Korach-Chukas - Death Births Life

you're listening to the weekly porsche podcast with arie goldberg recorded with asham's networking assistants in ramaphishim israel 57 80 2020. this week if you're in hutzler so you're reading partisan korach if you're an artist israel you'll be reading parshas khukas and although the beginning of this week's parsha we don't really have a buffet or shamedrish an explicit major which connects the two parties i'd like to share with you a mentorship at the end of last week's parsha and i mentioned at the beginning of this week's parsha or i'm sorry the beginning the end of the chutzlar's parsha for me it was last week's russia and the beginning of the arts israel parsha and we'll see how they're connected there's very they're both very interesting and we'll see a very great thread very great lesson that is in both of them now there's a message before which i have to read because there's just no getting away from it the message before is not completely completely connected to my point but it is also and the message talks about the fact that we find that titus had russia he was the one who destroyed the base omega she destroyed the second temple titus and the gemara tells us and the measure tells us that how he died he was such a big balgaiva he was such an egotist he had the khuts to destroy the basement to the temple how did he die so kaneshwar who took a very small mosquito or a gnat a yatush and it climbed into his ear and buzzed around inside of his brain for many years drove him crazy grew to the size of a bird or maybe turned into a bird and eventually titus died because of this small mosquito that was inside of his brain and the message tells us that what is the idea this is an amazing thing hashem's way is to that that is the messengers that he uses are small things small things whoever is misguided titus so the measure tells us that he took a he took a sword and he slashed the parochia through the curtain of the basamignation it was miraculously bled he thought that he had killed aku he had killed god which of course is impossible so such gaiver such ego such egotism hashem wanted to knock down his ego with the smallest thing with a bug hashem is going to do the same thing in the future times before mashiach comes he's going to take down the nations of the world with very small things maybe even with something as small as a virus and supposedly says shannon it will be on that day it says ishayah chapter 7 verse 18. hashem will whistle to the fly which is at the edge of the nile river villa and to the to the b which is in the land of syria so shem uses something small to bring down the great goliath the great giant the great gaiva the great economies why does hashem do it because it's all this kahiri it's i couldn't help but read that madrish now on to our point which actually as i think about it really will be connected very much to what we're going to speak about um so at the end of parshas korach so we have the contest because rahul wants to prove moisture wants to prove that he didn't make it up when he appointed aaron it was because indeed there was something special about aaron he was a great person he was at sadiq he deserved it he was chosen by a kudosh he didn't make it up so he took us he took a staff of each of the 12 tribes each of the nasim and they wrote the names of the each tribe onto each staff and he laid them next to the arm and they laid them next in inside of the michigan side of the tabernacle and what did he see what did what what happened the next morning tells us they woke up in the morning and they saw that the mate all these sticks which were dead sticks that would the mate of arunachalen had grown yatsutsu porach it had sprouted and it had grown skedim almonds amazing thing it was the proof that he was chosen he was the hashem now this mata says the magician is a very interesting stat a staff actually there's two different shutdown images exactly what was the staff so interesting it was the staff that was in the hands of yehuda judah the the forebear of mashiach refers to the staff that was in his hand so you say the same word it was in the same it was the same mata but those who say it was the same mata that mushroom held when he did all the miracles in egypt it was the same exact staff that was the staff of aaron and that was the staff that grew up okay that's one shot and i think that we we've learned magisk enough together to know that when the manager says more than one shot often they're just two sides with the same coin in this uh this particular major it's not so clear how they are two sides of the same coin but but it's definitely uh intertwined lessons the second shot is very interesting he took a piece of wood he took one thick beam and he cut it into 12 sticks and he assigned a stick to each of the 12 tribes and one of them was the tribe of levy which represented was represented by iron he said you guys are all using the same piece of wood okay so if there's only one piece of wood that's going to have something miraculous occur to it you can't like think that we're we're all using the same pieces of wood the same root we're from the same root and there's gonna be one stick that's gonna be different okay they're all dry the irons was not alive any more than yours says the reason that he did this he wanted them all to see that they were all dry okay he didn't want anybody to make fun of it he didn't want anyone to say that it wasn't real because of a first shot but it's very interesting hashem was goizer which could mean he decreed or could also mean that he cut hashem placed the the name the divine name on to this onto the makkal of arun aquin okay it's the same name that was on it sits on a special what's the word uh that goes on the meta on the forehead and it tells sham's name on it it's the same exact name the friar of a supreme so in in the night because of the name of hashem being on it it sprouted it created fruits was the idea of the demos the idea of these fruits of the almonds the idea of the shocking means the word shaked means to to to be there constantly who is coming constantly against the tribe of levy those who were indeed coming against them those were the enemies of moshe the enemies of iron the ones who were saying that indeed there was some kind of nepotism etc they were proven wrong that's why i used the word shockade those who were coming against them consistently constantly