Behar-Bechukosai - 6th Portion

Join me as we learn the kumish for the sixth Torah reading of parishes baharosi when they are combined. We are now at the sixth Torah reading in chapter 27 verse1. Yesterday was a very long Torah reading about the consequences that happen to the Jewish people when the lack of observances. Today we move on to the laws pertaining donating the value of human life and God saying speak to the Jewish people tell them when a person articulates a vowem pledging the endowment of a life to God. What that means explains as follows words first of all means he articulates he says it over here the Torah is telling us that if a person wants to give to the holy temple the value of a person's life the value of my head or something the value of me I want to give that amount to the holy temple verse The fixed monetary endowment that a person will give if it's a male person will be for the amount from 20 years old from 20 years old until 60 years old. A person from age 20 to 60 that endowment will be 50 shekel of silver according to the sacred shekele. That means the holy type of shekele that are designated for holy purposes which we mentioned previously in the book of Exodus which is 20 g for the shekele which gives you about 800 gram 1.76 pounds rash meaning that the value should be when we talk about value he's talking about money not that a person is worth that whether a person is expensive or he's It doesn't make a difference how much a person thinks he's worth. Every single person has to is the same value and it goes by years meaning value. The reason why it says he doesn't know where it comes from according to grammatic holy tongue according to grammatic Hebrew which should be only verse four if she's female then she's a value of 30 shekel verse five what if from 5 years old to 20 years old the value that you're going to give for the maleum is 20 shekel for a female Not that the one that's promising is a child because a child a child can't make any promises. It's not worth anything. If a child if an adult says if a person says the value of this child who's 5 years old that's how much I want to give to the holy temple then he has to give 20 for the male and 10 for the female. Verse seven. What about from one month old until 5 years old? Then for a male it's going to be five shekel silver and for the female three uh shekel of silverashi next verse sorry verse verse seven what about 60 years and up that was only until 20 to 60. What about 60 and older if it's a male for a male it's going to be 15 shekel for a female when a person reaches the older years then their value goes down but a woman at that point is more valuable meaning that the woman as she gets older doesn't age her value doesn't go down as less as a Because if you look at the value, you look at the man, the man over 60 is 15 down from 50 while the woman is 10 down from 30. Over here you see and that is because you see a person as a male as he gets older his value lessens more than a third. That means until now until 60 he was 50 and now he's 15. says and a woman only her value depreciates only by a third. This is what it says in the Talmet. And the reason of this we can find by a usual statement that people say as the Talmud quotes. People say when there's an old man at home, there's problems in the house. When there's an old woman at home, you have a treasure at home and it's a good sign for the home. And that is because the nature of a man is when he's young, he works hard and everything else. But as he gets older, he sits at home and he's always complaining and this hurts him and that aches him and every so often. However, a woman who's usually not working so hard, even when she's younger, meaning not with labor type of of of work. Therefore, even when they're older, and they're usually with the house and doing things, even when they're older, they're able to do those things and they continue to do those things in a more generous way as well. verse seven uh verse eight. What happens if a person is uh if he made a pledge but he's too poor to pay the pledge that he made? If he's too poor to pay for what he pledged then he will place him before the cohen will then make a an evaluation and according and according to how much the pleasure can afford that's what the cohen will decide that he should be valued as that endowment should be given that he's too poor to give this endowment I'll put this person who he's evaluating in front of the coin means the person who he pledged. So for example, the poor man has to bring the individual who he says I want to give his value. That individual then comes before the cohen. The cohen evaluates what this person is should be worth that the poor man should can be able to afford to give this individual's value according to what the poor man has and what he owns. He has to take whatever he has able to and he has to make sure that the guy still has money to live with. He has a bed, pillow, blanket work that he works with. If he was a dunkey, he has to make sure he has his donkey. has to keep him the dunkey so he can be able to work and he shouldn't take all everything what he gave and give it to the temple. Verse n but if the person decides that he's going to give a sacrifice whatever the person decides he's going to give has to be is holy. For example, if he says I want this leg of this uh this leg of this animal should be for a scent offering to say then the whole entire how do they do it? They sell the entire animal as an ascent offering and the money that the person will keep is considered non-holy money besides for the value of that leg. So that means he has to sell the entire animal and then take the remainder whatever is not used or take with the value off that leg and everything else has to be considered the leg is considered holy and everything else you can keep. Verse 10. One is not allowed to exchange or substitute one animal for another animal or replace it good for a bad or bad for a good one. If he decides to substitute or exchange an animal as a punishment, both of them become holy. What does this mean? Meaning he wants to do as follows. One that's with a blemish, one that's without a blemish. He says for sure a good for a good one or a bad for a bad one. Over here the Torah is telling us that even if you want to say I want to make it better, I want to give a nicer animal. So he's going to take the bad one and give a better one. The Torah says, "No, the one that you decided that you have to give has to be one that's given." Verse 11, although it is forbidden to exchange or substitute, but if it is a defiled animal or a blemished animal uh which is not allowed to be brought as a carbon in to bring it as a sacrifice. He has to then present the animal before the cohen explains. We're talking about one that has a blemish which then becomes unfit to bring as a sacrifice of the verses telling me that if it's a holy sanctified animal but it is complete without a blemish you cannot redeem it. Only way that you can make this animal that was sanctified and redeem it with money is only if you got a blemish where now it no longer is fit to bring as a sacrifice. What does the cohen do? The cohen will then have to evaluate the animal may know whether it's good or bad according to the valuation that the coen gives. That's what you will have to pay. whatever the coin evaluates it then if a person wants to buy it and he wants to redeem it then um then then that's a different story but if any other person wants to buy it that's the value that they would have to pay for it verse 13 what happens if the person himself the owner wants to redeem it so in the case that we mentioned previously that goes according to the coins evaluation that's if anybody else wants to redeem it if the owner himself wants to say you know what I want to get back my Then he has to add a fifth to its value. When it comes to the original owners, then the Torah adds a fifth 20% on it to on its value. So too will apply if a person dedicates sanctifies his home that if the owners want to get back their original item that they gave so then they have to pay 20% search charge on that verse now we talk about property so too verse 14 tells us about property a person who decides he wants to give his house and make it holy consecrates his house holy to will then it whether it's good or bad whatever the coin gives its value they are the appraisers and they establish what the value is on that home verse what if the guy that sanctified it he himself wants to buy you back he has to add 20% on it of silver whatever the value was and then he can get to keep it. This concludes the sixth Torah reading of