Korach & Chukas - Staff of Moshiach

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramaphae israel 5782 2022 this week in hutzlarz the precious pasha's korach and the narrative israel it's parshas kukas and before we get into the partial before we get into an amazing idea connecting the two parties very deep idea about aaron haquin i'd like to just mention to you something which i mentioned once a year we're coming in to purchase bullock and pinchas started this podcast 15 years ago practice pinchas so parsons bullock is the completion of 15 years of the partial podcast every single week and so as i did in the past i'd like to remind you all that this partial podcast is able to continue because of the support of people like you the listeners the people who are watching it i encourage you to go to ariegoldweg.com click on the donate button which is on the left side of the screen and give what you can specifically i don't know if you you noticed but you may have that the quality of the video over the past two weeks had dropped now we're back because my camera had an issue this is a very nice camera an expensive camera and there was uh something broke in the camera and it was about six hundred dollars and we ended up doing other things with the upgrade ended up being about a thousand dollars to take care of the camera the camera of course is part of the devray torah to give over the director where the clear video is important i believe clear sound that's why we're in a studio that's a recording with studio quality so i encourage you to go over to arigoldwag.com and click the donate button on the left side of the screen and indeed help make these podcasts continue now let's get into the parsha and i would like to share with you a thought very deep thought comparing how aaron is seeing arnakayan in parshas korach and how arna kayan it seems from the beginning of parshas course the para duma there's a very interesting idea in regards to our hakone that we'll see in the ramban together but let's start off in parches korach in parshas korafso we have the challenge korach comes with his challenge to aaron korax says why is aaron hakone being singled out for specialness why is he the the high priest why are all of the vmware all of us why are we all special why are some more special than others why are any jews more special than other than other jews comes dustin and aviram they asked that question and the torah goes out of its way the story the way that it's described the events that took place kodashiboroku proves unequivocally to the jewish people that aaron is special because he's special he has a special status it's hum it's his humility perhaps it's his nivua his prophecy his special abilities whatever the idea is whatever the reason is but it's his uniqueness that qualifies him to be the girl to be the high priest and one of the ways that the the torah proves or that hashem proves it is through a particular test each of the tribes gives their mata gives their walking stick so to speak i'll see soon that the mata is much more than just a walking stick each of them gives a stick a mata and it's left in the mikdash it's left in the tabernacle overnight and in the morning they come and they see that there's something special about the mata the walking stick of arun hakaian it has sprouted it has burst forth with flowers with almonds with with life and represents the fact that arunachalen is uniquely attached to the source of life which is hashem which is god and therefore he is uniquely suited to be the high priest and to act on behalf of the jewish people in their service of hashem now there's some very interesting things because over here we see that the entire theme of the parasha qurach is the uniqueness and specialness of aaron and how he is chosen to be the one who will serve in the miktash in the holy place in the service of hashem and a tabernacle at the beginning of partial however very interestingly and it's something that you could miss if you didn't see the ramban and i don't i don't remember ever seeing this idea before but i was studying this together with my son moshidov this week and we saw together an amazing thing and that is that when it comes to the para aduma the concept the main concept at the beginning of partial school is that if a person becomes taught amazed they become impure as we all are today because we don't have a special red heifer the ashes of the red heifer in order to purify ourselves if a person becomes impure so they have to go through a whole process in order to purify themselves with the ashes of the red heifer now where where is this avoided on in contrary distinction to most of the 99 percent of the avoidance of the mishkan the core bonus the sacrifices were brought inside of the mikdash inside of the tabernacle inside of the later in the basement in the temple the para duma the acts the tahalik the the parts of the aveda that were done it was all done outside of the making she was done outside of the encampment perhaps representing the fact that a person who was impure had to go out of the camp person who had come in contact with the dead had to leave the camp to go to a certain you know a certain a certain place but the avoidance of burning the red heifer and the sprinkling of the of the ashes the water and the ashes of the red heifer was done outside if i'm not mistaken outside of the camp so it wasn't done in the mikhtash now that's one point that ramban points out we'll see soon what the ramifications of that are mizrat hashem hashem's help another point of it is that whereas listen to this because this is very important whereas all of the other avedas all of the other times in the future after the title was given that the red heifer the process was gone through it was done specifically according to one opinion with a cohen god of the high priest according to other opinions it was it wasn't necessarily but here was specifically done not by aaron hakaian the high priest aaron was not the one who did it but rather his son eliezer was the one who did it moshe and aaron were the pr were the navy the prophets who acted and told over the information to eliazer arnakayan's son eliezer was going to be the high priest in the future but he was not yet at this point eliezer was the one who did the burning et cetera all of the different parts of this particular affair this service and then it was prepared and ready and interestingly the the ashes of the red heifer that