You’re So Small

Okay. Para says Okay, let me start with a medish rib. I think in his first in this week's para, I believe that's where he he discusses this medish and the mahalak that I'm going to say. Hey, I'm not going to say the same thing as him, but but it's going to be ali the way he's masbar. This medish very very very uh fascinating medish. The medish says I got it. The says it's a mushel to a noble woman. She enters into the palin shmel the palace magavio tonal she saw the whips hanging she became afraid she said it's so overwhelming you come into the the the the palton melik and you see all these caim used to punish people she became afraid the melik says to this uh to this noble woman. Don't be afraid. These are for the servants. This is for the staff. You know what you're doing here? You're here. says the [snorts] don't be afraid the overwhelming paras of on the skin and then it's and when they heard the par of they became afraid Don't be afraid. These this is for but for you it's to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This mish is an unbelievable because there's the the Mishna says that the of do not apply to Gen. They only apply to Yidden. [clears throat] So here's the par of says don't be afraid. These are for the it doesn't what does that mean? But for you it's no the is foral is only foral is half flavor fell it's unbelievable if you want to look it up of the unbelievable that's alf what what could such a thing possibly means so we're all familiar with the first rashy in parazria Ishaki Aldo the the the um the beginning of parazria discusses the tum of aes and rashi says that just like the description of the creation of man is after all of the man was created last. So too That's why you find the par is the of the animal and that's is I want to give a little bit of a perspective on this rashi. I mean think about it. [clears throat] There's a lot to go into here but let's just take it just listening to the words. The six days of creation is for what? What's the tas of the bria? For Adam, right? The purpose is for Adam is the stage is set for Adam when he's created. The moment of that's the moment that the whole [clears throat] was waiting for. This is the great moment the unbelievable creation of Adam. This is what it was all about. So you have the creation of everything in the Bria and then you have the introduction the garra describes it like it's the you have the introduction of this like the melik arrives the king arrives right this this tremendous unbelievable bria of Adam [clears throat] and Adam was some bria right when when Adam was created it says that his his is his is godless reflected in his size was [cough] and parallel to that is the Tyra of Adam. [clears throat] It doesn't seem to be a fitting parallel that parallel to the Tyra of. So because of that parallel like the world is [clears throat] the Tyra the denim of the world the way that the Rashi seems to be saying it is a reflection of the reality of the world and just like in the reality of the world there was a bria that's set up all the other parts of the bria until the final introduction of this incredible Adam. So too you have the until finally this is the this is the choice of the expression of the of Adam that a woman is impure when she gives birth that's the reflection you see what I mean like that's the reflection of Adam that a woman is tummy how do I understand that parallel Well, [clears throat] the the seder of the of tumasis, it's a fascinating seder that you have is a tuma that's triggered by birth and mitav that when a female is born when an Ava is born is a double tum because when a when a man is born so the is that the tuma of his own birth but when a woman is born it's also she's a potential mother she's a future mother so it's even compounded the tumas okay so that we know that there's the tuma for a z and double that is the tuma for ana but There's two stages in the tum. There's the tum that's either 7 days or 14 days of mamish of tum just from the birth even a yea but just from the birth. And then there's this time this very interesting time where she's she's she's pure. So much so that even if she sees she's unbelievable, right? Except she can't go into the BT her is she can't touch she can't go into the mash. It's a very unusual form of tum. What are the two stages here in tomasus? [cough] So I want to over just very briefly a nuda that we said by the [cough] [clears throat] just to understand the parallel between the brias and Israel because this is this is the foundation of everything of understanding all of these paras of [clears throat] created Adam and as we discussed Yantiff when created Adam as he was anticipating the creation of man there were forces in the Bria that were they didn't want Adam to be created as David quotes in right the the um we know from the Rashi that when decided to bring the Mel Rashi says Rashi says I'm ready to to to agree with those who told me not to create man when destroyed in the time of the m. So there was a force saying alra don't create man. There were mid if you know the midash ms omar alra there was forces in the bria saying don't create and this is a balance that created in the world. It's not a coincidence created in the