Parashat Pinchas: Heaven & Hell Between The Lines

[Music] great to be in Miami again uh we have a uh the list is getting smaller of all the people that need which means that our prayers are working but also we need to David uh Doris Bora Lana B Sarah Sarah B Lana lues Garcia Mel Coto lard Reni David Miller uh Karen maras Adil murero Moshe Eskenazi Ben Min Isabel Perez Josephina Matos marel matut Jose Antonio AA guo Pablos guo Solano guo Suarez Bill deutman Ruth glasman Beno Sandler and Raquel Sandler May and Eva and Eva May hasem give them all and one of the uh interesting things we covered yesterday in in the we had in Bon was instead of covering the entire we spent a lot of times uh covering just the story of Pinas who was Pinas and why did he have such a merit to get a personal blessing from Hashem people spend fortunes to go to some big Rabbi and get a blessing they donate a lot of money tens of thousands of dollars in some cases even hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars just to get a special blessing from some big Rabbi now this is not to discount if it's if it really is a big Rabbi and you want to support his organization fine but you have to understand obviously even if it's the biggest Rabbi in history even if it's m giving you a blessing versus hem giving you a blessing you can't compare P got a personal blessing in this says spoke to Moses saying P son of elazar son of a theen turn back my wrath from upon the children of Israel when he zealously Avenged my Vengeance among them so I did not consume the children of Israel in my Vengeance therefore say behold I give him meaning pinhas I give him my Covenant of Peace I'll explain what this means in a second and it will be for him and his offspring after him a covenant of Eternal priesthood because he took Vengeance for his God and he atoned for the children of Israel so here Hashem is saying because pinhas took action against the immodesty of the midianite and the moabit women and also the Jewish people that acted immodestly not only in their clothing where the women came and walked around like prostitutes unfortunately in today's age it's normal to do that but in that day it wasn't wasn't normal and on top of that it caused the Jewish people to fail fail this big test invite these women into their camps and the next thing you know they want to sin with them now the women had a big plan so they said as soon as we get this guy interested what do we do we take out out of the uh bag that we have maybe a Louis Vuitton bag that they were carrying with them and they showed them hey by the way if you want to be with me here's my idol bow to him and that's it you can do whatever you want failed failed in such a degree that the leader the leader of the Shimon tribe when we did the senses we also do a census in this week's parasa but we did a census a couple of months ago we're talking about the census of all of am Isel in the uh in the desert the leader of the Shimon tribe was named the way they they way that they actually did the census is they would mention the name of the leader of the of each tribe his personal name and then it would mention who his sons were and then eventually at the end of the sentence at the end of the uh explanation of who leads each tribe they would say all of these people are part of of the Shimon tribe all of these people are part of the ruven tribe all of these people are part of the Judah tribe so in that section that we learned it said the name of the leader and this very very same leader according to kazal is the leader that sinned with kby Z the son of Salu had actually a different name I tell you it in a second if I uh it was a long name an unusual name and we had a uh big surprise happen that when the Torah mentions someone by name that means they're they're a big deal they're not they're not just mention they're not mentioning my name they're mentioning people that are a big deal people that are very very important in the Tora if you have your name in the Tora even if a has a name in the Tora it's already a big deal you know he's a special you understand so when you have the leader of the Shimon tribe is mentioned in the Torah but now we find out that his name is actually Z and he actually failed miserably in this test oh his name was uh sh shalel the son of this is from the page 82b and uh that was his original name but here they changed the name to Z Son of Salu because that was his personal name Apparently after the sin but nonetheless kazal says that it's the same person he was chosen to be a leader of an entire tribe this a tribe it's a big tribe tens of thousands of people so how could it be that someone that's chosen to be a leader he's not being a leader because he's the strongest guy he's not be chosen a leader because he's a good politician or he's a good speaker or he's a uh you know he's a good-look guy he's chosen by you know for his righteousness he's chosen for his leadership skills along with his righteousness someone like this made such a huge mistake and not only fa for in for into marriage and IM modesty but on top of that desecrating of the name of Hashem by doing all of this in public and there's no sin greater than so how could it be that somebody like this can make such a big sin P shows us one of the most important things we need to know about the Torah in order for us not to fail for any sin we have to treat everything like it's a big deal big or small the one the that put together the Mish which preceded the said don't ever try to evaluate a mitvah because we don't know the value of each Mitzvah we don't know what's the biggest Mitzvah we don't know what the smallest Mitzvah is it could be that the smallest something that you think is a small Mitzvah ends up being the biggest reward in and the one do you think is a big deal it's not really that big of a deal like in today's age unfortunately people are led to believe because there's obviously money involved so people always leted to believe something wrong when it comes to money people led to believe that the biggest is this is not true is a big mitah but it depends what kind of has two parts of the Mitzvah this there the Mitzvah of giving but as far as the Merit and the reward is the outcome of the giving we had a sh about kiru about two weeks ago that I highly recommend for anyone to watch one that wants to learn about a little bit deeper because if someone looks at things logically they don't even need to look at the verses you want to look at the verses we could spend another few hours learning about it if you just look at things logically let's say one guy says okay I love God and I'm going to spend $50,000 to make the best Hanukah party ever in my Sho okay it's nice it's a nice Mitzvah $50,000 on a Hanukkah party people going to come most of the people are secular especially that it's not a in the most religious neighborhood he's going to make a big party people going to come they're going to eat they're going to drink maybe two or three of them are going to remember what the is they're going to say and then they're going to go home and pretty much it nothing's going to happen no one's becoming religious because they ate some donuts but he spent $50,000 so yes he has a mitvah that he he gave money to a to make a big party and if someone actually made a as a result of his action he also gets that Merit for that so that's the first uh first benefit is the giving the second benefit is what came out of this giving what came out of it is that three or four people made a and that's it so he spent $50,000 for let's say five MIT five gold coins in shamine great not bad but then there's another guy that takes $1 not $50,000 $1 one he takes a CD that has 30 hours of for that dollar and he gives it to somebody he says listen I think you're going to like this Rabbi he says things that are true and the guy says you know what I have nothing I ran out of music that I want to hear Let me hear what this guy says he listens to the CD and the guy likes it and next thing you know he starts keeping Shabbat starts keeping kosher leaves his non-jewish girlfriend marries a Jewish woman has Jewish kids they go to Yesa they become all of that all of the mitv that the person will ever do are due to that $1 investment so you tell me what's the car is more worth it the $50,000 or the $1 $1 so yes is a big mitvah but only if you use it the right way the same thing when someone says listen I tried sending you an email 50 times but it didn't work it didn't work I wrote it 50 times it didn't work I press send I press send I press send I press send I press send I press send and it didn't work I said okay so show me what you sent and I show me what they sent I said oh you forgot to put the dot and or it's actually org but you forgot to put the dot because ah come on you're making a big deal out of one little dot I wrote the whole thing your own.org so I forgot to put the dot what's the big deal so what is what's the big deal if there's no dot the whole thing is worthless the whole thing could be great you spelled everything perfect it could be 500 letters you spelled everything perfect perfect perfect but if you're missing the dot it's worthless it's not going to get anywhere the same thing with Arts you could give $500 million not $5 500 million but if it's for the if it's for the Red Cross or for some uh Christian institution that's trying to recruit Jews or it's for something that's against God it's worthless so yes s can be used as a good tool it could be a very big mitvah you could buy yourself a Biga because of it but only if you use it the right way and this is exactly what p is showing us pinhas made a choice so did Zim Zim also o made a choice they both had the same teacher mosenu mosenu was the teacher of everyone that's why they call Moses a rabbi both looked at mosenu as their leader but both took something else out of what he taught what what he taught them Z said listen I see what mosu said he said that hem is very serious about mitv he's very serious about Shabbat he's very serious about all of these things fine but uh I also see that mosenu married a convert now I don't know what happened but he married her so maybe I can marry a convert also this is nice in theory if she already converted then yes this is a good idea convert is actually according to the Torah is considered higher than a natural born Jew that's why it's mentioned in the Tora the special protection and deal that hasem has with converts is mentioned 36 times in a Tor more than anything else in the Tor if some already converted you want to marry them you are going to be the luckiest person on Earth their marriage become part of your marriage their protection becomes part of your protection this is why it drives me crazy sometimes to hear that there's certain kot in the world that are against converts it's like being against winning the lotto every day whether you whether you like the lot don't like the lot doesn't matter but you like the outcome right the point is is that when someone is a convert and they're a righteous convert not a fake convert a righteous convert it's the greatest thing in the world but the problem with Z is that he forgot one thing he only looked at the outcome he didn't look at the before mosenu did not marry Tora before she converted mosenu first had her convert accept a single God leave Idol worshipper leave her father's house who still was not a Jew was not a Jew at the time he was still an idol worshipper she left the house she obviously knew the laws of God by the time she left our father's house and we know this because she saved moshe's life when she gave a circumcision to their son circumcision is something that's purely for Jews it's not for the rest of the Nations No Other Nation does it so we have a specific day and time to do a circumcision and because mosenu almost didn't do it on time Hashem nearly killed him and saved them she knew that this is the reason if she didn't know anything about Tor she wouldn't know that the circumcision is the reason whym is punishing mhe she would think oh maybe it's just bad luck or maybe it's a uh you know we pick the wrong road maybe I should pick a different Navigation System I don't know she come up with different excuses like people do today people come up with every different excuse in the world of why things are happening to them everything except God everything except God is trying to tell me something it's bad luck it's bad this it's bad that okay what about looking in the mirror and saying okay maybe it's from Hashem and hasm is trying to tell me something it's okay it's okay so we obviously know that knew Tora and she converted before she was with Moshe Z on the other hand did not choose to follow this teaching and he already wanted to be with her intimately before they got married now to be a Jew with a non-jew to uh being together is a very very big problem in Judaism because hem already told us about this even before we got the actual full tah he told us already to in the uh book of talking about page 82 they ask if one who's with a gentile someone that's with a non-jew they called it an aramite so they give an example of a non-jew of that time if someone's with a gentile does he still get included in the minan if someone's into married someone has a girlfriend doesn't even actually need to be a civil marriage doesn't count in Judaism someone is just has a boyfriend a woman has a boyfriend that's not Jewish obviously she's not part of a minan because in Orthodox Judaism women are not part of a minan but let's say that the man has a girlfriend he's actively with his girlfriend they're dating for a few months they're serious they're intimate and she's not Jewish asks can we count such a person in a minan can we count them in a minan so this book answers it and he gives a um Source from the mishna S 55 it says just like AIA someone that violates Shabbat publicly meaning someone that drives on Shabbat someone that smokes cigarettes on Shabbat someone that every is considered a complete Idol worshipper this is and not included in a minan so is an intermarried person so is someone that is regularly with a nonu they cannot be counted as part of that's the level of how terrible it is to be into marriage so Z apparently didn't read M even though he had mosu right next to him he wanted to listen I'm going to be with her now and then later on she'll convert but there there's also another and this P learned Pinas also had the same teacher he had mosenu as the teacher mosenu told him listen you have to listen to God God is very serious about Shabbat about intimate marriage about modesty about kosher about everything same thing that Zim also learned only difference is did not use his logic to say maybe I could do this now and then something later Pinas saw what AEM said and took his word for it Hashem said you have to know that I am God not just believe and that's what he did Hashem says I'm a zealous God I'm I'm a a a jealous God and I'm looking for people that are going to protect my name and sanctify it P followed it and there also in valid today by the way even though we don't practice it that if someone is a zealous person all the time someone is really a lover of hem to the point where it hurts him to see people publicly sinning against Hashem specifically with the sin of intermarriage if someone is a sees another person openly with a non-jewish woman intimately at the time of their actually intimate not just he's standing next to her but if they're intimate if he actually sees them intimate together at the same time he's allowed to kill them it's actually a Mitzvah actually a Mitzvah so you have two students of mosenu p and Z one took things to his own logic and mind and chose to sin against God and violate aem's name in every way shape or form the other one decided to protect hashem's name and Pinas gets a special blessing from Hashem for protecting his name and he also gives him a few things here a few things that we could all wish we had first thing is that he adds a letter to his name if you remember there are other people in the to that hasem added letters to their name one of them being abah ainu s menu s was s and he called us s was AEM added one of the letters of the ud V and he to their name meaning listen you're not only my son you're VIP section you're special you're at a different world P earned this why because in this unlike his name being spelled with four letters added AUD he added a to his name is the first letter in's name he added to a name now it's so it's five letters now Hashem says you protected and Sanctified my name you showed me that I'm part of you a permanent part of you not sometimes not only on the weekends not only when I when you go to Sho and you want to show off you're a sadik not uh sometimes when you're next to the rabbi but as soon as you leave you go about to being a thief all the time you're God is in your heart so I'm going to make sure everyone knows the God is in Your Heart by putting one of my letters inside your name second thing is he says Shalom I am giving him my Covenant of Peace Shalom is also another one of the names of God hasem has several names and Shalom is one of them and what K explains here is that what does it mean as he gives him Shalom CU P was part of several Wars this is not the uh first battle he had and as a matter of fact right in this week's beginning of the par there's a war everyone wants to fight him everyone says what are you taking matters into your own hands you're killing our leader who Do You Think You Are so hasm says no no no no him no one's ever going to touch him I'm always going to protect him forever meaning he's going to live forever he's never going to die until the mhia comes p is going to come ASI and tell us that the mashiach is here third thing is Hashem gives him a special deal where he has to change nature for him what is it he says listen I already decided who's going to be the kohanim the kohanim have to be from The Descendants the living descendants ofon and his sons but you were already around at the time I decided I didn't make you a CO you were still a levy but now not only will you be a Coen which means hasem has to technically change nature both spiritually and and physically but on top of it you're going to be the and from you all the are going to come not only you're a Kan you're the biggest one as far as changing things physically one thing I think we said in one of our shim in the Torah and S sh is they did a research uh in different uh a few different institutions looking at DNA and they discovered that many kohanim many people that are from the Cohen tribe are actually have a a unique part in their DNA from all of mankind but it's not every Coen but most of them do like over 82% of the people that are kohanim have something different something unique in their DNA from the rest of mankind now how do you explain the other 18% of don't have it the reality of it is that not everyone that says that they're a coin is really a Coen and there's a few reasons for it number one can be that someone in the along the lines bought their K in the old days of the bet mikash the second bet mikdash there was a lot of wicked people where they wanted to buy the position of being a Coen you can't buy the position of being a Coen it's either you're born a Coen or you're not but people are very Wicked and they want to buy their position of being a Coen now the problem is when you're not a righteous Coen and you go into a uh the bet mikdash you get punished severely and that's why for the 400 and uh 20 years that we had the bet mikash we had over 300 meaning that every almost every single year Coen died the died and one of theim was a coin for for over 80 years there's one coin that was a coin for over 80 years the rest of them died literally every year they would go they go to the Kim they would die so one thing is that it's possible maybe not specifically at that time during the bet mdash but during other times some people bought the so they're not real Kim another problem could be actual into marriage along the lines another problem could be you know someone actually uh married Jewish but left uh you know did something wrong and lost their priesthood there's a lot of different reasons of how to explain it but nonetheless you see that an overwhelming majority of the kohanim in the world today have something unique in their DNA which means that Hashem had to change nature for pinhas says I'm I'm going to have to put that Mark on you so you see here that Pinas and Z who both have the same teacher made drastically different decisions and had drastically different outcomes pinhas lived forever Zim died immediately and will be remembered forever as the one who publicly sinned with a non-jew and taught us what Hashem actually thinks about into marriage for anyone who doubts the significance of inter marriage Hashem explained to us what it is even allowing us or actually giving us an in the Tora it says you actually are allowed if someone is zealous not just anyone someone is zealous and sees them at the time they're actually intimate they're permitted to kill them so here we see two different people with the same teacher learning something completely different later on in the par we meet some more interesting people and we'll go over each and every one of them and then try to sum it up and see how they're connected after this event the nation of Israel goes against Pinas Hashem makes the announcement as a butt call from sham Heavenly voice from shamim says no no no he gets my Covenant of Peace no one's allowed to touch him he made protected all of you if he didn't do it I would have killed all of you I killed only 24,000 because he stopped it so first thing I want everyone to do is go take Vengeance into their hands also how go to war with the midianites go kill all of them and that's what we did am went into a um war with the midianites and excuse me at that time the mid says that bam was there trying to collect his money cuz he says listen he comes to Bak he says listen even though my my curses didn't work to curse am is my advice did work because you sent these women look in a matter of a few minutes 24,000 people died you know how many soldiers I saved you to you know how many soldiers it would take how many lives it would take for you to kill 24,000 people so I want to collect my money at that very time am came and attacked and Bam said a impure name and started he flew in the air tried to fly away and Pinas was rewarded the ability to catch him he threw a spear caught him in the air and then pulled him down and then everyone killed him and uh took him out of this world and now he's still rotting in G there's actually a that talks about what is happening to in G yeah yeah so doesn't uh doesn't joke around so last he's going to be there forever he yeah the talks aboutus unus was a righteous convert but before he converted he did a seance he wanted to bring back which in in Judaism you're not allowed to do Sans you know the Ouija board not allowed to do that um but uh he wasn't Jewish and he didn't know wasn't allowed anyway he did a seance to bring three souls and asked them if it's worth it to convert and he asked them also what's you know where are they who are they so he brought three Souls back he brought his uncle Titus Titus uh he also brought bam and he also brought JC peny he brought JC and uh he asked them all the same questions two same questions one was who's the uh more important in the next World meaning the real world who's the most important and two is it worth it to convert so both uh Titus and um all of them answered the same questions uh who's the most important says the Jewish people are the most important in the real world Ina they're the most important they're the leaders but then he asked them okay so should I convert so Titus said no you shouldn't convert because it's too hard for somebody like you that comes from Royal Blood he was supposed to be the next in line to be the emperor so Kus was supposed to be the emperor he was actually supposed to be one of the people that would go against am so Titus told him listen don't convert you're going to be the next Emperor it's better for you to just punish them punish the Jewish people in the world you live in because Hashem actually needs tools he needs uh people to punish his Nation when they're not doing the right thing so at least you'll enjoy one world so he says