coming again and again after korak was destroyed people kept coming with these tainas they were proven wrong that's why i'd use a shuckade gives another understanding of why i'm not going to read that it says the major to complete the first thought says an amazing thing that mata that staff of aaron was in the hands of each of the kings of the jewish people and then when the kingship ended so it was hidden away and that very same staff is going to be the staff of the messiah he should come speedily on our days shinamar as opposed to says in taylor in psalms written by king david himself the staff of your power hashem will be sent you will send he will send from zion and the devil is going to strike the enemies of the jewish people okay so the idea what is the concept of the mate what is the concept of this of the of the of this i'm losing my i'm losing my words here today what is the concept of the staff what is that the other staff the staff is something which the king takes and he uses to discipline the people right right now an actual person walks out without a mask it happened to a close relative of mine today walk out without a mask you get a fine 200 shekel fine you got today now the fine has gone up to 500 shackles that's the power of the king discipline we need to we need to the laws need to be followed and that's the power of aaron that's the power that he has the mate he has this part you know why does why does each of the twelve naseem rep why is each of them each of the princes represented by a staff because they're the ones who are the leaders and they need to use the staff sometimes we can speak nicely and we can get our children to to listen sometimes we need to there needs to be negative reinforcement there needs to be the threat of a punishment okay but the idea here is just like we saw with titus that hashem takes a small thing and he wakes them up so too over here in this measure it's a similar idea really which is that there's a wake-up call that mata which yehuda had which mushroom used for the marcus on mitsuram was the same mata which gave a rebuttal to those who would question the leadership of aaron who would question the leadership of maisha there was a rebuttal and and not only that but that rebuttal came from the very same wood the same the same chip off the old block same block of wood as all the other swatum to show that look this is the leader this is the one who is right rises above who's raised above this is the one who has the jurisdiction to say this is what needs to be done moshaven has a right to say those who rebel against me he's the king those who rebel against me they will be struck down because kali sorel had had challenged that and so that was the response the response was this is the king this is the king this is the staff of the king it's the same staff of an arun and that staff provides life right the the dead wood comes to life the the physical we could say the physical part of the human being claudia sorel needs that leader because otherwise we're falling asleep we need to be woken up we need a staff sometimes to wake us up sometimes we need a punishment someone who's a big bolgiver like a titus hashem has to bring a small mosquito to prove to him that his guyva has to be shut down he needs to stop thinking that he's so great that's the message here at the end of parshas korach now what i'd like to share with you is something from the beginning of parshas khukas measure says something unbelievable and we'll see that although at first glance it doesn't seem connected i believe that it really is you know we have at the beginning of the the mitzvah para duma which is a hike it's the quintessential the mitzvah that we don't understand it's the midst of the torah that we don't understand what is it about this mitzvah that we don't understand the the measures tells us that there's a dual aspect of the paraduma when when do we need the paradum when someone touches comes in contact with a dead body someone comes in and contacts something which is tummy something which is impure someone a person who's not alive they become impure they can't come into the base hamikdash there are certain things that they can't touch certain kinds of fruit they're matam they cause other things to become tame become impure but how can a person get out of this impurity so there's a special muscle called para duma you take the ashes of the para duma of the red heifer and there's all process seven day process go to the mikvah etc and indeed at the end the person is purified but the thing is like this the person who handles the afer aparra the is that the person who is actually involved with the handling of the preparation becomes impure it causes someone who is impure to become pure and it causes someone who is pure to become impure and that's the stealer how could it be that's something which causes this person to become impure causes somebody else to become pure it's a contradiction it doesn't make sense on the surface right that's the hookah that's the hookah it's a hook it's impossible to understand that's what means but really we're going to see that that's not really exactly what the word means the pasta tells us to plus again as that who will give something pure from something impure is it not the one meaning only hashem is the one who can give something it's very interesting the passage asks the question who will give who will make something pure from something impure is it not the one is it not hashem is it not only hashem who could do such a thing asks the question that's another question abraham came from someone who was in russia who was an idol worshiper and he was the one who brought the idea of one god into the world the great sadiq the great king of the jewish people hezekiah his father was a big rush hosea i'm sorry it's not jose i don't know how to say it in josiah yoshida came from yoshio was it sadik his father was a rosh he said hashem took us out from egypt hashem took us out from all these lands of so many people the non-jewish world which for the most part are idolaters hashem takes the righteous out from the place of darkness right that's where we become a nation in egypt the world to come we are only able to merit by being in this dark world by being in the world of darkness it says the majestic darshaning the passage so beautiful the passage says who commanded this miko's arcane who decreed this is it not hashem is it not god