When to Expect Moshiach — Parshas Shemini

there was once a murder trial where the case against the defendant was very very strong except for one thing they had never found a body and during the closing arguments the defense attorney he used this as part of his arguments he turns to the jury he says ladies and gentleman the jury as you know the body was never found and I intend to prove it's because no murder was ever committed and how am I gonna prove that I have arranged that the so called supposed the victim in this case is going to walk through the doors of this courtroom right now and the whole jury turns toward the doors and they watch and they wait nothing happens nobody walks in I mean it goes by finally the defense attorney says I lied he's nobody's coming in the doors right now however the fact that you all turned and you looked means that in your mind you thought it was a possibility that the murder victim could walk through these doors and show himself here in this Court which means you have a reasonable doubt whether or not a murder ever occurred and if you have a reasonable doubt according to the laws of this land you must acquit so the jury want to go deliberate and 15 minutes later they came back guilty verdict the defense attorney was shocked he says to the foreman of the jury he says but hold on a second when I said that the victim himself is gonna walk through the doors of this courtroom you all turned around to look which means that you had a doubt how can you convict you all turned to look and the foreman of the jury turns to the defense attorney says yes yes we all turned around to look but you know who didn't your clients let's talk about our anticipation of mushiya about the likelihood their reasonable likelihood that mushiya could arrive at any moment we've just come out of Pesach peso has a entire Yom Tov of celebrating gula Redemption and the possibility of redemption specifically the last days of Pesach see this tells us that the first days of Pesach are more connected to the original redemption from Egypt and that the last days of paisa are connected to the gula seed of the future redemption through Messiah and of the last days the last of the two days a potential paisa is even more associated with Michelle the the haftorah reading on a potential pacer speaks about the prophecies of the coming of Messiah there's a custom of the Baal Shem Tov observed by many who see them to make them Shias Suda a festive meal celebrating mushiya at the end of a potential paisa so there's there's definitely this tie-in right now about anticipating Messiah and and what's more in the world right now I think anyone who's has the finger on the pulse is aware that there's definitely a certain electricity right now of a people feeling we have our whole lives turned upside down you know with this whole coronavirus right now and everything is different and things are changing and there's a very palpable sense of you know she could be here any moment and then the question becomes frankly let's let's let's be let's be blunt that when we go into a yump to go into a pacer you know really expecting this could be it you know we're coming here and then Pesach comes and goes first there's a pacer class there's a pacer here so that comes and goes and and Michelle's not here so what do we do with that excitement with that anticipation that is seemingly you know has been thwarted what do we do about getting ourselves worked up again or do we not want to get worked up again and really the answer to these questions is found in this week's partial partial meaning we have very little time to get ready ready for the for the parsha this week we just finished um tough and it's Erev Shabbos already and but the answer to this question about mushiya and the imminent arrival of Messiah who really we really find it in purchase meaning Schmidty means the eighth in this case means the eighth day they they of you may I'm alidium that means the days of inauguration for the Michigan for the sanctuary and a tragedy befell the Jewish people on that day two of our hurricanes four sons tragically passed away not of and avi who and without getting into the whole story of what happened and why and and and how one simple thing which is very clear from from the narrative from context is that they're passing had a connection to drinking wine that they drank wine and they entered into the condition kadosh him into the Holy of Holies and and they were punished and we see this from the from the context that after the story of the deaths of not of and avi who comes the omits for the commandment from Hashem to aren occurring about Cohanim not drinking wine when they work in the in the base of Magnus in the Holy Temple the universe from this week's Varsha says the yah in the shake head I'll taste wine and strong drink you shall not drink you shall not consumed Otto Vanessa you are a and your sons not just his actual immediate sons but all of his descendants the the Cohanim the priestly class for all generations the via ham li l my eight when you enter into the tent of meeting meaning the the Mishkan the sanctuary meaning not just that Cohanim can never drink no they can't drink when they're on duty okay so occurring can that drink can i drink when he has to work in the base of english in the temple okay now we find