Ki Sisa - 2nd Portion

Join as we learnish together for Monday, the second Torah reading of Parisa chapter 31:E8. Yesterday we discussed a few things of the counting of the Jewish people. how each person had to give a mak a shekel as well as the creation of the and the building of the washing basin that the Jewish that the coimm had to use before entering the holy temple as well as the uh way the anointing oil and incense was made. Now we go back to the end of paras mishbatim where we discussed the Jewish people accepting upon themselves the ten commandments and the commandments given to them in the Torah. And as Moshe went up the mountain to study with God the Torah for 40 days, we are now at the conclusion of the 40 days. Verse 18. And God when he finished speaking and he gave to Moshe when he finished talking with him and Mount Si two tablets of testimony tablets of stone. They were inscribed by the finger of God. Rashi mentions many times the Torah is not written in chronological or order and therefore the activity of the golden calf the sin of the golden calf which we're going to be soon discussing actually happened before the building and the commandment of the construction of the tabernacle because on the 17th of Thomas is when the tablets were broken And only three months later did God forgive the Jewish people. And the next day after did they begin with the donations of the Mishk. And later six months later on the first of Nissan is when it was erected. The word if you look the does not have above one can read it when the word is written missing above you can read it as the word like a bride that the Torah was given to Moses like a bride like a bride gives a gift to the groom. Moshe was not able to learn the entirety of the Torah in such a short time. Therefore, God gave it him after the 40 days and gave it to him as a gift that he can learn it on his own time and continue to discuss it and expound on it. That was the gift given to him. Another explanation given to this just like aa a bride adorns herself with 24 different kinds of adornments. What are those 24 different adornments as described discussed in the book of Isaiah? owe to a scholar has to be thorough in the 24 books of the Torah, five books of Moses, eight books of prophets and 11 books of scriptures talking with him what was God talking to him about. He finished telling him the statutes and the laws were that were discussed in the Torah reading of another interpretation. What does it mean that he was talking with him? What does it mean he was talking with him? It should really say he was talking to him. God was talking to him, telling him what the laws are, but with the means that God was teaching him. And Moshe would hear what God had to say and then they would review and learn it together. What does the word mean? Tablets and they were equal in size. And that's how we know that the lus as well which a discussion that the rabbis mentioned that the were not round they were square and each one was the same and equal size chapter 32. Now after the 40 days the people have seen meanwhile the people see that Moshe has been delayed in coming down from the mountain and the whole entire people gathered around him come let's go make for us a god that will go before us this fellow that took us out of Egypt We don't know what happened to him. He's delayed. So to we find in Chaim that the that the writer the Cisray looked back and he saw that the rider was delayed. Why does it mean that he was delayed? What happened? Because when Moshe went up to the mountain told the Jewish people, I'm going to return after 40 days. within six hours of the day. They thought mistakenly that the day that Moshe went up to the mountain was counted as the 40 days. And he told them going to be complete 40 days. 40 days and a night with it. And the day that he went up did not have a night with it was not counted as part of the 40. So therefore the 40 days was all finished unrealely on 41st day. So their their calculation was incorrect because Moshe went up on the mountain on the seventh of when would the 40th day be on the 17th of Thomas and and they were now on the side and what happened was on the 16th of the Satan came along mixed up the entire world and he showed the Jewish people an image of like confusion, darkness and all havoc saying for sure Moshe died. Therefore he comes and confusing them and he tells them the Satan tells the Jewish people look Moshe Moshe died already proof in the pudding six hours have passed he hasn't showed up like it said in the track of Shabas and therefore the the Jews that actually did not believe him until he showed them an image that says of so to speak Moshe in a bed being draw carried that he was that he to show that he One cannot say that they just made a mistake because maybe it was a cloudy day. So they didn't see the sun clearly. So they weren't sure what time it was. Whether before midday or after Moshe only came down the next day as we learn later. They woke up in the morning and they then they brought the sacrifices that we want a god that should go before us. who wanted many gods not just one person the image that the Satan showed them as we mentioned that they were carrying him in the heavens thought that they died that meaning that he was the guide that took us out of Egypt he taught us which way we should go up now we need being that Moshe is not here we need somebody else to help us and guide the The Reb explains how is it possible that this individual that these people who they experience such great miracles should have such a mistake and make a golden calf and think that there's going to they can create a god and this is because they in fact initially intended to see being that they knew that Mosha was