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Parshat Shemini- HaChodesh
They met at a Torah class. The Rabbi was discussing Psalm 89. Shira was excited for it was her favorite Psalm. It had her favorite verse in the 2nd pasuk.
Chasdei Hashem Olam Ashira- the kindness of Hashem I will eternally sing
L’dor va’dor odiah emunashech be’fi- for all generations I will acknowledge Your
faith in my mouth.
It wasn’t just because the verse contained her name. It was her mantra in life as well. She always wanted to sing the faith she had in Hashem. It was her essence. Little did she know that the psalm would contain so much more about her. And so much to teach us as well.
A few seats down from Shira at that shiur sat her bashert. Wouldn’t you know it? His name was Dor. The next words in that favorite verse. They schmoozed and hit it off right away and the wedding wasn’t long in coming. They decided that when they would merit to have children, they would call their first son Eitan. After all the first words of the Psalm are
Maskil l’eitan Ha’ezrachi- A Psalm for Eitan the Ezrachite
The word ‘Maskil’ is one of the descriptions of the type of Psalm it is. Maskil like the word sechel is one that the Malbim notes requires a deep understanding, for it contains an eternal message much more timeless than a perfunctory glance or reading may convey. It’s a prophecy. Eitan, which means strength according to the Midrash is a reference to Avraham Avinu who enlightened the world to the strength of faith and power of Hashem. Little did Ashira and Dor know at the time of their son’s naming at his Bris of Avraham Avinu, how connected their son would be to that Patriarch and how prophetic this Psalm would be to their lives.
Eitan was a bright, warm and learned child. Loved by all, he as well took his religion, his Torah study and his commitment to Am Yisrael seriously. When he went to yeshiva he chose a hesder one where he felt he could realize both of those passions; serving Klal Yisrael and studying Torah. In addition to his yeshiva studies, he convinced his father to begin learning Daf Yomi with him. Each day without fail they would study the ancient daily page of the Talmud. A father and a son bonding over the holy eternal words of our sages.
His army service ended in Elul of this past year and rather than go on vacation like so many others Eitan returned right back to yeshiva to study. Once the war broke out though he quickly returned on Simchat Torah to his base. This was his first reservist call after his original service had been completed. He was from the first ones to enter Gaza where he fought valiantly for a few months until he was killed by a sniper on the 7th of Tevet on the Armored vehicle he was commanding.
When the army brought his parents his personal
belongings, they included his five sefarim that were with him in his
Armored vehicle. The most used was his Talmud Kidushin,, as he had continued to
learn the Daf with his friends while in their vehicle daily. The blood of his wounds
(which doesn’t have to be buried) stains its pages as it was right next to him,
as well as his halacha sefer and Shaarei Teshuva when he returned his
soul to Hashem giving up his life al kiddush Hashem defending Eretz
Yisrael and avenging the blood of our nation.
How does one console such parents who had lost such a special child? One with such a bright future, with so much holy potential. When I first started making these visits, I wasn’t sure. Yet day in and day out it never fails to amaze and inspire me when I hear these so many parents giving me chizuk. To hear Shira tell me how she continues to sing the song and chesed of Hashem. How she thanks Him daily for having given her the gift of Eitan for his short 21 years. For all generations “Odiah emunasecha befi- I will acknowledge Your faith in my mouth”, remains her song. It’s unreal. It’s superhuman. Yet, this is all I hear every day from so many of these mothers and fathers of fallen children.
This week’s Torah portion Shemini contains the only consolation for the loss of children that we find in the entire Torah. It is incompreheinsible to think about what Aharon Ha’Kohein must have felt when his two children Nadav and Avihu were killed on this inauguration day. The first of Nissan, when the inauguration took place, was the culmination of months of work of collection and construction for the Mishkan; the house and dwelling place of Hashem on this world. It was the atonement for the sin of the golden calf. It was the day that Hashem had been waiting for over 2000 years from the Creation of the world.