something very interesting in their album that album Maimonides postions he he rules for all generations the halacha s-- of all areas of Tyra and this is no exception in safer Aveda the book that deals with the goings-on in the in in in the base a big douche in Hill cos be Islamic douche panic Alif ilaha Zion that's a chapter 1 paragraph 7 the naamam says like this that due to the fact that today Cohanim do not know when they're on duty you know there was a rotation you can't have all the Cohanim in the whole nation all of a sudden show up and they want to work on the same day so there was a system there was a rotation had to do with with the families and there was there was a different schedule for a whole week and then within the week was divided up in today's but if you didn't know you're what's called mish mur or your base of so then you don't know when you're on duty so says that album in that case you may never drink ever because at any given time you may be on duty what does that mean that means a claim in today's day and age can never drink because you maybe undo it he may be needed for working in the base of McNish now you can ask I never heard this I never heard a lot that I heard that our claim this man has said in these days can never drink and that's because the Rambam explains the loophole and in the drive it has a little bit different opinion on it as that I would often does and in in in when it comes to their albums sack however according to the Rambam the loophole is this because he doesn't know when he's undo t so when Michelle comes they're gonna have to sort it out and it'll buy him some time while they're figuring out when he's on duty he says that cannot say that the the the remedy for his problem is calculus a is the problem itself meaning the problem arises because he doesn't know when he was to point he's on duty so the solution is because he doesn't know what when I go and he's on duty he'll buy some time while they're figuring that out however why doesn't that alum say the reason he's allowed to drink is because it's not here yet but that's not what that album says or that I would say even though Michelle is arriving you know it's not gonna happen so suddenly you'll have some time to stop drinking that's not what the namib says rabbim says that hadn't nicing that's the Russian of the Rambam that technically speaking no coin today should ever drink he gives subsequently gives the loophole but had in dicing technically speaking because he doesn't know if he's on duty he should never drink why because my shift gum could come and he'll be on duty immediately now it's interesting I'll be Hollow ha if you drink a review of why okay that's like a kiddush cup of wine different opinions to say different amounts but let's say you know hi I'm no scissors I mean if four ounces or whatever a little kiddush cup okay like we all just came from the Seder remember what I would you know it's from the Dollard crisis we know what the four cups look like you know it's not so big you drink IRA vyas of wine so how long does it take to sober up so according to chef ranada it's based on a gumar in a Dovan but it says it two things that help you sober up illogically either you sleep it off or time you wait how long you have to wait today he look mil that's a measurement time in in halakhah or what's a helical mill was different opinions some opinions say it's as little as 18 minutes but other opinions say it's as much as 24 minutes what does that mean you know what that means it means like this technically according to the rama that a coin shouldn't be able to drink because you're gonna drink that cup of wine and in 23 minutes and 59 seconds mushiya who already be here with a built functioning based on Macduff and he'll be on duty and hope he called up and he'll be required to surf so what do we see from this we see that the idea of mushiya arriving imminently not just today but in the next at the at the latest 24 minutes within 24 minutes is not just a nice thought it's not just an inspirational idea it's something according to halakha you know since we're talking about album elsewhere album in safer safety which is the last of the 14 books of the Yannick azúcar it's called the yacht because Yod is new adalat it's 14 the last safer shaved him and in the last Holocaust of the last safer it's the the laws of kings and their wars and it talks about machinima she has a kink and at the very last chapter of the whole yada Kazakh and then albums talking about mushiya he says something he says you know there's so many different things that the prophets say about what it's gonna be like and the order it's gonna unfold and and he says the truth is we don't know nobody knows until it happens and the main thing is just to believe in it in its in its generality you know that the Messiah is coming he says but not to try to figure it out so you know so much in detail and then that I must have something interesting PIPA roham shall mahashiv ache it's him what does that mean Micajah Rick it's a means people who try to calculate when mashiac is gonna come they try to figure out this is the time this is when it has to happen feedback roham a simple translation it's a curse it means their soul should blow away it means they should expire they it's a it's a I don't want to spell it out but another