Parashat Chukat Are The Divine Laws Perfect? part 1 of 2

we have a lot of new people thank you for coming we learn some together my name is youron ruen and uh we'll learn some together if you guys have questions if you um anything comes up interrupt me don't this is not like a uh lecture where you're not allowed to talk talk as much as you want just obviously based on the subject not about basketball games of nonsense uh so this this uh last week we got some serious punishments you know we had K and we had a uh a big fight between mosenu and kak and his people and it gave us a really big uh lesson that despite how big someone is in Tor because Hades it wasn't just some Banes was a sadik it wasn't somebody didn't know anything when someone has a lot of T knows a ton of a ton of Tor and he feels that technically he belongs in a position he doesn't have there or the of Our Generation let's say he thinks he should be there and obviously not everyone else agrees with him and he decides to go against him this is the same thing as if you're going against AEM because because hm has certain laws in this world that he's put and you can't do it so by using his own logic kak ended up in a very very bad place and uh kazal tells us that one of the things that tell us about it is that until this day him and the people that uh are with him are screaming to this day that Hashem is AIT his Torah is a and Moshe is ait's leaders are met meaning they're all the truth he made a mistake he knows he sinned so we had the par before that we had the also a bunch of people that used their own logic they were also righteous people they were the chosen people within each tribe and they thought that if they they thought that if they are so righteous they have these big positions in each tribe if they go into they're going to lose these positions and then who's so who's going to do the the right job they thought that maybe nobody else can do their job they started making up stories lies exaggerations long story short they used their own logic and hasem Punishment in punished them instantly and killed them instantly those 10 two obviously were righteous Yeshua benon and calb and um the rest of the nation that sinned along with them with the exception of the women and children and anyone below the age of 20 survive the next 39 years were they scared of Los losing their jobs or they were scared of people of not doing the right job losing their jobs losing their jobs that's based on the learning I had on from it said was losing their jobs so again using logic has its pluses and its minuses more times than not when you're using your logic that's against kazal not more times all the time if your logic is against what kazal gave us it's wrong there is no way that you know more than kazal and that's why it's very important that anytime you know one of the things that uh I learned from my cousin my Kut and and early on and I never really understood it in the beginning is that when you really study T hasem gives you gifts from time to time he gives you he gives you your own he gives you your own insights into the T that you can't find anywhere else and every Jew that's that's really working hard on has his own tree of his own insights that belong to him now how do you know if it's right or wrong you compare it to K first of all you see if anybody else said it with more more times than not somebody else has already said it throughout the years they're much much smarter than anything we could even imagine but the second thing is is that you have to see if you contradict them if you contradict them you're wrong it's a default wrong not to say that we're nothing it's just that in comparison to them there is no comparison but sometimes you'll see something that agre ages with them and if you check it with people that are of higher knowledge of you you can check it and you can find out that there are certain things that actually are very very useful and literally are from Al that uh belong to you that's your own but it doesn't come by just reading the and saying oh this is nice reading it for five minutes and you're going to get it this is if you in the you try really hard you you'll get it so now in the beginning of the par it says so first of all it talks about I learned once it says from it comes from the word hak which is engravement this is the decree of the Torah what do you mean engraved why is it supposed to be engraved is that a Jew is in essence his his uh purpose in this world is not to make millions of dollars and own basketball teams and football teams and Wall Street firms and uh any other thing Jews purpose in this world is to be connected with the Tora to such an extent that it's engraved within him he's so connected to it that he becomes one with it there is nothing that is he's going against kazal says this this is what I do Hashem says this this is what I do whether you understand it or not is irrelevant whether you agree with that is again irrelevant the purpose of our world of our world as Jews is to become one with the Torah and do as much of it as We Know not as much of it as we understand but as much of it as we know in the beginning of this par it's telling us this particular message then talks into something that we don't understand until this day it says has commanded saying speak to the children of Israel and they shall take to you a completely Red Cow which is without blemish and upon which a yoke has not come schl was the smartest man of all time and he says this is this is beyond me he knew more than everybody he was smarter than every