Our parsha though is strangely called Shemini as in the eighth day of what is called the Miluim- the previous 7 days of the inauguration of the Mishkan mentioned in last week’s parsha of Tzav. It’s strange because seemingly it should more appropriately be called the “First day”. As the Talmud tells us that this day took “ten crowns”. It was the first of Nissan, the first day when the Shechina came down, the first sacrifices, the first day of our exodus from Egypt, the first day when the Kohanim blessed the nation. Yet the parsha is called Shemini. The eighth of the Miluim. Hmmm? What’s pshat?
Well perhaps to understand that, and to understand as well the glory and tragedy of that day, we must understand this word that most Americans have difficulty translating and most Israelis as well don’t really get. Miluim. See in modern day Hebrew the word miluim is what the army reserves are called. Today we have over 300,000 soldiers on Miluim. We’ve never had that many soldiers fighting since biblical times. But they’re not just called soldiers. They’re Miluim-nikim. Reservists. Regular working people, Taxi drivers, Hi Tech, Salesman, Teachers and mechanics. Everyone is on Miluim. But what does the word Miluim have to do with the army?
In the Torah terminology the word ‘miluim’ comes from the word Malei- to fill up. We have avnei miluim the filling stones on the breastplate. But where does that fit into the inauguration of the Kohanim of the Temple. Why are they called days of miluim? Shouldn’t inauguration- or “chanukah” be the more appropriate descriptive term for these days? Rashi and the commentaries mention that the Kohanim’s hands are filled with the sacrifices or with their new responsibilities, but it seems like kind of a stretch. There must be something deeper. And of course, there is.
How does one get filled? The truth is it’s pretty much impossible. Whenever someone has something, he wants more. As the Talmud tells us “mi she’yeish lo me’ah rotza matayim”- He who has one hundred wants two hundred. The more we have, the more we try to fill ourselves, the hungrier and more we desire next time. Everything that we get gives us a desire for more. Even having a stomach surgery only makes one feel that you can’t eat more and are full, but as long as there’s still food on the table, the heart still wishes it had a little more room for some more of that chulent, kishka or corned beef that still sitting there on the table. Take it from a guy with experience.
It’s not just food. Its everything. Its honor. Its recognition. Its love. Its support. Its possessions. Its knowledge. We’re never full. We always want more. There’s only one way in the world that a person can really be full. And that is if they have entirely negated themselves and they become mere vessels that serve as a pipeline for Hashem to fill them up. That’s miluim. That’s what the Kohanim’s job is. They are full because they are tapped into the infinite nature of Hashem. It’s an endless stream of shefa- of blessing and holiness that pours through them. They are the pipelines of that to the rest of the world. And those pipes only work when there is no ego, no sense of self that blocks or impedes that flow from pouring forth. They exist with only one purpose. To be filled with the glory of Hashem and shine Him out to the rest of the world.
The 7 days of Miluim correspond to the 7 days of Creation. The path from heaven to earth was being channeled through them. The Yom Ha’shemini is the day when that connection happened. It’s not a day that stands in of itself. It’s not the “First”. Rather it’s the eighth. It’s when heaven met earth and the shechina came down. It’s when there were miluimnikim- holy priests that were anointed with the same holy oil that any other vessel in the Temple was anointed with, because they themselves had become mere vessels in the service of Hashem. They were the bridge between the nation and the entire world and our Creator.
Is there a better word to use for our holy soldiers today? They put everything aside for Hashem, for the nation, for His and our land. They are burning with that fire of Hashem and will step into a war zone, a tunnel, a tank. They will face the worst animals fearlessly. They don’t think of their children, their wives, their girlfriends, their businesses, their farms, their responsibilities. They’re just there as vessels of our nation. Isn’t it amazing that a draft notice in Israel is called a Tzav Shmona- named after the section eight article in the defense ministries’ law amendment about emergency draft call up in time of war. Yet the two parshiyot that talk about the days of Miluim are none other than last week’s parsha called Tzav and this week called Shemini. C’mon, that’s cool… You’re never gonna hear those two words the same again. Admit it.
