Parsha Beha’alotecha – Torah, Jewish Wisdom, Jewish Destiny & The Book That Was Never Written

0:00 SPEAKER_00: There's a Gomorrah in Shabbat in 116 Ahmad Alif, and it quotes a Pasuk from Mishlay.

0:07 SPEAKER_00: With wisdom she built her house, she carved its seven pillars.

0:11 SPEAKER_00: And the Gomorrah wants to explain that the seven pillars are the seven books of the Torah.

0:17 SPEAKER_00: So what do you mean the seven books of the Torah?

0:20 SPEAKER_00: So Barashit is one, Shemot is another, and Viikra is a third.

0:26 SPEAKER_00: And then the first part of Bamidbah, up until Pasha Bahalutha, where you have the inverse nuns, that is another book.

0:36 SPEAKER_00: And then we have the two Pasukim, which start Vihibin Saha'ron, which are inside these nuns, these inverse nuns.

0:46 SPEAKER_00: That is a separate book in its own right.

0:48 SPEAKER_00: Then you have the rest of Bamidbah, which is a sixth book, and then of course Seifer Devarim, which is a seventh book.

0:56 SPEAKER_00: So basically, Baraship, Shemot, and Vyikra, three.

1:00 SPEAKER_00: Balmitbah is split into three, the first section until these inverse nuns, those two Pasukim as a fifth, the rest of Bamidbah, and then you have Devarim itself.

1:13 SPEAKER_00: And of course, we know from Halacha that when you write a Seifer Torah, you write it as five books.

1:19 SPEAKER_00: You leave the gap so it becomes five books.

1:23 SPEAKER_00: Hence we call a book containing the Seif Torah a Khumash from Hamesh from five.

1:31 SPEAKER_00: However, this idea that there are seven books in the Torah is an idea that we do give credence to.

1:38 SPEAKER_00: We do say that on a spiritual level there is an idea of seven books in the Torah.

1:46 SPEAKER_00: So that begs a number of questions.

1:49 SPEAKER_00: The first one is this.

1:51 SPEAKER_00: How can these two Pasukim within the inverse nuns be an entire safer in its own right?

1:59 SPEAKER_00: How can that be?

2:00 SPEAKER_00: It's only 85 letters.

2:02 SPEAKER_00: How can you say that literally a couple of lines are a complete safer?

2:07 SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?

2:09 SPEAKER_00: And why inside the inverse nuns?

2:12 SPEAKER_00: What are they supposed to represent?

2:15 SPEAKER_00: And the whole of this is what do we learn from it?

2:18 SPEAKER_00: You know, even if we say that two lines, these two Pasukim are indeed a complete Safer, and Bamidbah's split into three, what do we learn from that?

2:28 SPEAKER_00: What's the lesson we're supposed to take away?

2:32 SPEAKER_00: And there's something else.

2:34 SPEAKER_00: There's an idea that not only are these two Pasukim a complete safer, but they're a safer that was never finished, that was never fully written, and in fact is yet to be written.

2:46 SPEAKER_00: So what does that mean as well?

2:50 SPEAKER_00: So in order to understand and be able to answer these questions, we need to actually know what these pasukim mean.

3:00 SPEAKER_00: What are they saying?

3:01 SPEAKER_00: So let's have a look at that.

3:04 SPEAKER_00: So it starts for Yahibin Soharon, and it came to pass when the arkward journey.

3:13 SPEAKER_00: So what does that mean?

3:15 SPEAKER_00: So we have to understand what the Aaron represents.

3:19 SPEAKER_00: The Aaron represents three things.

3:22 SPEAKER_00: First of all, it represents the Shekhinah.

3:25 SPEAKER_00: Because of course we know that the Shekhinah dwelled just above the Aaron, between the Kuruvim.

3:31 SPEAKER_00: This was true in the Mishkan, and of course in the Beit Ha Middash as well.

3:36 SPEAKER_00: So the Aaron represents in many ways the Shekhinah.

3:40 SPEAKER_00: But the Aaron represents also divine revelation.

3:45 SPEAKER_00: We have to say what was in the Aaron.

