What a Great Mitzvah it is to Always be Happy with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the ebony beat midrash welcome home to Torah where we will discuss the fundamentals based on the clear car and we're impartial I know in fruits we're one week ahead Hashem anybody is interested in hearing the previous classes that has nothing to do with the topic tonight but other interesting classes on Parcels Down Below in the um description box you will find links also we encourage you to learn Hebrew so you'll have uh another link not to a color copy like I have but a black and white it's on our website so this is linked to the website all you have to do is find the correct Shear the correct year based on the title and whatnot so here we go now these fundamentals we're going to discuss tonight are absolutely fundamental in terms of serving Hashem with joy maybe I shouldn't have given that away that will will hear that at the end or towards the end the latter half basically as a brief very brief introduction we already saw because we're we're in chapter 17 verse 23 we already saw that car auction company 250 people had already fallen alive into the pit that you can find already in chapter 16 verse 35 then in chapter 17 in the beginning like around verse 6 we see there was a plague 14 700 people had passed on and now starting at let's say chapter 17 verse after the rebellion and the complaints are finished Moses wants to make sure that it's clear that the kanim are going to be the leaders in the religious sphere the priesthood in terms of the uh Temple service but also our truma and not just our Truman our misers not just our personal gifts but the national gifts that are given their 24 gifts to koeneem and we'll discuss that towards the end but just to clarify who is going to be the coin guttle this is we're basically where we're at so in verse 23 in numbers I'm sorry chapter 17 verse 23 in numbers it was on the following day Moses came to the tent of testimony and behold now we're going to read the Hebrew because you're not going to get it in the English Aaron's staff for the house of Levy had blossomed it gave forth blossoms sprouted Buds and produced ripe almonds so Moses asked that every one of the heads of the tribes would come forward with their staff gave them the staff to do to use but our own staff was that good old staff that's been used for so many miracles in the past and that one blossomed okay it gave not just that it blossomed it gave forth blossoms sprouted Buds and produced right almonds so in the Hebrew the Hima harat that happened the next day the abom right Moses comes into the holy the holy tent where all these staffs were placed it was the next day meeting in the morning now that is an important word we're going to just translate the word Hine translate the word Hine as behold but you'll see that it means a whole lot more than just behold but from the meantime we'll translate it like that the staff of our own blossoms the base lady as iron is of the House of leaving the yojse no I'm sorry I made a mistake I don't know how it came out like this the yo say pay Rock the word skating actually should appear at the end of the verse skating that's how the verse is supposed to be read my apologies I don't know what happened but it does happen right AI okay so these words so it it came forth a blossom and the Saints seats we're going to discuss all these words what exactly is it of a sprouting of a bud and what is it the gig mole skating the word vegmo is a very interesting word that we'll hopefully learn a lot more about as we move forward so that's how the clear card begins with that verse okay so let's start with Rashi before we get into the Clear Car in the Hebrew and says it gave forth blossoms that's the yacht the yotze perak and Rashi says this is kepsuto this is as it's understood in its literal sense but when it comes to the buds sprouted buds the yatsets seats this budding this is the budding of the fruit after the blossom falls off and then the words at the end then produced right ripe almonds that word is has so many meanings behind it when someone is on a pension right it's veg Mall when someone is withdrawing from drugs or alcohol it's veg mall so weaning when a child is weaning um no longer using breast milk for survival but is now eating proper food he has become weaned the same word is used okay so I would attempt to translate the word as mature it has matured look at Rashi says when the fruit was recognizable it was recognized that they were almonds now they're mature almonds and that's what it means and produced almonds this all happened overnight you're talking about the blossomed it came forth blossoms it sprouted Buds and produced ripe almonds all overnight which is an absolute miracle obviously so by the way in Genesis chapter 21 8 Rashi mentions and the child grew and was weaned so that's referring to Yitzhak being weaned off his mother in Isaiah chapter 18 verse 5 and the Buds turned into ripening grapes so now they're more mature they're ripening now Rashi continues now why did it bear particularly particularly almonds in other words the very word skedim is worthy of Investigation that is the fruit that blossoms