Beha'aloscha - 2nd Portion

Join me as we learn Chumash for Monday Parshas Balak. Yesterday we started talking about the installation of the Levites, how they would have to be waved by Aaron and dedicated and taking the place of the firstborn. Today we continue with this purification process and the installation of the Levites. Chapter 8 verse 15. V'acharei chein ha v'al ha'Levi'im lavah yitzel mei'eit and afterwards the Levites will then come to serve in the Tent of Meeting in the Tabernacle. V'hit'har'tah osam and you must purify them. V'heinaftah osam t'nufah and you'll make them as a lift them as a wave offering. As Rashi previously mentioned, this is the third time that we are talking about the wave offering. This time referring to the family of Merari. The first two times was Gershon and Kehas. Verse 16. For they are given to me. Mi'toch b'nei Yisrael from amongst the Israelites. I have been stead of the firstborn of the womb. Cuz I've taken for myself in the place of the that open womb of the all the firstborn of the Israelites. That the Levites take the place of the firstborn Israelites. N'sunim n'sunim Why does it use a double terminology they are given to me? N'sunim l'ma'asah that the the Levites were given and dedicated that they will be the ones to carry the items of the Tabernacle. N'sunim l'shir they are the ones to be singing in the Holy Temple and playing the instruments. Pitras, the word pitras means opening. Psichas, the opening of the womb referring to the firstborn. Verse 17. Ki li b'chor kol b'chor cuz technically every firstborn belongs to b'nei Yisrael amongst the Israelites by Adam and the humans and by him and the animals because the day that I struck all I killed all the firstborn in Egypt like the I took the firstborn in Jewish people for me. I have sanctified them to me. Explains shall we have to become a demon? According to the law the firstborns belong to me. Cuz I protected them when it came to the plague of the firstborn being the time and I made a differentiation between the firstborns of the Egyptians and I took then the firstborn Jews that they should be mine to serve in the holy temple. But what happened was after the golden they served in with the golden calf and there because of that they can no longer serve in the holy temple. Actually therefore now I'm going to take the Levites for me. Verse 18 the fact that the Levites instead of the firstborn of the Israelites verse 19 now that I've taken the Levites for me I have given the Levites as a gift and the Sunni message louder and louder and louder and the sons me take my name is I've chosen them from amongst the rest of the Jewish people love you to save you to spend a stroll that they should do the work of the Jewish people of the Israelites but I will made in the tent of meeting of the Israelites and to atone for the Jewish people for the Israelites. The lawyer of the Israelites negative and it should not be amongst the Jewish people a plague because the Israelites when the Israelites approach the sanctuary. Meaning that they will not have to go there because the Levites will be the ones doing it. Let's see Rashi as he explains commission upon me never be nice to if you look in this verse the name the Israelites is mentioned five times lady to show how much God loves them. The God mentions them five times like the five books of Moses. That's what it explained in meaning that even though God is saying that the reason why I'm taking the Levites instead of the Jews instead of the Israelites because they sinned with the golden calf. Still God says I love the Jews so much that I'm going to mention them so many times even though they did something wrong. That the Israelites should not need to come close to the whole sanctuary cuz if they should come to the sanctuary, they're not allowed and that would cause a plague amongst them. Verse 20. Motion Aaron and the entire congregation of the Jewish people did the Levites exactly as God commanded Mosha to do to the Levites. So did the Jewish people. Verse 20. What is the jobs that everybody had to do? So Mosha is the one that placed them. Aaron and Aaron is the one that waved them. The Jewish people put their hands upon them, placed their hands upon them as God commanded. Verse 21. And the Levites purified themselves and they washed their clothing and waved them as a wave offering in front of God and Aaron for them to purify them. Verse 22. And the Levites came to do their service in the tent of meeting in the tabernacle of before Aaron one of them before his children. Like God commanded Mosha that the Levites should be doing in regarding what their service should be done. So they did. Rashi. >> To teach us the greatness and the praise about those that were doing, those that was done to them, that nobody withheld or got in the way of anything that God said and they did it exactly as they were told. Verse 23. Now the Torah tells us who are the ones to be able to work in which Levites are now to be accounted for. This is who the Levites should be working. This is concerning the Levites. Meaning we these are the people that are going to be qualified to be working in the Holy Temple. They have to be 25 years and older. This is an a person who is entered the service to work in the Tent of Meeting. Meaning that they have that age to be able to work in the Tabernacle. Rashi Why does he tell us this is what qualifies them? The word "Zois" is telling us the years will make somebody disqualified while by the Kohanim a blemish will disqualify them. Blemishes do not disqualify a Levite from working in the Holy Temple. Over here it says 25 but some place else it says 30. How do we uh drive the two? How do the two come out to be making sense? Okay, so how is that possible? 25 years old he comes under this training period for 5 years and then at 30 you start working. From here we learn that a student who have after 5 years he sees that what he's doing is not working out he should not continue to study the subject because we see that it's not going to be working out for him because he will not see any produce and any success in what he is doing if after 5 years it didn't work out. As we see from the Levites at the five years of training. Verse 25, me by you had until 50 years old and by 50 years old they retire and they will not work any longer. Rashi says because if they will not be working that they won't be schlepping the stuff on their shoulders or working and schlepping things in the wagons. They do remember to work at the other things which is for example of Gershon and Merari to close the gates to be there to protect the bowls in. The lush here and to sing and to not go list and to put things on the wagon. That's why he says later on that he will be working in verse 26 he says he will be serving with his brothers. Meaning he will be with his brothers. The member of Kohath will have to work with Gershon and Merari but Kohath you will no longer schlep. As the Targum translates with his brothers. Verse 26, will serve with his brothers in the tent of meeting to keep charge of and to protect. However, work human will not perform. This is where you're going to do with the Levites regarding their charge. Meaning be around the Tabernacle to be able to erect and to take down to put up and take down the Tabernacle at the time of traveling and at resting. This concludes the second Torah reading of Parshas Behaaloscha.