to him okay where are you he says I'm in the seventh level of G he goes okay what's happening to you says every day because I burned the betam mikdash every day they burn me and they turn me into ashes and they spread my ashes into the sea the ocean and then they put me back together and it's over and over and over again because I desecrated hashem's bet mikdash so then he goes to Bam soos asks bam should I convert so who's the leader he says I'm is who's should I you know should I convert he says no says why not he goes yeah because it's too hard for somebody like you you're not going to make it it's better off if you torture am in the uh in this world at least you'll benefit in one world says where are you I'm also in Gom what's what's happening to you he says I'm being burned in a pool of uh Sean why a pull of seen because his wife was a donkey you remember last week's par we learned that his Bam's wife yeah was a donkey so it was not only considered a sin of beastiality but also it's a consider sin of wasting seed and that's one you know we did a three-hour shoe on wasting seed people don't understand how big of a sin it is it's not just a uh you know a cabalistic thing it's a real in the Torah and Bam got punished for that for wasting seed more than he got punished for going against am and then they have JC they asked about you know he ask JC where are you you know he says am is is the is the best you know there you and he asked him should I convert he says yes JC said yes and uh he says okay where are you he says I'm being burnt in um boiling uh excrement poop I'm in a pool of of uh boiling poop and he asks him why you know cuz the other ones he understands tus burnt the bet mikdash I got it that's why he's getting burnt bam cursed am is wasted seed his wife was a donkey okay I get it says but JC not only you were Jewish but on top of it you uh you said yes you said I should convert so why so why you in the seventh level of G the worst part part you don't get out of he says because I went against the rabbis I went against the rabbis and this is one of the things that we learned from this par why was AEM so angry at the midianites so angry at the go in this particular case more so than any other time except amalik when add something PR time in the when uncos brought the the the the soul of these people uhhuh I read in a in a conference for R Denis he said that Titus was there know he knew that he he would burn the vam mikash he will get punished for that but that's why he decided when he died she burn andan his ashes spread it so he said I'm want to fool these guys and when talk to him he said I'm so confused I don't know how come they gather up all those sashes people think they get fool God every day unfortunately he said I don't know this one thing I'm confused I don't know how come they all those ashes they put them together and they burn me again and that was something that he was really concerned about well I mean people think they can fool God all the time and Bam thought that he could fool God also by saying listen my curses didn't work but I could send the women and make them sin and Hashem was very angry with bam that's why he got killed Hashem was very angry with the midianites and that's why he sent Amisa to go attack them and we got to a point where Hashem acted in a different way than he usually does he decreed punishment immediately why someone who leads another person to sin is worse than someone who kills him the fact that the midianite women LED is to sin because of their immodesty made them worse than even the amalekites that just wanted to kill us a woman that walks around IM modest causing other men to look at her is worse than a murderer in hashem's eyes obviously she's not meaning to kill anyone right she may be a very nice girl she may be very smart she may be a doctor that saved a life 5 minutes ago but according to hashem's laws of modesty and of right and wrong he says if you lead someone to sin you're worse than a killer why because if you kill him physically then all you're doing is you're ending something that's temporary anyway the life in this world is temporary let's not get ahead of ourselves and thinking they we're going to live forever like some people think they're going to live forever going to find some cure they're going to live forever that's why people like Kirk aoran or Warren F all of these people they're like almost hundred years old each one of them and they still go to business still doing million dollar billion dollar contracts for what what are you going to do with all this money what are you working for you already had enough money 50 years ago for the rest of your life what did you need to cuz they figure that you know what I got to keep myself busy until they find the cure to make me live forever at least that's the only rational way I can think of it but the point being here is that people think honestly think they're going to live forever it's always a surprise when someone dies even though the Tor if you look at every one of the sages you look at all of that wrote the rest of the sages M brought part of the put part of the wrote one of the the sons of K wrote there's a few people that actually put the but put them all together and wrote most of them but nonetheless you see see that in the Mish in the in all over the Tor it constantly talks about death constantly talks about death constantly talks about the day that this life ends and eternity begins why because everyone that connects to hem knows that this life is temporary it doesn't continue forever there's no uh even which is p he said you have the Shalom you have the Covenant of peace meaning you're not going to die in this world but it's going to end when the mashia comes it's going to end you're going to go to so now when someone kills another person it's a horrible sin they're going to suffer for it but nonetheless they're ending something that's temporary anyway but when someone makes another person sin and that sin is a it's one of the major sins in Judaism that cuts him out of the nation one of them being into marriage another one being Shabbat something as simple as Shabbat a guy comes over says Hey listen what are you doing what are you keeping Shabbat for why don't you come hang out by the pool with us we'll drink a couple of beer smoke a couple of cigarettes play some music you're still relaxing rationally it sounds rational but according to the Tor it's 100% the person that uh give him make a MB and then SS after that what happened with that so that's annually the M or it's continue as a part of his records very good question a mitvah is a mitvah a sin is a sin two separate things someone makes a mitvah and they do a for eating food that's a mitvah 5 minutes later they light a cigarette on Shabbat that's an a that's a sin it's different two two different accounts the key is to show up in the with more than a but the reality of it is that you're going to have more a than mitv in most cases because we sin a lot more than we do mitv if we're not connected to God like Pinas was so how do we how does anyone go to ghen make sure that your sins as many as they are they're small sins and your mitv as few as they are they're big mitv when you do a mitvah you have on Shabbat you keep Shabbat it's a great mitvah marriage you have a kosher wife you make sure she's modest you make sure your kids go to Yesa it's big mitvah you give it for something that's going to help other Jews come back to hem big mitvah sin okay I forgot to say after I got out of the bathroom it's not good but it's notab but if it's the opposite and you made a few mitv like you made a before you ate one of the rabal mitv but your sin is that you're eating pork you made pork stop all you understand you get extra punished for all of that for the so that's the thing so someone has to make sure they realize myah has to be here my has to be here as far as levels so I have another question yeah so Shabbat uhuh let say you're keeping shabat but uh you make mhm that annates the complete Shabbat or it's just no you have depends the type of sin but you make a sin at that time so for example if someone a it also depends it also I drive from my house to the to the to the house if someone drives on Shabbat it's considered 100% Shabbat because that's AIA sin that's a public sin but if someone turns on the light accidentally right that's that's not a public sin and it's also accidental it's not the same level a public sin is a different level it's the highest level of sin so much so that there's three things the talks about this three things that it's better if someone die than make a sin one is if someone says to you Shalom worship this Idol or I'll kill you the says hem says in the Ten Commandments die and not sin meaning someone tells you worship this Idol or I'll kill you say thank you very much put the gun over here no questions asked the second sin is if they tell you kill somebody or we'll kill you die and not sin third one sex crime they tell you go be with this woman go be with this married woman go be with this non-jewish woman go waste seed even I tell you go waste seed don't even touch a woman go waste seed die and not sin that's how big it is three things sex crime idol worship and murder but but that is when it's private meaning if even one person tells you go worship an idol or I'll kill you say kill me but if it's a public sin if it's in front of people even if it's any small sin they tell you listen eat this non kosher Burger in front of these 50 people die and not sin why because it's a Once it's a public sin it becomes a different sin it becomes desecrating aem's name it's no longer a sin for not eating kosher it's no longer a sin for forgetting the it's not it's not that it's that it goes into a different class once a Jewish person goes to you know looks Jewish acts Jewish everyone knows he's Jewish even if he doesn't have the uniform but everyone knows he's Jewish and tell him go to casino or will kill you die and not sin got a question P's mother was a convert mhm yes yeah that's why they actually the they went against him and it said that your father-in-law is had another name called puel but puel and is the same one same person and was a convert and so were all of his children she says you're not even 100% authentic Jew your mom is a convert which is nonsense but the point is that that's why hasem made sure that he specifically mentioned was he added a letter to his name he made sure everyone knows who his father is so don't think it's a different Pinas and in case there's someone that has the same father's name there's an only one that has pazar aen because there's only one aen so this is the one I'm talking about this is the one that's getting the Covenant this is the one that's going to become Coen Gad this is the best person on Earth right now and that's why because P made sure that everyone knew that hem is with him at all times now the best part about is that he did it 100% clean and 100% forem sh meaning he wasn't expecting any reward he was actually expecting to die because think about it you're not you're going to assassinate the president obviously they're going to kill you the best case scenario you go to jail but most likely they're going to kill you he's going to assassinate the president of a tribe that everyone thinks is a tadik that everyone thinks is great that everyone is following and he's doing it in public he's not like high he's not like with a sniper rifle from 1500 M he's going up close and personal so he didn't think he's going to survive but he says as soon as it becomes a public sin I have to kill him cuz he's desecrating my God's name and someone is desecrating my God's name so P that's why also he got this special privilege this special deal with hem because he did it 100% clean and that's why it got to the highest level of mitvah and the midianite women and the midianite men got the highest level of punishment because they caused is to sin because once we cause somebody to sin it's considered worse than murder because as we finish the point when we kill if somebody kills them physically then they're ending something that's temporary but when someone is killing somebody's n when he's causes