Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bamidbar)

good morning bokuto of and welcome back to our weekly partial perspectives for today where we analyze and investigate the themes the messages and the lessons of the parsha in a way that can inspire and inform our daily life today I want to thank our generous sponsors dear friends Becky and avi katz who sponsored for the year and memory Becky's father David Grossman the initialized of a diamond - Mohnish whose neshama should have a alia precious but minbar begins the fourth book of the Torah named aptly by the same name by mid per page 726 if you're following in the art Scrolls to finish at home by the bear show emotion the mid bar scene I Bahama Wade they had the ho - a shiny and so on and so forth a Shem spoke to Moshe and here the Torah feels a need all of a sudden to give us the topography to tell us the climate to tell us the geography of where the section of the Torah was given not just that I shouldn't communicated or transmitted these lessons of these values and ideals but that he did so bemidbar see now that he did so specifically in the mid bar he did so in that environment we'll come back to in a moment why the Torah felt a need to give us that particular detail but he begins this fourth book begins with a practice that generally we've seen the Torah frown upon sooo a search card that's been a sterling mission for some evasive Oh some be miss fachi muscosa Harley Google or some take a census count the Jewish people in order to know how many there are according to their families according to their father's household by the numbers of their names every male member according to their account now the Torah earlier and safer Schmo sin para la mitad pasa Kadesh most la mitad your days if you have the arts ghost on Hamish it's on page 484 there the Torah tells us Casey says George Meredith good a.m. we have an earlier example of a census which is taken or a coach particle counted the Jewish people encountered them through the means of their donation of a half shekel counted the half shekel and their Rashi tells us below yet behind Negev that the reason to account through the half shekel so there won't be a plague and why would I have thought that there would be a plague if the census was taken directly if the count was taken directly Rashi tells us Shah minion shillitoe I inherited a verbal ahem because accountant Jewish and Judaism in Jewish tradition when you count something you welcome a ayan Hara you make it vulnerable to negative energy to criticism to judgment to jealousy to envy you invoke and you invite people to look critically upon it and to invoke a sense of of judgment of it I in harshali pas and therefore we are against the notion of of counting we know please God please God it soon we'll be together again having a minyan and we will be counting that minion more closely than ever before because whatever the minions beginning outdoors we're going to be doing so very carefully with a maximum number of people so we're going to count are we at the 15 of the 20 or however we can be distancing and maintaining the guidelines safety and security are we at the 15 of the 20 or are we at the minimum of 1000 shia-sama coworkers moussaka we have even tradition of Sikkim with ten words so we can arrive at that number ten without explicitly pointing and giving a number it brings an eye in Hara and it demeans and dehumanizes and demoralizes to give something in number in fact the Gomorrah in yuma tells us and our cross base is innocent ERISA there's a potentially biblical prohibition in counting and counting human beings and counting Jews and giving them a number and denying them a name Rashi tells us they're in schmoes that Hashem ends up counting the Jewish people no less than ten times so we have this duality or dichotomy where on the one hand we are against counting counting d-des means dehumanizes we take away the individuality the name they're just a data counting shows how many and therefore invites and invokes the iana hara people look critically people look with judgment and on the other hand we have this precedent and he repeated to begin the very fourth book of the Torah where Hashem is counting for him it's okay to count for him it's okay to be able to see how many we are so Rashi tells us the mimbar scene I'd better lock oh there's the opening Rashi on the fourth book of the Torah motoki boss on the phone of Mona son kosher what is the she'll keep counting us like the personal aha still counts the baseball cards like the person who keeps going to the stock market or the bank account yesterday they were happy I don't know it opens six minutes ago I have no idea what it's doing today if you were counting yesterday you were happy the single did single highest rise in the in the stock market in a long time if you're looking the last few months you're unhappy but see Boston what you count what you review what you take inventory of reflects what you love what is dear to you when you have affection for some people count their children and grandchildren some people count as I said their baseball cards their real-estate Holdings their portfolio because what who counts us Christ or the Jewish people and cuz she got some limits I am more numb when we left Messiah and me counted us cash enough with my ego when we fell we made the mistake of the golden calf he counted to see how many were left when we kishan ball AHA Shekinah saw I am and we wanted to rest his divine countenance upon us he counted us and by famine Eastern who come a mish come back of the ER manam vittorio gives us the background of that counting of why so what is counting negative when is counting bad when is counting something we criticize and we refrain from and when is counting something which is good Reverb as a very forget to revolve in a moment there a beta but hiya says notice the language to count for example we find ourselves right now in a period of counting we find ourselves counting up towards standing at har see night women bar scene i were going back to scene i the jewish people once a year really every day but very opponent lee and very pointedly they should lewis every year we go back to see night and we count forty nine straight days Severus ha Romero and the word for almond al sweet a seroma the Mitzvah that we count is called Sphero Liz forest account and yet whether it's back in Paris kiss ISA who here at the beginning of Bamidbar what is the language which is used to describe Robina Baca says no it doesn't say go count Lisp or or monad to count what does it say sue or we have the Russian of of lift code picaud to count what do pocket and sue have in common that are different from Lisp or or Lin knows the word sue in fact doesn't mean to count what does the word sue mean it means to lift it means to elevate you see you can count in a way where you degrade when you make people come to a lineup right the Knox is your moksha members are from we begin every day by dehumanizing him and by D and by humiliating the Jewish people by coming to a lineup where there were numbers on their arms and where