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The Angel of Death's Secret

The Angel of Death's Secret

Part of Shavuot · 8:34

Continues the aggada around Matan Torah -- the prohibition on taking Hashem's name in vain, and a secret imparted by the Angel of Death.

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God's Answer to the Question about the Torah

讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专, \"专讘讜谞讜 砖诇 注讜诇诐, 转讜专讛 砖讗转讛 谞讜转谉 诇讬, 诪讛 讻转讬讘 讘讛?\" What does it say there? The 讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专 answered, \"讗谞讻讬 讛' 讗诇拽讬讱 讗砖专 讛讜爪讗转讬讱 诪讗专抓 诪爪专讬诐.\" I'm Hashem your G-d that took you out of Mitzrayim. Oh, so 讗诪专 诇讛诐, so he said to the malachim, \"诇诪爪专讬诐 讬专讚转诐?\" You went to 诪爪专讬诐? \"诇驻专注讛 讛砖转注讘讚转诐?\" Because it says \"讗砖专 讛讜爪讗转讬讱 诪讗专抓 诪爪专讬诐 诪讘讬转 注讘讚讬诐\". You went, you were eved by Paro? \"转讜专讛 诇诪讛 转讛讗 诇讻诐?\" What are you going to do with the Torah? Torah says I'm your G-d that took you out of Mitzrayim. But you guys weren't in Mitzrayim, so how could you get the Torah? \"砖讜讘 诪讛 讻转讬讘 讘讛?\" What else does it say? So the 讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专 said, \"诇讗 讬讛讬讛 诇讱 讗诇拽讬诐 讗讞专讬诐.\" Don't worship other gods, which means don't follow what the goyim do, as they worship other gods, don't do it. So he asks the malachim, \"讘讬谉 注讜讘讚讬 讻讜讻讘讬诐 讗转诐 砖专讜讬讬诐?\" Are you do you live amongst 讙讜讬诐 砖注讜讘讚讬诐 注讘讜讚讛 讝专讛? Do you live amongst goyim till you that you have to be that he tells you that you shouldn't do avodah zarah? \"砖讜讘 诪讛 讻转讬讘 讘讛?\" What else does it say? So the 讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专 says, \"讝讻讜专 讗转 讬讜诐 讛砖讘转 诇拽讚砖讜.\" You remember Shabbos? Shabbos is a day of rest. So he says to the malachim, \"讻诇讜诐 讗转诐 注讜砖讬诐 诪诇讗讻讛?\" Do you guys work? \"砖讗转诐 爪专讬讻讬诐 砖讘讜转?\" You have to rest? I mean Shabbos, but you guys never work. Avodah is nothing to do. You're always 诇讬讚讬讙 讙讬讬注专住, you don't. What are you talking about? It could be the opposite. Huh? They're malachim, so they they do melachah the whole time, they don't need Shabbos. Yeah, but that's not 诪诇讗讻讬诐 驻砖讜讟 诪诇讗讻讛, they don't do 讻诇讜诐. No, malach is a malach, it's a shaliach. They're a shaliach. They're shlichim, yeah, but that's another problem. They don't have to rest from that thing. No, but I say just the opposite, that they they they do melachah the whole time, even on Shabbos. No, but maybe the the 讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专 should get it should be told that on Shabbos you can't. If they need work, you have to do things. Yeah, that's it, yeah. So the opposite, saying the opposite: you never work, are you Shabbos holy ground? \"砖讜讘 诪讛 讻转讬讘 讘讛?\" What else does it say? So he said,

