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Shalom everybody welcome back to the Y
a warm a very warm welcome home to Torah
we are in pares Pinas we're not exactly
in the beginning we're on the first
verse but we're we're further on inside
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basically in the first verse which is
number one on the source sheet numbers
uh numbers 25 verse 11 in English it
says Pinas the son of Lazar the son of
Aon the Coen has turned my anger away
from the children of Israel by his
zealously avenging me among them so that
I did not destroy the children of Israel
because of my Zeal now in the Hebrew
pazar very nice he
was he returned God is speaking right
God speaking and saying that he returned
he turned away my wrath from upon me is
now this is what we're going to be
discussing these
words specifically those words usually
in the Hebrew text when you see a double
language you could easily translate it
as very much somehow that word is
exaggerated in this case the very fact
that those two words are used basically
right next to each other is a sign
that needs to be evaluated and what
we're going to discuss is specifically
there were two venges there were two
revenges that were
Avenged okay so even though in English
it says by his zealously avenging me
among them also the word is used the
clear will explain why that is an
interesting word
now that's basically let's just finish
the Hebrew V
I didn't finish them off I didn't
destroy
them in my anger in my um Zeal so what
we want to discuss uh is believe me a
lot okay so we're going to go
systematically one thing at a time I
think it's important to see the Rashi on
that verse Rashi mentions right away
that the tribes were Moto they were they
were giving they were doing business I
own to him so they were disparaging him
and they were making fun of him were
trying to put him down by saying well
have you seen the son of PTI we're going
to have to discuss what does it mean who
is py or for those sake pel putl for all
practical purposes of shot we seem to
think that that is referring to Jethro
because Jethro had how many names eight
names that we know of and one of them
was puel so have you seen the son of py
whose mother's father and we now know
it's jethra fatten calves so to fatten
Cavs is
Pam um here it says pame so he was
fattening cast for idol worship so if
you think about what yro did he was
AA he was right he was a convert
According to some to others he was a
righteous Gentile who never converted
we're not here here to resolve that
issue um and maybe it's it'll never be
resolved but there are two thoughts that
yro never converted possibly he went
back to Midian to convert others or to
at least spread the message of Ben to
his uh family according to others he
actually did convert and he went back to
convert others to Judaism but
nevertheless let's go with the idea that
he was righteous nevertheless after he
did Chua whether he was a coma
he was a high priest he was Coen Midian
but we're not getting into that right
now all we know is what Rashi says is
that they made fun of him because of his
pedigree because of where his mother's
father so his grandfather on his mother
side now we already know from the the
Torah itself that on the Father's Side
Co Aon a Coen Aon then elazar and then
Pinas so the father side is clear what
we don't have is the mother's side
and the clear explain well should Rashi
says it's for this very reason that the
scripture goes out of its way to show
you that he comes from Aon that you have
no right to um to make fun of
him but then uh It also says by his
zealously avenging me so we see that
means by his avenging my Vengeance God
is saying by his releasing the Wrath
that I would have released meaning he
stopped my wrath so the word k not
always denote something motivated to
take Vengeance for some matter and
that's what we're going to discuss what
was the Vengeance or for that matter
what was the double Vengeance what was
he taking a Vengeance for in a double
way in a in a twoo faced matter in a
two-faced manner okay so the CLE car
let's go back to the CLE car right away
he
says those are the words that we're
dealing with right it's four words on
the top of the Hebrew sheet zealously
Avenged my Vengeance among them the
clear
says notice what the Torah does not say
the Torah does not say that I zealously
Avenged my Vengeance bem in them that
would be in them but it says inside of
them what in the world would inside of
them come to add and we'll
see so the cleard right away tells
us made I'll
call when you do
a it must be in front of 10 other people
so the idea is this that what we think
in the vernacular we say if someone does
a nice deed someone was nice to somebody
oh what AEM that's not that's just the
vernacular like when people people say
do a Mitzvah you do a good deed okay you
can use the word Mitzvah not in its
correct form when you say oh he was just
nice to somebody so he did such a good
deed it was such a Mitzvah that's not
what a Mitzvah really means although I
wouldn't discount that it could be a