a person was denied the very dignity and the individuality of having a name they were simply a number a number kandi humanize and demean when it's used to lump everyone together to see everyone as as blurred as one but a coach merical counts not to dehumanize or demean not to erase individuality coach Marra who instructs to count for the exact opposite reason we count as a way as a means of elevating that is the very purpose of of the count so sue means to lift so it means to elevate a person becomes elevated how by passing before motion our own and by being counted by none other than Hashem to realize that they count and to realize that their lives count this is evident from the Rambam that I'm bound in his commentary here at the beginning of our passion that I'm bound describes this then I'm bound rights difficult are some Indian Paquita zekrom are shuffled over Kailash in Russian pecados era we read our China and we invoke the notion that a Shem remembered sir he counted Sarah he had made a promise that Sarah there would be accounted and she was so desperate for a child Shem remembered and was ready to fulfill that promise it's fashion Picard as Sarah Hashem fulfilled that promise to Sarah hold on [Music] sorry Michelle fulfilled that promise to Sara kawashima Shan piccata Sara the loop is thrown Omaha mahkum William Allen Manish and Aunty the young P Kurdish Miroslav Ashraf I saw all of this is a can that doesn't say I'm not interested in you and I erased her individuality and I love you together it does the exact opposite because even the ministers destroy your might if could do some Lear motion will you stop rain don't count them actually it new cofrin option laughs a shekel who banished get me a de mis para um to use through the means of a gift you know you make yourself count by being you now you make yourself counted by making yourself count contribute give participate the Honorable EE missed by mascara uh yeah Thomas put on the picket Asarco friend so on and so forth so then I'm blonde tells us you know what the process was the Jewish people would walk before motion our own and they were taking this camp they were responsibility responsible for the census and this my friends is really the theme of our pasha of the opening of the book of Bamidbar in many ways it's the theme that perhaps inspired has al to say that we read Bamidbar before she Lewis for those who haven't been checking the calendar next week is Shavuos and we always remember before she Lewis and it's perhaps the reason we read Bamidbar because the theme that permeates throughout Bamidbar whether it's the census at the beginning whether it is the logo and emblems that describe the design of the encampments the assignments whether it is the will see the relationship moshe has with ours children these are all the areas of our parsha we're gonna take a closer look at today but the common theme of all of them is the notion of our purpose our meaning our mission that we count that were consequential that we matter that we are worthy that were individuals and that we're here for a reason and that's how the path should begin soo is Rosh Karthus Pineiro don't just count them you're not filling out a little oval and submitting your census form you don't go online and just give the data but rather sue is rosh the goal and the purpose of counting is to ensure that people can feel counted to know that they matter to know that i shamed to see everyone as one big number lump together but each of us as individuals we manner the misfires Sheamus we have a name and we have a number we have both the counting of ministre it is a manifestation of our chefs of Chicago practice his love for every Jew his RIBA his affection that he has for us the Torah instructs motion Arum to be present during the counting he seems terribly inefficient they're counting an enormous pair of people and it's a terribly inefficient way control of Kasim would have been much more efficient to simply walk around the different segments of where the kids were and to count in this is a very inefficient way of doing it and yet and yet motion are know instructed to be present and why are they instructed to be present all right everybody sees we're good so why are emotion are instructed to be present even though it's terribly inefficient in that way because person felt you capacity before the Godot Louise throttle you're coming before motion out on the greatest of the generation they're gonna pause and stop they gonna say Shalom Aleichem how are you what's going on in your life what's your name and here's your number here's your role Jason use your mission we know you and you matter and you make a difference and that experience of being counted in that way as Rosh it has the effect ultimately of lifting of s Roche and lifting everybody up and that is the goal and that's what they're I'm bond says they passed before the grass says the girl writes the whole book quotes the grub the girl writes that in the era of prophecy a person there was no need for anyone to try to determine what their purpose here of prophecy everybody knew what their purpose was the Prophet was able to instruct them the technology manager to manage all this I'll try to concentrate on the teaching okay I think we've needed everybody and I think we're back we got knocked off on Facebook let's see if we can go back down there for one second thank you for all your and kindness second yeah so the grass says the person who came before motion the greatest all profits through that encounter Moshe was their mirror so into the deepest recesses of their souls and there was really a deep feeling of why they were here and what they were meant to do and they walked away having encountered a true prophet and getting a glimpse into their own soul and afterwards out on the leader of his shaver would bless people individually give them that brough up and give them abraha just like Yakko blessed his sons and they shot him and the braja was appears to us to be a criticism but it's not a criticism is really again a mirror a window to telling them who they're meant to be and how they're meant to achieve it and today every one of us need to look into the mirror for ourselves men and women alike and figure out adults and children who we are and who were meant to be and what difference were meant to make in this world that is the essence and that is the theme of our kasha the census proper women weren't included and by the way those under 20 weren't included either it was no more discriminating against an 18 year old male than it was a woman the purpose of the census was they're going in the desert they're gonna enter the Land of Israel and they need to be prepared to know their military how many they have for the purpose of their military but revoke the rights and Ali shortly in the Caliph it's on page reach Osama class call Adam hi Vlad - eh tell her she was a person has to know they matter they make a difference they're not invisible loja she does Madhu Masha Masha handsome about SMO Kathy Shama Shama Mike there's a guy Eva it's not an arrogant way of mattering that I'm