it's actually several verses 13 14 and 15. I he only brings part of the verse in Hebrew but I want to explain the whole thing in English if the entire community of Israel errors so how did that come about that's because the Sanhedrin made a ruling and we all followed the Sanhedrin and then the Sanhedrin realized they made a mistake okay that's what's happening here in Chapter 4 verses 13 14 and 15. if the entire community of Israel errors because of a matter that was hidden before the eyes of the congregation we already know that if there's ever something hidden from you you go up to Saint hedrin they're the eyes of the congregation okay and they'll tell you what to do and what did they do well they told you mistake they they commit one role of The Commandments of the Lord which may not be committed incurring guilt in other words they told you the wrong thing to do now it happens to be something serious okay something that has uh either the death penalty or cars when the sin in which they had committed becomes known now the the Sanhedrin realized they made a mistake the congregation shall bring a young bull as a sin offering now it doesn't mean each person it means there's going to be one Eagle brought as a sin offering and they're going to bring it before the tent of meeting okay now the truth is one of the big sins would have to do with idol worship but anyway the Elders of the community shall lean their hands forcefully upon the Bull's Head before the Lord and one shall Slaughter the bull before the Lord so this idea of placing their hands whenever a sin is committed now I shouldn't say any time so I want to clarify something we're talking about inadvertent sins things by mistake anyone who committed a sin intentionally there's no such thing as an animal offering okay it's just true that God just wants you to change your your behavior your lifestyle feel have regret okay a lot of people who don't know anything about Torah make one of those false claims okay it's called misinformation fake news they say to us Jews well now that you don't have the temple you have no way of atonement without a blood sacrifice you know who they are they know who they are well only unintentional sins require an animal sacrifice intentional Sins Not only don't require it would be forbidden to bring I mean there's one or two exceptions but in general okay an intentional sin does not not only does not require its forbidden to bring an animal sacrifice there's no blood that's built it's you have to change your heart around and God accepts your children so let's just hear the Hebrew the beautiful part of the Hebrew Israel it's called show gag shogang means inadvertently not with premeditation or full knowledge of what you're doing and okay it's nelam davar that's the the idea that it wasn't known in the the who are the eyes of the congregation I mentioned the eyes of the congregation are none other than the Sanhedrin and then skip to the bottom the Psalms therefore places leans the hands of the elders on top of the head of the parlorship okay Rashi right there says this refers to the great Sanhedrin the Sanhedrin called the Supreme Court and they're seated there in the Holy Temple the matter was hidden this means the Sanhedrin issued an erroneous decision regarding any matter in which the Torah in the Torah which incurs the penalty of excision by declaring that matter permissible and then it says the congregation they commit what does it mean meeting the community ended up acting according to the instruction of the sanhedric so this is a very unique offering I have no idea how many times if any that it was offered but this is what the Torah instructs to be done so here we go back into the Clear Car where four lines five lines down come okay the truth is the idea that the Sanhedrin or the elders must Place their hands on the uh on the what's the word on the Corbin Seaboard on the communal offerings now why is this necessary there's actually a there's actually an atonement for what ready for this the verse he brings down is in Genesis 37 31. now what happened in chapter 37 verse 31 in Genesis this is dealing with what we call the sin of the cell of Joseph which we are still suffering till this day and anybody who joins the Jewish people has to know this is one of the greatest sins right Sinatra we don't have a temple because of causes hatred this is where it all began hatred of a brother to a brother or brothers to a brother we sold our own brother for 20 shekels for the the price it costs to buy a pair of shoes okay and then we had a meal and we broke bread you understand this is not a simple thing this sin is still with us till this day okay and therefore every time we have a series a goat that's offered it takes a little bit away of the atoning process part of the atonement process for that sin that we still have lingering so what does it say over there in 3731 and they took Joseph's coat and they slaughtered a kid not a kid like a human a kid is a goat and they dipped the coat in the blood the urism I want you to remember this because when it comes to the sale of Joseph this this sin that still needs to be atoned for they slaughtered a goat okay we know they slaughtered a goat and they dipped the coat in the blood and they took it back to their father and said hey must be who knows okay keeping that in mind that's he says so the clear card mentions we're slaughtering the series okay so the the fact that the elders are putting their hands on these curbanos is also a cow okay and as well as the Masa Eagle so the cow the par is going to be for the what for the sin of the golden calf so there's going to be two things there's going to Continuous Atonement for and that is the sin of the golden calf and the sale of Joseph so anytime an angel is used think in your mind for a second that it has some residue from the sin of the