Parshat Shemini with Reb Meir Elkabas - Korban Rosh Chodesh: Finding Hope in the Diminished Moon

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Shalom everybody. Welcome back after a long uh break pes break. We have insights on the para of the week paratini first Shabbat after Pes with following next week. We have a very very uh deep insight and I'll do my best to make it as clear as possible with a few fine details and it should work out and the amazing advice and light and insight that comes out should be very practical. We'll start off with first what Raos brings down in the and also in the just we need to recap about the story in parades the beginning of the Torah. So we're taught that Hashem created the sun and the moon to be equal. The verse reads that Hashem created the lights the big lights. big lights, meaning they were the same size initially. The sun and the moon were created the same light, the same size. And then the verse reads later on. Hashem then says, and the Torah says, "And Hashem then made the big one singular light, the big one to rule during the day, that's the sun, and the smaller light, which is the moon, to rule at night. So what's going on here? It said at first the big lights and then it said one is big and one is small. So Rashi brings down from the sages that the moon complained to Hashem. It's what's called the the prosecution if you want to say of the of the moon that the moon said to the Hashem it's impossible that two kings should use and rule with with one one crown. We're both big. We're both shining the same light. So then Rashi

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