All Parsha - The Ben L'Ashri on Parshas Shelach

And welcome everyone to a special edition of all para on paras the ben on paras the sadic of ranana I'd like to share with you today seven gems of the ben a on the para let's begin with his on the opening rashi rashi says why the juxtiposition of the para of the moragum with the episode of Miriam says rashi because Miriam was stricken for her speech. She spoke about her brother and these Rishim says Rashi did not learn from what happened to Miriam. So the benloshi is bothered that when Rashi says that Miriam spoke about her brother, why does Rashi have to say that Miriam spoke about her brother? Doesn't everyone know Mosha Rabenu was her brother? Who doesn't know that Mosha was the brother that that Mosha was the brother of Miriam? What's Rashi adding? So the benlaw shri says as follows. Many quote the Imra who ask on the rash at the end of paras. Rashi says that on the do not uncover the nakedness of the when he's stepping up the misb that the reason why we're not make steps going up to the and instead we make a ramp is because uh a steps would cause a widening of the gate of the coen and it would be an embarrassment to the stones of the steps of going up to and therefore we want to minimize the the length of the step and we have a ramp instead and Rashi makes a that if stones that don't have das are to be mak on their we have to be careful not to be maz so your friend who's created in the image of his creator and he's on his well in that case as Then what is Rashi saying? Miriam spoke about Mosher Rabenu and she was punished. So the Moragim should have learned their lesson and not spoken about Israel. What's the comparison is just stones is inanimate. Just because a person is punished for speaking about a human being, why would the Maglam think they would be punished for speaking about a stone? Ah says that is exactly what Rashi's bothered by. And Rashi's answer is Miriam spoke about her brother Mosa. Mosa was of he was even more of an than Abraham who said I am merely dust and ashes. Mosha was even less mbbit about his bion than dirt. And therefore the moragum should have learned a lesson that if Miriam spoke about Moshe who was not at all about his and she was punished they have to be careful not to speak even about the stones of Israel. Number two, offering number two, the rash of are this was to reflect and to hint to the of Abraham of then we have the are the letters MS the MS and we suggest if um what The benry means is alluded to in the word shell. Shell is gamatri 338 was thrown into the fire of the aa at the age of 37 years old. Okay. Offering number three said that um the kazal said say that pulled a trick on the moragum. He was He made believe as if he was going along with them, but he said, "I'm following you. I'm I'm going to go along with you." But ultimately, he had in mind to get their attention and he would speak out against them. He said, "Is this the only thing Moshe Rabenu did?" And is this the only thing that Rabenu did? and they thought he was going to criticize and he turned on them and he said he brought down the and he gave us the Tory. So was he was able to very politically and adeptly go along with them and then um speak out against them. So the wants to know where did Bena get this kayak from? Where did he get this ability to be so politically savvy to make it as if he's going to go along with the moragum and then turn on them? Well says the ban the Arizal tells us kh was the nish of alzar abraim alazzar began his career as anur but then lavan said to him boy if you take the final the final could have a gamatria of 500 there's an idea that the final letters manatbach also have a designated gamatria so so the final kuff is 500 The final mem is 600. The final non 700. The final pay 800. The final sadi 900. And a,000 is alf. Alf is one. And alf is 1,000. So if you take the word bar with the final being gamatri 500, the gamach of the word would then be 78. The gamach of takash. The takash was a special animal that had many gavanim, many colors. It was never it never had the same color. So too kal who had the nishama of alazzar had many flavors, many colors. he was able to show different sides to him and different um desires and different puh perspectives and they couldn't sort of peg him what what did he really hold and he was able to use this kayak of 708 to um make it seem as if he was going along with the moragum while in fact he ultimately turned on them. Okay, offering number four yate the Ariza writes in that the reason why it says yo by manasha is the 12vatim rule and yehuda their souls were in the moragim and in the moragel of manasha y was how about moenu davened for him and he added a yud so that Yoshua should have the soul of none other than Ley says the Benri amazingly. The letters daled lame and nunt are interchangeable and the lammed could be exchanged with a dalid. So the name Ley Ley lamemed vav the lammed could be exchanged for a daled then ley becomes yud. So when mosha added a yud to yahoshua what he was doing was he was adding the n the shama of ley that ley's nama should attach itself to yahosua. So the adding of the yud is the indication that Yeshua did not have the nish of y instead he had the nish of ley yud is the same yudalid the daled