Sinai Revelation: Why God Chose Us Over the Angels? Kabbalah Secrets

when actors play a role in a script to make a movie none of that's real everything in heaven is almost as if it's staged by God it's God doing it all in heaven but on Earth the Mitzvah is called on our name it's our Mitzvah it's our accomplishment it's our Torah because it comes through the work and the sacrifice that we give and invest into it Al which translates you have ascended upon High shav Chevy and you have captured what had been held captive you have taken gifts for man that even Rebels May dwell with God you you you went up to the highest of of heights this is a reference to MOS Ascent onto Mount Si let's appreciate when mosenu went on Mount Si this was considered according to MIM that mosu went into heaven or went up to heaven so let's just be a bit precise really Heaven came down to the top of Mount Si and mosha went up the to to the top of har SII and over there Moshe met with the Heavenly hosts and of course God is also there on whatever level of Revelation this means and there's a whole discussion up there so the har SI became a place where Heaven Was and that's what it means that mosha went up to Har it means he went up to heaven okay now the next part of the verse it says that he captured what was being held captive right shita chevi right what is what is that what what did moshu capture from the from the angels on har what did he get what did he have to take from them that they were holding didn't want to give it to him the tah it's a famous midash that the angel said to Hashem what do you want what do you want to give the Torah to Bam Flesh and Blood putrid yud Isa you know what is this human being and first what is a human being doing up here in this heavenly realm we're Angels here it's perfect it's beautiful it's unbelievable Sublime spirit spiritual level why is Moshe here in the first place and why do you want to give him this Torah that you have for so many thousands and thousands of years give us your Torah we will keep it and fulfill it and your glory will be expressed through us give us your glory so obviously what are they arguing why do they want it why don't they want to give it to mosha there's a lot happening over here but be as it may what comes out is that that he had to according to the verse shita he had to capture that which the angels were holding in captivity from him okay now the next part is that he took gifts for mankind because we know ultimately when God gave us a Torah so it says that he gave us many mitv right um that he wanted to give a lot of so he gave us a lot of but let's be honest at the end of the day who are those mitzvot for who are those mitzvot for they're they to help us like re mayor says does God care when whether you she an animal from from the neck does what does how does it affect Hashem if you eat milk and meat not eat milk and meat the answer is that all of the MIT are for us to have and for us to be to and our our our goof our it's meant to purify and exalt us to elevate us that's what Torah is for so ultimately it's our gift Torah is our gift the Mitzvah that we may seem and feel like our burden sometimes the Mitzvah they're our gift we benefit the Torah is for us it makes us better it makes us more purified and exalted this is connected to a statement from uh reab Yosi re Yosi says that there's a special day called the holiday of sh the the the high that this day made me into something special because if it would not be from Matan Torah what would I be I would just be and I'm going to speak in English and paraphrase I would just be another Joe in the market another Joe in the flea market I know a Joe that works in the flea market I could have been another Joe that worked in the flea market what's the difference between a a Stam Joe that works in the flea market and Rabbi yose which is the English translation is Joe Rabbi Joe this holy Sage rosi what's the difference between these two entities cuz he says I learned Tor and I became exalted because Torah changes you Torah changes your Torah changes what you are into an unbelievably exalted being now that's what Torah is and so therefore when Moshe went to Har and was successful in taking the Torah and bringing it down to us it was unbelievable because now we had what we needed to become exalted to become angelic to be even greater than Angels so now let's look at the end of the verse it says that even among Rebels God will dwell this is a very difficult P what does it mean that God will dwell with Rebels it should say that Rebels will be in geham what do you mean God will be with the rebels God should be with the sikim and with the rebels and the criminals and people that go against him he they should be in gam so what does it mean that God will dwell even amongst Rebels so it means that God will dwell among human beings that have both good and and negative inclinations that could Rebel but he still gave us a Torah that is an ability for us to connect with hashem's ratson hashem's Divine will and divine wisdom and have a connection with him that he can dwell with us he built a mishan where he dwells in Among Us so even though we sometimes behave sometimes misbehave God still chose to dwell with us with his potential to Rebel as opposed to the Angels because he gave us the Torah and he decided to have his sh his divine presence rest in the lower world not just in the higher Heavenly Realms exactly the opposite of what the Angels were suggesting and were ultimately you know asking him and telling him that give us your glory give leave the Torah with us dwell with us in heaven forget these human beings they they're they they're Rebels they they have an evil inclination they're made out of physical come born from a woman they're putrid they're nothing they can't compare to the beauty and glory and refinement of angels and that's the the the debate between Moshe and the angels when I speak about Torah right when we speak about Torah that existed for thousands of years up somewhere in the heavens right it's hashem's Torah before he even made a physical world there was a Torah so where would you think the Torah would be at home where is the home of the Torah I would think the Torah was at home with God above in heaven what would you think what would you think wasn't the Torah at home with Hashem in heaven depends on what you understand the Torah essence or close to Essence is okay fine we're going to explore so that's what I want to get at because