Parshat Shelach 5784 (2024) by Rabbi Baruch Taub

good evening everybody everybody well I hope okay parl I have three pieces that I'd like to do two from R salvic and one from R hutner I hope we can get through all three of them we'll do the best we can so on page one you have um uh from peric T to this is really in the aftermath of the the aftermath of the morim uh there's another National downfall of Amel the Torah says when you turn away don't do the Mitzvah of hem and the Sedin the the eyes of the of the the congregation is referring to this son hedrin made a mistake so so this is the um this is the the Mitzvah of um a ba the baon makes a error an error Sanhedrin erors and per commits an act that really is not permitted so there's a punishment that comes out and there are carbon corbon that have to be brought and there are two conditions for this punishment this procedure to play out number one is um the Sanhedrin aired in one particular a we'll see in a minute it's AAR they puskin that AAR would be allowed and secondly that the majority of CLA Israel followed suit so the Pik says when the eyes of you know the Sedin makes a mistake they have to bring two they have to bring AA a burnt offering which is what is unique about the Ola is that the entire animal is burnt on theas and they have to bring a sin offering right Rashi what are we talking about here because the Torah says you transgress all of the Mitzvah right so Rashi based on the Torah is talking about about idol worship you have talking about the these things there the Torah goes into great detail in VRA where really this should have been discussed and we're going to see this in a minute if the the Torah there describes it uh more in detail that if the B huskin incorrectly when they they they pin that they adjudicate that ver which has the sin of chorus of premature death and the majority of people do it Al according to their they have to bring over there they have to bring a sin offering for a sin offering but here when the crime is a right Rashi points out MIT what mean mitv did everything but one MIT that represents that's right to turn against Theon to rebel against Theon so so Sal comments here that that for the sin of aora the bz pasin incorrectly and everybody follow the majority followed there's two corbon they bring a sin offering and Corb what's this all abouta and and is a gift to the right the the burnt offering the ol the elevation offering ol literally means elevation the elevation offering is generally thought of as a a gift to the you have a sin offering and a gift to the right AAR here think about it majority of the were were over aara idol worship there can't be a worse Prime right it's the it's the total opposite of of to serve Hashem is a strange a contrary to Torah what does it mean they bring a gift offering to theirs what's that all about it's part of the atonement process they need a a heavy duty atonement forgiveness because of the severity of the sin and they should even really be obligated to bring more than one sin offering so what what's the idea here that they have to they bring a sin offering and they bring a gift offering right we also have to understand why is this not in right that is where this Mitzvah is discussed where the Sedin airs and the people have to bring why is it isolated over here what's the what's the idea of establishing it here right next to the of the Morag so now he quotes from the ramban there's a very famous ramban on the theim it's very lengthy and he doesn't bring the whole ramban uh but he brings some of the central motif of the ramban when he discussed that I ran um I was actually going to bring the ramban but it's so lengthy so he really synopsized this by the way is in theal the oblig to bring this for the the mistaken crime of the people it's very different than what's mentioned in there it talks about bringing a a sin offering here here there's two corbon not that have to be brought a gift offering and with the sin offering while Kain the ra points this out right this is really the raan's right and the rabbis point out the rabbis are clearly tell us that we're talking here about one crime even though it says the is Rashi points out the ran points out based on a med right it's talking about that's the one Mitzvah which is really call Mitzvah says that's the if they go against the they rebel against all the they'll transgress everything that commanded you you don't do anything ask you to do you have to bring this doesn't say doesn't say one right right right of the mitzvas right it says so the application is very clear this is a corbon that is brought for for transgressing or ignoring the entire Torah B right for example someone who goes that a person decides to leave Israel leave the ranks of CLA Israel and join Jews for Palestine right let me put it in very contemporary terminology doesn't want to be part of that's what the Torah is saying um this act this is everything this is the whole the whole Torah one mitvah that they did right they're out of obviously this is the simple words of the Torah it's talking about all the and the fact that someone who does as if he he is being he's denying the entire Torah so the rabbis clearly tell us someone also someone who who serves final worship that's what we're talking about here he has to bring this there's something there's a tremendous Nuance here this not a Mitzvah There's No Chorus premature death for AAR sh it's not the act of the a which obligates the the corrective sacrifice that the Jewish people as a total majority at least the majority have taken off the Yoke of Torah responsibility and here right here in because they it's similar to the let's go back let's go back to Egypt right everything is tied together enough of this below without Torah without that's the ra so now continues the according to the way the r Ran's thought process works so the raan really should explain what this is doing here why bring an bring why right everyone who sins and does CH who clearly he is he is he is remorseful this is one of the major components of chuva is remorse on my my past action and there's a certain element of shame to