Shlach-Korach - Noticing the Reminders

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with the shams never-ending assistance in Hermitage image Israel 5780 2020 this week's Barcia and klitz loritts is partial sloth and an artsy straw we were reading partials kaurav and I'd like to once again share with you a thought that's the end of partial schlock beginning of partials the concept of the tit is what is the idea and the depth behind the mid-surface it says what do we learn from it and not just cities as we'll see in a Madras but really many many of the mitzvahs that we have which are connected to our big atom our clothes we have the cities on our houses we play some Azusa there are many different myths that are connected to our possessions I'm going to see there's a great depth in the idea behind those mitzvahs and in the beginning of parshas Cora so we have Cora Cora begins his rebellion against Moshe Rabbeinu and we're gonna see the magician's side that he comes and he talks about that it's asst he comes and he speaks about that's the connection between the previous partial partial slop the enemy of tits is the beginning of precious koreff is the rebellion what is the idea let's see this inside in the mesh hopefully best artists Shem will have a beautiful and deep idea a beautiful deep wise teaching from our sages but you got Cora plastic tells us that yeah that correct came and he took maximum element on Union Vasudha missus what do we speak about at the end of partial slaw the idea of wearing Texas special strings we place on the 4 chord on the four corners of our garments carfax careful Omar la mouche polish Aquila tail is mounted epitome at tsatsis one of the things as will see the reason or part of the part of the lesson of its it's s right that sits on the four corners we have the strings that are sticking out of the sit cysts see it's sticking out of the garment and from the Torah at the times until the times of the Gemara we had playlist we had a special dye according to some of his black died according to some it was a blue dye that came from a certain kind of fish called a Sheila's own and that dye remind in us of the base of the heavens remind us the Keisei I covet of that of God's heavenly throne reminds us of spirituality and so here's the thing said Koroth like this let's say the tailless which is the main part of the tits us which reminds us of our connection to spirituality reminds our connection to the sparkle let's say the garment the four-cornered garment itself is made out of tailors completely so famous Kasia famous thing that Korres said to Moshe if I have a girl which is all completely made out of Kahless why do I need that extra string hanging out of the garment to remind me of spirituality it's not necessary I really claims but it's this moisture I'm gonna said no I'm sorry you're wrong it's still gonna be obligated in citrus I'm like Clara how she called his name but there's arts mom how could it be that a Garmin which is completely made out of many strings of Kahless many strings of blue wool they can't Potter itself with all the strings Harbor Hooten purchases over now you have four extra strings that's what's going to make it that's what the Mitzvah is it doesn't make sense it Karev hard to understand and he said a further time by shoot by Somalis for mouth she put her men humming Susie said let's see what a house that's full of sworen right so you have a sefer Torah in the house why would it be necessary to place them as dishonored or me this is one little partial one little section of the Torah to remind us of a collision buckle remind us of our connection to God what if my house is full of swaram I have books and I have a safer Torah so my Makua Taman was this on my door what I need that little thing for him I like highly misses he said no you are obligated on like a litera Coulomb essentially Marva parshas the entire Torah is 274 and according to most of the gear slicer is actually 275 partyís 275 sections and if there is a bias the tour itself doesn't you know fulfil your obligations so to speak partial a customer mr. pedesta device that one small section in mezuzah is what's going to now say that a person is Yossi the Mitzvah eyelid where male Ennis the vase of a hen - whistle and Cora said Tim I can't believe that this is from a college boy who from God you made it up when we leave hot tub boy done you made it up doesn't make sense can't be that God commanded you these things okay I know skip skipping a small section here me odd sieve of Awesome a Simon Commission tally toast Kahless anisotropy hen I just want some time Commission rushes and hedges should come on moisture so immediately Cora went and he created these 250 garments at okay less the 250 people who were there with him these great leaders of the Jewish people they all wore these garments she never he couldn't finish my notion your name so Commission was signed in CA the cream why did these 250 important people who came with Cora to fight against Moshe they all did did so on my curse but also initiative inside of Italy sister comes very interesting carafe made a big party that night and they all wore these garments and they all didn't have cities on them doesn't say that explicitly but that's clearly the