Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Special Merit of the Priesthood

[Music] welcome back to the bait Madras of you banette from you shall live the baka neighborhood I want to remind everybody in the description box below there would be links to previous shirin I highly suggest that you check them out also if you haven't yet subscribed subscribe now and even better yet a better suggestion hit the notice of know the the Bell the well it's called notification now it's called a notification now and you will be informed when the new videos are uploaded okay so without any further ado we're in numbers chapter 17 verse 23 and we're dealing with a verse that has to do with the staff of our own there were three descriptions of what happened to his blossoming staff it brought forth a blossom sprouted a bud and developed almonds okay so we're going to take that verse apart we're gonna actually deal with so many aspects of that verse let's just read the last part the yoke Sates Paris right it's getting sprouted forth blossoms the Yeats eight seats and sprouted bugs the ignore skating and produced ripe almonds so this whole idea in this verse is telling us we're into the clique art ceramics kilo Lamar ei are dumb you Scottish M that a person will never fully comprehend cannot comprehend God's judgment and how we getting how we how do we be so bold as to make such a comment like this came nearer F hot a siave little nucleus Mayan because what appears to one person you look at something and you see an old dried-up piece of wood with no moisture what does that mean to you according to you that's a dried-up piece of wood it's gonna be used to firewood when it comes to Torah and hakama Taurus God's Word and Haken was a gift of wisdom God can close that to be my freak oh he can cause that the blossom that came to hath oXXO to the opposite in other words you can see someone that made me have a lot of wisdom unfortunately we seem too much of it with Alzheimer's and and dementia anyway it's brought down in you Haskell Ezekiel and I'll tell you where in 17 verse 24 this the measures tells us is talking about carafe and the ion and when you see the verse you understand why go host Schaaf t8 locks the defrocked e 8th ave SH ok so I dried up a a moist tree and I caused a blossom a dry tree but you have to see the whole verse because God says much more than that all the trees of the field will recognize that I the LORD have lowered a high tree his pal t8 sag of or maybe you know when you think about human beings right people who really arrogant God can bring them down and have raised the loft a low tree right Behati 8-shot oh and the rest of the verse we already saw that I've dried up a green tree and I've made a dry tree blossom okay so based on that you're all healed she Michonne named Shakamak or this is really gonna be the source for everything we're going to talk about right now did you know she called Maya - Mick - everything that was in the temple hi I'm a lovely voice it a rose it's like the Midas touch go to the basement - and there's instant success so apparently things would blossom and become very fruitful even the gold that was in the bait - Mick - it was one called per volume per vibe gold it was the word Parv I know this is not really what we talk about we think of something that's not flashy or dairy but we're talking about power like from the word being pari fruitful and multiply so the gold was called fruitful gold and what happened the y8 the yo se para were taking we're now dissecting the verse that this the stick it brought forth a blossom it was in the base of mcdonough was in the holy of holies lie a similar cone in catania why is it because the word pure K right whenever you have the GU more uses this term and the Talmud you will see not just the Talmud but even in turn off this idea appear hey Kahuna are the young the young whippersnappers the ones who are learning how to serve in the temple these are the co named Catania they're called / hey Kahuna the word Parekh means to blossom there in the blossom e'en stage of life so that's what that's referring to the yacht's eight seeds we said it's sprouted a bud this is a simin for the condom vedalam not because they're sprouting buds because of the word no same seats they wore it seats a head plate that said holy to Hashem as a nazar Kadesh as a crown a holy crown the ignore scathing and we said that it sprouted these buds that developed these almonds so that was in the merit now we're going to get into these idea what did Aaron do to merit these things it was in chapter 14 go back sorry chapter 17 verse 12 that our road ran out into the middle of the congregation with the incense to stop the plague the yacht's Alto haka how because he ran into the midst now what's the word gave him why we bring this up because the word Shekinah even though means almonds it actually means and we know that the almond tree is the first to blossom in its quick amazing so he ran into the cow very quickly kadai la hacer Magatha in order to stop the plague the scooter names reason hain now we have to understand the way that the county are they're extremely pregnant Poorna fishes there they're quick they're quick they're passionate and they loved what they do King mo yard oh hey she Lola hots me rock skating and therefore what did God do he rewarded our own in response to what he did by running out quickly and stopping the Magatha he caused the almonds to grow just the interesting idea of almonds quickly Shh mimic marshmallow blush and ski boot only he routes when you hear the word skating you have to understand you're talking about a language of quickly quickening mamas very quick and fast and ready for this za Kalamata knows also the cone team get 24 gifts which we're going to talk about a little bit more later look in chapter 18 verse 8 where it says behold I have given to you