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Rav Shlomo Katz explores the teachings of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l on the Parsha with the sefer Even Shlomo
ויהי כל כחיאתא מאימא ויהי כל גזייתא מהימא, ויהי כל כחיאתא מאימא ויהי כל גזייתא מהימא, ויהי כל כחיאתא מאימא ויהי כל גזייתא מהימא, ויהי כל כחיאתא מאימא ויהי כל גזייתא מהימא.
בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה.
בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה, בין אימא לפנא ובין אימא לפנא שינה חדשה. Beautiful harmony brothers.
Yasher koach everyone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good morning everybody, boker tov. Good Erev Shabbos everyone.
All right, something chazak today, something fiery, something short and fiery, a sweet fire but an important, important fire. A pshat piece from Reb Shlomo on parshas Behaalotecha. We all know that there were a few things that Moshe Rabbeinu had a hard time understanding how to do. There's a few mitzvos that Moshe Rabbeinu did not really know what to do and one of them is in our, even saying those words seem like it's not the way we understand not knowing how to do something, right? Moshe Rabbeinu didn't know how to do the Menorah, it's not that he didn't know how to do machtzis hashekel, it means infinitely much deeper than what what we say he didn't know how to do it, you understand that, right? There's a reason why Chazal let us know that Moshe Rabbeinu didn't know how to do these things, but the reason we're going to see today for him not knowing was to let us know how to do something, it was for us.
Perhaps you could say Moshe Rabbeinu didn't know how to give this over to Am Yisrael, but I don't want to be chas v'shalom pogem, I don't want to blemish for one second our conception of Moshe Rabbeinu's daas, that's very important. That's aleph. Beis over here is that we, if you think about this, and I heard once a sevara that said that if Vayikra is called Toras Kohanim, Bamidbar, at least half of it should be called Toras Leviim, because it's all, it's in our parsha the amount of times you have the inyan here of of Leviim, קח את הלויים מתוך בני ישראל in last shabbos, the shabbos before as well, and also the whole story with Korach, there's a lot of Levi business, a lot of beirur of Leviim in this in this sefer. However, Aharon HaKohen opens up this parsha.
And we, we always called this the ADD parsha because this parsha jumps non-stop from topic to topic. The second you like finish an aliyah you're like okay like what's what's the Shnayim Mikra V'Targum this week is just it's like an exciting rollercoaster. Aharon HaKohen's job in our parsha over here is going to show us something fundamental for our Avodas Hashem, which is we're always looking to strengthen the basics of our Avodas Hashem of how we're supposed to be in this world, how we're supposed to serve Hakadosh Baruch Hu in this world. So we're going to see something from the Sfas Emes, Parshas Behaalosecha, that's going to help us understand what is it mean that Moshe Rabbeinu didn't understand how to deal with the Menorah.
You could say this vort also in a certain way with Machatzis Hashekel, which also he had a hard time understanding and with Kiddush Levana which also that we also have this concept of Moshe Rabbeinu having difficulty in chapping what the pnimiyus of of it's all about. And today's piece is based on a piece from Reb Leibel Eger. Chaim, I'm just saying, I think I'm thinking we're going to go there next like sivuv of I don't know if the chevra don't I have this like for five years already I'm saying okay we're going to learn Mei HaShiloach one one round Shabbos morning then it's become second round I think we're on our fourth or fifth year of learning Mei HaShiloach. But I think I don't know in the past when I've said we're going to be learning something else it it doesn't happen we're not going to be learning something else and then maybe maybe it'll happen.
Okay.
ישנם כמה דברים שמשה רבינו לא הבין בדיוק איך לעשות like we just said a few things Moshe Rabbeinu didn't quite understand how to do.
אחד מהם היה מנורה. Lachen HaTorah omeret כמראה אשר הראה השם את משה כן עשה את המנורה which means like the vision which Moshe Rabbeinu was shown where was he shown Har Sinai כן עשה את המנורה.
Now we have to understand we have to understand all visuals all experiences that took place in Mount Sinai what was a key element that escorted any visual or any experience what was always there on Har Sinai fire esh there was always fire the whole experience was one of fire. So this is very very important כמראה אשר הראה השם את משה כן עשה את המנורה like the vision like the vision through which Moshe Rabbeinu experienced being given over the inyan of the Menorah there on Har Sinai which was escorted with fire כן עשה את המנורה then he ended up doing the Menorah so fire is going to play a very important role in today's teaching yeah. The mountain was on fire for the whole forty days that Moshe Rabbeinu was up there? Whenever Moshe Rabbeinu was receiving visualizations and the whole experience at Sinai was always through fire.