all that on the center of the universe the world revolves around me i matter more than others it's not an i matter in a way that breeds an arrogance Allah Shiva's bow smush must I'm Luke about his eyes s it means I matter because I am a child of God I'm a prince I'm a princess if I'm here it's because I purpose I have something that contributing to accomplish and to give to this world the Gemara says in sunedra collective effort I've normally never olam a person has to every day say this whole world its technology its magnificence the natural order it's all here for me it's all here to serve me I'm here to serve it and Rashi says Clemmie hush Nichola male low and Redis Anthony Nolan Bao they raucous the thing realizing I matter I make a difference I have a mission I have a purpose should not make a swell with pride or arrogance but the opposite should humble us to realize it's beneath me to waste time it's beneath me to indulge in that which is negative or bad or sabotages me it's beneath me to undersell myself or underachieve we have to overachieve and realize why we're here colum Allah each of us is a world unto ourselves Zoe huh Shiva's bleat oh that's her she was in Nevada by Torah who are you to even learn Torah teach Torah share - who are you to do hesed who are you to engage the holiness and sanctity of our shemitahs mitzvahs unless you realize that you are royalty that you're worthy and that's what I mean sue is rosh to be lifted and to be counted the purpose of the book of Bamidbar as the jewish people are their adolescents traveling through the desert in this way we are encountering the notion of making a difference of mattering you know there's among young people in particular among teenagers there's an enormous growth of mental health challenges and mental health issues and so much of it is from the the proliferation of social media again all of this was before this this pandemic and how it impacts everything we don't yet know but when a person sees everything else going on and it seems like everyone else is so much bigger and better and experiencing so much more of life and has accomplished that has more friends and followers and has more status than I do when a person feels invisible inconsequential they feel depressed they feel bad about themselves the message to them the message to us is who is a census in our homes in our lives of others to take cam to others and to be counted by them not as a number which is degrading not as a number which is dehumanizing but as a name and a number that combination that lifts that gives a person a sense of mission of school to elevate to lift to realize we matter and that's part of the reason I think why we read precious by mid bar before the holiday she Lewis because before we can receive the Torah we have to realize each of us are worthy we have to realize each of us have a mission and a mandate each of us have a person a purpose and I feel like saying Calcagno Basara sefa give me my Fela Quintero each of us have access to Torah each of us have novel ideas to introduce interpretations for Torah each of us have a contribution to make to the Torah community into the world of Torah and that's what it means and that's why perhaps we read it before shyffilis you see a continuation of this very theme of this very essence of this idea in Perak base we're going to come back to what is in between but I want to continue this theme that I'm trying to describe I believe is really a throughout our parsha do you go to Parekh base pass a gala very beginning of the next chapter alright the bearish I'm emotional are only more each I'll dig low but oh so slow my sorrow some Yahoo noob in a row because more who now assigns the camping assignments we didn't trust it's not like Southwest Airlines remember Airlines when used to be able to travel on a plane it's not with Southwest Airlines where you scramble for your your order and the line and then it's open seating and you get on the plane I hate traveling Southwest I need to know where I'm sitting I need to know do I have a window or an aisle what my leg room will be like well I have enough overhead one more lie board I'm like the where I eat Southwest doesn't work for me but Southwest first come first serve you get your order in the line and then whatever you get on the plane you take the seat that you want so the mid bar was not like Southwest mid bar was like JetBlue you had your exact assignment northwest-southeast the LA viim surrounding the Michigan on the inner circle and then in the outer circle north south west and east the tribes divided into four three tribes on each side north south west and east I shall dig low and where did you go under your encampment each person under their banner but Osos under their sign the graphic designers in the mid bar were working overtime all 12 tribes had an emblem had an insignia had a logo they flew their flag and they would in camp each one underneath specifically their flag me negative Eve opposite and around Omaha knew the the tent of the meeting the sanctuary the holiness the Michigan the Honam Caedmon is Rafa de Gama from Yahoo de and then the turtle goes on and gives us these exact formations and I might add the Toro takes up precious real estate it's been significant time telling us exactly where why is that important that's part of history how does that inform inspire us exactly why do we really care the seating assignments or the logos are insignias in the mid bar as serious it is extremely significant for us it's very very important for us but by salivation writes about this by solid nature great Yamaha Iove shot aglow the Taurus spends a great deal of time discussing the demarcation the various camps and we're precisely instruction and camp relative to the others just as the Ramona Shalom has established specific varieties of plants in the botanical realm which must remain separate and not be grafted together so to each person has his own talents and role in society in order for society to function harmoniously each individual must play a specific role some people delude themselves into thinking their abilities are endless while others are so self effacing they believe they can accomplish nothing God wanted every jutsu realized wierdest strengths and weaknesses lie each man by his own camp each man by his division he shall not fineö the a child aglow this is a continuation of that theme that we began with the beginning of the parsha the notion of su is Rosh lift our heads to know that we're counted how do you know you count because you don't sit randomly you have a place you know there's a notion in Judaism of being Mackie s mekomo to know our place to stay in our lane Who am I Who am I meant to be what is the best version of myself look like what difference am I meant to make in the world what am I good at what is my worthiness how can I be consequential to not something which is just motivational talk and gibberish this is Judaism at its core it's a foundation of what helps get us out of bed in the morning it's what all of Torah and mitzvot ZAR meant to promote that we matter that we make a difference