Mitzvah same too with kesem kesem is
when you're put on the line life or
death and you choose death now what I
mean is like in the Nazis like when they
said hey Jew you know dance in front of
all these other Jews or they wanted to
cut your pants off in front of all these
other Jews so normally a Jew when he
does Kish hasem is even in private only
on these three great cardinal sins if
somebody put a gun to your head and said
you must commit adultery you must commit
murder or you must commit idolatry even
in private you're obligated to give your
life and not um transgress but when
you're in public and there's schmad the
the non-jews are are trying to wipe us
out and make fun of Judaism so then even
in front of 10 people when even it's a
small matter one should be willing to
give up their life now I would recommend
you to speak to your your local Orthodox
Rabbi don't just give up your life make
sure you really know what you're talking
about but how do we know it's in front
of 10 people in Leviticus
22:32 as it says over there you shall
not desecrate my Holy
Name don't desecrate my holy
name is but rather you shall sanctify me
see
is I'm not sure we're going to go into
the whole idea here it's a beautiful if
anybody wants to read the beautiful
Rashi on this verse go ahead I think
would take too much time it is important
but not necessarily important to this
lesson okay so let's go back into the
clear and he says now we know why when
Pinas took Vengeance in verse S it
says see the word when he stood up to
kill Zim it
was it was within in the midst of uh all
the shites he was from the tribe of
Simon Shimon and therefore he put his
own life at risk when he stood up to
skewer Shish Kabab zimri and Cosby which
we'll talk about also what they were
doing but in the meantime what does the
clear say it
says this is actually telling us the
praise
of he was actually willing to give his
life over for the sake of sanctifying
God's
name even though he was amongst the the
shites he was within the
a c z because it's a very it's a place
that is actually very dangerous he was
surrounded by shimit and he was killing
the prince of of of Shimon named
Zim
M nevertheless what he did was he placed
his own life into his hands meaning he
was willing to have his life spare
sacrificed
the now just as a hint to the idea it
says lo Rach the verse actually
says so in numbers
257 it literally says the pin son of
laar son of Aon the Coen saw this he saw
what they were doing and I'll describe
that in a second he arose from the
congregation
from he rose from amongst amidst within
the
congregation and he took a um sword in
spear in his hand now interestingly
enough what is a spear in Hebrew it's a
romach romach is the exact gatria of
248 okay what is that 248 we hear that
number a lot in Judaism 248 are the
amount of positive mites it's true but
they parallel to our limbs we have 248
bones okay so basically you're talking
about he G he's giving over his life
he's giving over all his limbs as it
says in
Hebrew it's as if he gave his whole life
over just a few side points when we say
the shma the Mitzvah of saying the shma
one should have y awe and um trepidation
they should think of themselves at the
end of the the of a rifle the end of a
cannon that as if their life is
depending on it it's a real sacrifice as
if you are a real sacrifice this is how
one should say the shma that's the
attitude one should have when they say
the shma what was happening here so
without getting in too many details cuz
I'm sure many people are listening to
other classes simply put
Zim who was the prince of Shimon wanted
to cohabitate with a non-jewish woman in
public it wasn't just that he wanted to
this was a rebellion okay this was part
of his rebellion and by doing so by the
way according to our cabala according to
our Jewish tradition according to our
sacred tradition that if somebody would
do this so brazenly in public that a
zealot has the right to bring it to an
end let's just say okay we're trying to
be a little bit politically correct here
uh we don't want to get banned on
YouTube but basically the Zealot has the
right to bring this uh to a for what is
it called a for uh something conclusion
what do you say forone foregone
conclusion there you go a forone
conclusion um okay so that's what
happened and there were we're going to
see the six Miracles that happened when
Pinas did
this the next paragraph is actually I'm
going to say the biggest Focus we're
going to focus a lot on this now after I
finish this paragraph I want to continue
and then go back into all the details I
think that's how we're going to try to
do
it there were actually two types of
zealousness two types of
vengeancesynyster
two aspects to them or two ways to look
at these two vengeancesynyster
he made her say he he caused her you're
going to entice the Jews I want you to
go for the best I want you to you you're
the princess you're the daughter of the
king I want you to find the the highest
ranking guy over there and and bring him
down because if you couldn't curse the
Jews the next best thing is to cause