רב לייבל איגר שואל so who was Reb Leibel Eger chevra he was the son of Reb Shlomo Eger and he was the grandson of Reb Akiva Eger.
רב לייבל איגר שואל he asks in his Torah in his sefer Toras Emes mai esh what what is fire bechalal.
אש היא הפנים של הפנימיות fire is what's really inside of the he's going to explain of what.
אש היא משהו שנמצא בפנים עמוק בפנים. It's not dafka now why is he saying it's the inside of the inside? Because sometimes you have people they look like they're on fire but inside of the inside they're so empty they just think that if they show it on the outside it'll start to produce something and sometimes that may be even be true.
But as something that's memmes fire is something that has to do with the inside of the inside meaning if you x-rayed our neshamos if you x-rayed what's going on deep down inside of us where we're not confused or bothered by any of the bilbulim of this world Chassidus teaches us you know what each of us would see burning fire in every one of us inside not dafka on the outside. Like a chassid has to believe that even though when I look in the mirror that's not what I see I have to believe there's a fire that never stopped from Har Sinai it never stopped meeitzem heyosi Yehudi just by me being a Yid. So mai esh אש היא הפנים של הפנימיות.
מה רואים עלי כשאני מניח תפילין when I put on tefillin I don't know maybe you experienced something else this morning.
I can barely keep my eyes open while I was putting on tefillin this morning I wouldn't say that it was mamash fire and brimstone right? I I wouldn't say that I see that and I love everyone here but when I looked at you with tallis and tefillin today even though I knew we were going to learn this I wanted to check myself I I I also need to get my rebbe vision on, because rebbes could see that a yid is, no matter what with everything that they have going on, there's always fire happening inside, but it's not something you see or necessarily feel when you're keeping Torah and mitzvos.
מה רואים עלי כשאני מניח תפילין רואים שאני מזיז את הידיים. If I look at someone putting on tefillin, I see more hand movements. I see mirror checking for the positioning of the tefillin shel rosh.
אבל האש אינה ניכרת כל כך. But the fire is not so evident.
אתם יודעים מה עשה אהרן הכהן? What did Aharon HaKohen do?
הוא ממש גרם שיהודי יראה כמה אש יש בו כשהוא מקיים מצווה. Wow.
What does this mean? It means that if Aharon HaKohen was here right now, or if he was teaching us or if he sat next to each and every one of us, he would have a way of letting us know that it's not just that we're sitting down and learning Torah or going to a shiur, but that there's fire within the mitzvah that we're doing now of talmud Torah. This was Aharon HaKohen's inyan. This is what the Kohen was able to do. He would show you that you have fire happening inside of you.
He would connect you to the place inside that would, and he would bring it to the outside. Yes? The association with the אוהב שלום ורודף שלום or something completely...? I'm sure, I'm sure. Ohev Shalom. Alav Hashalom.
He's on a roll! He's on a roll for the win. It's also his name, if you rearrange the letters: Nira. Yes, very good. That's a very, very chazak Torah that the Polisher Rebbes say.
Ziditshov, I think, says: Nachon Aharon HaKohen, his whole inyan was Nira. He made you see what was actually happening inside of you. This was the avoda of the Kohen. Look, essentially, when a person brought a korban to the Beis HaMikdash, right? What was the produce of it? Like, what was the outcome of it? We learned this.
We learned this once. The outcome wasn't... Say it. If it's wrong, you're out of here.
Spread kindness. Amen. Working on it. That...
Gematria of menorah with a vav is aish. Gematria of rosh also is. Right. Oh, I know, that the purpose of their existence, like why Hashem put them on this world, is like totally like clear to them.
It would just be like... Nira. I know why I am here. I know who I am.
I know why I am here. You could stay. Yes. For now.
Yes. That's all we got.
אתם יודעים מה עשה אהרן הכהן הוא ממש גרם שיהודי יראה, Nira, right? This is his inyan.
כמה אש יש בו כשהוא מקיים מצווה.