world a that the world be a place that screams and to balance that created forces that try to be that try to hold back and that's the balance of the world that we live in there were forces that saying I don't want that I don't want that we don't believe in him we don't believe he can do it created despite all that [clears throat] despite all of that kit Adam came about and Adam did and [clears throat] when Adam did that he was diminished it's hard to it's hard to imagine the greatness of the of how much Adam was diminished because we don't have a of how great Adam was but the lion of the ism put his hand on him so to speak and miniaturized him. The of today is a miniature is a shadow of literally a shadow of and that's the world that we live in the world of but the world didn't stay that way for long chose and from the time of who's called the great Adam the process began of the restoration of the godless the restoration of Adam and it's important to understand that that restoration is not complete until when comes then you know death will be eradicated and the full greatness of man will return but there was an incredible step towards that that happened with the and with Israel is that we became the vessel that is going to become that and that's what the Gmorra says in the Pik says in that told you you are you only you you are and the garra says famously you are called the nations of the world are not called. That doesn't mean that the nations of the world are animals, [clears throat] right? That's not their butim. But it means the nations of the world are the of after the and is that you're the and there are qualities that we have of even though as we still have but right as we have the quality of there's no mis it's impossible for the a sh can't die. There are qualities of other that we have because we have [snorts] a potential because we're a kali that's shy to greatness. That's why we have tum. We have tum because there's a deficit in us before. Let me get back to you and I'll get back to Tom. Clal is in. There's also this moment of wanting to create. That's what Mim was another Israel. It's called the birth of Kali Israel through was the birth of this new Adam that we are. Just like there was a Kayak in the Bria trying to be trying to hold back the creation of Adam. There was a trying to hold back the creation of this Adam. What's that? That Kayak is par and Mitim and Paro. They're trying to hold back this birth. My once told us by 35 years ago that that's why you find that parro had issues with birth. He had issues when the children are born with lea with birth with midwives because he was he was here to prevent a big birth. My rasha even parathetically suggested that it could be we living in this last generation before Messiah. It could be that we live in a generation where there's tremendous on birth. We live in a world where people end pregnancies leenu. It could be we live in a world where there's a kit on birth because once again that there's a big birth about to happen. And it could be that there's this underlying sense of we're afraid of birth. were afraid of Lea parenthetically but parro was holding trying to hold back trying to hold back the birth of this Adam Clius is in gives us a mitzvah say the god as is called the god bino the should go after the that's the sun and the k is the kan should go after the k that's the moon it's a and the on this that's the first mitzvah you're only a kon it's an interesting first mitzvah for the nation the birth of a nation you're not a god anymore you're a katan that that's the that's the first mitzvah No of when you tell me I'm a you know what that means that means I'm sh to a greatness that you have cannot even imagine if you tell me that I'm a god that means that this is me at my maturity this is me at my whole at my most whole this is me at my greatest that I could be if you tell me that I'm the best I could be that means I'm as small as this if you tell me that I'm small that means there's a capacity capacity for so much greatness ahead. You're not shal. You're not like the sun. You're like the moon. That's a tiny sliver of the moon because you Israel are your shak to a tremendous greatness. Stop considering yourself big. This this is not big. This is small. That's the first mitzvah that Israel has. That's the mitzvah of Israel is to the and that's the nuda that when a Jewish child is born there's a sense of deficit of loss because you know what a birth of an adam is a birth of an adam like us a birth of an adam is something that there's no misa a birth of an adam is something that's that goes from one end of the world to the other a birth of an adam is someone who's on such a high madrega that say brought in the nephim that the malim would roast meat and purify wine to serve to Adam and the nephe says don't think that just means they made him a barbecue says you know what it means that they would roast meat and purify wine it means that the mine of malim was too gas for Adam they had to make it more d they had to roast it they had to like get rid of some of the fat they had to purify it because Adam was on such a high madrea that the mal had to purify their maz to feed it to Adam. That's the birth of an Adam. So when our women when