What does it mean to be a vessel entirely empty of self? Let’s take a look at that Yom Ha’Shemini again. The day is complete. The offerings are brought. Aharon stands on the altar and blesses, for the first time in history, that blessing that we give our own children each Friday night and on every important occasion of their lives. He has finally become the vessel to bring down that blessing from Hashem.
Yevarechecha Hashem V’Yishmerecha -Hashem should bless you and watch over you. He should give His light and grace to you. He should always find favor and turn His Face towards you and grant you peace.
And yet that blessing worked for everyone besides his own two children. They are killed moments later in the service of Hashem that they did incorrectly. They were sacrificed. All eyes are towards Aharon. He is mourning. He wants to stop it all. His natural sense of grief is overtaking him. What can or could one say? Moshe his brother turns to him at that point and tells him the following only words of consolation that we have in the entire Torah.
“This is what Hashem spoke to say over
“With those that are close to me I will be
sanctified and upon the face of the entire nation I will be honored”
Va’yidom Aharon- and Aharon was silent.
What do these words mean? How does this console Aharon? At a simple glance it would almost seem like an ‘I-told-you-so” hurtful thing to say. “See, Aharon this is what Hashem was talking about and said would happen”. And what does the silence of Aharon mean? It doesn’t say he was consoled. Rather he was silent, which would seem to say that he just became quiet yet was perhaps still mourning and hurting.
Rashi has one approach that most are familiar with, which is what Moshe told him was that “the ones that Hashem was close with and is sanctified through” is referring to Nadav and Avihu. It is only because of their exalted state that Hashem took them. This is almost a eulogy or a feel-good type of praise that Moshe was telling Aharon about the exalted state of his children that were taken.
The Rashbam and Chizkuni take a very different approach though. They explain that the holy ones that Hashem will be sanctified with are in fact Aharon and his remaining surviving Kohein children themselves. Not necessarily Nadav and Avihu. Moshe was telling them, that to be miluim for Hashem, to be a vessel, means that one does not even have any personal grief. There’s nothing personal because there is no “you” besides the will of Hashem. It’s to understand that your job, Aharon, is to be a domeim- a mere inanimate vessel; a pipe of blessing and service of Hashem. A pot in the temple doesn’t cry if it gets scratched or broken. It’s a vessel. If you are able to see yourself as that, then you will be filled. Then that faith will tap into the infinite. You will be connected to Hashem and you will be the pipeline that all of Israel will as well connect and receive blessing through. It’s through that, Hashem’s name will be honored. This loss, Aharon, is your tzav shmona. Are you up to the task?
Va’Yidom Aharon- and Aharon became a domeim. He became that pipeline. The Shemini LaMiluim happened in its entirety. Heaven and Earth were one.
After meeting Shira, I opened up her Psalm 89 and started to read it. It was unreal. Her son Eitan, stepped into that fiery furnace just as him namesake Avraham did. He joined Avraham in Shamayim and sits next to him learning the Daf Yomi as I’m sure all those who gave their lives on Kiddush Hashem do as well. Then I imagine they recite together the words that are in this Psalm.; the psalm of Avraham Avinu, the psalm of Eitan. The eternal words that were his life and his death. His life of Miluim.
These are some of the verses from that Psalm (with my addendums). Words written then, but that are the story of Eitan, Shira, Dor, all our soldiers, our nation, our martyrs. Of the day after the 7th of October. The post-Shemini Atzeret world we are in.
3) For I have said, "The world is built with kindness; there in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”- It’s about building worlds. Worlds from the heavens to earth of faith.
4-5). I have made a covenant with My chosen one; I have sworn to David, My servant: "I will establish Your descendants forever; I will build your throne for all generations," Selah.- It’s eternal. It’s your descendants. It’s Eitan. That’s what the throne is built upon.
