Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Greek Tragedy of Korach

[Music] okay hi everyone good evening and I'm going to try to actually talk about to party us because I think there are some common themes last week last Shabbos we read Sherlock about the story of the spies and this week we read by the different type of rebellion the rebellion of co-rec let me start with co-ack first and then I'll move backwards to the issues of the Moraga llem correct of course was the great rebellion challenging the authority of Moshe Rabbeinu and was very very interesting is solid a chick describes chorus as what is called the common sense rebellion correct basically seems to be a libertarian at heart he's basically saying call her a de Coulomb Kadosh iam all of the Jewish people are holy all of them have a direct connection with God we don't need intermediaries to tell us how to serve the Almighty each person man or woman should be able to decide what is the best way of serving a sham this is a very attractive idea this is the idea of egalitarianism in fact it's reminiscent a little bit there's there was a book on religion in America that was written around 230 years ago not about Judaism just religion generally and in that book one of the people interviewed was a woman a nurse whose name happened to be Sheila and Sheila was quoted as saying that I believe in God but I don't believe in organized religion so I have my own religion that I call Sheila ISM and that works fine so I remember hearing from a rabbi who commented on this book that it was lucky that her name was not Judy because then she would have her religion calls Judaism in point of fact that is exactly how many people defined Judaism I'm Jewish and this is what I believe therefore that is Judaism Cora on one level seems to be making this argument key hall or a DA Coulomb kid ocean but the truth of the matter is that's if you go under correct true motive it was not a question of a below of leadership it was not a question of getting rid of hierarchy it was a question of substituting one power structure for another power structure I Rashi says very very specifically from the Midrash Don kuma that co-rec frankly was jealous because co-rec felt he was entitled to certain prerogatives to be very specific LaVey had three sons Gershon Kohath and Merari Kohath was the son that had the holiest responsibilities tohat had four sons imran meets our chaperone uzo these are four brothers who are the sons of Kohath AMRAAM is the Bacoor meets or who was correct father is the second son so coax had the following bit of argument in his head since AMRAAM is the before he is entitled to a double portion and the double portion is Moshe and Aaron Mosher has leadership in our own house Kahuna Bitola but I am the son of the second son of Gus now there was a position who was the nutsy of shave at Lavy as a whole shave acclaiming that job was given to ELISA phone Ben UGL who is the son of the fourth son Rashi says Korah thought that by rights since he is the son of the second son he should get it first now if you think about that that actually contradicts the actual arguments he made the actual argument he made is we don't need leaders his actual motive is I want to be the leader and in truth this idea of hidden agendas exists in almost every revolution some of you might have read years ago when I prior life George Orwell's book animal farm which was Orwell's parody of the communist revolution right the communist revolution overthrew an oppressive czar in the interests of greater freedom in the common goodra it was a communist but even communism itself in theory was everybody should partake equally of resources we should help either each other from each according or to eats according to their needs from each according to their abilities but it turned out that this communist structure that was designed for the quality of the oppressed turned out to simply be another power structure I mean was Lenin or stop where Lenin or Stalin any better than the czars I would think not go back to the French Revolution ropes Pierre overthrows Lully which Lili was at the 14/15 I don't remember but one of those Louise gets overthrown in the interests of liberté égalité a fraternity and robes Pierre was a vicious murderer Pol Pot's I'd want to go over the history of revolutions Pol Pot in Cambodia a mild-mannered philosophy teacher who overthrew the King in Cambodia murdered how many millions of people you often find and this was this was our wells point the animals rebelled against the oppressive humans and their leader morphed into being a bigger oppressor than the human beings that were replaced so in reality one of the lessons of coax is beware of the people that are calling for egalitarian for equality for the abolition of hierarchy because there is often a hidden agenda it's simply a question of substituting one power structure for another power structure and indeed this explains why most revena responded to what would otherwise be a non sequitur coworkers arguing everybody is equal and moshe says don't you have enough covers as a lavey that god set aside the tribe that wasn't correct argument cart wasn't arguing externally that he didn't have enough Cobo Couric was arguing there ought not to be leadership at all so moshus response rob lowe combinate levy you have enough cabo is a non sequitur visa v the explicit argument that Couric is making but the answer is Moshe obey no understood the actual argument that is beneath the surface and in fact the evidence rewrites that everybody who joined Cora had their own agenda the 250 elders were largely from moving so he said the appetizer says the ruling people were jealous of the waving people because originally that went to their voda bolivian were jealous of the Kohanim the Kohanim were jealous of much every single group that joins chorus had its own agenda had its own purpose they're using the vocabulary in the galley carrying it in the joiner in handling food I'm saying you know there's why I say it again I didn't hear well well no it would have been a legitimate anyway given the fact that you're questioning Moshe Robinho who was chosen by God but in society generally you know there is a there is room for you got a totally illegitimate type of framework but in that context it was it was inappropriate in fact who was the one person besides Moshe that understood this a woman who is relatively anonymous we don't know her name but this is mrs. own been peles now whose own been Paris only mentioned once in the Torah own been palace was a guy a person who apparently was one of the people who joins correct rebellion but he is not mentioned anymore he's not mentioned after his only mentioned once and the Gemara explains that his wife DISA weighted him that when corrects men came to recruit him in order to prevent them from entering their tent or their residence she uncovered her hair and apparently that would scare away even coax that they would not walk into a home if the woman's hair was married woman's hair was uncovering and she basically told her husband will call this tough love she told her husband you're an idiot because I don't know how this is going to come out but I can tell you this if Moshe wins you're in big trouble and you're a nobody and if cowork wins you're nobody so she said you're going to be a nobody either way so what's the point of getting involved in this rebellion right all been peles was saying you know like you Ilan said in Louisiana every man a king whatever whatever what we're using kind of obscure political references but you know American history go back to youi long in the 1930s every man a king etc when he indeed became a virtual dictator that was the closest the amendment well maybe Trump but that's the closest the US had gotten to fascism until maybe now but okay although Trump and we have we have a lot of gratitude to Trump and if you move to the Golan Heights you can move to Trump Heights and whatever the point basically is mrs. Ahn been peles saw that this was a power grab and the language of egalitarianism was simply a smokescreen for a hidden agenda Pirkei avos says a very nice thing Pirkei avos a very famous statement Pirkei avos says every mach locus that is Lashon shamayim so fo with its km when two people are arguing disputing and their motives are for the sake of heaven this argument will be recorded for posterity with respect and with deference and with honor but when it's a mock locus not for the sake of heaven aim so Foley's km it does not endure the Mishnah then says what is an example of a mock loketh the shame shamayim Hillel and Shammai beit el obeid Shama Hillel and Shammai themselves they argue they disputes we happen to pass Caen like one we have to have upcycled occur but we study the views of Shammai and we study the views of Beit Shean might just as we study the views of beit el el because the qivana was the shemish anion and every view that contributes to that discussion is worthwhile in fact the mission itself mentions that the reason Beit Shean is mentioned first is really a position of honor that bait Hillel insisted that Beit Shemesh position be presented first as a matter of honor and respect even to those that they opposed now it then gives an example what is a mush loketh that's not l'chaim shamayim Co Rock does so Co rocks and his congregation now them a fortune master question this is a symmetry in the asymmetrical because visa be the must locate Lachey mission I am you gave both sides coax verses I'm sorry Shah my verses hello in the maloca not the same sure mom you just said correct it should have said call Rach can I get Moshe now a simple answer might be if we would have said it that way you might have drawn the implication that Moshe was not the same surname so you had to leave it out but I think they say them a foursome say things of some cipher says that when you have a much locus Nakhla Shan Shan I am even the people that are taking the same position are fundamentally arguing with each other for example our enemies the Arabs whatever it is you know one of the hidden Bracco's in the long-standing arab-israeli conflict is that the Arabs themselves hate each other perhaps more than they even hate us and consequently a mock locusts that's not l'chaim shamayim even on the same side coulrophobia just so everyone has different agendas exactly yes yes yes the Midrash tells us there's a per second Mitchell a - Lamar Malik wrote that said cosmic machine Banta beta the wisdom of a good wife builds a home builds a strong home via vellus but a foolish wife be a dad to her Senna can destroy the home with her bare hands and this is a perfect talking about how a woman can either