Take The Offer

The quota for the "Charedim" are low, about fifty percent will be required to be a soldier, or will have to do Sherut Leumi. And they have three full years to organize this "Gius". Clearly the new law is very good. Nevertheless, the "Charedim" seem to choose conflict. In the name of Torah, no doubt, they feel insulted, and they will storm the heavens. Don't get insulted, or bear the insult. Accommodate to the new law, and prevent that the nation will fall into the trap of Sinat Chinam. Do Cheshbon Nefesh. They are telling you that the world of Torah is under attack. Is it true? It is not true. The government is making a very fair offer. Take the offer, and the nation will become one.

Torah of Truth

In the world of Truth, there is no language, no language like ours. There is communication, direct communication. The Torah of Truth uses no language like ours. The Torah that we have, is therefore not the Torah of Truth. This is the message of M, which H wanted to suppress, and D reinstalled. What remains of the Torah of Truth is the radiant face of Moshe and the Torah that we have. It is sufficient to recover the Torah of Truth, for a man of Truth. This is the sign: his face will become radiant.

On the History of Torah

This is admittedly a bit speculative, but I contend that the following is part of the history of Torah. I simplify to make matters intelligible. There are many reasons and arguments that are not brought down.

Regarding Jewish law, various branches developed. To be able to write about the branches succinctly we notate Sefer Bereshit with G (Genesis), Sefer Shemot with E (Exodus), Sefer Vayikra as L (Leviticus), Sefer Bamidbar as N (Numbers), Sefer Devarim as D (Deuteronomy). M shall mean the section Shemot 20:15-34:26, and H denotes the holiness code, Vayikra 17-26 in our Torah.

The first, and oldest, branch, is (G;E;L/H;N), where L/H means Sefer Vayikra without H, Vayikra 17-26. Jewish law is the original, based on M, i.e., Parshat Mishpatim.

The second branch, newer than the first, and older than the third is (G;E/M;L/H;N;H). In other words, H is the fifth book, and M is removed from E. In other words, H comes to replace M. Note that in tnis branch, there is no mention of the Golden Calf. Jewish law is based on H.

The third branch is (G;E;L/H;N;D). D, Sefer Devarim, is inspired by M but does come to replace it. Rather, it comes to replace H. Jewish law is based on M and D.

The compromise is the fourth branch, (G;E;L;N;D), our Torah. M is not excluded, as in the second branch, and H is not excluded as in the third branch, but included as part of L. Jewish law is based on M, D, and H.

Holiness Code

The fourteen-chapter segment Shemot 20:15-34:26 is a separate Torah module. It could be excluded from the Torah. The same is true for the "holiness code," Vayikra 17-26. They cannot both be excluded, because Jewish law needs one of them. It was long uncertain which would be accepted. In the end, both modules were accepted.

Note that the first verse of Tetzavei (Shemot 27:20) as well as Shemot 32:13,

זכר לאברהם ליצחק ולישראל עבדיך

are inside the module, which thus encodes for Ez Meshuleshet and Zechut Avot. In order to "facilitate" the exclusion of the module, the verse Shemot 27:20 is basically repeated in Vayikra 24:2 and the verse

וזכרתי את בריתי יעקוב ואף את בריתי יצחק ואף את בריתי אברהם אזכר והארץ אזכר

appears in Vayikra 26:42. Ergo: Ez Meshuleshet and Zechut Avot are also in the holiness code! Jewish law is the outside of something astonishingly deep.

The latter version of Zechut Avot has the inverse order of the Avot, the order of Ya'akov meriting independence, Yitzchak meriting Oz, and Avraham meriting Ayil Meshulash.

Zechut Avot

At the end of Tehilim 68 it says that G-d will give Oz and Ta'atzumot to the people. What is Oz? Ramchal in Tikkun 26, and others, hint and say that Oz is Moshiach, Moshiach ben Yosef. What is Ta'atzumot? It is extraordinary power. The word is related to Atzma'ut, independence. All this is given by G-d to His people, because of Zechut Avot, renewed Zechut Avot, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yisrael (Shemot 32:13), which saves from Galut (Ramchal, Tikkun 37). The independence is in the merit of Yisrael, as explained. The Oz is in the merit of Yitzchak, as explained. The Ta'atzumot is in the merit of Avraham. It is Ayil Meshulash.

A Short Perush

Since 5708 there is a wagon that stands ready to take every Yisrael to the land of Israel. The wagon, Agalah, is Eglah Meshuleshet. By the third time, the wagon had become an airplane. That is a strong wagon indeed. The Ez Meshuleshet stands for Oz, the strength given to the nation that is assembled, "Adonai Oz l'Amo Yiten, Adonai Yevarech Et Amo B'Shalom (Tehilim 29)." It will be the last war. The Ayil stands for the renewed power of Am Yisrael. This is Ayil Meshulash.

A Short Midrash

The Eglah Meshuleshet is against the Agalot that Yosef sent to Yisrael, to atone for the arbitrary death. And it is written there that "he slaughtered sacrifices to the G-d of his father Yitzchak (Bereshit 46:1)". He surely slaughtered Eglot. And for Yitzchak are the two kids of goats - Izim - that Yaakov gave him (Bereshit 27:9), to atone for the first two wars of Ez Meshuleshet. As for the third branch of Ez Meshuleshet, there will be outside atonement. G-d will show him the sacrifice (Bereshit 22:8), and the two went together (Bereshit 22:8), two Meshichim. VaYar v'Hineh Ayil (Bereshit 22:13), it is Ayil Meshulash.

This is the background of the story of Yoseph, the background of Yaakov's stealing of the Brachot, the background of Akeidat Yitzchak, and the background of it all, is Avraham's Brit Bein HaBetarim.

Ayil Meshulash Starts in ושכנת"י

Ayil Meshulash, the Tekufa of Moshiach ben David, starts in 5786, ושכנת"י. See this. Thanks to Yaakov.

טצ"ץ++

The name טצ"ץ++ refers to the process of Bereshit 15:9. Here טצ"ץ speaks of itself, the first "+" sign refers to Ez Meshuleshet, the second "+" sign refers to Ayil Meshulash, whereas, like in computer languages as C or Java, the combination טצ"ץ++ is read as thousand. This thousand is reached at the end of Ayil Meshulash.

ואתה תצוה את בני ישראל ויקחו אליך שמן זית זך כתית למאור להעלת נר תמיד

It is a tradition by now to mention the first Pasuk of Parshat Tetzaveh in the week that it is read. Let me do it a bit differently this time, and start with a different Pasuk, which we also saw, Bereshit 15:9.

This Pasuk mentions three sacrifices, the Eglah Meshuleshet, the Ez Meshuleshet, and the Ayil Meshulash, which correspond to three three-fold "wars" in our time.

The first instance of this, the war of independence, was "predicted" to be related to טצ"ץ, in the sense that the gematria of the date is 999. Indeed, year 5708 is the year that 999/2 was reached by the exile count.

Likewise, the other great wars, the six-day war of 5727, and the Yom Kippur war of 5734 were טצ"ץ wars.

In short, all of the above wars were in the years in which the three counts, the exile count, the count of Din, and the count of Chesed, reached the value 999/2. This is Eglah Meshuleshet.

The three counts reach 507 in accordance with the first Pasuk of this week's Parasha. It contains the number 507, ז"ך, along side three numbers כ"ת, י"ת, זי"ת. These numbers, seen as years that elapsed since the year 5366, exactly fit the years in which 507 is reached by the three counts. This is Ez Meshuleshet.

Regarding Ayil Meshulash, see this post.