Hey there and welcome back to Take One, the podcast. That brings you just one incredible page of Talmud each day. And on today's pages, Zvachim, 117, 118, we come across the following gym. Have a listen. The Gamara notes that the dispute between the Amroaim with regard to the tribe in which a tabernacle in Shiloh

was located is like a dispute between Tana'in, as it is taught with regard to Moses' blessing

to Benjamin. He covers him. This is a reference to the first temple. All the day, this is a reference

to the second temple, and he dwells between his shoulders. This is a reference to the second temple and he dwells between his shoulders. This is a

reference to the messianic era. You could hear kind of right between the lines. There is much more

than meets the eye or the ear here. I read these beautiful, mysterious, almost poetic lines.

And of course, only one man could explain the full

depth and beauty of this to us. It is our great friend and our teacher. How about David Bershevkin?

How are you, my friend? Leal, what an absolute privilege and pleasure to be standing right at the

precipice of tractate Zvachim, the opening tractate of the order of Kudshim.

We've been in the world of the temple, the world of sacrificial offerings.

And over here we have what I find to be such a moving and powerful drusha, this idea that emerges from a verse at the

very end of the Torah. At the very end of the Torah in the book of Deuteronomy, Devarim,

in the 33rd chapter, Moshe calls together each of the tribes in a very similar way and it parallels the very end of the

book of Genesis where Yaakov calls together the literal 12 tribes and gives them each blessings.

We are now at the book end of that, the very end of the Torah, and Moshe is calling together each of the 12

tribes that now comprise the nation of Israel. And he gives a blessing to the tribe of

Binyaman, where the very geography of the temple stood in the portion of bin Yaman.

Each of the tribes had a different portion of the land of Israel.

And the temple always stood in the portion of bin Yaman.

And Moshe gives a blessing to the tribe of bin Yaman and says,

Leviniamin Amar to Binyaman, he says,

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