The Kohen’s Assistant

The second order is that you find today's stuff that a bum mom calling was not allowed to do the avodah, but a bum mom lady was allowed to do the avodah. And at first glance, it's a hard to be. What's the difference? Why is it that a coin bum mom is disqualified from doing the avodah, but lady bum mom sounds like you will have to kill her is allowed to do the avodah. And the truth is if you think about it, why is a a coin bum mom not allowed to do the avodah? So it's based on the idea of that on this passage through this engine. This passage meaning the passage in Emma that talks about a coin bum mom not being allowed to do the avodah. It's based on that engine. So the coin did the avodah in the base of the lady also did the avodah in the base of wasn't mom much the same avodah, but there's no question he's serving a sham. And if that's the case, if there's an idea of regarding the coin, what's the that when it comes to the lady, you don't find this idea. But I think there's a positive to this stuff. To this engine that is a classic measure of support of a good role with the measure of this and here's another classic. This is in it's for me simple starts which is why we're referring to this as a classic measure of this. This said in this year. The the measure of this So we know there's an idea of this stuff. All of them right, they have a certain level of this measure of this stuff. They don't have that same level of this measure of this stuff. But the measure of this stuff says even when it comes to this measure of this stuff, this measure of this stuff has this measure of this stuff, but this measure of this stuff that already does not have any of this stuff. What does that mean? Anything that facilitates kedusha. So, for example, the gartel, the mitpachas that's put around the sefer Torah, that's is servicing, it's facilitating the sefer Torah. The sefer Torah is kedusha, this is tashmish kedusha, that has a level of kedusha. >> [snorts] >> But, let's say the aron kodesh maybe where you put the sefer Torah in, or if there was another tishtuch that you would put the sefer Torah when it's already garbed on top of, that other tishtuch would be a tashmish de tashmish, and that already wouldn't have kedusha. Now, again, what I just said is not halacha l'maiseh. Go through the sugya in Maseches Megillah, the Gemara gives examples of what is, what isn't. Rabba said, "I used to think this, then I chapped that." But, the bottom line is there's an idea of a tashmish de kedusha. What makes direct contact with the kedusha, that is considered kodesh. But, tashmish de tashmish, something that's only making contact with something that makes contact, that already is not That already is not considered kodesh. Says Reb Me'ir Simcha, "I hold that >> [snorts] >> the Kohanim you find were referred to as kedoshim. "U'kedoshim yihiyu v'lo yechalu." The whole parsha of "Zemach" refers to the Kohanim as being kedoshim. He said, "I never found a pasuk anywhere that refers to the Levi'im as being kedoshim. Kohanim kedoshim, "V'kidashto," right? That's halacha that you have when it comes to a Kohen. He said, "I never found a pasuk anywhere that referred to Levi as being more kodesh than the rest of Klal Yisrael. Within Levi, the Kohanim are more kedusha. But, that the Levi should have more kedusha than Klal Yisrael, that's something I never found." And you know what I think the nekudes is? Says Reb Me'ir Simcha, "I'm going to tell you what it is. It's because what's the job of the Kohen? The job of the Kohen is to be meshamesh Hashem Baruch Hu. What's the job of the Levi? The The of the Levi, if you look in the Sukkot just to read two Sukkot This is in Parshas Bamidbar The job of the Levi is to service the coin. Here's another This is in The job of the coin was to serve Hashem. The job of the Levi was to serve the coin. He was given to the coin as an aid to to help him and to assist him to do what he's trying to do. The coin is the Sukkot. He's there being the Sukkot Sukkot. And that's why the Sukkot knew He always has the cuz he himself is What gives him his Sukkot? He's the Sukkot Sukkot. Oh, but the Levi is the Sukkot the Sukkot because his job is not to directly serve Hashem. He's there to serve the coin who's serving