Tetzaveh - The Holy Ripple Effect

you're listening to the weekly parure podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in raish Israel 5785 thiss he has commanded to bring to you to bring close to you your brother Aon the Mish tells us there's two parts of this Mish and I hope to get to a third Mish which also speaks on this topic what the first part of the M talks about the feelings of mosha Renu as he was told that Aon is going to be the Coen he's going to be the priest mosha Renu actually served as the Coen G as the high priest at the very beginning of the time of the mishan during the miluim when the mishkon was first put up the last seven days of AD right before the official consecration of the mishan ones Nissan but but he wasn't going to continue in that aod and so the M says that he felt bad about this let's see what it says tells us King David says if not for your TOA if not for your Commandments this thing that I get to enjoy this play thing I would have been lost in my sadness just like understood that there there's something incredibly powerful about the Torah that the Torah is greater than anything else the instructions of hasem when I study those instructions I learn about what it means to have a real relationship with God and if not for that I'm lost the world is lost now when now when M was told thaton his brother is going to be the high priest he he felt bad he felt bad why am I not going to be that individual why don't I have that Merit says to him the understands the if not for the Torah I would have been lost to be talking about first I gave you the T I gave you the T and if not for that if not for the fact that the Torah was given to you mosha rabu so I would have had to destroy my world the world would have been lost so what Hashem was telling him really was that what's more powerful to serve in the B mikdash to be the co that's powerful that's amazing but you know we don't have a B on English for 2,000 years but all along we've had the Tyra as long as there is Tyra the world can continue to exist as long as the Commandments of a who exist that are studied and of course we're trying to put it into action the world continues to exist so Hashem was consoling him M felt bad I don't get to serve you in the in the BD in the Mish in in the Tabernacle says hold on a second don't feel bad you have something even deeper even greater and I was thinking as I read this what's the center of the of the mishon what's the center of the Bish what's in the holy of holies that only iron is only allowed to go there once a year on yum k what's inside of the holy of holies is the arabis it's the ark which contains the L and the Torah that mosenu brought down so mosenu in a certain sense is there inside of the holy of holies his book the book that he wrote that Hashem communicated through him is right there inside of the holy of holies hashm was saying to him you have something even deeper you have something even greater says the m the measure says mus an analogy which is a little hard to relate to today but let's let's understand this there was a man he married a cousin of his meaning somebody very close someone very beloved and they were married for 10 years and they didn't have children so he says to her I want to make a request of you to marry somebody else I'm going to still be married to you uh you know I'd like to have a second [Music] wife so the husband when he says this that he wants to marry a second wife he tells her that really I could have married a second wife without asking you but I'm asking you because I want you to see I want you to understand what it means humility that's the words so in the mfor what it means to say is that the husband was promising his first wife that whoever the second wife may be he's marrying her because he wants to have children and he didn't have children from her right and think about mosu his kids didn't end up being great AR's kids did end up being great that's what the m point out so Hashem is saying to to mosha who's his as it were his first wife you're not going to have kids but I want to tell you something when I marry the second wife this guy is saying in the analogy when I marry the second wife you are going to be the one who's in charge you're going who's going to be the more of wife you're always going to be the more important one the second wife is going to be beholden to you beholden to [Music] you this is an anous to says to mem said to to m i want you to bring Aron close I want you to be the one to appoint him hasem could have appointed him without that right Aon was a Aon had prophecy he had the ability to prophesy and hasem could have told him you know without discussing it with with M as it were but Hashem by asking mosha raenu to appoint Aon what he was saying was that you are going to be greater than him he's going to be beholden to you the high priest is beholden to Moshe rabenu what does it mean it means that the as we said before the Tyra is which is representative of Moshe Renu that he brought into the Kash the holy of holies that Tyra is the source of the the prophecy right we find that speaks to mosenu and hasem speaks through the through these the the breastplate of the of the king of the high priest he speaks through that it's on the chest of of Aon and the letters light up and communicate but what's the power of it the power of it comes from Moshe comes from the Torah from the teachings so in a certain way Moshe is like the the the root of everything even though he himself is not going to have children who continue in his way it's going to be passed over to yahushua but the the power that comes through him is going to light up Aon literally it's going to light up the high priest and it's going to light up his children and it's going to come down through Aron so that's the idea behind that just says something amazing okay the second part of the P so that's the first teaching the second part of the the P says you are to choose him from amidst the children of Israel why does the P say this why does it refer to why does it say from amidst the children of Israel so the Mish tells us a few places and actually hopefully we should get to the second Mish also which says even more but we find a number of places where where where God chooses whittles down whittles down whittel down chooses one thing from amongst many and from that one chooses from within that for example hasem created the entire world and he chooses one place to be precious to him one place that has such kadas has such holiness that it's the only place in the world that you can do Trum and myus much of the Torah is only in Israel guys time to come home only in Israel all y all the carbonis only Ines only in in the that's what