idea and before she explained that a person since when is the person sin because of party he makes a party brings a person to sin okay Boban Yardley come on the same varies interestingly closer to shake the the Kohanim came and a fortune say it's not necessarily literal that they came literally or there was an obligation upon those people eating from they had a big party and there was a lot of meat there's a lot of food and there's an obligation to give certain nice gonna to give certain parts of the animal to the priests okay I'm leakin Eglin over the head meets II was only told calculation less included even welcomed once again they refused to give these special portions that were meant to be given to the Kohanim to priests and they said Moshe idel made it up himself okay so that's that's the story with Cora Cora came and said this this whole thing doesn't make sense I'm not interested in these mitzvahs and therefore they went often they did their thing and they lost their lives for rebelling Cancellara may know now what is the idea I won't understand the concept of tsatsis what is the depth of the mr. because if we understand the Mitzvah of citizeness and what it represents we can understand what was Cora coming and complaining the mushroom being about always his fact what was his statement what was he avoiding what is the concept of the midst of cities that indeed Cora was saying I'm not interested in because it's important to understand it obviously because we need to know what this Mitzvah is we do these mitzvahs and we have these obligations and what is the message here I want to bring it back to a message at the end of partial schlaf which speaks about the Citiz what success chapter 15 verse 38 Oh Sula hence it says you shall make for yourself cities how does it save or zealots Adak this is what the verse means when it says that there is a light which is planted for the righteous coffee it's the monk sitka another verse in Isaiah which says I shan't desires their righteousness what is the idea Zara Kaddish work with cetera verse have mrs. lantini still hanim above a sham plant it gave us all of these mitzvahs why the 613 commandments are so many details there's so many parts of the Taira there's so many places where we have to be involved in missus what is the idea behind it what is the lesson what are we supposed to take out of it why why did I shall do this it's because I kodesh for who wanted to plant for us to give us seeds we spoke about seeds previously the things that we planned for later generations but not only do we plan for later generations then only do we plan for others around us we also plan for ourselves for what is our life going to look like in that eternal life time how both the world to come we like in the f-number by Lucian lesson blue mitzvahs miss Elise row there's not a single thing since I'm a Jewish in the entire world that Shannon didn't give us an opportunity to bring a level of spirituality into that mitzvah let's see yet Salah quite a person goes out he's a farmer he goes out to do the kirusha Motaba sharp Bashar bhai more table geisha not to use an axe and a mule together with Roy a person goes out to plant seeds like Caesar carmical there's an obligation there as well don't plant this kind of see with that kind of seeds can have Cal I'm licked Circuit Sixth Circuit cerca at every point at every stage of our lives whatever we're involved in there's a mitzvah they're lush wishes every second column when a person is making Halloween's making dough there's an obligation to take off certain amount of the dough and give it as a donation to the to the Quran the Levites shabbiness la carne Allah Allah lehayim as mentioned previously when persons of shaquita there's an obligation to give these pieces to the coning certain parts conceal Oaxaca I'm a person takes an egg that's an obligation to send away the mother bird the Kiowa a face for shoppers Dominic's you saw the offer every step every stage there's an obligation a mitzvah and gives us an opportunity to infuse the Mitzvah with spirituality okay etc keeps going on and on and on person has a house South time Alamos is is this obligation to put a mezuzah on our house miss casa a Batala so so limited to the person has clothing put on pizzas on the four corners of the garment okay so the idea here is again the idea is to infuse every single aspect of our lives every single aspect of our lives as an opportunity for there to be a spiritual dimension to it doesn't mention it here the way that we raise our children Shin hunt them live in a them we have an obligation to teach the tour to our children the way that we interact with our wives you've certain obligations okay now what is the concept specifically though of tsatsis we're gonna see there's an amazing depth here plus success that we need to put tailless on the blue the special blue dyed wool which we mentioned before shott tails dem Alaric he ever a kid there and looked like he said covered alright we said that there's an idea of seeing that it's it's when we see artists we see the blue and the census itself also it's chuh of we'll see how that networks also hopefully soon we see that blue it reminds us of something it's a reminder that this is our own reminder the mezuzah is a