someone who missteps and sins with Theon right uh sh run a broken heart it's a kind of mourning process that a sinner goes through if he's really serious about his relationship with the re what he did um he says in um it upsets him he's upset right in addition to that here's our problem when a person does chuva it's not only that he feels this remorse this this dep depression this a this mourning but when he goes to the process there's also a sense of sim of Joy the person who sinned in the past he's he works on himself he's intellectually and emotionally honest with himself over the page and he delves into the sin that he did and thinking about the who who saved him from from drowning right is very important you have here in the par this week the the 13 the 13 the famous y Hashem which we say on on S we say during we say says it every Monday and Thursday um maybe even every day in part part of the T right but this is the when commanded MOS when the Jewish people sin come before me and say this process do this process of saying the 13 the 13 attributes of of Theon right which will bring of forgiveness of chuva know the first two are Hashem Hashem why is Hashem repeated Hashem Hashem oh God oh God you're merciful and graceful right why is it mentioned twice says God is God before we sin and God is also God after God doesn't we might have abandoned God God doesn't abandon us God is God before we sin obviously but he's also God after we sin because if God would really abandon him The Sinner and just abandon him completely after he SS there wouldn't be what's the use here I'm finished right what what am I returning to there's nothing left for me so there was no sense there will be no sense of remorse there will be no incentive to therefore when it comes to CH With Every Act of CH aside from the element of Shame remorse and morning there's an other side of the coin is a sense of I made it I merited to do cha I'm back within the in the Embrace of the I'm back in CL I'm back in the game not only bua not only sadness not only being for but also the he didn't fall completely away because of his sin is not only before we sin but he's there waiting for us a person who sins the entire congregation thats they maintain their yish they're jewishness they're still part of can return to Torah or you can say that's by an individual but if even the entire of sins a particular sin govern we have to bring I want to bring to take away my my remorseful right I'm sorry forgive me in the morning so now on this profound level if the entire people go with they they threw everything out abandoning who's going to bring them back least with a that can help him the can encourage him right the whole is doing it here who's going to help them we have to bring two the sin offering for the remorseful the pain the morning and and he has to bring a Corbin the seor has to bring a Corbin the understanding that God will never abandon the Jewish people right source of is is is is challenging it's painful it's it's embarrassing but it's also full of sim and the animal that's brought a calf is more important than the lamba the power goes comes for the Ola for the elevation offering for the for theim offering right and the the goat the comes for the sin the gift offering we're giving to the it's a gift offering it's it's bigger it's big comes so that answers the question of what this Corbin Sim is doing here this Corbin Sim is a necessary second dimension of the act of Chua it's the rehabilitative process that chuva actually gives us back our sense of joy and that we're happy to be alive again right okay second piece here from uh R is um very famous moment that mosha changes the name of HOSA Bon and he calls him yosua right he calls name change rash brings to the med prayed that Anda pray that he should be saved from the the other the other Morag right he should be saved mosha prayed he should be saved from the the other Morag who had very negative approach thereus his as we know right Central Motif in the par this week the med it says where is the how do the name change go where did he pick the name from you know when you name a child you know we all know naming a child it's a process it's challenging process the mother the Father the who gets the name where should the name come from well where did the name come from where did Y where did the ud come from for yahushua from HOSA so the the med says Sarai SAR AKA Sarai right she was first Sarai and then she became s right the that was taken away from the med says obviously a metaphor to complain before hem because I'm such a small tiny almost insignificant letter is that why you took me out of s's name to the letter you again this is a metaphor right no no no we're giving your letter this letter you the great U is now going to be yua but and Sham Med the medish goes into more detail but we're not going to go there at first SAR was an independent an independent person right a private citizen Sarai her own Sarai her own self Sarai right sah with a she was now s IMU the entire world right just like a writes in parenthesis here became Abraham the letter a right at first he was a father a leader in Aram right and same thing with s it was a partnership of MIM s m which by the way is an interesting interesting p and don't let it go past you we think sometimes that you have to be charismatic it's about it's it's about your you have you have a whole program you have an organization you have a game to play with people you have a whole audio visual but no no no it was the personality the genuine nature ofu andu that's what changed the world to monotheism right but in other words there's a tremendous difference between the the and the we have way back in it says these are the generations of sh when they were created right what the med says Med what do read the word be be that hasem created them with the letter he this world this world that we live in was created be right the is is a is about universalism it's open on the top it's open on the bottom it's the universal letter AB was first private person then Abraham became the universal leader of the world spiritually right it's about being reserved