a medium that connected them with God. They also wanted a medium to connect them with God. The problem was not that they wanted the medium was that they serve the medium instead of appreciating and realizing that it's only a medium. The Torah now continues with verse two being that we mentioned before that they approached. Soon tells them remove all your gold rings from above on you that are in the ears of your wives of your sons of your daughters. give you a lie and bring them to me. Aaron said to his himself, the woman and children are not giving up their jewelry that quick. You don't get between a a Jewish wife and her a Jewish woman and her jewelry. So what's going to happen? They're going to delay it. By the time they get the jewelry, they're going to Moshe is going to show up. They did not wait and they got and they took off their own jewelry and did not take their wives jewelry as we'll see later on take off remove like he commands them like say bless like he's telling them what to do. Verse three of and all the people removed their gold rings name that were in their ears and they brought it to that they removed something from them when they took it out of the ears means that it was no longer attached to their ear from their ears meaning ear from the city just an interesting note that you see over here that it was they only took of theirs that's Rashi mentioned that he told them to bring their wives and children the wives and children did not give it and that's why the wives actually the women are given a special celebration an extra holiday of because they did not participate in giving the gold for the golden calf and he took it from them and he and he bound it in a cloth and he made it into a molten calf And they said, and he formed it using this molding tool, using a molding tool. And they said, "This is the God. This is Israel is your God." That brought you out of Egypt. What does it mean that he formed it? So first of all, what does he do? This word did he actually form it? Did he mold it? What does the word mean? Generally the word means to create to form. But also you can also translate heoundkim. We find this other terminologies in the book of kings where the person bounds the b takes the money and bounds it together in the as we see in those other places where Alicia tells that he takes the money and he bounds it in a handkerchief. A second way of explaining this is molding with a molding tool. This was a tool and the people that are shaped and and mold and are able to make different images that they make different images in gold or the molders and the engravers that they use a pen engraving pen to be able to make it in tablets or in things of this nature like we find in Isaiah. It says that you will write this in a stone and that's why the in here explains that he drew it with a molding tool like copying. This is a special tool that is used that they with this they were able to make pictures of the and letters which were like beautifully designed and decorated. And this is what we would call in other languages engraving or copying. How they would make these different images and drawings in seals and on seals meaning on when they would have to seal envelopes and things of that nature. Uh ma a calf which was ma which was molded out a statue. What happened here? How did it happen? Did aon make mold a calf for them? Bakur being that he took the the gold and he threw it into the fire of you had Egyptians who were there the RA. If you recall when the Jewish people left Egypt there were Egyptians that saw the great miracles and they wanted to join along. They were called the Rav. Amongst them were magicians and they came and they made it into a calf with their magic. Another opinion is that the one that did it was a fellow by the name of Mika. The reason why he was called Mikah was the word means that he was squeezed in because from the word the what happened was when Moshe saw that the uh Egyptians were taking the Jewish children and filling them into the walls when a person didn't finish his quote of bricks, he cried out to God and said how is this possible? God said this is my decree. However, he says he won't take one kid out. And the kid that he took out of the hole was Mikah. And this fellow, he had with him a plate that had on it God's name that Moshe used. And he wrote on it, "Come up ox. Come up ox." Why did Moshe use it? They use Moshe threw it into the Nile River to bring up the casket of Joseph to take it with them when they were leaving Egypt. And he threw it into the fire. the yatza eagle and therefore a calf came out of it. An interesting concept that the commentaries explain why the calf one somewhat want to explain to as we go into these understandings as well as the calf why specifically a calf because the calf its mother is an ox. So the krubim, the word krub also comes from the word ox. And being that they knew somehow a little bit about that God told them to make an arc of the covenant with the crew, they believed that this would be a symbol that God made as well as we mentioned initially this wanted a medium and they felt that they were copying what was going to be in the holy temple. However, they misused it for the wrong reason. Another explanation that's given and why specifically the magicians the Egyptians magicians made an ox because the Egyptians believed in sheep to be their idolatry. If you look at the different mazis and the different uh the different ways of every single month has a relates to another different kind of uh mazle. So the one first goes the sheep and afterwards is the yaks. They believed that the sheep was the drowned in the sea and that was Egypt and therefore they believed which idolatry would be stronger than the sheep would be the ox