quicker than any other fruits by the way so you should know the word shaked means to go quickly and to go early and that's what we see here in arist Israel in the month of the kibiada already but for surely a Nissan let's just say in the early spring the earliest part of the spring is when we're going to make a bracha on the blossoms and the very first tree the blossoms is the shkadem because the very word shaked as you'll see as we progress further on is something that happens quickly and at first however this Rashi explains likewise he who opposes the Kahuna as not only to korach in a certain sense but anybody else their punishment would come quickly okay so keep that in mind that's a very uh interesting lesson here that we should all take to heart you hear that zarak anybody who opposes Kahuna now let's go into the Clear Car itself it's in the middle of the page on on 6 25 tough race says cuff gimm on the middle of the page the Hine I told you we're going to discuss the word a bit and our own staff blossoms now this is going to be very interesting because who are we we're just flesh and blood do we understand God's way of making judgment very little and anybody that claims they do I don't know what to tell you you know this was the question that Moses himself asked is amok Locus in the Gomorrah whether or not God actually answered him he wanted to know why do good people suffer why do sometimes evil people Prosper right he wanted to know this answer this question he wanted to know the answer to this famous question that everyone in this world probably asked the one time in their life if not every day and God either answered him which is a long sugier A whole discussion worthy of of having a discussion or God says I'm not going to answer you I am gracious to whom I am gracious I am merciful to and merciful and it's basically none of your business now just listen to what the clear car says he says REM is hints to the idea that mankind has no idea they cannot even envision what the judgments of God are the only thing that a person might be able to see as we as all the Jews all the Israelites in the desert they all saw these stats these pieces of wood they were all dry I mean Aaron had been carrying it around for over a year uh that's his right so you're talking about a staff that has been disconnected from its uh source of growth it um how can it possibly Blossom and yet what happens is this one particularly dry AIDS this dry piece of wood without meaning it had no moisture there was no there was no life force left in it yet what happens it produced all these things so the clear card goes on he says the same thing when it comes to Toren hachma remember we spoke so many times about the toad the Torah is hethka the call everybody everybody can acquire Torah so what about if you already have it does that mean you automatically keep it or you opt are you obligated to do everything you can not to lose it listen to what he says when it comes to Torah and wisdom it's Hashem who can cause it to Blossom it's Mommy should gift however he also says the opposite is true you work very hard guess what it could be lost as well it's all Miracle kid the music now he does bring a a verse in this madrish in your Hesco should that this verse in Ezekiel 17 verse 24 is darshan Dallas expounded to me referring to you know the concept of karak and his people and ironing what he stands for look at number two on the source sheet and all the trees of the field will recognize that I the Lord have lowered the high tree only Hashem could do this he's going to lower the high tree have raised Aloft the low tree he can raise up something that's very low these these concepts are very important because we're going to talk about humility that I have dried up the green tree now in Hebrew I have dried up the tree that is locked that is moist um that's so they translate as a green tree in other words they dried up the moisturing well on the other hand I made to Blossom I caused a blossom a dried up tree okay so very important it's coming from Hashem there's nothing new in the prophets that wasn't already known and revealed during the 40 years in the desert it's only used to guide the Jews to put them back on the right path to remind them of what they were taught and the original expression of this idea was produced when the miracle happened that our own staff butted remember it's hashem's doing let's go back into the Clear Car and he says four lines down it's very possible that from here from that place is where the source actually is ready for this anything that was in the miktash now we're talking about the human beings and who was in the which human being spent the most time in the temple The Colony but anybody that came would even if they carried with them inanimate objects it prospered it's like the Midas touch but there is this idea that it says everything that was in the mikdash is it blossomed and made or created fruits okay now he gives two ideas one is even the gold itself had a special name called zahav parvayim now I have here on the source sheet a concept called zaha parvayim it's it's a type of very high quality gold and overlaid within the house was this gold as well as expensive