Parshas Ki Sisa: Neshama Yeseira and the Lost Crowns

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Torah add vayinafash to Shabbos in Parashas Ki Sisa? The Gemara hears it as a cry, vay of the nefesh, over the neshama yeseira lost on Motzei Shabbos. The Arizal teaches that Moshe Rabbeinu returns the crowns of Matan Torah every Shabbos, and the Chasam Sofer says those crowns are the neshama yeseira. So the pasuk stands right before the Chet HaEgel, where the crowns were lost.

Key points

• Ki Sisa's aliyos are divided unevenly so that Kohanim and Leviim read the Chet HaEgel.
• On Shabbos the Leviim sang Haazinu in six parts, called Hazivlach, read as the shine is yours.
• The Mishnah Berurah brings a Zohar: the departing neshama yeseira is asked what chiddush was made.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Ki Sisa and Parashas Parah
2. 2:17Vayinafash and the neshama yeseira
3. 5:28The crowns of Matan Torah
4. 7:45The Arizal on Yismach Moshe
5. 9:16Chasam Sofer: the crowns as neshama yeseira
6. 11:34Moshe Rabbeinu's mask and Shabbos
7. 13:08Hazivlach in Parashas Haazinu
8. 15:45The Zohar on the neshama yeseira

Topics

• Neshama Yeseira
• Chet HaEgel
• Matan Torah
• Parashas Ki Sisa