Rabbi Hershel Reichman: For Heaven's Sake

sh Torah viewers this is rabman speaking on behalf of the Chicago K During the period of the three weeks and I want to say Little Tor which I heard from mosha wolson the eminent M you know during these weeks we're thinking about the morim because Tish was the catastrophic day in which the morim returned and gave the terrible report which caused our forefathers to spend 40 years in the desert and led ultimately to many many other tragedies including the two destructions of both mikdash when you look at the Pasha we see a paradox because Pas writes very simply that hasem told Moshe you should send people to go and uh search out and and review the land of Israel meanwhile it's a different story particular the Jewish people came to mosha and told mosha let us send these spies to look over the land and mosha says I I acquest to the people's request so was it Hashem or was it the people so what RAB Wolfson says is that really both are true both stories are true the people asked for this for the mirim and also Hashem asked for the mirim so really the mirim had two platforms they could go as messengers of Hashem and mosenu or they could go as messengers of the people Unfortunately they chose the latter they chose to go as messengers of the people people and not as messengers of Hashem and Moshe and that led to the catastrophe had they had in their mind that we are on a mission for mosu they would never have come back with such a report but because they they ignored that particular platform and chose the other platform of working for the people so that's why they came back with their unfortunate report my dear friends all of us in our daily life we have this Choice are we here in this world as messengers of Hashem is God's Messengers to do his will and his Good Deeds while we here for people for other people's uh needs and other people's values or even our own personal values our own personal uh aspirations for success and fame Etc we have this Choice daily because we are here in this world with a mission from Hashem to do good things way the Torah explains it or we could choose to do things that we want to do you know we wake up in the morning and every day in the morning the first words we say is I thank you Hashem for giving me today's life on the other hand we could say it's our life and we make the choices is it is it God are we working for him or is it for is it for us my friends that is the basic choice of Life Rashi says very interestingly there's a paradox in the Rashi one Rashi says that the will Jews when they left another Rashi says they were they had a bad bad intention from the beginning to the end what was it were they sh or were they bad the answer is they were both if they go forem and sake then they then they're perfect however if they choose to go because of the people and other uh personal agendas then they're eight a row then they're bad from the very beginning my dear friends we urge you and us to always make that right choice to always feel that we're here to do hashem's will the to's will and this way we'll have the blessing of