Parshat Pinchas 5784 by Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay good evening everybody uh excuse me okay Paras UMAS I um some of you know that I I I sat Shiva last week for my brother and I want to thank those who knew about it who were in touch with me I didn't expect any one really to to know about it and we should only celebrate simplus together but one of the things I had to do during shiver was I had cataract surgery scheduled and I couldn't cancel it otherwise I'd have to wait three months for the next surgery so um I don't have glasses on because I can see distances but I can't read yet without readers so uh the glasses are going to come on and off like some scholarly fellow giving a lecture so uh that's not what's happening it's just that I'm I'm between two worlds right now all right I have three pieces here um one from the Sham mm another from ronas and David we had last week and another one from Myer Kona but the first two pieces the Sham and Ronis and seem to dovetail a little bit together so um let's see what he says okay the sh pazar so we know Rashi comments that here we have pinis we know what happened it's it's it's between two parot yeah last week he killed Zim uh and Cosby for a terrible terrible lwd act that the nussi of shavit Shimon did in front of am Israel in public a a lud uh sexual act with Cosby princess from from from a non-jewish world and um pin killed him K Pogo uh when when someone does this there's no from bzden a genuine Zealot who is working to fores who completely is allowed to kill the person people involved in that lud act so in the para begins with the reward that Pinas received and it's it it identifies Pinas with three generations which is nor not normal usually it's you know when someone's called up to the Torah when we make aish for a man or a woman we use two generations pazar benoni why did he go three generations the Torah because the tribes were insulting were insulting and denigrating P Ben said did you see this benti what's benti is talking about yro he comes from utro on one side right and uh on the distaff side he comes from so his mother's uh the father his his maternal grandfather fattened cows for idol worship and he killed the president the leader of a tribe of Israel so since that was done immediately the Torah comes to give his pedigree after Aon da because Ain we know was so now he's asking a question right what does that really help how does that solve the how does that take away their Tina their complaints their criticism their put down of Pinas that he came from an idol worshipping family originally right that they gave his pedigree everybody knew he was from Aon everybody knew he was from a yet they still they still dumped on him right that he came from Idol wor they found something that they felt was critical from his mother's his side his mother's side that's not g to help what his father's his father the Torah would tell us that he was came after his father they knew it already right because we the goes after the father so they still insulted him because of his maternal and his the of his father is not going to save him so what's the big deal y's father's not going to save him you have such a situation is a problem and they knew about it so what was that what was the utility of what Rashi is saying you know in defense of of what they said they still would say the same thing even though they know where he comes from right so he answers the vene the fares I want to suggest answer my father the he wants to say from says nazer Compares or I should say contrasts the promiscuous Affair so to speak quote quote unquote of Tamar and the go and and that of Zim the prince of of Shimon that uh what the gamar says is that that Tamar acted Shay she knew that there was going to come m is was going to come from this Union there was no y yet in the sense that we have the Mitzvah today of yum and but she so she took it upon herself to perform a kind of Yu marriage with uh her father right remember this is pre Torah but the idea was that she knew that David melik would come from her and from him but but he wants say the somehow there was some kind of some kind of pure intent from on the part of shim whatever that is he doesn't he doesn't explain simp just like Tamar obviously shim the prince of of this was not a a slouch the Prince of the prince of shavid shim he obviously the abar wants to suggest had certain kavana of what he wanted to accomplish through this marriage this not marriage this relationship between himself and a princess from the so was right Ella here's the problem has to be 100% going for the right reasons it has to be 100% pure there can't be any ulterior motive in other words there's some Merit to doing an A lishma but in theory it's almost impossible now we have p in the past we have given an example I once quoted he said that the greatest Mitzvah is a mitzah that it comes out of an AA for example for example um right that to marry a sister-in-law which is really not allowed except under these circumstances or lar right let's say someone comes to you and and wants to know information for a business partner someone want he wants to be a partner with such a fellow or a sh a a sh between a young man and a young woman and you know something that really you should say stay away from this fellow don't go into business with him this family is not for you you in terms of a so you are allowed to speak about that fellow and tell the other potential business partner not to go into the deal however the lays down nine conditions on how you can do it and why you can do it right so it shouldn't be you know I finally going to roll up my sleeves and speak a little lotion or it doesn't work that way right so it's almost impossible right even though there's some Merit to it's almost impossible to really do it properly right so the rabbi say even the most Pious individual it's highly unlikely that there won't be a little bit mixed in of a negative attitude of why he's doing it the the a or the mitzvah for a the so it's really not possible it can't be 100% therefore the person is going to be caught up in the web of sin that's that's what his father says right this is the Torah of my father with that I want to explain a comment of the rabbis in