that message goes through a number of different locations a number of different places where we see that indeed things are the opposite of what they would seem it doesn't make sense and avraham avinu is going to come from a terrach think about it rifkaimeno what a great wicked person and to to to think that they had children who were so righteous doesn't make sense what's the word who did this who would thought of such an idea migos [Music] the one the one and he brings down at the very end it brings down this this whole contrast between the fact that the para duma on one hand has the ability to cause someone to become impure on the other hand has the ability to cause someone to become pure does both things who thought who who would do how could it be something that causes something to become impure causes someone else to become pure how can purity come out of impurity omar i created this statute i made this decree it's a love or alzheimer's you're not allowed to transgress on my decree now what's interesting here is like this i was describing this to my son we were discussing this you know you have a a stone a large stone and a person who's a sculptor comes and they and they sculpt a beautiful sculpture they they knock out the outs the outside of the stone with that they chip it away chip it away and wow it's a beautiful sculpture underneath and you asked the sculptor how did you how did you do that and the sculptor says you know it was there inside i just had to take away the draw so i just had to take away the bad stuff and we saw the sculpture underneath and you know when we have a question mia sucking who whose idea how did who did this who works this way who brings it sadik out of out of russia because who does the questions when we ask the question that's how we learn gemara that's how we learn torah when we ask the questions it's the contrast the contrast between the darkness and the light is when we see the light so clearly that's that's the word of the of the para duma is you see death and you see darkness and it puts a person in a place of toma of impurity and it puts a person in a place of questions how could it be how could could allow 000 plus people to to pass away from this sickness what a terrible thing what a terrible terrible thing we don't understand me are sucking somebody asked me at the beginning of the corona virus you know what's the right approach and this is something i heard from my reshiva he said about the holocaust it's so important to teach children not not cover up the facts just say we don't understand we don't know why hashem does these things we don't know we do know that hashem is good we do know that ultimately hashem has a plan and that everything that he does is really for the good we don't know though mia saw kane who does this migos mitzi volcan who was the one who made this xera why is there death why are we sad why is there atonement why is there impurity we don't why why we need to ask why we need to know it's even there we need to say is it not the is it not the the unified one the one who everything is good and somehow even good and evil with inaccuracy who all is good that's the that's the kakika you you take away the darkness and underneath is the goodness underneath is the light meeting tara metamech who shall give pure from impure that's that's the lesson here it's a powerful thing it's a powerful statement we don't understand why but somehow darkness produces light somehow come from hashem somehow dark situations produce light produce gaoula produce a new stage a new place a new way of being you have someone who's a titus such a big bulgari is so separate from my boroku he thinks he's killed god akashbrah who takes a little little thing and takes down that darkness takes away that darkness of separation and shows i'm the one i've been here all alone you didn't do anything you want to see what's going to take you down a little bug a little mosquito and akatosh who says there's dry wood dead wood that would but from the dead wood can grow an amazing thing it can grow come to life all you need to do is acknowledge simply who it is because says it's me you think that mosha abano is making this up that aaron his brother is the one i chose him i chose him i'm the one who chooses an army israel out of the nations of the world that klaus is special why because clogged soil is to bring life to everyone else iron a kind is to bring life to everyone else my sherbet was there to bring life to everyone else and sometimes it's with the stick sometimes it takes a stick sometimes it's the darkness that produces the light sometimes a child in order to become obedient needs to hear that they're going to be in trouble that there's going to be a real repercussion if we don't do what we're supposed to do and that i believe is the message of pascas of the mitsubi para duma that darkness produces light somehow we don't understand it how does it happen how does it happen we keep asking but we know as we ask the question we know the answer without understanding it we say how is it we got to do it hashem's the one who did the xero hashem's don't want to decreed so but we don't understand it and then we have on the other side we have the proof the proof is right there who does things in subtle ways like with titus and like with us we have this amazing worldwide message unbelievable message hashem is speaking to all of us and he's saying here i am don't think it's you it's not you it's me and in the darkness there's so much light and it's hard to see it and we need to keep asking but the question that we ask isn't the kasha it's not it must be wrong the question that we ask is it must be you hashem how could it be it must be you how could it be it must be you how could it be and when we asked that question from the dry wood from that darkness comes life comes a recognition that it's all him that is it's all to protect her life to produce scheduled almonds to produce super hashem's name is there etched into the mata and that very same rod which hashem uses the king's use and and moshe rabinu uses to strike the nations to strike power will use to strike the nations that very same rod is the rod of redemption i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be able to ask the questions correctly to be able to see the darkness and see that there's light somehow produced from that darkness thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag