The following is a brief summary of some of thoughts said over by R' Frand on the parsha this evening. I have attempted to reproduce these vorts to the best of my ability. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to R' Frand.
The first vort Rabbi Frand said was on the pasuk in Shemos 19:3 which states כֹּ֤ה תֹאמַר֙ לְבֵ֣ית יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב וְתַגֵּ֖יד לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל. Rashi explains that when saying לְבֵ֣ית יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב it was a direction that these things should be said to the women and וְתַגֵּ֖יד לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל to the men.
Many meforshim ask why the Torah mentions the women before the men. R' Frand quoted the Maharsha in Sotah which explains that women are in the house more than the men. The women are in charge of getting the children to school - the pasuk is an instruction to Moshe to tell the women about the importance of learning and the women will tell their husbands and children that they need to learn.
R' Frand also quoted the Rabbeinu B'Chaye who explains that the children's success in school will because of their mothers who speak more softly to the children. Furthermore the women when they light the candles daven that their children should be talmidei chachamim - the light of the candles will impact on the children's light of Torah.
R' Frand also stated a vort on the pasuk in Shemos 19:12 כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בָּהָ֖ר מ֥וֹת יוּמָֽת It was forbidden on pain on instant death at the time of Matan Torah to go up on Har Sinai, but immediately afterwards it was fine to go up. But nowadays the Har HaBayis it is still forbidden to go up. But why does Har Sinai not have eternal kedusha, considering that it was on that mountain that we received the Torah?
R' Frand answered by quoting R' Elya Lopian who said that Har Sinai was holy because Hashem came down on it. But Har HaBayis was holy because humans worked together to build the Beis HaMikdash. R' Frand said - something that came down without effort - "easy come, easy go." But the Jews were Moser Nefesh for Har HaBayis - that holiness stays forever.
R' Frand said a final vort that he said occurred to him this week. He said that now that we are past Tu B'Shvat, people start thinking about Purim. But R' Frand said that he was thinking about Yom Kippurim. This was due to the fact that he did not receive the paper on Monday but on Tuesday he received both Monday and Tuesday's paper. Seeing them both side by side the front page of the paper for Monday was about Erdogan being on top of the world for selling drones to Ukraine and having a relationship with Russia and the front of Tuesday's paper was the earthquake and its utter devastation. R' Frand said that it made him think about the U'Nesaneh Tokef and its discussion of who will be subject to various results (see the actual Tefillah as the words don't transliterate).
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