stones are rate in other words for the beauty of the Temple and we'll see in um did I bring it down and I don't know why I didn't bring it down in second chronicles I will find it for you and in second Chronicles chapter 3 verse 6. uh yeah if someone can find that for me real quick here I'm going to read it basically this is when um Solomon builds the temple and this is a description of the type of gold there's different types of gold the mock locusts are there five types of gold or they're seven types of gold in the gemara but basically this is called parvayim not from the word parv but from the word Peru review which is an implication of Multiplicity that it caused like a blossoming a type effect okay now who are that I mentioned about the coneem they spend so much time in did you find it yeah can I have them please and here we have it mentions he overlaid the temple with precious stones for splendor the gold was per volume gold okay so as the clear Garden mentioned it's very possible this is the very source that anything that was in the base of mikdash was malavle it blossomed and we're going to see two things I mentioned already one was the conim they had many children and they're called Pierre Kahuna which means the blossoming of the coin the blossoms the Young The Young Connie what does it mean that the perak right that the blossoms the gay fruit blossoms this is a Simmon to the Young The Young konim there's a Gamora it's actually a mission in Yuma 19 bed side being that mentions the high priest you know the coin godo had to stay up all night on Yom Kippur and he was working the whole day without eating and drinking well guess what the young kanim would keep the cow and guttle up at night how would they keep them up at night they would look what it says here the young priest would snap the middle finger against the thumb before him and they would say to him every so often my master high priest stand from your bed and chill yourself once on the floor and overcome your drowsiness and they would engage him in various ways until the time would arrive to slaughter the daily offering so they kept him up all night in Hebrew it says so that's what they would do they would can you imagine I would like drive you crazy but I guess you would stay up you wouldn't fall asleep okay so let's continue in the clear car he speaks about the word say perak as the Young what about the yatsets seats we said that means they sprouted buds this is a hint to the uh it's not just the it's not just the older konim it means the coingada mean the coing god of every generation because what did he wear noise he actually wore a I have a picture of it and they called a head plate okay see number set five at seats and it says Hashem now it was engraved in there and that's what they wore that's what the wore so it's called it seats so the clear car is explaining this Madras and the gemara that the word the yatset seats is referring to the kongata the gigmo schadim we said it means and produced ripe almonds or gave forth mature or matured almonds what was the Merit that this staff gave forth these ripe almonds because of Aaron himself in number 1712 you'll see number six on the story the yarrats El to when you had the plague and he ran out into the midst of the plague Aaron took it the incense just as Moses had said and he ran into the midst of the assembly and behold the plague had begun among the people he placed the incense on it and atone for the people so you see that he stopped because he ran he ran there's going to be very important he ran today in order to stop the plague that was killing Jews and we said there was 14 700. this is a clagrado very important principle that the kohenim are extremely passionate and fervorous and they're full of alacrity to do the job correctly and diligently we've gone on on these adjectives but that's what's reason and zerism are the kohanimi foreign um like like as if to pay back right like as a payment back for right so that's like a kindness we call him again it's a payment um it responded to him to cause in other words it was because our own was so diligent and quick so Hashem paid him back so to speak responded by causing the blossoms to come as we said ripen quickly and we'll see what does it mean quickly she is that within the word right is a understanding and inference of the expression of fast and quick okay those two words and as a result of the alacrity of the coinim the Z reasons of the kanim Hashem gave them they merited the 24 gifts now in chapter 18 verse 8 we'll deal with this a few ways but look it says behold I mentioned earlier on Hine we have to discuss what Hine is the Lord said to our own behold I have given you the charge of my gift offering so basically chapter 8 18 is going to be dealing with the gifts offerings the county we're going to receive I behold Transit although they translate behold I I'm giving to you now look what Rashi says what does it mean behold the pine I'm giving to you the word behold Rashi says is an expression of Joy now before we go any further I want to express explain if somebody is doing something quickly and diligently and with fervor what can you guess about what they're doing that they love what they're