Matos Maasei 5786

So here we have another double para para and m which are at least in it's almost always together not always but almost always and it includes that the tellsu to tell the cloud to go ahead and to take revenge against the country of midyun because it was Midon that went ahead and in paras bollock that They went ahead and were misan. They create act of immorality with the bonos midun. And therefore now is the time to go ahead and to take revenge against them. And therefore they sent out an army 1,000 people 12,000 people the army of 12,000 and who was to lead the people. Why Pinas? Zashi comments. One would think that the holiest man in Israel. He should be the one to lead people into the into the battle. So Rashi cites three reasons why Pinas Rashi says because he he he was the one that killed that midionite woman and therefore he was the Mitsah. And Rashi cites two other reasons. But I saw a very interesting comment from Romesh from Israel. The re the last reason that Rashi gives why he chose Pinas is because he was what's called now we know in Claw is something called the Keno. We know something called the scan the vice kayen. But there's another special job for the kay it's called and in par we'll learn that before in par before they went out to war they had a special cayenne and his job was like part chaplain part uh inspirer who would go ahead and go out to the people to war and he would list the exemptions of people who do not have to go to for and he would go ahead and he would give it like a pep talk about what they have to do that they shouldn't be afraid etc etc that's called the mash again today we'd call it a chaplain it's much more than a chaplain because he's the one that spoke to the people before they went out to war you know uh in World War II on D-Day so it was General Dwight D Eisenhower that spoke to the paratroopers about landing in in in in France. He was the commanding general. Okay. So he was the person that gave those speeches. And of course Winston Churchill, he gave the speeches to the to the British people. But a Yiddish guy, the person that goes out to war is somebody called the Moshu M, which means he's anointed as the cyen that goes out to war. So points out an interesting anomaly. The is and this is the practice that when the cole dies his son takes over his job and when he dies his son takes over and the truth of the matter is that as is that is in fact how the mig is that if a son is roy the son is up to the job he should take over his father's position in the community if the rov dies So the son takes over his his position if he's you know if he's eligible for the job he's up to the job when the rashiva dies it goes often to his son for the same reason and this all is learned from the ken the cenle there is one exception to that rule and that is the mash if the ken who was appointed to be the mash originally He dies, he the son does not necessarily take it over. It could be somebody else. Why? So says is because in the mush has to have a combination of talents that not everyone has. Number one, he has to be able to speak. He has to be able to inspire. He has to be able to go ahead and to calm people's nerves before they're going into battle. He is a person that has to know what war is about of what happens in war. How people are killed, how people are torn up, people are injured. You have a person that has the right constitution for that. Not everybody has that. Therefore, Moshu M does not go automatically to the son because the son may be at sadic and may be able to do the avoid etc etc but he doesn't have these specific talents that are required of the mash and therefore pinhas had those talents. Pinhas is the one who's not afraid of war. Pas is the one in Paris Pinhas or Par's Boloc. They went ahead and took the spear and speared Cosby and and and their perpetator and speared them. I mean, you know, you got to be tough and brave and not afraid of war. And Pinas has, you know, he he had this kayak. He had this ability to speak and to inspire. And therefore, that's why Pinus was specifically the one who was chosen as the Moshu because he had this combination of talents of compassion, oratory in in tospire people, to calm people, to comfort people. That's why he was chosen. So I once read a story about the there was a community in in in Europe that the ro died. I'm not ask I'm not suggesting that this should be necessarily used in other situations, but the RV died and half of the community wanted the RV son to take over the job. The other half of the community said, "No, no, no. See, he's not the right guy for the job." And there was another candidate who felt that yes, he he's the one should take over the job. So they went to the to ask who should get the job the son they are a parent or this other person surprisingly said no go to the other person because he said the day the the job of a rov today in Europe today in Europe is different than it was 100 years before or 200 years before. In those days the job of the ro was what? to give the shabas a Russia to give the shabas rasha and toaskcan chilus and sometimes in a community that dying wasn't even task but his job was not about inspiring keeping people uh inspired for yiddishk but the says today in his day there are so many forces trying to pull Jews apart take out Jews from their communities. It's not enough just to have a rov that can give a shabasa. You need someone to be able to inspire people and to keep the youth in line. It's a much more taxing job. And that Rob's son was it? Yes. But he didn't have those talents. So today says we have to have a person that can lead the community can keep the community together can inspire them to to be medic mitzvah and that doesn't necessarily go may have been from father to