eliezer did lasted throughout the first temple period until ezra came along and he was the first one afterwards 920 years later approximately who actually made another red heifer so the question is why when it comes to paraduma does iron seem to be excluded whereas in practice quark we saw the centrality and the importance of arunachaleian and the aveda mishkan and avoida in the service in the tabernacle when it comes to the para aduma he was not included so we're going to get into that shortly we're going to get we'll see the ramban together but before we do i'd like to share with you the magician regards to the mata of aaron the special staff of our own because there was something unique about it and it was not just unique in regards to iron himself but we'll see that this staff that ended up flowering and producing almonds even though it was detached from the ground there was something unique about it and it wasn't just his staff it was a staff from before it was a staff that would be used later and it will be used soon as well says the magic like this we need to understand of course as we read this what is the concept here what is the depth of what the magistrate is saying what is the idea behind it mata aaron so moshe ben was to take the staff of aaron and bring it indeed into the miktash into the tabernacle along with the other staffs of the other leaders of the tribes of all the other 11 tribes are those who say that this very staff was the staff that yehuda had yehuda what staff did you have um there was a staff that yehudah used interestingly when he came to tamar he ended up having a child in a very unusual way let us say but he had a staff and he used that staff as collateral before he paid tamar for her services they ended up having a child together actually twins right and we know that from that union came eventually david king david came from the union party parrots and zerach were the two children born from that union but he used his staff and indeed she she disappeared and then when it came time she became pregnant and everyone thought that it was through an illicit it was through some kind of inappropriate marriage some kind of inappropriate union and she brought out that staff she brought out the staff and she said she didn't want to say to whom it belonged but she said to whom this belongs is the one to whom i became with whom i became pregnant and you would have recognized that it was his own fault that she had been waiting that there's a council delivered marriage etc not going to get into that whole story but there was a staff there and that staff was the same staff of arunachalene very interesting what does that staff have to do with our staff what does that story have to do with our story what is the concept we need to understand the connection but the message nevertheless says that that staff was the staff of arun that proved our own to be the chosen one somehow that staff was connected to yehuda in the story of tamar the asian there are those who say that the staff of aaron was the same staff as the staff that moshe bainu used that moses used in order to perform the miracles when he performed the miracles all of the the sarah makkas the templates were done with a staff this is the same staff as moshe the same staff as the staff of our own in this case it's called the staff of army because it's served on behalf of aaron to perform this miracle but it was we could say the staff of the tribe of levy according to this opinion somehow it was also the staff of yehuda we need to understand that there's a section here in the matrix which part of it is important to us and part of it uh i need to skip because it's not central to my point but it says over here in the matrix then in regards to this staff it goes somewhere there's a connection to the tits that was a special um head plate that went on the forehead of the korean girl the high priest and it said in a kodesh hashem holy unto god at a certain function it created a certain level of atonement for the jewish people for certain issues thomann tahara but it uses the word in regards to the mata of arna koin he uses the words vaiyoidse perak it produced fruits this this the staff of iron and produce fruits it it blossomed it had blossoms on it very interesting also had almonds as we mentioned but what is the concept of sits so it's also connected to the sits of the coin god which had on it the name of hashem so to the staff of aram in a miraculous way the name of hashem appeared on it and that's what helped it perhaps to produce this unbelievable miracle that it came to life even though it was a it was a walking stick what is the idea of a you'd say it's it's it's very important idea that marzu connects it to another place where we have the letter sadie and sadi the word sits is made up of the letters sadi yudhsandi so you have the letter sadi twice where else do we have the letter sadi twice manspach we find that there are five letters of the torah mem nun sadi pe and haf these five letters have a double letter you have a letter in the middle of the word and we have a different version of that letter at the end of the word and the message earlier actually in this parasha two sections earlier we have this concept of the end letters which represent the end times the the gula agulla a redemption time monsieur bino says pacoid pocarity uses the double pay when you have a pay and you have a pay sofis or an end to pay you have the letter pay and you have the letter pay at the end of a word there's the concept of the end the doubling but is the secret um code word that he used moshe rabbenu when he came to tell the jewish people that he was coming to redeem them and there's that sadie and sadie that sadiyah that saudi arabia tells us has to do with the final there's an east semarch in regards we ask god to bring us the offshoot the growth the one is going to grow out of king david so that sadie and the sadie represents the redemption the final the final redemption which we're looking forward to bazrat hashem which will be soon perhaps sooner than we even know the staff somehow is connected to the mashiach to the messiahs we're going to see even more soon but there's a miraculous thing that happens with this staff what is the concept of this staff says the magistration finishing that very same staff was in the hands of each and every king each and every king of the jewish people used that staff somehow we understand what that means but they use the