the Gori sonin they wanted to put p into nid they want didn't want to kill P they they wanted to put him in to uh that he should be excluded from Claus put him inum he's not part of the community right Ella what happened they didn't do it told them right that his p and his progeny are going to be holy people you cannot touch P you cannot put him into you can't put him into jail so to speak or outside of the community right so here's his next question I don't understand this why would they want to do that nether what would a what would this that they would put him in what would accomplish however you look at it if they knew the D the bo Aram po if they knew the D that if someone performs this terrible L act that a a true kanay a true Zealot is allowed to kill him Mitzvah so he did a Mitzvah right why should he be put if they didn't know they didn't right they should have taken to and should have been killed he should have been taken to court and killed for murdering Zim right someone who transgresses which is not capital punishment and someone comes and kills him he's you have to take him to court right so if if Z didn't do anything which required the death penalty why why should he we should take him to court P should be killed so either either they they they did they knew the and what he did was a Mitzvah or they didn't know the so let's take him to court you can't say that he he he he killed him because he was over a I'm sorry I missed the LI so he says like this let me explain when you're dealing with a a human Court our court our B our the Jewish law that we have we don't look at we look at the action a person is judged for what he did right person can say I had every good intention to do it but you did you killed somebody right you killed somebody right that's how bzen looks at it here if someone transgresses something that is a capital punishment right even though he meant you know the road to you know is is paved with good intention right so if it was we don't care he we kill him right no matter what his intentions were says for example who was right he wanted to show people how important was whatever the say but he was killed forget about what his kav was right he was M shabas which is an of the death penalty right incidentally uh the only person in the history of the Jewish people that was killed for shabas even though it says skila it says the death penalty was was this this person that M right why why then does the Tor why does the Torah give such a punishment so says that the punishment fits the crime it's for us to understand the severity of what we're dealing with in the Torah there are various levels of Mitzvah various levels of AAS but this gives us an idea of the severity of the Mitzvah the severity of the ver that's why it's a death penalty okay any case if the the ver that the person does does not have a capital punishment but what you do is only a Kanai can kill him it's an exceptional this is a this is not a human court anymore human Court we don't look at kav right you killed somebody you have to go to B right but if it's from the terrestrial Court that's something else K thato can kill him this is not something that we can p him this has to be from the Heavenly court right and there then you could say since for whatever reason me right so you can't what are you going to do you can't kill him you have to look at his cavana you have to know what his cavana was you can't just out and take a sword and kill him everybody knew that shim had that Zim had serious and pure intentions that's what he wants to say whatever those intentions were we don't know we don't know but that was his intention also to create a lineage from some from some some monarchy right so you can't say this and they concluded that also know he meant sh right so here we go he me we can't kill him why did you kill him that being said they cannot take him to court and and have him killed by bezin for murder bezin does not look at the intention they look at the act and they they didn't pay attention whether whether me or he didn't mean so they they said we have to we have to excommunicate that's all we can do we'll excommunicate him we cannot kill him we cannot kill him because it's not a sin that is in based in right so we'll we'll put him in we'll put him in came came and said and said that no he was a holy person his children are holy no he can't even go into P did the right thing now I skipped a lot of stuff here but let's go go to the last line on the page and we'll go over the page now we understand he says now we can understand another question that they insulted him they put him down remember what they said this P who does he think he is what he did he killed he killed Shimon he killed he killed n from Shimon the the the prince of shavid Shimon and his look who who is he his grandfather worshiped Idols he fattened Idols which is a very strange concept didn't say he came from a of theara he came from people who fattened who fattened animals for aara over the page didn't say was comes from Idol worshippers right what does that mean what is that all about if he's a idol worshiper isn't that worse than someone who fattens the animal for idol worship what they said is p did he ignored the kav he ignored the Kavon in other words the fact that this was not clearcut to go to bezden where only what what Z did is dealt with but the fact that it was a of Kano poimo which is from a Heavenly Court you have to look at the kavana you have to look at what what went what do you what was what was the case what really did he have in mind right Z only looked at Z the externality right like fattening the cow right if we would have examined the the internal Act of Z which was somehow for the sake of Heaven would not have killed himar that's why they they criticized them here's this this guy Pinas who only looks at the alties that we should make a beautiful fat sacrifice for the idol right Canal that the whole kav of these people is on on superficiality right not not the internal message but just the superficial what the animal looks like right Alcan so now therefore they can they were criticize critical of P putting him down that he was a superficial person he only looked at The Superficial the external right he didn't look in the depth