doing that's just a guess it's an educated guess they're really into it they must really enjoy it and so we're gonna compare it like joy and intensity with joy right with happiness simcha so in Exodus chapter 4 verse 14. which is number nine on the sourishing it's um when God told Moshe that his brother Aaron is coming he says behold I'll look at that it says he right he at the end I understand that he's coming for Moses is told that Aaron is coming out to meet him now who's our own our own is his older brother the older brother is coming out to meet his younger brother Moshe who what is in a position of authority how do most people feel I mean you know how it works when you know in terms of work so you worked there five years and someone's worked there 15 years you would expect the one working their 15 years has more seniority well here you have Moshe remember Aaron was already 40 years minimum right while Moses was away and he was even a prophet and a leader before Moses left so you're talking probably 60 some years 60 years that Moses away so um so he's coming with joy in his heart to greet Moshe his younger brother who's like the new guy on the black and he's the leader but Rashi says no not as you think he right not as you think that he would resent your attaining such a high position this is because of our own's goodness and humility keep in mind these words goodness and humility we're going to see in Hebrew that Aaron merited the ornament of the breastplate which was placed over his heart okay I think it's very important to see these verses in chapter 28 of Exodus verses 29 and 30. actually even go to the verse 28 they shall attach the breastplate from its rings to the rings of the aphid with the turquoise Woolen cord so remain above the belt of the aphode and the breastplate will not be loosened upon from upon the aphid 29. Aaron shabel the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment when he enters the sanctuary so where is this breastplate of judgment so it's verse 30 in the into the breastplate of judgment you're going to place the Orient so that they shall be on Aaron's heart when he comes before Hashem and iron shall bear judgment shall bear the Judgment of the children they are on his heart constantly okay so you see that as again as a reward for his joy in his heart to come out and greet Moshe who's his younger brother you would expect a resentment of sorts I mean from a normal situation yet our own the older brother was so full of joy in his heart that God again rewards him measure for measure by giving him the perfect person to have it who's going to judge people might as well judge people favorably which is really a great Meda of Aaron okay but going back to the word Hine we were in the middle of Rashi in Source number seven which was numbers 18 8. we only read this one idea in Exodus chapter 4 verse 14 where it says behold he's coming towards you and when he sees you you he will rejoice in his heart did I read the whole I want to share sorry I didn't read the Hebrew actually I did read it so the word Himes there let's go back to what we were just saying in chapter 18 verse 8 of numbers it says behold I had given you the charge of my gift offerings again it says Hine um we're in the middle of Rashi go down a little bit you know what I don't want to skip this I'll read it the whole thing this may be compared to a King who gave the field to his friend but he didn't write nor sign a deed which means what it's valid but you got no proof he didn't record it in court so a person came and contested the ownership of the field so the king said to him it seems that anyone can come and contest your rights you know what I'm going to do I'm going to write a deed and I'm going to record it in the court so too that's what God does he's giving our own the konim these gifts here too since Clark had come and made a claim against iron regarding the whole concept of the priesthood that's why the scripture comes that's why God comes and makes sure it's written and he gives him the 24 gifts that's why we now have in chapter 18 all these gifts right after the claims of karach so that nobody can make these claims of kahuna as an Everlasting Covenant of salt this is why this section is placed here meaning right after the rebellion of korach uh uh I just want to show you another verse because the clear card will bring it down himself but I just want to make sure it's here in Genesis chapter 37 verse 13. uh when yaakov said to Joseph are your brothers not pastoring in Shem he said come and I will send you to them and what did Joseph say Joseph said Here I Am the Omer Lo he Nami he made me Rashi says it's an expression of modesty and eagerness okay and we're going to see in the clear card he's going to express it in another of this resus another is humility is alacrity and that's what Joseph knew as you'll see in Rashi an expression of modesty and eagerness he went with alacrity to fulfill his father's command even though he knew his brothers hated him you would have every excuse I mean even to tell a white lie right especially save your life whatever it was he did exactly what his father told him that's what says he naming that's what the expression of