3:47 SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about the Beit Hamiddash.

3:50 SPEAKER_00: Right?

3:51 SPEAKER_00: What was in the Aaron?

3:53 SPEAKER_00: So of course we had the first set of Lukot that Moshe broke, and then the second set of Lukot as well.

4:01 SPEAKER_00: And then it also contained the safe Torah that Moshe wrote at the end of his life.

4:09 SPEAKER_00: But it contained two more things.

4:12 SPEAKER_00: It contained the staff that budded, we read about Impasha Korach of Aaron.

4:19 SPEAKER_00: And it also contained a jar of man that Impasha Pashalach, Moshe told Aaron to gather.

4:28 SPEAKER_00: And so we have this idea of the Aaron as divine revelation.

4:33 SPEAKER_00: Of course, the Luchot represent the greatest revelation in the history of the world at Hasinai, Matantorah.

4:40 SPEAKER_00: And then we have the Sefator itself, a revelation from Hashem, written by Hashem.

4:46 SPEAKER_00: And then we have how Hashem manifested in this physical way with the budding of the Aaron's staff, and of course the man with which he fed the Ne Israel in the Midbah for 40 years.

5:01 SPEAKER_00: So we have this idea of divine revelation.

5:05 SPEAKER_00: And then also the Aaron represents the meeting of Shemaim and Aretz.

5:11 SPEAKER_00: Because it contains the Torah.

5:13 SPEAKER_00: And when we were given the Torah, Hashem descends onto Hasina, and Moshe is told to ascend.

5:19 SPEAKER_00: And this is the meeting, as it were, in a metaphorical way of Shemaim and Aretz.

5:24 SPEAKER_00: And the Torah is given to us, and we can bring some of Shema'im into Aretz, some of heaven into earth by using the Torah and living Torah.

5:34 SPEAKER_00: And we can affect the spiritual world, the world of Shemayim, by living Torah as well.

5:39 SPEAKER_00: And so Torah is this connection between Shemaim and Aretz, and the Aaron represents that.

5:45 SPEAKER_00: And of course, where was the Aaron situated?

5:48 SPEAKER_00: In the Beit Ha Middash, in the Korosha Korashim, which was on the foundation stone of the world, the stone that was used to create the world.

5:57 SPEAKER_00: And of course, we say that that part of the world on Ha Haabai is the entrance, it's the connection point between Shemmaim and Aretz.

6:05 SPEAKER_00: So the Aaron represented that as well.

6:09 SPEAKER_00: So when it says when the Aaron would journey, what does it mean?

6:14 SPEAKER_00: It doesn't just mean the journey in the midbah.

6:18 SPEAKER_00: It means the Jewish journey.

6:20 SPEAKER_00: It means this Jewish mission of being the Kohenim of the world, of taking the Shahinah, of the divine revelation into the world, of creating an awareness of Hashem in the world, of bringing holiness into the world, of bringing some of Shemaim into Aretz.

6:38 SPEAKER_00: That is the Jewish mission.

6:39 SPEAKER_00: That's the journey it's talking about.

6:43 SPEAKER_00: And then it says Viome Moshe.

6:46 SPEAKER_00: So, you know, when the Ark would journey, Moshe would say, and then what does it say next?

6:54 SPEAKER_00: Kuma Hashem, Rise Hashem.

6:58 SPEAKER_00: So what does it mean, rise Hashem?

7:00 SPEAKER_00: Does Moshe mean that Hashem should stand up?

7:03 SPEAKER_00: Of course not.

7:04 SPEAKER_00: It's not what it means at all.

7:06 SPEAKER_00: So what does it mean?

7:08 SPEAKER_00: So we live in a world today where evil seems powerful.

7:13 SPEAKER_00: Right?

7:13 SPEAKER_00: You just think about the uh enemies that we're currently fighting of Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran.

7:21 SPEAKER_00: And they seem like very powerful enemies.

7:24 SPEAKER_00: You know, we've been fighting them since October the 7th, of course, really since before October the 7th, but they seem so powerful.

7:32 SPEAKER_00: And then we have on the far left of politics anti-Semitism, anti-Torah values, and of course we have exactly the same on the far right of politics, anti-Semitism and anti-Torah values.