the little yud little y that tiny letter right which no accident I suppose that in Yiddish right AUD Aid means a Jew right but a UD is is that that that um very modest letter the most modest letter of the olive base so it Bes speaks reticence and and privacy and and individuality right so first it was SAR sh she was my personal SAR the said Kim was my personal a he was in that that area of the world but afterwards it was time to reveal themselves in their new Mission he became for the leader of the entire world all the nations that was added to his name moral which relates to his new his new obligation his new role right as being a universal leader now abrah had a responsibility until now he was an individual person sort of a hidden person almost but now he had to exert himself in a public manner he was now a universal leader not just a personal well the personal call so Sarah also now was transformed from being this private Persona to being a public persona a universal person now listen well what what he says here so why was Yeshua he hos was already hos he was the universal leader that the student of Moshe rabenu took over from MOS rabenu with the hey HOSA first he had the right that's not enough it's not enough for a leader to be a universal leader to be Universal universally accepted right but now he Moshe that yua should receive now what Abraham and Sarah had at first and worked on it first and perfected at first he also has to be a a reticent kind of an individual Yeshua also he has to be a private person as well right V Le because both dimensions are necessary for the qualifications of a leader leadership is not just about getting out there right and Leading the People and being a public Persona being a hay but it also means in your in your quiet dadas when you when you work out what has to be done in a very private setting with you and yourself in the Ron that's also necessary because it's not really about you it's about about Theon the individuality the quietude the reticence unial as opposed to the universal nature right so you need both qualities and that's why the Y of Sarai which was her private greatness was given to Yeshua who already had the public greatness that Dimension he needed both dimensions to be a leader in CL okay next page I want to do this piece from R hutner I think I mentioned last week I wanted I wanted do it last week it does not relate to the paraa but it relates to every day and and uh he says like this and there's something news here something very special I hope we get through it there are many many lines of doing of prayer that we express to develop our love of God and our our fear of God right say all of these requests are separate I pray for God for for AA give me the ability to love you give me the ability to fear you right um believe shame right but there's no uh head line um descriptive to this right there's only one exception we say every morning in the of kishma when we ask God it's an eternal love or great love you love us you love us with a great love give us that love we appreciate that love we want that love we want to return it the second in the morning direct our hearts or establish our hearts make it permanent to love you and to fear you it's the only time that we ask for ABA and at this together and it's with the word we're asking him to be to make it part of us right right here we have the the the concentration of the heart the you have to translate very many ways the the the unification it should become a part of us in our heart it should be become part of our heart right we're not asking for AA separately and Y separately we're asking for something unique here that AA and Y should come in a different way a different totally different denominator here now what does it all what does it mean what's the difference this is what he says let me explain this to explain it bar to give it clear understanding I want to show you the difference between stum love stum fear and and and the the embracing of the heart that the heart is full of and right what's the difference between that I'm gonna bring you a gor from left field right I'm read the gor says get someone know get is a very complicated process in by the way we want to perform all the mitas in the Torah but not necessarily we don't have to really we don't want please me allow me to perform the mitz of get it's not so that we don't want but why is there a mitz of get why is there a Miss of get by the way I'm just throwing this aab this PS in because the re wants sh well person should have peace and a couple should have peace sometimes tragically after all is attempted peace do not come anymore when they're together so the Torah has a Mitzvah called G get that the shom B should be found each one should find their shom bu it separately but the process of the process of a get is complicated it has to be very specific the names have to be written very precisely in the in the get and so on somebody writes a get stum and gives his wife a get the B without there's no name in it here's a get m m right you're divorced doesn't work but with Kim if you bring a Corbin stum ker I bring a Corbin without saying anything right I bring that corbon it's a carbon it works even though I didn't say anything I didn't I didn't say anything about it by Gish why is that he says both of them require for the sake of heaven I'm doing it I'm doing the MIT of giving a get right but I I'm doing a MIT of bringing a corbon right why is that he says woman was not created woman does not exist to receive a again this is a this is a unique emergency situation if it has to be done it done but a woman was not does not exist forget that's not the normal part of her the process of her life but Kim sacrifices they are created for being a Corban a gift to right in other words since the animal is already standing and waiting to be used as a Corbin it is intrinsically a corbon the one who brought it to the was he established it to be a Corb so everything we do with that Corbin relates to the fact that it was brought as a Corbin right I don't have to it automatically becomes a Corbin even if he says nothing even if when it was