them to sin now I'm just giving that
away to our enemies right guys push
don't don't use this against us if you
can't right the Jews are blessed and
when are we most blessed when we're
doing the right thing when we're
following the Torah following the
Commandments following what God says and
if you try to curse us it ain't going to
work but what might work unfortunately
if we are estranged from our Father in
heaven so they tried to cause us to do
AAR with the B which by the way is a
very in our mind is a very disgusting
way of serving a God and that's through
defecation on the Idol let's put that
aside the other uh idea of Vengeance was
on the Z as I said they tried to entice
us they they had these um these Idols in
their shops we came by because we were
thirsty we were hungry we came by to ask
for some drinks and they uh they had
their U like a what would you call that
like a the shops right they had their
little stalls and so they had they had
curtains they had back rooms to these
stalls
and so they tried to seduce us to get us
to come into their tents and buy their
Wares and told us how cheap and how good
quality these things were and once we
got inside then they had even be more
beautiful women who tried to seduce us
uh with sex and then they told us that
the only way the only way that you're
going to have sex with me is if you
worship this Idol and the way you
worship the idol was probably the most
disgusting way you can worship an idol
the Balor and that is through def ation
and that there's a whole psychology
behind this you know you know it's so
interesting man man-made religions they
created God in their image I this is
this this like the epitome of a low
self-esteem of yourself you created a
God in your image and the way you
worship It Is by defecating on it this
has to be like the lowest of the lows
for anybody but there's a lot of other
philosophical and psychological issues
here which unfortunately and I'm not
going to say which party in uh in
America fits closest to this type of uh
idol worship but you can imagine there
is there are uh pH um political parties
that are resemble this idea okay so
that's one idea of the double Kina but
there's another idea and that
was because they he was avenging the
honor of God God and on the same level
meaning there's two sides of it also
Moshe for the sake of the honor of Moshe
he was getting back at them for this so
what are the ideas
here anyone just think about it if you
disregard and not only disregard
disgrace here will even go further M
desecrate
God you would never ever give a wor any
honor to your rebi your re is the one
here talking about and teaching you
about hem so if you don't have any honor
for hasem you're certainly not going to
have any honor for your rebi and as a
meaning as a logical extension a
reasonable
argument if you're not considering the
the glory of the divine presence if
you're not considering the importance of
the divine presence therefore I.E a
relationship with
God then you certainly wouldn't be
interested in developing a relationship
or giving any honor or consideration to
your
Rabbi therefore they had such brazenness
such that they the truth is I think this
was Zim that said it in gorah San hedin
82a
now they were talking to Moshe right
that they're accusing Moshe of being
with a woman that he shouldn't be with
now this is before mattin Torah it's
true that she
converted but the the idea here is one
second ready for this Moshe himself
served as a cohain during the
inauguration of the
Tabernacle so as a Coen you're not
allowed to marry a gorus a
so it's true that seora was a righteous
woman she was probably been about no for
a long time she converted doesn't matter
a Cohen is not allowed to marry a gorus
could be but they're they're looking at
it like this from simple
shot her father yro was an idol
worshipper so what so what he converted
or his daughter converted it shouldn't
be a problem so what does it really mean
b the daughter of who allowed you to
marry her so basically think about this
they're arguing with
Moshe what about Pinas pin's mother was
Bas um um puel okay she was the daughter
of puel the question is who is puel is
puel yro or is it ysep I bet you never
heard that one before well Rashi brings
it down
there's another idea that you're not
allowed to uh give instructions of in
front of your Rabbi to someone who asked
you're in the audience or you're
standing there next to your Rabbi
someone comes over ask the rabbi a
question and what do you do you answer
the question what a the person asked the
rabbi and you're not supposed to but
what happened over here
unbelievable when this incident was
taking place with Zim and Cosby we'll
see there's different opinions what
actually took place did Pinas approach
him and remind him of the H did he act
on his own without speaking to him about
it let's find out but in the mean time
the clear brings down this idea that
Pinas pasin the H in front of his Rabbi
Moshe the arm what did he say to himself
according to the opinion that he pasin
he said my re is not saying a word he