7:46 SPEAKER_00: And we've always lived in a world where evil seemed powerful.

7:50 SPEAKER_00: We've had enemies like Bavel and Persia and the Greeks and the Nazis, and of course they've all fallen, but it seems very powerful, this evil.

8:00 SPEAKER_00: And we live in a world where confusion dominates.

8:04 SPEAKER_00: We struggle to distinguish between right and wrong, and of course, we see that with this mutual equivalence where people want to compare terrorists that would destroy the world with the IDF and Israel who are just defending their democracy.

8:18 SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, we have a world where people can't distinguish the biological differences between a man and a woman anymore.

8:27 SPEAKER_00: And then we live in a world where tolerance is so important that we say that all lifestyles are equally good, which is just ridiculous, and it just leads to this moral confusion.

8:42 SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, we live in a world where there's no objective truth anymore.

8:47 SPEAKER_00: We don't have truth, we have my truth and your truth, which is ridiculous.

8:53 SPEAKER_00: It's not my truth and your truth.

8:55 SPEAKER_00: That just means there's narratives, and so we have competing narratives rather than reality, and facts become opinions and feelings become evidence, and truth is just whatever you want.

9:09 SPEAKER_00: So when we say Kumar Hashem, rise Hashem, what does it mean?

9:16 SPEAKER_00: It means taking this revelation, Torah into the world, taking holiness into the world, taking an awareness of Hashem into the world.

9:25 SPEAKER_00: This is the consequence of that journey.

9:28 SPEAKER_00: That Kumar Hashem, Hashem rises, and then we have the next part of the Pasuk, Via Futsuya Vecha, Via Nusumasanecha mipanecha, and your enemies should be scattered, and those who hate you shall flee from you.

9:44 SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?

9:47 SPEAKER_00: It means that when you take the Aron into the world and Hashem is raised up, then evil disappears.

9:57 SPEAKER_00: Confusion disappears because there's clarity and there's suddenly truth.

10:03 SPEAKER_00: We get truth.

10:04 SPEAKER_00: And what's interesting is it says, and your enemies should be scattered, and those who hate you shall flee from you.

10:13 SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say your enemies will be destroyed.

10:17 SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?

10:19 SPEAKER_00: How does that work?

10:21 SPEAKER_00: So the analogy that I would give is darkness.

10:24 SPEAKER_00: If you have darkness and then you turn on a light, you wouldn't say you destroyed darkness.

10:31 SPEAKER_00: I mean, on a level you have destroyed the darkness, but that's not how we'd word it.

10:36 SPEAKER_00: We just say the darkness is gone because now there's light.

10:39 SPEAKER_00: And once there's light, there's no more darkness.

10:42 SPEAKER_00: The light stops there being darkness.

10:45 SPEAKER_00: When you take the Aaron into the world and Hashem rises and there becomes an awareness of Hashem, your enemies just flee.

10:56 SPEAKER_00: They're just scattered.

10:57 SPEAKER_00: Because suddenly evil disappears, confusion disappears.

11:01 SPEAKER_00: There's an objective truth that you can understand.

11:03 SPEAKER_00: It all just dissipates, like when you turn the light on and suddenly there's no darkness anymore.

11:11 SPEAKER_00: That's what happens.

11:14 SPEAKER_00: And then we have the next pasuk, the second pasuk.

11:18 SPEAKER_00: Uvniukha.

11:20 SPEAKER_00: And when it rested.

11:22 SPEAKER_00: What does it mean when it rested?

11:24 SPEAKER_00: So uvniukha comes from menucha.

11:27 SPEAKER_00: It's comfort.

11:28 SPEAKER_00: Because once you've turned on the light, the darkness has disappeared.

11:32 SPEAKER_00: There's an awareness of Hashem in the world.

11:36 SPEAKER_00: Then there can be rest.

11:37 SPEAKER_00: We can rest with the Shekhinah.

11:39 SPEAKER_00: And we get a taste of that, of course, on Shabbat.

