Elevating The Physical - Parshas Shelach

Okay, I want to say over a few that all become crystal clear when taking into account these that I learned from my Shiva over 30 years ago. And let's start with Moherenu's plea to Hashem after the Maraglin came back um told I will destroy Israel. I'll make you into a great nation that's even stronger than it. The stronger than it is that it's even a stronger than it. So Mosha defends Cl and Mosa tells that if he'll do that it'll be that is that it'll be Misha says is going to hear that um that you destroyed Israel um which Mam the Mam that you took Israel out the they'll say about the the the live they'll say they heard that you're Hashem with this nation that is that there's a hash among Israel that the image close to and there's an there's an analia covered on you and anon goes in front of them and and and and an a it's a long and what are they going to hear and then you'll kill out the whole nation and they'll say [gasps] no it's a long very roundabout no and they'll say didn't have the ability to bring them into the land. [snorts] That's a very long um detour. They'll they heard that you but you didn't have the ability to bring them into Israel. What's the what's the long here and they'll hear that you didn't have the ability to bring them into what's this whole thing with the valid question right and furthermore we have a that there's no stupid tasers in except sorry excuse my language there's no stupid tinas insh everything in kish has some value to it. Even when it says when it says that's not true or someone's going to think or someone's going to say, there's some heaviness to that, there's some meaning to that. Ridiculous things. They don't have a place in the so that they'll say couldn't bring you took us out of [cough] split the sea. Hashem split the sea. Hashem didn't in the midbar. What's the what's the here? What does it mean that Hashem couldn't bring them into Israel? The rasha pointed out an unbelievable thing. I don't remember that he directly addressed what I just told you. But he [snorts] did address the following. He said that when the Moraglin came back and Clal Israel started to cry, they started to cry and they said, "Why did Hashem bring us into this land that we should die?" Because they were certain that they were they're going to be destroyed. He said, It's better for us. It's for us to go back to mit. The trap on is a it's a we have a mess. I think my said is from that we have a mess that when there's a word in the with as if the word was written twice. So it's as if it said what's the move of the double said that the is like this and here we get to about the whole parish of the moragland in paral brings leave when you have to. Really leave when you have to brings um he brings a medish. The medish says that the here the reason they were is because they were afraid that we will not be ration they were afraid that they won't be leaders in Israel. So discusses this that they did this terrible terrible speaking and rejecting's plan because they were afraid that they wouldn't be in leadership positions. They wouldn't be ra they wouldn't be Russian init says it just how do you understand the med like that we're talking here about people that are haik beyond anything that we could consider and I have I have patented over the last few years. Something that I call the Kanye test. Okay, you ready? The Kanye test is like this. Anything about Sadikim and Tanakh that I wouldn't believe about Kanye, I don't believe about them either. Is that a safe thing to say? I mean Kanye was a shikim. But in our generation maybe he would have been a god in a previous generation also. But we had we had we had we had we had we had we had um we had we had we had we had and and I'm saying we had big big big big people would agree with me to say multiple multiple multiple dimensions greater than Kioski. not a lack of cover to say so [cough] you [clears throat] believe you would say no we're not going into I'm not going to be in charge there would you believe that about him [cough and clears throat] I wouldn't and I don't believe it about the nim either so the says like this and this gets into the didn't say the either but but this gets into the nikuda this gets into the nuda that he taught us And that is like this. When Clausal was in the midbar, they were in a matz that was so enveloped in kadusha that was so spiritual. They were not living a physical life. They weren't in. [cough] It [clears throat] was a matz of pure pure pure kaduc. >> Yeah. Maybe we should break for a small drink for a second. >> Oh yeah. If you can get hot water, [cough] [clears throat] okay, it was a matz of pure pure kadusha. They didn't buy clothing. They didn't work. They didn't interact. They didn't mingle with with they ate food that fell from the shim. They made a right. They [snorts] they learned Tyra from basically if you would ask someone what did Cl do in the midbar the answer is they learned Tyra they weren't even so many mitzvah as much as they learned Tyra because thank you so much because they didn't build a micah and they didn't worry about clim with their animals and they didn't do you know what I'm saying there was no all those things didn't exist. So they just were enveloped in a world of absolute absolute roughness and then they were told that it's time to go into it. Is it a place of pure? Is that the plan? No. The plan in Israel is to plant fields and so on. The plan was to anoint a king. The plan was to have bridges and and and and treaties with other countries and to live the physical