Ari Goldwag - Tetzaveh - Passageway to Eternity

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with a Shems never-ending assistance in remission which is real 5770 6 2016 this week's parsha is partial to Sava much of our partial speaks about the Kohanim the priests the garments of the priests the service of the priests Aaron and his sons who served in the basement English in the temple in the Mishkan in the tabernacle as it was in the time of the the Jews in their sojourn in the wilderness and at the very end of the partial is a constant which I'd like to focus in on where it speaks about the miss Beckett auras the very special altar which was used for the incense and the description of the altar and the concept behind the Qataris the incense offering is very beautiful very deep there many different aspects I'd like to discuss a few of those aspects and try to understand the depth of the concept and of course how it applies to us the verse tells us about system is back mctaggart iris there's an obligation moshe ben was commanded to make an altar in order to bring upon at the incense now verses describe the feature is in the description of the dimensions and how its to be made its they made out of cedar wood and supposed to be covered with gold it's also called the altar of gold as opposed to the altar which was in the outer area of the Mishkan which was made out of bronze them his back on a hellacious this one was to be covered in gold and the verse describes in chapter 30 verse 6 when esata I said of Nepal is that where is it to be placed it's to be placed directly in front of the curtain assure a Lara a dose which covers the Ark of the Covenant so you have the Ark of the common which is in the cottage at Kadesh from the Holy of Holies which is the part of the base some English which we spoken about represents the most holy aspect of the relationship of the Jewish people with God and avoided air the service within a kadosh kadosh team is only done on Yom Kippur itself but this ms bev this Qataris this incense offering is something which is brought dayley but it's placed in front of the curtain which covers the ark of the covenant-- if now Copiah Cheryl I either sorry void logicoma which xem says to Moshe Amanda that's where I'm going to meet with you there it's called the elmo is called the tent of meeting because God meets as it were with the Prophet with my shrub a known with subsequent prophets God speaks through the crew them from between the cherubs which are upon the Ark of the Covenant so that's the location and that's where the miz back is to be the altars be placed in front of that Nick tr11 Qatar salmon now the first says very interestingly that Aaron Aaron the high priest is to bring the Qataris the incense offering a biker of a biker every morning they t-vice an insect irina when he lights the candles he's to bring the incense offering of our laziness and there has been our by bacteria and when he lights in the afternoon so he also brings in since offering guitars common of national adoro save him it's an incense that needs to be there constantly in front of God for all your generations and then the last verse of this of this parsha the verse tells us we keep our hiring a car noise of a hospice shawna one time of year aaron is to create an atonement with the current songs bath with the corners of the altar madam kawasaki Purim a hospice shani a copper of the door safm Kadosh Kadosh Baruch Hashem from the blood of the offering the hottest offering on Yom Kippur so once a year this obligation for him to create an atonement for all generations it is holy of holies unto God now there are a number of interesting points and interesting questions we can ask on these verses one of them is the fact that as we read this in refers to iron a coin refers to Aaron the high priest and while it's true that of course Aaron could do this a voter he was he was allowed to do the avodah he was one of the priests but asthma fortune explained as the commentaries explained he was not the only one who was obligated or allowed to do this avoider to do the service in fact any coin could do this service so the question that we could ask here is why indeed does the torah specifically speak about our on a coin and the high priest in this context we could say and it's connected to the concept or the idea that i want to share with you but we could say that it's because on yom kippur which is referred to a number of times here on yom kippur it was on the high priest who is the only one who could do it would do the service however that's not enough because that's only once a year so throughout the year it could be anyone so because of that one time of year we're going to refer to our nocona in these verses to Aaron the high priest what's the understanding why is he the one who singled out in these verses specifically in regards to the Qataris the incense offering another important question to ask is based on something that we said earlier we mentioned that this entire parsha speaks about the Cohanim the priests their clothing their avoid of their service and it ends off with Miss victorious it ends off with this concert this command of the altar upon which the incense offering was brought what is the reason why the tour include in this parsha why is the build-up from the holes the whole conversation about the Kohana the priests why does it build up into the command to create this altar for the incense offering another question is as we mentioned the Torah here speaks about the fact that there's a special envoy de which is going to be done once a year with this means back with this altar on Yom Kippur on the highest of all holidays of the of the year the Jewish calendar they have atonement why is it mentioned here why is it so important for us to know this it's once a year we will find out about this in in Sabre viagra in the Book of Leviticus in in partial soccer Amos it's going to speak about the entire a vote of the of the Quarian gotta love the high priest on that day why is it important that it be mentioned here in the context of the miss Beckett ours it almost sounds like this is the essence of what's going on with the purpose of the altar is what's the understanding of that why is it so