לא מספיק שפשוט נקיים מצוות כדי שהעולם יתקרב להשם. We're not just walking around kiruv projects, okay? That's what he's saying over here. We're not just walking around trying to bring people to keep more Torah and mitzvos.
רק האש יכולה להדליק את העולם.
We want to turn on the world? Why do all the shluchim, how are they able to do what they're doing? The Rebbe lit... the Rebbe lit their souls on fire and they carry that torch wherever they go with them and they're lighting up the whole world because they were lit by the Kohen Gadol, by the Rebbe, and they take that light with them wherever they go. They're not just going to people and saying, 'You know, you should really keep Torah and mitzvos.' They have this... and you can't understand this.
These shluchim have... you have to be on such a fire to be sent out to ich veis somewhere that not even a yid has lived, like barely humans have lived, like anyone, and feel like you could set up shop and do something. It's got to be a fire going on in you.
רבי לייבל'ה אומר רבי לייבל'ה איגר אומר שלא נאמר לאהרן הכהן.
It doesn't... Aharon HaKohen wasn't told: He'aleh es haneros, meaning light the... kind of like what it means is, he wasn't told, like, 'Light the candles.' אלא בהעלותך את הנרות, as you are participating in the candles taking flight.
ישנם דברים שאפילו השם לא יכול לצוות אותך והוא כאילו מפציר בך.
So Reb Shlomo says there are certain things that even God, so to speak, can't command you. He's not going to command you, 'Be on fire!' Ela maftzir becha. What does maftzir... does anyone know? Maftzir is like beseeching.
He's asking of you. He's kind of like secretly requesting it. If you have good ears, when you're learning Torah, if you're just on checklist Yiddishkeit, you don't need to have any fire in your soul. in your learning.
You don't have to have any fire in your Shabbos. And you may even go to Gan Eden. But Gan Eden will be the most boring stiff place you ever existed. And you're gonna sit there be like, I can't believe this.
What's going on? They told me I'm going to Gan Eden. And they'll be like you are, you did get here. You got here. It's like, but why doesn't it feel like anything? He says, because when you were down here, down in the world and this is this is reflecting how how you got here.
And there was no fire needed in your avodas Hashem, so it's the same thing up here. Like Pirkei Avos? Yeah, the halocha of your Olam Hazeh, like the Schar Zvulun? Oh, in Pirkei Avos.
אשריך בעולם הזה וטוב לך לעולם הבא, nachon. We don't shake hands in here, we hug.
But you could apply it there too. Growing up, anybody who went to, like especially the older chevra, and you shook their hand. If you didn't give them a gezunta handshake, they're like, a gefilte fish handshake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So like you shook their hand, no one told you you have to have a fiery handshake. Right. Now these are all the things. It's a strong statement that there's certain things that even Hashem can't command you to do.
It's as if He's asking you to do.
השם יכול לומר לנו להניח תפילין בבוקר, ליטול ידיים, לא לאכול דבר אחר, אבל בנוגע לאש הזו, אהרן הכהן הוא שמלמד אותנו את כל העניין. So, he's saying over here, tefillin, Shabbos, kashrus, all these things, the commandment is in the realm of yes or no, do or don't. But Aharon HaKohen is the one that says when you do the do's and you don't do the don'ts, בהעלותך את הנרות אל מול פני המנורה יאירו שבעת הנרות.
Aharon HaKohen is the one that's saying it has to be with fire. Meaning, sorry, it doesn't have to be with fire. But Aharon HaKohen is saying, but is that really what you want? You want it to be, you want to be okay if it's just without fire? Don't you want it to be with fire? Yeah. Moshe, how do you do the, how do you not do the don'ts with fire? Like you can do the do's with fire because like, I'm doing the mitzvah, but like to not do it with fire, like what? Very good, very, very good question.
That's the story of Yosef HaTzaddik in the jail when when they had the Torah in the middle and brought it up last night. That, listen, the the Rebbe Nachman has a Torah in Likutey Moharan. It says by hagalas keilim, Parshas Matos, the Torah says כל דבר אשר יבוא באש תעבירו באש, which means that's the reference to the to the cleansing of the utensils that were taken into, that were taken after the war with Midian. So the dinim of hagalas keilim come from there, right? So Rebbe Nachman says it's the same thing, what what took you like for us to, he says it a little bit different, he says, when you sinned with a certain aveira, and everyone could take their head to places they want to go to, it was with fire, there was a passion in there, right? There was a, not a good, it was a horrible one.
