Rabbi Biyamin Yuhanan - Parshat Ki Tisa

good evening we are learning parshot we're familiar with already we learned about Jewish people donating half a shekel mahatsita shekel and in parashakitisa we learned that really this half a shekel was used as a way of counting the Jewish people Hashem said to Moshe on page 485 of Arsenal homage when you take a census of the children of Israel you have to ask them to give you half a shekel each verse 13 says this shall they give everyone who passes through the senses a half a shekel of the Sacred shekel is a smaller coin as a portion to Hashem from 20 years of age and up shall they give the portion of Hashem the wealthy cannot give more and the poor cannot give less to give the portion of Hashem to atone for your souls so we just read that the the word tiruma in English translated as portion or donation is repeated three times and that is to say that the Jewish people donated half a shekel coin three times once for the construction of mishkan and that was used as uh the foundation for the pillars the pillars were made of wood covered with gold and they were inserted into the foundation of silver so the the six hundred thousand Jewish people that donated half a shekel all together was enough silver to create bases sockets for all the beams of the mishkan this was the first one-time donation of half a shekel and then in all future years the Jewish people donated one more half a shekel and that was used throughout the coming year for all the public offerings this way every Jew participated in every offering that was brought for the Jewish nation that means every day one laminate morning one lemon afternoon and on Shabbat in addition to regular to animals to more animals were brought there was a special offering in addition to daily offering and on every holiday so the half a shekel of silver that every Jew gave was enough to supply offerings for the entire year and the third time that the Jewish people gave have shekel was also a yearly voluntary donation for the maintenance of the mishkan and later beta mikdash and that is why we we give half a shekel coin before uh put him because the Jewish people used to give the donation of um have a shekel specifically in the month of adaru and in fact it was announced that people should bring donations and um the people had the whole month to bring donations and from the first of Rosh hodish Nissan uh the new donations were used the old whatever was left from the old donations was set aside and was used for additional offerings in case the altar the Miss bear was empty the misbeck was used for public offerings and private offerings but if all the public offerings were finished and private offerings were finished and there's still time in the day so they would use the money from whatever was left over from last year so again there were three donations half a shekel each one to count the Jewish people for the census end after that they were used for the sockets for the foundations of the um the beams of the mishkan to a yearly donation for all the offerings in the coming year and three a yearly donation for the maintenance of the mishkan and betamic dash now the question that is ask why don't you just count the Jewish people why do you have to have them give you an object an item and you count the items and then you get the total number and the NC is because we have a rule blessing can only be found in things that are hidden from the eye for two reasons number one because the I might be an evil eye someone might be jealous surprised overwhelmed by such a large number of the Jewish people like we see Pharaoh Paro in Egypt said whoa look there are more Jewish people than Egyptians that's not good let's enslave them and uh the same thing happens again and again whenever someone sees that someone else has more they get jealous and so therefore we try to hide what we have we try to be modest and not show off not only in our possessions but even in our numbers our family so we don't boast and brag how many children how many grandchildren we have and we don't boast how many citizens we have and if we count for our internal needs we count using objects that's one um reason that we don't count people in order that no I and Hara should be put on them the second reason why we we don't count people is uh because of this concept that we mentioned the blessing is not found except in something that is hidden from the eye and that is because Hashem does not perform open Miracles anymore and in general Hashem never liked to perform open Miracles because that takes away freedom of choice and Hashem wants people to be free thinking without any pressure without any Force Hashem shows miracles people will be so impressed that they might do the right thing only because they're scared of of God because they see him clearly but everything being equal if they would just be aware of the physical world and not be aware of God and they would actually be thinking for themselves without fearing they might not do the good so Hashem really wants to test us and therefore he says I'm going to hide myself as if a boss wants to see how his employees act so he puts a camera and he sits in his office and he's watching the camera and if the camera is obvious then the employees are going to be careful but if the boss puts a hidden camera then he will really see what they are up to so Hashem also he put hidden cameras all over because without cameras he sees but he hides himself so that we should feel that no one is watching and therefore we will