Mishmar Parshas Korach with Rabbi Avi Neuberger at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim

Um, so it's like this. Okay. So, we have You want You want to record now? Yeah, whatever. Yeah. [Music] Okay. So as the has been discussing this week's para deals with kai um and um and the mist that he caused and uh the results of the bu karak the earthquake whatever the land the the earth opening up and and everybody being swallowed up but there's a gammorra in Sanhedrin that says like this that um famous garra says that durish Okay. Oh, says that the children of actually didn't die. Now, the problem is that it says also did die. What was swallowed up? It was swallowed up. But then it says, so what's going on? Also the Shira says the name of we say there was a place that was um created like a crevice some sort of that love and they sat upon it didn't get all the way down they sat on some sort of crevice there and they sang shir doesn't say then it says Next more go on the road something like that. I'm going to show you the place and that is he saw two cracks in the ground from which smoke was emanating took a ball of wool and he soaked in water put the end of a spear and put it on top of that place where the smoke was coming and it got scratched and it got scorched. Listen well to ashes gets scorched I think what fine whatever it is and then he tells him um go and listen well what are you hearing coming out of the crack the crows in the ground and the saying and the and everybody who was arguing with that was lying okay so we have two stories here the first story is that and it says that they landed on a ledge, right? And they were saying Shira. We don't know what the sheer is. Okay, that's one thing. And then it says also that the rest of apparently the rest of them went down to the to the to the to get him. And they were saying and they they goes on to say that every 30 days they get flipped over they can over that they realize fine. So, but go back to when they clu. So, they didn't die and what happened to them? They they got stuck on a they well they did lie. They got they got stuck on a ledge and then that what happens next? So, apparently but apparently something must have happened because this much we know that there are 10 that are right. So, so, so, so they did survive. So, they somehow were able to climb out of there. They're able to climb out somehow from that ledge and get back into the world. And we have we have uh we have the things from them. That's what some say. There's a kaducious mashma that really they stayed there, but they inspired to talk in their voice. Maybe telep telepath telepathically I'm not saying it right those are the right o it's the right oy but wrong but yeah anyways somehow that you you I think something like that they were able to I don't know pick up the okay whatever but lisa they oh lisa it wasn't this if you're going to spill All right. Anyways, so the sh is this um so has a famous v and it's funny because we don't we don't we don't really we don't we don't much ter but this is the ver that has been said of many times and he says as follows he says there's got to be one capitol in the hill that will pick up their experience there. Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, there has to be there has to be okay. There has to be somewhere in in those 10 something that's going to allude to the fact what what happened to so he says like this in he thinks that but he says like this we say and then in that it says as follows um So we hope to see with your because like your name is the way we pays your in all ends of the world. Okay. But Rash says like this deu deu doesn't have to mean doesn't have to mean that we hoped but deu can mean that we imagined like you know tells Esther um right don't think don't imagine whatever and they and he gives him so the word um of imagine like imagine. So like this. We thought that the only way we could see is in the mdash right no what we discussed what what we discovered was um in the far corners of the world we could still discover Hashem. In other words, what what was what was the whole about was about because saying let everybody go into what we don't we don't excluding. Yeah. Yeah. Why are we why we being exclusive? No hierarchy whether it be communism or socialism. Yeah. Everybody everybody all the same that we we so so what is he telling him back? He he says back no there's there's there's a hierarchy but for what? Everybody has their own job. But that that doesn't mean that that doesn't mean you're bad you're you're worse. You're just different. That's all. So not everybody can be cool. Everybody has a different job, different shist, different different things. So that's what they realized. We thought we were under the wrong pressure. We imagine we have to be that's the only way we're going to connect. They realize even this is their Yeah. Yeah. Because it's what says it must be that there has to be something that reflects their experience. This is what they expect. So I just want to expand on this idea that there's different roles and different uh differentness and different things everybody has to do. Um first of all you know it's interesting uh in midbar is called midbar which means in the wilderness. Right. Right. But in the English that's not what it's called. Right. In English it's called Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Right? That's those those are English names. Right. Numbers, right? Hold on. Right. Right. Numbers. Right. So it happens to be so what do you call we call we call it? So it should be maybe maybe in the beginning is names and then Vikra is calling out. We we don't we don't what we don't