He says if you really want to do teshuva, he says כל דבר אשר יעבור באש, that which you were over, the aveira you did was with gezunt fire, like not gezunt, but fire that was like nefesh bahamis. You want to do the only way is not just to stop doing it, it's that the stuff that you do do has to be ta'aviru ba'esh. Your Yiddishkeit has to be on fire. But you're asking is more, how do I how do I not do an aveira with fire? Okay, let's let's think about that.
Let's give a random aveira that no one should be proud of right now, just shmiras einayim. Somebody who's shomer einayim, like if you're really good about looking away. With fire. Yeah.
Let's do more of something that's like a lo sa'aseh. And you could darshen it, maybe shmiras einayim, it could be darshen lo sa'aseh. Not eating treif. That's a good one, yeah yeah, let's say like that.
Okay, so you used to eat treif. Now you're not eating treif. So how do you do the not eating treif with fire? What do you think? Say a bracha over what you're eating, like what have in mind when you're making a bracha of what you're eating that's proper. That Have in mind, right.
So you could say based on the Rebbe Nachman, have in mind that that when you are eating what you're eating, you're conscious of the fact that you've chosen not to eat the treif. So you're doing the lo sa'aseh, you're not over on lo sa'aseh by doing the exact tikkun of it, but it has to be on fire. There's so many things that we take for granted. For example, like not eating treif, but when you pass by a McDonald's or whatever it may be, Baruch Hashem, I'm misgaber on my yetzer to eat whatever it may be.
That that in and of itself can be a It could be. Recognizing that's the legit, if it's something you used to do, that's the old you. That's a that's a very good one. That's a very good one.
That's mamash a good one. When I'm I mean I'm going to take it just a step back if I'm about to say lashon hara and I have all the teirutzim in my head that say why it's okay. You know chevre that walk around with like it's an inyan, I'm saving... Not only is it okay, I'm saving the tzibbur.
It's not lashon hara, people should know. Right. All the teirutzim, you know. Sichot tzevet.
Yeah, entire group where you're in and like you speak together like it's an inyan they say oh you should say the guy's name if he did something bad in like the... like they try to push you to say lashon hara sort of. So like it's like and like there's a lot of justification. No so do now the tikkun of that with fire.
Obviously you just say maybe like no but like absolutely not! I won't. Oh boy won't I? I will not. I mamash won't. And you say to yourself over and over again after you have all the heiteirim straight out of the shmirat halashon from the Chofetz Chaim.
People you know people like learn shmirat halashon just to come out with the heiteirim of where they're able to say lashon hara. Meshuga right? No there are people there are chevre like this you know.
פיקוח נפש דוחה שבת, there's people that are mumchim, right? They have all the shmirat Shabbat, hilchot, hilchot borer. No no I'm I'm more makpid on finding out when it's muttar to mechallel.
It's our dor. This is what we need to do right now right you know. Fire. I heard a vort that that shevet Shimon they were actually the rebbeim of like the children of Am Yisrael.
The question is like Shimon they went and they're like taking the sword and they're and they're like killing. And over here Shimon has so much fire, this is what I'm going to do for my sibling. Those are the rebbeim that we want for the children. Those that give the fire and channel that from like the sword and Shechem to like the love that they have and transfer it to the children of like what I'm going to give.
Yaffe meod. Yaffe meod.
תגיד תגיד משהו אני חושב שבשביל אולי אולי אפשר תגיד תגיד בעברית.
בשביל למצוא את הקולות קולות בתורה אז אז זה צריך להביא אותי ליותר אש בשביל ללמוד יותר תורה כי בשביל להגיע לקולות צריך ללמוד לדעת יותר תורה.
אבל אתה יודע מה יקרה לך בדרך עם כל האש הזאת? Ma?
ללמוד קולות לא תהיה שאיפת חייך. Nachon.
עם אש בלי אש זה כל השאיפה של החיים שלך.
רק למצוא קולות.
כאילו זה...
אבל לכולם יש אש. Bidiyuk אבל צריכים כהן שיגלה לך אותה.
הוא כהן אז הוא כבר...