11:42 SPEAKER_00: And we have Eritz Ishrael, where we're supposed to build a society based on Torah where we can rest with the Shekhinah.

11:49 SPEAKER_00: And of course, the ultimate of that is the Beit Hamid Dash itself that contained the Shaykhina.

11:54 SPEAKER_00: But that's the rest.

11:55 SPEAKER_00: And then it says Yamah, and he would say, Shuvah Hashem.

12:01 SPEAKER_00: What do we mean, return Hashem?

12:03 SPEAKER_00: What do you mean?

12:04 SPEAKER_00: Hashem never went away.

12:06 SPEAKER_00: What's return?

12:07 SPEAKER_00: The Zohar wants to bring down and say, after the confrontation, when the Aaron's gone out into the world and the enemies have been scattered and evil and confusion has dissipated, and truth is obvious.

12:19 SPEAKER_00: Then we have Shuvah Hashem, the return of Hashem, where the Shekhinah and the Aaron and Khlal Israel can all dwell together as one.

12:32 SPEAKER_00: There's a oneness, there's a completeness, there's a wholeness.

12:36 SPEAKER_00: That's the shalom that we govern for so often at the end of our prayers.

12:40 SPEAKER_00: Shalom meaning peace, but meaning fullness, completeness, harmony.

12:45 SPEAKER_00: That's what happens.

12:47 SPEAKER_00: And then of course it says rivervot al-Fey Yisrael among the myriad thousands of Israel.

12:59 SPEAKER_00: Because every Jew counts, because every Jew matters, because every Jew has a tough kid that no one else can do.

13:07 SPEAKER_00: And because we are all one, Khal Yisrael are all connected by one Nishamah, by one soul.

13:15 SPEAKER_00: And so the Shahinah dwells amongst all of us, amongst the whole of Klal Yisrael.

13:24 SPEAKER_00: Now we understand what those two Pasukim are about.

13:28 SPEAKER_00: We can answer one of our questions.

13:31 SPEAKER_00: How can two Pasukim be considered a whole safer?

13:36 SPEAKER_00: How does that work?

13:38 SPEAKER_00: Because those two Pasukim encapsulate the entirety of the Jewish mission, the entirety of what it is to be a Jew.

13:48 SPEAKER_00: That as a Jew is the coenym of the world, as the representatives of Hashem on earth, we are supposed to take the Aaron out into the world, be a light unto the nations, create an awareness of Hashem, bring holiness into the world, where Hashem rises and evil dissipates, it scatters, it disappears, and then we can dwell with the Shachina in comfort, all as one.

14:21 SPEAKER_00: That's the entirety of the Jewish mission.

14:23 SPEAKER_00: In two pasukim, it is a complete seifah.

14:27 SPEAKER_00: That's what it is.

14:28 SPEAKER_00: And Rabbi Sachs explains the first 19 Pasukim of Seifer Shemot and the last 25 Pasukim of Seifer Bamidbah are narrative, they move.

14:42 SPEAKER_00: You think about the beginning of Shemot with the whole of the story of Yitzsiat Smithraim, their narrative, they move.

14:48 SPEAKER_00: The central figure of all of that is, of course, Moshe Rabinud, the greatest prophet that ever lived.

14:55 SPEAKER_00: And this is the Jews in history.

14:58 SPEAKER_00: This is the Jewish people in history.

15:01 SPEAKER_00: And then we have the last part of the book of Shemot.

15:06 SPEAKER_00: We have the whole of the book of Ayikra, the first ten chapters of Bamidbah, 59, I think, all added together.

15:15 SPEAKER_00: And nothing happens.

15:17 SPEAKER_00: There's no narrative.

15:19 SPEAKER_00: We're just at Hassini.

15:21 SPEAKER_00: And this is where Aron in many ways becomes the central figure, the Koengadol.

15:27 SPEAKER_00: This is about holiness.

15:28 SPEAKER_00: This is the world of the Mishkan, of the Beit Hamiddash.

15:34 SPEAKER_00: This is the Jews in eternity.

15:36 SPEAKER_00: This is the eternal part of the Jewish people, beyond space and time, that dwell with the Shachina in the Mishkan, there of course.

