Can You Hear It? Parashat Vayikra

[Music] why does the torah have to repeat that hashem spoke to moshe also obviously if he called him then he spoke to him well you know we all know that qadosh berku when he wrote the torah 974 generations before creating this world with black fire on white fire as the marijuana says he did not write anything for no reason everything has a reason every letter every point every beginning or end statement everything has a specific purpose a specific lesson and there are times that the debate about specific uh things that we learn from the verse but then one of the sages brings a verse and he says this is what we learned from this verse and one of the other sages says you're right we can learn we can learn this lesson from this verse but we're not allowed to why because this verse is already utilized for a different lesson this verse we already put it in a different shelf it's already teaching us a different law we can't also learn this law from it meaning that everything is not just their free-for-all you can just interpret the torah the way you like and just pick and choose where you want to learn what you learn it's the torah is so precise the law is so precise that every letter every statement everything has its own unique fingerprint on the creation and therefore when you see that who emphasizes something that seems to us unnecessary unnecessary why if you called moshe then surely you spoke to him and quite frankly if you spoke to him then obviously you called him why do i need you to mention both to me especially in the same sentence if it was in two different sentences i could say maybe these are two different times maybe this maybe that i could posture in a lot of different ways but when you're telling me that you called moshe and then you spoke to him now who i need i need help i need help understanding why you did that and i can't get help from my own mind because i can't trust my own mind because my own mind is not like the mind of the holy sages so therefore i have to go to the holy sages om kilos i need your help uncles comes and he helps us unkiller says to us hashem ko to tell us a significant lesson relevant to our lives today each and every single one of us gets a calling from akadosh mohu countless times throughout our lives what is the difference between how a kid does and how he called you how he called me how he called her how he called them how what is the difference that you're going to say yeah of course when academics everybody heard moshe heard it was a voice i don't know when did hashem call me i don't remember i don't remember getting a call what does he call me on the phone now maybe hashem is up to date with the calls why he said send me a text message when did hashem call me you're missing the point who called you and you would know it if you answered meaning the difference is not the voice the difference is not a sound the difference is if you recognize the call or not hashem called moshe and hashem spoke with moshe why did hashem speak with moshe because when he called mushay moshe answered when akadoshva who gave moshe different signs moshe was holy enough and clever enough to recognize the signs and know that this this is from god this is my god and i shall glorify him each and every one of us whether male or female young or old jew or gentile gets callings from akadosh bahu at different times of our lives who calls us in different ways but many times the person does not have the holiness the cleverness the fortitude to recognize the calling from hashem it's much easier for them to pin that call on something else a person goes to work like he did many times on the way to work he has a near-death experience where a truck almost hits his car but doesn't an 18-wheeler almost runs him over and kills him on the spot but it doesn't and many times they'll say wow such good luck wow doesn't recognize that this is god calling him sometimes he'll even say oh thank god and just simply move on with his life meaning that there is no real ownership of that statement thank god he figured oh god made me a miracle he saved me and i could just go on with my life not realizing that that near-death experience was a calling sometimes a person gets a phone call somebody that they haven't heard in a long time or perhaps just the person they need to hear from said welch what a coincidence not realizing god is the one that did it sometimes a person is looking for something and he opens the book right exactly on the page that he's looking for typically that person knows that it's god calling him these calls come for different reasons there are many times a person gets called where they realize that they're on the wrong path and instead of saying oh god is calling me telling me that i'm on the wrong path i'm in a relationship i shouldn't be in i'm consuming things i shouldn't be i'm involved in things that i shouldn't be i'm giving towards things i shouldn't be or perhaps the opposite i have a blessing but i'm not appreciating it i have opportunities but i'm too afraid to take them and akidos bachu gives us different things in our lives and tries to get our attention but if a person is not looking for that voice he won't find it i remember when robert fryan first taught me about the uh level of relationship that moshe rabbenu had with akadoz where they literally thought about hashem every waking hour the thought of thinking about god every waking hour was simply not possible in my mind at the time how can you think about god at every single moment i mean to think about him a few times a day when you're praying when you're doing a blessing when something good or something bad happens that i can understand but to think about them at all times every time you take a step every time you breathe every time you hear every time you see at all moments at every second simply not plausible not possible not even something that is humanly uh uh real it's just not realistic but that's also because at that time the voice that i was hearing the calling that i was hearing was very faint was almost unsure if it was really happening i wasn't sure if it was god calling me or was simply me losing my mind after all the pain and agony many times a person gets a calling and he doesn't realize it's his calling in chapter 6 the second mishna says that every day there is a voice coming out from mount sinai as a voice comes the baal shem tov and says if there is a voice why doesn't anybody hear it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] you