It's actually the Gemara tells us that you're actually supposed to say I want to do the sin but I can't because of Hashem. So there actually is a fire to do the sin that you're supposed to have but that's fire to stay to do the sin but you're davka not supposed to. Yeah, but that's fire. You shouldn't say like ew cheeseburgers are gross, you should say like actually I really want a cheeseburger but Hashem.
Nachon. Fire, fire. Nachon. That's what he's that's really I think what he's asking.
It's a very good point. Okay let's continue.
כולם נכשלים לאורך ספר במדבר. Okay sefer Bamidbar just a few more minutes.
Sefer Bamidbar everyone is always falling. There's mistake after mistake after mistake.
אבל השם מתחנן אליהם. But what is God begging us throughout sefer Bamidbar?
אף על פי כן תשמרו את האש לכם שתמשיך לבעור.
Make sure your fire keeps on burning. You know I was thinking about this this week at like the end of the parsha. Can you imagine how much Miriam's inner fire, she probably felt that her inner fire was blown out. Here I am, I'm Moshe Rabbeinu's older sister, I kept him, I saved...
Not only did I save him, if you know the Gemara in Sotah it's really her that brought him into existence through the eitzah that she gave her father and mother. She's the one that oversaw the whole story of his birth and him being saved vekhulu. And now two sfarim later, that was Shemot, two and a half sfarim later, where is she? The whole olam knows that she spoke, that she did an aveira, that she spoke lashon hara. So you would think about her that her that she's toast, that she's done.
And we see that that wasn't the story at all because people didn't believe that her fire really went out because they saw that in her zchut as they kept on walking through the midbar what did they still have? The be'er. Water. So Miriam could have felt like this this touched me very deeply that her fire's out. Hashem is begging us throughout with no matter how many mistakes we make.
He says: תשמרו על האש שלכם שתמשיך לבעור. Make sure your fire keeps on burning.
על אהרן הכהן נאמר... hashvach shelo shinah.
The famous Rashi, it says about Aharon Ha-Kohen that he didn't deviate. And everyone's like wondering why is that such a big shkoyach?
אהרן הכהן אומר ליהודי, what does it mean don't deviate?
אל תשנה את האש שלך משום סיבה ובכל מצב. Don't deviate from your fire, don't change your fire.
אל תשנה את האש שלך בגלל טעות כלשהי.
You made a mistake. It happens. But that should blow out your fire? So the way unfortunately, be'emet, a galut-dikke teacher gives over Torah is that if you made a mistake, it's not time for... just be a pashet again, start from scratch, it's not time to be on fire.
You're out of control. Maybe like calm down, learn again alef-bet and then keep on going. It's not going to keep you going. You have to hold on to the fire that you had even before you did an aveira and even before you sinned.
And before you made a mistake. That's why Aharon Ha-Kohen shelo shinah. He didn't... he wanted people to not let go of their fire even though they made mistakes.
אפילו חטאת בכל חטא אפשרי, even if you made every mistake possible, every sin possible.
יצאת כשהיית אמור להישאר בבית, נשארת בבית כשהיית אמור לצאת, אל תעצור לעולם.
אתמול לא פעלת נכון, היום תפעל נכון. You...
you just... things... your mazel's not working for you. Don't let the...
don't... the result should not be "Ah, this means my fire's not... my fire's not needed." No. Fire's one thing and avodah and all the other stuff that we...
successes, failures, is another thing.
אהרן הכהן הוא המומחה לתשובה. He's the master of teshuvah.
והוא אומר לנו לא משנה מה עשיתם, אל תפסיקו להעלות את נשמתכם אל השם.
Don't... no matter what you did, don't stop elevating your souls to Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
בהעלותך את הנרות אל מול פני המנורה יאירו שבעת הנרות. You have to keep on being in motion no matter what's going on.
Melamed shelo shinah.
כל הצדיקים מסבירים שגם, what does... what does shelo shinah? There's another vort that says כל הצדיקים מסבירים שגם ביום המאה שקיים אהרן את המצווה, all the tzadikim say that even on the hundredth day that Aharon Ha-Kohen fulfilled the mitzvah of hadlakat hamenorah, הוא עשה אותה באותה אש והתלהבות כמו בפעם הראשונה. That's shelo shinah.
