Beha'aloscha - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learn for Tuesday, the third Torah reading of Paris Palosha, chapter 9, verse one. Today we're going to learn about the Passover that was celebrated in the desert. The Torah now tells us about the first Passover that happened a year ago. But the Torah tells us the first time and one of the only times that the Jewish people actually celebrated Passover in the desert. From here we also going to go to the second time the about the second Passover meaning the second chance that a person has to celebrate Passover. Chapter 9 verse one. And God spoke to motion the Sinai desert. This is the second year since the Jewish people's exodus from Egypt in the first month saying so we are now in the year 2449 Moses spoke to the God telling the Moses at that point a year after the Jewish people's exodus what should be done the first of the month the first month the Torah reading that we mentioned before that was at the beginning of this Torah reading meaning of the book of numbers the beginning of the book of numbers was actually only said the second month there is no chron the Torah was not written in chronological order so now we're in the third Torah reading of the book of numbers which was actually said before the first two Torah readings in the book of numbers you may ask why doesn't the Torah start in order and why doesn't it start with something that happened on the first Why didn't it start with this Torah reading? Because it also tells us about an embarrassing fact about the Jewish people because throughout the 40 years that the Jewish people were in the desert. They only brought once a pascal offering. This is the only Pes that they celebrated in the desert from when they went out of Egypt until they entered the land of Israel and then they circumcised themselves as we read about it in the book of Joshua. This is also because if the Jewish people wouldn't have sinned with the sin of the spies as we're going to read about in the next Torah reading then they would have gone into Israel right away and there wouldn't have been 40 years in between. So technically speaking this would have been the first one in the desert. The next pesak they were supposed to be already in the land of Israel. The 40-year interim was not in on the plan or on the books according to the Jewish people. Verse two, and the Jewish people, the Israelites must offer the pascal offering in its appointed time. In the proper time, what is the word? meaning and it's appointed time even when that appointed time comes out on Shabas and even if everybody or most people are impure as we're going to learn about the second PES second P that happens if people are impure that's only if individuals are impure but if everybody was impure you would even still bring the Pascal offering verse three on the four afternoon of the 14th of this month in the afternoon said they should do in its appointed time. Do it in according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances. As we'll see what that means. This is the first time that the Jewish people are bringing the pascal offering outside Egypt. Last time the pascal offering was brought, they were inside Egypt. So now the Torah tells us the laws of how it would be done regularly in the time of the holy temple, wherever they may be, and how one should do it. So therefore the Torah says all its statutes is number one mitzvah the mitzvah that have to do with the actual detail of the offering itself. Number one it has to be a lamb without any blemishes a male a year old ordinances those are the mitzvah that come as an addition to it. For example, from someplace else, when does it have to be done? Seven days for eating matzah restrictions of not having less at the time as well. You have to be roasted. the way it's roasted in one thing outside the body would be eaten with matzah and getting rid of the verse four spoke to all the Jewish people that they should do the pascal offering what is this first coming to tell me doesn't it already said the festivals of God though over there when we learned in the book of Leviticus that Moshe told him about the different festivals was when he heard them from Sinai. He then repeated them to the Jewish people over here. So there's two kinds of teachings that Moshe did. There was one time Moshe taught the Jewish people when he heard them from Sinai and he told them what has to be done. A second time when it came to the actual action to the time period when it was done for example now the first of Nissan he's telling them about the laws of the pertaining of what has to be done at the time. Verse five. And the Jewish people did the of pascal offering on the first day of the in the first month in the 14th day of the month in the afternoon. Everything that God commanded Moses. So too the Jewish people did. Verse six, but there were men who became ritually impure and that is because they touched a dead body and therefore they were not able to bring that pascal offering on that exact day. So therefore they approached Mosharon on that day. Why both of them? Both were sitting in the study hall. Both asked doesn't mean that they asked one after the other because if Moshe didn't know, well, how would Aaron know? So probably they were sitting together. The fellows came over. These people were ritually impure. Why were they ritually impure? There are different commentaries that explain why they were ritually impure. Some want to say these were the people that were actually carrying the ark the the coffin of the tribes and of Joseph and therefore they were richly impure. Others want to say they were actually and the two people who took out nanov from the holy of holies and therefore they were richly impure and they were not able to bring the sac the pascal