deeply connected the Qataris the incense to yom kippur to the concept of what happens on the Day of Atonement another interesting question which I saw no ma'am Louis is that we find that the Miss baya this means back miss meh azov is mentioned here really out of place because this is something was placed in the cottage we had three sections in the made some English or the Michigan in the tabernacle we had Asura which was the main area which had the altar where all the car bonus the sacrifices were brought we had the inner area which was called the kodesh the holy which was where the menorah and the Shokan the candelabra the table and this means back were placed then we had the code of shock addition the innermost sanctuary which was where the ark of the covenant-- was placed so really it should have spoken about them is bahas of way back in last week's parsha when he spoke about the menorah when I spoke about the candelabra and it spoke about the schultz on the table why is it saved for a year it's the last of the Calumet's mentioned it's less of all the vessels of the Michigan which is mentioned why is that why does it wait for this point in the tour and the narrative of the commands to construct the Mishkan also very interesting and important to understand is the placement of them as berra the mitzvah has of inside of the kodesh it's placed in the middle area which is hidden one cannot see that area only you know if you come into that sorry to come into the main area where the core bonus the sacrifices are brought so you can see the stuff that's going on there but you can't see into this code esha or the Holy area it's something which is hidden from view what is the significance of the fact that the Miss bath is there first of all and second of all what is the significance of the fact that the Torah keeps stressing that it's placed in a corresponding way across from where the Ark of the Covenant is what does that teach us what is the essence of that concept also very interesting and clearly connected to the last point is that we find that the Qataris the incense offering its broad on Yom Kippur it's brought the Qataris is brought into the Kurdish ekadashi em into the Holy of Holies and placed in front of the our own and then the smoke it goes up into the kodesh pachyderm area and that creates the atonement for the Jewish people it's the core of the avoid of the service of the high priest on Yom Kippur which brings about the atonement which is the essence of the day of Yom Kippur so what's the significance of the connection between them is back the altar upon which the incest is bringing brought ordinarily and the fact that is being brought on yom kippur on the holiest day of the year as the central theme the central avoid essential service into the colostrum and into the area of the ark so to begin to understand what's going on with the Qataris I'd like to share with you a few points 1 point from the measures a few points from the translation of the Zohar and together we'll start to get a picture of what is the death of the idea of the Qataris and its power and where brings us to the matrix is like this is a measure stun Huma which I found in the oats are mad Russian Tina shkola carbones coolants are finchley throw you should know that all of the sacrifices are for the needs of the people of Israel Kate saw how is that haha decisive all I hate carbon Coty's we come as an atonement for sin Hashem gum Kane and so to the Corbin ashram how I labelled here alive Corbin ola would be brought for a thought of the heart Osama man and by melaleuca para la mimosa would come for a tone mention by no means as I say for positive commandment that was transgressed of a locket is when it comes to the incense offering in a bottle of advil a lot of evolution doesn't come for any type of sin allow a simpler it's brought purely out of joy an amazing thing is that brought out of any sadness it's brought out of pure joy have a and that's what it means in the verse 1 it says chemin du couteau su some a slave oil and incense will cause the heart to rejoice this is a verse in Mitchell a in proverbs chapter 27 verse 9 and it teaches us the essence of the guitar is the essence of the incense is the aspect of joy it causes a person to rejoice and the measure she goes on i'm skipping us a few lines here but it goes on to say ray a comic Aviva Qataris see how dear is the incense shall either a guitarist Nets raghava through the incense offering there was a plague that had affected the Jewish people but that plague was stopped dead in his tracks kshama the verse says that Hashem commanded our own according to take consume octopus in pateros take the pan the the fire pan place upon at the instance hair color- a glimmer by Megan megaphone at Sarah the plague had started but as soon as he brought through that incense offering it stopped should not on a Malik about sorry because by bringing this incense offering it had an incredible power that the power to stop the Mahama vez the angel of death to stop him dead in its in his tracks pun intended so we see her two points in this message about the incense offering the first is that the cat is the incense offering is pure joy it's pure joy it's pure happiness number one number two there's a power to stop the maloja mabus the Angel of Death now I want to share with you a piece in translation from the Zohar nizar asks a question why is it that this is called amis baya an altar though the word means bath it comes from the word zeva which means a sacrifice and we don't find that there's any sacrifices which are actually brought upon this altar all that's brought here is the incense offering so why is it referred to as a Miss Barack amazing thing a lot near miss back why is it called a Miss back from a language of up sacrifice the vishaka tears to show you my dear my love because incense which they would bring upon this ms baya I some if I tell us why cares the comic con cosas Rome had the power to nullify and to tie up certain evil powers will the fishes citra a connection of an aircard and since the power of the other side meaning the power of evil would be tied up lo haré your coalition late i overlay the ice McKettrick it would stop the the incense offering when it