Shalom. This video is about Parashat Kee Teesa in Exodus that contains many very important stories and ideas and values for us. It begins by talking about the way in which they did the senses which was by collecting a happy shackle from all the males about 20. Now, this has several purposes. Happy shackle was the main kind of dollar on those days. First of all if you knew how many happy shackles he have about for guys over 20 then you know how many soldiers he had because e is bearing for battle if they needed it. Second of all the money went to maintain the religious cult and then later on the tabernacle and of course the temple.
But thirdly, it teaches us the important value of not counting people by numbers. And after onwards so many numbers you got your cell phone number, your house number, you saw scary number, you beg number in your passwords and pass code and just number, number, n umber and people identified by numbers in fact when a nuts is one of the completely dehumanize the Jews ion the Holy cross they put numbers under our.
And so the last we count peopled is number is the better so when we count the million for example we try not to go one of the rush or nine, ten. We sometimes so like not one, not two, not three, or better way is to take a braha like hamotsi for bread that is ten words that is you give every person one of the braha if you get to the end braha you know you have million of ten people. So that is the first idea about senses.
Second idea was bethalow who was the main artist and who is responsible for the design or interior decorating of the Mishta it is you, who was appointed was special guest sit-down by God. I think the lesson there is all of us having special unique guest. There are so many different midrash and stories about how if you are missing one person you do not have a full community. Like last week we talk about in the to agreement to me a for the high priest and did all of the 12 stones of Israel missing it wont be a good set. So every body is got unique gifts what is yours and question is how you communicate there, and how you use it to serve God. Rather that judge yourself. What are your special gifts?
Then it has another paragraph about your back reminding us the importance of Sabbath and not working on Sabbath in celebrating Sabbath and then we got to one of the main episode of the whole story of Ancient Israel the Golden gift. So Moses goes up to the mountain to get the law and so he be going for 40 days and there is a rumors that start that he is dead. And was a long time in 40 really means a long time. You now 40 years in the dessert, you got 40 days. So Moses go on one of the people could bear and there were slave people just recently free, so they are scared, and they think there leaders dead. Now according to what I mentioned in last couple of videos on the parashat trua especially, this is debate about what have God decided to order the construction of Mishkan before they golden calf they after. It was antidote of the disease of the golden calf or it was a part of Gods plan originally. Well, as I said the God is giving Moses the laws of the building of the Mishkan is about up the mountain the people do not know there is going to be a physical space.
There are terrified they think he is dead so they congregate now it is the interesting the word of a Yokel he lies the words for congregation but in verb form is kind of Amish. They congregated *0329 according to Jewish a peace loving guy. One on he create peace kind maybe afraid for his life so he, if we ask to there demand to build the God but it wants to delaying see Moses would come down just go home and get your jewelry. Well, the guys do not want wait they pull the gold the earrings of their ears and give it to him and creates a Golden Calf and they worship it.
Now, Joshua was a half way of the mountain Moses must be a work going on. Moses notices not a work but it comes down with the Ten Commandments. He is very disappointed to put it mildly. He does not think the people deserve the Ten Commandments after committing the great sin they just did about a valatry so he share the tablets. And he still learning from God, how God runs the universe and he ask basically what to do and God gives him the beautiful sublime unbelievably poetic 13 how to be of God (foreign language) who ever said that God of the Old Testament is mean God it does not read it.
God is full of love and compared no God is just require in justice when it is necessary like anybody should but this talk about God (foreign language) loving kind mercy forgiving for a thousand generations. And so God tells Moses what to do. He is going to forgive the people. Even if, after this great horrible scene and then tells Moses to comeback up and give him another of set of (foreign language) he gives him like creates them uses the word for idle but in a verb form is to inscribe or create another set of tablets, which they kept in according to tradition all the years until they loss arc. They have be broken set tablet with the false set tablets. People get a second chance just like the Israelites got a second now his second tablet was not exactly like the first tablet. It was not the first tablet but it was light (foreign word) unites us. And so we have this really powerful story. Now it ends with the very distant thing
You may know Michael Angelo did a sculpture of David with horn and if you have heard and was wacky portrait cover the horn to me that is ridiculous of course just stupid where it comes from, it comes from this parashat. Because it says that was Moses, if you encountered God or you think you going to shining and radiant. Will the Hebrew word there is Karen and it is the same is you vocalized it definitely mean horns. So when these student in the Bull gate the translation of the Hebrew did it as said Moses came own with horn. Not shining rays of light blaming from him from the encounter with God it is Michael Angelo did not know he read that he put horn on his sculpture, Jews.
So that what the idea of Jews with Horns came from but actually just mean that Moses faces completely radiant from the power of Glory of encountering God. So that is the sum amazing parashat of Kee Teesa
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