humanity we see avram said it so many other people said it and it's very important that we understand what that means let's go on with the Clear Car where we left off then it says um R that's the last thing we read in chapter 18 verse 8 Vani the word like we saw in rashi rashi it's a language of fervor passion alacrity and in partials the yay shave that will be in Genesis chapter 37 verse 13 which we read the omah that's where Joseph had said to his father behold here I am and the clear course says it's a language it's a Russian it's an expression of another of humility you're ready to do whatever God wants or whatever your master tells you to do and you're full of zzus now when we understand Rashi the word Hine is done is explained as bisimka that's what Rashi said in our Parsha it's it's a matter of joy like it says in Exodus chapter 4 verse 14. we already saw this what when Moses was told that his brother Aaron was coming with joy in his heart says and he was happy in his heart and in other words only God knows what's in the heart of Ara the timer what's the reason the clear card is telling us every time you see the word Hine in the Torah it's a lushing of zizusu it's a language of fervor and alacrity the komash Adams and this is what I said before from a psychological point of view anything that a person does with I'm going to say that's the general rule I think we can always think of some exceptions okay but anyway that's the general rule that he's doing it with joy okay just as iron was happy likrat Moshe to greet up with Moshe to meet up with him and greet him remember Moshe was the younger brother and Aaron was still very happy that he was put in such a position he was not jealous Aaron was not jealous because of the uh added or exceptional Authority that Moses wielded and as a merit remember measure for measure as a result as a merit for this that Aram was rewarded with this Authority he was granted the authority of this of the office of Cohen and it was done with happiness now I think we're referring to Hashem Hashem even though as if he has motions that God himself was done it did it with such Joy I mean as a result of moshe's as a result of our owns in other words we illicit it's hard to explain in this way but we can elicit responses within Hashem right when we are not grateful right when we're depressed when we're you know going through whatever it is with our yet Sahara so I'm not saying we affect him that way but what's going to you get what goes around what goes around comes around right Karma they say that's like but you're you're like the law of attraction to a certain extent you're creating your own reality and you have an opportunity to create such a good reality I I know it must take a lot of you know in her work inner work to really come to this to this place but that's what it requires because that's what it seems to be saying that on the Merit of our own coming to this joyous state that his younger brother was elevated to an authority as a result our own was elevated to such a high Authority and God did it and that's what it means that's God speaking Hine the word it's done with resus by God or with joy and and love I'm giving to our own in the Merit of the word from the very fact that our own when he went out to meet his younger brother he went out with this fervor and he explains also lamala in chapter 16 verse 5. now in 16 5 we're dealing with the idea that Moses is telling everybody he spoke to karach and to all this company saying in the morning the Lord will make known who is his and who is Holy and He will draw them near to him and the one he chooses He will draw near to him we're going to deal with this in Hebrew it says bulgar the Yoda Hashem in the morning God will make known at the shallow which is his which is holy the Hickory Olaf alaf and He will draw near them very important see Rashi because this is double language but in first part we're talking about the idea in the morning God will make known we're going to deal with the idea of mourning and we're going to deal with the idea of drawing close the Clear Car explains I just want to do the clear card first pay rashnu this is how we explained it above that God gave the gifts only the next day in the morning Bethany me eroice now I would translate that as with a happy face it really means an illuminated face which we're talking illuminated countenance which if you think about it we're talking about the morning you wake up in the morning the birds are chirping I know yeah a nice cup of coffee doesn't hurt but basically the air is still cool right it's not yet hot right like the saharayim but it's like a fresh crisp God just returned your soul new start it's very nice my ears punting the heroes that's how the Clear Car explains it um and he says just a few more words just as anything that's given you know in an appropriate way to the person who's needing it that's how it was done right when you give sadaka you give it with Charity you give it a smile you give it a dignified fashion so too in the morning God would make known in a very dignified fashion now let's look at that Rashi in number 11 it's number 16 verse 5. what does it mean He will draw draw them near to him the