can't pasin because he himself is no
meaning he's biased in the matter
meaning that y him sorry that Moshe
himself married a daughter of yra so y
so if if they're coming and making fun
of
Pinas
right they're making fun of mosha but
here at the same time they're also going
to turn around to pinus and say you're
in the same boat as as Moshe but Moshe
himself
was no he couldn't do anything he
couldn't because he was biased because
he himself was married to a daughter
of there therefore we
see you know what it actually says in
verse
12 look in 12 on the
S not number 12 on the S sheet chter
25:2 where do we see it
it's number 13 on the S it says
therefore say I hereby give my now my
addition my Y is capitalized m
m my y I hereby give my Covenant of
peace now you got to
understand according to the clear and he
didn't make it up this is God telling
Moses you say in front of
everybody as if you're saying I Moshe
give my with a small my y Covenant of
peace to Pinas do you realize what's
going on here that after Pinas pined in
front of Moshe the death penalty is
actually quite um suitable as a
punishment and yet Moshe didn't hold any
grudges in fact he understood the
situation he was no gav and he was God
was letting mosha know that this this is
something this is a gesture you should
make towards p and that's why the clear
says it doesn't
say it doesn't
say God saying therefore you should say
to him but rather you should say to all
of is I make a covenant of peace with
him as if Moses is saying it himself
listen to the
words he know saying Shalom that's the
verse
what it could have
said that you should say to him but it
doesn't rather the answer
is that God said to Moses
what is I God want you mosha to let
everyone
know as it's coming from
you I Moses am giving
my Covenant the
Peace So the Jews would not
say right there's such there's such
there's allowance for such either anger
or or strictness coming from moses'
point of view and yet he didn't and God
wanted him to let all of am shall know
that he is forgiving and overlooking um
this tragic sin of
P therefore God wants you mosha to let
everyone
know from
yourself behold I am giving him as the
word h is going on mosha himself now the
next few lines I want to get through and
I want to go back deep deep into this
idea about the two types
of the two types of vengeance
we said earlier that he was taking
Vengeance for the sake of God if you
look clearly in verse 13 which you'll
find in number 15 on the sore sheet it's
numbers
2513 it shall be for him and his
descendants after him as an eternal
Covenant of kahuna because he was
zealous for his God and atoned for the
children of Israel so this verse is very
different than verse 12 which we just
read this idea here
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is and the CLE
says this is not at all going on the
previous verse of
12 because the previous one was remember
we said there's two keynote one was for
the covet of hem which the the reward is
in verse 13 and the the um verse 12 is
referring to the reward he gets for
taking up the defense of Moshe and now
this this last little piece is going to
blow you away because I never thought
about it like this and it's very
difficult for a Jew to think about it
like this but this is what it says in um
it says then he atoned for the children
of Israel this is the last few words of
verse
13 where it says right
that he
was
is it was atoning for the children of
Israel so Pinas was not a Coen when he
did this when he skewered them the
interesting thing is like this the
promise was to Aon and his sons and
anyone who would be born after that
point so pinus was already born so he
was not grandfathered in so to speak if
that's a good you like that expression
he wasn't grandfathered in so but he did
something he did an act which brought
him but the clear is going to tell us he
actually atoned through
the the uh the killing of zimra and
Cosby it
says is it even possible that such an
evil person what do you mean that by
killing them these evil people you
brought in atonement I want you to hear
he this yeah so there's one idea it's
very important for those Christians out
there who are listening there's such a
concept in Judaism and I bet you never
heard this that if a a sadic
dies he can mitigate he can um
reduce um judgment on the Jewish people
okay some call it vicarious atonement
there's no such thing in Judaism what it
means is that when somebody dies a
righteous person dies number one there's
a lot of ways to think about it just the
crying at the eulogy can bring somebody
to chuva so the death of the sadik
brought about atonement it wasn't some
magical pill it was the very fact that
I'm standing there in the audience
listening to the eulogy and I'm crying
and I'm thinking to myself wow I really
need to do chuva because of this is a
great person I wish I could be like that
person and therefore I need to make
changes in my life and therefore his
death brought about M tra that's a very
simple shot however on a More cabalistic
Level it's only a Jew who's not perfect
can
atone okay why is that see if a if a Jew