Vani he may Nutella ha we're talking about the word he nay you can look at Rashi on that verse the language of he may introduces a diet and idea of his reasons which is quickness and we're going to talk about the idea of passionate as well but three reasons reasons means very quick and in Rashi look in Genesis chapter 37 verse 13 when Yaakov was asked by his father go to Shem I want you to check out and you know look about looking looking lift your brothers and how did he respond knowing that his brothers hated him and wanted to kill him he said the yo mare he Mamie here I why as Rashi there says lusha another business it's a language of humility and quickness he was willing to do exactly what his father said with passion and love even though there could be able to danger to life so Rashi says over there Basim Club with joy with happiness like if you go to Exodus chapter 4 verse 14 when our own when Moses is told that your brother Aaron is gonna come out and greet you this is when emotions first coming back to Egypt in order to redeem the Jewish people God says this is God telling Moses he may who yoke sailed across so careful the cross Sokka you're a of the Sun that will ebo that he's coming out to meet you and when he sees you he will rejoice in his heart only God can know this right the reason he God uses the word he may he may is a lotion of Zuri's Zeus meaning with simcha happiness that anything that in person does with alacrity with a lot of passion he obviously is very happy about doing it the commissure other actually bends reefs vada who some man by SIA Tao obviously if someone is doing something with such fervor you can tell the love that he has shame our own highest from mass just like our was very happy liquorice Moshe just to greet up with Moses and who was Moses to him his younger brother for all those years Aaron was the leader in in Egypt he was the Prophet he was the gut Allah door the greatest sage and yet his younger brother was coming to greet him that had a new position of authority even over him Valon it's cannabis rato he didn't have any jealousy can you imagine a normal semi-normal a relationship that most people have that you I'm older than you why are you getting why'd you get into position but no he came with such love and happiness for his younger brother but scusi in America this namely our honor our otaku Hoonah that's why aren't ends up with the authority of the the priesthood Lamaze cabal basim club and he right he was anointed with joy just like he this goes back to this idea we talked about earlier but Cora and Moshe that when Moses was her shade he had suspicions on the Jewish people I'm not even talking with the leprosy part just the idea that somebody aroused with the claim that Moses had in his mind right it came from nowhere but it had to come from somewhere because Moses brought into the world so we have to be very careful about our own thoughts that they have a reality a good positive thought will carry on forever and that's gonna be true guess what the negative thoughts we have also have ramifications and they also pop up so when it says in numbers 18 8 I mean the I need he may not eat Allah how about the gifts look there's this list of gifts the he may ho it's also in Exodus 4 verse 14 just to compare numbers 18 8 it's God saying I'm gonna give you the gifts to use the words he named and when it comes to our own coming out to greet Moshe it's he nay who yo sailed across fr so you see there's a comparison for the two words he named now earlier on in chapter 16 verse 5 the vs bug care of the Yoda Hashem this is talking about in the morning God's gonna make known who he chose Vanessa Laura sham Hamato knows Bob okay this is the idea also just like God said I'll let you know in the morning so - God is already prepared and will to give our own the cony their gifts but boca what why per book why isn't why the morning because the morning is devote the freshest time of the day the crickets are just finishing not cricketing anymore and you have the birds are starting to sing and that the east in the east right you have the sun just beginning to come up and it's so fresh so be funny me eros with simcha the idea of the morning is truly a time of illumination of God's face so to space so to speak commish pot Cordova Anita Aloha show up kaha game which means as justice with the man anything given over to someone who's making a request in the appropriate way the best time just like that because I'll tell us in the scoot in that screwed that the reckless a math Balibo right we saw that God said when iron greets you he's gonna be happy in his heart so this idea of justice because the idea is mish path here what we're gonna see the second knuckle ocean mish but I'll lathe this is the idea that the Cohen gets this breastplate the breastplate is called the ocean mish pot has to with justice and it's sitting on his heart the fish in mr it says in psalms chapter 25 verse 9 yard ray another bum mich pot he leaves the humble with justice meaning he teaches his way to the humble but in the hebrew it's this bhavish pot the justice part Kadesh lit my Allah my Allah partnership a team the Derek Z another love a math law our our sake the reason why Aaron gets the ocean mish pot is because of his extreme humility that he was so happy to meet his brother and so cuz I'll tell us how how humble they were God no Martian why promotional er on how great were motion I wrote were it's like a play on words God OMA what was the greatness the knock new man they themselves said in Exodus chapter 16 verse 7 for what are we in Hebrew makes a lot more sense it's we are what we are nothing so to Aaron it's written Aaron in numbers 16 verse 11 it says that Moses says about our Adam are on ma who has regarded - Aaron what is he ma who what exactly is he what does that mean Shu mihashi that Osmel live lima that he himself Moses and Aaron they themselves thought of themselves as nothing kill who hates Yogesh as if he was a dried-up tree a dried-up tree that has no moisture Shane boshu laughs look eat alkanes Akasha para matar ownio dish that's why Aaron's rod was able to blossom that's the merit now well Marsha Nalu Louis Renoir berm itano's regarding what we said there were 24 gifts that the Torah delineates as gifts to the Kohanim and these are parallel to the estrin are belonging to 24 books in the Tanakh so it's brought down at the Gemara Sanhedrin I'm around well varnish money in the name of rabbi Yonatan that's insane Hedren 90 be mean i in shame noisy but honest look oh wait imma RS from where do we know the Gomorrah wants to know you have gifts to give to the co hey why should you choose the Cohen who's a sage who's a Torah scholar sits and learns as opposed to an ignoramus give your Matano to give your gifts to a coin who's not an ignoramus it look in second chronicles 31 verse 4 it says over there to give the portion of the priests and the Levites in order this is the important part LeMond you Scoob butter is a sham why are you the tatum on Akane Lavine why are you giving them to first place the gifts to the con team in the lithium in order that they should be strengthened than the law of God so you're only gonna give money you're only gonna give the produce you're gonna give you are your gifts to the carny who are already following the law of God and trying to learn it and therefore you're strengthening them you're strengthening those who know the law of God and the magician mentions there are these 24 gifts interestingly enough 12 of them are to be eaten only in the temple and 12 of them may be and can be eaten in your home wherever you live in Eretz Israel so statements driven McKnight a master a big foolin so twelve are eaten in the temple twelve reading outside the temple and the hint is in the word Zeb it says I want you to compare the two verses 18 9 and 18 11 that's numbers 18 9 is dealing with the mick - z yella ha Mick - hakudoshi which literally means the words at this this shall be yours in the holiest of all all holy of holies in the holiest of places the words there is a Komachi of Zion is 7 and 5 is hazed 5 is 12 so he says convinced part is that just like the words there is 12 the haider statements right yellow car Mick - caution because she could awesome that's the 12 in the mick - and then go down verse 11 18:11 the Z look Artemis with Madonna look old to new folk but in Israel these are gonna be for you your sons your daughters any member of your household they're gonna eat right we're gonna eat in your hell in your home if it's in your household so this is where the other 12 are eaten in the your home is that connection Amos Rhema cooling so those are the twelve gifts that are gonna be at home aim chomp Nick - you don't have a temple or a Holy of Holies in your house however now this is the interesting part this is I love this part okay now parshas nuts though which we just read recently eh-oh devoted Smetana okay fine we know that there are 24 gifts but guess what through the service of God you chosen to be a coin you're gonna get a twenty-fifth gift there's gonna be twenty a fifth there's gonna be an extra gift the Hebert let's go honey now if that's part of your service why is it called a gift in other words you're giving well guess what can you imagine being commanded to bless the Jewish people right we all know those who bless you will be blessed so this is actually a gift God says you're gonna get such credit every time you bless the Jewish people you're gonna be blessed this is the gift of doing the service for others you will receive I I don't know how to you know multiple times in return key ball you right the verse says code to Varco go to number 623 right this is how you should bless and then it goes home with the blessing now this is hinted by the extra language of he made we've been using the word he makes several times of szimpla guess what the word he may actually adds up to the number 60 what's so significant about the number 60 because there are 60 letters in beer kahani in the blessing the Priestly Blessing and look in Song of Songs chapter 3 verse 7 now that verse says behold the leader of Solomon which stomach the temple 60 mighty men are all around it this is the holy of holies right around the Holies sixteen mighty men are all around it of the mighty men of Ezra there's many ways to look at this verse because we're talking about sixty Myriad's 60 Myriad's as mean 600,000 men but this is the literal shishun deburring 60 warriors servive law surround her so we're talking about the Jewish people we're talking about the remove Zima beer let's go hunting it's really about the vehicles kahani and what is one of the statements if you look at number 625 Yair Hashem panov alaihe that God should illuminate his face towards you this is the idea of pani me eros we spoke about pani Minerals at the bunker in the morning right hunting the years is when it's illuminated space it's when you have that crispness and that that it's what does it mean when someone's face is shining it think they're smiling they're showing the whites of their teeth the showing their soul simcha to you so this is - a sham should be doing the same thing to us as the prayer is that Hashem should illuminate face towards you the word he name again going back to that word we saw before it means the simcha and therefore you're invited by the way every Monday and Wednesday we learned that he Navy he made me soup kitchen we have a room in the back and we invite anybody to Jerusalem if you're coming to Jerusalem to come and learn with us be in touch with me it's lump telemark a team in Jerusalem right down the hill from the Misrata Eponine right up from amel Amal enjoy lunch for just touching up okay so much to love everyone [Music]