Hickory a love now the targamonculus proves that it's referring to both the Levites and the coneem he renders the first phrase he will bring them close to heaven but the second phrase meaning there's two two times one it says the Hickory elav and then the end of the verse it says a love so the second phrase he will bring him into his service that's what it means so that's why it's referring also to the Levites the major midrashic interpretation bokeir morning rather than Mahar could have just said Mahar which is probably a very appropriate word is because the Moses said to cart the Holy One Blessed Be he assigned boundaries this whole idea is you know if you go back and listen to the other classes it's good fences create good neighbors right realizing we're different and we can still get along we're on the same team but you have qualities that I don't have and I have qualities you don't have and we need each other so basically by saying Boca he is showing the god assigned boundaries to this world and are you able to transform morning into evening of course not morning is morning evening is evening you can't make next to two so how is it possible this is how that is how possible it is for you to undo this meaning if you want to undo this then you would have to transfer morning to evening and evening into morning but the toad already says it was evening and it was morning and then next verse says or two verses later and he separated between the two also in chat in first Chronicles 23 verse 13 Aaron was set apart the yav deal so the word the abdiel is used in Genesis separating morning from evening as well as our own being separated from the rest of the the pack so to speak so that you have to have boundaries very important principle in this week's parch as well let's go on we're in the clear car we're four five or five four loin four lines down at the very end represent the rabbi said in in Gamora Shabbos so I think I have it here look number 12. before we get into it says okay we spoke about this already that um that our own approached Moshe and God said that you're you know that Aaron is very happy about this look at number 12 Rabbi Malai said as it says and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said is there not Aaron your brother the levite I know that he can surely speak and also behold he hadn't right that was behold he is coming out to greet you and he will see you and be glad in his hearts right that was Exodus 4 verse 4 14. so Rabbi Malay taught that as a reward for Aaron's lack of jealousy at seeing his brother Moses rise to Greatness and then we saw the verse and he will see him be glad in his heart he married it to become the high priest number one to become the high priest and also and for the breastplate of judgment that rests on his heart as the clear card continues mishpat he merited to have the breastplate of judgment on his heart now there's a verse in Psalms 25 9. the translation he leads the humble with just rules and he teaches the humble his way you want to be a teacher you want to be well I mean you have you have an obligation sorry you have to be a teacher but let's just say you know you want to you want to be successful in life right he leads the humble with just rules who is exceedingly humble and he merited to be in such a high position right God leads the one who is humble bomb ishpat and that's what he had he had the hoshan mishpat on his uh chest over his heart by air back in the clear cautioned by air La Mala parshus mishpatim and that was the verse another low what was this leading on this humility that he had it was the very fact that Aaron was so happy about the leadership position The Authority that his own brother had not because of you know because it was his brother but it was his younger brother and he was happy so because um it's cooling at 89 a do I have that here number 15. so what about the humility of our great leaders the clear card mentions what it says it says that great what greatness was there that was spoken about Moshe anaron it says in Exodus chapter 16 verse 6 that's in the middle of this Gomorrah what are we the nachnu ma if you look at number 16 chapter it's Exodus 16 verse sorry I think it's seven it's 16 verse 7. in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord when he when he hears your complaints against the Lord but of what significance Are We Now Moses is speaking on behalf of himself and our own right what are we that's called humility okay so that was one verse let's go back into the hoolin 89A I granted greatness to avraham because by Abram in Genesis 18 verse 27 he says that he's just off of vapor he says I am but dust and Ashes that is a high level of avram to be on to say I'm basically nothing I'm here I'm humble we read the verse by Moses said about our own and himself and what about the greatness granted to dovet he said I'm about a worm I am but a worm and not a man that's in Psalms 22 verse 7. so the back in the clear cards oh this is chapter 16 verse 11. go to number 17 on the source number 1611 therefore you and your entire company who are assembled are who are assembled or against the Lord for what is our own that you should complain against him so this is Moses