staff for some purpose what's the purpose we'll see very soon until the temple was destroyed and then the mata the staff this very staff which used which mosh used for the miracles which are nakaya used to prove his his specialness each of the kings used it but when the bishop the first temple it seems was destroyed so it was hidden away that very same staff is going to be in the hands of the king mashiach the messiah the redeemer of the jewish people shinamar as the verse says it's a verse in psalms the staff of your power hashem you will send from zion seeing is another word for you shalom jerusalem which is the seat of god's glory redeveloped go out and strike in the midst of your enemies so this verse tells us that in the future is going to have the staff and it also tells us what is the purpose of the staff the purpose is to strike the enemies of the jewish people so let's now go back a moment because now that we have this concept and we still need to of course understand the depth of it but the purpose of the staff the same staff of yehuda of of arun of moshe of the kings of mashiach the purpose of the staff is to strike the enemies of the jewish people now what does that mean and in this it's important to point out which i didn't read it inside but the manager also mentions that the staff would strike the enemies of levy of the levites because some came to say that arunachalene was not the chosen one korah came to say that and somehow this staff proves and strikes out against those who deny the specialness of levy it proves that they are wrong and proves that iron is special and unique and again i want to remind you of the question that we said earlier which has to do with kukas why is it that when it comes to precious kukas and the para duma aaron is excluded whereas over here we see that he's specifically chosen when it comes to the mikdash the tabernacle we're going to come back to that question again i just wanted to remind you guys of it but let's look for a moment at what the staff does because it's very essential to understand the uniqueness of aaron the uniqueness of the jewish people themselves and when meshiach comes to do what the messiah comes to accomplish and what every one of the kings of the jewish people came to accomplish and that is as follows the mata the staff that we are speaking about here redevelop it strikes the enemies of the jewish people but what it really comes to do is to prove and to show to us who is that sadiq it's the sitz it's the tadiana who is the sadiq who is the righteous one because the nations of the world lay claim to chosenness right just as korach came to say that hey why is aaron chosen the nations of the world also say hey we took over the chosenness of the jewish people the jewish people they were chosen for a while perhaps but they lost their chosen status they sinned god they lost favor famous thing akash verse made such a claim but christianity makes this claim islam makes this claim the jewish people were rejected by god now the very fact that we exist we are for sure back in earth israel bizarre to show the god's help 7 million strong back in the land of israel it's kind of a little kasha it's a little uh question upon their assumption but part of what meshiach comes to do is to show the truth to show the truth of the tsidkus the righteousness of the jewish people throughout the years despite the fact that we may have strayed from god's ways we we were even punished because of it we lost the temple but mashiach will come to show with this mata with this very staff it's the staff which proves who is special who is chosen by hashem who is the soul of the world who is to be the leaders of the world the spiritual leaders of the world to show the entire world what it really looks like to serve god what is the proper balance between the proper balance between love right the christian idea is a tremendous amount of love sometimes it wasn't expressed that way throughout history but a tremendous amount of love the idea of islam is din is judgment god is going to judge you if you don't do exactly what you're supposed to do and the jewish people gives the proper balance between these two ideas and proves and shows that god is a god of love but he's also if the the way that he interacts with us is tempered by justice we have both ideas god is going to be one and his name will be one shemis we have hashem of utke which is and we have a volcano which is din we have the mercy and we have the judgment somehow god interacts with us with both and that's the balance that the jewish people uniquely represent and will teach the world but there is before that before we get to that moment there's a a mata there's a there's a staff and if you think about a staff it's really the same staff that you know spare the rod and spoil the child right western civilization has completely spared the rod defund the police right spare the rod and spoil the child the incredible amount of of licentiousness of lack of order lack of commitment to id to spirituality lack of commitment to common decency that represents western values nearly the opposite extreme which is the islamic world which is too much din too much anger and and judgment the jewish people here in the center with the balance but the purpose of this staff which is the staff which comes to strike when used in the proper balance it's coming to prove who is special it proves that that same that same staff is what proves that the jewish people are unique because when moshe uses it through the plagues we see that that same plague it appeared to the egyptians as something which destroyed them and for the jewish people it was something which brought them out of egypt and separated them from amongst the nations of the world in the context of kayan that staff proved that he was special he was the one who belonged inside of the mikthas the tabernacle despite all the other detractors who said that he wasn't special he wasn't unique it proved that he is the one who belongs there it's his humility it's his special nature it says oh you have shalom he's running after peace his love of peace each of the kings was able to use it as well in their particular context to be able to prove that the jewish people is unique and special really as king solomon did indeed rule the world as as our sages tell us the jewish people are supposed to rule that rule the world with this staff which proves that we have the balance and ultimately the king the shia