man that ever existed or you know back then or now or in the future this is a specific gift that he got from Hashem because he asked Hashem when he became King when he was 13 years old he asked hasem instead of asking him for money like we would ask instead of asking for power like we would ask what did he ask for give me the insight to judge your nation justly like you would hasem says you ask me you care so much about my Torah I'm going to give you everything that that a uh man would desire he gave him everything gave him money gave him peace gave him everything but this was beyond him because he says I don't understand how it's possible that with this the way you do it is after you Slaughter it you take the you take the um ashes you put it in water and after that this is what you use to purify the and the nation in essence anyone that's contaminated you say and comes in so I don't understand how is it that someone that's pure deals with this technically purifying water this holy water but he becomes contaminated and someone that's unpure that touches this water and now becomes pure if it was one or the other I can understand but the fact that it's both I don't understand the par is also one of the best proofs of the Tora being Divine because hasem specifically told us that this is not just a that just looks red cannot even have two hairs that are a different color and also can never be a a a par can never be a a heer a cow that ever worked you can never put any a sack on it anything on it because if you ever did it becomes Tam it's no good so the first question is how would we know so there's actually a story that one time a actually had a par and he didn't know how much it was worth He was thinking about selling it someone told him listen you could sell it to the Jews you make millions in those days obviously he didn't understand why so he invited a couple of Jews a couple of rabbis rabis came over and said okay we'll give you a thousand it so easy usually Jews negotiate okay I want 2,000 okay 2 3,000 okay 4,000 okay he kept increasing the price and he just just okay because for us there's not many of them I believe there was been nine in history with the exception of the ones that we have today by the way which we'll talk about in a second every price he says he says a price they say okay so he says this is the best negotiation ever long story short they get to a very very high price changes this guy's life they say okay but that's it yes okay let us check the cow they check the cow he doesn't know what they're doing they're looking this that what looking at the guy it's just a cow for him it's just a cow okay it's nice it's Unique it's red they're looking through the hair they're looking at its eyes he doesn't know what they're doing they say we're going to come back tomorrow with the money we have a deal so so the guy's thinking the whole night obviously the it's within the Jewish nation is very big within the the Gentile Nations is in in essence 100% so he says okay listen I don't know what these people want what are they doing but they kept telling me not to touch this cow how would they know so he tested the system he put a sack on it the whole night but before they came he took it off he go how would they know they came they brought the money they splashed it over all the uh you know gold coins put it on the table I said but before hold on before you touch it let us look at the Cow again tell look at the Cow they look at the Cow they come back they gather up all their money they said the next time that you tried to fool someone fool your mother what do you mean how to fool your mother you know this is a very uh Angry end to the negotiation how do they know we learn that there are two major signs for obviously with the the main thing that has to be in order to be kosher is to be all red can't have two hairs that are not red but the main thing is as far as it never working how could we find out one is that the as soon as you put something on the cow its eyes become cross- eyes this is something that's against nature you put whatever you want on a regular cow nothing happens hasem specifically put this cow in this world to do this particular job is also one of the main things we need in the bet mikdash it's also one of the main signs we have for the times of mashia there was a announcement about a year ago or so that there's a paruma in the United States uh somewhere in the uh near Texas and then it was about uh eight months ago or so there's another one different looking one in New Jersey uh the one in New Jersey has gotten a lot more attention uh the um some of the biggest uh rabbis in the world have come to to check it out and uh from the looks of it it looks not only kosher but the guy that actually uh uh keeping it is um very uh you know very very knowledgeable about the whole aspect ofum and very interested in giving it as a gift to the Jewish people now he's not looking to make money off of it uh so this is amazing because 50 years ago we didn't really have much of this many of the signs for the mashia today we pretty much have everything except the mashia so why do we why is this important why is it important to know that the we're in the do of the mashiah we're in a generation of the mashiah because although the mashiah is great news for many people the vast majority of the world it's not good news because once the mhia comes there's no more conversions there's no more chuva so the time to act is now if we're driving to now you better stop now and and start keeping Shabbat learn what Shabbat is because