it says in the verse that that Moshe had to capture that which was being held in captivity now unfortunately we all know too well today what it means to be held captive you're not at home when you're being held captive when you're in jail when you're being held as a prisoner you're not at all at home you're you're you're out of your element and you're trapped and the Torah is saying through this PK that mosha came in and had to take that which was being held and trapped in Heaven with the angels and he he had to fight for it and grab it and Conquer it them and take the Torah for us for mankind why and how is the Tor being described as trapped in some type of prison state in heaven where it came from that's question number one okay everybody here appreciate okay question number two we really said we'll just repeat it again how can the Torah how can the verse so to speak flaunt at the fact that Rebels are going to be with Hashem rather than in geham Rebels should be in Hell suffering for their rebellion and for the rebellious nature andik should be with Hashem in in in heaven wherever and and P certainly shouldn't fla that that guess what even the rebels even those that went against God even those that betray God Hashem is going to be with them also then what what's if whether you behave or don't behave God's with all of us then why behave again obviously this is just this is just the question stat that we'll hear the answers in a minute so and also we want to appreciate right now what was the nature of this argument that the Angels were trying to keep the Torah and instead of letting Moshe take it why did they want to have a hold on it they they they had an assumption that that they can fulfill it better than us somehow so what I want to give you guys now is a story it's uh for the sake of this class since it's it's a teacher training class so I feel it's important that I mention that this story is a is a madeup story it's not one of those Rabin MIM unless you call a story that I made up a Rabin mushel sounds fancy but here here is the story okay you'll see from the way it goes it's not one of those classic uh old rinic stories but it goes like this imagine there were these two kings it does have the two kings like any good story has to have from the olden days two kings friendly Kings they conversate they they they they interact and one of the one of the occasions they're like you know they're getting into this debate which king is better who's a more powerful King whose King's country was has a better country a stronger country which is who's the better King who's got the better the greater Kingdom so they're like listen we can talk all day how about this you come visit me and I'll show you my kingdom and I'll come and visit you and see your kingdom and in the end we will honestly as two great honest Kings we will decide and agree who has the greater Kingdom so the second degrees so they go to the first Kingdom he takes them to the Palace in the capital city and as they're approaching it's awesome and and beautiful and glorious with soldiers and everything's beautiful and when you get into the actual Palace it's unbelievable and you see the the Army of the king and the soldiers and how there's a a feeling of awe everywhere you go of the of of this great king and the king of course proud of his kingdom and what he's able to accomplish feels like you know this is going to be heart the top so he they leave that Kingdom and one of them is very satisfied the other one says okay no problem very quiet very calm come with me now we'll go to my kingdom and they go he's like but while while they're on the way he says do me a favor please indulge me instead of taking you to my my uh my Capital City and showing you that that City and the and my Palace I'd like to take you instead to one of the outskirts of the of my country like in in the north to a small town there it's very small town very far away from the capital and my Palace so the king is thinking to himself what is going to be so impressive so far away from where the king lives but okay we'll go so they get there and it's you know L towards towards even they say you know what do me a favor let's ride around the the the my this town through the night with me without letting them know who we are we're in this Carriage nobody knows who's in it let's just watch and observe what kind of town it is at night so they drive around the town late afternoon at night and they're watching and everything and Dawn is approaching and right around then the first king that who who whose town we visited at first he like he just shouts out he says I swear by my life your kingdom is greater than mine he had to admit the truth he said any Kingdom that the people follow the rules of the king at night so far away from where the king is where he never shows his face is a greater Kingdom than because everybody understands that in order to have people that listen to you so it's not a big K it's not a it's not such a big deal that if you're standing there with your army that people listen go where your army doesn't go go where you never show up and people have the real freedom to do what they want smuggle in things Contraband do whatever you want where no they're not coming on a daily basis they might come once or twice a year to check me so I can do what I want and there they still listen to the king what a what what a powerful King what an unbelievably beloved cherished powerful feared King that is so the kingdom that was greater was the one where obviously that they listen to to the king far away this will help us appreciate the dialogue between the angels and Moshe and why in the end Moshe won that argument and why the Angels agreed to give Moshe the Torah ultimately the great the greatest glory and honor for God and how awesome Hashem is and how beloved he is and how powerful he is and how feared he is and how revered he is and how unbelievable he is that he takes care of his of his Nation it's not in heaven where his presence is so powerful and so revealed it's like the king is always there of course heaven is going to be perfect and beautiful and Angela are going to be so spiritual because they're in front of Hashem every minute every second but go to Earth where Hashem created a dark world this the Earth was created through a manner of concealment Heaven is a re revealed everything's revealed in heaven on Earth it's concealed give them a physical body with a lot of different addictions that they're