be free to do what we think is right and we better think that the the right thing is right we hope now um so Hashem doesn't do open Miracles and therefore if he wants to give us blessing increase our numbers or our money if we know exactly how many of us they are and if we know exactly how much money we have Hashem will not be able to increase it because that would go against the rule that Hashem doesn't do open miracles so if we want to help God to make a miracle for us we have to arrange things in such a way that the miracle will not be open and therefore if I don't know how many uh people are in in the Jewish Nation one day I might wake up and it's gonna be 15 million a little later I'll wake up and it's gonna be 20 million and a little later 30 million and I'm gonna say okay fine makes sense with time we increase but in reality it's a miracle that God is performing but if I know exactly we did a census and I know exactly how many people they are Hashem hashem's hands are tied I can't do an open Miracle same thing if I know exactly how much money is in my wallet Hashem cannot put an extra 20 bill in there why because I'll say where did this twenty dollar come from I didn't put it here someone put it here must be a miracle and actually doesn't want to do a miracle but if I don't know how much money is in my pocket every time I need money I just reach into my pocket and I take out the the money this is um similar to the stories about babasali that he used to have a a battle of Iraq and he would wrap a towel around it and he would go around and serve his guests why because if You observe the battle through the clear glass and you see that as he's pouring is supposed to diminish and it's not diminishing you'll see it's an open Miracle he already poured 10 cups and the bottle is still full it's an open Miracle but if he keeps it wrapped she pours 10 cups you don't know you assume the bottle is already half empty she puts another 10 cups you think okay it's quarter empty she puts another 10 cups it's okay I don't know when it's gonna finish and he puts another 10 cups and it never finishes but at least it doesn't look like an open miracle um so we have to pay attention to that and not count our money unless we want to separate master and not count our uh as they say don't count your your your your your chickens um until it's it's time to sell them so basically the Jewish people are very careful not to count people by heads but rather by objects okay now we turn it to Page 487. and here we have the Mitzvah to construct another utensil um in the beta mix now somebody's asking are we allowed to count monthly salary of course in order to separate master um if you have a business and you need to balance your income and expenses that is also important because you need to be able to stay afloat and you need to be able to pay your workers but your intent should not be I want to count how much I earned so that I know how much I have because this way you're putting a limit on your earnings but you say I want to know how much money I want to give how much I have to pay to workers and whatever is left I'm gonna uh keep but I'm not memorizing the number I'm not writing it down this way this way my money can increase okay so on page 487 Hashem says to motion make a copper labor labor means a wash basin just like the word lavatory means a wash room for washing and aharon and his sons shall wash their hands and together with their feet whenever they come to the tent of meeting to serve God before kohanim serve in beta mikdash they must go to the wash basin and put their hands and feet together and wash uh what wash them this is after they went to the Mikvah and after they got dressed now they have to wash their hands and feet now verse 22 anointment oil Hashem said to Moshe take Choice spices and it lists Five Spices and the exact amount of each spice and put them in mix it together with oil oil is the fifth fifth ingredient and this oil should be used for anointment of the tent of meaning the mishkan and utensils as well as the alters and the the the table and the wash basin so Moshe made anointment oil and this oil was used in the mishkan and in the first betamic Dash the Torah says that you're not allowed to make a copy of that oil Moshe was the only one who made it and since then we used his oil once in history it was made and then towards the end of the first betamic Dash this anointment oil was hidden and in terms of mashiach it will be brought out again and we will anoint the third betamic and um this oil was also used to anoint kohanim especially the kohen gadol and kings every Jewish King that Rose to power was anointed with this oil that is why a Jewish King is called mashiach the anointed one David Miller is called mashiach IA Hashem the anointed one of Hashem and therefore in the future when mashiach is going to come we call him mashiach why because he will be anointed as the king mashiach from the tribe of yudah descendant of King David will also be Anointed with that same anointment oil in verse 34 we learned about ketoret the incense that it was made of 11 spices and some of them are listed in the in the in verse 34. and uh they would mix it together grind it into powder fine powder and they would um burn it every morning and every afternoon and there was a special ketoric service on Yom Kippur he thought it was burned on the golden inner Altar and on Yom Kippur it was also burned inside the kodashakodashim um at the bottom of the altar of the Ark the holy Arc right right in front of the