golden calf and anytime you have a goat there's some residue that's still being atoned for by the um by the cell of Joseph so now continue mistama or sirashes paparius so he he mentions that most likely what I mean it's like logical that what happened was any time the Torah explains that there's a sin offering brought on behalf of the congregation of course the elders placed their hands on it okay and that's why according to the clear card they called the zucchini not just remember not just to let them know that our own was chosen by God so yes that's true Rashi mentions it and that's important but we already knew that so why'd they be called in a second time to really get that message across perhaps but also to place their hands on the Corbin even though the text does not mention that they Place their hands on the corbyn nevertheless most likely it makes sense that they did the Smith because that's a necessary ingredient now this is where we're going to get a little technical even though all the sin offerings brought by the congregation are usually a cow shiny Haka it's going to be different over here because the sin itself was caused with the goat with the sale of Joseph and the ego as I mentioned with the sin of the golden calf alkaneous because the sin I'm going to call it original sin in this case for those who following the class up to this point know what I mean therefore God requires he wants them to bring a goat and a calf in order to help let's say a tone for the residue of the two sins we just listed above okay now we're on verse two all that was verse one here we go with verse two now what I actually want you to do in number 15 by the way 15 is Leviticus chapter 9 2. and I want to compare that to verse in 22 it's verse 3. in other words we're going to look at verse chapter 9 verse 2 and chapter 9 verse 3. but on the English sheeps it's 15 and 22. I want to take you on a little journey see if you can understand what the clear card is going to point out and the differences in in in in chapter 9 verse 2 God write Moses says to Aaron take for yourself a bull calf a book f is an ego as a sin offering okay keep this in mind when he's talking to our own okay so for our own the sin offering is is a ego we're gonna deal with the latter part as well so we might as well read it and a ram is a burnt offering both on blemished now ready bring them near before the Lord thou crave lift Nation bring them close to God okay now I want you to flip over to number 22. and the children of Israel this is chapter 9 verse 3. for the children of Israel you shall say take a he go to the sin offering now we had the egg for our own it was an ego for the children of Israel the sin offering is a Irish so why is that it's so different okay I just want to read and a calf and a lamb but in the first year fine okay so here we are about to enter a whole new dimension of corbanos and what they mean when it comes to the offerings which Leviticus most of Leviticus is dealing with these different types of offerings so let's begin with the clear card he says there are those that ask big question why is it that a calf is coming to atone for our own right as a sin offering so when Aaron is told in verse 2 it's to bring a calf as a sin offering [Music] whereas the eagle of Israel when they when they're told to bring an Eggo it says to bring it as a okay let me find that I think that's in verse that's at the end of verse three meaning the children of Israel even though they're bringing a goat as a sin offering at the very end it says in ego they should bring as an Ola so the cath they're bringing as a burnt offering so what's the difference here so the clear card will explain the difference and what each one represents so the ones the question are the ones that answered and said a possible answer Le fishes when it comes to the it comes to the actual sin of the golden calf foreign did not sin with thought in other words he only made and even that he didn't really do the Torah says he made it but we'll talk about that in a second the only thing that is attributed to his is the action of making the ego but to actually like in his mind worship the ego he did not do so there's going to be doing hola offering a burnt offering which is entirely consumed on the fire atones for the thoughts whereas a sin offering remember there's not much thought that goes into the sin we said it's an error right the only time we bring sin offerings is if we're lacking knowledge we didn't do it intentionally so then that's called an action and therefore the sin offering is brought for an action so the going back again the the eagle the actual sin of the golden calf by Aram was only the makshava sorry it was not at all by makshava it was not at all with thought srivada lonely he never had any intention in fact he didn't even make it I'll explain now how he wanted to delay he knew that Moses was going to come back or he expected Moses to come back and he wanted the rabble rousers you know the mixed multitude to calm down he says yeah you know they all said Moses dead he's not coming back we need an intermediary right that's what they wanted an intermediate if you don't know Moshe who's going to be our intermediary so they chose a calf in their minds they wanted a calf Aaron says go you know he was just still trying to delay them he knew Moses were going to come back he said go get your uh go get the jewelry from your wives the women were so righteous they were not about to give any of their jewelry it says that the men ripped the earrings out of their wives ears the men were more interested in doing it but the women said no way no how it's all because of the righteous women that keeps the Jewish people straight narrow okay so what happens Aaron throws the gold Into the Fire and what came out was what was on the minds of the Arab Roth it came out as a golden