our wives give birth to a baby, we have a tum. You know why? Because we know that we're destined for a unbelievable greatness. And we experience that greatness in the of the and that's the idea of that's why this and if that's why this doesn't it make perfect sense that it's a reflection of that the whole world was created and finally in the end and then we have the Tyra of of of and then we have the what a godless what a greatness you're just a sliver of the moon. There's a tuma here. You have a capacity for much much much more. That's the message. That's the that's the message of the uh of the of the of the tomas. is a mimer in the ofus something that you don't see that much about but it's a it's an undeniable which is that in going through the journey that was meant to have so let's just imagine created right he had a job to do in he was going to bring the world to its through that job and going to then he did the [snorts] that that means that there's really two steps for us to accomplish right first we have to restore ourselves to be the of before the and get rid of all of the of the and then we have to do the job that we were created to do and then will be into I didn't see this anywhere but I want to suggest humbly to the that perhaps that's the two stages of stage number one is the tum that's the process of getting rid of the of the of and then you reach a point where there's no tum anymore even when there's d it's not it's not but if you want to reach to the mikdash You want to get to the you have to go through another and that's the that's the you still haven't done your and that's why in the tum that reflects the essence of what a mench is which is you have these two stages of tahara first of all being that which is which is dealing with the of the of and then there's lifting ourselves up to be able to go into the mikdash to be able to connect with that's perhaps an insight in the two stages of of tumas you know the the um the makus and mitim that were sent to the anti-adam to the one trying to be ma adam are called nutim It's not called I mean it's called in in in but it's called in in the past it's called because a nega is something that indicates a disconnect from a disconnect from the the you know the say this this phrase that we were that The mga that's the highest level of his the closest to Hashem says and nega that's the disconnect from Hashem Israel here is the par of [clears throat] they start to be afraid we have sh to being disconnected we have that that represent the disconnect from the that's what we have we have says to it says to them no no they have doesn't mean this part of but they have such a thing that they could cut themselves off by there such a thing that they could have that means that says I don't have a connection with you anymore as the said but You know why you have a par ofim? Because you're on a path towards godless because this is your way of bridging that gap. Because this is the way of being those disconnects. So yeah, of course the Mishna says that is fores this way that no, it's coming to say for you you're you're reading the par of wrong. You're seeing it as a way of severing the connection with the king. No, it's not severing the connection. It's a way of facilitating the connection. And this Rabbi say is the is the mera is the phrase is the puk that said to Israel this time of year when Israel finished with yams and they were on their way to that that that told Israel I'm gonna end with If you listen to and you do all of the mitzvah, so the illness, the plagues that I sent on, I won't give you because I am Hashem, your healer. That's a reward. If you do everything I say, I won't hurt you. That's a reward. That's what I That's a reward. No. No. If you listen to me, if the type of that I gave that are relationship ending the because even if I give you, I'm here to bridge the gap. I'm here to heal you. I'm here to bring you home. And that's the that's that's the after message from Baraku. And that means that when we go into a para of mit so easy to be mistaken the mitz the whole parazria the whole parit the the different types of and everything are whispering into our ear. You're big you're big. You're great. There's a future. There's greatness. there's something ahead. You represent something. You mean something. You you're you're valuable to and that's the that we need to learn these par to see it as the story of our godless. And it's a good thing to know because we live in a generation that sometimes is a bit shallow. And the only time that we receive messages of godless is if it comes along with a good song and we're saying you're great, you're great, you're great, you're great. So then we hear, "I'm great." But the is sometimes more subtle than that. And sometimes in the difficult like you know in the difficult in the your tummy you're hearing you're great you're shy to something bigger. Sometimes being told you're small is the biggest compliment you could get because it's seeing in us that was sh to something. is so much bigger should give us even in our lives in ouristic lives a sense that we're so much bigger than where we are now and to show us the path to be able to climb Madrega Madrega to be able to reach that godless yash Shayas.