somebody to viol chabbat causes somebody to idol worship causes somebody to into marry causes somebody to leave AEM that's not murder in this life you may not even see that person die in this life he may outlive us in this life but as far as eternity you're killing him forever Shalom and that's why the Torah says it's the one that's worse is the one that makes makes somebody sin than one that actually kills him because when he kills it when he uh makes him sin he's killing him eternally when he kills him physically he's killing him just in this world so ban I heard in one of the sh that I was uh I was watching uh YouTube M it said to be land uh respect andh okay he was a prophet ban bam respected hasem yes he followed Hashem he still so how come ban respect hasem and at the same time he his uh want to curse AM wants to curse not only curse but his uh wife was a a donkey because bam despite the fact that he believed in God he still had bad midot he still had bad character traits so first off he had a huge amount of Gava a lot of Pride so when balak sent people to him and asked them to come curse am is Bam says okay let me ask my God if I'm allowed to go with you and God said no you're not allowed to go but bam didn't say I'm not allowed to go what he says I'm not allowed to go with you people meaning that he's trying to imply that if it was somebody that's higher level than you that's worthy of me coming then I'll then then I would be able to come with you so meaning he was he had too much pride to even admit that God told him no you're not allowed to do this second thing is he had a big he had a mid for money greed so when it came to money as soon as they uh when he sent the people back he told him listen even if balak offers me his house full of money I wouldn't be able to go against God but in essence what he's trying to say is that that's that's the minimum you have to pay me because if you pay me then more than a house full of gold then I could do something against God then I could do something that's override the system so and he and he insinuated in a few ways that he can beat the system and the main one is that when uh God asked them who are these people that came to you as if God doesn't know obviously God knows but God always gives us a choice we have a free choice he say who are these people he goes oh balak's people came uh balak sent him to me to have to have me curse am like he's actually answering Hashem as if he was helping Hashem giving him this new K like it's helping hasem so even on one end he had prophecy or sorcery or combination of both he was still a very filthy person and the main issue that made him a very filthy person is that is Gava it all came from his Gava once once somebody has Gava once somebody thinks that they are in control of everything and everything is supposed to be to their standards that means that they become a mini God in their own mind they become a mini God and that's why Hashem says that someone that has G someone that has Pride I cannot be in the same room with him why can't I be in the same room cuz he thinks he's God and I know I'm God and it can't be two gods someone that has Pride thinks that everything is supposed to be their way if the appointment doesn't come on time they get angry why they why you so angry okay you didn't come on time well you never you were never laid before yeah but why didn't he come why didn't he call at least or why didn't he do this why like they get all frustrated about something that just happens it happens it's not if it's obviously if it's regular then it's annoying but if it just happens if it's raining outside if you could figure out why the person is 5 or 10 minutes late or even a half hour late you don't need to get all crazy but someone that has a lot of pride is thinking like is taking it like it's a personal insult on them like who are you that they're going to actually work extra just to insult you they think of themselves as something more more than what they really are and God detests that hates it so had this mid he started making his own rules so much so to the point where he F he felt that it was normal for him and the donkey to be together made rules the filth consumes the person you know the thing is you'll see sometimes you you know you'll see stories about major CEOs in big corporations and most of the time you just going to read about how much money they have and how they bought this company or that company but I met a lot of CEOs in my life and it's not exactly what it says on the news like okay yes they bought the company they sold the company they made a lot of money yes all of that is wonderful but in real life a lot of them are very very weird people they have very very weird things that they like very strange interests and some of them are a little cuckoo like there was this one guy that uh became public that his whole thing he he was running a clothing company but he would come to work just with underwear that's it you wouldn't wear clothes he would come to work just with underwear in front of you know women and men and then you know guy's a multi-millionaire running a huge billion dollar company but he felt that why can't I just walk around with underwear his Gava got to such a high level that he started he decided that he's going to make new rules to the world with him on top and that's the thing when it comes to G when it comes to Pride people don't know what's the you know how bad it can get like how far someone can take it and the more money someone has the more power they have the more they justify and rationalize their own Gava their own Pride they say listen I have a reason to be prideful I'm rich I'm goodlook I'm uh I don't know tall I'm this I'm that all these different things that they give them like as if they did it they don't give any credit to God to give credit to themselves I made the money I made myself goodlook I made myself tall I made myself I don't know fit you know they feel like they did everything but in reality as soon as they get sick they become nothing and hasm shows them that King Solomon told us that when someone is prideful Hashem is eventually going when it when his time comes Hashem is going to use his own Pride to destroy him so when someone is prideful about his money Hashem will make his money be his own poison and so on and different things is there any way that the next time when you come uh you you touch the [Music] the about and you talk about you know whenever you die what happened with your soul with your you know true that will be good scary though well it be nice to know all right there's actually uh there's a um a couple of uh good lectures really good ones one of them actually is called life after death by Rabbi mrai he talks about reincarnation talks about what happens after you uh die to some extent um there's two parts of what happens after you die someone actually coincidentally or as AEM would have it obviously it's not coincidence uh just yesterday someone asked me for the second or third time to do a uh lecture about what happens after you die but specifically focus on Gom the problem with talking about Gom is that you could say a few things here and there but when you give too much detail it could scare some people to such an extent that they can become Frozen meaning that according to what we know about G the worst suffering someone could ever have that's ever recorded we know that job had it job we have a book in you know one of the 24 books of the tah one of those books is the Book of Job and job suffered for approximately a year every type of suffering his CH 10 children died he lost all of his money he lost all of his cavod he became very very sick to the point that worms were coming out of his body he wasn't able to move he was thrown in the street all of his friends became enemies disaster and kazal says the sages say he suffered for one year and he got reward for eternity because he passed the test ultimately but if someone suffers like job did but for 70 years not for one year for 70 years like a whole lifetime in this world it's not even equivalent to 1 hour in so when people actually think about suffering especially am we think about the Holocaust we think about ashit we think about all the disasters that happened to am approximately 70 years ago we think about the disasters that happened in the Inquisition in the pgrs in the BET mikdash which we're going to learn about in a couple of weeks in the lecture we're doing in New York uh with kazak and Torah anytime a major event in New York on um when I talk about the mikash people look at that as suffering and that is 100% suffering the type if anyone actually wants to learn what real suffering is learn about what happened during the destruction of the mikdash this is Shalom not to Discount what happened during the Holocaust because obviously that was also a huge amount of suffering and all of those Souls were able to complete their tiim but nonetheless if you look at the details of what happened during the during uh the bet mikdash it's worse much worse and even that is not equivalent to what happens in Gom so when you start going into the details of what happens in Gom if someone is not prepared if someone is not at that level where they're able to like actually absorb that it could scare them to such an extent they become Frozen so it's a there is actually a sh that RAB M did about G about 2 hours Shure um I've seen it I have it but it's not public it's on a it's on a DVD you only get it on special request uh and a reason why he didn't publish it to the public is because he says listen it's definitely knowledge that needs to be out there but not to everyone there's also a website out there that uh talks about get know but you have to have a special password to get in what's the password you have to possess certain Torah knowledge to show that you know enough Tor by answering these questions and that's the code they ask you what's in this what page is this one what's the for this what's the for that different questions about Tor if you know this type of information that means you know enough about Tor that means you could know it's like going to cavala if you don't know that much T you don't understand right so it's definitely something that I would like to do uh I just don't know what's I have to ask really what's the appropriate way to do it because it's definitely something that we need to learn much more about because people have no concept A lot of people are being taught today that gome doesn't exist like it's just and even if it does exist it's only like a temporary thing and it's just like you know it's like a washing machine they call it you go it's like a washing machine and then you come out after a year Well if you look at the gar no that's not what it says if you look at the tah that's not what it says permanent it's it's you know there's some parts of gome that are temporary but temporary is not just one year and temporary could mean a million years cuz there's no concept of time there time is only connected to to material there's no material there there's nothing physical there so the time over there what's you know one year here could be a million years over there so that's number one the second thing is is that there's seven levels of gome seven stages of gome the first six one is worse than the other each have a certain amount of time but the first six they end at some point at some point it's over you get out not you but anyone that goes there um but the seventh level the in R page 17 says that level never ends even after mashia comes even after this world ends and there'sa every all the other parts of Gan will be closed the fire will be shut off but the seventh level of Gom will never be shut off so it's you start going into details like that people can get uh terrified but it's it's a uh but listen I'm more than happy to do it I like learning about it it gets me to have I don't want to go there uh so the more you learn about it the better but we have to always have you know we have to be able to handle it we learn about G from the Tora also a lot of people say where does it say G in the Tor it actually said it in the Tor a couple of weeks ago in K in korak it says that