Chukas 5785

[Music] So paras another one of these challenging paras that we have in in safer midvor. So the says right after The people complain again. There's no bread and there's no water. What do you mean there's no bread? There's m every single day. So the people are complaining. We're sick of you know if there is some recurring theme of the the complaint to the people it's the man they claim to blend the and you know I guess what the French saying whatever change the more things change the more they stay the same everybody complains about the food they're complaining about the food even though it seems that one is the last thing in the world you You can should complain about you want pizza, want this pizza. You want rib steak, it's rib steak. You want I don't know whatever you want coleslaw, it's coleslaw. Whatever you want. So then what's the problem? Why are they pro? What's the problem with the one? It's important to point out, you know, we just talked about this in part to what is today is before that is Kyra, before that is before that is BKA. This is three, four weeks ago and you're complaining again. Here's the thing that some people don't realize. Between paras and paras is 38 years. Meaning the first paras of safer midbarbl are all relatively in the beginning of the sjourn and the midbar. They're now on the ru of Israel. They're on the threshold of Isis. It's 38 years. Sounds like, hey, two weeks ago complained about the one come up with something different. This is 38 years. But still the question remains why is the one and which is even perhaps stranger than this. U the says the complaint. What happened is we banished them went ahead and sent snakes to go ahead and to and to bite them and it took a toll on the people and the people got injured or sick because of the snake bites. So what does the say for to do? I want you to go ahead and put on a a picture aximile of a snake. Put it on a stick and everybody who would look up at the steak he did it made it out of copper. This is very strange. The people deserve to be punished. In the past, Rabbi he the punished them with a ma with surfa with the ground opening up the came up with a new thing over here a snake. But what's even more more strange is what is the antidote for the snake? to look at the snake. It's like, you know, that that's very very strange. Matter of fact, I may ask as as an aside, you know what the international seable symbol for medicine is? It's called the kaducius. You know what the kaducius is? It's two snakes wrapped around a stick. You know where that came from? came from parts of hookas because that's rafu. But the question nevertheless is why snakes and why is the why is the tera why is the antidote looking at the snake. So perhaps the answer is that tells us they had to get m every single day. Why would it have been more effective? of the Gomorrah asked they asked to get m once a year you know maybe whatever it may be but get get m once a year won't that be more efficient to a king who went ahead and gave him his son his parnosa for the entire year. And guess what? The son kept up with the father once a year when he needed the money. person who has five or six kids. He has to worry every single how am I going to feed my kids? So every day he goes out and there's man on his doorstep the sent me the sent me. It reinforces the kesher between the person and the that's the mush of the melik. You know when I was in yeshiva first came to yeshiva in the 1960s my father all of a shalom used to send me a check every single week like clockwork for you know my needs a p toothpaste a piece of cake sodas etc for $5 that's all the spending money I need $5 a check every week in those days there was no credit cards. There was no there was no zel. The word zel hadn't been invented, you know. I didn't have a bank account. Couldn't transfer money. H, you know. So, he sent me a check. I had a constant relationship with my father. Today, what the typical yeshiva guy have? There's a credit card. the only time he hears from his father, father hears from him is when he goes over the the limit. So that's not a good situation which means to say but of course even if you don't talk to your father every day but still but nevertheless the fact that you have this ongoing relationship with your father ordam that's good for you it's very good for you. You know this is a concept that the writes about you know when the seduced to their so the cursed the so what was the curse of the curse of was you'll eat dirt for the rest of your existence. Hey that's a great deal because you never run out of dirt. There's always dirt. So the has it made in the sun. You know the answer says is no he doesn't. He has the worst curse because he has no relationship with ever again because his food is always there. The worst cla say is your detachment from the rebanalam. And therefore over here why were they complaining about the mun? What's wrong with the mun? The answer is you know what they didn't like? They didn't like that I'm constantly dependent on the llam and I don't feel a sense of independence and I can't get away from him because every single day I have to come onto the which got to them even though it's a broka but they didn't like it. So the bunn says well listen the punishment for this is the type of animal the type of being that doesn't have a relationship with the god with god and you know what that animal is the noush. So therefore the punishment for these people who complained about their ongoing relationship with God is to go ahead and to think about the who is cursed by not having a relationship with God. And there the the truer is to look up at the and therefore look up at the sky and think about the who's the he provides everything. He provides the parnasa. He provides the health and everything else. And that's why it's appropriate that the no that the punishment was the no and the tufa the antidote was the no