call it the way they do it. But Lisa, if you think about it, the the secular name is actually more like Kazal. Why? Yeah. Listen to this. Because because the says that that batious, right? It's the book of creation. That's what he said. What do they call it? Genesis. Genesis. That's pretty close. That's pretty close. Yeah. Yeah. And then Raban says, "And is called that's Exodus." and and and is called that's Leviticus and Bidra is called Oh, really? That's numbers. And and and is called Mishna Torah, which is no borious Deuteronomy is Mishna is Deuteron. Look it up. And it means Mishna means Yeah. Duo means to learn the second time. Deuteronomy is Khazar. It has It's a weird thing that the English shame name is uh closer. I'm sure it's not what they intended. Oh, I don't I don't know how I don't know what it is. I'm just I'm just pointing out an interesting thing. BMA B. I just want to put out a weird a weird uh thing like that. Yeah. Lisa Lisa midba midbar is called uh it's called it's called numbers, right? It's called it's called numbers. What's interesting is that throughout throughout we see this thing when we count them we count the number of their names which is a weird way of counting people if I were to ask you to count somebody I would ask you how many a head count a personal count I wouldn't count how many names there are I count how many people there are a number of their names how names get get involved in this the thing is the beginning of Rashi says that loves like he loves the stars. It says the same way when it comes to stars, he's he takes them out of numbers and names. So too takes out of and numbers and names. What what's the matter of taking out a number with numbers and names, right? The teller is that numbers and names are pink Numbers are dehumanizing, right? You speak to a guy who was in the in the Holocaust number, he's only a number. Goonish and the truth is that's taco number. If you want to count, you can't count apples and oranges. Why? Because apples and apple. You want to count apples. If you want to count fruit, then you look at the commonality, not the distinction. Then you can count apples and oranges. They want how many food are here. But if you want to see the then you can't count and because it's two different things. Numbers by definition means if I'm putting everything in the misb what I'm doing is I'm concentrating on that commonality there. just a number like like the like the Nazis Mor that's a number but uh a name is just the opposite by a name you goofa make a name to make a distinction that's the whole point of a name right that's why there are family names and within the family is the first name to distinguish within within the family each guy has its own name and we have you don't name this wood you don't name it metal you name it a table because it's is the fact that it acts as a table so you give the name by names are always functioning we're always focusing on the individuality by a number we're always function uh focusing on the commonality the fact that it's not that's not special wants he wants a number of names that means there's different types of having and different ways of having you can have when everything's all the same communism everything's all the same everybody wears gray and everybody's the same everybody doing the same thing and there's no individuality and you could uh elect what's the guy's name is for mayor you know what no new guy Mandani right everybody's all the same there's no nobody rich nobody poorer everybody the same there's no nothing or or you could have an that's one type of there's no individuality it's a very simple a stupid type of or you could have an octas like a car a car is is a single it's a it's one it's a car but it's created out of a million different parts there's a I would say a carburetor of course don't have carburetors nowadays but there's a wheel and a start and a steering wheel and then and the fuel injector and there's a battery and there's a million different things to make to make a car into a car and each one has its own tas and it comes together to make an octas called a car. So that's a misbar of Sheamus. It's one how many pieces different pieces but it's a misbar it's an octas of individualities. That's the that's the type of octas that that does want. So getting back to this they everybody wanted they wanted that all holy same everybody's in the same they all go they all go in so so what's happening is they find out no there's a special song now what's the sh what are they singing what are they singing they're singing the song of when But it means like this because the same thing is true when it comes to music. When it comes to music, you could have a one thing playing one note. Sometimes that sounds very nice. A flute playing one thing, but it's a symphony that that one guy there violin and this trumpets and this this and that. Everybody's playing a different thing and it comes together and that sounds like much more electric. It sounds much more dynamic. It's much more engrossing. That's what that's that's that's that's a shir of different of different songs together. There are people whose job is their song is going to is going to be on on the ledger of Ganam that they fell to to the ledge of Ghan and they're fighting to get to back from the ledge of that's going to be their niggan. There's gonna be niggan there's gonna be there niggan in the in the in the in the in there's other people in between a million different madreas and and all that together combines like um so now if you look at it in that sense so the says what do we say is saying what do you say on each so it says on the first Say because right and what do you say? Why? Because he divided the earth. Why? Because it says, right? And he made a by by by by the making a he made says that you know is called mean there's no there's no just it's not it's not called no it's not it's not it's not just simp there was no plurality then is now becomes plurality becomes what? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. The most beautiful place, right? And we're talking about that's the city that has to gates is the most beautiful. most beautiful place in place referring to um um and then it says one second then it says I I just um and then it says um Okay. So the the theme is the fact that there's people even also complaining to this song of because everybody is making together a a song. The Gomorrah says that what's in the world. It says and there was there were upper waters and the bottom waters and the says and and say that the bottom waters were saying we want to be in it's not fair right and therefore makes to allow them to come to to to but the point is their song knew when he was split when he was splitting the that he was giving a hierarchy and there's going to be right but the point is their song is supposed to be from the distance we want to be the absence and the distance is what drives their to be close you know that's the famous word that they all say that [Music] don't never felt that they never And saying they never they never felt that distance and therefore the longing of getting back. Distance makes the heart go absence makes the heart grow stronger. This makes go far. If you're far away then your longing could be all that greater. And that's add that voice that type of singing is what adds to the song of of of the the people that were close and people that are far away. um so one of the things that they did at the end so like there's over and over there's ways that I'm sorry and right to be a and the right to be the chosen shet is determined right there's a this blue k afterwards I got some ice at the end what happens is they take the mat and they take the and they plant it into Uh about the almonds. Yeah. Yeah. And one of them and whichever one starts starts uh what starts building that's the real Someone take a fast I noticed. So we're trying to show which one is the real is the chosen tribe. So what do they do? They take a m means a tribe. Right. Right. The word m means a tribe. So the same thing. Sh the same thing. The word shave it means a steak, right? Like um also means a stick. Yeah. Yeah. Means that the the staff of mean both mean stick. They both mean stick and they both mean tribe. It's like interesting. They both mean tribe and they both mean a stick. So maybe so why use one or the other? One time. Hold on. Hold on. And that and mate also has both both meanings like weird but the weird thing is it's true even in English the word club means a steak and the word club is a bunch of people and the word staff and the word staff also means a steak and the word staff means a group of people there's four words that m what's the reason so this is my this is my theory I can't prove it but my theory is that when a bunch of people all answer shvet is a like um shv is a shv of malus right it's a sh of it shows mal like a scepter that type of thing right um so it if a bunch of people all answer to the same set of rules to the same to the same to the same rulership that's the people if they're all answering to the same shvet then that they become a shvet They're all they're all answering. They're all right. They're all answering to the same shape. There's the same set of rules that all being buckled to. So it's like if they all if there one staff is can hit them all then they all try to to to they become a staff. They all they all they all buckle if there's a club they all but they vot himself to that club. That's what I'm saying. That's that's that's the in the shoe that we're talking about. Does everybody everybody staff has a different job? one one guy's job is to be the secretary and one of them is going to be the the the bookkeeper and one's going to be the whatever everyone has a different job but if they're all answering to the same staff then they could be m that's the idea of of of of the of of of that's what they're realizing that that there's different songs for different people and as long as they're all answering to the same thing then they become a misb yeah okay that's it it's interesting that the first time in the story of matri What happened the first time where Mosha Rabenu is showing parro when parro said me hashem right so the first time he's showing no no with the power of hem I'm going to what make a staff turn into a snake into a snake and then my staff is going to swallow all your other staffs and become a club of people a club of staffs okay I just noticed I don't I what we put in the almond stick or No, no, no, no, no, no. The sh No. The mate. The ma. The mata blossoms. Almond almonds came out. No, no, no, no. They were trying to show which No, the whole one is word was used. Which word was used? Which was used? Which word? No, it says mate. It says mate. No, it says m it said mate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it says m they took a mate to show which that's what I realized. They took a mate to determine which one was the mate. Shame. What is it used? M it's m Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they shame me the same thing. Um where would we say no? There's other places also rock. I wonder what the gamach difference is between the what? Who? I wonder what the gamach difference is. I might think AI. I don't know. Yeah. Okay. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for good stuff.