That... consistency. With fire. There's an edut that Rav Nosson Breslever gives to Rabbi Nachman's petirah.
And he says over there that when Rabbi Nachman did vidui and said Shema, you felt like he was saying Shema for the first time in his life. That... that's what was clear to everyone in the room. That he was ke'ilu saying Shema Yisrael for the first time in his life.
Shelo shinah. Fire every single day.
יכול להיות שהוא נכשל פה ושם במהלך מאה הימים האלה, אבל מעולם לא הפסיק לבעור באש. This was a hard sentence to swallow because Reb Shlomo said over here...
maybe during those hundred days where he lit the menorah every day with fire, it could be that during one of those days of the hundred days he made mistakes in life. Maybe he gave sometimes the wrong eitzah, I don't know. Maybe chalilah I don't want to sound like the messed up biblical critics but maybe like he even had aveira. I don't know.
Lo yodea. We actually know that in our parsha it's very unclear but the whole story of why Miriam got the tzara'at and Aaron didn't, with all the drushim on it, it's very hard to understand. But you know what? Even though he may have fallen in certain areas, the fire didn't stop. You know what's wrong with us, I should say with us, with me, is that if I see someone and I know this guy was up to nasty stuff last night, but I see him come to shul with so much fire, what do I think maybe? Who's he kidding?
על מי הוא עובד? Shaygetz.
Come on. Come on. Chill out. That's what I would think, right? Aderaba, the opposite.
Because just because someone fell, why does that mean that they shouldn't have fire? Ma kesher? Aharon Ha-Kohen is saying, he's begging us, like listen, you're going to fall. Having fire is not a cop-out. It's the way to keep the consistency or to get back on track and to keep the consistency, which is what we need. There's so many skeptics and cynics that I'm telling you, after the first six months of the shul, a few of them said to me, not from here, from outsiders they said, enjoy this fire.
Now this Friday night thing, yeah. Wow, it's like every Friday it just goes higher and higher. Amen, Amen, ken yehi ratzon. How long is this gonna last? Come on.
Huh? Like people say that at a wedding, like over-unders. Right, right. Reb Shlomo used to say people that stand by chuppahs and look at that and they do over-unders, what are they basically doing? He said they're taking a bow and arrow and they're shooting Amalek arrows at the choson and kallah. I'd like to see how long this lasts, or especially if it's a zivug sheini.
And you know it's these two people that had a lot of inyanim and maybe the way they got together wasn't the most ehrlich. I don't know what to say. Right? So you're standing there, "How long is this gonna last?" Oh they're... or the chevra that have what we call frum attacks and we're like "Oh they look so frum now, how long is this gonna last?" That's all because inside of us that's what's going on, betach.
Okay, so third to bottom line. V'zeh, this connects to the beginning of the teaching.
וזה מה שמשה רבנו לא יכול היה להבין. What does it mean Moshe Rabbeinu had a hard time with the Menorah? How does it stay on fire? How does that work? You understand how deep this is? This is such a chiddush.
Aaron, you understand this? What... meaning... Eich efshar, right? You're saying like Moshe Rabbeinu couldn't understand, he's like "I don't understand".
זה ברור זה ברור שזה לא יעבוד זה ברור שאי אפשר.
You're gonna get because I'm an ehrlich anyway. It's always a way to look at it now. And it's amazing that Aaron HaKohen is this unspoken hero. He's like...
it's indirectly, it's almost like Hashem telling Moshe Rabbeinu, "You know there's certain things... you have to be the teacher to Am Yisrael, it's true, you have to give the Torah to Am Yisrael, but the way... part of the way that you have to give the Torah to Am Yisrael, you have to learn from your older brother, because he knows, she'lo shinah". So that Moshe Rabbeinu couldn't understand.
He's going to say over here, Eich efshar lipol, how could you scroll wherever you're scrolling at night ולעמוד למחרת לפני השם באותה האש and then come to shul on fire? How could it be? You're either this or you're that. Don't be a fraud. Don't be fake.
על מי אתה עובד? That's ke'ilu Moshe Rabbeinu saying, "Listen, in the name of authenticity, it doesn't work...
you can't have this". So it's not that Aaron HaKohen is saying to Moshe Rabbeinu, "Yeah, listen, it's not really... they didn't really do aveiros... it's not, you know, let's just ignore it".
