Behaaloscha: Bigger Picture

Welcome all of you, thank you for joining us. Parshas Balak, a parsha packed, packed. A parsha within a parsha, but the last rashi in the parsha, all the way at the end. That rashi is about Miriam and the nation, the people waited for Miriam. Miriam gets a rashi. She was stricken with tzaraas, it delayed the travel, and they waited for her to get better, and they didn't continue with their way. The rashi says that kavod kol Yisrael macham, this was a special show of kavod, of honor that the Ben Sham showed for her. Why? Because she waited for one moment with this akva, one hour. She was akva with Moshe when Moshe Ben was a little baby. And he was floating away, k'shoshaf Miriam waited to see. So then they saw something a face of Miriam the gamar that she stood over there and she watched what would happen to him. So she got kavod. So you read this rashi and you say, "Okay, parshas you learn over here the power of being connected people that Hashem pays back. She waited, klal Yisrael waited." What's the kavod kol Yisrael macham? That she got a kavod, there was like an honor in it. Not just a convenience that she waited, but Hashem paid her an honor, paid respect to her. The whole klal Yisrael, "Why are we waiting?" "Oh, for Miriam." "Miriam, the whole klal Yisrael is waiting for Miriam?" "Yeah." There was a kavod there. What What did she do that was a sign of kavod that megillah that she deserved to be repaid with kavod? Listen to this. What What does kavod mean? Kavod means respect. It means standing up for somebody, it means that too, for sure. It means It means talking to them with respect. Kavod means something else. If you're in the shiur and the maggid shiur says something and you think to yourself, "Okay, I know what he's going to say." Okay. But if you have kavod, you say, "I know that he's not thinking what I'm thinking because then he wouldn't be the maggid shiur. I'm sure he has something more to say that I'm not yet getting." I mean, kavod means, "Let me see where this goes." Kavod means, "I know that there's more than meets the eye. I know that this person is bigger than me or smaller than me or deeper than me. His breadth, his depth, there's something I'm missing." Kavod means, "Let's see the end of the story." I know you listen to a musical composition from someone who's a genius. You don't say, "That's such a plain song." You say, "There must be something I am missing. Let me listen to it again and hear why where the genius shows itself." That's covered. What Miriam did was that they said I know that the Rebbe was applying for this baby. I know that he's not just going to drift away and be forgotten. She showed covered by saying, "Let me see where this goes. I know that there's a bigger picture here. I want to see where this is going to go cuz the Rebbe, the one who is designing and writing the story and writing the script has a lot more that there's a much bigger picture at play over here. So, she understood this implicitly. That was covered. So, now she got that covered. What What was Miriam's sin? What was she waiting for? Why did she get her wrath cuz of lashon hara? Dafka here we taught this lesson because talking lashon hara to another person comes from a lack of covered. It means I see the other person. There's no more to them. So, I saw this person, this side of them bothers me. I saw them whatever the thing I saw them do and and puts me in a bad mood. Then, they're not a good person. Hold on. Do you know the whole person? Do you know how they treat their family? Do you know how they are how they daven? Do you know everything about them? You don't. Of course, you don't. You're limited one thing. Somebody once told the Telzer Rav that that he said he was on a bus with an elderly rabbi and he saw that two boys that they were talking to each other and he heard them talking about a movie. So, he went to the Telzer Rav that the boys were watching movies. The Telzer Rav said to him, "Do you know Maseches Berachos learning?" Meaning this is the thing you saw about him and that's how you define him. Do you know more about him that entitles you to say this about him? Covered means there's a bigger picture over here. Dafka this lesson is taught to Miriam at a time of lashon hara because that's the difference and lashon hara. See the bigger picture and believe in the bigger picture.