of a situation now we understand he says that's why the Torah comes and gives a three generational uh appellation to pazar why why the moral say a this is a brilliant idea Aron represented Aon represented looking at the kernel looking at the microchip looking at the intention looking internally at the ACT not just externally what a person did not judging a person but try to understand the circumstance right how is that how does the say this beautiful the word the whole name of Aon every letter of his name represents internality I'll show you how that was you can't be in shom shom if you're just looking at externalities you have to go to the other person say maybe look at their circumstances right Al never judge a person until you get to their point right s how can I get to their position you can't you can't it's impossible so therefore the only license we have is to love another Jew not to judge another Jew right you don't know the circumstances behind why that person is doing what they're doing right but listen to what he says the Brilliance ofy the of it's the middle letter of units from one to 10 from 1 to 10 Alim hey is the P it's the midpoint it's the internality of units you take the hundreds right so re is the middle of hundreds right n the N sh it's the middle letter of tens 50 right the the one is the essence the one like that everything has its its kernel its microchip is is the one the main point that's a just with you see it we know his lifestyle from what he did a right he always he didn't just look at the externalities so now the Torah is coming to tell us it's challenging right it's not that's answering his original question who cares what his father came where his what his father's lineage was they were criticizing him about his pnal side right no this is this is the response they were criticizing him that he was an external a superficial person not a serious person right he came from uh from people who fattened Idols were only concerned with the materialistic superv visual know that is just the opposite he was the the thinking person who looks inside he looked at the inside of the inside of the inside of what did so still right it was not a Earthly din finally he says according to this his reward was fitting for the crime so to speak Prime I put in quotation marks for what he did because based on the children are the internal part of a human being the the essence of a mother and a father is their child who they bring into this world right that's the moral is which requires a little bit more explanation which we're not going to go into but I think we can understand it maybe a Sur on a bit of a superficial level that the next generation is sort of you know what we create from our relationships says that he was given k for his generation after him because the generation after him is inter the internal person the real person is coming out from the mother from the father since only looked at the the inner of the inner and that's what he he was ready to acfic life and soul foro so his reward was also that he would have would give be the Kahuna would go to his children after him okay now let's see theonas and David and see what he does with this episode takes it in a little bit of a different spin but really dovet tales with what we have here from the Shashi he quotes rash brings the argument of the Jewish people the tribes they insulted him they said look at the son of this Idol worshiper the grandson of this idol worship is call he fattened AO his grandfather uh Cals for idol worship this is the one who kill he killed the Prince of a tribe of Israel therefore rash continues the Torah gives his pedigree okay that again he quotes the Russi too now he wants to ask some other questions on this I want to look into this Russ a little bit what was their against p who cares what his father did that's a little bit of different who cares what his grandfather did right you're not supposed to look at right let's say right you know the it iser it is forbidden to say to somebody who's About Cha ah you know who he is you know where he really comes from you know there a shil of being over loving another Jew so who cares what his grandfather did hell if he did the right thing what who cares what he did right were part of the the of Cl Israel they were G they were B G right According to some they themselves actually were G themselves right so if he if he did righteousness who cares what is was is not what's important here second question strange statement right was what do you mean the tribes were the tribes that's why is the used interesting question right is not simply is put him down anything else the people is right why right okay so let's see where he goes with this first question who cares about what business does it have to do did the right thing and secondly why is the emphasis on the fact that the were the ones who were okay according to what we said now we can understand a little bit their their complaint the of of Kina I'm just turning this off the me of uh let's get back to this I'm sorry the phone right let me just make sure it's off okay sorry about that uh the me of Kina K zealotry now we're talking about K Kad to be a true Zealot Shay right I don't know that we have such people today right Shay you know someone who who throws stones at someone who's driving a car in shabas I wouldn't call him a zeelot shamay and pointed out you know uh someone gets a stone thrown at their car and the window smashed I never heard of a husband turning to a wife or the wife turns husband say you know it's about time we started to think about keeping Shabbat right that doesn't work that way we know right we're talking about right it's a very high level he calls the true zealotry this is a comes from the this is come has to come from a very pure person it is it is totally pure and holy can't get to this level person comes from his maybe has to be taken into consideration here person can't be and it's impossible they felt that someone could be aoi if he comes from this was their conclusion if that was his Lam then the this is where he comes from his kav was his kav was not was not pure obviously he really wasn't a serious guy right he had his own agenda functioning his own agenda P he had whatever it was that's what