Parshas Vayakhel-Can People Make Mistakes?????

Mori V'Rabi Hagaon Reb Shlomo Miller Shlita told us:

 "The Velt has two misconseptions on Gedolim

1) A Godol can't make mistakes.

2) If they make a mistake they are not a Godol anymore.

Both statements are untrue." 

In this week’s  Parsha  (Vayakhel) one of the Gedolei   Hameforshim, made a mistake with the translation of the Vav of  Veosoh Betzalel. (Shmos 36 – 1)

The arrangement of the Tenach into Kapitlach (chapters)

was done by the Christian church in the 12th century .

There is no uniform system, where a new chapter begins or ends.

At the end of chapter Shmos 35 it says how Moshe spoke to

the Bnei Yisroel about Betzalel’s  Chachma that Hashem gave him, to do the Meleches Hamishkan.

A new chapter begins at Shmos 36 – 1 “ V’osoh Betzalel – Kol Meleches Avodas Hakodesh”. 

Because a new chapter begins here, one of the Gedolei  Hameforshim, mistakenly translated And  Betzalel made (past tense) – (vav hachibur)

The Targum Onkeles  was also changed  from V’yabeid

(He shall do) to Vavad (He did). The Ibn Ezrah (36 -1) and Rashi in Ms.Makos 12a both say , V’osoh is a command

( future)  And Betzalel shall make etc.  V’osoh is a continuation from the previous chapter.(mehapech + chibur)

In the name of the M’hril Diskin it is said “When you are

Ma’avir Sidrah you should say in the Targum V’yabeid and not the way it is printed in the Chumashim* “ Vavad” otherwise you won’t be  yotzei Shnayim Mikrah.

*The new Oz Vehodor Chumashim corrected the
Targum to V'Yabeid.

Kalir, clarified

 

.    Parshas Hashavua      ויקהל - שקלים The סילוק  לפרשת שקלים* starts with "אז"- "then" when Hashem created the world ------------ראית,וספרתה,והכנת,וחקרת, ומדדת, ושקלת The קליר uses 39 different words describing all the things Hashem did to create the world. The גאון מוילנא explains the 39 words represents the 39 מלאכות that was done by Hashem to create the word. So too are the 39 מלאכות at the construction of the משכן which the Midrash compares it to the creation of the world. Since כי בו שבת מכל מלאכתו  Hashem rested on Shabbos from the 39 מלאכות, the בני ישראל too must refrain from the 39 מלאכות on Shabbos. *The last Yotzer before the Shachris Kedusha by R. E. Hakalir

 

Because the זהר says so

 

.    Parshas Hashavua ויקהל The זהר פ' ויקהל דף קצ"ה writes:  " All nights have exactly  12 hours. Even in the winter months there are only 12 hours of night. the extra hours of night are considered daytime" The מעשה ארג*,based on this זהר, says that when the משנה פ"א מ"ב מס' ברכות  refers to שעות it means שעות שוות (equal timing -60 minutes to the hour nightime & daytime winter & summer) His claim is against, the Rambam & all the Poskim  who all hold that the Mishna is referring to שעות זמניות (daylight of the day is divided into 12 this equals a Halachic hour for  daytime Halachos and same is done for night time.) When the משנה says The בני מלכים get up at ג' שעות It depends what time of the year it is (שעות זמניות). The מעשה ארג is so convinced to be right that he writes, Anyone disagreeing with  him is like disagreeing with the שכינה, being the זהר says so. The אגרות משה או"ח ח"ב :כ strongly opposes such a statement and writes on the contrary, Those having doubts on all the  Poskim are the ones who are having ח"ו doubts on the שכינה. רבי יצחק אייזיק יהודה יחיאל ספרין (כ"ה בשבט תקס"ו, 1806 - י' באייר תרל"ד, 1874) היה האדמו"ר השני מקומרנא.*

 

 

 

Act normal when performing Mitzvos

Parshas Hashavua

Act normal when performing Mitzvos

Rashi (Shemos 38: 22 ) says,” Moshe commanded Betzalel to do the Klei Hamishkan

first and then to construct the Mishkan. Betzalel argued and said the Minhag is to build the

house first and then the Keilim, so you can place them in the house. Moshe agreed

that this was the way Hashem originally commanded him.”  

Why didn't Moishe think of such an obvious problem it would create, not having where 

to house the Keilim ? 

We can answer this question with another question.

The building of the Mishkan was completed on the 25^th of Kislev. The first time

it was erected was more than three months later. on Rosh Chodesh Nissan. 

What was Betzalel's argument? Why was it important to build the Mishkan first if  

they wouldn't store the Keilim there for the first 3 months?

Perhaps we can answer.

Bezalel's  concern was not, that the Mishkan needs to 

be ready first, for the practical reason to place the Klei Hamishkan in it.

He knew that both, the Mishkan and the Keilim will  need to go into storage 

for 3 months.

His argument was, being the Minhag Haolam is to build 

the home first and then the furniture, ( practical reason)

so too when building a Mishkan, we  should follow the Minhag

 Haolam and build the Mishkan first and then the Keilim.

He held, when doing Mitzvohs we should act and do it in 

a normal manner. We should follow the Minhag Haolom.

From the Loshon of  Rashi,  we see that his main complaint was  

the Minhag Haolam.

The practical problem of storage is only  an explanation for the 

Minhag Haolam and not for the Mishkan and Keilim which would be 

stored for three months. (אמבצי)

Vort on parshas vayakhel-The torah matzav 

6 reasons why milking a cow on Shabbos is asur-Parshas Hashavua

Milking a cow on Shabbos,

Why not?
6 different reasons, probably no other מלאכה,  do we have a six way מחלוקה to which אב מלאכה it belongs to.

מפרק(דש)               Rashi Shabbos 95a

קוצר                      Yerushalmi Shabbos 7 :Hl 2

ממחק                   Tosfos Shabbos 73b

בורר                      Rashbo Shabbos 144b

טוחן                      Yeraim # 274

גוזז                       Tosfos Rosh Shabbos 95a