and therefore they made a calf. This is what some commentaries explain as well why specifically the calf ma the word why does he use the word ma means something which was you took the gold which was now poured into a certain level of a mold. Another explanation is the reason why he uses the word because the the value of how much gold was used to make this calf was 125 big shekel of gold which is the numeric value of the word. This is my god. From here we know this is your god. Meaning who are the people that crowded and ganged up on Aaron to get him to make this idol was the people that came up from Egypt. They are the ones that made it. The problem was they got the Jews to join them afterwards. Verse five. bolt a altar before them and called and he said to them, "We can make a celebration. Let us make a festival tomorrow." What did Aaron see? He saw that this calf was actually moving and breathing. That King David says that the Jewish people exchanged God for a calf that was eating grass. He saw that the Satan has really been successful here and he had no idea what's he going to do to be able to stop them and he built an order. What was the purpose of building the altar to try to delay him more creating delaying tactics and therefore he said not today let's wait they keep things calm let's wait until Moshe comes before even start serving the was the simple interpretation the med says what did Aaron saw saw a lot of things that weren't that First of all, he saw which was his nephew that was rebuking them and what they do and they killed him because of it. He said, "You're not going to tell us what to do." And therefore, he says, "Mean that he built the altar before them." He built it. He understood that what was going on from who was killed before him. The word comes that he understood from who was killed of in front of him. What else did he seem rather Aaron said, let me take the blame? What else did he seem? And he said they themselves build the altar. This guy's going to bring a small and this guy is going to bring one all them to become part of it. He said, but if I'm the one that builds it, but I take my time and I'm going to be a little lazy about building it. By the time I finish building it, Moshe's going to come. What do you mean that tomorrow is going to be a festival? What he was having in mind, I'll take my time in building this altar. By the time I finish the altar tomorrow, Moshe is going to be here and we'll be able to make a festival for God. He wasn't talking about their idolatry. Verse six, they woke up early in the morning and they brought the next morning and they brought offerings and peace offerings and they sat down to eat and they drank and they got up to to to revel to have a good time to laugh. What does it mean they got up early in the morning? that Satan got them up early that they should sin quickly before Moshe comes. In this word has a few interpretations meaning that at this time the Jewish people s in multiple grave sins is committing adultery commission like we mentioned by that Yseph says that she wanted to play with them using this revel terminology as well as killing that let the lads come before me and let them play, let them revel, which was and yoy at the point when they were going to uh see who would be stronger. So over here was killed. So over here we see the three cardinal sins were committed. Number one, idolatry by serving to the golden calf. Number two, which is committing adultery and number three, the fact that they killed was murder. Verse seven. God spoke to Moshe. Go down. Go and go down because your people. The people of you brought up from Egypt. The people the people that you brought your people have been corrupt. Which people that you brought up from Egypt? Whenever we find the word is harsh words, he spoke harsh to Moshe. Go down. Go down from your stature. The only reason why I made you great was because of them. At that time, Moshe was turned away and from God turned away Moshe from the heavenly court. They corrupted your nation. You decided to take the these Egyptians out of Egypt and you did not ask my opinion and you converted them. It's good that we should have more converts to join the divine presence. These are the ones that are corrupted and corrupting others. Verse eight. They have quickly turned away from the path that I commanded them. They made for themselves a calf, a molden calf and they bowed down to it and they brought sacrifices to it and they said, "This is the God of the Jews that took them out of Egypt. They credited all the miracles that I did for them to this calf. Verse nine, God said to observe these people and indeed they are stiffnecked people. What does this mean? They do not accept rebuke easily. Meaning they're turned their faces. They turn their necks to those that rebuke them. and they refuse to hear rebuke. They turn away when they are told something when they're told off. Verse 10. And now let me let me be and I will display my indignation against them and I will destroy them and I will make you for a great nation. We still didn't hear that Moshe prayed for the Jewish people on their behalf. And God already says, "Leave me. Let me leave my anger." Over here, God was giving Moshe an opening. Meaning he was giving him away how he can get out of it. And he was letting Moshe know that if you now go and pray for the on behalf of the Jewish people, God will not destroy them. Verse 11. So Moshe pleaded with God and he said, "Why should you display such indignation against your people that you took out of Egypt with great strength and with a mighty handm meaning God? What are you getting angry at human beings? Why should a person is a only a wise man gets jealous from another wise man, a strong man about another