the bra that you make on that Apple matters whether you down and then how slowly Dobbin this morning it matters the head said you do influences and impacts the cosmos in all matters the difference that we make the actions that we take speech thought an action and therefore each one of us is unique each one of us has a unique mission and a unique difference to make and the de ghullam the Insignia is the logos the camping assignments reminded us of that just the rabbi's elevation said just like when it comes to vegetation in the plant world there's an e sir you're not allowed to have Kalai you mean not allow to mix them together you can't a hybrid Kurdish bar who created species the way he meant them to be created and to try to compete with God as creator and mingle the species is to deny and deprive this unique role of each of those species it's true in the world of vegetation kill ayam it's true in the world of material shaatnez it's true in kill aha kerim in the world of the of the vine and it's also true it's also true with people we tell a purpose we each of a mission it's why we're here Baba Batra is that salad a beautiful sefa and he described it's also true with time you know when it came to the skull and we're talking about the moxa shekel the sentence was taken through the gift of the mawkish echo and record each other they would announce be careful to check the shaatnez the kill I am in your field oh and everybody give them a concise echo LaBarbara remember in the sea who wonders what is the connection between checking the kill I am in your field and the donation the giving of the master shekel and he says the common theme of both is not to mix things that belong separate together just like in the field your vegetation needs to be separate don't let them mingle and mix so to the giving of one year has to be counted for separately than the giving of another year because who we are and who were meant to be 2019 and 2020 are different tough shinpei is different than tough shinpei Alif every year is different what were meant to accomplish or were meant to be the accounting and the difference were meant to make with our income we're not allowed to create kill I am in space we can't create kill I am with material with with with homer and we can't create kill I'm with man in time and that's what these encampments were meant to teach so the again the theme that permeates during our parsha whether it's the notion of our being elevated and lifted by being counted whether it's the notion of how we in camp and where we in camp to know that we each are unique and where other are specific insignia it's all about our uniqueness and not not giving up and not feeling we're inconsequential and not thinking we're invisible we don't matter we don't make a difference I don't have so many followers or friends or celebrity status or spotlight what difference does it make why am I even here which can lead to a sense of depression I've been sharing with your beautiful insights and I want to share a couple more this morning from the beautiful farm ash Hamid written by release from a Turkish leader great Russia Shiva you shall I'm who writes the foul it says on his passive we just read about the insignia the logos that the government and the army the message I'm reading to you from The Meadows Rab a partial base him and gimel I'm in Barada the Metro says savvy Anya base I am a social network of Oracle our senior yard in Mojave is real emotional welcome the monica schmeyer who gave these camp assignments when Hashem gave the unique logo to each of the tribes there were a myriad of angels that descended down here about you Coulomb assumed agonda golem all the angels came down and each angel had its own logo she never dug Oh mayor Vova que muchos anos or she must indigo indigo and its luminous Avenida golem so when Klaus owned the Jewish people when the human being saw the angels each other logo the angels each came down with their own sign they were jealous and they said we to out logos I'm Roja Leviathan awesome to go and converse on the cache memory I'ma be say on zesting I should know some butter shushil behind the dig larva I'm Rui Vallejo Magdala Ava mmm Casbah rock oh man it's a visa massive to go and here comes Anna Malan shallows ahem yaniv dear coach berkutov I'm emotionally lake I say Oh some de garlic promotion asado Jewish people crave did their own sign their own logo Hashem said at the giving of the Torah which is likened to the sweetness of wine I'll give you your logo and that's why I'm embarrassing I after leaving her sing I in the mid bar Hashem says here's how you're meant to in camp here are the logos ask sort of drug sort of beer what in the world do the Angels have to do with science logos and sickness what does that do with angels and why would the Jewish people jealous of these angels what is the message what is going on where does this come from and he says a near busy she calling in at the gala melissa melissa who do such a forget show kailash on the effing a day go Shama Shama Rama bodom you can distract Africa to Mutallab what is the very idea of an angel every angel we know has their own assignment the three angels that visited Avram each came for their own assignment an angel is an expression of God in this world an angel is Hashem executing on a purpose on a mission something he wants to do in this world so every angel by definition has a unique mission we know that an angel doesn't come to this world in order to do two things each angel for one reason and for one purpose so therefore the message the idea of the Angels says Rudra is just like an angel is an expression of God in this world just as every angel is unique and just as every angel only comes for one mission it doesn't compete with the other angels mission it doesn't overlap it's not jealous of the over end other angels mission it knows it's why it's here so - Chloe so that's what God was communicating every angel had its own logo it's only signaling its own emblem every Jew as their own logo every tribe has its own camp assignment its own seat assignment its own logo but that you've only know to go maid-sama welcome to the Hellmouth eh Tov give me some notes or whenever up because our ela neighbor Carlos Amala if you didn't need that Mouse it wouldn't be created I shall only created it and it only exists because there's a need fashion to express himself through that angel well my dear friends we are hashem angels we are each his unique expression in this world we each have a mission and a purpose we each have a way were meant to matter and therefore we each have to realize sue as Rosh lifts each of us we're a name and a number we have a mission and a purpose we camp under a logo we have a seat assignment of life don't look at your neighbor's job or spouse or children don't look at your neighbors talents or skills or liabilities or challenges look in your own mirror and look at yourself and be like that angel it's why we're here he says been especially knows cuz the heart of Gogol or some it says been this far a number che Moses a name bathenosh on this brush cause I've