He's saying "No, they'll... they'll do teshuvah, the right teshuvah, if they don't give up on their fire. If they don't give up on their fire, they'll eventually do the right teshuvah". So you're saying maybe Moshe Rabbeinu thought, "No, you can't be on fire until you do teshuvah".
And Aaron HaKohen is saying it's the farkert, it's the other way around. You have to guard your fire... you have to protect it and make sure nothing... nothing blows it out.
השם הראה למשה את המראה הזה. So what does it mean that Hashem showed Moshe Rabbeinu kamareh? What vision did He show Moshe Rabbeinu with the Menorah?
שיהודי צריך לדעת כיצד הנשמה שלו עומדת לפני השם. Tehori.
הנשמה לפני השם בוערת תמיד באש.
So back to the... back to the famous pasuk: כמראה אשר הראה השם את משה. So then Moshe Rabbeinu makes the Menorah based on what? Based on the visual that Hashem showed him. What did Hashem show him? That a Yid's heart deep down inside is always burning for the Ribono Shel Olam.
Your brother is the one to connect people to that which is constant, to that which is always there. He sees that, and then he makes the Menorah. And this piece over here is crucial in the context of Sefer Bamidbar. Because Sefer Bamidbar is the stories, stories and stories of big people making big mistakes.
Big mistakes. See, even Korach. Korach at a certain point, he had to have realized that he made a mistake. At a certain point.
What point? Well, we'll get to it in a few weeks, but at a... at what point do you think Korach could have realized he made a mistake? When the ground was opening? Maybe there, I don't know. What... what would give him that, right? Even before that.
Even with the staffs, it must be that, right? But the whole... what the Torah's coming to show us is like when you don't connect yourself to that fire, other fires come and then there's a mageifah and then the... then the fire comes and destroys. So I want to give us a bracha that...
not... I want to make it very clear. If we fall, it's not about ignoring that we fell, that's not it. But the way...
but what we're learning from here is what's worse than that is to think that now you're not entitled to fire. That's awful. The way we are before Hakadosh Baruch Hu in the inside of the inside is always on fire. All we have to do is not let go of it and eventually, eventually the right kohen, the right teacher will come and show me how to reconnect to my fire that nothing can take it out.
Yes. Is there a connection that the two times that Moshe Rabbeinu forgot the halacha was also fire from the other side, right? With Zimri and Kozbi and with the mekoshesh etzim and the shoavei mayim where he forgot what needs to be done and they were trying to prove a point on Shabbat and they were doing something passionately with fire? Is there like a connection between... Pesach Sheni you're saying? Pesach Sheni and Bnot Tzelofchad? Pesach Sheni he didn't know the halacha first. Like and the mekoshesh...
Kozbi he forgot... and the mekoshesh etzim. Right, so by Kozbi it said the lashon over there is nisalma mimeno, that means that he had forgotten. By Pesach Sheni and by Bnot Tzelofchad he said this is a chiddush that has to come to the world, like I don't know, עמדו ואשמעה מה יצוה קל.
It's a little bit different. Questions about the Chodesh and Machatzit Hashekel how does this tie in? Right, so with the other two that Moshe Rabbeinu didn't know then for sure the fire is what's - is how these things - listen, the same thing with Machatzit Hashekel, it's very easy. Hischadshus, right? Fire. Very easy.
The third one... Hachodesh... He showed him a fiery Machatzit Hashekel. Is that the roshei tevot of his name, as you said in the past? Machatzit Hashekel and Hachodesh and menorah.
Shekel, hachodesh, and menorah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hachodesh as it comes and it keeps going, keeps coming. Yeah.
Because he's on the side of netzach which is like eternity, there is no beginning, there is no end, it's all one. Right? And that whole idea is like how do you start anew? And Aharon HaKohen is hod which is all about hischadshus. Yeah. I give us - be'emet I give us all a bracha that no cynic should ever like ever get to you.
Be'emet, and I'm talking more about the inner cynic. Forget about the outer cynics, they're... talking about the inner cynic that's in our mind, that should never ever get to us, and the fire of Aharon HaKohen should permeate through all Am Yisrael to stay strong, stronger than ever, and as our kehilla is going through another Shabbos filled with simchas, our lives should be filled with simchas and these simchas should give us the fire to keep on going strong. Amen.