strong man? Meaning, why are you considering these people as desecrating your honor? They're not even on your level. There's something people only get upset about something on their level, somebody would hurt them. Verse 12, why should the Egyptians say, "He took them out with evil intent to kill them in the mountains and to utterly eradicate them from the face of the earth. Withdraw from your display of indignation and renounce the thought of bringing evil upon your people. What does it mean? Comfort. But it also comes from the word regret, renounce. He's change this attitude. Renounce this way. And instead of having this passion to hurt them, change it to make them good. on this bad you wanted to do them bad. If you recall just an interesting note here the words that Moshe uses that Egypt will say with evil hely took them out. The word if you recall when Pharaoh told Moshe you guys want to go to the desert see is going to happen. This is what Moshe was telling far telling God. If you're going to kill the Jewish people, this is going to show that Pharaoh's correct that is what killed them. The star as we explained then that the bloody star in the heaven is what's going to hurt them. Verse 13, remember your servants Abra and Israel your ser with them and you spoke to them. You swore by yourself and you spoke to them that I will give your descendants the entire land like the I will multiply them like the numerous stars as the sky this land that I said I will give to their children and they will inherit it forever even if the Jewish people have transgressed all the ten commandments their father Abraham. He was tested with 10 tests and still did not get his reward. Therefore, because of him, you got give it to his children. And therefore, they'll be able to get retain the reward of the 10 even though they transgress the ten commandments because of the 10 challenges that Abra went through. If you think that they deserve to be burned, remember that he gave his life to be able to be burned. If you want to kill them, remember that he put out his neck that he was willing to get killed in the sake of God. If you want to send them to exile, remember that was exiled. And if you're gonna not going to save them in their merit, what are you going to tell me? Oh, well, you a great nation. Well, what the per what's the purpose in that? If a cheer of three legs, meaning if Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, cannot defend the Jewish people when you get angry, what happens when you get angry and I'm the only one left? Who's going to protect them? That's not going to be able to stand. How is he going to be able to survive? You did not make the oath with them with something which disintegrates and continues to go away. It's not with the heavens and not with the earth. It's not with the mountains and not with the valleys. The promise you made to them was with you that you are for eternity and your oath and your commitment and your covenant is for eternity. Where do we find that God made a promise to the three of them as it says God tells Abraham I made an oath with you and it says in that God there made an oath with Abrama and Jacob and in all three places with his own name and therefore if God is for eternity his oath is for eternity and he cannot destroy the Jewish Verse 14, God renounced the thought about the evil that he said he was going to do to his people. verse 15. Now that God was not going to kill the Jewish people and he was able to uh get the Jewish people to get now Moshe to go down and deal with what happened. So Moshe turned away and he went down from the mountain and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand. These tablets were unique because the tablets were inscribed on both sides. They were inscribed on one side and on the other. What this means? Rashi explains you. You were able to read the tablet from both sides. This was a miraculous event that you were able to read it from both ways and it was not it didn't look like opposites. Generally if you look on one way the other way it looks opposite the then continues and these tablets they are God's handiwork and the inscription was engraved in God script was engraved on the tablets that God himself engraved it on the tablets simply said God divinely himself made it another way of explaining this like a person says says that anything this person does is in that work. Meaning anything God occupies himself with his whole occupation is in the Torah. The word like uh engraving and the tough and the test are interchangeable and they mean the same thing. They both mean to be engraved. Verse 17. Yeshua and Yeshua hears as hears as and he hears the the word the sound of the people jubilating. He tells to Moshe I think I hear there's a sound of the battle in the camp. What is the word noise a lot of noise going on? Here's them celebrating joyful jubilation going on there. Verse 18. And he says though it sounds like the sound of a b battle but it's something's wrong here because it's not the sound of the triumphant and it's not the sound of the weakling who are being defeated. I hear a painful sound is what I hear. Verse 18. This voice that I'm hearing, the sound that I'm hearing is not a sound of the victorious. Screaming that they won. It's not the sound of the weak. Who are saying, "Oh boy, let's get out of here. Let's run away." The word I'm hearing is I'm hearing those that are embarrassing or saying different kinds of words. I hear those that are sounds that are making one painful embarrassing sounds is what I hear. Verse 19 wasn't as Moshe got closer to the camp and he saw the calf and the dancing Moshe got angry and he threw it from his hand. He threw the tablets from his hand. And he threw the tablets from his hands