6,8-9) Then the heavens will extol Your wonders, Hashem; Your faithfulness, too, in the congregation of the holy ones… The Almighty is revered in the great assembly of Kedoshim-the holy ones, awe-inspiring to all who surround Him... Hashem, Tzvaot, who is mighty like You, Hashem! Your faithfulness surrounds You- Hashem is sanctified through the Kedoshim, He is Hashem, the head of Tzvaot- the army, because of the faith of these kedoshim. It’s how the world and the heavens will praise and receive Your wonders. Because we continue to sing His praise.
12) Yours are the heavens, the earth is also Yours; the world and all therein-You established them.- heaven and earth connects when this happens. The glory of Hashem has a pipeline to earth.
20) Then You spoke in a vision to Your pious ones and said: "I have granted aid to the mighty one; I have exalted the one chosen from among the people. – This Psalm as a vision. He has chosen one from you. Eitan. A kadosh.
21). I have found David, My servant; I have anointed him with My holy oil.- he has been anointed. He is in Miluim. He is the vessel to reveal My greatness. No one can hurt him. He will destroy the enemies before him.
27-28). He will call out to Me, 'You are my Father, my God, the strength of my deliverance.’ I will also make him [My] firstborn, supreme over the kings of the earth.- Eitan is my Firstborn. Klal Israel is. I will never revoke my covenant as long as they fulfill my commandments.
The Psalm then turns to October 7th and describes what happens if however, we are not following the ways of Hashem
33) then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their misdeeds with plagues- I will bring attacks. I will bring Corona. I will not abandon them, but I will not allow you to abandon and write Me off as well.
And if that doesn’t wake you up. If doesn’t work and bring you back to Me, then what you did to Me, I will do to You. There is blockage in the pipeline. We need to reconnect. There needs to be a new miluim. And so Shemini Atzeret happens
41-44) You shattered all his fences; You turned all his strongholds into ruin. All wayfarers despoiled him; he has become a disgrace to his neighbors. You have uplifted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice. You also turned back the blade of his sword and did not sustain him in battle.
And then
46) You have cut short the days of his
youth- You took him… He is Your Korban. He was taken at age 21. You’ve
taken so many youth… so many children…so much mourning… so many sacrifices
And so we awaken and cry out..
47-52). How long Hashem, will You conceal Yourself-forever? [How long] will Your Chamas- fury blaze like fire?- Yes it says the word Chamas…! That’s the fury of Hashem.
Remember how short my life span is! Why have You created all children of man for naught? What man can live and not see death, can save his soul forever from the grave? Where are Your former deeds of kindness, Hashem, which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? Remember, Hashem, the disgrace of Your servants, that I bear in my chest from all the many nations; that Your enemies have disgraced, Hashem, that they have disgraced the footsteps of Mashiach.
And then we become a domeim with this incredible prophetic eternal Psalm’s last words of conclusion.
53). Blessed is the Lord forever, Amen and Amen.
We praise you. We have Emuna/ faith in you. Amen and Amen. In grief and in celebration. We do that because we are connected to the eternal. We are in Miluim. When we console someone, we tell them Ha’Makom Yenachem eschem- The place will comfort you. This is the consolation of Moshe. That is the one that he was told not just to tell Aharon, but “leimor”- to tell over to every mourner for all times. The more that we make place and allow Hashem to fill us, that is the degree we can be comforted. He is our Place. He as well is mourning Tzion and Yerushalayim. That we are not yet connected. That the pipeline is still not complete. We just need to make that place and it will all be over. We will be reunited. Mashiach will come. U’bala Hamaveis la’netzach. There will not be anymore death. Just eternal life.
