Naso - 7th Portion

Join me as we learnish for Shabas the seventh Torah reading of Paras verse 84 chapter 7. Yesterday we read about the dedication of the last six tribes that brought to the dedicating of the tabernacle. The day before was the first six tribes. The Torah now concludes this is the dedication of the tabernacle, the dedication of the altar on the day that it was anointed from the elders, from the leaders of the Jewish people. When they anointed uh when the when the altar was anointed, what did they bring? A tally of there were 12 silver bowls. There were 12 silver basins of and 12 gold spoons. What does it mean on the day that it was anointed? Rashi explains the same exact day that they anointed the the altar they brought the sacrifices. What do I have from this? Why does it then say after it was anointed that first it was anointed and only afterwards did they bring the sacrifices? So then maybe it means after they anointed the D that's when they brought it maybe they did in a later time maybe it's not telling me that it was that exact day maybe it's just telling me that it was by day and not by night but then when it says the time that he anointed it we already know that it was by day then what's the verse coming over here to tell me the day that it was anointed if it's coming to teach me that it was the actual day of the anointing of the altar that they actually act as well brought the sacrifices and all the sacrifices brought it for the dedication of the tabernacle. These are the same ones that the that they donated. There was nothing that got ruined in between. That means the exact ones that they brought to the holy temple. Those were the ones that were used for the holy temple and everything stayed proper and nothing got ruined in between. Verse 88. Um verse 85. Verse 85. The weight of each silver bowl was 130 shekel of silver and there was 70 shekel was all the uh the silver um the silver all the basins were 70 shekel. If you take the entirety of all the weight of all the vessels that were given would be would weigh them 2400 shekel according to the sacred shekele. Why does the Torah have to repeat it again if you just do the math? Count each one of the tribes. Count what they give. Do the math together and you get a total. Why does the Torah have to give me a tally as if I can't do the math on my own? because when it's at 130 and he didn't say clearly what kind of therefore it repeats it again therefore includes all of them that all the vessels that they gave were when we talk about the weight we're talking about the sanctified weight the holy weight which was much higher value all the silver of the of the vessels teaching us that every single vessel in the holy temple was exact Each one he would weigh it individually and then put it together and see that the weight was exactly the same that everything should be exact and precise to its measurement and weight. Verse 86 copies of there were 12 gold spoons malays filled with incense. Each spoon weighed 10 shekel again in the value of the holy shekele. If you take the value of all the co spoons was 120. Why does have to repeat it again? If we had already learned by every single one of the tribes that it was 120. If it says if each one was of gold and its weight was 10 shekel of weight of silver. If you look at it, it's very hard to understand. Is it that the spoon was gold but the weight was of silver or that it it was of silver and the weight was of gold? Because if you wait gold and silver it's not the same. So which one was it? Therefore the vers of tell me the actual spoons were gold. They weighed versus they would weigh it against silver to know what the weight was. Verse 87 all the total the total of cattle that were brought as an ascent offering was 12 bulls 12 bulls 12 rams sheep 12 young lambs as well as 12 young he goats that were brought for a sin offering 88 and all the total of cattle that were brought for a peace offering was 24 uh bulls 24 oxen 60 ramat lamb. This was the dedication offerings that were brought to the altar after the altar was anointed beginning later on the same day on the first of Nissan for the next 11 days, the day of roshesh in the next 11 days when the uh sacrifices were brought. Verse 89. And when Moshe would enter into the tent of meeting to speak with him, he would hear the voice of God speaking to itself. Meaning may Allah which was coming from between the which was above the ark of the covenant, the ark of the testimony from between the love and it spoke only to Moshe. As we're going to see, Rashi explains seemingly if you look at the verse over here, you have two conflicting verses until you have a third verse that comes and settles and gives us a explanation. What are the three what are the conflicting verses in the book of Leviticus? It says that God spoke to him from the tent of meeting that he was outside the curtain and then if you look back in the book of Exodus and he will speak to you from above the ark from on top of the caporus. So which one is it? Did he go into the behind the curtain or was he standing outside by the curtain? I have now this verse comes and explains it. What is it? Moshe would walk into the tent of meeting. And while he was standing in the tent of meeting, not that he went to the Holy of Holies, while he was in the tabernacle, while he was in the holy place of the tabernacle, he would hear the voice that would emanate from the uh from the ark from the holy of holies. What does this mean? The voice would come out from heaven which would emanate from between the And from there would go to the tent of meeting where Moshe was standing and that's where Moshe would hear it. He would hear the voice you would think being that Moshe was the only one that heard it was a very soft voice. Therefore the therefore the verse says the voice not that it was meaning the voice telling us was the same booming voice that was heard by Mount Si. What's the difference? The difference was that when it met there came to the entrance of the tent of meeting, entrance of the tabernacle, the voice stopped and didn't go out. That was the miraculous nature of this voice. Though was a booming voice that Moshe heard, nobody else heard it outside the tabernacle. What is the word? speaking being talked to. It's like the terminology that the Torah uses a way of respect that God is talking to himself and Moshe is just has the ability to listen into the conversation that God is having with himself and he spoke to him. If he already said that he spoke to him that was speaking to him, why does he have to continue and say again that he spoke to him? seemingly seems extra all these times when God spoke to Moshe in the tent of meeting it excludes who would it be talking to only to Moshe and not to anybody else that's why the Torah says and it spoke to him not to Aaron when it says it spoke to Aaron it will tell us that Aaron was included as well but generally was only speaking to Moshe this concludes the Torah reading of Nuso this is the largest Torah reading single largest Torah reading in the Torah of 176 verses