had to play with my clout on the one hand we're a number we're part of a bigger number because if we each see ourselves only as the individual logo then where's the Octus where's the unity where do we come together as community and people and nation so on the one hand where the miss part where a number we're just one number of many where one number in the shul one number in the community one number of a nation but on the other in shameless madonna protester the whole hardwood set Osmo so we are that balance between a name and a number simultaneously we are the name that's our individuality and we are the number that even though we're individuals were soldiers in one United army fulfilling one United mission and end purpose and in that way it's like him to the Angels and our Pisa based on this we know says her of drug with Lima quorum is passions by mid barcode Matt Serra's this is why we're reading Bamidbar before she Lewis Cappy I miss borotyn Itamar she's um you could either call Adam Sherman eh not askin you could be before you could receive the toll you have to know that the Torah is not trying to make us all conform or blend together become invisible the Torah the opposite is trying to empower us enrich us and enable us to be part of one army but to realize what is my pin what is my badge what is my beret how am i a soldier under what mission and the what unit am i fighting and we diamond the same volcana bacillus aha that every one of us get our unique and individual a lock in toto so this is the theme of our parsha it is the thing that begins our parsha and it permeates and carries us through the parsha is that we matter would make a difference to us we elevate we lift our head by counting and by making our lives count by for being part of a bigger number but also recognizing our individuality and our sense of uniqueness just and also that Revere Rock'em and his - Tara the Heyliger of your elohim of the mirror writes the following he says hey i rethought oracle carbanion had the golem this isn't a story i'm partials by midburn the torah elaborates here so much about the logo and about the flags and about the encampments these here abbas harris cameras are schmeerskahoven be throwing his arms in my own we see that we were accountable if a person tries to break into another tribe you know when you were in camp as a kid you went on a raid in the middle of the night to someone else's bunk you hoped you didn't get caught you came back that night not me of course but i heard about others who went on a raid in the middle of the night so says reveal of him if you went on a raid in the middle of the night you said you know I'm sick of being south of the Michigan I'm gonna go out raid let's go raid the tribes north where east let's go raid the tribes on the west it was punishable by death it was a capital crime it was very very dangerous it was very high stakes they loved my atomic nation Ashura mitzvah Shira Vaughn sure I'll be Tula - year Jeff be sure bitter Malakal Mattel behind Mesa the valet V from the tribe of Lady tried to abandon their post in their mission their job in their contribution they were high of Mesa why so he elaborates we're not going to read the whole thing but if you're autumn talks about what he received from the author of Kalman the importance and the need for Seder for order this is our Shem said this is the sitting assignment this is the order you're meant to maintain and preserve order and the moment you become disorder chaos everyone can move around and reshuffle and things are out of order then you've undermined the mission the ability to fulfill it we've spoken about the several times lately but the outdoor if Kalam gave the metaphor of a of a pearl necklace where of course the value of the pearl necklace are the pearls the string that holds them together is negligible value it's insignificant altogether and yet without that string if the string snaps the pearls roll everywhere you don't have a pearl necklace so what matters is the pearls but without the necklace without the string you don't have a pearl necklace and the same is true in our lives what matters is family what matters is has said and Torah and daven and mitzvahs what matters is improving and repairing the world those are all the pearls of our lives but the necklace the string is satyr is order is being organized and review look and learns and passions by mid bar on the notion of the de ghullam why such an emphasis and why so much total real estate taken with where you should be and when you should be and how you should be and don't deviate from there because Seder order is the core of it all the myth Amalia of Destler also elaborates on this theme of despereaux elaborates on the dig Mohammed bar it's an act of Melia and he writes the following he says the age get mo Godard shall seder there are three categories of being ordered yes a nourishing Seder gyro an enamine maracas mr. Doris there are people you know yeah cos they just love everything to be organized everything you know it's a fine line between the people who like things to be organized and a Stickle OCD but everything's got to be exact it's got to be an exact place it's got to be hanging exactly even it's got to be put away exactly the way it's meant to be yes a little shame talks awesome she do hate from them so called ever so their Seder for the purpose of Seder there are some people who are organized and they live with order because they worship order the second category of people who use order because order brings results if you have order you can accomplish more you know where things are found and then gimel yes a villa Seamus asked us a Pula gig humble initial character she asked people awesome Acoma Kadesh a totally something Coulomb sometimes things need to be in order and organized so that they work you know you buy something from Ikea and you're trying to put it together and you think you're smarter than the instructions so you're just gonna wing it and then all of a sudden you're left with six extra pieces and you don't know where they go and the door doesn't close or the thing isn't balanced and it doesn't function because you thought you're such a Kanak are you gonna skip reading the instructions you know you into it you pretty pretty much figured it out that's just for sissies you can do it on your own and then you left for the extra parts and the whole thing doesn't work sometimes the Sailor the order is because it doesn't work so again if Nestor says there are three types of order this order because you're OCD you can't live without order you worship order you love or do you love order for orders sake there's order because how you gonna know where your files are how do you know where your clothing is how you know where you put the books how do you know we put the ingredients if you didn't put them away in an organized ordered way and the third thing is it can't work without order if you're building a watch and you're gonna just randomly throw all the watch parts in a bucket and shake them up you're not gonna have a watch things need to be in order in order for the watch to