Hashem. >> [laughter] >> Is he connected to the Sukkot? Yes. Does he have a nexus to the Sukkot? Yes. But he's one step removed. He's not the Sukkot Sukkot. He's the Sukkot the Sukkot. He's there to help the coin whose job is to go and help and help Hashem. It's for that reason says the coin had Sukkot and the Levi didn't have Sukkot. He said that's the the You want to know which Sukkot This deal that you find that the coin is considered Sukkot as opposed to you don't find the Levi is it's because the coin is the Sukkot as opposed to the Levi you don't find any of that. Sukkot if he said a long piece I am sure but he says you could understand a lot of the differences that you find between the Sukkot and the Levi. For example the coin his madness Kohanim is off-limits. It has Kedusha. Right? Terumah that eats it is permitted to eat Shamayim. Bikurim, all his madness Kohanim is ours not allowed to eat. Ma'aser Rishon is ours is allowed to eat. He said, "What's the Eimek?" The Eimek is because being that the Kohanim is Ukdesha he's Tashmish the Kedusha. So it's there it's a Dover Noch to assume that his Matanos would have that level of Kedusha as well. But the Levi who's Tashmish the Tashmish, we don't find that he has that Kedusha. So for that reason his madness Kohanim is not going to have it either. And Rema Simcha says, "Even Rema who sheet that we know in Shas is that Ma'aser Rishon is also Azara. But it's not Mitzad Kedusha." You know how you know it's Mitzad Kedusha? Because even Rema holds that a Levi is allowed to eat Ma'aser Rishon Betumah. And if it was Kadish you wouldn't be allowed to eat it Betumah. So what's the Vart? So he says it talking the Vart is that just like Azara was not allowed to do the Avodah of the Levi. Forget about Kedusha. He wasn't allowed to do the Avodah. So so too his madness Leviya is also going to be Azara Ba'Chila. But it's not Mitzad Kedusha. You know what the Raya is? From the fact that it's something that's Nachal Betumah. Rema Simcha says that's the reason that a Kohenes that Zinsa is Azara to eat Terumah. But a Leviya that Zinsa is allowed to continue to eat Ma'aser. It's because the whole Parsha of Terumah Nemsach from the Kedusha. So to the extent that she was Mezana she was Mechala the Kedusha she's off-limits. The Levi was never a Sugya of Kedusha. That's not what it is. He's Tashmish the Tashmish anyway. It's just he was Muvdal. And as a result this is something he's going to have a bizarre Rema Simcha. That's the beer. The Emet says I think it's Mefurash Balashon Shel HaRambam. We started today's Daf. We began the introduction with the words of the Rambam Perek Alef Zera Levi Kulai Muvdal Avodas HaMikdash. Shenemar Eisav Yivdal Hashem Es Shevet HaLevi. The Rambam in Perek Daled of Hilchos Klei Mikdash talks about another Havdalah, the Havdalah of the Kohanim. The Rambam says a Kohanim Huvdelu miklal Halvi'im la'avodas hakorbanos shenemar vayivdel Aharon lehakdish kodshei kodashim. By the Havdalah of the Levi doesn't say one word about Kedusha. But by the Havdalah of the Kohein, Kohanim huvdelu miklal Halvi'im, what's the makor? Vayivdel Aharon lehakdish kodshei kodashim. It's because the cheftz of the Havdalah of the Levi is not Kedusha. It's for certain jobs. Shmiras Hamikdash, avodas hamasa, sho'arim, meshoreirim. [laughter] He gets matanos for this, etc., etc. But the Kohein, the Havdalah should be soichech Havdalah. That was a Havdalah for Kedusha. And that's why he is takah referred to as Ukdoshim yehiyu. That's why you find the inyan of vikidashto, etc., etc. But the bottom line is, I think I'll pee this from my Simcha, it's poshut. The inyan of akurei ve'al lo yifcha is that if you're serving direct, so then there's an inyan of akurei ve'al lo yifcha. The Kohein who's tashmish d'Kedusha, so there was a kpeida, he couldn't be a ba'al mum. But the Levi, the Levi who's only tashmish d'tashmish, he works for the Kohein. So is it that the Kohein's gabba is as a kineged a ba'al mum? How does that stand? He's not like Aharon or Simcha. He's only a tashmish d'tashmish. Could be over there, there's no kpeida for the akurei ve'al lo yifcha. Maybe that's the geder hadvarim why you find that a mum passes when it comes to a Kohein as opposed to a Levi. And as we like to say, maybe it's even poshut.