15:47 SPEAKER_00: And the Jews are both.

15:49 SPEAKER_00: We are both a historical people and we're an eternal people.

15:54 SPEAKER_00: And Rabbi Sachs explains: if we were only an eternal people, beyond space and time, then we wouldn't be able to affect history because we'd be beyond space and beyond time.

16:06 SPEAKER_00: We wouldn't be able to impact history in any way at all.

16:10 SPEAKER_00: But if we were only a historical people, we'd have been perished many, many, many, many centuries ago.

16:22 SPEAKER_00: Because we defy history.

16:24 SPEAKER_00: Jewish people have been so persecuted, we're so small, in exile, we would have just disappeared.

16:31 SPEAKER_00: And therefore, to be a Jew is to live both in history and be able to impact history.

16:38 SPEAKER_00: That's the first Pasuk.

16:40 SPEAKER_00: And also be an eternal people.

16:43 SPEAKER_00: People beyond space and time that dwell with the Shakinah.

16:47 SPEAKER_00: That's the second Pasuk.

16:49 SPEAKER_00: And to be a Jew, we live between the creative tension of both of those, the Jewish history and the Jew of eternity.

16:58 SPEAKER_00: And we see that within these two Pasukim that encapsulate what it is to be a Jew in its entirety.

17:04 SPEAKER_00: And that's why it's a complete Seifer.

17:08 SPEAKER_00: Rav Solovajik comes along and says the most amazing thing.

17:13 SPEAKER_00: He says, look at the beginning of Seifah Bamidbah.

17:17 SPEAKER_00: There's a census, there's a count.

17:19 SPEAKER_00: And it's a spiritual count of the Jewish people because every Jew counts.

17:24 SPEAKER_00: How we counted, Sa'u'et Rosh, raise their heads.

17:28 SPEAKER_00: Every Jew matters, every Jew counts.

17:31 SPEAKER_00: This is the count.

17:32 SPEAKER_00: We're ready to go into Eritz Israel.

17:35 SPEAKER_00: And then we look at this week's Pasha and we bring Korban Pesach.

17:40 SPEAKER_00: The year after Yitziat Smithzraim, we bring Korban Pesach.

17:45 SPEAKER_00: And of course, there's only two positive mitzvot that you can get Karats for, that you can get uh cut off for, from cut off spiritually for.

17:55 SPEAKER_00: What are they?

17:56 SPEAKER_00: Those two positive mitzvah?

17:57 SPEAKER_00: Britmilah and Korban Pesach.

18:00 SPEAKER_00: Why?

18:01 SPEAKER_00: Because they are signs of the Brit, they're signs of the covenant with Hashem.

18:06 SPEAKER_00: And so we bring Korban Pesach, and we're on such a high spiritual level.

18:11 SPEAKER_00: There are people that can't bring uh the Corban Pesach because they're impure, because they buried the dead, whatever else.

18:17 SPEAKER_00: They've done mitzvot.

18:19 SPEAKER_00: And those people are exempt, they're not going to be punished.

18:21 SPEAKER_00: They're exempt from bringing Korban Pesach.

18:24 SPEAKER_00: And they don't want to be exempt.

18:25 SPEAKER_00: They want to do the mitzvah.

18:26 SPEAKER_00: They go to Marsha and say, we want to do the mitzvah.

18:30 SPEAKER_00: What can be done for us?

18:31 SPEAKER_00: And then we have this idea of Pesach Shane in the Pasha as well.

18:35 SPEAKER_00: Amazing idea.

18:37 SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, we're introduced to the trumpets, the silver trumpets that are a call to assembly, a call to movement, a call to battle.

18:46 SPEAKER_00: We're ready to go into Eritz Ishrael.

18:49 SPEAKER_00: And then Moshe says to Yitro, his father-in-law, travel with us.

18:54 SPEAKER_00: And it's in the present tense.

18:56 SPEAKER_00: Travel with us.

18:57 SPEAKER_00: We're going into Eritz Ishrael.

18:59 SPEAKER_00: We're all set to go.

19:00 SPEAKER_00: And then we leave Hasina and we're all set to go.