function three ideals of of order so he says briefly is midrash I get a rush leisurely when it comes to spirituality in rock Gnaeus we invoke we care about we elevate order because of the third definition pure would show you feed them asking phor goodness I good as Monet attack lists you see when we're divided when we're fragmented but we're operating independently then we can't accomplish our means in our goal just like the parts of the watch that are not put together in order you won't have a watch so to this world of Claudius well if the individual parts of a community don't come together with a sense of order then we can't function about gambia bubula tobik orchids are fleas bite FOP Meadows rocky LaMacchia turn about even low a person has to know their strengths and their talents and their blessings in the community you have to know what can you offer what can you give what can you contribute how can you participate and you have to be ordered in doing it don't compete with your friend don't overlap with your friend don't be redundant with your friends everybody has to know within their family what is their order and here - again of Destler elaborates on the idea of the dig lay amid bar he says that was why I shouldn't put us in the mid bar in that way north-south-east-west every one of their logo their insignia their emblem why to reinforce the notion that there needs to be order and the order is not because we're an OCD nation it might be that but the order is because foreclosure ought to function at maximum capacity to make the maximum difference to be in sync to have synergy collaboration to be working in a way which we can best impact the world we need to have order and that order was dictated by the Almighty Himself who gave us exactly the seat of silence and exactly the flags he organized exactly that sense of order that we were meant to have so again this is the theme of our parsha our individuality our uniqueness but filling into the bigger pickle represented by the census that was taken in front of motion our own Kurdish bar who doesn't count he's not so fair or Mona but rather it's sue or poke a dry shampoo kata Sarah because it comes from he becomes from love it comes from affection he wants us to realize that we count that we matter that were consequential and therefore we each have our own logo and our own seed assignment because the order in the universe we play a role if we're missing the watch falls apart and if we're not doing what we're meant to do then the purpose the order of the world of the universe falls apart as well okay let's move over now to the second word in the opening passing the fifth word bar by the bear show emotion been made by Rossini we alluded to this when we began what do I care about the topography the geography the climate why in the world do I care about where this teaching was given binman bar scene I we haven't seen that until now what is it specifically about the mid bar then mid bar tonight so the customer says you know why it specifically invokes by mid bar been mid bar this is in the desert and not only is this invoked here this is the name of the whole fourth book of the Torah the story of the bulk of our 40-year journey or adolescence our maturing our growth as a people in the nation is all described as happening we're in the mid bar I would have said do it in Club Med do it in the Four Seasons the ritz-carlton you want to give the Jewish people a beautiful benefit 210 years we worked with her slaves we deserve the stricken vacation you put us in a desert a barren desolate desert says the COTS Grampa absolutely why so the carts cannabis says because what happens when a person is in the desert they realize that they have no resources and if you have no resources you have no independence you rely on early and entirely and exclusively on Hashem similarly the Jewish people are beginning as a nation took place where in the mid bar because when we can't have independence when we can't live on our own but we rely on our Shem then we will feel his presence and their forbidden bar scene I the teaching was given in the mid bar where we realized a sense of Emunah and Batak on we were living with this incredible deep and profound faith in Hashem we felt his presence in our life all the time and that's why specifically it's been mid bar in the in the mid bar ok the valley medical lodge in sck the hellenic arab-arab le Melek says there's another idea BIM in bar scene I why specifically bemidbar scene I were reading this parsha before she Lewis what is the prerequisite to Kabbalah cetera before can we receive the Torah see if you arrogant and egotistical do you think you have all the answers you think you're empowering control you could compete with God you could make our manager world if you're arrogant and you know everything you can't receive the Torah to truly receive the Torah you have to make yourself a tabula rasa you have to be a blank slate if the Latour inscribe and write its messages ideals and values on us where do we learn that lesson from Senator Deborah belly Mela binman bar scene I we learn it from the mid bar a place of humility because we're so utterly dependent and we learn it from scene I seen I was the lowest of all the mountains we all know the story our children if they were in school not just unzoom but in person would come on with all kinds of projects and know that all the mountains competed and said give the total on me give the Torah on me and I shouldn't show so I seen I why it was the number that was the lowest to humble of all the mountains and I shown was communicating that the one can only receive Torah when you make yourself as the lowest of all the mountains I shared recently in another context that's what it means the beginning of period almost moshe Keeble torah me seen i Moshe received the Torah from Sinai Oh miss Alicia oh sure I give it to you sure to the zucchini and so on what do you mean Moshe received the Torah from scene I what should it say motion receive the Torah busy night he got the Torah at her scene I what do you mean missing I now he received the prerequisite the lesson the message of he received from sin I namely be humble below be modest and then let Torah speak to you don't try to impose and superimpose don't make Torah conform to you you we conform to Torah bemidbar seen I specifically in a place of humility specifically in a place of modesty that's what the cut script and the Chanukah read my rebellion Melek say but bacter of drug or drug tells us another idea and he brings us back to the menders the Midrash says like the Persian Washington mercenary Lama bemidbar seen ie why specifically were these lessons was the tour again in the mid bar mechanical common begin mode varmint matura our rabbis deduced that the Torah was given with three things namely the h-bomb ayam Bamidbar Torah was given with fire it was given with water and it was given in the desert beige mean I am vihari sinaia shanku low-ball mountain was smoking was on fire the Mayan gumption I'm not forgot mother not to mine and by met barbra the bare shell a mission where should the