calf obviously Hashem made it happen I just want to go back a little bit more into why was it a calf what was Moses doing on the night of the the tenth plague when God passed over so to speak we just celebrated pesach Moses was where all the Jews were going and asking all their neighbors for gold as the Torah says the men should ask the men the women should ask the women take borrow their goal so that's what they were doing they were out asking their neighbors for gold Moses went down to the Nile Yosef made his children swear do not leave me here when you leave you must take me and they swore we're not leaving without you so Moses goes down to the Nile and he uses God's name writes it on a little piece of clay throws aloosh Ali sure Ali sure what is Yosef Yosef is called the shore what's ashore it's a male bull it's a bull the Arab Roth thought if Moses is not around we need an intermediary right we have a hard time connecting to this visible God let's make a God I mean well that's what all fake religions are let's invent the god in our image well their image they said you know whose image yosef's image they said Moses goes down and brings up the bones to take him to Eric's shroud to bury him it's buried in Shem right the tomb of Joseph so he goes down to the Nile he brings up the bones and they know the only reason we left Egypt was because the power of Joseph so if Moses not around so let's get another intermediary instead of Moses we'll get Joseph what's the best thing and that's what they say these are your Gods oh Israel who brought you out of Israel out of Egypt I mean that's how far gone the you know the air of Wrath is and was Okay so that's what Moses did where are we at I just wanted to explain by the ego so we said that there was no makshava by our own it was just before well and I explained that so we say we're in the second paragraph down three lines from the uh three times from the top three words from the end of that line the main sin for Aaron was only the action because the Torah itself says it but why does it say it look in Exodus chapter 33 verse 35 32 verse 35 right it's number 16. and then the Lord struck the people with the plague because they had made the calf that Aaron had made I mean I don't know if you looked at just the Hebrew the English the English itself is what do you mean they made the cast that iron had made look at the Hebrew the ego of Hashem God closed the plague on the people they made the calf I share also our own which Aaron made you gotta admit this is a real tongue twister here what is going on so the clear Clark continues and he says why does the toe go out of its way to tell us which our own Main s coming to teach us something that's why it's coming the only sin that he had was in making the ego nothing to do with idol worship at all Al came that's why to answer up why in verse 2 chapter 9 that Arrow brings a sin offering of an ego that's going to happen that's going to atone for the sin of action but what did Israel do now all of Israel did not sin only 3 000 Jews were killed on the spot but were all guilty of something come Jewish you know you're going to be guilty of something you're going to be guilty collectively because we did not protest we did not stop it from happening so at least the 3000 plus they were involved with actual makshava and we're gonna have to see what their makshava was that certainly for idle worship there that was their intention that's why the egel that they're bringing is a a fully consumed uh burnt offering as we mentioned that's makshava it goes up like mist which is coming for the sin of thought okay now I'm not gonna say we're halfway through we're three quarters of the way through just hang in there now of course the of course the Clear Car laid out so clearly an argument yet he found within the argument himself as certain flaws which he will then address the the the questions and he will answer them hello yes so didn't Israel sin with both meaning the thoughts and the action as it says in chapter 32 verse 8 that Israel themselves it says they have quickly turned away from the path that I have commanded them they made themselves a golden calf and they prostrated themselves before it and slaughtered sacrifices before it so prostrating truth is it is an action but it's more like showing you there's thought slaughtering is an action and they said these are your these are your gods of Israel who have brought you up in the land of Egypt so in the Hebrew yes also lamb they made this golden calf is so not only did they worship it they bow to it but they also slaughtered it now keep in mind we're gonna really delve deeply into this idea here so the clear card asks llama logeville since they had makshava true and they're bringing ego as an Ola which is for the makshava but also they slaughtered it to it so if they slaughtered to it how come they're not bringing a sin offering so he explains like this Nera lafarish the best way to explain is the following foreign the truth is it does say for the sin of the slaughtering of it they brought a in order to atonement a goat so why a goat it should be an ego wait to hear this I mean this is mamish like mind-boggling in chapter 17 verse 7 of Leviticus which is number 18 on the story it says they shall no longer slaughter their sacrifices to the Saturn's s-a-t-y-r-s after which they stray okay now why would Leviticus 17 verse 7 use the word in Hebrew ode no longer right they will no longer do it again do what do offerings to the goats and I'm using that word Loosely because Rashi says the word it's not goats it's demons now for those who are privileged to have my sheets there's little pictures here we'll have to talk about that um I don't know exactly what to call if you look it up online a sat here and like I spelled it out it looks like it's a half human maybe that the main body he seems