and he shattered them at the foot of the mountain. He said, "Why did he break them?" This is one of the means that he took a difficult and easy situation and compared the two. And he said if the carbon the pascal offering is only one mitzvah of the Torah said by a stranger is not allowed to eat from it. Meaning a person who has abregated the law and has served an idol is not allowed to eat from and he abrogated against his father in heaven. He can't eat from the pascal offering the whole entire Torah. And all the Jewish people now are abregating against their father in heaven. And I should give them the Torah, the entire Torah. If one mitzvah have an entire Torah for sure not doesn't mean literally under the mountain at the foot of the mountain. Verse 20 and he took the also that they made and he burnt it in fire. Then he then ground it after melting it. He ground it into a fine powder and scattered it over the water and made the Israelites drink from it. Rashi explains what exactly happened here. What does the word mean? He puts he spread it out. And so we find in the book of Proverbs when he talks about he he he spread things or they put out a net and this is the way they're able to see the uh the birds are able to see the meals that are in them that they give them to eat and they know that this is not a net a trap for them. Why did he give them to drink it? His point was to check them like a Why is that? Because the people that served the golden calf were now judged with three levels of capital punishment. If they were witnesses of warning and they have to be killed like the ruling pertaining to the people of in the city where everybody is serving idolatry. They were then killed decapitated and this is many of them. uh what happens to a person where an individual where there's witnesses but there's no warning they die in a plague as we read later that God made a plague but what happens if there's no witnesses and no warning and this was a stomach medicine stomach illness this is what the water checked and if the person was guilty their belly exploded just like a sot when the water drinks if there's no witnesses and warning. So therefore she drinks the uh water and the water will check if she is guilty or not. Verse 21. What did these people do to you that you brought such a grave sin upon them? How much did you suffer? Actually said that they made you do such a thing that you were able to force to do this thing. And responded, "Let my master not get angry, not be upset at me. You know these people that they are bent on doing evil." What does this mean? They're always going in an evil way. They're always challenging God. Verse 23, they said to me, "Make for us a God that will go before us. because this fellow Moshe who took us out of Egypt we don't know what happened to him verse 24 I told him you know what who got gold take it off they gave it to me I threw it into the fire and automatically this golden calf came out says I told them I told him one thing who has gold this is the only thing I told him quickly They ran and came and took off the gold and they were here. They gave it to me. I didn't know that a calf was going to come out. This golden calf came out because as we mentioned before of the magic of the Egyptians saw the nation saw the people that they were exposed that Aaron has exposed them making them an object of disgrace amongst their adversaries. What does it mean? Exposed. You expose this person's disgrace. We find also by the exposed her here that this would be a disgrace in front of all their enemies that they would be so embarrassed that they did such a terrible thing. Verse 26 stood at the entrance of the camp and he said, Who ever who whoever is for God come to me? And all the Levites rallied around him should come to me. All of the tribe of Ley Kasha from here we know that the entire tribe of Ley were all fitting and they did not take part in the sin of the golden calf. Verse 27. So he told the tribe of Le as follows. So this is what God said, the God of the Each one of you take your sword and put it on your hip on your thigh and go back and forth from entrance to entrance in the camp. And each man must slay his brother. A man is friend. A man is relative. Why does it say so? God said where did God say this? Well, God says this is what the explains before in the track and God said any person whom brings idolatry is liable of capital punishment. It's not their brothers. The same brother from the mother because they were all Jews. They were all different tribes. Verse 28 and the people of Ley did like Moshe said and from that day died from the people. 3,000 people fell that day. Verse 29 said be inaugurated today to God with you against you your grandson and your halfb brother to bring blessing of priesthood which would be to the tribe of Ley upon you today. You guys that are going to kill the other ones because you stood up for the sake of God. You will be the ones to serve in the holy temple. You will be because you the with you with by the very fact that he had to go kill your own relatives. This is what's going to make you and give you the blessing. Verse 30. And it was the next day Moshe says to the Jewish people, now this what happened all on the 17th of Tamas. Now we're on the 18th of Thomas after the big event that Moshe saw what happened and he broke the tablets. Moshe now tells the people you guys made a terrible mistake. I've done a terrible sin now. I have to go to God. I have to go up to God. Maybe perhaps he will be able to secure an atonement for this sin. I'll have to pray to God to be able to remove the terrible sin amongst you because of what you've done to create a boundary, a barrier between you and the sin that you have done. Verse 31. Moshe returned to