reminder each of the misses that we do in regards to every aspect of our lives is even reminder the blue will reminds us of the heavens reminds us of the Kia covered by us of the case telepathic says in Exodus chapter 24 verse 10 it refers to the fact that there was a sapphire there was a blue color in the heavens so it's to remind us of that blue reminds of the Kia cover of who we're serving a yellow colored seats is should tahini race that sisters need to be seen the word seats means lad seats means the seat to scope out to seat take a quick peek the sisters are here too for us to take a quick peek to remind us who are we who are we what is our essence our essences connection to Kadesh baku our essence is spirituality our essence is godliness and now here the end of the piece of the Midrash because this is just awesome Hammar immediately there's the current when a person sees something it reminds him you know you look at a picture of your child wow you feel love you miss that child or in school of course when they're home they're screaming you know you wish you could be somewhere else but when the child is in school you know you look at the picture reminds you the child in your love for the child when I see that it's as' when I see the the blue it reminds me see car me really they myself and when I remember and reminds me to take action she mention Emeril amantes guru of Isis and the passage says in regards it's is this you look at them you remember and you act Lama he like Deborah ku me cam because this is not an empty matter and this is the foundation of what I would like to show you guys today amazing thing such an important thing that cities are there to remind us the cities are there for us to be reminded and take action it's easy to forget this here listen to this Marshall abala bias it's a parable is comparable to a person a homeowner of all of us show your chuckle our noni a suitcase of apotheosis he was paying off the taxes he's paying his taxes and he was getting receipts for his payments his father says to him Binney heavies are about Pacquiao knows man be careful with those receipts don't lose the receipts because if you don't if you're not caring about the receipts and you lose the receipts they might charge you again you pay the tax keep the receipt so you can prove that you paid the taxes already chemical - hopefully stroke a load of our economy can kill hyukoh because for who says to Jewish people this is the same exact thing it's not an empty thing hold on to the hold on to the mitzvot what's the idea the Marzu explains here an amazing thing we have a mitzvah what is the idea that in each and every thing in every aspect of our lives we have a mitzvah what is the concept the concept that's here you have a beautiful garment that cause your uncle gave you put sits is on the outside on the edge of it two reasons number one is for you to remember because Raul wants to give you a mitzvah so that you can have Zuka yes you can have awesome merits for the item above but there's another thing here it has for us to recognize that we what is this what is the thing that we have where's it from why do I have this what are these nice clothes come from where this beautiful house come from how is it that I have delicious bread to eat with my eggs in the morning where does it come from goes for who says here's a mitzvah here's a mitzvah take off collar give it to the lady who represents me give it to the Levite give it to the coin it represents me you need to be reminded you can't walk through your life with all the blessings that you have and not stop stop for a moment you walk in the door kiss that mezuzah don't do it without thinking don't do it in a happenstance way you wear it you put your sister's on in the morning you make the brother you kiss the Citiz when you say Shama don't forget what's going on there this is your chance to remember wow I can appreciate that I have a wonderful garment that's how we pay our tax and that's how we keep the tax receipts the receipt that says we paid the tax the tax is the this is what we do for a college Berkeley because he gave us something he gave us our lives he gave us our clothing he gave us our homes he's just so much use us our pernessa we take off true we take off - we say it's Tucker why because that's how we show our appreciation we recognize that it's from him and we we have it in front of us keep those receipts in front of you and I want to tell you a beautiful thing my great-grandfather secular Colonel brocco we have read you the ISIF strides in was his name he left my family a beautiful central mushroom which used learn from said coal mushroom called a likely Sorel it hadn't it translation translations in theatres kumaras sukham and inside of that commercial set he left these receipts their receipts for the sadaqa that he gave beautiful my father was just going through them I hear there's a receipt therefore they she was Kaufman Lublin he had given to this is a receipt effort he had moved to our sister L in the 1930s I believe and and he had given my into different stuff as here in ITIL and he left those receipts inside of his kamesh and we we enjoy those receipts I have to share with you that I this is what I thought this is why use from my book markers in mice