19:03 SPEAKER_00: And then what happens?

19:05 SPEAKER_00: We complain about the mum.

19:07 SPEAKER_00: We start to reminisce that how amazing Egypt was with its cucumbers and fish and garlic and onions.

19:14 SPEAKER_00: And then Miriam speaks out of turnabout Moshe.

19:18 SPEAKER_00: And by next week, we have the Maruglim, the spies, and we're now in the midbuh for another 40 years.

19:29 SPEAKER_00: And Raf Solovajik wants to bring down, based on a Sfano, and the Sfano says that these Pasukim is what would have happened.

19:40 SPEAKER_00: We would have gone into Eritz Israel and our enemies would have just scattered.

19:46 SPEAKER_00: They would have just fled.

19:47 SPEAKER_00: There would have been no bloodshed at all.

19:50 SPEAKER_00: We would have just walked into Eritz Israel.

19:53 SPEAKER_00: But of course, we had the Maraglim.

19:55 SPEAKER_00: And therefore we were there for another 40 years.

19:59 SPEAKER_00: And Rav Sol of Achik wants to say these two Pasukim are the book that was never written.

20:06 SPEAKER_00: The first Pasuk is the first Pasuk of that book.

20:10 SPEAKER_00: And the second Pasuk is the end pasuk of that book.

20:14 SPEAKER_00: And the middle bit was never written.

20:16 SPEAKER_00: It's what would have happened.

20:17 SPEAKER_00: And it's there, between the inverted nuns, to remind us of our destiny, to remind us of our mission, to remind us of what we have to do.

20:27 SPEAKER_00: And eventually that book will be written.

20:31 SPEAKER_00: Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel in that Gomorrah in Shabbas in 116 Ahmed Alif wants to say eventually those two Pasukim will be moved to their rightful place in the Torah when that destiny is fulfilled, when they're brought to fruition.

20:49 SPEAKER_00: So then, of course, we have to ask ourselves so what went wrong?

20:54 SPEAKER_00: How did we go from about to go into Eritz Ishrael, into these complaints, and then into the sin of the Maraglim?

21:02 SPEAKER_00: What went wrong?

21:04 SPEAKER_00: And there's a Pasuk says, as we journeyed and they turned from the mountain of Hashem.

21:11 SPEAKER_00: And Tosvot on that Gomorrah in Shabbat, 116 Ahmed Alif, wants to bring down and say, Ravhanya says, it says we turned from the mountain, we turned from Sinai.

21:22 SPEAKER_00: We didn't just leave Sinai physically, we left it spiritually.

21:27 SPEAKER_00: We'd been given Torah, we'd been studying Torah for so long, and we didn't see it as a responsibility that was a privilege.

21:36 SPEAKER_00: We saw it as a responsibility that was a burden.

21:40 SPEAKER_00: And so Tosvot famously bringed down in that that we fled from our Sinay at children fleeing from school.

21:48 SPEAKER_00: Fleeing from school.

22:00 SPEAKER_00: Nuns represent Na'aser Vanishma.

22:05 SPEAKER_00: That was our greatest moment at Hasini when we said Naaser Vanishmah, we will do and then we will understand.

22:11 SPEAKER_00: And the way that we left Hassinae, we turned from the mountain of Hashem was a reversal of Naaser Vanishma.

22:20 SPEAKER_00: That we fled, that we didn't want it anymore, didn't want that responsibility.

22:27 SPEAKER_00: But the problem is this what makes the Jewish people special?

22:33 SPEAKER_00: What keeps the Jewish people as an eternal people and a people of history?

22:38 SPEAKER_00: It's Torah.

22:40 SPEAKER_00: It's our Brit with Hashem.

22:42 SPEAKER_00: That's what it is.

22:42 SPEAKER_00: That's who we are.

22:44 SPEAKER_00: That's our essence.

22:45 SPEAKER_00: That's the glue that keeps us together.

22:48 SPEAKER_00: Rav Cook says that behind all sin is the loss of self.

22:54 SPEAKER_00: And when someone says, I can't live with myself, that sort of colloquial saying, it's a real thing because the I, the essential I, who you really are, can't live with the self of who you've become.

