Ein Yaakov – Lesson 010ab – Threefold Torah – Eldad and Meidad – Attaining Mastery Over the Angels – Secret of the Incense Given by the Angel of Death – HaShem’s Kindness Exceeds His Punishment

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Ein Yaakov – Threefold Torah – Eldad and Meidad – Attaining Mastery Over the Angels – Secret of the Incense Given to Moshe Rabbeinu by the Angel of Death – HaShem’s Kindness Exceeds His Punishment – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (ey-lesson-010ab. Recorded 1970-09-16.)
00:00 – Threefold Torah.
03:10 – Eldad and Meidad.
06:30 – Why Yehoshua was punished for reporting Eldad and Meidad to Moshe Rabbeinu.
08:00 – Respect for a rabbi and the punishment for calling a rabbi by his name.
09:53 – The Gemara even provides answers to foolish questions.
12:31 – Eldad and Meidad were Yocheved’s sons.
14:39 – וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה וְנִשְׁמָֽע – “All that HaShem said we shall do and we shall hear” (Shemos 24:7, Mishpatim). How is it possible to do something that hasn’t first been heard? Why Am Yisrael was rewarded for saying these words and how this reward was taken away as a result of the Sin of the Golden Calf.
*17:25 – HaShem’s kindness is far greater than His measures of punishment.
20:53 – Reference to Tosafot Bava Kama 17. Which statement is greater: “we shall do” or “we shall hear”? Why did every Jew receive two crowns at Matan Torah?
21:50 – Why are the People of Israel compared to an apple or an אתרוג – Esrog – citron?
23:08 – Moshe Rabbeinu’s debate with the angels at the time of Matan Torah.
30:04 – אחדות – unity. How every Jew can attaining mastery over the angels.
31:20 – The secret of the קטורת – incense offering – was given to Moshe Rabbeinu by the Angel of Death.
35:50 – Of the three Avot, Yitzchak, who represents judgment, can best plead for HaShem’s pity on Am Yisrael.
40:00 – In the future the world will be ruled by דין – judgment – as taught by Beit Shammai. At that time the Levi’im will become the Kohanim. The highest degree of חסד – kindness – is found within דין.
42:59 – Closing blessings.