could be interchanged with the lammed. So when moisha added the letter y that was a gift a gifting him with the with the soul of ley. However, what's interesting is that elsewhere the Arizal writer in Yoshua and namely um the soul of Ephraim. So the ben says it could be being from shvet y he had the soul of and being a mo from lei he was able to be benishmas le okay it is well known the words of the when mosha saw the humility of yahua he called him with the extra y he gave him the extra y in his name well the Bash says something very interesting. He says that at the beginning of the para they're called rash als and here they're called ben Israel. Why? Because the souls of the moragle were from the souls of theatim. In other words, the souls of theatim were into the souls of the moragim. Yahushua had the soul of Ephraim. Now Ephraim did not come to be Niser in Yahushua's soul. Only Yseph came to be Niser in the soul of Manasha Manasha's maragel. And therefore Yeshua's name was missing. Until now he was called Yoshua. Now he is called so and he added the yud so that he should not be left without being in the in in some kind of and therefore by adding the yud so he was the soul of ley was andua bottom line is says ben lash which twovatim were successful in their um moragim yehuda and ley that's why when later sent out Moraglim. He only sent out Kh from Yehuda and Pinas from Levi knowing that these were the only twoim that were successful in their um moragum. Okay. Offering number six and in the med cited by Rashi. Why did Misha send them to the neg and to the and Rashi gives his says based on that Rabina said that his son died because his son cut down because he cut down a fig tree. From here we see that the punishment for cutting down a fruit tree is misa. Therefore, the Medus tells us that when the Canananim heard that Claus were coming to spy out the land and to take over, they immediately cut down their fruit trees. So, Claus shouldn't think that it's a good land. And because of that, they died. And that's why when Claus came to the Moragel on Aratus, the the Cananan were busy with Levias burying their children. Now, there are only two areas that didn't cut down their fruit trees. the giants who lived in the mountain who trusted in their strength so they weren't afraid of kal so they didn't cut down their fruit trees and Amalik who lived in the negv who amik already had experience they were able to weaken us in the past they didn't cut down their fruit trees so that's why we went to spy that area out cuz that area still had its lush trees now we understand why wherever Kalisel went in people were burying their dead it was because They had cut down their fruit trees. Says the is the fruition and reflection of what says that Hashem utilizes the plans of the nations of the world who try to harm us. He uses that against them to bring us salvation. The nations of the world thought okay we have to hide our fruit trees so that shouldn't think it's a good land. But that's exactly how why they didn't notice that Claus was coming to spy because they were so bur busy with their burials. They didn't notice the mira. So their plan backfired on them. Okay, we move on to the final offering. And the answer asked the words the word is actually I should say the whole lifted up their voice. Why? Well, the also asks first it says and then it says and refers to the Sanhedrin. So the ben offers a very amazing on these and on many areas of we know the voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are the hands of and that when the voice of Jacob is chirping in the Bish the hands of Asov have no dominion. So it comes out when Israel learns Tyra they dominate as you say why but didn't give as a bra of the sword. Yeah but for for a sword you need a lot of you need two hands because number one how you going to hold on to a sword if you don't have hands. If a person doesn't have hands you can't hold a sword. And the sword itself needs a hand because if the sword doesn't have a handle, somebody's going to cut themselves holding the sword. So in order to be able to for to have the kayak of the he needs two yim he needs one y to hold the sword and another of the sword itself. And when the co of is the two hands of are powerless and he can't use his sword. This is the kayak of the Tyra. Yad plusad is when learns. Hashem always God gives us the doesn't have the his sword doesn't have a hand and he doesn't have a hand to hold the sword. This is the meaning of what say when came they they fought that our hands weakened from Torah. What do hands have anything to do with it? The answer is when we weaken in Tyra we lose our hands. We give the hands to as one hand to hold the sword and one handle for the sword itself. This is what it means. The refers to the Sanhedrin. When the Sanhedrin elevated themselves and moved away from the rest of the people who they supposed to teach to our is taken away given to the but when the voice of Tory is heard strongly then we get we take away as hand to hold the sword. We take away Isov's handle of the sword and ma we are protected when the coil of Yakov is strong. The hands of Isov have are powerless. He has no yad to hold the sword and he has no hand of the sword itself. Wishing everyone an amazing Shabas. Shabas and only