God and he said, "Please, the Jewish people, I am have done and committed a terrible sin." And they made for themselves a god of gold. You were the onesh over here was trying to find the merit for the Jewish people. So he says, "God, you're the one that caused them to do the sin. You gave them so much gold and all that they had. What should they do with all the gold? It's imagine." He says, "Imagine you have a king who gives his son food, drink, and gives him all this beautiful jewelry, and he hangs a a wallet of money on his neck. and puts him in front of a house of harlots. What do you expect? He's now not going to sin. You're putting him in. You dress him up. You adorn him. You give him the money and say, "Okay, don't do anything wrong." You put them in that situation. What should they do? Verse 32, if you're going to forgive the Jewish people are under sin, great. But if not, erase me from your book. that you wrote verse 32 then don't erase me but if you don't then erase me this is a shorthand verse we find this a lot from the entire nobody should say for generations to come that where were you how come you didn't ask and beg for the Jewish people's forgiveness verse 33 God responds to Moshe Whom whoever sinned against me against me, that's the one that I will erase from my book. Verse 34. Now, go and lead the Jewish people. Go and lead these people to where I have told you. Behold, my angel will go before you. And in the day that I will have reckoning, I will also bring them to account for this sin as well. Over here when you look at the word many times when you say L and you don't always have it together over here you have God says and then he says my angel who's going my angel's going I listened I accepted your prayer I will not punish them from destroying them all them at the same time every so often when I remember and I bring into account to punish them for every time that I punish them and they do make a plague and whatever it may be that they do die some of them are going to be still because of the sin of the golden calf with the other sins that's why the sages say that there is no sin or no punishment that comes amongst the Jewish people that part of it is still a reckoning from the time of the sin of the golden calf. Verse 35 and the Jewish and God struck the people with a plague because they have made a calf that Aaron made. This was now if you recall there was a third punishment which just was the the death by heaven those that did it with witnesses but no warning. ver chapter 33 verse one. Now you have to go up from here and bring the people who you have brought up from Egypt that I promised to Abraham to Jacob saying to their children I'm going to give it the land of Israel is higher than all the lands. Therefore, he says, "Go up." Another explanation is because when God got upset at the Jewish people, he told Moshe, "Go down from your greatness." And now God say, "Now when he's appeased and he tells Moshe, now it's time for you to go back to your original greatness." He doesn't say your nation, but you and the nation that God uses the terminology generally, your nation. Verse two and I will send before you an angel and I will drive out the canananites theites and theites six nations is not mentioned here because they got up on their own and left and therefore they did not have to wage war against them. Verse three, where are they going to land that flows of milk and honey? I will not come amongst you because you are a nation of stick neck stiff necked people lest I will utterly destroy you along the way I'm telling you to tell take them to the land of flows of milk and honey therefore I'm saying I'm not going to go with you therefore I'm telling I'm sending a an angel instead because when my divine presence is amongst you and you then rebel against me and you turn your necks at me. This will cause great anger comes from the word to destroy. Therefore I say I will not come amongst you but the angel will. Verse four, and the Jewish people heard the nation heard this when the people heard this uh terrible declaration from God that he wasn't going to come with them and they mourned and no one put their jewelry on this bad thing. What's the bad thing? that the divine presence is not and is not going to go with them their jewelry. What does this mean? When the Jewish people were by Mount Si and they said, they each received two crowns and they said, this was now removed from them. Verse five. And God says to Moshe, "Say to the Israelites, you are a stiff necked people, if I were to, if I were to come amongst you in one moment, I would destroy you. I will utterly destroy you. Now you remove your jewelry permanently from yourselves and I will know what to do with you. If I could, the meaning of the verse is as follows. If I come amongst you and you rebel against me by turning your neck at me, I will get upset in one moment because that's the time of that I get angry. As it says, Isaiah says, "Wait a moment as God's wrath will pass." God forbid I will then destroy you. It's better this way. I will send an angel. Now, what's your punishment? continue to the first punishment will be that the divine presence is not with you. How does that work? By number one that you're not going to have those crowns, the jewelry will be removed from you completely. I will let known to you with all the other punishments that come along. I'll know what was in my heart to do. But he doesn't tell them right now what will happen. Verse six. And the Israelites have divevested themselves of the jewelry from Mount. What does this mean? meaning those crowns that were given to them, those jewelry that they got by Mount that we mentioned earlier because of saying and thereby when Mosha s when Mosha seeing that God