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0:00 And maybe it will take me a little more time, and when it comes, it comes. Learning with time to embrace the flaws; thanks to them I am who I am today. Applause! Chazak u'baruch! What words! To understand who we are - that a person knows who he is.
0:25 'On that day the iniquity of Israel will be sought, and there shall be none.' 'And Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said: Behold the blood of the covenant which Hashem has made with you concerning all these words.' What is written after that? 'And Moshe went up, and Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And they saw the G-d of Israel, and under His feet was like a work of sapphire brick, and like the very heavens in purity.' Chapter 24, verse 8.
0:51 'And Moshe took the blood.' The blood is the self-sacrifice of the Jewish people. And notice: 'and sprinkled it on the people, and said: Behold the blood of the covenant.' What is this blood? The blood is the self-sacrifice of the Jewish people. Now, the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple - what was it full of? Offerings. The Holy One, blessed be He, loves the blood - the aroma of the... What gives the Holy One, blessed be He, satisfaction? The aroma of the blood. The blood - also with Yehoshua bin Nun, Givas HaAralos. that a person gives over his soul. What is written after that? 'And Moshe went up.'
1:17 And here you learn: a descent for the sake of an ascent. For the sake of an ascent. And here we also see the ascent of the Jewish people: 'And Moshe went up, and Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.' So at that moment - 'and they saw the G-d of Israel.' That is to say, the opposite. When a person takes his blood, takes his self-sacrifice, offers them to the Holy One, blessed be He - he turns all his descents into the purpose of an ascent. That is why: 'And Moshe went up.' From here you see a proof from the Torah elevation and drawing close to the Holy One, blessed be He. But where is the point?
1:45 If a person takes the flaws, the sins, where he fell, and he gives himself over to truly return in teshuvah to Hashem, blessed be He. He truly understands the magnitude of the flaw, that he sinned, and he returns in teshuvah. Then even a bad thought - he raises it up on High. So the opposite... but he repairs. This is chesed, he says. The Degel Machaneh Ephraim writes this. About chesed he says to repair it at the root - at the root of love. No, it is the 'Vezos LiYehudah' on the Mishnayos, chapter 1, on the first page...
2:19 For this one needs self-sacrifice - when you take the blood, take the self-sacrifice, you do not sprinkle it only on yourself - you sprinkle it on all the Jewish people. There are no offerings today. So we take the self-sacrifice, what is hard for us - it raises us. A descent for the sake of an ascent - remember what I told you here. That is the meaning of 'embracing the flaws.' Not as if to embrace the flaws so that a person should glory in them and be proud of them - he understands that if a person makes the self-sacrifice now, he can rise and repair this place.
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2:43 That is why it is written: 'And Moshe took the blood.' He took the blood - all the self-sacrifice of the Jewish people, all these things - in the end, 'he sprinkled it on the people, and said: Behold the blood of the covenant which Hashem has made with you concerning all these words.' And immediately, what is written after that? 'And went up' - an ascent. A descent for the sake of an ascent.
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