we're going to see so hasem had the whole world he wh it down he chooses to make his kadus more apparent more manifest in Israel then he wills it down further it skips here Jerusalem but Jerusalem has a more concentrated level of of Holiness and thees has an even more concentrated level the Holy Temple and then we B where does hasem choose what's the most Sanctified place in the entire world it's inside of the holy of holies which of course as we said inside of there is the Aris has the Tyra inside of it so the Tyra is the most rarified Holiness in a similar way hasem created all of the nations of the world but he chose am Israel they have seven Mitzvah they have an obligation to have a relationship with God but the Jewish people's relationship is more rarified 613 Commandments What Happens Ley and God wills it down further and chooses for himself a group of people called the tribe of Ley and they're going to be the ones who completely dedicate their lives to Hashem serve in the B mikdash and then what does hasem do I'm sorry I'm sorry yes wills it down further until he gets to the the children of Aon I'm adding here he whittel it down to the children of Aon as being the priests and then he whittel it down further to being to having the high priest and as it goes from level to level there's an even deeper level of consecration of Holiness of Kusa and there's an even deep deeper level of connection and there's an even deep deeper level of service that the does for all of Amel he brings about atonement inside of the K the holy of holies that love that hasem shows forel he channels it he channels that love that forgiveness to the Jewish people and the kohanim also do that through the carbonous the sacrifices they also are involved in channeling it to the rest like it it spreads out to the whole world through the the the whittling down the everything is Whitted down down to the center and then it goes It goes sends his from the top back down out through everyone give the bring bring the carbonis bring about atonement for the Jewish people they give blessings to the Jewish people the Levites they sing their songs which arouse the Jewish people to chuva Etc so it goes the funnels down and then it funnels back interestingly the M says points out that there was a whittling down even further there was a whittling down like we find that when a person has in person even today we have this Mitzvah a person has fruits they pick them off the tree there's an obligation to take Trum and I have a lemon tree in my backyard and uh you take down the lemons you have to before you eat it you have to take off a tithe there's a tithe for the Levites and there's a tithe for the tithe for the for the priests but you see it gets Whitted down it gets Whitted down the PK indicates in the children of Aon that there was a difference between the two older Sons and the two younger Sons the older Sons ended up passing away on the day of that Kam mishon the day that the mishon was established and who was left was elar andar they ended up being the forefathers of all the Kohan all the priests who are alive today so there was a whittling down within the family ofon praiseworthy is the one who is chosen the one who gets to live inside of the Mish inside of that place of Holiness so it's an amazing thing so I I want to point out there's a famous rambam and R says right it's not just the tribe of Ley that has the ability to access a deeper k a deeper Holiness a deeper connection to anybody in the entire world doesn't seem to distinguish between Jews and non-jews even who wants to anybody who comes from the world who wants to be mades himself to sanctify himself can choose that can walk into the B can access the the mosu aspect which is really at the root you want to have a real relationship with anybody can have that yes the kohanim have a certain natural predisposition to it but really anybody can access it so that's the first part of what I wanted to say bottom line we haveu in a certain way is the root of of everything where where all of the connection to comes from Aon is an extension of that he he it it's spreads out from him to his kids to to the to the rest of am Isel and there's a whittling down there's a whittling down in the world the whole world down to earth Israel to land of Israel down to Jerusalem down to BD the temple down to the Kash and in a similar way in am is down to the leim the whole world down to am Isel down to leim down to the kohanim down to Aram now I want to share with you another place there's another magish which also has this concept of whittling down and it says an incredible thing it's very deep it's very beautiful and let's see this together we find that that when AES command this is a section when who commanded MOS to count the Jewish people so the counting for most of the Jewish people was only for those between the ages of 20 and 60 however when it came to counting the levim the Levites there was a commandment to count them even those who were under 20 all the way down to the age of one month old so the mes wants to understand what what is the concept here what is the idea why why do we count them all the way down to the age of only one month old so the mes brings the PK it says the me brings a in Psalms 127:3 it says the inherited ofm right and think of think of the Le the Le the P refers to them as the inheritance of hm orm is their inheritance right what was what is the inheritance of hem I'm sorry the children who are the inheritance of hem they are the the reward of the fruit of the womb okay PUK needs explanation clearly what is it talking about but the basic idea of this PK is that when someone is the when someone is dedicated the life of that person is dedicated completely to serving Hashem so you can see in their kids you can see the results of what that life looks like you want to know who the people are look who the kids are the kids are a result of the of the of the parents of that which was taught to them of that which was inculcated into them they started drinking it already they started drinking this milk of their family of their parents of that atmosphere from the age of when they were born and you can see it much later it it expresses itself and it manifests as the person grows up as the person comes of age you can see it you can see it already says the Mish what is the idea here so you see later there's some kind of connection between something that happens later the way that the child the the the person develops you can see something about the way things were all the way back towards the beginning of that person's life there's a all the way back you can see later what happened in the beginning the M tells us something amazing that does something