Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parshat Ki Tisa 3

s the wicked prosper and see that this nation is your people mosha also asked Hashem that he should return his pre divine presence and lead the Jewish people again and Hashem answers him in verse 14 he said my presence will go and provide you rest now we turn to page 507 Hashem also within uh the answer explained to mosha why do righteous suffer and Why do wicked prosper and mosha saw that this was an opportune time and he pressed further and he said page 507 ver8 show me now your glory he says I want to see you but Hashem said I shall make all my goodness pass before you but in verse 20 you will not be able to see my face for no human can can see my face and live and verse 23 you will see my back but my face may not be seen Hashem said to mosha you will see the back the back represents after the fact you will see my effect on history but you cannot know what I'm thinking you cannot see me until you leave your body only then you will reconnect with me and understand everything and as to the answer why do righteous suffer and uh Wicked Prosper he answered him in the middle of verse 19 I shall fa I shall show favor to whom I choose to show favor and I shall show Mercy to whom I choose to show Mercy which basically means it's up to God to decide you cannot understand and divine judgment why do righteous suffer because I said so why do wicked Prosper Because I Said So ultimately only God knows we do have multiple answers why the righteous suffer and with those multiple answers we can basically answer every case but we don't know why a specific case happens only God knows now verse 34 the second tablets uh chapter 34:1 Hashem s to mosha carve for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and I shall inscribe on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you shattered page 509 verse 4 so mosha carved out two stone tablets like the first ones Moshe arose early in the morning and ascended to Mount Si and now Hashem Reveals His 13 attributes of Mercy to Moshe in verse six Hashem passed before him and proclaimed Hashem Hashem God compassionate and gracious slow to anger and abundant in kindness and Truth preserver of kindness for thousands of generations forgiver of iniquity willful sin and error and one who cleanses but doesn't cleanse completely recalling the iniquity of parents upon children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation if they do not change their ways now we turn to page Moshe requests three things from Hashem verse 9 he said if I have now found favor in your eyes my Lord let my Lord go Among Us and Hashem agreed the second and you shall forgive our iniquity and error please forgive the Jews completely and give them the Torah again make them their make them your beloved nation and Hashem agreed verse three uh the third thing make us your heritage and not only that mosha also asked Hashem please rest your spirit upon the Jews and not upon other nations that we should be unique and Hashem answered positively to all his requests verse 10 Hashem said behold I seal a covenant before your entire people I shall make distinctions such as have never been created in the entire world among among all the nations which means the Jews are going to be different than all other nations you will find God only among the Jews and therefore any non-jew who will want to connect to God he will have an option to become a convert verse 12 some warnings be vigilant lest you seal a covenant with the inhabitant of the land rather verse 13 you shall break apart their altars smash their pillars and cut down their sacred trees Verse 18 now we mention uh some laws you shall observe the Festival of matot and some laws about PES on page 513 some laws of firstborn every first issue of a womb is mine first issue of an ox or sheep H if a first baby animal boy is born to Ox goats or sheep we give it to kohen verse 20 the first issue of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb if uh a donkey that belongs to a Jew gives its first birth and it happens to be a boy baby donkey we exchange it for a baby lamb and we give the lamb to Coen and we can keep the donkey and another law you shall redeem every firstborn of your sons so if a human being a Jew has a firstborn baby we redeem him with five silver coins from kohen and now we learn about Shabbat shab and sukot six days shall you work and on the seventh day shall you desist you shall desist from plowing and harvesting verse 22 speaks about shavat you shall make the Festival of weeks with the first offering of the weed Harvest and then we speak about sukot and the Festival of the Harvest shall be at the changing of the year three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Hashem the god of Israel now at the end of the paragraph We we have some more laws that conclude with the law not to cook meat in milk and uh someone is asking question why do we repeat the Commandment of Shabbat and in fact the Commandment to keep Shabbat is um mentioned many many times during uh in in throughout the Torah because something that is very important is mentioned numerous times and now we turn to page 515 the second tablets are given Hashem said to Moshe write these words for yourself for according to these words have I sealed a covenant with you and Israel he remained Moshe remained there with Hashem for 40 days and 40 nights this is the third period of of 40 days he did not eat bread and he did not drink water and God wrote on the tablets the words of the Covenant The Ten Commandments verse 29 when Moshe descended from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony Moshe did not know that the skin of his face had be become radiant when he when God had spoken to him rays of light were shining from uh Moses forehead Aaron and all the children of Israel saw mosha and behold the skin of his face had become radiant and they feared to approach him verse 33 Moshe finished speaking with them and placed a mask on his face however when mosha would come before Hashem to speak with him he would remove his mask until the his departure then he would leave and tell the children of Israel whatever he had commanded when the children of Israel saw moshe's face that moshe's face had become radiant Moshe put the mask back on his face until he came to speak with God mosha put the mask back on his face uh in order not to embarrass the Jews because really when the Jewish people received the Torah they all became Immortal they all became like angels and uh when Moshe came down with the Ten Commandments and the Jewish people would receive it they would also have faces shining with spirituality however because they made the golden calf they lost it and now only Moshe has it and they when they see Moshe they're constantly reminded of their sin and they feel embarrassed and that is why Moshe covers his face however when he would teach them Torah the words of God he would uncover so that they benefit from the spiritual light that is shining upon them this concludes par thank you for listening sh shalom