minbar see nine so the measure shibaemon Behrami the very beginning of the parish of our of safety by men by tells us the Turner was given with three elements fire water and desert why what's the message what's the illusion of the symbolism of these three elements why was the Torah only given in that way and as we prepare to receive the Torah as we are getting ready for Kabbalah cetera we're not simply recreating we're not simply remembering the giving of the Torah thousands of years ago we're counting towards our actual accepting the Torah ourselves how can we invoke what can we learn from these three things so he calls her a mayor Shapiro the great Lib linor the one who introduced the Deaf yummy the Russia she buggy she has Hofmann Lublin so the glitter of Mayor Shapiro has a safer called Emery das and in there he says the following very beautiful idea says you know what these three things have in common fire water desert the Jewish people expressed mysterious nephesh self-sacrifice we gave we compromised we sacrificed in all three of these areas and the prerequisite to receiving the Torah is the willingness to be mostly nefesh if you want life to come easy and to be handed to you on a silver spoon or a silver platter or whatever the expression that I just messed up is if you want life to come easy then Tour is not for you Torah takes on a list we just saw at the beginning of last week's passion before kosai it takes work it takes toil takes effort takes compromise the photography but from sarah agra according to the work is the reward or put differently no pain no gain the best things in life come to those who work hard for them and the same is true for Torah what are we willing to put on the line how much are we willing to fight for it how hard are we willing to work for it we worked in all three of these ways senator Mayer Shapiro for example Bush lotion by Rochelle Deborah Lee Mirim are from a Via Roma misra clip Shana ish when Avram made the supreme sacrifice of embracing ethical monotheism of abandoning the paganism of his forefathers he was thrown into the furnace into the fire he was ready to give his life he was ready to be consumed by fire or for the purpose of Torah and kidney calculate Sarfaraz his his mysterious nefesh went and we davon we say he doesn't say this but I'm suggesting we say in our davon Baraka Tosh my gain Avram I was just talking with my children about this a specialist we say Magana Avraham that Hashem is the shield of Avram what happened he it's Yaakov why don't we invoke Hashem is the shield of Yitzhak and Yakov why only the shield of Avraham perhaps what it means my gain Avram is Hashem protects the Avram in us you see Avram made that supreme sacrifice and he embedded in his spiritual DNA that he bequeathed to us that same capacity the same strength the same tenacity the same resolve to be able to be most her nefesh the willingness to sacrifice to give in order to advance hashem x' goals and his mission in this world Megane Avram when you say a beginning of Schwerner I say here's a little extra bonus sitter snippet for you my gain Avram means not just that I shouldn't protect a table room as if he abandoned us like in Yaakov it means mugging the Avram in us he has protected and he has shielded we - just when you think you can't do it you can't do it it's enough of this quarantine it's enough of these distancing I can't take it anymore I have to have a minyan I have to the simple I have to have that I can't take it I'm gonna ignore neglect there are ways to do those things there ways to have a SIM card within guidelines barakah Shem soon we will please God slowly incrementally be starting manana McGann but just when you think I can't do it I'm just gonna give it all up you have to be willing to be most inefficient reach deep inside yourself and find that Avram because Hashem has been protecting it there Meganium in maya thought you could never murder but that was an individual that was Avram we come to Christian Civ myasu the water the water was a barrier between the Egyptians and we were gonna drown and Nacional mané I mean I've had the courage the tenacity that Avram strengthened him and he took those steps into the Yamcha and it split in sitter snippets taka we just yesterday introduced by Yoshi Shem we're up to the Shira we're talking about Chris yam stuff and how everyone of us can live through it and sing Shira each and every day as if we just come out the other side of our own yam Sethe the water represents the yam stuff and they're Chloe's role on the whole unmask were mostly nefesh were willing to put it all on the line and of course then we have the mid bar when we went into the desert sure it's high as rose and our ocean our ovum wild animals dangerous animals a dangerous environment the world Muslim of mine there was no food there was no water we were there for a prolonged period of time and I Shem says the height of a custom new diorama school of science left if I arrived I'm in barbarous laws do I remember you followed me to a desert and when you walked after me in the desert and you did it only because I God said just don't worry I have your back follow me stick with me I got you covered and we didn't say what do you will and said what do me stick with you there's nothing to drink there there's nothing to eat there my kids wouldn't do that I can't tell you almost every Sunday of my kid's life almost every time we do something fun here's how it works my wife and I say we're gonna do X today we don't do things every Sunday when we were allowed to go out we said we're gonna do X no that's not fun we don't want to go there that's not going to be good I never heard of it everybody doesn't like it and by the end they're raving and raging and it was amazing we loved it was fantastic and it was phenomenal it was excellent so the next Sunday we say remember last Sunday when you said just just stick with us we tell you it's gonna be good we're gonna have fun it's gonna be great so left IFAF right about minbar Hashem said stick with me yeah we didn't say no we're not going either the drink it's gonna be hot I'm gonna be thirsty as no shade as the Sun we said oh we should follow you let's take with you sure we're in no problem then we did say those things which begs the other question why does Hashem have a selective memory I shouldn't like to - it's so romantic such a select ik revisionist memory remember when you followed me and nobody complained then it was so amazing and romantic no that's not how it happened so there's a lesson there too by the way if you want to have a good relationship be willing to have a selective memory you don't have to hold on to every hurt every pain every complaint every fight you don't have to have a spreadsheet of everything that your spouse did wrong in the 47 years of your marriage and now in quarantine you've taken out the spreadsheet remember in 76 when you said this thing and I still haven't gotten over it there's more talk about a selective memory and it's a precedent for all of us have a selective memory but anyway back to your mayor Shapiro back to her of druk so