life of a country that's part of the world. Right? That was the job. And Clal Israel considered that to be a very very big step down for [clears throat] them. That was they considered that to be a big ureita for them because like this in the midbar they didn't live in a natural world they lived surrounded by an they lived in a virtual shamayim they cannot lived in shamay with hashem they were in a midbar it was desolate a midbar has nothing in it was it was empty and they lived with just with Hashem. If they did a little a mun would fall a little further from their house the next morning. You understand? It was a life of pure and the prospect of going into with as much as there's not like when they're surrounded by covered and there's mud falling. They were going to go back to eating not they were going to go back to the regular to the to regular human life albeit with the beauty of mitzvah and they didn't like that there was going to be then a mixture of the spiritual and the physical the spiritual they looked at as and the physical they looked at as rah the thing that takes them away from hashem And they didn't want to live in a world of v. They wanted to live in a world of and that's why the didn't want to go into Israel. But it says when the said we're afraid that we're not going to be Russim, it didn't mean heads of state. It meant heads. Russia means heads. Because think about it, the head that's the that's the place where your intellect is. That's the detached, spiritual, thoughtful part of you. And the rest of your body, that's the part of you that's involved in this world. Okay? Now, hopefully you're involved in this world with a little direction from above. Hopefully, you know, we we hope. But the r the that's like ndal. that's separate and the body that's the physical part right like the heart for example which is in the center of the body that's more a meeting place right where there's a mixture of the spiritual and the physical and the lathe but the rush the ro is the is where the nama is is the of a person and the nim knew that when they're in what do we call the people when they're in the midbar what do we call people in the midbar we call them the dar dea they're the of Israel they're the of Israel they're the da so the nam said we're not going to be rushim there we're descending into a lower majera we're compromising our spirituality and our holiness by going into and they resisted going interro and that's what was behind all of their fears and complaints. Although they said, "Yeah, it's very strong and they're going to conquer us and all of that, but what motivated it at the core, you know, there's, you know, when our kids clutch to us, there's what the kid said and what the kid meant, right? And when someone gets annoyed, there's their shittita of why they did it and then there's why they did it." So maybe they had all these things. We were talking at work and they're very strong. But if you want to know what the core was, they said with a which is as if it said twice. and knows if we could go back to we have no obligation to engage in the physicality of the ground and we have no mitzvah and we have no to to appoint a king and we have no of the let's just stay removed from the physical what does answer responds No, a double lion. It's very, very good. We're going to have to How is that? But is more physical is more removed from theem is more. How is it that we're going to have? Well, let's look back at paras when it says right in the sixth day. It says like looked at everything that he made and it was says that's the you know what the kazal says that's the so when it says when it says looked at everything he made. What's better? I would say is better, right? Is the is the How does the make it? You know how that's what makes us special. That's our destiny. That's why we came into this world to transcend the sahara. If there's just the we might as well have lived with the angels in the greatness of this world is that we battle the and and every win is a that's the of the so that's why used that word. Isn't that amazing how it echoes through the generations? K says and another little hint there is that the ice of me are Adam because that is the purpose of man. Amazing, right? [snorts] And therefore, when Mosher Abenu was telling Akadeshu that the nations of the world are going to say that you couldn't bring us into Israel, Mosher Abenu was saying something incredibly profound. Mosha was saying, I know that the goal is not just spirituality removed from the physical world. I know that rrooknas has a power that it could integrate and uplift the physical world. But we haven't proved that yet. Just having the Jewish people in the midbar has not yet proven that that could be that this world could have the sash in it. There was no sash in the world relatively speaking. It was in the midbar. It was in the desert. It was removed. It was surrounded by it was in a virtual shamayim. The nations of the world are going to say no doesn't integrate with the physical world. can't exist with with with normal human beings can't connect with civilization and the whole purpose of that wanted that there will be the in this world will not reach its perfection because although it's in this world in some sense but in some sense it's not really in this world listen how the is you understand what's going you You know where I'm heading, right? Listen to how the is [clears throat] says is going to hear they're going to say to the heard that you're incredible they live with and the the onem is upon them. Dr. Okay. >> Okay. And