Ark on top of the evina the foundation stone and uh the the ketone was also not allowed to be made for personal use but a a Jew is allowed to make Ketone in its original recipe if he's planning to donate it to uh betamic Dash now we we continue chapter 31. Hashem appoints bezalel son of URI from the tribe of Yehuda to be the supervisor the main artisan and the Arctic architect of the mishkan and now we're on page 491 in verse 6 Hashem says I have assigned to help vet from the tribe of done and here we see that the salil was from the the the the highest the first tribe Yehuda and was from the lowest tribe from done to tell you that in front of God everyone is equal if you want to serve God you are on the same level with every Jew who comes to serve God as well you can be from the tribe of Judah you can build from the tribe of Dan and we will honor you the same way now in verse 12 after describing all the utensils and parts of the mishkan that uh made Hashem says however you must observe my Shabbat even though I just spent two and a half partiot speaking about the construction of mishkan and after this Parsha two more partials will be spent speaking about mishkan mishkan is so important the house of God however Shabbat is more important don't forget about Shabbat while you're building the mishkan and this is by the way one of the sources and there are a couple more where right after the Commandment to construct the mishkan the Torah tells us but keep Shabbat and from here we learn that whatever was used for construction of the mishkan cannot be done on Shabbat the 39th forbidden labor is that we cannot do on Shabbat are derived from what did they do to construct the mishkan and it in in verse 14. mentions that those that desecrate Shabbat shall be put to death and that is if there are witnesses with a warning but if there are no Witnesses then it says whoever does work on Shabbat his soul shall be cut off from among his people um so without Witnesses and warning a person who desecrated Shabbat on purpose has spiritual Excision yes now we turn to page 493 and here we have the famous paragraph that we say every Friday night in prayer and every Shabbat day in israelitas the children of Israel shall observe Shabbat to make Shabbat an eternal Covenant for their Generations between me God and the children of Israel it is a sign forever that in a six day period Hashem made Heaven and Earth and on a seventh day he rested and was refreshed uh and verse 18 speaks about Moshe receiving the Ten Commandments when Hashem finished speaking with Moshe on harsinai he gave Moshe the two tablets of testimony stone tablets inscribed by the Finger of God and now in chapter 32 starts the sad story of the mistake that the Jewish people made the mistake of the golden calf the people saw that Moshe had delayed in descending the mountain 40 days passed and Moshe still didn't come and the people gathered around aharon and said to him make for us gods with the lowercase G that will go before us for this man Moshe who brought us up from the land of Egypt we do not know what became of him so this is surprising why Jewish people making an idol and the answer is they're not making an idol what the Jewish people are making and they're saying this clearly the Jewish people are asking mosh we don't know what happened to Moshe motion our leader disappeared we need someone to lead us Moshe took us out from Egypt and now he left us alone what's going to be with us we need someone to guide us why don't they go to Hashem why don't they ask Hashem for guidance and the answer is because 40 days earlier during the revelation during the giving of the Torah Hashem appeared to the Jewish people and spoke to them he said I am Hashem your God and when the Jewish people heard that their soul departed because the soul felt the connection to Hashem and like a magnet attracted the the iron their soul was attracted to Hashem they die and Hashem revived them and he put the soul back into their body and then Hashem said again you might you may not have any other gods before me you may not serve idols and again when they heard Hashem their soul attached to Hashem and they died again and when Hashem revived in again they said please no more motion that's it we cannot handle Hashem speaking to us anymore you speak on behalf of Hashem to us you know she said let me ask Hashem Hashem the Jewish people are saying that they don't want to die again from you speaking to them they want me to be the middleman Hashem said if that's what they want I'll give it to them people have free choice if they don't want to hear me anymore I'm not going to talk to them openly anymore but it is sad If Only They would be brave enough to hear my my voice again I would give them strength and they would be able to withstand me speaking to them just like you motion you hear me and and you okay so Hashem said Moshe tell them that I accepted their request and Moshe said to the Jewish people from now on I will be the intermediary I will be the middleman between you and God and the last eight Commandments was spoken by God to Moshe and Moshe announced them to the people and people trusted motion because Hashem told them Moshe you will speak to the people on my behalf so since God appointed Moshe in front of people they trusted him now when Moshe is not there people are worried who will be the new intermediary and they say we don't want a human intermediate anymore because just like Moshe was with us and now he is God he disappeared the next guy we elect might disappear as well people are mortal let us choose something that doesn't die let us make a statue and put in power in it through the use of the names of Hashem and this object will receive the message from Hashem and announce the message to us we will be protected from death because we're not going to face God as it says late in the Parsha no human can see God and stay alive this uh idle this object is not a human It's Not Gonna Die it will receive the message and transmit it to us and by the way all future problems that came upon the Jewish people came from that one mistake that the Jewish people made on the day of the Revelation when they said we don't want to listen to Hashem face to face anymore it's too scary cannot handle it let there be there be an intermediary and from that incident a possibility arose of there being a false prophet motion Yeshua and other prophets and judges were all good but because there is an intermediary someone might come and misuse our trust for his own agenda and that happened unfortunately many times within the Jewish people themselves and we know that the two major religions started exactly because of that a man got an idea in his mind I'm a prophet even though the ear of Prophecy ended he said I'm the new Prophet listen to me and the Jewish people had a challenge and the Jewish people withstood the challenge they said no we don't trust you and he started Christianity for the non-jews because the Jewish people were loyal to the tradition of Moshe and then another crazy guy came and he started a new religion he said I'm the new prophet and the Jewish people said no you're not and he was forced to go to the non-jews again and he started new religion Islam and the Jewish people suffered greatly from Christianity and Islam why did this happen because the Jews were too scared to listen to Hashem directly and because of this idol worship arose because of this false religions they say that there there were and are 000 various religions in the world why because the Jewish people did not want to listen to Hashem anymore it was too scary and because now we have to trust a human being to be the intermediary trickery lies and craziness happen and that's what happened over here the Jewish people said we need an intermediary let's create a god with a lowercase G and Aron try to stall for timing he said okay let's announce that we're collecting money this is gold and silver as soon as people will hear that there there is a there's a fundraising event maybe they'll run away they're gonna change their mind oh I don't need God if it's cost money I don't need God inspired the people and the verse 3 says the entire people removed the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron immediately and uh Aron took the gold from them put it in cloth wrapped it up and threw it in fire and it was fashioned into a molten calf molten means the the gold melted and then a golden calf emerged this is probably where they got the idea of exterminator where he rises from molten metal this is what happened with the golden calf it arose and the erevrov there was uh among the Jewish people who were used to serving Idols in Egypt they saw a calf rising from fire they said wow this is the god must be this is the god that took us out from Egypt we didn't see the real God or rather yeah we saw him but then he disappeared probably this is the new Reincarnation of God in this world and they confused the Jews the Jewish people understood no physical object can be God no human being can be God God is beyond this world people who joined the Jews from other nations they did not know so much about God so they assumed that golden calf is God and they announced tomorrow we will celebrate and bring offerings to this Idol rather Aaron was hoping for the best and he said tomorrow we will will bring offerings to Hashem he was hoping that Moshe will come soon and he will stop all this however verse 6 says they arose early the next day and offered up elevation offerings them brought peace offerings and they got up to celebrate and many of them did the actual idol worship verse 7 Hashem spoke to Moshe go descend because the people that you brought up from the land of Egypt has become corrupt they strayed quickly from the path I commanded them verse page 497. they have made themselves a molten calf and they prostrated themselves they bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and they even said this is yogado Israel which brought you up from the land of Egypt Hashem said leave me alone let my anger flare up against them and I shall annihilate them but don't worry I will make you a great nation pray to Hashem why Hashem should your anger flare up against your people whom you have taken out of land of Egypt with great power and strong hand and here he offers two reasons why Hashem should not destroy the Jews reason number one verse 12 why should Egypt say the following with evil intent did Hashem take them out to kill them in the mountains and to annihilate them from the face of the Earth sashem says it will cause Hillel Hashem desecration of your name if the Jewish people are going to be killed because Egyptians are going to say God Hashem was stronger than us but he's not stronger than the god of the of the desert or he's not stronger than the gods of the land of Canaan she couldn't overpower them so not to be embarrassed he had to slaughter his own people in the desert not to be embarrassed that he cannot conquer the kings of Canaan so Moshe says to Hashem Hashem you're stuck you brought them out of Egypt now you have to deliver otherwise Egyptians will laugh and say Hashem could not do it and now he says a second reason why Hashem should not annihilate the Jews in verse 13. remember for the sake of avraham and Israel your servants because you swore to them I shall increase your Offspring like the stars of Heaven if you kill the Jewish people where's the promise that the Jews are going to be like the stars of heaven and what you're going to make me a great nation they have to wait another few hundred years Moshe said if a chair that stands on three feet avraham Yes people have three forefathers and they couldn't survive who says that I myself the lone progenitor of the Jews who said that I will be successful who says that the the the nation that will come from me Will Survive no please don't annihilate the Jews and verse 14 says Hashem reconsidered regarding the evil that he declared he would do to his people with moshe's successful prayer he averted the the destruction and now Moshe goes down the mountain motion descended from the mountain with the two tablets of testimony in his hand now page 499 verse 19. it happened as he drew near the camp he saw the calf and the dancers emotions anger flared up and he threw the tablets down from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain the sages say that he really didn't throw them down all he did was just open his hands and they felt because motion you that really he's not supporting the tablets the tablets the work of God they're holy the the letters that are inscribed in them there were the letters of the Ten Commandments Are Holy they support the heavy stone tablets and Moshe said if the Jewish people deserve to receive the tablets the tablets will not fall down they will hang in air but if the Jewish people no longer deserve the tablets they will get smashed so he just opened his hands and the tablets fell down and smashed why because they lost their Holiness the letters flew up back to Hashem now Moshe in verse 20 took the calf and burnt it in fire he melted it again and then after it cooled down it was just one mess he grounded to a fine powder step number two and step number three he sprinkle the powder over water and stepmom number four he made the Jewish people drink the water and um whoever served idols without Witnesses died from drinking this water this was just like the Waters of Sota a woman who whose husband suspects her of disloyalty he takes her to bitamikdash and she drinks the the the the water in which name of God was dissolved and if she is indeed guilty she dies and if she's innocent she becomes healthy and gives birth to a healthy baby that's what happened to the Jewish people those that served the Idol without Witnesses died right there now Moshe question aharon why did you make the the golden calf Aaron said you know that the people is disposed toward evil they're not yet the righteous nation that we are trying to build them into they are still growing and uh you know we have to be forgiving towards them they they said to me make for make us a God that will go before us because Moshe is God they did not make it instead of God they made it instead of motion motion saw the people that it it was expose or restrain that he saw that the people are feeling bad what they did that Aaron had exposed them to disgrace among those who rise up against them verse 26 on page 501 Moshe takes control of the of nation motion stood at the Gateway of camp and said whoever is for Hashem join me and all the Levites gathered around him none of the the people of the tribe of Levy serve the idol so they all were confident that we can fight against those that serve the idol and Moshe said everyone who is on my side should take his sword and pass throughout the camp and let every man kill his relative whoever served the idols with Witnesses this is the second punishment for the Jewish people the first one was for those that served without Witnesses they were killed by the water in which the idol was dissolved second set of people were killed because they served the Idol with Witnesses every Jew who was about to serve the idol was approached by two other Jews and they were informed do you know that you're not allowed to serve idols and do you know this death penalty for it and he said yes I know leave me alone I want to serve this calf so they were killed by the sword and the 3 000 people died on that day from The Sword which means people who actually served the Idol with Witnesses and weren't warning there were three thousand that means half of a percent of six hundred thousand men Moshe returned to Hashem in verse 31 and said I implore I beg you these people has committed a grievous sin and made themselves a god of gold and now if you would but forgive their sin Moshe was able to save the Jewish people from immediate death but now he says forgive them don't punish them in the long run but if not Erase Me Now from your book that you have written Moshe is willing to sacrifice his life in this world as well as in the next world he is willing to give up his ulamaba just to save the Jewish people and Hashem said to Moshe don't worry Whoever has sinned against me I shall erase from my book and now go and leave the people behold my angel shall go before you it will no longer be God himself who is going to lead the Jews it's going to be a messenger an angel however in the future on the day that I will make my account I shall bring the their sin to account against them that means that every time in the future when Hashem brings suffering and Punishment upon the Jewish people part of that suffering is because of the golden calf instead of giving the whole punishment right away Hashem divided the punishment in to small parts so that the Jewish people can handle it and survive and now verse 35 tells us the third punishment for those that served Idol then Hashem struck the people with a plague because they had made the calf this was the third group that served the Idol with Witnesses but they were not warned properly so they also the um deserve death but this was death at the hands of heaven now chapter Hashem spoke to Moshe and told him now continue walking to the land which I swore to avrah misakanyakov we're on page 503 however Hashem says again in verse 2 I shall send an angel ahead of you instead of God there will be an angel but don't worry the angel will be my messenger and I shall drive out the Canaanite and Amorite side and I'll bring you to the land flowing with milk and honey but I will not go among you because you are a stiff-necked people it's safer for you like this because if I go among you and the Jewish people sin again I may annihilate them this time people do to shuvine verse 4 the people heard this bad Tiding and they became grief-stricken they regret they have remorse and no one done his jewelry they removed their fancy garments and Jewelry now the commentators say that this also means that the Jewish people lost their immortality when the Jewish people received the Torah sorry they returned to the level of Adam is shown before the sin the the first man when he was created in ganedan he was pure the Jewish people that received the Torah they were purified from all their sins and all their sins from previous generations including kadama is Sean and they became immortal like adamari Sean was supposed to be but now that they made golden calf that Crown of Glory that was placed on their head was removed that's the jewelry that is spoken about and together with it their innocence their purity was removed and together with it their immortality was removed verse 6 says so the children of Israel were stripped of their jewelry from Mount horev the jewelry that they received on Mount horev was removed and now verse 7 Moshe moved his tent to the outside of the camp and now whoever wanted to speak to Hashem would have to go out of the camp to the tent of meeting to the tent of Moshe which was outside the camp verse 9 . one motion would arrive at the tent a pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent this was the divine presence wasn't built yet the tent of Moshe served as the meeting place between God and his people and God would speak to Moshe from the pillar of cloud and the entire people would see the pillar of clouds standing at the entrance of the tent and the entire people would bow down towards the pillar of cloud verse 11 Hashem would speak to Moshe face to face now on page 505 the The Authority describes the high level of Prophecy of motion more than any other person alive Hashem spoke to Moshe face to face as a man would speak to his fellow now Moshe goes up the mountain second time and spends another 40 Days praying for the Jewish people Moshe said to Hashem see you say to me take these people onward but you did not inform me who you will send with me and now if I did found favor in your eyes make your ways known to me and see that this nation is your people Moshe is trying to convince Hashem to lead the Jewish people himself in verse 14 he says Hashem agrees and Hashem says my presence will go and provide you rest Moshe prayed and again Hashem said fine I agree to lead the Jewish people not the angel anymore I will lead the Jewish people again and um and Moshe just to reassure himself says in verse 15 if your present doesn't go along do not bring us forward from here unless you accompany us and I and your people will be made distinct from every people on the face of the Earth and that is because every nation in the world has an angel that supervises we call it guardian angel of over every nation but over the Jewish people it is God himself who takes care of us and in verse 17 Hashem says again to Moshe yes I accept your prayer again even this thing of which you spoke I shall do for you have found favor in my eyes now page 507 Moshe asks Hashem to reveal himself Moshe wants to know God fully verse 18. he said show me now your glory but Hashem says no even you motion the highest level of profit you have your limitations I shall make all my goodness pass before you and here Hashem gives an answer to motion Moshe asked Hashem I want to know your ways which means why do bad things happen to the good people why do good things happen to the bad people and Hashem says in verse 19 second line I shall show favor to whom I choose to show favor and I shall show Mercy to whom I choose to show Mercy which means ultimately a human being cannot understand ultimately I decide Hashem decides who will get mercy and who doesn't we can have um a hint we can guess why a certain person is rewarded or punishment punished but only Hashem knows the entire picture only Hashem knows the entire physical world whatever happens in every molecule and atom in the entire universe and he knows whatever is happening in the spiritual world because he is the Creator and sustainer of both physical and spiritual worlds but we as human beings being part of the physical world and our nishama part of the spiritual world we don't see the whole picture and Hashem says in verse 20. you will not be able to see my face which means you cannot see God clearly you cannot understand God fully for no human can see my face and live you can only understand God when you leave this physical existence and you rejoin God yunishama Cleaves to God again as one Jewish Sage said if I would understand God I would become God we cannot know God until our soul rejoins God in Hashem in verse 23 further says you will see my back but my face may not be seen which means you will understand my actions after they happened but you cannot understand why I am doing certain thing as I'm doing it cannot see my face only my back now chapter 34. Hashem gives Moshe the the second set of the tablets and this is the third set of 40 days that Moshe spends on harsinai Hashem said to Moshe car for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and I shall inscribe on the tablets the words there were on the first tables that you shattered page 509 Ascend Mount Sina in the morning verse 4 so Moshe carved out two stone tablets he arose early in the morning and ascended to her Sinai and Moshe stayed on her Sinai again for 40 days praying to Hashem to forgive the Jewish people entirely and now Hashem reveals finally at the end of the 40 days on Yom Kippur Hashem Reveals His 13 attributes of Mercy Hashem passed before motion Proclaim Hashem Hashem God compassionate and gracious slow to anger and abundant in kindness and Truth he preserved the kindness for thousands of generations he forgives iniquity he forgives willful sin and error and he cleanses but does not cleanse completely until a person does to Shiva he still recalls the iniquity the sins of parents upon the children in the third and fourth generation if the children follow the evil way of their parents then they are punished not only for their sin but also for the sin of their parents and now Moshe asks Hashem for three more things let my Lord go Among Us number one forgive our iniquity and error and number three make us your heritage which means commit that we the Jewish people are going to be your only nation ever chosen you're not going to exchanges for anyone else and Hashem answered in verse 10 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 Jewish people are going to be special and separate and the entire people among whom you are will see the work of Hashem which is awesome that I am about to do with you Jewish people were separated and they are distinct different from every other nation in the world and now beware of what I command you today verse 12. be vigilant lest you seal the Covenant with the inhabitant of the land don't make any deals with the local population rather verse 13. you shall break apart their altars and smash their pillars and cut down its sacred trees destroy adult idolatry from the land because if you seal a covenant with them you will intermarry you will take their daughters for your sons and their daughters straight after their gods and entice your sons to stray after their gods from here we learned that Jewish people are not allowed to intermarry now we go to verse 18. here we learn about the the holidays you shall observe the Festival of matsot for a seven day period you shall eat matsod page 513. the Mitzvah of the firstborn of the kosher animals of donkeys and of human beings every first issue of a womb is mine as well as any of your livestock produces a male the first issue of an ox or sheep the first issue of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb and and further redeem every firstborn of your sons so the Jewish people have a special Mitzvah of a firstborn every every firstborn of a kosher animal we give to kohen every firstborn of a donkey we exchange for a sheep and we should give the Sheep to kohen and every firstborn baby male we redeem with five silver coins and we give the money to kohen why because after the sin of the golden calf the firstborn males of the Jewish people lost their lofty status of being Servants of God and they were replaced by kohanim and living and now as a payment for kohanim doing the job of the firstborn the firstborn must pay five silver coins now we speak about Shabbat and the other two holidays after we spoke about pesach now we mentioned other holidays verse 21 six days shall you work and on the seventh day you shall stay away from plowing and harvesting verse 22 speaks about Shavuot you shall make the Festival of weeks which means you count seven weeks from pesach and then you have shavod and the Festival of the Harvest which is the Sukkot 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 and Hashem promises that when the Jewish people go to Jerusalem three times a year from around the world and from the entire land of Israel no man will covet your land when you go up to appear before Hashem you God three times a year Hashem will protect our fields and our homes and now at the end of the page we have a Mitzvah do not cook a kid in its mother's milk this is the second time it's mentioned and the first time it met it was mentioned it referred to the prohibition of cooking meat with milk now it refers to the prohibition of eating meat with milk as well as benefiting from meat and milk that was cooked together now we go to page 515. the second tablets are received the renewal of the Covenant verse 27 Hashem said to Moshe write these words for yourself and according for to these words I have sealed a covenant with you and with the Jewish people Moshe remained on the mountain with Hashem for 40 days and 40 nights he did not eat and he did not drink and Hashem wrote on the tablets the words of the Covenant the Ten Commandments Marshall brings the Ten Commandments down this easy on Yom Kippur Moshe descended from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony Moshe did not know that the skin of his face had became become radiant when he when Hashem had spoken to him and the children of Israel saw Moshe and the face of the skin of his face was radiant and they feared to approach him they thought that Moshe turned into half angel half God they were afraid his face is shining so motion call them and the the Jewish people would approach he spoke to them kindly so don't be afraid I'm still a human I'm not gonna hurt you so they then aharon approached and then the leaders of the assembly approached and after that all the children of Israel approached and Moshe taught them the entire Torah verse 33 Moshe finished speaking with them and placed a mask on his face because his face was shining he did not want to embarrass the Jewish people to show them if only you didn't serve the golden calf you would reach what I have now your face would be shining your soul yone would be bursting forth through your body and not to embarrass not to not to show such a big difference between his face and their face he put a mask on his face when motion would come before Hashem to speak with Hashem he would remove the mask then he would leave and tell the children of Israel whatever he had been commanded and when the children of Israel saw moshe's face then moshe's face had became radiant Moshe put the mask back on his face until Moshe came to speak with Hashem so now we just finished the the the story from giving of the Torah 40 days Moshe was on Mount Sinai he came back and Jewish people built uh go the golden calf he smashed the tablets on 17th of tamus on the 18th of tamuse he went up the mountain again for another 40 days until 29th of Ave and he got forgiveness for the Jewish people and Hashem told him come to the mountain again for 40 days and I will give you a new set of Ten Commandments and Moshe went up the mountain from the first off until the 10th of tishray which is Yom Kippur and now the Parsha finishes with Moshe coming down with the second set of Ten Commandments and moshe's face is shining and here I will remind you of how what happened afterwards with we read in partiality the next day after Yom Kippur Hashem gave the Jewish people the Mitzvah to build the mishkan as a dwelling place for Hashem and the mishkan and the korbanon that are offered there are an atonement for the golden calf as well and the fact that we now are going to have is a single place where all the Jewish people are going to come that is instead of every Jewish Family being a miniature Beta mcdash And every firstborn in the family being the kohen now that was replaced with the national altar National betamic Dash to prevent further idol worship and um the and on the next day after Yom Kippur Moshe finally sat down after being on the mountain for 120 days not eating not drinking not staying not sitting not sleeping Moshe finally sat down and he was judging the people and that's what yitra approached and that's the the the story where Heathrow advised mosho to appoint uh 70 leaders to help motion with with the with the judging the nation and leading the nation and again what we learn at the end of this passion that moshe's face is shining is a is supposed to be a goal for us our body our physical body covers up and interferes with our soul our nishama is really shining our nishama is beautiful is pure and our goal in life is to take control over our body and the purify our body make our body more and more spiritual until the the the the the Holiness will be shining from our face and that's what many people uh testify and Witness that when they look at at a person who dedicates his life to Torah and Meets World and Hashem and helping the Jewish people such persons face shines with Holiness people say there face radius spiritual light and I have met such people as well that you just want to look at them there's such beautiful beautiful pure face you feel godliness on their face but we have to know that godliness exists in every human being it might be hidden deeper but it's there and we have to be able to see that every time you look at person's face you have to tell yourself that person is made in the image of God that person has a Holy Soul that person has Purity and holiness sanctity it's in him and we have to see that in the person imagine it and bring it out Hashem we should purify our body we should um increase the influence of our mouth our soul in our life is that Hashem our soul should be in control not our body we should not make mistakes is that Hashem we should be always on the right path we should always be eager to accept hashem's communication with us we shouldn't say oh it's not for us let someone else tell me what to do I don't want to be too close to Hashem we should run to Hashem and and then Hashem we should follow moshe's path where he fully accepted upon himself to listen to Hashem and to do what Hashem says and we should also follow moshe's example where he was willing to sacrifice his life his physical life and his spiritual life for the sake of the Jewish people we should be as loving and caring towards the Jewish people as Moshe and then we will be like Moshe the more you love the Jews the greater you become Hashem may we see Hashem again may we rebuild the betamic dash again and um and is that Hashem we should all meet in uh yerushalayim uh thank you for listening shabbat shalom have a good night