offering because they came in contact with the dead corpse rashi. Uh next verse verse seven And those people said to Moshe, "We are impure because we came in contact with the dead corpse. Why should we lose out to be able to bring the sacrifice of God? Why should we be excluded from bringing the sacrifice of God in its appointed time amongst the rest of the Jewish people? They came to Moshe and Aaron. They said, "We want to bring the sacrifice." They said to Moshe, "You can't bring holy sacrifices when you're impure." They said to them, "Let us get the blood sprinkled upon us with and we will be like the pure." Okay. We can't eat the meat only later on. But what's the problem? If we are not able to eat it, let us then just like other sacrifices of the Q&A that you give. Just if the time that we that the actual sacrifice was brought, we cannot eat it. What's the what are we supposed to do? So he said to them and we'll eat it when we become pure. Meanwhile, let somebody else why can't it be brought while we're impur let you know they're like a student that was ready to hear from their teacher. Lucky is such an individual that whenever he knows when he knows that anytime he'll have a question his teacher will be there to answer that that Moshe knew that Mosha's prophecy was so great that anytime he needed a question God would come and tell him. Technically, Moshe could have been told this commandment on his own. God could have came and told Moshe this would be the law for somebody that's impure. But because these people because they felt bad that they weren't able to bring this sacrifice because they asked and and said why should we lose out says God makes that a merit should come through special people that because they were righteous therefore they were entitled and they got the the special merit that this para should be said this Torah reading this mitzvah should be given because of them which teaches us such an important lesson. that a person should never feel that he's too left out that he doesn't have the ability to connect to God. When a person realizes he feels a lack of purity of holiness, he asks of God, why should I be different? Then God gives them the great not only gives them the mitzvah, the ability that they're able to do the mitzvah just like everybody else, but entire Torah reading comes because of them. Verse eight, Mosha says to them, "And I'll tell you what God will tell you, what God will command." Verse 9, and God spoke to Mosha saying speak to the Jewish people because he came in contact with the dead corpse or he has been too far. He's in a distant place either now to you guys or for future generations. He can still make a pas pascal sacrifice to God. Verse 10, if you look at the word in the Torah, you'll see it has little dots on it to say, not that it means he was really distant and that he wasn't able to come. Azarita. He was outside the actual doorstep of the Azar in the time of the slaughtering at the time when one had to bring the pascal offering Pesi and therefore Rashi explains that many different laws apply to the second PES different than if the Pes was brought in its proper time. For example, when it comes to the to the second, you can have matzah and you don't have to have only matzah. There's no prohibition of having in your home. It is not considered a holiday where you have to rest and therefore where it's a prohibited from working as well. So there's differences when it comes to the actual second pes versus the pes being brought in its original time. Verse 12. I'm sorry. First 11. On the second month, a person will have the opportunity to bring the pascal offering in the 14th day in the afternoon. So they will do it. They will eat it together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Verse 12. They should not leave anything over for the 14th in the second month to the next day. They must eat it. They must not break any of its bones. He said they should do it with all the different statues connected with the regular pascal sacrifice. Still in all we besides those exceptions that we mentioned it's not considered a holy day. Verse uh 13 a person who is clean meaning he's did not come in contact with a dead corpse and therefore he is pure and he was not on a journey and he therefore and he still neglects to bring the pascal offering. says, "Ah, don't worry about it. I'll be able to do it next month." That person will die prematurely because he missed out the chance of bringing God's sacrifice in its appropriate time. He will thereby carry his sin, that person will bear the sin. Verse 14, uh if we will be together with you, if a convert will that dwells amongst you, and he uh becomes obligated to offer the Passover or sacrifice to Hashem. He doesn't do it immediately by his conversion. He must offer it according to statutes and the regulations of the pascal sacrifice. He should do it according to that meaning on the 14th of Nissan just like everybody else. And therefore this is one statute for you and to the convert and to the nativeborn citizen of the land. I would have thought from the very fact that he tells it to us that he will do the pas offering means whoever converts should do the pascal offering right away as soon as he converts even if it's not in the time of pes. Therefore the Torah tells us the statute. This is what it means. when a convert's going to live with you and it'll come the time of the regular time which is the 14th month of that means don't think just because you missed out a chance to bring the pascal offering when you converted that you do it right then at that time no you wait until it comes the regular time of pes which is the 14th day of the first month and then you will bring the pes the pascal offering like everybody else this concludes the third Torah reading of paras is Bisa.