for him I use those receipts that I get from the sucker that I've given and the receipts remind us that we we know obviously we can never pay our dues so to speak luckily sparkle but this is who we are we're connected we recognize we remind ourselves that this is a kurdish baku that we're connected to this isn't just something that we do all the time without thinking it can't be that it can't be that that's what the measure she's telling us an amazing thing that sits is Shanee race it's seen it reminds us remember what is this about the actions that we do have to be different because we recognize that it's all for my cousin tomorrow who it's all from Hashem and I think a large part perhaps perhaps we don't know I could've shackled us things but a large part of the shake up that's gone on over the last few months in our lives financially and it's gonna continue to be continuing financially physically walking around in masks walking around thinking thinking differently Parnassus is a question mark for so many people it's a shake up it's a shake up I couldn't romances think where is it from don't forget you ever just loved a roof over your head you still of clothing you're you're okay you're okay but where is it from it's a reminder now let's let's go back to Colorado because Carl didn't want to have scissors you didn't wanna miss izi he said what do you mean what do I need a reminder for my house is full of swaram I'm a fluid I've got I'm doing everything I'm doing everything you're supposed to do I have cleared my whole garment is cleared my whole life is connection taco - boar who you want to tell me that I still need something extra another reminder it's not necessary you made this up you made this up motion you want me to give something extra to the Cohanim you want me to take from my from my party and give to the Kohanim something come on it's not necessary it's not necessary and that's a mistake it's a mistake what's the mistake because that's human nature human nature I said we get used to it you don't think about it you put on the sisters every morning we don't think about it we passed by the mezuzah we kiss the mezuzah you don't think about it we have all these myths that we're doing all the time and it's so easy to forget we need to have these receipts and ice farm we need to see it for ourselves when you're not a great grandchildren to see that this is who we are and this is who we were we need this to continue for all times and it doesn't continue it can continue by roads but it doesn't have the same power that's what the measure is teaching us it doesn't have the same power when a person is doing things by rote when it's just oh god I'm going good that we're all good we're all okay we're all doing things already that's course mistake that's death that's that's the result the result is Korah and his I just say make these mistakes how could they come against my sure I mean my sure a man who took them out of its room I sure been in the Nadia sham chené they all heard I cuz she was speaking to him how could they make such a mistake and I think that a person becomes accustomed when everything is just rote it's just this is what we do this is what we do and I'm not reminding myself I'm not reminding myself I'm falling into a trap and I can fall into the trap of Gaia and every bad meet that can happen if I'm not thinking if I'm not reminding myself one of the things that I'm ecstatic about I do every single almost every single day I listen to a share for Marissa Shiva where there's a brand new Shira from the vibe Musser I need muster I need to remind myself what do I want where do I want to go am i off track am I am I on the right track am i doing things correctly what's going on with me am I just am I just floating along is everything just ok with me is my life oh it's the house full of sperm I need that reminder at the petcock of my house even though my house is full for him I can't take it for granted I have him as is on my door not even think about it and and I think that that's so much it's like what's being told to us today don't take for granted your health don't take for granted your pernessa don't take for granted being able to dive in in a shul don't take it for granted that's what the message I believe of this of this mattress is a message of the Citiz it's something that seats to notice to see to notice to remind ourselves my tits is my sisters my sisters don't just kiss it remind yourself look at it you're kissing it anyway look at it notice it and it's got to make your actions different was a car Tim I see some actions change the depth the the realness of what's going on in our life changes when it's not just by rote I want to bless you and ask you to bless me that should help us to take the opportunities that are right in front of us every single day so many opportunities that we're doing them anyway should help us to infuse them with awareness to infuse them with to take the opportunities that are there right in front of us that we have that we are doing and to infuse them indeed with awareness and connection to our coach beaucoup and it should spill over into all of our actions and we should only go Mala Mala thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.gfi.com/webmonitor [Music]