23:08 SPEAKER_00: And so when the Jewish people turn from Sinai, they leave it behind, not the physical location, the spiritual idea, they flee as if they fled school.

23:19 SPEAKER_00: We lose ourselves.

23:20 SPEAKER_00: And once we lose ourselves, it leads to all sorts of avera.

23:25 SPEAKER_00: So then we complain about the man and we reminisce wrongly about how wonderful Egypt was.

23:31 SPEAKER_00: And even Miriam says the wrong thing, and when we end up with the spies and 40 years in the Midbar.

23:39 SPEAKER_00: And the problem is that when we read Torah, we read it as historical.

23:45 SPEAKER_00: And it's not historical, it's for now.

23:48 SPEAKER_00: Torah is always for now, it's always relevant.

23:52 SPEAKER_00: So we read this story, the tragedy of it, and we say, well, of course, you know, we're observant Jews, we're religious Jews, we keep Yiddish kite, we're not turning from the mountain of Hashem.

24:06 SPEAKER_00: And I say, really?

24:08 SPEAKER_00: Really?

24:10 SPEAKER_00: So when we're in Shaw, and while Alainu's being said, we're taking off our tefillin and our talesin because we've been such a rush to do what?

24:20 SPEAKER_00: That we can't get out of shawl quick enough.

24:22 SPEAKER_00: That isn't turning from the mountain of Hashem.

24:27 SPEAKER_00: And when we keep Shabbas, but we're on seconds, because Hasfashalam, we should keep one more moment of Shabbas than we have to.

24:36 SPEAKER_00: So of course, we're we're there on seconds, as Motsei Shabbat, as Shabbat goes out on the minute, we're turning on the lights and saying Hamdawa and Khala Shakul and getting on with everything that we gotta get on with.

24:47 SPEAKER_00: What putting our phones on to catch up with our WhatsApp messages or whatever's so important because we can't keep one more moment of Shabbos.

24:56 SPEAKER_00: That isn't turning from the mountain of Hashem.

25:00 SPEAKER_00: And even when we learn, and amazing that we make time for learning.

25:04 SPEAKER_00: But you know, if we've got 30 minutes or an hour in the diet, it doesn't matter, whatever the time for learning is, as soon as it gets beyond that, right, I've done my learning, put the Gomorrah away, put it away, let's get on with everything.

25:16 SPEAKER_00: We have to make sure that we take the Aram with us, that we always journey with the Aram, we journey with the Torah, that that's what keeps us going, that's what motivates us, and that we don't turn from the mountain of Hashem, even inadvertently, even by accident, because that is who we are: the Aaron, the Torah, it's divine revelation, it's awareness of Hashem, this linking between Shemaim and Arat, dwelling with the Shekhinah, that's who we are.

25:51 SPEAKER_00: The Mascular David, Ravdovid Pado, he says that the reverse nuns, he takes from a Gomorrah in Brachot in Fort Ahmed Bet and he says that David Hamelech, when he wrote Ashrei, we know it goes Alafbet, Gimul Dalad, etc., left out the nun because the nun is nafilah, the falling of Klali Shrael.

26:15 SPEAKER_00: So he left it out.

26:16 SPEAKER_00: And so Ravdovid Pada wants to say the reverse nuns are there because it was the falling of Klali Israel.

26:24 SPEAKER_00: But of course, what's interesting is that's a proper nun for nafilah.

26:29 SPEAKER_00: What about a reverse nun?

26:30 SPEAKER_00: So reverse nun is the opposite.

26:32 SPEAKER_00: This isn't the fall, this is the ascent.

26:34 SPEAKER_00: And therefore, there's also an idea that these reverse nuns are there because this is the opposite of a fall.

26:41 SPEAKER_00: This is the ascent.

26:42 SPEAKER_00: This is our destiny, this is our mission, and therefore, one day we will fulfill it, it will get done, we will complete the mission of the Jewish people.

26:51 SPEAKER_00: It's the rise again of the Jewish people.

26:56 SPEAKER_00: The Neti Vot Shalom, it's the slom and a rebi.