was perfect which the Christians claim
they're their Jew is perfect right
that's what they claim so there's no
Tuma that will attach to that Jew so in
other words the imperfect Jew but he's
he's righteous but he's not completely
righteous when he dies he can be
attached the sin of the living Jew the
the Jews who are alive their sin is
attached to him but that's only because
he's open to Darkness because he's not
perfect the one who's completely perfect
there's nothing that attach himself
there's nothing that can even possibly
attach them themselves to this person so
the whole idea that Christianity makes
this such Pro
uh what what the word I'm looking for um
absurd claim that a perfect Jew can
actually attone for other Jews is just
not even not even on the table okay so
that's a very calistic idea um but in
the meantime this is what the CLE are
saying that it's this Russia that's
bringing kapar on all of Israel and it's
and it was actually as if this Coen he's
not even a Coen but it Pinas made the
offering remember he's not a Coen he's
making this offering it's having an
effect therefore Hashem
swears you are going to be a Coen
forever it was actually like the
inauguration rights in other words when
the other they went through a whole
7-Day process and they were Anointed
with blood on their right different
limbs and they went to the Mikvah and
there was oil there was all kinds of the
whole prescription involved but the
prescription for for penas was just the
act the shimun he started with an act
you already so what they say about a
duck he looks like a duck quacks like a
duck walks like a duck he's a duck well
guess what pinus did everything like a
Coen therefore bang he's a Coen
okay now so to
B actually it starts on 43b yeah so it's
very interesting because it says over
there that regarding the Aon it wasn't
just Pinas but it was the Holy Ark that
also went with them into war and it's
quite quite a lively discussion I want
to skip a little bit of that but
basically the idea here is is that Pinas
was pointed out that he specifically is
going the question is what tit he had
the title at this point when he went
into war with against Midian as the Mish
there's a special Coen like in
Braveheart who goes out there and he
pumps everybody up and tells them God is
with you and if we don't win they're
going to rape our children right they're
going to uh steal our land and we're
going to be poor no seriously he goes
out there and he says God is with you
and God promise he's going to be with
you and he wants to make sure that
remember we're talking about
a at this point any mitv when people
come attack you there are no Exceptions
there are no exemptions but here in this
uh discussion here is
a when we're going out to war for
resources um so the Coen is going to say
the special Cohen anointed Cohen is
going to let people know that if you're
just got married and you're not full
year yet or you have um a Vineyard that
you haven't yet eaten from or a house
that you haven't yet inaugurated you
haven't lived in it and a few other
things and the main idea is that if
you're afraid of sin you might have
sinned you're going to die in war so he
says everyone I just talked about can
walk out so it's not to embarrass the
people in the last category right
everyone walks out together so it's not
it's not you're not you're not putting
yourself in the spotlight so that's very
important to know so
basically we're asking if pinus was the
cohain that was specially assigned for
this so what makes you think he was
going to take Vengeance so he was there
for vengeance as the verse says the
question though is who is he and we said
the verse in Exodus chapter 25 that
elazar so it's in Exodus 6:2 who is
elezar elazar elazar took for himself
one of the daughters of puel as a wife
and the verse continues to say he gave
birth to Pinas he begat Pinas so the
kumur says of course who's puel pel must
be yro yro Jethro he's the one who
fanned up the cast for idol worship and
so the G actually says no no no he's
from Yosef who it's a similar word
because when we talked about fattening
up casts for ID worship it's
here when we talk about Ys he
was meaning he um he fought he overcame
he was actually maazel his theer he made
his evil inclination as if it was
nothing okay he didn't consider it at
all he made he belittled his evil
inclination which is very interesting so
then which is the truth is is um Pinas
from yro or is he
from uh um yoseph on the back page of
the English sheets I hope I have it here
for you I made a little diagram that's
the short end of the stick here where it
says basically the gamorra says well
we're not talking about his direct
mother and father but we're talking
about the father or the mother of his
mother okay so from the father's side if
you look on the last sheet you got it
looks like this
so on the Father's Side there's no
change we obviously know who the father
is
um
okay but what about his mother the
mother of of
Pinas so the gamorra says it could be
the grandmother the mother's mother
could have been from the family of ysep