unusual God counts them till their very youngest age which is not true in regards to all the other tribes where do we see this from we see it even beforehand not just in the midb when says to count the Jewish people but there was a counting earlier the count of 70 when yob V and the Jewish people came down as 70 souls to Egypt B tells us there were 70 that came down but if you can't up the names and count of who it's talking about there's only 69 so the me says when yob came down to Egypt says accounting of the children so there were 66 that actually came along with yov so we get to 69 by getting to you add another three which is y and his two sons who were already in Egypt so how do you get to the number 70 what's the missing 70th we find that who's the 70th it was y who was the mother of mosu she was conceived already she was in Udo as they were coming down to Egypt she was born at the gates of Egypt but nevertheless even though the baby is not yet born yet even though that baby's not yet born yet we still count that baby as the 70th y was the daughter of Lei you see that the levim the Levites are counted already from even even the youngest age not yet born we see there's a concept of counting in their regards and that goes back back those who are connected to God who's going to have Moshe who's going to have Aon going to have the children who are the leaders of am Israel who are represent Tyra as we said who represent service of hasem who represent connection to hem and drawing down God's light down to all of am Israel and all to the entire world these two what you're going to see later you see all the way back at the beginning too there's a there's a there's something that you see in the end that shows power all the way in the beginning then it's counted it's important it's something that you can count it has it has reality to it yeah that's the concept so the medish says L why is it so why is it so that we count all the way back to the earliest time when it comes to the tribe of Ley when it comes to [Music] herself this tribe is more beloved or I would say more connected and anybody can choose to be like that as we said but naturally the predisposition is to be more connected to a from all of the from all of the tribes this was the most chosen [Music] tribe brings the we just quoted in the other Mish which says that from all of the tribes of Israel I chose the Kanan and the priests we find this idea in other places as well we five numerous times hem made a plethora of different things and then he chose from amongst that number excuse me he chose one thing out of them created the week seven days but he whittel it down and chose shabas that's the holiest day God created the years there are cycles of years seven years of cycle he chose one of those years to be even more precious more holy more consecrated who created besides for the seven-year cycle there's multiple seven-year Cycles 7 time seven he chose another year out of those 50 years which is called the created all of the lands in the world he chose one of them and that's the land of Israel hasem looks at this land much more it's he's more connected to this land calls it his land and goes on to say a number of different things God created all the nations but he chose to to centralize his kadha the Holiness the natural predisposition to relationship with him in the people of Israel he created the different tribes within the people of Israel he chose one of them which is tribe of God chose the people of the Levites from amongst all of them that's whyem says that's why he counts them from one month that just goes on to say why why do we wait till one month not going to get into that but the idea here is the depth of it is the Deep idea here is that you see that there's a greater reality there's a greater existence the thing is more real feel the more it's connected to you might not see it till later it might take time to develop says in tell that the afterward talks about you know when he when the when when the the mighty man shoots a an arrow or in today's Parliament if a person is a sharp shooter you can see from the results you don't think that the arrow itself just happened to kill somebody or just happened to hit the Target you know that someone who has incredible skill is the one who who shot that arrow and it's the same thing if you see that there's a greater kadha later there's a greater Holiness later it it emphasizes and brings to light the fact that originally there was so much kadus it started already in the womb it started already y was the the mother of the future Levites the future Kohan and Priests and it goes back all the way so it goes in both directions the lesson that as I understand it for me is that there's an incredible investment in my kids you see my kids have we have a range my oldest is turning 22 my youngest is two but as the person develops you start to see who the person is and you start to see that your investment you know what your investment looked like because you know what the results were and it's an incredible lesson but it all comes down to the first thing that we said which is that m m his Tyra his direction that which he received directly from Hashem which is going to be given over to Aon which is going to be given over to the teachers the Levites to to spread out and and share with all of am Israel that connection starts it starts the the incredible um expression of the Tyra in all of is as we keep the T when is keeping the T properly it it's rooted in that first thought that first person who says I going to be somebody who is really connected who really cares about the will of Hashem and I'm going to give that over to my kids and my kids will give it over to their kids and that's what that's how am Isel becomes the people we're supposed to be we become those people because we realize where it starts and where it ends it says in was not the beginning is embedded in the end and the end is embedded in the beginning we also say it we say the end thought is the original the the end action is in the original thought so important to know that what we're doing today is going to have a ripple effect it's going to create an incredible reality if we attach ourselves originally to Hashem and his will so then we and our children and our children's children and all of the Jewish people will be a manifestation of that will of Hashem I want to bless you I ask you to bless me that we should be able to take this to heart we should connect ourselves all the way into the root into the Tyra into a and we should be able to Merit to see how these blessings Ripple out from us the connection ripples out from us to all the world around us thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]