The Ibn Ezra notes that this Psalm is the one of Mashiach. It is the covenant of Dovid Hamelech and all of his soldiers for all generations. We hear those footsteps of Mashaich his descendant. It’s no coincidence that this started on the Yom Hashemini. Eitan hy’d was killed 46 days after the war started. 46 days when he began his first miluim. 46 days after the 7 days of Sukkos. On the Yom Ha’Shmini. That’s 53 days total and this psalm has 53 verses in it. May our miluim duty finally be complete and may the shechina of Hashem once again come down and shine from the entrance of His tent here in Yerushalayim eternally.
Have
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Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
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Thank You Hashem- One of the functions of this column is to take some of the prayers that we have been saying all our lives and now trying to find new meaning and understanding that will uplift our davening in this time when our prayers are so essential. And of course to tie it into the parsha as well, for as I always say and believe the parshat hashavua isn’t just a history or Torah study exercise. It’s a message and lesson for me today. There’s something I can find there that will change my approach to prayers daily that can give me new inspiration.
Retzei Hashem elokeinu b’amcha Yisrael u’visfilasam she’eih…- desire Hashem Your nation and turn towards their prayers.
V’ishei Yisrael u’tefillasam b’ahava tikabel b’ratzon- and the “fire offerings” and
their prayers accept with desire.
“ki ha’yom Hashem nirah aleichem- because today Hashem will appear to you.
The sifrei kabala note that the last two words “nirah” and “aleichem” can be rearranged and contains the same letters as the words Aharon and Michael. Aharon is the one who brings offerings down here while Michael is the angel above that brings the sacrifices above in the Beit Ha’Mikdash in heaven. The sacrifices above, the Zohar tells us are the righteous who were sanctified on kiddush Hashem.
Ha’machzir shechinaso l’tziyon- He should return His shechina
to Zion.
But it didn’t end there. For after Pesach
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sheini offering on the next month. Hashem had given us a second chance. They
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tribes mocked them, but a movement began. And slowly but surely the nation came.
Thousands upon thousands. There were even many that came but were too late to
have the proper purity. They ate this sacrifice anyways. It’s a sin. It’s bad.
But they wanted to so bad. Hashem punished them and they became sick. Yet, remarkably
Chizkiya prayed on their behalf and they were forgiven. They were
healed. There’s nothing that was going to stop this party. This joy.
For this Pesach Sheni was greater than the original Korban Pesach that brought. Chizkiya himself donated one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. The officers donated ten thousand sheep.Just as in our Parsha the kohanim got up and gave mass blessings. This was the greatest moment in our history since the times of Dovid and Shlomo. The people then took down whatever remaining altars were in the nation. It’s mind blowing. It happened so quickly. You can understand why our sages tell us that this could’ve been it. This could’ve been Mashiach. Everything was in place. But it didn’t happen. It was the last hurrah…. How could we lose this?
The soldier takes aim with his stick and
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“Thank you very much, Sir,” replies the
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Seaman: “You’re in the Air Force. Can you
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RAF pilot: "That's it! We're flying
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What do you call a high-ranking officer who hates recycling? General Waste
The train reached its second stop, again the
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When the train reached its third stop, again,
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The soldier replied, "I want to get
off, I missed my stop 2 stations ago."
An Aussie soldier and an American soldier are pinned down in a firefight. The Aussie gets up and begins flailing his arms and laughing. When he gets back in the foxhole, the American says: "Did you come here to die?"
The Aussie responds, "Nah, I came here
yesterday."
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The answer to this week”s question is A– New exam and I’m off to an amazing start! I got the first question right and I really wasn’t sure I would. I’m not that great with Philistine Tel’s I don’t do it often and certainly not since I’ve stopped guiding and been doing these Chizuk trips. Yet, somewhere in the back of my brain I was able to recollect the name Tel Tzafit as being Gat. I wasn’t sure but I was right! Cool! The second part though was easy. I knew about the ancient gate in Ashkelon its one of the oldest in the world or at least it was until we just recently found older ones it seems in Yaffo and In Kiryat Gat from what I saw online. But those weren’t even choices… so I got them both right and we start off this new exam with the score being Rabbi Schwartz 1 and Ministry of Tourism 0!
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