was brought it would stop the powers of evil Vireo kilo neck oven is bajalia Qataris and it says if the powers of evil were tied up and slaughtered through the incense offering volcanick or gum has been happy knee by sheamus bath and that's why this altar which was inside of the kite ish inside of the Holy area was also referred to as a Miss baya referring to the fact that it has the power to slaughter que hacia el yo-yo ma on Shan Shan quito el mono unique number area when the other side when the forces of evil would see the pillar of smoke that would rise up from the incense offering those powers would immediately be humbled have no more power and they would flee from the place well hurry up with Scylla Mishkin they couldn't come close at all to the tabernacle now something interesting which parallels what we saw in magestine kuma is next in the SARL official lignans docket has a chakra now what's happening here is that the forces of evil are not being purified they are just being sent away lerner sorry Basim calm Allah they are not included in the joy of God shalyah Sagittarius in the instance of Rome raka Roka lavado only a sham himself as it work and there's a comment here in the commentary in the oyster mad Russian that explains that when it comes to a core bond when it comes to sacrifice so the forces of evil also have some they get something from it from the a VAR buderim from the sacrifice of whatever this means the Tsar this is very high this is something I don't understand but when it comes to the Qataris when it comes to the incense so it's cool a big Ducie says this mo farah says this explanation it's completely in holiness the powers of evil have no connection to it few jacket Arisaka viva coke off the incense was so beloved to God la hey la hey la Mina's bearhugs aerosol birth name so that's why the Miss bear hug taurus this altar had to be inside of the kodesh inside and hidden away shaselle hommies betcha Broca's mysterious boy because this is the altar on which the blessings would come volcanoes awesome and I'm if name so it had to be hidden away inside whenever you have a place where there are blessings it needs to be hidden away kien abraca matsuya whatever has some in iron because blessings can only come into the world in a place which is hidden from the eye so again we see these two aspects in in Azhar as well that it has the power to stop on my gave has the power to stop the forces of evil to send them away that's number one and the second one is the aspect of simcoe there's an incredible joy it's incredibly dear to a college girl who is so dear to wash em this incense offering because it doesn't include any evil it's all pure joy pure happiness pure oneness with Hashem with God and we have one new idea which we seen as or which is that this blessing this joy this sending away of the forces of evil is something which needs to be hidden away has to be hidden from the eye because this is where the blessings come in this is where all the good is found it's found in a place where you can't see it where it's hidden away from view now i want to share one last piece when the Tsar which is so beautiful and so deep and it really cuts to the essence of what the concert of the Qataris is it says like this Qataris what was the power the special power of the Qataris k knots it's how your gum icterus there was a similarity between it's it's that special bandwidth shoes worn on iron Akane's forehead which is that on a credential sham holy unto God there was something special about that which also was special about the incense offering he commissioned Miriam a Russian rocket iris whoever would come into the temple and they would be able to smell the smell of the incense offering shala a mirage on when that incense offering the smoke would rise up i'll either how a Savannah Carmela wash on through the special herb which was called Molly awesome I am a variously boy what would happen would be an amazing spiritual thing that his heart would become purified the exact feet are loving the can't believe i'm shaoling to the point where he would be pure all of the dross would be removed from his heart and he would serve his creator with a full heart with a perfect heart william a Vermeer man who has Uematsu yetzer hara very interesting similar to what we saw before evil runs away from the Qataris and it's true even on a personal level person would smell this all the eights are all his evil inclinations would just vanish like hi la la vieja de la vía basham I'm instead of having two hearts one heart which draws him towards evil one heart which draws him towards good they have one single heart one focus towards his father in heaven the vishaka tires vada a macabre sky-high a debacle at stardom the power the instance was that would destroy the power of the eight saw her out the evil inclination in every direction Kamisha seats are you miss Chi mal nice and just like if you would look at the seats so it would give a person instead on a coalition of Shem everything is holy unto God person would see that you would just want to focus only that's that's all he would want to do all he would want to do is focus and give himself over to God gamma Qataris the power of the incense was show you a rain cloud garm lava the college park will believe shot him it caused the person to serve God with a full heart with a full focus with no other inclinations and other desires chemical da ba island of Chavez's the traffic micropterus there's nothing else in the world there's a power to destroy the forces of evil like the Qataris like the incense offering and I'd like to point out this is a side point but it's really important that the Czar speaks at length about the fact that a person who says the Qataris every day the the words from the tower of the Qataris which are printed in The Sitter both before and after the the chakras prayer the morning prayer as well as dominica prayer when a person says it has the same power is actually bringing the incense offering the same power to send away if a person is focused since every word carefully that's the same power to send away the forces of evil no plagues can come upon a person no evil can befall a person and it's an amazing Stew gula to help a person be