one once mashia comes you can't tell him listen I'll start keeping it now because I know you're real it becomes too late so it's the uh rabbis jobs the Jews jobs telling their friends and family to be righteous Jews and to tell their brothers and sisters that Judaism is not a joke Judaism is not one of those things where you could just keep it whenever you feel like it and you go to B once or twice a year that's interesting uh once or twice a year and uh you'll be fine you know this is you know Judaism is obviously something that comes from Hashem if it's divine if Hashem is AEM hem is it's AEM all the time meaning that if someone believes in Hashem it then obviously if he means for it to be the Hashem that's in the Torah that means that you need to do everything that Tor says it can't be oh listen Shabbat okay I'll do it it's fine I'll hang out with the family great kosher not so much listen when go on vacation to Mexico I don't want to keep kosher I eat shrimp I eat this I then you're making up your own rules which means that you you believe in a different asem because my hasem the one that's in the Torah he doesn't only give good he also gives punishment meaning that if I do what he says everything is great if I don't do what he says I have to pay for it so if you if you know the consequences of your actions and still do it you're either crazy or you don't know it's not it's not possible so it's very very important for for us to know which hasm would we believe in not the one we make up in our mind this doesn't necessarily refer refers to me refers to everyone refers to people watching the video not pointing anybody specific but it's very very important for us to be good Jews by telling our brothers and sisters why because sometimes you have the people in in the top positions that don't do it we talked about it before the sh started we're not going to name names or anything like that but the key here is that sometimes the religion becomes a business and when it becomes a business it can get ugly because we forget the purpose of what we're doing here we forget the purpose of why we go to bees why who we're praying to and that's what happens that's when you see sometimes there's major conflicts between huge rabbis which unfortunately there are many today there are major conflicts between different kot different traditions and we forget the purpose people start making up their own rules either because one k is bigger than the other one is richer than the other one thinks they're smarter than the other whatever the reasons are all of that is nonsense all of that is not all of that is not the way of hem that told us the TM told us there's one t he told us in in the uh in this par and last week's parha and several other times you in the Gil you in the proelite have the same Torah there's no different tah why is he mentioning the why is he mentioning the conract why is he mention you and the Syrian you and the uh ashkanazi and you are the the uh sapharic why does he mention you in the G cuz first of all back then there wasn't anything such there's no such thing as as a ashkanazi or Syrian Jew or Chinese Jew or safarik or any of that stuff it was one and then there was the addition which is the converts so obviously if they're they came from a completely different country completely different Nation they weren't Jewish now they're Jewish so if their Torah is the same as ours of course our tah is the same as each other so the cultural stuff is not necessar if it's not if it's a cultural thing that a k does it's not against it's great but once the culture the minim become something that's against what's widely accepted then it's uh we're starting to get off of the point of why we're here in this world so last thing about this is that the uh again this is not something that we understand really how it works works or why it works but obviously hasem has his ways and we'll know when the mashiah comes everything has a purpose whether we know it or not is not necessarily does not mean that it's uh um purposeless or purposeful but we know that if someone enters the sanctuary and he had an opportunity to be purified and he didn't do it his punishment is K is the same punishment or at least one of the first three punishments that gets if you remember says that's the last part but it says m means death upon death and it's cut off from the Nation meaning that death in this world death no next World meaning there now there's no but also mean that they cut it from the nation they not considered Jewish so K here is in essence one part of theat because in essence the person that's going that's not getting purified is going against what Hashem decreed so it's not something that is just a uh for for uh for entertainment purposes is obviously very serious business next thing is we talk about we have a couple of major events that happen in this we have Miriam dies the prophet the uh sister of mosu the dies and then we go into a couple of Wars a lot of a lot of action this so it says here the children of Israel the whole assembly arrived at the Wilderness of Zen in the first month and the people settled in Kadesh Miriam died there and she was buried there there was no water for the assembly and they gathered against Moses and Aaron so Miriam this is first of all it's it's important to know that the are not necessarily in chronological order the overall Torah is from the beginning you know from Adam until the death of Moses that's overall it's in order but sometimes you have a certain story within one par that's not an order that happened a