to have horns and that the tail or the hind of a gun the hoofs of a goat okay so we'll talk about this in other words what's going on here that they sacrificed the Torah says no longer sacrifice to the goats so this is really answering why were why was there sin offering um not an eagle but rather a goat so ready for this is so the question is where in the world do we ever find look through the Torah that the Jews sacrificed to goats because the verse said in chapter 17 verse 7 no longer no longer implies they did it once but minimum right they did it at least once and levada ready this is the clear card and levada with absolute certainty certainty when they when they actually worship the golden calf whoever they were it says that they sacrifice to it what did they sacrifice to the golden calf according to the Clear Car they sacrificed goats to it to what he is that no it wasn't really to the golden calf but rather it was to the goats they sacrificed goats to the goats look in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 17. that's number 19 on the slushi it says in our Torah they sacrificed two demons which have no powers meaning deities that did not know new things that only recently came to which your fathers did not fear foreign I'm not going to go into right now read it on your own okay so this is very interesting this is why this is going to answer our question why they're bringing goats as a sin offering and as it's we just read the shadim loyalohai to these demons which are not gods meaning it was a trick all of what they did was a very negative with negative consequences and it says in Isaiah chapter 13 verse 21 you can find the number 20. and the Martins shall dwell there and their houses shall be filled with ferrets and Ashu shall dwell there and the satyrs shall dance there we'll see irim in Iraq Duchamp again referring to as Rashi says demons now we understand why it says right then it says in our in our in our verse chapter two sorry this is verse and that's why it says in verse 3 chapter 9 verse 3 to Israel that they should take what a goat as a sin offering but when it comes when it came to our own Shalom he never shacked it he never slaughtered to the golden calf he only made it but he didn't have any Mac Show there's no idol worship involvedis that's why he brings an actual calf as a sin offering just to atone for the fact that he made the ego okay now we're at the very tail end the last paragraph umron why does it say when it came to just look at number 21 and I mentioned in verse 2 it says and bring them before the Lord when it came to our own God says bring them before the Lord okay I mean Moshe told them but this is what God says and when it came to Israel looking the same number 21 down below and I think it's it's verse four it's a Slaughter before the Liz what's the difference why is Aaron only told to bring and the Israelites are told to slaughter lithnashem before the Lord so let's hear the difference in the language so when it came to our own it was and bring it close to God whereas the korb and aam when it came to the offering for the people it's Elizabeth slaughtered before God so someone to explain that LE fishes it is true when a normal Jew not an Israel not a Cohen goes and brings a Corbin he can participate in the slaughter meaning with a knife across the throat of the goat or the cow whatever it is and when it comes to the Sheep when it comes to the spilling of the blood catching the blood and bringing it forward so that would only be the coin but the Jew the normal Czar Tsar means a foreigner but here we're talking about Foreigner not a not a coin a he can do the slaughtering but only the Cohen can bring it close okay so that's a nice answer the clear card says that's a possibility however he says but to me the Clear Car you know what I say like this foreign since the actual purpose of slaughtering the animal to God the purpose right of these Godly sacrifices slaughtering to God is in order to bring a broken heart a ruach nishbara a broken Spirit to feel wow that could have been me or to bring you to the state of chuva in in certain certain certain ways so when it came to Israel they actually had what they had not just um action they also had thought and that's why it says by them Hashem they actually have to slaughter before the Lord okay they have to do much more because right away after the slaughtering yieldless National obviously will be taking place right before Hashem but our own so in other words it has to be a Slaughter and stake and then it goes to Hashem but with our own he never thought of worshiping the golden calf therefore the Torah says right after he takes it just take it right away and it says and bring close to God because for him that immediately upon taking it he becomes close to God just through the act of taking it it's an amazing idea because corbanos offerings are quite complicated this would give you some of the foundation in parashat in in the whole book of the Iqra whenever we deal with and and um Ola and what type of sins whether it's and what type of show gig whether it involved in action whether it involves some type of makshava and whatnot okay so I encourage you to well you already heard it once we encourage you to learn it over and over again not just this year next year also we'll have Down Below in the uh description box a link or links to previous classes on schmini and I want to wish everyone a shabbat shalom at gesund to summer we should have a great summer and we hope to see you in everything strong if you come and you want to learn with us please pop in give me a call send me an email and we'll get you the address and we'll make sure you get here and we'll look forward to your participation and with that not only a good Shabbos and a good summer but have a great life we'll see you next week everybody [Music] moving