focused on service of God and soul early service of God but what is indeed the great power of the Qataris why is it brought on Yom Kippur why is it specially connected to yom kippur why is especially connected to our Anakin and I think that once I heard an amazing beautiful idea that if you look at the the story of admiration the story of the sin where they ate from the 8th Sadat's ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad so it speaks about the fact that they saw they taste it they felt it but there is no speaking within a Torah about the sense of smell it speaks about all the other senses but it doesn't speak about the sense of smell the sense of smell was never contaminated by the hate of other mauritian by the sin and so we find interestingly there are different things are different aspects are different passageways that can bring a person to other marushin koydum arcade to a world beyond where we are to the place where we were before there was death before there was evil before any sin had been committed in the world there there's a shofar when we hear the chauffeur brenda's LaPlante villain in brings us up in front of God there are different things that have that power there's Yom Kippur which atones for us when we come out to yom kippur when we come into Yom Kippur everyone can come into him keeping everyone can receive an atonement on this day of atonement it has a power to bring us back our ocean cut him okay we don't need to eat anything we don't even need to wear shoes we're completely spiritual we don't were not involved in anything physical that's Yom Kippur brings us back to what it was like before an amazing thing is that the Qataris every single day of the year and specifically on Yom Kippur has the power to bring us through smell through the power of snow which wasn't contaminated as the power to send away the evil which was brought into the world through the sin sends it away that evil is gone the incense offering has that special power and it's not a coincidence of the Torah speaks at length about our own echoing air and the high priest because he's the one who indeed does not vote on Yom Kippur on that highest day why is it that Aaron the high priest does that because he's the I've shown the relative shoaling he's the one who knows how to create peace between people so that we get rid of the evil we get rid of the angst we get rid of the arguments that are in a kind of errands power that's his amazing ability to get rid of the sins it's not a coincidence that this parsha is all about the priests and this is where we speak about specifically the miss victorious because the power of the priest is to reconnect the Jewish people to God to remove the sins to send away the dark forces so that all there is is simcoe joy and no longer death that's the power of the incense offering and has the ability to get rid of death to get rid of everything which takes away joy and reconnect us to God to bring us back to that place before the sin and it's also amazing that where is it place is placed inside of a hidden place it's in the Holies it's in that place which is hidden away you can't see it the blessings if you want to access the spirituality you want to access that place which is beyond where we are beyond you know the current realm that we find ourselves yet to close your eyes you have to disconnect from where we are the sin that came about other my reach on the first man kava you his wife came about because they looked at it it was mohamadi name it was beautiful to look at the bracha the blessings the joy the spirituality the true joys comes about when the eyes are closed we're not connected as much to this world or in a place which is disconnected we're in that place of holy that place which is connected exclusively to God and it's not a coincidence that the Qataris the the Misbah hockey Torres this altar is placed right in front of the our own that place which is all about connection into God placed a directly across in that so and the instance is brought there in the Kazakh dash cam is brought from the KY dash into the kite a shock reduction because it's all about sending away the forces of evil reconnecting into the true tsimko the true joy which is when evil is dispersed which we speak about the fact that when Messiah comes the gamar and sucker speaks about the fact that the HR is slaughtered very similar to the language that's been used here the instant sensibility to slaughter the the forces of evil mushiya comes we return to that space at that place autonation called Emek hate are the first man before the soon and so there's an access into that as well right here in the chi additional Holies and why is it saved for here why is it saved for the end of this parsha it's not placed way back in practice room unless it's parsha and i think part of that is because it's hidden it needs to be hidden it's a secret it's something which is inside it's really connected to the code a shock addition to the our own which of course our ins mentioned at the very beginning because it's the essence of the mishkan but at the same time there's a there's a way into the essence this way into that Holy of Holies to that hidden place and that has to be hidden also if you want to access from here from where we are which is a place of darkness a place of evil you need to be able to get rid of the evil and then only can happen in a hidden way in a hidden place in the place of the incense offering and that's the pathway in to the kind of shock reduction to the Holy of Holies I want to bless you and please bless me back and Shem should help us that we should be able to internalize this idea to access the Qataris to use the power of the incense offering that power of smell to banish the forces of evil we can use it we can use it even today it's possible to enter into that place it's possible by closing our eyes by going to that place where the blessings are the place which is some in a minute I'm which is hidden from sight the shrimp should help us to be able to enter into that space so we can indeed enter into the quite a shock adduction the Holy of Holies to have a communion with God thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.a com or search on itunes Ari Gold black