after korak sinned the ground swallow the ground opened up and swallowed him and him and all of his followers went down to shol shol is another name for G so anyone this is in clearly in the to it's twice in the same par it's in chapter 16 uh verse uh 30 and then again in verse 33 so it says the uh the English translation calls it a pit but it's not a pit it's called which is another name for G so it's and it's in the Tor in a lot of different places that there is G in in written Tor and T and so on it's just that people don't want to believe that people don't want to believe in Gom because they they think that the whole concept of Gom goes against God because someone told him that God is merciful and they translate it as God is Shalom a fool M someone told him that God is loving but they Shalom translated that God's a sucker how they figured listen God Is So merciful so if I lead Shabbat he's not going to consider it like he says in the Torah he's going to say okay you know what this guy Jacob he's such a nice kid he's so funny yeah I know he was going to casino on Shabbat but he's such a nice guy he made everybody laugh during the game let him pass he's not a full sin he didn't know he didn't know enough yeah but he went to Yesa what do you mean he knew he was a Jew his father was a rabbi yeah but he was a nice kid like that's what they think God thinks like they think God's like uh he's so merciful he turns into a fool and there's a specific teaching about it in thear someone that calls AEM vatan which means like someone just lets go of the sins they they cut off they actually give that type of a person that thinks hasem is like a is is a fool uh and just lets go of these sins gets an extra punishment on top of his punishment what's the punishment they cut his blood into cut his uh meat his body into small small pieces like you go at the butcher no that's that's part of his punishment and G so it's people have no idea that this this stuff is very much real the more we know about it the better we are because one of the reasons that Hashem exposed his voice to am is right before he gave us the Ten Commandments we never heard God's voice after he gave us the Ten Commandments everyone heard the voice of Hashem and everyone died they heard the ver first commandment they died he brought them back to life said the second commandment everyone died again he brought them back to life millions and millions of people died he brought them back to life and then after that he said Moshe tell him to stop talking you go talk to him we'll just do when we'll do and then we'll hear when whatever you want what us to do just to because if he continues to talk we're going to die what does m answer them says no don't worry don't worry he's just scaring you so you don't sin he's scaring you not because he's a boogeyman not because he's not merciful not because he's not loving it's the opposite because because he's loving because he's merciful that's why he's scaring you because if you go against him the punishment is dear so he doesn't want you to to to sin so he has to scare you to death so you know don't mess with him he's not one of your friends from the schoolyard he's not your boss at Ikea you know he's not your customer in Starbucks he's AEM don't mess with him he tells you to keep Shabbat keep Shabbat like it says in Al and say thank you he tells you keep kosher say thank you hasm for giving me the ability to actually eat especially I can eat kosher he told you live in this world as a righteous Jew you should praise His name from morning to night just for being alive let alone being a statistical error think about it there are 7 and A5 billion people in the world why do they say 75 billion and not 7.5 623 because once you get to such a large number it doesn't really matter 7 A5 billion 7.56 billion 7.52 billion it doesn't really make a difference out of the 7 and5 billion approximately 15 million are Jews some say 20 million some say less but let's just call it 15 million 15 million is not not even a rounding error out of 72 billion we don't even look at this 15 million 72 billion is 7 b500 million we don't even count the tens so the 15 is not even a rounding Arrow they don't even use it and out of the 15 million only about 3 million keep Shabbat so you that did CH are part of 3 million people in the entire world that keeps Shabbat it's not even a statistical error for being one of those chosen people that actually is obeying and complying and enjoying the Covenant of hem that by itself you should pra aem's name from here until the next World for being part of something like that it's like if you take you go to the entire ocean 72% of the world is the ocean you take a coin you go to the deepest part of the ocean you drop the coin to the bottom you follow the coin with a fancy camera you see exactly where it drops and then you take a million other coins and you drop them also into the ocean it's almost impossible for any of those million coins not one but any of the million coins to ever drop exactly in the same spot as the first coin you dropped that's what being a Jew that keep Shabbat is that's what being a Jew is for that it's worth all the praise in the world for being part of am and I have to go it's okay so now we have a few interesting things to learn about this Paras that give us a little bit of a different look of why hasem chose this par to do it these people to represent it in essence I think in this parha we're going to learn something very special that thisas is giving us instru instuctions of how to be the chosen within the chosen obviously Jewish people are chosen people but some people want to be heroes some people want a special Mission some people want to be the best of the best Hashem gave us instructions of how to do it in this par after we learn the significance of making someone else sin in hashem's eyes which is the only eyes that matter hasem tells us he tells Moshe and elazar to do a census take a Census count the people again why count the people because right now we've uh it's been a long time since we counted the people soem like anyone that has something valuable someone that has precious diamonds and someone just stole a bunch of his diamonds he's going to go count what he has left all of these plagues all of these Wars all of this punishment that hasem brought on amning it hurt the people but he also wants to show us some mercy he wants to show us that despite all the punishment that he gave us he was still merciful how so when we arrive at the final number because if you look at the plague 24,000 people died before that during the time of kak there was about 15,000 people died K was about 250 and then after that was 14,700 and then we had with the uh with uh the golden calf thousands of people died and several times people died tens of thousands of people died M no with the the scene with the moabites right right right let's say 24,000 24,000 so we've seen in the last two months almost every single over almost every single par we had major punishment tens of thousands of people died but hasem says that despite all of this punishment I was still merciful to you how so when we arrive at the final number of the census we see that the difference between this number and the last number we read in the Torah is only about 1,800 people that's it still over 6,730 people over the age of 20 until the age of 60 why 20 to 60 because in chapter 26 verse two it says take a senses of the entire assembly of is of the children of Israel from 20 years of age and up according to their father's household everyone who goes out to the legion in Israel Hashem is telling you why am I choosing just a people over 20 why am I not counting the women why am I not counting the children why am I not counting the teenagers why am I not even counting mosu in a senses m raenu is very important so anyone anyone says W how come hasem doesn't like women how come he's not counting the women in here don't worry he's not even counting mhu why says I'm only counting the people that are ready to go to war that are ready to be soldiers anyone between the age of 20 and 60 can go to war anyone below or above or a woman cannot go to war unlike today where there's women soldiers and the Tora it's completely not allowed and the reason why is because it's not modest it's not modest for woman to be a soldier and also it jeopardizes the soldiers because if a woman gets captured as a hostage she's much more likely to go against her own people than a man is not because a woman is weak but because a woman respects herself much more than a man does a man is willing to suffer the consequence even if it means that he'll get publicly embarrassed they'll torture him they'll beat him up they'll do whatever a man will accept this sometimes if he has a big belief in what he's protecting and what he stands for perhaps if he just has a big ego and he doesn't want to be known as the guy that uh fell on Enemy Lines a woman on the other hand is more likely to fail in a situation like this and the reason why is because a woman naturally has a lot more value for her body and her self-image and respect in a man does meaning that a woman even if they threaten her with Shalom with rape that by itself would make any normal woman give up why would she want anyone to touch her why would you want to carry Somebody's Baby why would you want anyone to violate her in a in a way like that any normal woman would actually give up and and and do what what they want this is actually also a reason why a woman unlike a man where if they say listen you be with this uh man be with this non-jew as we said before die and not sin but a woman on the other hand if they say a woman either be with the this non-jewish man or Die the woman is allowed to be with the non-jewish man why because a woman will not get any joy out of it she's going to purely suffer from it whereas a man even even if he's a righteous person will still have some joy out of it which means that it's better that he died than enjoy a [Music] sin so woman's body is very very special for hasem some it's it's it's a it's a it's a it's a miniature bet mikdash a woman's body is a miniature bet mikdash so people don't understand when you have a diamond let's say you have a 100 karat diamond it's worth I don't know h100 million what are you going to go oh Diamond show it to everybody in the world where you have a100 million doll Diamond no you're gonna put it in a safe and you put that safe into another safe and that safe into another safe and then you're going to get 500 guards and you get another thousand to watch the 500 and no one's going to even know why they're there there just going to be one big mystery everyone's going to think they could protect the computer no one knows there a diamond why because it's precious Hashem is telling you young Jewish woman old Jewish woman middle-aged Jewish woman your body is a beta mikdash what are you showing it to everybody for it's the most precious thing in the world you're going around showing people what you have it's a mdash it's the holiest thing in the world and we're go in there we showing what barely covering on a skin hasem says obviously you have no idea why you're alive this is why the sin is so dear because not only is the woman not have an idea of who Hashem is and even connecting to him but on top of it she's making his other children sin just like the midianite women even though we already learned that the Egyptians were foul horrible people the sages say that the nation that brought znot like prostitution to the world was the midianite women and this is why Hashem said Go destroy them cuz they brought something that's once it touches you once you once someone is tainted with knowing what immodesty is and prostitution and promiscuity is it's almost impossible to forget it to let it go he said the midianite women made such a sin by making my nation sin that until this day we're suffering from it even though the minit's already gone so here hasem is telling you I'm not counting the women not because they're not special but rather because they are special I'm only counting the people that can go to war and now the difference in this count versus the count that we had last