create the home or destroy the home and the meddra says that hemella is referring to two women in this biblical narrative that the wife of own Ben pellets in spite of the fact that maybe she was a little harsh during her husband effectively saved him for posterity and coax wife encouraged him to rebel and it had very very destructive effects now of course yeah well once again well that that would actually be a better that would be an easier argument to refute given the fact that Moshe was appointed appointed by God so you really can't argue the the merits of it but the point was owned and peles was not in a leadership position on when pellis was a follower and as a follower he would not have any influence on how things would go so even if you assume for purposes of argument that egalitarianism was a noble goal she's basically saying that goal is not going to be effectuated now that she's not simply saying you know you're going to be a nobody he's basically saying whatever you perceive as a proper and Noble goal out of this process is not going to happen and if it's not going to happen there is no reason to participate in this type of thing [Music] well I think that's the point she basically understood that very point on Ben peles was taken in by sloganeering and politicking and she as wise women often do for their husbands she was able to see the underlying reality of the situation preventing the man from getting carried away in the rhetoric of the moment right men get carried away sometimes in the excitement of a cause and they need to have a reality check so missus on Van Palace is actually a heroic woman at least within her the limited sphere of her family because she prevented own Ben fellows from going down quite literally into the ground now of course keep in mind that correct himself did have very great descendants remember the Torah tells us that the sons of korah did not die they did shuva that when the grounds opened up they fell a little way in and they did chuhwa and there was a cliff that managed to catch them and they climbed out and the descendants of Bnei Cora are actually Shmuel Hanavi Shmuel Hanavi is a descendant you find him to heal him a number of chapters 11 chapters that are live nako rock a psalm of the descendants of Korah that's this correct his descendants were the love iane that sang sheila in the beit hamikdash and they composed the hilum and Schmuel was the most illustrious in fact the measure she actually says that part of what gave correct delusions of grandeur is he saw with Ruach Hakodesh that Shmuel was his descendants and we have a teaching that Shmuel is as great as Moshe M Aaron so he figured as the saying goes the Apple cannot fall far from the tree so it's what was great and it comes from me it gotta be again this time he gotta be that you know I'm that grace you know it comes from me and that kind of gave him this grandiose view that he should be the leader but he had to sell it in terms of egalitarianism again the hidden agenda that we have to be very very aware of it exists on all levels because the drive for power is a very very powerful powerful drive within people in this connection I want to share with you a fascinating Anna Grammatik gematria from the IRAs all talked about Kabbalah that is quoted in the Hasidic safe there Seamus Shmuel was the son of the sucker Sheva Rebbe the ariza that gives us the fire of the following of Maitreya the gematria of Moshe mem shin-hey is 345 the gamma tria of Korah is 308 cake three three hours of 335 303 Moshe is 345 308 the difference between the two numbers is 37 37 is the gamma Tree of Heaven you know have all the the one that Cayenne killed okay to put it another way if you want to express it arithmetic alee Moshe - have L equals correct or Co Rock + have l equals motion and that's all the a result says he does not explain what on earth is the significance of these three personalities being joined together but the shame of oil does offer a very fascinating explanation he actually says LP Kabbalah Co Rock was a gilgul now again I was arrest us for a few moments the concept of whether Judaism believes in the notion of reincarnation that is called gilgul one can write a whole book about this and indeed there have been books about this do not confuse reincarnation with the resurrection of the dead at the end of days resurrection of the Dead is certainly an article of faith it is one of the 13 principles of faith although that - there was a debate and we shown him but by and large we consider physical resurrection to be a a principle of Judaism and it is based on sukham particularly in the book of Daniel which talks about those who are sleeping in the ground shall arise so I'm not speaking about the automating but I'm speaking about interim reincarnations to our souls after our souls leave our bodies are ourselves put in other bodies to experience other lives this is called gilgul right the reincarnation of souls so if such account writing in the 11th century actually treated gilgul as totally foreign to Judaism and he said if it entered Judaism it entered through foreign influences such as Islam or various other mystical religions and of Sajha gone absolutely denied the legitimacy of the notion of gilgul and there were other rationalistic philosophers who did as well as far as i know i'm not aware of Rambam saying anything