the is standing over them and you you walk in front of them with the anon and ana. Oh, so you know we there's a you know there's an incredible situation of shamay there. But if you kill this nation, so then jump to they're going to say doesn't have the ability. Hashem doesn't have the ability to bring them to the earth to the unbelievable. Let's take it a step further in say for Yah Yeshua when Cl goes into Israel. So there's a para there in the beginning of Yeshua where Yeshua does a mass brisma ma for all those who didn't do brisma in the midbar because for various reasons they didn't fulfill the bits of ma in the midbar and he does this mass now there is different shittas about this the garra says just about where is up more or less the Gamarra says that we know that there are two parts of the mitzvah of Mila. There's Mila and there's Priya. Okay, Mila and Priya are the two parts. Until today, every mile does both parts. They're usually so good at it that they it's such speed that you don't see part A, part B. But if you're watching carefully and you know what they're doing, you can see it. It's Mila and Priya because there's the foreskin that grows over the top of the a and the does two things. He cuts and he peels meaning he cuts off part of the earl and what's left he pushes down. He uncovers the top of the a that's called priya mul. The gammorra says if you do the ma part and you don't do the pria part it's as if you didn't do the ma it is an integral part of the bris these two parts okay and this is the bris with so it's very very very very significant and it's a it's the demonstration in our bodies of the unique bond that we have with hashem So it's incredibly significant and the Gammorra says in Yu is that the D of Priya was only given to them by by this point in Yeshua. They didn't have Priya until now. There is actually a that's brought in that says that they did do ma in the midbar. They just didn't do pre. Okay. So what's the symbolism? What is the meaning? What is the what is represented by the ma and what's represented by the pria? So, Shamshal Hersh wrote a book back in the day when he was waging a uh a heroic courageous battle to save German jewelry and he was successful in that as you know and one of the books he wrote is called Jewish symbolism and he talks about the meaning of different mitzvah and one of the mitzvah that he describes the meaning of is the mitzvah of ma And he defines the difference between mila and priya. And he takes this to other bits as well like the mitzvah of but let's just talk about mila right now. He says that the ramban says that the part of the body chosen to be the breast is a part of the body that generally in the world represents fulfillment of desire. That's what it represents. represents engagement in the physical world says the bris is a declaration that goes as follows. The ma part severing part of the that represents that we are prepared to separate ourselves from the pleasures of this world in order to serve hashem. the uncovering of the rest of the the the atara by doing priya that represents that once having done that we are prepared to engage in this world in the manner that wants us to. So those are the two, if you think about our our Yiddish kite, isn't that the two parts of our Yiddish, we have our the things that the Tyra tells us, don't do those things, step away. And [snorts] we loyally step away from those things. That's the mil. And then we have the things that the Tyra says. Build a house, plow a field, raise a family, eat the meals on chabasant, engage in the world, do business, engage in the world. But let me show you how. And let's do that. the hashem says mila represents the separation from this world and priya represents the holy and healthy engagement in this world based on what we're saying is this not amazing while they were in the midbar the mitzvah was mil not pria there's no point in prayer they were so separating from haz yes yes engaging ing in Maz with a sense of of um of direction of Kadusha. No, because they weren't engaging in Maz almost at all. But when it came to Yeshua and they were ready to go into Israel and they had entered Israel and they were setting out to do kibush and kilok of Israel, now's the time to start engaging in prayer to start learning how to integrate the rats and hashem into this world and to live our physical lives with the light with the lift with the direction of the and that's why I've waiting all night to say this. And that's why says to Yeshua when they did the listen to these words, you're not going to believe this. Today I have removed I have removed the humiliation of from upon you. Now Mitim can't say that we're not ready to engage in this world. Now because it says that will say it right is gonna say no is only works we are we are the physical ones is going to say is only works when they're separated from the physical world that's right when they did no more that's right and that's our mission that's the mission of is to know that there's a part of ourselves that we have to remove ourselves from this world and engage in the purity of pure that that is learning and and and connecting with and and doing the the acts of separating oursel from this world that is necessary in order to foster a a world of kaduca within us. But then we also have the pria part of our lives which is to engage and connect and integrate into our world the hashem into every part of our lives. That's the lesson that was the mistake that the moragland made that they didn't understand that that's not a step down. That's Thank you.