Leviticus Rabbah
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Sep 24, 2026
Marcus RubensteinHOST
Um, But then it says, and some say, it came through the merit of seven groups of righteous people who received the countenance of the divine presence.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
And this all, the rest of this menorah and more is going to come from this incredibly complex and beautiful midrash from Midrash Rabbah, Vayikra Rabbah, Chapter 30, Section 2, which at some point I'd love to teach a class on this particular midrash to go in greater depth about the deep meaning of this particular midrash.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
But we'll try to go through some of it relatively quickly today.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
So he says that there's also the idea that seven groups of righteous people who receive the countenance of the divine presence are actually the source of these seven Sukkot.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Mm-hmm.
Chaim WolosowHOST
As quoted before in Vayikra Rabbah, the Rebbe quoted before.
Chaim WolosowHOST
"And it's also a general month for the entire year," which means the thing is, uh, impacts the whole year.
Chaim WolosowHOST
So also in your above activities, for sure you will continue throughout the year.
Chaim WolosowHOST
And the Rebbe prays and says, "Yiratsen," that since we had just now come from the month of Tishrei, which is the seventh month, but the word Chodesh Hashivi also, uh, could mean like sevi, that is musba, that is satisfied with all good.
Chaim WolosowHOST
That's explained by our sages in the Vayikra Rabbah.
Chaim WolosowHOST
They say that that's the idea of Shivi, musba bakol.
Chaim WolosowHOST
Uh, it has, uh, all kinds, the, uh, the, the, the, the grapes are ready then, the blessings are there, there is, um, Kippur is in there, Sukkos in there, the Lulav, all the beautiful, uh, mitzvahs that are in the month of Tishrei, and beautiful blessings that are in the month of Tishrei.
Felicia SolGUEST
The question of Rosh Hashanah is not simply, "Have I been a good person?" Or, "Where did I go astray?" Perhaps the deeper question is, what do I want to do with this extraordinary, complicated, sacred gift of being created as a human being? We recite in our liturgy, Hayom harat haolam, today is the birthday of the world.
Felicia SolGUEST
But according to the Midrash in Vayikra Rabbah, the universe was actually created on the twenty-fifth day of Elul.
Felicia SolGUEST
Human beings were created on the first of Tishrei.
Felicia SolGUEST
Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of humanity.
John McKeeHOST
Many viewed it as a day when Satan has no power to accuse Israel of any wrongdoing.
John McKeeHOST
Leviticus Rabbah 21.4 Perhaps most important, the time period right before Yom Kippur was considered the right time for people to send gifts to the poor and to ask those in the community of faith for forgiveness for any wrongs committed toward them.
John McKeeHOST
Today in mainline Judaism, the evening of Yom Kippur, along with Rosh Hashanah, is considered to be one of the only two times that the Talit, or prayer shawl, can be worn at night.
John McKeeHOST
Particularly on Yom Kippur, the standard protocol is to make sure that one has donned the Talit immediately before the repetition of the Kol Nidre prayer.
Immanuel BernsteinHOST
There is a Tosfos in Maseches Chagigah and a Rosh in Maseches Brochos who both identify Rebbe Elazer HaKalir as none other than Rebbe Elazer, the son of Reb Shimon ben Yochai.
Immanuel BernsteinHOST
Rebbe Elazer Reb Shimon, so one of the later Tanoim, And indeed, and we're not going to go into all of the proves and counter-proves and so on, but it is noteworthy that the Medrash, twice, in Vayikra Rabbah and in Shir Hashirim Rabbah, both record that when Rabbi Elazer Reb Shimon, who famously was in the cave together with his father, the Tan Reb Elazer Reb Shimon, when he passed away, they lamented the passing of the Paitan, So says the Medrash.
Immanuel BernsteinHOST
They said the Paitan, the author of Piyutim, has passed away, and this is cited by the Tosuas and the Rosh, and for other reasons as well, they identify Rabbi Lozar al-Kalir as Rabbi Lozar al-Rabshimon the Tanner.
Immanuel BernsteinHOST
At the same time, another of the Rishonim, the Rashba, the great Rabbi Shlomo ben Adderet of Spain, in the late 1200s, he also identifies Rebbe Lozar Qalir as a Tana, but not as Rebbe Lozar of Reb Shimon, rather Rebbe Lozar ben Arach, who we are familiar with from Pirkei Avos, who was actually earlier by many years to Rebbe Lozar of Reb Shimon.
John McKeeHOST
As a consequence, Israel, as God's people, will be shown His mercy and will experience spiritual fulfillment.
John McKeeHOST
Leviticus Rabbah 29-4 in the Midrash explains this concept well.
John McKeeHOST
This means that Israel is the people which knows how to win over their Creator with the blasts of the shofar, so that He rises from His throne of judgment to His throne of mercy, and is filled with compassion for them, and turns His quality of judgment into the quality of compassion.
John McKeeHOST
A picture of the types of sounds that are to be blown on the Day of Trumpets is seen in Numbers 10, 5-8.
Tal SesslerGUEST
So Kintsugi can be construed as the way in which we beautify and bring dignity and redemption to brokenness.
Tal SesslerGUEST
Now, there is a beautiful Jewish analogy to that in Rabbi Alexandri in Vayikra Rabbah in a Jewish midrashic work where he says, God's vessels are broken.
Tal SesslerGUEST
And what are God's vessels? That's us.
Tal SesslerGUEST
That's humankind.
speaker_0HOST
The truth of the matter is, there's no chisaran that's greater than the lack of intelligence.
speaker_0HOST
Or like the poverty of intelligence, like it says in Vayikra Rabbah, If you're lacking wisdom, if you're lacking knowledge, then what do you actually have? This is the evil of man.
speaker_0HOST
It's terrible when a person gets to a point where he thinks that he's so straight and there's no chisor and everything is But what happens if he says if you lack intelligence then what have you actually acquired? Don't rely on your your mind, on your intellect, a person should be willing to nullify his own dust for the of others who tell him, hey, you got to work on this or that, or they point out his flaws, whether verbally or through something that they don't say, or just the way that they're Don't say, don't like take pride and say, okay, I only have like four flaws, but like that guy is ten, like that's like weird, don't do that.
speaker_0HOST
Have you ever seen such a thing? Why? Because other people, they only have five, so, you know, I'm going to be...