speaking on behalf of our own saying how humbly is what is he meaning the shahuma that he that Moses understood that Aaron himself considered it considered himself Lively ma as like nothingness as if he was this is like full circle here as if he was a dried Branch a dry piece of wood there's no moisture and yet what did we see we saw the miracle of these from the budding and the blossoming all the way to the fully ripe almonds therefore as a result merited that there was this blossoming of the of the staff of our own that had been dry and yet what came out of it unbelievable okay we're in the last paragraph um they're worth 24 matanas we're already in like chapter 18. we're talking about all these different gifts that are being given to the Kahuna guess what he's the clear card mentions there are 24 as we know and what are they connected Can negative there are 24 books of the Bible foreign B um okay it's number 18 on the source sheet and from where is it derived this is a very important idea for my friends who are kohnim I beg of you not for the sake of becoming just to get the gifts it's worth becoming a timer but no not sick personally if you're not at and people pass by you and don't give you gifts it says over there from where is it derived the one does not give truma to a priest who's in amarits right a a a a a priest a Cohen who doesn't even know the laws of two men tahara it's the right from a verse very important verse in second Chronicles chapter 31 verse 4. it says and he commanded the people who dwelled in Jerusalem to give a portion of the priests and of the Levites ready drum roll please guys drum roll so that so that they may firmly adhere to the Torah of the Lord in other words you're going to give let's say like as I'm the businessman or the farmer and I'm gonna give my tithes the choice is mine to whom I give it to but it's not really mine the stuff belongs to the konim it's not mine anymore but at least the choice is mine who to give it to and who should I give it to this is in the Navy this is in the Chronicles okay this was and he commanded the people dwelved in Jerusalem to give the Persian the priests and the Levites to them that who are going to firmly adhere to the Torah of the Lord let's read on everyone who firmly adheres to the Torah of the Lord has a portion and anyone who does not firmly adhere to the Torah of the Lord does not have abortion says in the name of Judah with regard to anyone who gives truma to a priest who is not learned it's as though he placed truma before a lion you don't know what the line is going to do with it just as regarding a lion there's an uncertainty whether he will mull its prey and eat it and there's an uncertainty whether he will not mull its prey and maybe instead eaten alive so too with regard to a priest who's an Amara it's an ignoramus to one gives truer there's an uncertainty whether he will eat an impurity because he doesn't know the laws of Purity and there's an uncertainty whether he will eat it in in impurity so you don't know if he's going to eat it in Purity or impurity and if he eats impure impurity he's violating a Prohibition of Torah law okay so that's clear so now we're talking about these 24 matanois and we spoke of araviokanan in right and we just did we okay in different yummy in second chronicles 31 4. did we already read that uh look at 19. and he commanded I think we did yeah we read that already okay so that's the idea here to give the portion of the priests and the Levites in order they be strengthened but listen to the Hebrew you're giving the priesthood their gifts in order to strengthen them to be hazak in the Torah not to be lenient or the opposite right not not on the uh to trample on the Torah so to speak and that's what it means Hashem so here you have it um mentions these 24 different gifts now I want you to read in Numbers Chapter 18. okay let's go to numbers 18. and we're going to read a few verses starting with eight is called the gifts of the code name Hashem spoke to Aaron and I behold here you have behold I have given you the Safeguard of my heave offerings and all the sanctities of the children of Israel I've given them to you for distinction and to your sons as an eternal portion they shall be yours from the most holy from the fire now and when you see a number nine in the Hebrew it says okay I want to I don't want to spoon feed you but there's going to be two times the word zes used we have 24 different gifts 12 of those gifts the word Ze the Gamache is seven and five is twelve seven twelve of those gifts are to be eaten by the Cohen and his family outside of the Temple and then there's another time zet is used and it's holy of holies and can only be eaten in the temple and the word zet introduces that verse again the word Ze is a gamachary of 12. so you're going to see that there actually are 24 gifts but 12 were to beaten in 10 in Jerusalem and 12 can be eaten wherever they come and lives so that was verse 9 where it says and if we read on and I'll just read nine in English this shall be yours for the most holy from the fire they're very offering they're every meal offering their every sin offering their every guilt offering which they return to me as most