completely different time and sometimes between one parha and another it's the same time meaning that it's a uh this one happened and next day this another one happened but sometimes there's a separation of hundreds of years so last week's para we remember we talked about it briefly now we have Miriam dies this is 38 years later this is 38 years later so for these 3 years we're almost at the time we're about a year away from going into is Miriam dies and it says immediately after that that there's no more water so Miriam had theot she wasn't just a prophet she wasn't only just righteous she also had the scoot that the water the uh the rock that was generating all of the water all the water came out of it was following her creating this well that all of am was drinking for all of those years as soon as she died the well stopped now question is why okay fine we know that the uh well uh isn't because of her great but at the same token what are you going to kill the rest of am is because she died so one of the things we learn here is that if you notice when she died it says she died and the water stopped when Aon died it says the whole nation mourned everyone cried everyone mourned whether it was children adults women everyone cried no one mourned Miriam's death and because no one mourned Miriam's death we had an immediate punishment oh you didn't know how much of a how important she was okay now you now you'll see how important she was without her you can't live that's how important she was this is one of the things that teaches us of how much we have to appreciate our whether it's in this generation in past Generations one of the things that people don't understand is why do we still mourn the sages that died riaa's students okay there's a lot of students okay no one has 24,000 students today I get it fine but every year for the rest of our history until mashia comes we have to mourn well they died already we don't mourn uh uh you know everyone else okay they died that's it what are we mourning for the truth is that we're not mourning their death we're mourning the Torah that we don't have because they they didn't live longer all of the to that we have is based off of the five people that restarted Judaism with Raba after that which means that if everything we have today is from those five imagine what we would have if we had 24,000 just like them and some many much bigger than them same concept goes for any of theor that die in our generation It's Our obligation to mourn them not because of the person per itself but the Torah that they produce and the people that they help in their lifetime it helps us achieve our purpose in the world and one of the things we learned from the gar is whenever there is a a big Sage dies it brings bad to the world it's a sign of uh it's a bad sign for the rest of the world not just the Jewish Nation but the entire world so when Miriam died we had a major problem because we didn't mourn her and hasem obviously punished us now there's actually they didn't think she was significant they thought she okay she's a prophet but you know it's it's very easy to uh think that everything was because of Aon and Moshe you know there she was significant but we have MOS we have our and apparently it seems like a uh it wasn't uh whether was a because she was a woman or not I'm not really sure but I know that the uh um the lack of understanding of our significance was something that uh uh was something that's you know easily happened then easily happens now we don't really know what we have until we lose it one of the things that uh actually you know was interesting after this is that immediately after the water finishes am goes back to their old ways and starts complaining and this is my uh this is a that uh I think is very interesting starts talking to uh you know yelling screaming at Moshe and tells him so they're telling him why have you brought up this the congregation of Hashem calling themselves the people of Hashem you know we're important people why did you bring us to the Wilderness to Die Here us and our you know us and our animals why did you bring us from Egypt to bring us to this evil place now remember evil place not a place of seed or fig or grape or pomegranate and there is no water to drink okay the basic understanding of the the of this is very easy to understand why did you bring us here from Egypt first of all they're comparing they're saying that this place we're in right now this desert is worse than Egypt which is hard to understand because Egypt were slaves but but then they call it evil ra the says ra is a uh is another word for G okay so this is that bad this is they're comparing this to Gom is the worst why is it so bad how do we know also another proof that they think that is from uh they think this is G saying this is not a place of seed or fig or grape or pomegranate there's no water to drink um the 40th page it says that there's three possibilities according to kazal of what the the tree of knowledge was either of fig TA or a um wheat huh or gin and they give a reason of why each one so here they're telling us this is not a place of seed meaning or fig or grape this is not geden this is not a good place or but what about pomegranate pomegranate on WE pomegranate because it symbolizes 613 mitv that we have and there's no water to drink water is another uh used constantly as a uh analogy for comparison to tah so saying this is an evil place this is G this is not ganeden that has the you know the the tree of knowledge we can that you get to this ganeden by doing the 613 mitv from the T