time is if you remember I mentioned in the beginning when we had the senses in the past it would say the name of the leader of each tribe so for example it would say schel son of Zur we end up to find out is Z Son of Salu and then it says the name of his son and his son and his son and his son and then at the end it says they are all part of the Shimon tribe and then the same thing about the Ruben tribe it says a certain person's name and then his son and his son and his son his son and all of them are part of the ruven tribe and so on and so forth about every one of the tribes but in this sentence we find something different we find that the order is opposite we find that each one it says here in chapter 26 verse 5 so it says ruven the firstborn of Israel the sons of ruven of Kan the khite family of paloo the palite family of hezron the hezron family and so on these are the families of the ruven nightes so here we see something very interesting not only does it say it in the end of the count like it did in the the first time that everyone is part of the ruven tribe or the Judah tribe or any other tribe but it actually says it in the beginning too so kazal asks why does it say it in the beginning why doesn't it just say it the same way as it did last time Hashem is technically adding a few words that are not necessary if you already know at the end of this paragraph that they're all part of the ruven tribe then why do you need to mention it in the beginning we're already going to find out any anyway or if anything just put it in the beginning and don't put it in the end here we find out something that's still affecting us to this day P when he did what he did he became a leader he became an eternal leader mosenu when he did what he did he became an eternal leader even the mashia is not going to be as great as mosu these are the leaders we've had but hasem is telling you that if you notice in the last month of parot each week when I punish I punish the leaders first because the leaders were worthless the leaders didn't rebuke the people didn't tell them that they're sinning they just sat there quietly and didn't even say that the people are sinning by complaining against hem or they became part of the sin like Z and that's why I punish them first which means that the leaders you read about in the Torah are not just leaders they the greatest leaders that ever lived in history that's why they're the only ones mentioned and in this count in this senses he's telling you there's no leader for me to mention to you about the ruven tribe other than the original ruven he's the only leader in the ruven tribe that's actually worthy to say he's the leader of the ruven tribe and the same thing with Judah and the same thing with Shimon and same thing with every one of the tribes the original leader is the only one that worthy to be the one that's known eternally as the leader of the woven tribe everyone else failed after him why because we all wanted to be politically correct we didn't want to tell people the truth and Hashem says that once you are in a position of leadership your free choice is eliminated you're no longer allowed to not tell the truth and that's the reason why he punished the leaders first but aside from that hasem gives us some interesting names in this census and we'll finish with that where he tells us that in the each one of the tribes he mentions certain people that already died so for example in chapter 26:9 says in the sons of el the same who were summoned by the assembly who contended against Moses and Aaron among the Assembly of korak says these the they're not they're they were part of but it's they're not they're dead why because they went against Moses and Aon as part of they were part of the Assembly of korak when they contended against hem by going against Moshe and Aon they went against theem then the Earth opened up open its mouth and swallowed them and kak with the death of the assembly when the when the fire consumed 250 men and they became a sign so here it says that after they made the sin against theem the ground swallowed them and they all died but then it adds a few extra words it says and they they became a sign so first thing what kind of sign is this y sign sign forever for us to know don't go against the greatest sages of the generation don't go against the Torah don't go against theem why because it's a one way ticket to G no one in history that ever went against hem the tah or the major rabbis ever ended up in any other place other than G that's the sign he's specifically telling you this is a sign they are they became the sign that that's what happens to someone who goes against hasem someone who goes against the major rabbis and someone that goes against the Torah cuz that's what they did but then after this is mentioned something very interesting the next verse verse 12 chapter 26:2 the very next verse it adds a few words um I'm sorry this is actually the end of um uh verse 11 but the sons of K did not die they just said it kak and all the people his family and friends and the T and 250 major people they all [Music] died but the sons of kak didn't die why didn't they die because the sons of K made a choice in the last minute not to go on their father's side but for them doing a chuva it doesn't seem like such a big deal what's a big deal okay so you chose to be with mosenu I would choose to be with mosu also what's such a big deal that you chose to be with mosu versus K because that was the biggest test in their level and anyone's level really because kak was the richest man of the land once they went against their father publicly that means that they're cut off out of the will they become homeless and on top of it if their father wins the election there's no end to their suffering they become Enemy Number One this is why in your prayer every day you have read psalms that uh King David put together and wrote over half of our prayer is from in the beginning of it says a song on the on the Kino of G by the sons of korak a how beloved are your Dwelling Places Hashem master of hosts meaning being close to Hashem is nothing better than that and who's saying this the sons of korak why cuz the sons of korak made the right choice they chose AEM over money they chose AEM over cavod they chose AEM over politically correct and once they chose AEM even though the ground according to kazal the ground opened up and they fell into G but because they already made chuva there was like a bubble that protected them and brought them back to where we are today [Music] in talks about chuv are one of the greatest symbols of real chuva because real chuva requires self-sacrifice there's no such thing as chuva that's just no big deal I'm going to wake up one day I'm going to want to keep all of my God's I'm going to want to keep Shabbat I'm gonna want to keep I'm gonna watch my eyes I'm not going to waste seed I'm going to be sadik overnight I'm going to learn to from morning T night no such thing real Chua requires a lot of effort and we see that today somebody does Chua they start keeping Shabbat or in some cases they're not even keeping Shabbat but they're keeping a few mitv they go pray with the but immediately they make sure that the world knows that they keep a few mitv how do they do it they grow a beard they dress in black and white and they start putting a hat on or a keep on so everyone to to to the general secular public especially the go or the people that are acting like go someone with a beard and a keepa that's like a rabbi it's true you see somebody with a keep and a and a beard you already treat him somebody different even though just a couple of generations ago everyone had a beard and today even a terrorist have a beard but once you put the keep on that's already makes your Rabbi they expect you to know every question every answer in the Tor they expect you to know everything by heart they expect you to give lectures the guy just started keeping Shabbat two weeks ago you want him to do it what's the problem it's actually the ch's fault why because he's taking on things that he shouldn't take on too fast if having a beard is already part of your natural look you already had a beard anyway then it doesn't matter then that's part of your natural look but if your whole life everyone knows you to have like a baby face and you started keeping Shabbat last week or last month and all of a sudden you growing a beard you're not shaving at all you look like Aid that was born into the religion you're taking on too much exterior without having enough interior to justify it and this is not only a problem today in this is a mish Mish was written 2500 years ago it specifically talks about how someone is spending too much time worrying about their exterior without worrying about their interior and mishna it says and we place the ashes upon the ark this is the procedure of the fast days is what they're talking about and we place the ashes upon the ark and upon the head of the Nasi n is like the president or the uh Prince which by the way is the source of where the New Testament and the Catholics got the whole concept of Ash Wednesday they put ashes on their head it's actually from theah that's what we used to do when there's a uh fast or a uh any major uh mourning and upon the head of the chief of the Court then everyone else places ashes upon his head as well the Elder among them address them with words that subdue our Brethren it is not stated regarding the people of nve and God saw their sackcloth and their fast but rather God saw their deeds that they repented their evil way so in the story of nve what they're saying here is that the verse in the in the uh tah in the Book of Jonah chapter 3: 10 they saying the people of nve hasem told Jonah listen go tell these go these non-jews that they have 40 days to do chuva if they don't do chuva in 40 days I'm going to kill all of them destroy the city so Jonah initially didn't want to do it but the long story short is that what ended up happening is that the entire city of nve did cha and they got rewarded for it and there actually written a why it says that and God saw their deeds and they repented their evil way hem saw their Action Now part of their repentance were when they found out that Hashem put a decree against them they'll RI their clothes they put sacks on their instead of clothing they put ashes on their head but it doesn't say in the Torah that God saw their sacks it doesn't say in the t god admired the fact that they changed their clothes or that they put ashes on their head meaning God didn't even pay attention to what they were wearing what did he pay attention to you pay attention to what they did what their actions were he didn't look at your beard and you know to measure if it if it reaches the floor he didn't see if you're wearing black and white or you're wearing a blue suit with a uh red tie he didn't care if your uh wife was wearing a black gown or a gray gown as long as it's modest is what he cares about and that's what in the reminds us of something that we think is a problem only today but in reality we've been making the same mistake for over 3,000 years we worry too much about the outside but not enough about the inside and the ones that are worrying about the outside sometimes forget about the inside altogether and the ones that don't worry about the outside at all there's no way the inside could ever be good because once you show the world that you're immodest then you're also telling the world that you don't care about what he thinks so how could you be righteous by telling people that you don't care about what God thinks at the same token if you only worry about the outside but you're not worrying about your midot you're not worrying about your character then you become a bad example of Judy ISM also the guy with the beard but goes to the casino the guy with the stral the hat and the whole uniform but you see him Shalom at one of these clubs or bars or any of these uh places that no one belongs to let alone a religious person so sh is telling you specifically listen don't worry so much about the outside just follow the law your Deeds is what important to me and that's what we learned from b b k is telling you that once we