holy it shall be yours and your sons your family number 10 in the most holy you shall eat it every male shall eat it this shall be holy for you then 11 and this shall be yours okay actually so just keep in mind the first Z is actually referring to the uh what you have to eat in Jerusalem as opposed to 11. this shall be yours which is set aside from their gift from the wavings of the children of Israel have I presented them to you and your sons and the daughters with you as an eternal portion every pure person in your household may eat it even the word household is used and verse 11 begins with the word visit again the word Zeb is 12. so let's go to the clear car and he'll explain it he says like this that as we mentioned there are 24. they were like a second paragraph down in the middle of the line four lines down it says stay messrey by mikdash stem estrellin meaning 12 of these are to beaten only in the temple and 12 of these are only can be eaten uh outside of the temple complex REM is Le davar and he says what's the hint Zed from the word as it is the the gematri of Zion hey High new 12. it's Sheamus right so the first verse is talking about only that which you could be in the mikdash and then when it says later in verse 11 matnam Israel and that can be eaten by your whole family zechanic statement that is the 12 gifts that the Cohen can benefit and this whole family can benefit that's not in the base of mikdash now let's continue the last four lines now we spoke before about I think it was partially not so there's a 25th gift even though there's 24 gifts as we have said over and over and over and over again there it says in Numbers chapter 16 verse 23 in Nassau right well guess what that's 25. coffee is 25. I'm sorry part it's chapter 6 verse 23 of Numbers chapter 6 not 16 chapter 6 verse 23 that the yes that the actual Service as the Cohen blesses the Jewish people he's blessing them with prosperity with wealth okay and guess what happens if they have to give 10 or whatever two percent the different things that you have to give 10 of a hundred thousand is different than ten percent of a million so the more the Jewish Pro people Prosper through the blowing of the blessing of the Cohen the more they're going to give in return so this is the gift that just keeps on giving okay so let's read the clear card he says there's actually a service this the actual serving meaning the beer because kohanim is the gift itself the Hebrew classical as it says in chapter 6 verse 23 thusly you shall bless that there's actually a 25th gift the Khan he remusa and he and how is this how is this hinted at in our chapter because of the word Hine the fervor and the passion of the coinim is going to come back to them how the word of 60 minus 50 the two hazor five each it's 60. and how many letters are there in beer because kohanim 60 letters you can count them yourself and we have ensure sharing that song of songs it's the last Source on the source sheet number Song of Songs chapter 3 verse seven sorry it's number 24 Song of Songs chapter three verse 7 behold the litter of Solomon 60 mighty men are around it and the Mighty Men of Israel Israel we understand this is talking about birkus kohanim visham namru panimi rice when one gives and we have a cone in the room when one gives birkas kohani mccoan is blessing the people he actually says these words that Hashem should shine his countenance upon you this is the idea of shining his countenance is a is a is a language of joy and simcha that God is smiling down on you so to speak that Hine is so basically the kanim are our examples of how we should serve Hashem the truth is we are at kohani we are Kingdom of priests right a holy nation as well we can actually try to live up to ourselves in our own personal service of Hashem but as role models we use the kohenim and bizarat Hashem will all live up to what it means to be a yid right with the name of God imprinted as the word yahudah y with the Donald Square in the middle we are God's ambassadors on this Earth and misrat Hashem will be able to live up to it and that's all I can say and keep learning keep stagging away keep serving Hashem keep working on your midos enjoy evening now I told my friend a couple I would sing a song he wanted me to sing it but we have this uh I'm not sure I can sing it but I'll try so I saved it for the end not to harm anybody but we have this idea of evil servation with joy okay okay it's a Miss figure dollar leopus so there's a song right that's true so it's a it's a great Mitzvah to always be in a state of Joy however not however they change the words a little bit foreign how great it is right the simple to always be involved in a Mitzvah because actually the word Mitzvah is there's no greater connection to Hashem than to be involved in Mitzvahs and that's like the ultimate Joy so even though we're just saying Mitzvah gadola they as they're singing the song they changed a little bit and it says okay I'll stop there and nobody should be paid nobody should have nightmares when they go to sleep just sing the song look it up on Google uh YouTube whatever you'll hear much better Renditions and I'll say everyone have a great job it's a great life [Music] moving