who's going to come and lead the jewish people properly is going to prove to the world that we as well are special and we have that balance and it's going to bring upon the world a certain level of judgment which will prove that we are special as opposed to all of the other nations of the world and we are to be the leaders of the world that is the staff now looking back very interestingly on yehuda there is also an aspect of proving the specialness and the correctness right as yehuda says sadkamimani tamar seems to have done something incredibly wrong she became horrella zunim she became pregnant by going out and doing something licentious but she proves with the staff the staff proves that she had done the right thing she had performed a leverage type of relationship in order to have children from the correct line and she gave birth she proved her righteousness there was a righteousness which was proved through the mata through the staff now let's look and we'll see that when it comes to aaron akalian there's a reason why he's not able to to be involved in the para haduma in the red heifer and it's connected very much to this concept of separation and it doesn't look like i have the time to explain it completely fully but i'll at least touch on it we'll try to understand the ramban tells us i can't read it inside it's not enough time the ramban tells us the paradigm as we mentioned was specifically done outside of the encampment all of the ritual all of the parts of the aveda of the service were done outside of the encampment and perhaps you could explain for this reason aaron akane is not able to do it the the ramban also says that eliezer was the one who did it one of the reasons that he says is because ironically he had a stain on him he had on him the stain of the eagle he was involved in the sin of the golden calf so he was not able to do it now it's very interesting because the sin of the golden calf didn't stop him from being involved in all of the other types of avoid of service in the in the mikdush and the tabernacle when it came to something which was outside of the encampment there was a different aspect there he couldn't do it he couldn't be involved in it it had to be eliezer who was untainted his son was untainted by this and he was going to be the future coin girl but he was untainted of the sin of the golden calf now what is the idea perhaps you could say that the idea is like this that when it comes to the mikdush itself when it comes to the temple itself so we are in the inner aspect in the inner sanctum and it can't be touched by sin when you go out into the outer worlds when you go out into let's say we could compare it to the difference between eretz israel the land of israel performing the commandments here there's a specialness of doing it here as opposed to those who are doing it outside of israel there's a much greater danger outside the land of israel when it comes to being judged when it comes to judgment there's a greater danger outside of the camp outside of the mikdash when it comes to judgment as i said i can't get so far into it but ayanna kaine inside of the miktash it's just we're looking at his essence of who he is of his specialness and the sin that he did doesn't touch it doesn't doesn't cause any damage to his uniqueness and his specialness inside of the mikdtush inside of artistro there's a different way that a kurdish borku looks at us there's a different type of judgment it's different outside of israel outside of the miktash we can be tainted by sin and we can be called to task on our sins in a different way heaven forbid because of the fact that we're outside of the mikhtash when it comes to purchase koraf so it's talking about the the centrality of the avodah of his service inside when it comes to the para duma which has to do with death with which has to do with the sin of admiration which has to do with the ego as of which has to do with the the sin of the golden calf which brought about death and into the world and that's to do with the outer aspects so there has to be a deeper level in order to be saved from judgment there there has to be a deeper level of purity and it can't be tainted a person who's been tainted we don't we don't see right it's hard to see when we look outside of israel it's a great example you look outside of israel it seems more like the jewish people are not as chosen they're not as special the the nations of the world have power outside of the land of israel you can have a scholar movement you can have an enlightenment movement you can have people who've lost their connection to yiddish but in arts israel it's very different look at the look at the land of israel look at the juvenile movement the those who are returning to judaism within the land of israel it's much stronger more powerful within israel they're so you know you look at the the even the people who are far away from the initiative within the land of israel they're still more connected to yiddish they're still more connected to judaism and to observance and to traditional observance there's something special about eretz or the land of israel it's like it parallels the mikdash where there's a different type of connection and outside of israel parallels the the different type of connection and the loss of connection and the judgment i can't get so far into it our time is up but i'd like to bless you and ask you to bless me that hashem should help us to recognize the amazing importance of being inside of the mikdash of being inside of eric's israel of living in the land of israel the centrality of it the way that a kurdish work looks at us differently here hashem should help us to recognize the importance and the holiness of israel hashem should inspire within our hearts the desire to be in the middle to be in the in the center in that place where all we see is the purity and the chosenness and the specialness should help us as he has brought back so many to er to throughout the land of israel back into the tabernacle back into the holiness back into the place of spirituality should help us draw us back into this place and bring mashiach bring the messiah hashem should show and prove to the entire world so soon the specialness the uniqueness of the jewish people and of the tribe of levy and of mashiach himself speedily and in our days thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time have a good show this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag [Music]