whereas the father could have been from
Jethro or you know was Jethro or vice
versa we're still talking about the
grandmother on the mother side she could
have been from Jethro and the father
came from the family of ysep okay so
with all that in mind what I want to
take you on is a short Journey
because who in the world how can we ever
get mixed up I mean Rashi actually says
both that he's from the seed p from the
seed of Jethro who fatten ceves and he's
also from the seed of ysep who was pit
pay pit the yro so P so in the short of
everything PTI the word PTI is also
plural P Al referring to
either God so he was fattening up
casara or pu Al is another name name for
man God meaning man has a Godly Essence
meaning the what are we we're creating
the image of God what is that image free
will God is the ultimate in Free Will
and we're just like an image a small
little uh um how would you say it uh um
you know you got the uh you have the
macro and you got the micro so the macro
is God in free will we're like a micro
we're like a a small example of right
with the only we're the only animals on
the planet Earth that have the have free
will so so the word pu so he was um he
made fun of his Yar meaning he Mel his
he overcame his so that fits in well but
I have something to tell you boys and
girls the Zohar says that
potifar is
yro you guys should be falling off your
seat
how is Po and the Z says so I figured
out a little bit of some some ideas
first of all we have an idea that
potifar he's the one who
bought who bought um ysep okay how can
he be ISRO well yro was a big to-do guy
I mean he a lot of protexia in Egypt in
fact he was even
Pharaoh's adviser who's a very important
person we already said that yra himself
did chuva well I'll tell you tell you
how
degenerate uh potifar was Po's wife she
came on to um she came on to to to ysep
why did she come on to ysep apparently
because her husband wasn't interested in
women okay so in terms of in terms of
his wife she was starved starved for
sex okay so that was that side if he was
a Kumar he was a um a priest he was a
priest of vuzara and that was before he
did tra so it says that potifar was a
cohain own he was the Coen own that
means the priest of a particular Idol
whereas later after he did trva he's yro
and he's cohain midan and he also had a
flea right when he was the advisor to to
pharaoh he advised them don't well he
didn't want the Jews to be thrown into
the river so he his protest was to run
away and that's where Moshe met up with
him and that's where he met sapur after
she converted after she became a
righteous Ben no or bat in this case so
in in a in a very strange sense now
let's talk about uh dena's daughter
osnat there's an opinion that osnat was
was isro's daughter or let's say Po's
daughter right Po's daughter that's who
ysep ended up marrying right y's
daughter before he was yro um sorry
after he did trua so how did that happen
Yakov is aware that his daughter Dena
was raped a Jewish man has a daughter
who is raped right by the scum in right
so what are you going to do you're going
to give up for adoption I mean right you
need a healthy family hello you give him
potifar it must be the POA already is
yro he's already a righteous person
there's no way Yakov is giving over his
granddaughter to some unknown evil
person he's already done chuva do you
want to follow what I'm saying that
potifar was the Kumar was the priest of
Ider worship and then he did chuva he's
now um
yel same person potifar but he's under a
you know a new leaf on life according to
the Zoar potifar is how did jakov come
to give over his own grandaughter to a
to a evil he didn't give it to an evil
person he gave it to someone he could
trust he gave it over to to Y in in the
guys of
potifar and so ysep end UPS end UPS ends
up marrying also not this is the
daughter of Dena who was the result of
the
rap so we already saw how potifar is
called the cohain own but what
about yro is called Cohen Midian so if
you go to Exodus chap 2 verse
16 right where he's called Co Midian and
he has Seven
Daughters okay so the Borum says over
there
that um there's a couple different ways
to understand
kidan mik so interestingly enough on the
other side of the sheet is Chim Judges
chapter
18 verse 30 but before we get to that um
there are certain um discussions about
okay we have the northern tribes and Dan
besides the idea yam setting up the
golden calf for them in epim Dan also
sets up a whole uh place of ID worship
and a golden calf as well and they're
looking for somebody to be the priest so
they get a hold of a guy who's a Lethy
wow they got a priest and they're going
to make him the co and guttle of this uh
guess who this guy was mosha renu's
grandson
yeah do you know that that um yro and
mosha made a pack so interestingly
enough we already said he's about Chu
and everything so this is how I
understand it Moshe is impressed with
this boua wow you know you came to it on
your
own that's very impressive but in
Judaism we all seem to put people into
boxes you have to go to school you have
to be indoctrinated and you have to go