done he didn't concentrate on what it's going to be he was he brought it as a corbon was he made Kish on this animal he doesn't have to do anything else it's automatically a Corbin we consider the act that was done it was established when he was when he appointed it when I appoint you animal you are now going to be my Corbin right it's done it's a done deal it's what it was established for that's what it was uniquely supposed to be the doing theah theah is hidden it's hidden in the act itself doesn't even have to say anything but it's because he was because he appointed it it doesn't have to say anything it's the the I'm doing this for the right reason is built in to the ACT which is not the case by a get a woman is not waiting to be divorced that's not what she was created for there's no official kavana on the part of the husband to do the get right the act of giving the get is meaningless it's it's an act it's a it's meaningless it has to have if it's not attached to the act of really being a get right similarly let's get back to to love and fear let's say a person has a heart full of love and full of fear he does an act of love to to someone he loves right supposedly or an act of fear if I'm not if my kav is not to do an act of love right then I'm not doing an act of love that's way that's the way it works right holy car it's just not love you know I bring flowers right but I just you know oh you know what it's a it's an it's our anniversary it's a birthday I'm gonna bring the flowers okay I forgot okay I bring the flowers right but where's the cavana is the cavana there it's not an act of love just you know to be y say you know the official thing you're supp to be doing today right right how can you that you can't call that love has nothing to do with his he's not thinking about it it's not a it's not a thought process act the thought is not together with the Act was not there not establish it but when the heart is concentrated and officially ficially creates the the a it is attached to the attached the fear even if he's not thinking about it if a person is a lover of Hashem right that's who I am I've been my I am someone who is an o i was my heart to love him and to fear him so St Act of to the when I say right that's that's coming from my heart out of who he's not doing it let's say I'm doing without any right since he has long ago surrendered his heart to the Ron or to the one he loved so even if there's no Cav at that moment the kavana is built in it's on automatic pilot the and the is an automatic pilot if I did if I I if I synthesize my desire to into the act right it's an automatic pilot hello it's an automatic Act of Love fear right the creates the existence that is there it's established it can't you can't take it you can't take it away once you have been once you have embraced and and surrendered to this notion of AA and and it's part of you it's part of your AA and your is part of your heart therefore call anything you do that's good any mitvah it's automatically an act of love if you have reached that level right or or for even though I wasn't thinking I wasn't thinking about the fact that I love the when I say I love you when I say the right fear any act that is done by a person who has long ago been himself surrendered himself in his heart to love and fear and God it's on cruise control it happens it happens automatically it's there you fulfill the you fulfill the fear even though you weren't thinking at that moment that of that you love you didn't have this sense of fear the sense of love for that moment doesn't matter it's there it's on cruise control it's it's automatically there now that is the one and only time that we ask that's the prayer that's what we're asking for from please be synthesize my heart to love you and to fear that it should be part of my my DNA right and therefore he says for gives an example here let me give you an example the power of Torah right let's say someone who who has been to his his his be every fiber even the common conversation with a with a Torah scholar requires Li we got to know what he's talking about right stop when he's sitting you know shooting the breeze with you right everything he says is infused automatically Cru control with Torah right it just it's there that he is everything he says really is Torah everything he says about what he says is is based upon Torah having a conversation not in learning he's not thinking about Torah he is so attached sythesized he synthesized he was Tor to his very essence it just comes out in the way he speaks everything is based upon Torah even if he's not thinking about it right finally he concludes the last paragraph the last paragraph I'll just say it out out loud there's a if you didn't say you know we have to say every morning like any other Mitzvah you can't you can't do a Mitzvah without saying the for the Mitzvah right if you didn't say right Bo or let's say you were up all night sh learning and there was no there's usually one guy who officially goes to sleep for a half hour so he can say for everybody else says all the bras all the bras because if you didn't sleep you but if you there's nobody to do that you can be you can fulfill tah with the BR of Raba with that paragraph the second BR of kashma right why why because it's the ultimate BR of Torah because it has that unique phrase that the in their genius and their piety and thees included in one only right so this is very appropriately a paragraph that can be actually used to replace the blessing of the Mitzvah T Tor so there you have it uniqueness how is that related to I'm sorry how that related to the par this whole how is it related to to I said it the beginning uh Shir that this is not related to the para it's not forl it's related to the POA to every para oh you that you have to figure out yourself how it works in to what's going on here I mean theas are here etc etc but I said clearly this is not a schl idea right it's a universal idea which fits in everywhere and I think you can find many moments that this is your homework Shira for the Friday night table to find this idea in the par okay thank you all everyone to take care