way of reading it people who come rural communes excitement fervor inspiration people who come there excitements gonna blow away it's gonna dissipate the people who try to say oh now machetes gonna really come they're gonna end up getting disappointed so what does that mean we shouldn't think machetes gonna come no means the opposite it means oh now my what do you mean now what do mean now why now mushiya could come at any given time uh uh let me give an example seemingly have a different topic you know okay I'm just gonna get personal for a minute you know one of my pet peeves one of my pet peeves is uh watch go help wrought their stories Gulfport Coco Brothers divine providence right why is it a pet peeve what's wrong with divine providence stories it's a beautiful right you know why because generally speaking the way those stories are told and the way that they're heard and the reason people enjoy them is because everyone says oh you see haven't got involved I kind of intervened only there only then right oh he was supposed to fly and he'd been planning the trip and then he missed that he got a flat tire and he missed the plane and then the plane blew up and he wasn't on it okay now I was supposed to say oh oh now I believe in God know Hashem runs the world and and not yesterday not the day before we know that Hashem runs the world not because of hosh caja practice stories but because there's no other way the world cannot exist on its own especially you learn to see this and you learn the nature of reality you learn how creation is ongoing and it's something from nothing every single second and if Hashem isn't speaking it into being at this very moment it doesn't exist it has no history it has no trace it has nothing on its own not even a past so of course our shams running the world ah when you see ash go hopeless wrote this story it's nice because it's a reminder but that doesn't mean that that's when I was running the world and other times a sham isn't it's the same time for thing with mushiya when you get excited and you say oh now mushy has got to come with me and yesterday not and a thousand years ago not it's nice to see a glimpse it's nice once in a while when you see something that lets us in and the fact the Machine has closed but that shouldn't be the basis of our belief just like a hush go practice story should it be the basis of your belief that Hashem runs the world we know how some runs the world because Hashem runs the world I'll give you another example you know people get excited about remember a while ago the the the the Bible codes people are getting excited my Bible codes okay it's interesting it's impressive I mean it means it's neat but that's not the basis of your belief that Peter is that much the tailor is true and the same thing here it's nice to see something wow that's cool that's a that's a glimpse into a certain truth where I get the proof to get to see something that maybe I don't always see but that's not what makes it true and that shouldn't be why I'm excited I should be excited because it's an absolute truth that is part and parcel the very fabric of reality that Tyra is true and that Hashem runs the world and that mushiya can come anytime to the to the extent that Titus Amos that the Torah of truth tells us that al P halacha except for this loophole had in no sane technically speaking a kind should not drink because within 23 minutes and 59 seconds at the longest are complete ready to go buy something this will be here and he'll be on duty and have to work you know again mentioning that album it's in the 13 principles of faith the Naaman talks about the belief in this year it's the 12th of the 13th of the 13 principles right that I need my mean by Menashe lemma that I believe in perfect with with perfect faith right that what the vsi mushy if they're coming i'ma share the Alpha P she is mamaia even though he tarries even though he's taking a while to take me a while to put it lightly right taking 2,000 years already since the destruction of the Second Temple in colza nevertheless a cockle a holy AMG of it I I wait every day that he will come there's two very different ways of understanding that last phrase the words the same the translations are the same but you parse the words differently and it has very different meanings one is a Hockley be holy and she of it and any given day if you would ask me do you believe in the coming of Messiah I would say yes before yeah any day you asked me you asked me yesterday asked me the day before and I would say yeah sure of course sure he'll come some day and any day you ask me butthole yeah any day you ask me I will tell you yes I'm waiting for mushiya he should come eventually some day another way of parsing those same words as a Hockley butthole yeah she over I expect every day that he should come that today's of the day he's coming today's the day and not because of things that I'm seeing in the world it's nice when you see things in the world it's a nice reminder it's a nice it helps us to tune into it but that's not the basis for us knowing that it's true it's true because I'll put it this way if you believe that tyre is true if you believe that the halacha of Toyota are true if you believe in Shabbos if you believe in conscious if you believe in villain if you believe those things are real the