naturally born with a a coarse body physical needs and evil inclination their own desires give them all of that plus freedom because again God's presence is not felt or seen in the world it's as if people are so crazy to even believe that there is no God so imagine such a situation like that where you have all the freedom in the world to do whatever you want and you're never going to get caught okay so now we're going to answer this final question that God dwells even among Rebels as this by giving us AAR by concealing his presence from us allowing us to feel as if we exist all by ourselves without anyone watching anyone keeping track of what we do and we can live any type of life we want with all of that freedom when we choose to follow the ways of God Hashem and his Torah we bring the ultimate ultimate glory to Hashem and so it's because he created us with an ability to Rebel when we will overcome all of that and choose with a free choice from within our Essence to serve Hashem and to do his Torah so that is the greatest accomplishment and the greatest glory for God much greater than listening and following God in his Palace now well this we can answer our first question had the Torah remained in the hands of the angels that their entire life experience is equal to just being a spiritual robot because when God's presence is revealed the the intensity of that Revelation is such so great that all Angels could do is the will of God that's why they're considered extensions and emissaries of God they're not free people that have their own identity and their own plans and their own desires and their own Temptations they are a just a spiritual manifestation of the will of God they're robots nothing that they do is real in essence it doesn't come through hard work and struggle or choice and so had the Torah stayed in the hands of the angels in this lofty realm of of of Heaven that we're speaking about it's true that they would never have messed up but nothing they would have ever have done would have really been done of in and of themselves so they wouldn't have messed up but they wouldn't have really ever have even done anything that was their own and real but when human beings do a Torah it's real it's Ms it's their accomplishment because it comes through the struggle and the the the Conquering and overcoming of darkness and all the negativity that hashm put within us to conquer and so had the Torah stayed in the hands of the Angels it would forever have remained trapped and imprisoned in that place lacking forever any real expression of accomplishment and fulfillment so that's what it means that the Torah was trapped in Heaven because there was no real fulfillment of it a robotic mechanical performance of a script when actors play a role in a script to make a movie none of that's real that's not life that's not real that's not accomplishment that's fake that's staged everything in heaven is almost as if it's staged by God it's God doing it all in heaven but on Earth the Mitzvah is called on our name it's our Mitzvah it's our accomplishment it's our Torah because it comes through the work and the sacrifice that we give and invest into it and so we give the Torah the real we give the Torah a real fulfillment and without it it would have forever been trapped in Heaven with the angels that's what it means that MOS had to take that Torah from the angels and free it from the Captivity of that high spiritual place that it was because over there would have never been a real Torah the Mitzvah would have never been real it would have forever stayed God's mitzvah but now on earth when we do the Mitzvah it becomes our Mitzvah that we accomplished together with of course hashm who's the MIT and it's that partnership where we invested and have accomplished on our own and it's our Mitzvah also in heaven it would have been only hashem's Mitzvah not the angels angels don't have a name in that regard only we have a name okay so that helps us appreciate this uh this whole approach and the greatness and the glory of Matan Torah is this opportunity that we can rise above angels in the Fulfillment of Torah only the way we can do it here with the struggle with the imperfections with with with being afraid with feeling that we haven't accomplished all of that is part of what we offer Hashem at the end of the day and what does Hashem say about what we offer him when the Angels do it's Hashem causing his Ron to be manifest when we do Ron hasem hasem says that you you did my ratson you physical human beings that could have done anything else much easier and you did my Ron that's a for me that it's pleasing to me that makes it all worth it for Hashem because it gives Hashem the greatest Glory and Honor that he could have ever dreamed of and that's why it says he wanted this world and it's very logical think about it and with this will conclude if the higher worlds gave Hashem more than what this world gave him then why did he make this world he had a better world already the idea that God created higher worlds and continued to create worlds lower and lower and lower means that those worlds had to give him something that the higher one wasn't giving him the fact that he stopped when he got to our world means that he saw that this world will ultimately satisfy him in the complete way that no other world can and so he was done creating worlds when he got to this world because it's what we accomplish that is Al it rises above all that he gets from all the worlds and that's why it says that the essential essence of God's presence dwells in this lowest of Worlds to my personal private place that I choose above all other places in the world this place Earth together with with you and me with us it's not coincidence that we read par midbar every year right before mat Torah it's par midbar what's so special about par midmar so parar really is is very similar in theme Hashem left all the heavens and the highest of Heavens everything he said I want to be with you even in the desert and we left Society in Egypt and we Faithfully follow them as the verse says in we said hasem we love you and we will go anywhere with you and Hashem said I love you back and I want to be with only you in the desert we don't need anything if it's just us together in in in in in the desert and so the safer B midbar that begins now as we are going to speak about Matan Torah is all about this Torah the Jews and it's it's all one it's everything and that's all we need CU that's what it was all for