Do Not Take God's Name in Vain

\"诇讗 转砖讗.\" Do not mention the 讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专's name in vain. Now when does a person swear not swear false, when does he swear false? You get into a you're in a business deal, and you get into a dispute, and then you have to swear. \"诪砖讗 讜诪转谉 讬砖 讘讬谞讬讻诐?\" You guys do business that you have to be warned don't swear false? \"砖讜讘 诪讛 讻转讬讘 讘讛?\" What else does it say? So he said it says, \"讻讘讚 讗转 讗讘讬讱 讜讗转 讗诪讱.\" Honor your father and your mother. \"讗讘 讜讗诐 讬砖 诇讻诐?\" You have a father and a mother that you need this mitzvah? \"砖讜讘 诪讛 讻转讬讘 讘讛?\" What else does it say? \"诇讗 转专爪讞,\" do not murder, \"诇讗 转谞讗祝,\" do not commit adultery, \"诇讗 转讙谞讜讘,\" do not steal. Now, you guys, \"拽谞讗讛 讬砖 讘讬谞讬讻诐?\" You guys are jealous? When does a person kill, steal, this? When you're jealous. Not jealous. Came down to to relations with a girl, so That's just only those few, not the regular But not up there, that's when they came down here. You wanted the Torah up there, you didn't want the Torah down here. They're jealous of humans, though, not of not of each other. Yeah, but not something that they could kill or steal. \"讬爪专 讛专注 讬砖 讘讬谞讬讻诐?\" You have a yetzer hara that you're have to tell you don't steal, don't do this? 诪讬讚 讛讜讚讜 诇讜 诇讛拽讚讜砖 讘专讜讱 讛讜讗, right away, they thanked Hashem, they admitted to Hashem, 砖谞讗诪专, it says: \"讛' 讗讚讜谞讬谞讜 诪讛 讗讚讬专 砖诪讱.\" It was the same pasuk we used, that end of the pasuk is \"讗砖专

Debate Over Phrase 'Give Your Praise to Heaven'

转谞讛 讛讜讚讱 注诇 讛砖诪讬诐\", they asked that he should give the Torah on 砖诪讬诐. But l'poel, when they heard the answers, they said, \"Oh, Hashem, look how right you are.\" So this so 讜讗讬诇讜 转谞讛 讛讜讚讱 注诇 讛砖诪讬诐 诇讗 讻转讬讘, and this see there's two pesukim, there's one pasuk that says it with the end \"转谞讛 讛讜讚讱 注诇 讛砖诪讬诐\", and one doesn't say that end. This was first they said \"转谞讛 讛讜讚讱 注诇 讛砖诪讬诐\", then they said, \"Oh, 讗讜讬讘注专砖讟注专, you're right, and we don't expect the Torah.\" 诪讬讚 讻诇 讗讞讚 讜讗讞讚 谞注砖讛 诇讜 讗讜讛讘, right away, all the malachim became his friends. Till now, they were his enemies, I mean they were ta'anot to him, now they it's always like everyone likes to be friends with the winner. Soon as he won the dispute, now everyone is his friends. 讜诪住专 诇讜 讚讘专, everyone gave him over something, gave him some secret, gave him some things. 砖谞讗诪专, it says: \"注诇讬转 诇诪专讜诐,\" you went up there, \"砖讘讬转 砖讘讬,\" you you captured a capturing, \"诇拽讞转 诪转谞讜转 讘讗讚诐,\" and you took matanot, \"讘讗讚诐.\" What does it mean \"讘讗讚诐\"? 讘砖讻专 砖拽专讗讜讱 讗讚诐, they called you 讗讚诐, they said: \"诪讛 讗谞讜砖 讻讬 转讝讻专谞讜 讜讘谉 讗讚诐 讻讬 转驻拽讚谞讜\", they meant Moshe Rabbeinu, you're just a plain 讗讚诐, that's all you are, what's 讗讚诐? 讗讚诪讛. So why would you get the Torah? So the 驻住讜拽 says, now he got 诪转谞讜转 讘讗讚诐, because they bothered him, they called him 讗讚诐, 诇拽讞转 诪转谞讜转, that's why you got the matanot, because the malachim gave him presents.