27:00 SPEAKER_00: He wants to say this isn't just on a national level, but on an individual level.

27:05 SPEAKER_00: Every Jew has a tough kid.

27:07 SPEAKER_00: Every Jew has to go out with the Aaron and fulfill their part of the mission, spreading Torah, making an awareness of Hashem, keeping Torah in their way.

27:16 SPEAKER_00: And of course, it's challenging and it's hard.

27:18 SPEAKER_00: And then every individual gets to dwell with the Shachinah as well.

27:23 SPEAKER_00: So how do we do it?

27:25 SPEAKER_00: Well, there's a couple of Gomorrahs that can inspire us.

27:29 SPEAKER_00: There's Sotah, 35 Ahmed Alif.

27:33 SPEAKER_00: And the Gomorrah in Sota in 35 Ahmed Alif tells us that when they carried the Aaron, the Aaron would carry them.

27:42 SPEAKER_00: The Aaron was really heavy.

27:43 SPEAKER_00: When the Levian were carrying the Aaron, it was really heavy.

27:46 SPEAKER_00: And it says it was almost like a miracle, although they were carrying the Aaron, really the Aaron was carrying them.

27:53 SPEAKER_00: And that's a message for us.

27:55 SPEAKER_00: The Aaron carries us.

27:57 SPEAKER_00: Torah is the glue that sticks us together.

27:59 SPEAKER_00: It's our mission, it's our reason for being.

28:01 SPEAKER_00: But when we take Torah out into the world, when we live a life of Torah, when we dedicate ourselves to Torah, the Torah will carry us.

28:09 SPEAKER_00: It's challenging, it's not easy, but the Torah will always carry us.

28:13 SPEAKER_00: Hashem will be there, carrying us.

28:17 SPEAKER_00: And then we have the Gomorrah in Yamah, in 21 Ahmed Bet, that tells us the Aaron shouldn't have been able to fit in the Kodesh Hakodashim.

28:28 SPEAKER_00: The dimensions don't work.

28:30 SPEAKER_00: It shouldn't have fitted there, of course it did.

28:32 SPEAKER_00: And why?

28:34 SPEAKER_00: Because it didn't take up any space.

28:37 SPEAKER_00: This was the miracle of the Kodesh Hakurashim.

28:40 SPEAKER_00: It didn't take up any space.

28:41 SPEAKER_00: And that, of course, is why the Koingadol could go in once a year on Yom Kippur, because on Yom Kippur we became angels.

28:50 SPEAKER_00: We became Malachim.

28:52 SPEAKER_00: And therefore, for one day, the Koen Godol could go into the Kodesh Hakara Shim, which was beyond space and time and survive.

29:00 SPEAKER_00: But the rest of the time, a human being couldn't go in there and survive because it was beyond space and time.

29:07 SPEAKER_00: The Aaron didn't take up any space.

29:10 SPEAKER_00: That's the eternity of the Jewish people.

29:14 SPEAKER_00: The Aaron will carry us is the first Pasuk.

29:17 SPEAKER_00: The idea that it's beyond space and time is the second Pasuk.

29:21 SPEAKER_00: The Jewish people are beyond space and time.

29:24 SPEAKER_00: We're an eternal people.

29:28 SPEAKER_00: Therefore, we have this mission summed up in these two Pasukim.

29:34 SPEAKER_00: Bizra' Hashem, we can stick to this mission.

29:37 SPEAKER_00: We can live a life of Torah and be the Jews in history, taking Torah into the world and being a light unto the nations.

29:45 SPEAKER_00: And the result of that is we can dwell with the Shekhinah as we get a taste of on Shabz.

29:51 SPEAKER_00: And that's the eternal part of the Jewish people, the second Pasuk.

29:55 SPEAKER_00: Bezra Hashem, we can write that sefa.

29:58 SPEAKER_00: As Rav Solovechik says, we can complete that seifer.

30:01 SPEAKER_00: And as Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel says, it can get moved to its right place in the Torah.

30:06 SPEAKER_00: We will see the coming of Mashiach and the rebuilding of the Beit Hamiddash, Bim Heravi Amin.