same Plato's amis that says those things are real says that machine has a reality and not just a distant reality but something that can actually be in our lives in the next 23 minutes in 59 seconds so I'll tell you a story close off with this and I hesitate to even tell the story maybe I shouldn't tell the story and okay but the story is about a kite he's not famous for being a kind but he is a kind the yo-yo can logos unsigned letter spacer so the mices is like the one time it up yo-yo was waiting for a bus and I guess he was asking people what time is the bus coming already the bus was late so he's asking what time is the bus coming already and somebody a stranger came over to him says no beard don't worry about the bus the bus is coming halav I if only that machine would come before that bus comes nobody else says what I mean he says the boss is very reliable okay sometimes it's a little bit late but it'll be here it'll be here soon and if only machine would be here before that bus comes an LBO says I don't understand the comparison the Buffs coming you have zero guaranteed that the bus will come at all you're saying it comes every day it came the day before it came the day before that and on that basis the bus has to come the bus does not there's no guarantee there's no rule that is woven into the fabric of reality that's written in stone that this bus must come okay because in your experience it's always come so you have a certain expectation but the world can go on without that bus ever arrived and yet mushiya coming there's no such reality there's no concept of this world as we know it and machine if not coming machine has a much more real reliable reality the world was created from the outset we know that Rashi tells us for a five-year-old at the beginning of creation when it was branches but like he made such a - or it's little I came out of heifers up near mine the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters this is what's real hella came rural Malacca Messiah from the very beginning of creation mushiya was present and that the ultimate culmination of all over history will be the revelation of mushiya and with a built by some English with Cohanim doing the evader and everything that every all of the 613 mitzvot did being returned to us restored intact so we can completely keep the entire Torah that is a guarantee there's no such thing as that not happening and not only is there no such thing is that not happening but there's no such thing as a day where that can't happen or in our next 24 minutes where that can't happen in fact it's very likely to the accepted halakhah Klee speaking if it weren't weren't for the loophole that that a coin shouldn't even drink because he might get caught having had that wine and needing to wait it off and being delayed and reporting for duty so let's all remember oh I almost got off the hook I said I had when I was gonna tell you that I BL story I I said that maybe I shouldn't tell it what's wrong with that story there was nothing about it that I shouldn't tell so now I'll tell you why I was thinking maybe I shouldn't tell it because after BL say says well why are you saying Holloway if only that the Machine should come before the bus the boss may never come there's no rule in reality the bus has to come member she has to come there's no such thing as much if not coming so here's the part that wasn't sure if I should say because one of Hashem these classes have a big audience a lot of people watch these in all segments of Kali soboro Hashem so anyways the guy says to I don't think he knew who reveal was he says damn you must be a Chabad Nick so later on reveal was for bragging and he was saying how did the guy know I was a Cabana right how did he know sort of Yale says that the fehb reckon he said but here's why because when you learn to see this what does it do it programs you to think in a way where instead of our assumptions of reality being based on our five senses on our to use a philosophical term our experience of the phenomenological universe right what we can experience with our senses Sid is Chabad especially teaches us that Ilocos that godliness is is the real reality and innate malvada and in the fact that creation exists only exists the way he wants it to exist and it's only an expression of Hashem himself and that Toyota isn't just rules that govern a world that it already exists but Toyota is the blueprint is the life force of reality coming into existence and that when when you learn see this that it changes the way you think to the extent that mushiya is more of a solid reality than a bus the default setting factory factory default settings that were installed with the way a human mind works is a bus is much more real because I saw the bus yesterday and I saw the bus the day before the boss is a physical thing I can touch the bus I can see the bus but when we learned see this we're talked to appreciate that that doesn't make things real what makes things real is Toyota says it's real tire of reality is the ultimate reality and the Toyota reality is like we say from this Rambam based on the the story from this week's parsha that machine coming within the next 23 minutes and 59 seconds is something that not only would be nice but we have every reason to look toward that door and expect mushiya will walk right in