they therefore the P comes and makes his pedigree from Aon L to say forget about forget about the other side sh pure completely he is pure in what he did therefore that's why say when you say shave it you're talking about Father's children Mothers Daughters father son right is the CER between the parents and the children and it comes from parent to child there's a Continuum right that's why the Rashi brings a of God are the testimony of the Jewish people the purity of the Jewish people who gives testimony on the purity of the when the Jewish people complained about challenged P questioned him right his sincerity because they were coming we are we are from parent to child from mother to child from father to child and you abused that you don't have that kind of a of shavit and you took the prince of a shave right right so how could you do such a thing that's why they're called right that's what's going on here we have to explain why why the and the he name of God the half name of God is is used here rash right why is that the name that defends the the pedigree pure pedigree of the Jewish people at the end of We Know by right we have to destroy that their hand is on the throne of God but only half of the name of God explains there God's name is not complete it's not the and the and the V and the until until the end of days until we destroy from this name of this is the name that we carry with of God throughout our the trials and tribulations of gas of the diaspora until mhia comes therefore it relates to the Contin of the Jewish people in Purity this is the essence of the Jewish people that we continue in Purity right and that's why theim were called theim because they challenged him with their their their per their platinum credit card of being a shav right and you don't have that pinus what are you doing right we can say one more thing according what we're saying they they gave the name of the is to teach us he was given a a pedigree PR also the Russia is also given a uh a right is Sal right his name was Z Sal right we give his b also why do we have to give the r his pedigree also it gave P pedigree so we want to also throw in the Russ also should be we should show that bad also goes with a Russia okay I don't know if we're going to have time for the concluding piece maybe we do I think we do we do have a little time let me this is from my Hebrew saona and uh what is the essence of a true talid a true student so we have in the par yosua taking over foru he placed you should play tells him to place his glory on on yua will listen to him says place on him from your glory but not all of your glory right no you can't do that we see from thisa that's Rashi name mosha was like the mosha was like the sun and Yeshua was like the moon right so gor inra uh explains brings this Rashi and says add something you should give from your glory on him not all of your glory the Elders of that generation said the face of Moshe was like the face of light of the sun and the face of yesu was like the moon what a tragedy those who are learning D will get get to it eventually tomorrow you're starting a new chapter right very important chapter in um very important peric K in in in in Baba Bas in fact in Yeshiva they learn Baba Bas they start with that peric which you're going to start with uh tomorrow in any case what was the tragedy here what are they referring to we know that when mosha died the hundreds of Halas were lost and they had to reclaim the through their own research right so what what um what are we talking about here so he says something beautiful here he said I said I'm quoting gonna quote fromi at he thisor is emphasizing the the difference between the mil between the the good qualities the greatness ofu and the greatness of mos it seems that there's a a downfall here kind of a a criticism of yua mos the sun yeshu is the moon right so now he explains was the the um pich Russa no it's also emphasizing the greatness of Yeshua right the faithful student the whole light of the Moon where does it come from it's the reflection of the Sun yua also was a carbon copy in a very holy way which is the proper way for a student to be he never left the B of M the tent of Moshe he got everything from his rebi he was actually the ideal student now I want to close with this a little bit of a different approach to that by very similar IDE what do you say what's the this will become great should become great he should become big right what are we talking about the little baby here should become six feet tall is that we're referring to which seems to be self- understood should become a great person he says something very beautiful Majestic we have a tradition from the G if you want to know the meaning of a word you have to search out the first time that word is used in the Torah if you see the the the first time that the word is used to understand what it means that is the essence of the word itself so where is the first time you have Katan and Gad and where is the first time you have Katan and Gad contrasted or compared with each other with this idea in mind the first time that you have in the Torah is the creation of the Sun and the Moon the sun is called the the great light is called the small life what does that mean Al so here he says something similar to what said but listen what's the real you give to this child of the bris the moon's light comes from the sun right the whole light of the moon comes from the sun the sun is the Mas the sun is giving over the moon is is the student it's receiving right doesn't come himself he's the mus the son is the but it's giving back the light that it gets from the sun we give a to this boy when the day will come that he will become right now the son the son is under the influence of the the Moon is under the influence of the Sun the child is under the influence of his parents and his teachers right but one day he will become an influencer a is an influencer is one who receives the influence from someone who is being influenced is receiving who's dependent upon others that he should become a giver an influencer to give over something to someone else okay MOS not a put down at all a prayer for that he should become a great leader like his reev motion okay thank you all have a good evening pleasure