about it at all he certainly doesn't endorse it on the other hand he does not explicitly reject it but if Sajha gone does on the other hand we know once we get to the kabbalah of the Cabalists the Kabbalist very much endorsed reincarnation and this is even prior to the IRAs all in the generation following the Rambam we have Rambam Rebbe Moshe binocular Jonathan was not only considered to be the God all hador in matters of Halawa but the Ramban was a great great catalyst in fact the Ramban introduced Kabbalistic interpretations in his commentary to the torah itself and thought he even gave you a buzzword or a code whenever he says aldera chametz the pathway of truth he is about to give you a Kabbalistic explanation and he actually says in the hot dhamma if you are not well versed and initiated into this wisdom he imposed an oath on the reader not to even read it and that's why in the arts growth translations and the like and I think here they do have justification they do not translate the Kabbalistic references they have it in Hebrew simply because the Rambam himself said he didn't want the uninitiated to read it be it as it may the RAM bond does invoke the concept of gilgul in his commentary to the book of EF right to book a via without getting into too much detail is about the problem of theodicy why do righteous people suffer if they didn't commit sins and the Rambam actually introduces the idea that is very familiar Mahalo from Buddhism that suffering might be a connection to the transgressions of past lives and the Rambam in Georgia the idea of gilgul now maybe I shouldn't say Ron bond because it's in the commentary of the romantic Eve which is generally assumed to be run banned but some say it's not so if the commentary is not Ron bond then obviously it wouldn't be Rambam endorsing it once we get to the 16th century the Ariza then we find gilgul is absolutely in full force one of the re swaram refrain Battelle's writings of the Aries teachings is indeed called char hagyó Ghulam the book of reincarnations in which many different types of reincarnations are discussed you know man woman woman man man animal etc the idea of multiple neshama impregnating you so to speak you can be hit with two new shuttles at once which could result in mental illness but it can also result in a certain enrichments and strength of the neshamah and the Irie identifies many personalities as being reincarnation just to give you one fascinating example do you remember the Haggadah in the beginning of the Haggadah rabbi elazar ben Azaria says behold I am like a person who was seventy years old and I never knew you have to mention the exodus at night until I heard Ben Zoma teaching write everyone is familiar with that now what is the language behold I am like a person seventy years old so the Gemara explains that when Robin gum Leo was deposed as the Nazi because he was perceived as abusing his power so they appointed rabbi elazar ben Azaria to be the Nesi but he was only 18 years old and he was afraid that nobody would respect him so God made his beard turn white so I am like a man that is 70 even though he was only 18 years old my wife likes to say that she has a simpler explanation that when people are given certain positions of authority they do turn prematurely gray and she likes to point out that our friends who did not enter the synagogue Rabbinate still have dark beards and whatever that might be well but here's what the eye Rizal says the eye Rizal says that Rabbi Eleazar Ben Azaria was a reincarnation of Shmuel Hanavi Shmuel Hanavi died at the young age of 52 years old Surabhi Allah Sobhan Azaria was born with a neshama that had already been unearthed 52 years so when he's 18 his soul has been unearthed 70 years behold I am like a person 70 years so if you ask me is reincarnation an article of faith in Judaism it certainly is not nevertheless a one cannot deny that all of the great mokuba l'm very strongly endorsed the idea of reincarnation now as you know there was a lot of anecdotal science or pseudoscience regarding past life regressions under hypnosis or otherwise in which people seem to recall past experiences and on occasion even have skills let's say piano playing or something that they don't have in this life and it seems to be a holdover from some prior life but you know as I say the science is not conclusive it's just more in the nature of anecdotal evidence which you know has some value but what once again I wouldn't say that it proves any particular point but the mokuba l'm very much did believe in gilgul in fact they say there was a Hasidic Rebbe the operative who was sure that he had been a yoga loved it one of the Kohanim gadot limb in the time of the Second Temple and he was the belt Fela on the Musa feof yom kippur so on the most of of yom kippur we go over the yom kippur service and we talked about the confessions of the Kohen Gadol Oh y'all Oh mayor this is what he used to say katratzi OBC etc so it is recorded that when the Appetit rod was about Fela and he reached that paragraph he would say Kaka eto Mary this is what I used to say he would actually put that into the governing governing itself now this is all by way of introduction but here's what the Irie says going back to coax theory says that Korra was a reincarnation of kyon and Moshe was a reincarnation of Hevel so the first time around it was kyon that killed Havel the second time around kyon is trying to kill Heather by you know getting motion D legitimated but it turns out the other way around Hevel is the one that destroys kyon so it's kind of a cosmic redressing of imbalance through the concept of gilgul this is what the a result says now based on this the Seamus rule now explains the gamut rias okay the significance of the 345 the 37 and the 308 and he says the following let's go back to kyon - hello what is the name kyon kyon Java named her son TYIN because she said Kearney see ish Hashem konnichi I have acquired or I have created Kenyan in in Kailash can also mean created I have created a human being with God kyon represents the aspect of human personality that recognizes its power to create in this case to create life but in many ways we are creators we are in the image of God and in many ways we are godly we have the power to create the power to destroy we have wisdom we have autonomy we have free will Fedorov solavei check has a hole in his classic essay the lonely man of faith really a truly beautiful beautiful essay if solavei tricked or points out there are two accounts in bracelets of the creation of Adam and he calls it Adam 1 and Adam - although it's one one person but the account is repeated twice with very significant variations and he calls Adam 1 majestic man and Adam 2 redemptive man by Daddy means the following in the first account what is described as the grandeur of man he is made in the image of God he has made the King the ruler of the having dominion over all the animals of the field in the second accounts we read about man being created from the dust of the earth and that does not appear in the first account the lowliness of man the insignificance of man the humility a need to be submissive and subservience and refs elevate success had a one in Adam - a majestic man and redemptive man represents two aspects of our identity because majestic man gives us a sense of mission a sense of responsibility a sense of taking charge of the world we don't simply say if there's disease if there's malaria in the swamps we don't simply say God will take care of it we have to drain the swamps we have to cure the sick we have to bring justice into the world Emunah is not passive it is not quiet it requires an active participation to make the world a better place whether it's in a gush Mia thwe in the material way or certainly in a spiritual way so Majesty reminds me of my power my ability my talents and it gives me a sense of responsibility rather than passively accepting whatever the situation is and saying Hashem Yas or but reps elevate success if all you have is majestic man there's a grave danger the danger is one of you Burris of diver of arrogance of thinking that we are masters of our faith and captains of our ship and that can result in such a sense of arrogance imaginary mastery of the world that we think there are no limits and we can ultimately destroy ourselves and society in the mad race for power and ego so consequently you need to balance atom one which is the majesty of man with atom - that reminds the human being that you are dust and ashes and you have to be subservient so if so of a jerk says the fact that the Torah gives us two different accounts of creation you don't ask the question well which one was it because the Torah is not interested in telling you exactly what happened and maybe we don't know but it's metaphorically creating two archetypes of human personality to understand that a human identity has to be a fusion of our sense of power responsibilities talents along with submission humility and modesty because of all you have is Adam - you have a listless passivity in which nothing ever gets done if all you have is Adam one you have the arrogance of power that corrupts as lord acton said power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely and therefore the authentic identity of a Jew and really of a human being because this is a universal condition must be a fusion of the majesty of Adam one and the subservience of Adam - by which man achieves redemption in this connection to God again it's a very very beautiful just interpretation of the two accounts of of creation in fact I I suggested in an elaboration of this these are the symbols of circumcision and Shabbat Shabbat is the passive surrender to God we refrain from exercising our mastery over the world because God is the source of creation so Shabbat is an expression of Adam - but the Brits Mila is where we seize the initiative because people raise the question if God wanted us to be circumcised why does he created uncircumcised answer he left the world in an imperfect state so you become his partner so in a sense that's the model of Adam one in which I become an active participant with God in making the world better now this is from ref salivation now the Seamus Shmuel says again obviously not quoting ref Salvage that he was way before that says that kyon in heaven so it's the same thought kyon and Neville represent these two dimensions of human personality kyon is about creation about acquisition it's about man's ability to be godlike in literally creating life and symbolically by improving the world so kyon intrinsically is a good meter it is the meter that says I'm here to create I'm here to accomplish that muna doesn't mean passivity is that the whole idea of a core bond connecting to God was invented by Thai and not by heaven kyon was an initiator kyon was a creator so kyon represents the impulse of the human being to create and to build and that was good but it became niche Cal Cal when kyon was MV over his brother now a bell represents the opposite if kyon is Qingyuan which is acquisition and creation he'll have a literally means breath vapor right everyone remembers the famous refrain in Co helis the dirge of Co helis where Malik is reflecting on the futility of life and says how they'll have a limb that's translated in Old English as Bannon Vanity's but vanity in the time of the King James did not mean that what it means today today vanity is his arrogance then vanity meant something gained something with no meaning evanescent temporary ephemeral like breath like vapor available Emma Marco helots the whole world is just futile and passing and without substance so heavy is the epitome of humility but HEPA also failed because his humility was passive so Cora I'm sorry kyon has to be given a second chance she used his leadership in a constructive way and heaven had to be given a second chance that he would have combined his humility with leadership and seizing opportunity so what happened therefore was that correct came back or Akeno kyon came back in act two and unfortunately did not improve the situation but Moshe Rabbeinu did on one hand moshe is described as the huh most humble person the enough we color them and yet that another did not paralyze him moshe rabbeinu was the leader of severan or three million people gave us to Torah he led us for 40 years in other words the humility did not make him a milquetoast the humility that make impassive he was able to seize the moment so therefore the shame of Shmuel understands the ariza that by moshe being a reincarnation of hewill moshe was able to take the humility of heaven and meld it to the need of creativity and leadership Cora was supposed to do exactly the opposite and he failed Moshe succeeded so now let's go back to the gamma tree as this is the overall reincarnation issue and that is Cora was a person of immense talent there's no question coax had deep spiritual understanding I had mentioned that he was the ancestor of Shinhwa but Cora even understood parts of the Torah that perhaps escaped even moshe obey know it habit happens to mention para uma we're going to read a week from shabbat the story of the red heifer this as you know is the mystery par excellence the one myths were that even king solomon slum lamellas didn't understand but the measure says one fellow did understand everything about partying was color whatever that means correct understood para uma chorus had many many many many gifts but he didn't have humility so now this is muslims how the geometry works chorus could have been as great as moshe had he had the heaven kora plus have l equals moshe who was moshe the talent of KOA melded with Heather so the math works very very beautifully Cora with heaven would have been motion moshe was correct with the heckum that's exactly yet seen in this way the story of caracas is a Greek tragedy if I could mix my metaphors you know the concept of tragedy in in in Greek literature is the notion of the fatal internal flow meaning to say if you're simply in a building and a building collapses that's very sad and we might call it tragic but it's not a tragedy in the Greek sense of the word a Greek tragedy is when a person is destroyed not from a force that is outside of them but they are destroyed from a force that is within them and the truth I think we understand that that is a tragedy when there is true greatness true godless but the person is destroyed because of a character flaw unfortunately I do not want to get specific at all but you know we've seen it even in modern times various rabbis who were really truly truly great leaders great charismatic learn it figures who unfortunately were involved in behaviors that were not proper and it's a tragedy it's not only a tragedy for the victim that yeah if you see people get angry when I talk about a tragedy to the rabbi because people say oh you know you're not siding with the victims I mean I understand the tragedies of victims I God forbid I do not deny that but there's also a tremendous tragedy to the leader that someone that had such a potential for greatness was destroyed because of a flaw that's within and that is the story of correct it actually is a Greek tragedy because karak was not like a nobody who was simply trying to create a revolution correct was a person of greatness and that greatness on some level could have been equal to Moshe Ravana but Moshe Rabbeinu had the fusion of cayenne and Ewa he incorporated the positive attributes of lion into the heaven personality when Korra failed to incorporate the the positive aspects of heaven into his dominant Kylian personality and that is basically the story of coax so this is a lesson that we need to work on the ballet muster the Muslim movements founded by Marisol cylinder in the middle of the 19th century constantly stresses that there are so many hidden feelings and emotions and attributes that we're not always consciously aware of that can motivate us and lead us in all sorts of directions that are not good and one needs vigilance and one needs study and one needs introspection and one needs meditation to try to identify these extraneous factors that can really destroy a person and know so the story of courage I think is a major warning about that now let me go backwards a little bit time that we have left and talk about the other great sin in the desert that was last week and that was the sin of the spice now people raised a whole question about the sin of the spies I mean Rashi says all of the spies were very righteous people and yet how did this happen that they come back and give a negative and negative reports and Moshe is suspected they were given negative report that's why he actually changes Yahshua's name yoshu his name was originally hosea like the prophet hosea and Moshe made it yahushua may God save you because Moshe said the spies are may come back with a negative reports may God protect you from not going along with their conspiracy the question is what exactly was their conspiracy why do they do they want to remain in the desert what exactly was their point so there is a well-known interpretation from the missive the Maldon refers they all kind of give the same interpretation that the Moroccans sin was one of those sins that's for the sake of heaven they actually thought it would be better and it's based on comparing life in the desert with life once they come to Eric Israel in the desert life is being lived on a supernatural plane we have the month that's coming down from heaven we have the traveling water of the bear we have the clouds of glory God's presence is tangible it is obvious it is felt and it is experienced every single moment now that has a cost when you're living with that type of intensity and the Avera could mean 10,000 people died here etc because you're living with Hashem in an open obvious supernatural mode once we come to Eretz Israel life is going to be very very different of course Eric Israel is the Holy Land is the special lands but we're going to have them to have to live a life that is much more connected to Derek whatever we're not going to have money we're gonna have to plants crops we're not going to have a traveling well we're going to have to dig and get water or desalinate the Dead Sea or whatever you're going to do we're going to have to build cities we're gonna have to have armies we're going to have to have lawyers and doctors and accountants and business people and there are two dangers there danger number one is the tour itself says that when you are successful in the land you might attribute your success to yourself Varela Vanessa your heart will be high and mighty the shaft is a Shimano chemical you will forget that the yesh Manya Shirin and Israel becomes fast and prosperous forgive us they kick - kick it guy so there is the arrogance in which you forget about God or the other way is the despondency of failure you might look at your situation as hopeless and no longer have a Munna that God will help you so the miraculous not moreover let me point out it was also known by Claudius rail that Moshe is gonna die before we enter the land of Israel now even though Moshe did not commit the sin of hitting the rock until 40 years later they already knew he was not going to enter I know this because when the two nivea melded and made that were giving prophecy and Yahshua said to Moshe put them in jail and Moshe said why Halle why everybody would be a prophet what were they saying Rashi says they were saying Moshe mace Moshe is gonna die Yehoshua must miss now how that fits with free will is an interesting question because Moshe didn't commit any sin yet and presumably he had free will not to commit the sin how could that be if there's already this prophecy he's gonna die okay good question but nevertheless the point is the Jewish people knew Moshe was going to die so here's what's the Moroccan figured a sinless shame shame I'm they figured you know it's better for us to wander around in the desert under the leadership of Moshe because Moshe is not going to die until we leave the desert and in that way we experience on a daily basis the miracles of God and the longer we experiences the deeper REM una is going to be so when we finally transition to a physical world of concealment we will have that collective powerful memory of the desert experience to remind us that God runs the world so there qivana actually was just like a person might prolong he stay in cold out right maybe we see this every day it's time to make a living time to go out in the world but the person says I need to be in kollel a little longer to build up my faith build up my Torah knowledge I'm not yet ready they said we're not ready we're not ready that was their point with shame shame I am so they weren't true Shyam but they were second-guessing God which is always going to be wrong because one of the lessons of the Moraga ylim is of the story of the rag limits if a Shem gives you a mission he gives you the tools to accomplish that mission and for you to say I'm not worthy I'm not capable that can't be the case if that would be the case God wouldn't have given you the mission now the truth of the matter is Moshe Rabbeinu himself had that problem when God said I'm choosing you to go to me through I am Moshe argues five times he uses two different arguments he weaves back and forth sometimes he says I'm not worthy sometimes she says they're not