made a decision to be with hem oh how great it was why not because we saw our father destroyed but because immediately we felt that it was the right decision because that's inside it's inside you feel it so out of all of these people he's saying listen the everyone else they would have been part of the senses but no no no they're not mentioned who's mentioned even they're all mentioned that they died who mention is highlighted so this whole section this is three verses almost four verses actually that talks about the descendants of palu who are the sons of el and and so on so the whole section talks about dead people for what just to mention the few that are alive live eternally he's not mentioning their father just to abuse their father again to publicly insult him he's not mentioning the again to say they were Sinners we already know there were sinners from the minute we found out who they were he's mentioning all of them to show hey there were a few hundred people only two will live eternally they not two all of which I think was three actually but anyway all of those people are mentioned just for the few that lived and then after that it mentions the tribe of Judah and again tribe of Judah we have something very interesting it says it starts from Judah himself in chapter 20 6 verse verse [Music] 19 the sons of Judah ER Onan ER Onan died in the land of Canan if you remember we learned from The Book of Genesis long time ago beginning of the year these were the first two sons of Judah the original Judah that we learn in the Tor where he married Tamar but before he married Tamal Tamar married two of his sons and and Onan and hasem killed both of them he first killed a because a did not want to bring children to the world with Tamal cuz he wanted to keep her beautiful so he wasted seed he would cohabit with her but he would waste the seed and even though we didn't receive the Torah in writing yet at that point it was already known to the go it was already known as part of the seven Noah hiy laws you're not allowed to waste seed it specifically says Hashem killed a why because he wasted seed and then again Onan Onan want to do the mitvah which is to marry your brother's wife if there's no kids if they didn't have kids and then the uh and the brother died or the husband of the uh wife died and it he has a brother then it's actually a Mitzvah in the old days to marry the wife and bring kids to the world in his name but if the wife doesn't want to marry the brother then she has to give him a he has to give her a where it's a process they go to the bed and she spits on a shoe and so on they don't really do it today anymore at least not in the western world uh but nonetheless Onan married his brother's uh sister his brother's uh wife but he also did didn't want to bring kids to the world so he also wasted seed soem killed him too specifically showing us that wasting seed is by far not only disgusting in hashem's eyes but it's a sin that hasem punishes immediately both in this world and the next and these two are mentioned here they died already they died hundreds and hundreds of years ago before this whole thing happened they never they were already before Egypt they were even before uh you know U Joseph became a visero before everything this is he's mentioning to you to remind you by the way yes the tribe of Judah that's where the Messiah is going to come from but look ER made a choice they could have been the forefathers of the mashiach forefathers of the mashiah one of them could have brought the mashiah because Tamar was destined to bring the mashia and the the children of yudah or Judah was destined to bring the mashia so or could have brought the mashia but instead what do they decide to do decide to waste seed they wanted to have fun like people today want to have a girlfriend on the side want to date for a little while before they get married okay so hasm says okay so instead of bringing the mashiah you're going to be remembered forever as the people that wasted seed andem killed them and your step brother will be mentioned right after you from is where the mashia comes what's the difference D did the right thing learned from the same Rabbi who's the rabbi in this case it's Judah they had Judah as their father pis has Judah as their father they chose to do whatever they felt like it despite the teaching parents did the right thing and became the one of the forefathers of one of the fathers of grandfathers of the mssiah right after that in verse 33 same chapter mentions another descendant of uh the tribe of eph it talks about if you remember slad was the the first person that ever violated Shabbat and now's daughters are named in this it says so here we see something very interesting despite their father being the first Shabbat violator in history he has five daughters that are all named in the tah and we just said anyone that's named the Tor is extraordinary especially in the case of women because not many women are mentioned in the Tor so Kaz tell us these five women were bigot very very modest women and all very very righteous and we have a confirmation of that shortly what is the confirmation confirmation is when they all come to mosenu later in this Paras in chapter 27 verse one says the daughters of slad and it names their names again and then in verse three chap 27:3 it says our father died in the wilderness but he was not among the assembly that was gathering against hem in the Assembly of korak he died of his own sin and he had no Sons why should the name of our father be omitted from the among the family because he had no son give us a possession among our father's Brothers and Moses brought their claim before hasem so they're saying listen Our Father didn't he didn't have any sons and he left the world because of his own sin not because he was part of K he made his own sin he died for it but still that doesn't mean that should we should be punished cuz we're we're keeping hashem's will we're doing what we got to do we shouldn't be left homeless because we have no my father didn't have a son that was aem's Choice whether to give him a son or not so Moses says Hey listen I'm bring this this issue to Hashem and Hashem says canem said to Moses the daughters of speak properly and he tells them yes we're going to actually start giving a detail of this law of giving giving the will out in case a father doesn't have a son and only leaves daughters behind this becomes one of the T and we're going to use them as the example meaning Hashem not only agreed with what they said which the Rashi says that uh agree that hem agrees with him but Hashem had such outmost regard for them and love for them that he says we're going to name you in the T and use this as the reason to name you not your father's sin as the reason but rather your righteousness but one thing that's very interesting is that since they were very righteous it seems odd that they mention that their father died from a sin I mean it's says is you have to respect someone in his life and in his death so they could have just said listen our father died or not even mention anything everyone knows your father died it was a famous death there's a chapter there's a whole about talking about it so why you mentioning that your father died cuz they wanted to teach us a very valuable lesson teaches a very very valuable lesson they said listen our father died making a horrendous sin of Shabbat the second Shabbat after we got the torat he violated Shabbat and he got a death penalty he died for his own sin you you sin but at least he wasn't against Co he wasn't on the same side as korak and went against the Torah went against hem desecrated aem's name going against the rabbis that were righteous that were the leaders not just some guy that's running a sh and ask for without telling the truth at least he didn't desecrate aem's name on purpose there's a difference okay he died of his own sin no questions asked but he wasn't a he wasn't a person that causes people to fight for lies he wasn't a politician he was a man of Truth and as a matter of fact thear says specifically that his sin was for sh even though it was a mistake and he got a very bad punishment for it it still was forem sh he was a sadik he wanted to show people that hasem is not kidding when it comes to shabbat so he wanted to show them listen this is the second Shabbat since we got the Tor so if hasem is ever going to let it go this is the time he's going to let it go like if somebody violates the second Shabbat it's different than somebody violating the Shabbat or 3,000 years later it's very different he says look he didn't let me go he gave me the worst punishment in the tah for violating Shabbat you have no excuse 3,300 years later so again had a great teacher same as their father mosenu slad chose to take things into his own hand and his daughters asked the rabbi went to mosenu and asked him what's the appropriate way to do things and not took matters into their own hands and caused themselves harm like like their father did they learned from their father's sin and because of that they'll be remembered forever as the five sadikot five righteous women that are mentioned in the torat next Dimensions the tribe of sh I'm sorry AER and I mentions all the uh and this is in uh verse 44 the sons of a according to their families of IM the imite family of ish the ishite family of B the bad family so it mentions AER the tribe of aser and it mentions all of the amilies and it mentions all of the sons except at the end in verse 46 is one verse in the Torah dedicated to a special woman sah and the name of aer's daughter is sah that's it doesn't say it the rest of the uh tribe of all of the tribes is just mentioning men only twice it mentions women the Five Daughters of which we learn a major Al from and we have the daughter of aser sah who is the daughter of aser we also learn about the daughter of aelle from The Book of Genesis she was the one that was the granddaughter of yov when the brothers came back from Egypt to report to yov that his son ysf is alive now yob was already older and was already mourning for over 20 years that his son died it was over I think 37 years old or 130 years old at the time and the brothers were scared that if they tell old man that his son is alive such good news can kill him on the spot so sah started singing she like she liked uh she knew that her grandfather yov liked her voice liked to hear her sing and she started singing a nice tune and playing the uh um music with the the background saying in quiet Joseph is still alive and he's the viscero of Egypt like in the background like elevator music and immediately when yov heard the shocking news that Joseph was alive he got into a good mood like even though it was like a distant sound he didn't he wasn't really sure where was coming from he started becoming in a good mood which prepared him physically physically and spiritually to hear the real good news so when the brothers came in and told him the real good news he wasn't completely shock he was already prepared which saved his life and he gave sah he realized that s was the one that was singing and actually was the one that technically prepared him and saved his life and he says may you live because just like my son Joseph lives may you live forever and sah lived forever meaning that sah lived for many centuries she was throughout she was Avail she was uh alive throughout the entire 210 years we were in Egypt she was alive throughout the entire time we were in the desert and eventually after many many centuries she went to ganeden alive and we know that the uh one other story with sah is that when mosenu was looking for the grave of yadik he couldn't find it he says the only one you know they already buried him 200 years before I was around how do you find a 200y old grave so you had to find somebody that was alive at that time to tell him where it is the only one was alive at that time was Sak so he went to sah sah said yes it's in it's under it's inside the Nile River it's inside the Nile River cuz the Egyptians hit it because they were scared that you know you'll take it because they were worshiping him because so much good came after YF became a king So Moshe went to and