Angel of Death Imparts Secret Knowledge

讜讗祝 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 诪住专 诇讜 讚讘专, 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 also gave him over some secret. 砖谞讗诪专, it says after the 诪注砖讛 with Korach, they all were swallowed in, and the Yidden complained and they said, so then was a magefah. Then it says 讜讬拽讞, so Moshe told Aharon, go take a 诪讞转讛, put on ketoret, and bring the go amongst the people and put ketoret. So \"讜讬转谉 讗转 讛拽讟专转 讜讬讻驻专 注诇 讛注诐\", and went 诪讻驻专. And then it says, \"讜讬注诪讚 讘讬谉 讛诪转讬诐 讜讘讬谉 讛讞讬讬诐,\" he stood there between, because that stopped the magefah. Now, how did Moshe Rabbeinu know it? 砖讗讬 诇讗讜 讚讗诪专 诇讬讛, if someone wouldn't the 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转, who's the one that killed, wouldn't have told him, 诪谞讗 讛讜讛 讬讚注, how did he know? Because it doesn't say that the the Oibershter told him to do it. If the Oibershter said to do it, that means that what was the 专讗讬讛 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 said anything, but here it doesn't say, 讗诇讗 诪讗讬 诪砖讛 did it on his own. How does Moshe know what'll die and make not die? A siman the 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 gave it. 讗诪专 Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, 专讘讬 讬讛讜砖注 讘谉 诇讜讬 says, no, because like I said, because he won, so they all became his friends. Why couldn't Moshe know on his own? Yeah, the mefarshim ask. A lot of things. What's the re'ayah? The Gemara brings a re'iyah that how else did he know that the ketoret helps if not for the 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 tell him? Moshe figured it out maybe. The Eibershter 讚拽讗 didn't tell him. Besides, you can have that she'eilah. There's many things in the Torah where it doesn't even mention the Eibershter said to to Moshe, and Moshe said it over, and we understand with the Torah, it mentions that Moshe didn't say anything on his own. So sometimes if Hashem told him to say something, it doesn't even say he told it over, because we assume. Sometimes it's farkert, he said something to the Yidden, and it doesn't say Hashem told him, so we assume. So here, I guess I guess the Satan wanted to stop it, a siman that Moshe the Eibershter didn't say it. But even here, but the Satan said, who told you to stop? Because Aharon grabbed the Satan by the hand, and said, don't kill any more people. He said, who are you? He said, the Eibershter told me to do it. He says, Moshe Rabbeinu told me that to tell you to stop. He says, listen here, who's the rav and who's the talmid? The Eibershter told me, and now you're telling Moshe said? That's when he says they went to the to the gate of the Mishkan, because Aharon answered him, you know what, let's go ask him. They're both standing there, both in front of the door of the Mishkan, let's go ask him. So they went. The Eibershter said he's right. But there is also mashma that the Eibershter said, because Aharon, when he told the Satan, he told the Satan, 诪砖讛 讗讬谞讜 讗讜诪专 讚讘专 诪注爪诪讜. Doesn't say anything on his own. Ela mai? So the she'eilah is how do we know that the 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 said to him? No, he added an extra day. There were only three things he added. So because that's that's clearly, according to Rabbi Yosi, also. Yeah, but it's also, how can you even have a hava amina that it wasn't Hashem who told Moshe, because the conversation Aharon had, and the way Hashem said, you're right. Hashem wouldn't have said you're right if Moshe wasn't told by Hashem. Hashem would have said, ah, okay, you got me. I don't know the I don't know the words he used, you're right. He said that what he did was right, that doesn't mean that It could be he did it because the 诪诇讗讱 讛诪讜转 told him. But why is it It's not right if it's Moshe on his own, and it's just I'm letting it fly. Yes, it is. No, because this is the right thing, that if you bring 拽讟讜专转, it's a refuah. That could be, I mean the Oybershter agreed, so that's a re'iyah. Why can't we do that all the time? Huh? Why is that not something that is for later on, if it's an automatic, you're right, and you bring the 拽讟讜专转, you're fine. Why didn't they ever do it again? When was a she'eilah? When was a she'eilah? So when they were about to go and people had to go and sit in their graves and die? No, that the Oybershter made a gezeirah already. This was a gezeirah, too. No, this is a no. That the Oybershter's gezeirah was that you're going to die every year, and that was already the way the Oybershter was 诪讻驻专. This was a kaparah, the Oybershter already took, accepted a kaparah, and that Oh, you mean now later during the Gemara's time? No, at the time of the Beis Hamikdash, the time of the Mishkan, it's not stam later. Even at the time of the 讘讬转 Even at the time of the Beis Hamikdash, they By the churban, they could have done it. I guess it's not stam, it has to be done in a proper way, through Aharon Hakohen or something, it's not Yeah, but not like but not but not like Aharon. Nobody was like Aharon. 诪砖讛 讗诇讗 诪讗讬, that's why it never happened again.

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