has removed his presence from the Jewish people, Moshe now decided that it would make sense for him to pitch his tent take his tent and pitched it outside the camp far from the camp called it a tent of meeting and any time one would uh whoever would sought God meaning instruction and experience of Moshe in his presence would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp present meaning he did it now um I'm sorry verse seven from that onward we did that until the god appeased the Jewish people. He took his st and pitched it outside the camp. He said if the Jewish people are banned then meaning if the the so too the students are bad meaning being that the Jewish people are banned that God decided to uh distance himself from the go from the Jewish people that it said his divine presence wouldn't be with them then I will also also distance myself and I am also banned with them how far 200 it says that the distance was 2,000 cubits. He called it called it a tent of meeting. This was a place when people wanted to study Torah. This was a place of meeting to study Torah. Any person who wants God from here we learn that when a person goes to meet and greet a scholar rabbi it is as if he is greeting the divine presence he will go to the tent of meeting he will have to go out another meaning that this means any time a person wanted to request of God meaning even the angels When they the angels would ask each other where is the place of the divine presence they would say it's at the tent of Moshe verse 8 and it was when Moshe would go out to his tent all the Jewish people would stand they would stand at the entrance of their tent and they would look following Moshe until he would come to his tent meaning that's what happened when would go out would go out from the camp to go to his tent all the people would stand out of respect and they would not sit until Moshe passed them they would follow this is a praise lucky is individual they would say lucky is this person born to a that he is so guaranteed he is so lucky that the divine presence follows him into the entrance of his tent. Verse 9 and as Moshe would go into his tent and the cloud of glory would then be lowered would be at the entrance of his tent would speak to Moshe would be speaking like the explains that he would speak with Moshe. Who is this? This is the divine presence. Like we learned previously that he heard the voice of God speak with him. The word the difference is when we have people talking to one another as if it's the same level. And then you have is that a king is talking to somebody which is at a lower level. And all the people would watch this amazing sight in the cloud of presence of God which is standing at the entrance of the tent. So all the nation would stand up and respect and they would all bow themselves before the divine presence at the entrance of his tent. Who would they bow to the divine presence? Verse 11. And God would then speak to Moshe punim face to face like a person speaks to his friend. And then he would return to the camp. Then Mosha would return to the camp and his assistant Yeshua Yeshua the son of Nun was a young lad left Mosha's tent. Verse 11. Moshe explains he would converse with Moshe after God already spoke to Moshe at his tent. Moshe would then return to the camp and teach the elders what he learned from God. This kind of learning continued. discontinued from when Moshe came down the mountain after the second time and taught the Jewish people about the construction and all the laws and this went until the building of the Mishkan and no longer after that. This concludes oh I'm sorry then continues. How do we know this? Because on the 17th of the were broken. On the 18th of he burnt the ael the calf and then judged the people that were there. Then on the 19th he went back up and it was on the next day Moshe went up to the nation and was there for 40 days and asked God for mercy of the Jewish people as he says in the book of Deuteronomy. Then he went back up on the mountain to get the second set of tablets and he was there another 40 days. He says I was on the mountain a second time like the first set of days just like the first set of days. 40 days I was willingly up there. It was because meaning that the Jewish people haven't yet sinned. So too when I went to get the second set of sins was what the Jewish people's uh forgiveness emat from here you have the middle days meaning from the 19th of Thomas until the 29th of was God was upset after the sin on the 10th day of God forgave the Jewish people with happiness and with a complete heart and that's when he told Moshe I have atoned. I have forgiven the Jewish people as he said and gave him the second set of tablets. That's when Moshe came down on day after and started to command them and tell them about the construction of the Mishkan of the tabernacle. So, and it was built until the first of once the tabernacle was built from then on Moshe conversed with God only from the actual tabernacle itself. returned to the camp. They went back to what he had to do. All the things are talking in present. They looked, they went and they bowed. All are talking in the present. God told him that he should go back to the camp. God told them, "I am upset are the Jews about what they've done. And you too should be as if you're angry at them as well and therefore separate yourself from the camp. Who's going to be if you're going to meaning God tells them if you're going to be angry and I'm going to be angry because therefore you pitched your tent far away who's going to make them happy? Who's going to console them? Who's going to comfort them? Therefore Moshe had to return to the camp to speak to them as well. This concludes the second and Torah reading of Parasisa.