through the system okay the system can
have pluses and minuses well apparently
yro had an idea he was wondering what's
the best system your system mosha of
putting everyone in a box and making a a
system or allowing people to like me
come come to it on my
own so he says okay so your first son
I'll let you marry my daughter but on
condition that your first two sons you
do like this the first son according to
this that you actually have to let him
be a a priest to idol worship that's the
words however way I understand it is
more like you have to let him find out
on his own okay I think mine is a better
I didn't find this is not on my own idea
I read it somewhere um but anyway I'll
read the words
here so yra was an obvious priest who ID
worship and that's
the when Moses married his daughter MOS
Le that Moses was forced to make a vow
right I couldn't make this up according
to this opinion in the that Moses swore
that the first son would be going to a
to be a priest for
vodar the truth is Moses was so sure of
himself that Judaism is true and correct
that the kid will find his own way just
like yro found his own way
found the truth the kid will find the
truth they got nothing to worry
about right converted my son will come
back to the true
Faith
nevertheless not because the the the the
commentaries explain that moshe's
grandson yonathan the son of gam became
this Kumar in the time of the judges
okay so what happens is that Moses's
grandson yonathan becomes the priest
leaves the faith becomes the priest
because he made the condition because he
made this uh this oath not because he
allowed him on his own to find the truth
that's okay apparently it was the
condition he made that his own grandson
yonathan became a high priest now turn
the page over to this side and it says
see where I put an a little arrow on the
right but on the left okay it says the
children it's verse 30 chapter
18:30 the children of Dan set up for
themselves the carved image and yonathan
Son of gam son of manasha see it says
son manasha doesn't say son of
Moshe he and his children were priests
for the tribe of the dayite up until the
day he was exiled the L was exiled look
in the
Hebrew did you learn this in
you're looking at the
Hebrew right they set up in the children
of Dan as
AEL Ben what's the next
word you see the N is hanging in the air
it says in small print n the N is
hanging as if the N isn't there what's
the word Masha without
the and remember he a
is a Ley son of gam son of Moshe Look
Down Below in the the you see on the
right side it says
1830 in the mtic text the nun of Minasha
is suspended above the line This implies
that the remaining letters are to be
read as an independent word meaning
mosha the Tama therefore identifies the
yonatan of rers the son of gam son of
mosha but out of respect from mosha the
letter nun was added to mask his name so
what do we see here we see a lot that
first of all just that Moshe was perhaps
correct in allowing his children to find
the truth I think you still have to give
we have a MIT we have every obligation
to try to direct our children in the
right direction there's no question
about it we have to make uh borders for
them but I think we have to get our
children to think deep think think
deeply about life ask the question
questions what's the meaning of life get
them to ask the question
right but to make a condition it seems
like that's why he was he was punished
he actually made a condition with yro
allowing to make to make it that way so
that is um that is how we learn that uh
I think this is very important in terms
of God forbid I should go against I mean
I'm also about trua so I don't want to
go against the system but I do know and
have realized and many people have
complaints about the system we're not
going to push it under the rug and
brashem the Very fact people talk about
it and try to come up with Solutions
right for the future generations and I
think that it's happening within Judaism
for
sure that um people are more open-minded
but you're stronger in your faith when
you're stronger in your faith you have
nothing to fear right questions don't
bother you we came out of a long we're
coming out of a long exile we came out
of the European Exile when we were
coming into America and and we were very
weak in America in terms of Yiddish kite
and I think people were just afraid that
people were going to lose whatever
little bit they had so they caused a lot
of what's the word boxes you know
restrictions what you're allowed to
think about but you know what there's
been a boua revolution people are asking
all the questions and and I think that
people are more
resolution people are more open and more
um what's the word strong in their
faith anyway so I want to just finish
off on like wishing everyone a m shabbat
shalom we need to hear some good news
we're looking forward to the complete
Redemption first let's start with shabas
and have a great life and bem we'll have
the in gathering of the Exiles with the
rebuilding of the base of
mikdash Amen
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