worthy he doesn't go back and forth he's some of them and that's when he gets leprosy on his hands because he's disparaging the Jewish people so Moshe uses both types of arguments and essentially the maragua --m are using the same type of arguments that Moshe himself used when he attempted to decline the mission of God and therefore one of the lessons of the maracas um I think is the opposite of correct if coax suffers from an abundance of arrogance the Marat glim and the people who responded to the Marat Glenn suffered from an absence of recognizing their worth of feeling that were not worthy of feeling they were not capable and again try and behave Oh karach was too much cayenne and the joram it bore visa vie de Mer eglim were too much heavy they thought they were not worthy they thought they were inadequate and there's a famous fort from the kutsuki Rebbe that's one of the things the Marat glim said was and they were describing how tall and strong the Canaanites were they said van yeah but a nanika hug of him in our eyes the saying Hawaii knew be a mayhem and so we were in their eyes the cuts go Rebbe says everything starts from your self-perception if you look at yourself as a grasshopper then you will be seen as a grasshopper if you look at yourself as a person of substance and a person of talent and a person of ability that is how you will be perceived right we were grasshoppers in our eyes that is why we were grasshoppers in their eyes so again as is often the case in the Torah the Torah teaches by dialectic the Torah teaches by kind of creating these contradictory models I learned from the morale em to recognize our greatness and recognize that God who gives us missions in life will give us the wherewithal to accomplish great things I learned from coax the dangers of arrogance and thinking that I'm greater than I am and how that can be a fatal flaw that destroys me so shellac and coax are two interesting kind of opposite problems both of which inflict us and I mentioned I think last week in more than once the famous teaching so many people think it's a mattress it is not a mattress it is a teaching of rabbuna more precious Kragh 19th century famous great receivership Rebbe then a person has to have two ideas in his pockets at all times in one pocket I must have the idea an Okie of four for a fair and I am dust and ashes I am nothing and in the other pocket bish viele Neera alum the whole universe the whole world was created just for me Hashem made many cows and many horses and many dogs and cats but only one human being or maybe one man and one depending on you understanding what's the purpose why didn't God create many human beings so that each human being should reflect and say this whole world would have been justified only for me now that can't be an arrogant thought because the same way the whole world would be justified just for me it's also justified just for you right so that's not a basis of looking down at anybody but it's a basis of a person recognizing their potential their worth their value you know we wake up in the morning and the first thing we say is modani and in the modani we end with the two words raba and moon Asaka your faith is great now that actually is taken from Magilla uh-huh it is your meows words and people ask the question although that's not really a question grammatically faith is what we have in God so why do I say robber and muna Tara your faith is great it should be robber immunity my faith is great now the reason why just to be honest this is not grammatically a question is emunah in the Torah does not mean faith emunah in the Torah means faithfulness and dependability so when God is called Kayle Emunah he means he's a dependable god so consequently we could say great is your faithfulness in giving back our soul every morning but colloquially we use Emunah as faith so again the caseta a question based on the colloquialism why does it say robber and muna sacra it should be robbed immunity and the beautiful work that the surfer casitas say is it refers to God's faith in us God's faith in us is so great that even when we lose faith in ourselves Hashem has faith in us and the proof is he gives us life every morning if you wake up in the morning and you check the obituaries and you're still here I got it you gotta check first Hashem is basically saying I believe in you there's good things that you can still do and as a result I mean maybe it's easier said than them internalized how could I be depressed I if my you know my my my employer doesn't appreciate me or whatever it would be okay but a Shem says I'm okay Hashem says I'm a person of value I'm a person of worth so why should I let anyone else take that away from me how Kurdish bar who says I believe in you and the problem of the morale glim is they did not believe in themselves so it's fascinating that's the problem of carafes and the problem of the Marah glim are kind of two differents opposite problems although if you go if you want to really get into psychoanalysis on a deeper level the truth is is arrogance often masks insecurities and in point of fact the arrogant personality might be reflection also of a lack of true self-esteem but that's already getting us into multiple levels of personality analysis okay anyway wish you all a very very good week and much-much that's like thank you for coming [Music]