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Parshas Nasso
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These divrei Torah were
adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter
Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape # 771 – Ashkenazim,
Sephardim and Bishul Akum. Good Shabbos!
A Source For The Singing of the Levites
Each of the three Levite families had their own job. The sons of Kehas
had the very unique job of carrying the Aron. The Medrash notes that
unlike the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the Torah
does not call the family of the third son of Levi by the title "the
sons of Kehas" but uses the term "the sons of Ha'Kehati" [Bamdibar
4:34,37]. The Medrash states that because their job was to carry the
Aron, G-d joined his own name to theirs (the Yud following Kehas and the
Hay preceding it), in order that they not be wiped out. They had a
dangerous occupation. If a person had an improper thought while carrying
the Aron, he was in danger of losing his life. The Yud and the Hay of
G-d's Name were thus placed in proximity to their name to fulfill that
which is written "to save from death their souls" [Tehillim 33
:19].
This had a protective effect, it was a "segulah"; but it
was not fool-proof. It did not always work. The Medrash quotes Rav Pedas
in the name of Rav Yosi ben Zimra that when the Aron travelled, two
bolts of fire emerged from the ends of the poles of the Aron to protect
the camp from any enemies who might attack them. However, sometimes the
bearers of the Aron were themselves the victims of these bolts of fire
and their number was diminished by the fire's destructive force. It was a
dangerous occupation.
Knowing this, we can perhaps understand
another teaching of Chazal. They were commanded specifically to carry
the Aron on their shoulders. The Talmud [Eruchin 11a] senses a
redundancy in the words "on their shoulders they should carry it"
[Bamidbar 7:9] – obviously if it is on their shoulders they will be
carrying it! The Talmud therefore derives a nuance of "song" in the word
"yisa-u" [literally 'they will carry it'] as we find in the expression
'se-u zim
ra' [Tehillim 81:3] [carry a tune] and states that this is a hint from
the Torah to the fact that the Levites accompany the Temple Service with shirah [song].
Usually,
when the Talmud or Medrash provides homiletic exegesis from a pasuk,
the exegesis somehow dovetails with the simple interpretation of the
pasuk. However, here we have a situation where the p'shuto shel mikra
[simple reading of the pasuk] relates to one matter (i.e. – carrying the
Aron on their shoulder) and the d'rush (i.e. -- they sang while doing
the service) seems to come literally out of left field. What is the
connection? Who would ever think that carrying the Aron is related to
carrying a tune and singing shirah during the course of the Temple
Service?
The Shemen HaTov (volume 4) suggests a connection.
Whenever a person is in a trying situation where his life is on the
line, if he emerges successfully or victorious from that situation, he
feels an extraordinary sense of joy and jubilation.
We find this by soldiers who have been in combat. If they come out
alive, having achieved success, they feel a sense of euphoria. This same
concept occurs in the Mishna in Yoma [7:4]: After Yom Kippur, the Kohen
Gadol made a holiday for his friends and relatives. The fact that he
survived entrance into the Holy of Holies, which was fraught with danger
and from which many High Priests did not emerge alive was reason to
celebrate. To this very day, there are many places that have a special
festive meal after Yom Kippur – having hopefully emerged successfully
from the awesome Judgment that we face during the High Holiday period.
Many people sing and dance immediately following the conclusion of
Neilah for this same reason. We were just figuratively "in battle" and
we have "emerged in peace from the (period of) Kodesh [holiness]."
The
children of Kehas felt themselves in mortal danger, having been tasked
with the awesome duty of carrying the Aron. When they successfully c
ompleted this mission, they sang to express the emotion one feels
having emerged from danger. Thus the two expositions (1) they carried
the Aron and (2) they carried a tune (se'u zimra) are not disconnected
and disjoined expositions. They dovetail perfectly.
This week's write-up is adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Torah Tapes on the weekly Torah portion. The complete list of halachic portions for this parsha from the Commuter Chavrusah Series are:
014 - The Prohibition of Yichud
059 - Sheitel: A Woman's Obligation to Cover Her Hair
103 - Birchas Kohanim
148 - Sotah: The Case of the Unfaithful Wife
195 - Birchas Kohanim: Who Can and Who Can't?
241 - Yichud and the Housekeeper
285 - Sa'ar B'isha Ervah
331 - NassoMust A Kallah Cover Her Hair at the Chasunah?
375 - Ain Osin Mitzvos Chavilos
419 - Causing the Erasure of Hashem's Name
463 - Dee'chui Eitzel Mitzvos
507 - The Faithful Unfaithful Wife
551 - Being Motzi a Wife
in Kiddush
595 - Chazonim and Chazanus
639 - The Unfaithful Wife - Is Ignorance an Excuse?
683 - Shalom Bayis - How Far Can One Go?
727 - Singing During Davening - Pro or Con?
771 - Ashkenazim, Sephardim and Bishul Akum,
815 - The Laws of Sotah - Still Very Relevant
859 - Walking Behind a Woman
903 - Shavuous- Fascinating Halachos
947 - Birchas Kohanim−Whose Mitzva−The Kohain or Yisroel?
990 - Cutting Down A Fruit Tree for Home Expansion
1034 - Ba'alas Teshuva Who Was Not Honest With Her Husband
1078 - The Elderly Gentleman and the Female Nurse – A Yichud Problem?
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Say Yes to Abba Yahweh and His Laws special in
this time when Abba Yahweh is 'testing' us:
Hab 1:12 Art thou not mikedem (‘everlasting’ also said of
Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: Dan
7:14 And there was given Him
(Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim,
tongues, should pey-lammed-chet. [1](worship
as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach). His dominion
is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic)
Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.]see Michoh 5:1[2]; Yahweh Elohai (my
Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed
them for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur, Thou hast ordained them for reproof.
(Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk)
Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in:
Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi
(prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me Exo
32:30 The next day Moshe said to the
people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh;
maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."); unto him ye must listen;
Deu 18:16 According to all that thou
desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev in the Yom HaKahal (day of
the congregation), saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav
(your Elohim), neither let me see this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more,
that I die not.
Deu 18:17 And Yahweh said unto me, They
have well-spoken that which they have spoken.
Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi
(prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My
words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him
[Yn 10:18].
Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My
Name), I will require it of him.
Joh 8:28 Therefore, Rebbe, Melech
HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting up) of
the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu [YESHAYAH
41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the Father)
of me taught me, these things I speak.
[1]
Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח
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