use the used the the name of hem to take the grave of uh of YF out and take his bones out and bring it to is like like the brothers promised or vowed to your that they will do so point being here sah again righteous woman that's mentioned here specifically for righteousness not mentioned you know you don't see all of the uh names of the midianite women that uh sinned you don't see the uh Sinners here you see righteous women that are specifically mentioned and getting praised in a so to sum it up you see that this Paras has a few very very interesting characters you have Pinas you have obviously bam you have Zim you have Cosby you have B himself you have a lot of names and hasem is each one of those names comes with a story each one of the stories will tell you what Hashem is looking for and what he's not looking for cuz each one of them has a story that has consequences had the same Rabbi as parit but they chose to go against him they chose to waste seed so they died peret listened to his Rabbi listen to his ABA which is Judah and from him comes the mashiah took things into his own hands and died his daughters went to mosenu and lived K went against Moshe Aon andem they all died live forever and are celebrated forever Pinas and Z both had the same teacher P translated the AL the right way Z made up his own Al pinhas lives forever Z will be forever remembered as the guy who died while making a major sin in a toah that cuts him out of the nation so we see that from the actual names we learn a whole lot and to finalize all of it in chapter 27: 15 through 17 mosenu asks hem who's going to be the Le leader after me cuz you can't leave my people like sheep without a Shepherd even though mosenu didn't really want the job when hasem gave it to him he didn't want it he says no no no there's somebody better than me who am I to be the leader take him out of Egypt he didn't want the job after all these years of being leader 40 Years of of leading is in the desert he fell in love with them time and time again even though they went against him time and time again why because he loved theem and once you love hem you love what hasem loves so the only thing that mosenu was worried about was who's going to be the leader of course every father wants his son to continue his work so mosenu asks can my is one of my sons elzar going to be the next leader and hasem says no in verse 19 Hashem says to Moses take to yourself Joshua son of noon man in whom there is spirit and lean your hand upon him make Joshua son of noon the head of am he's the one cuz he's a man of spirit he's the one that been your loyal servant from day one he never left your side and even though he's not theor as far as knowledge of Torah he's the one that deserves to be the leader and I'll give him the Torah why because he was honest and he was tamim meaning he was completely faithful to Hashem completely faithful to his leader mosenu completely faithful to the Torah that's the most important choice you can make in life and last but not least he mentions here something that that and kazal mention page 13B it says it says take yourself Joshua son of noon a man in whom there is spirit and lean your hand upon Him says that the some uh lean your hand upon him is the way that they used to make ra like make give a SM to a rabbi in the old days in thear days they mentioned RAB AKA they mention RAB Udi mention all these different rabbis in but people have a misunderstanding of who those rabbis were versus the rabbis today who has a title of rabbi and the toat is telling us that the way that hasem is telling Moshe to make Joshua a leader publicly is by going through this procedure of giving him a leaning his hands on him and the says this is the same type of procedure that we did in order to ordinate a rabbi today they don't do it anymore like this they don't put the hand on top of a head to make someone a rabbi but today there's also another big thing that we don't do we don't learn what it is to be a rabbi so let's explain this once and for all so people understand and we'll finish with this any Rabbi that's mentioned as a rabbi in thear RAB AKA Ru raros RAB and so on and so forth there's many rabbis in the in the that's mentioned with a title of Rabbi and some of them are mentioned as raban and some of them are not even mentioned as R anything they just mentioned by name like sh Moshe Aon first and foremost anyone that's that's called a rabbi is not like a rabbi today a rabbi in means he was a he was a judge he was able to make today a rabbi does not make any no one makes any we already have all the from Mount we just have di we have the I'm sorry we have the well di that are innovating in a sense of applying the original that we have to modern times but those are di those are the highest level of rabbis that are in essence in common language are Judges they're not rabbis like a Ral Rabbi in a k that tells people when to pray and when m is and when is and so on so people think that anyone that's called a rabbi is like the same thing as a rabbi in the Torah it's not Rabbi anyone that's defined as a Rabbi in the toah is a judge the only thing that's close to him in today's age is a judge and even that's not necessarily the same because judge today a today cannot make Al there's no that's one the second biggest confusion about it is that everyone that thinks that just because somebody has a SM because they passed the test you know there's a test you go to rabinal school for a few years and give you a test and you know if you have a good memory you study you pass they think that if you pass the test you're a rabbi like you're a real Rabbi cuz you have a title now of Rabbi because you got this test this is also nonsense just like we learned earlier your actions are much much more important than your clothing your outside your testing ability someone can know every single in the entire T by heart but if they're not considered Aon if they're not considered a fair person their Torah is considered to meaning disgusting and you're not allowed to learn it not only is it not good you're not allowed to learn his Torah even if he knows everything by heart but he could have a fif 50 rabinal degrees it means nothing so just because somebody pass the test and has this what's called a SM doesn't make them a real Rabbi on the other hand just because someone doesn't have a also doesn't mean that they're not a rabbi what's the source and page 83 asks who is your Rabbi meaning who is a rabbi really so R says answers the question he says whoever taught you whoever taught you the highest level of Tor the most complicated Tor whoever taught you the G which is the highest level he's considered your Rabbi if you have someone that taught you mishna or someone that taught you Kash or M he's not really considered your Rabbi he's saying the one that taught you the most sophisticated part of T he's considered your Rabbi okay but then RAB says no no no it's not whoever taught you it's whoever taught you the most amount of knowledge that you have cuz you're govern probably have a few rabbis in your life let's say you have four rabbis one guy taught you 50% or 30% and the other three each taught you 20% or 40% and the other three 20% each so so he taught you more than everybody else so the guy that taught you the most out of your 100% he's your Rabbi that's what rud says and then RAB says a he says no no no we learned from David that anyone that teaches you even two Mish meaning two rules in the entire Tor is already consider your Rabbi so what's the Naina what's the point what what do they all agree on we already know what they don't agree on what's the point of this is that they teach us what a rabbi is even though they all think it's different teachings or level of teachings they all tell you what is a rabbi someone who teaches Tor that's what they all agree on whether they teach they teach you the most or they even teach you two things anyone that teaches honest Torah that's a rabbi s this is why major giants like R Yash which was or also and many other major rabbis in recent history and the past never got a test of SM but yet they were heads of the bed they never passed the test they never took a test why because they were considered what's called a gaon m what's a g Muk someone that's already well known he's a genius we don't need to embarrass ourselves by giving him a test he knows more than us so not only is he a rabbi not only is he teach T and classified as a rabbi but he knows more than everyone else we're going to make him not only a big Rabbi going to make him the biggest Rabbi in the world and this is why this foolishness today of people saying is a rabbi not a rabbi does this one have a that one not have a the reality of it is the only people that ask if you have a or don't have a people don't even know what a is they think it's a cover a blanket I don't know what the reality of it is is that if you teach to you're a rabbi to answer a lot of people's question about whether I'm a rabbi not a rabbi by Torah definition yes by as far as a test no I never took a test so everyone knows and no one ever asks me I never took a test I never claimed to take a test and I only started up considering myself a rabbi was because my rabbis forc me to do it I never wanted to call myself a rabbi rabbis have a bad name already who wants to be a rabbi but all these flyers and lectur say RAB by your own Ruben coming here coming there and I never feel comfortable with it but my rabbis which are some big peopleim serious people tell me no no you have to cons you have to call yourself a rabbi from now on I tell him why say because you teach to according to Tora you a rabbi and by not calling yourself a rabbi when you teach Tor the way you do when you do kiru and everything that you do you're going against the Tor you can't teach to and go against it at the same time so as far as a test no I never took a test as far as Tor yes do I care personally no whoever calls me this or calls me that but why do I mention this is because people have to understand that there are more important things in life than titles the test is not difficult it's just for me it's for me personally it's not useful the only time you take a SM test the rabinal test is if you want to do something specific with it like if you want to be a a butcher then you have to take a certain test if you want to be a DI for a marriage or Rabbi for a marriage you want to make people get married or for conversion if you need it for a specific reason if you have a k then you need to have a rabinal license and you have to get to test but if you just if you're teaching you you don't there's no test for that there's no retical degree for that you teach you learn to you teach but the point being here is that people easily when they don't like what you say because it rebukes them because it reminds them of pinhas because it reminds them of Jeremiah it reminds them of Moses and it reminds them of what Hashem himself said about what the truth is they look for anything they can find to go against you oh no no he doesn't have a SM so we don't have to listen to him what difference does it make if he has a SM or not first of all we just learned what a rabbi is from the Torah itself and second of all does it make what you say what I'm reading in a Tora any more real or any less real it's irrelevant and that's the main thing that people have to understand if you read the books yourself you'll find the same information no problem is most people don't read so we need to know the difference between right and wrong is your decision P made the right decision he the same Rabbi as Z but it's our choice that's what when hasem says we have free choice that's what our free choice is you both going to have the same information what you do with it that's your free choice a call me everything is from Heaven except the fear of Heaven everything that's going to whether you're going to be bold or you're going to be tall Rich poor male female everything is from sham hasem decides it for you the only thing that's in your hands is whether you fear hem or not and if we fear hem we're connected to Pinas if we don't fear there's people that are connected to Z still to today any questions amen amen