these three things the fire the water and the mid bar are three examples of a willingness to be mostly nefesh to compromise to sacrifice firstly individual Avram and then the beginning of the people at Korea Samsa and then the nation as a whole when we got tired a night and therefore we read this before we receive the Torah because we too have to remind ourselves to be mostly nefesh we're living in a time of bizarre mysterious nefesh you know what the mysterious nefesh is right now your willingness not to be able to answer Kaddish and kedusha and down them with a minyan for all the mysterious nefesh in jewish history it ain't bad I'm not talking about the people been threatened with illness or of lost loved ones it's tragic it's unbearably painful that's a mysterious nefesh and those are miss Jonas and tests that no one would ever welcome or want I'm not talking about people who don't know where they're putting the food on the table today or tomorrow where their income has been absolutely closed down and their savings has been spent but for anybody else if the mysterious Neff is being asked of us is to to not be able to answer Kaddish and condition down with a minion it's not bad but we have that within us from Avram from our ancestors with Korea Samsa and from the journey through the minbar all of that planted and cultivated within us and our DNA the ability to be mostly nephesh and that's perhaps what our mayor Shapiro says what these three elements are referring to water fire and the desert we have this capacity the exam sofa is a different interpretation the exam surfer says the Metis means something different water Nitin abou Mayan Torah was given with water what does that mean lemon and showed the Vator Allah maahes I'll tell us the Chimera Thainess man miyamura Demi Markham Cavallo Markham nama water always runs down from the highest to the lowest point determined equal Misha died to give our love for him - Misha - Laila Torah runs down the arrogant egotistical person who feels superior the Torah runs down from that person to the more humble person so the notion that tone is given nitnem a Mayan with water is that Torre's like water it runs downhill and it finds the lowest point it finds the person who makes himself the lowest person not the person who's arrogant it feels superior it's knit number H the Torah is given with fire came near Mitzvahed or or we know that a candle emits was like into a candle and Turner's like him to light the purpose and mission of Torah is to illuminate the world to light the world on fire for us to be enthusiastic and passionate and on fire and thirdly nitin above minbar Torah is given in a desert we have a traditional midnight or a locally among the Turner was only given for those who eat the Munn it means that people who are willing to be miss topic boom or people who are willing to be happy with what they have their lot in life and not always need more and more and more like sapsucker says that's what it means these three elements are an allusion to the Torah being given in these three ways okay we gotta share an emery time it wouldn't be a partial share without an emery time so let's continue Peres Collins now we go through the census he began with the census why was given specifically in the mid bar we just showed a few ideas and then we go through all the names of the census Parekh I love passing noon gimel were in the top of page 7 32 and the article stone kamesh but how the vm yahoo news having the Mishkan are reducible yeah ket's of our destiny zero the Shambhala V miss miss miss Marris Myshkin ha Aegis the love iane encamped around the tabernacle there was no wrath upon them and the love iam safeguard and watch the tabernacle the love iane were not counted among the rest of class draw their census was different we shared previously a beautiful insight refreshment Levitz why the Laveen were counted separately there was a census for all the tribes except alluvium and a separate census the Laveen were counted separately we've shared that previously listen to a previous partial shear but on this path like Aleph nun gimel halav IAM yeah canoes savvy Flemish can reduce you know the America in the vision of celebra but the reason I love the embrace hi I'm here look at the Micaiah you see his commentary everything is one sense one word he packs a punch he says so much into the most succinct way they make I am so he writes here Halla via canoes I lived in Michigan the Lavi encamped around the Michigan the low yeah ket safe and there was no ref in Morocco named Sevilla McConaughey deuce miss kamemon borough Rochelle Torah as Volodya Katz of aina McLucas genre if we would only in camp around the Mishkan meaning meaning if the Michigan were the center of our circle if it drove our thoughts our decisions our desires our needs our aspirations our satisfactions if the Michigan is the middle of our life if we surround the Michigan and we absorb the light of Torah Lohia Katsav there will be no McLucas Islamic attained a suit or a chamois breakfast a moba Shalom we say özlem oh you Tina Shenk of strength owes me strength what a strength a nose Allah Torah Hashem give a stress means gives us Torah when you give us Torah then Hashemi VAR f sm / shalom it's a beautiful program taking place this Sunday rabbi remain taragan put together deserves enormous credit a program being called Keesha family Mahad or via canoe I forgot what it's called but it is a amazing program of gondolas row across the Torah Orthodox spectrum Russia Shiva across the Orthodox spectrum couples my wife and I had the honor and privilege of participating across the spectrum he put us all together what kind of program what kind of program can get the Russia IVA of car ad Ksyusha more modern why you has they're all on the same flyer all the same program can get rub on him and can get female educators and can get couples all participating across the spectrum the Dorothy doc spectrum in the same program you know what does it Torah because not about debating hash kapha it's not about debating the issues that divide us Torah when tor is at the center then we all cooperate coordinate synergize we come together and says the hailing a vision of the American that's included in this project Olivia Kanu Savio lomez cana-deuce when you yaja knew when your life is I dwell around the Mishkan when the center of my circle is the Mishkan then Volodya Katz F you're not gonna fight with others this one where's Australia on this one where's the keep us regard this one wears a covers her hair with a sheitel this one wears a mid pocket this one doesn't cover her hair at all this one does this this one does that went or is the center of our universe when we camp around Torah Torah informs how I meant to behave and how I connect with others and it unites and unifies us then in McLucas then I don't fight a Shem O's the MOU tain Hashemi America Samoa Shalom give us Torah and then you give a Shalom then you give us peace Yaakov kamenetsky is the same idea in ms the yankov he says I don't understand we talked all about the benefit and the beauty of the logo the emblem the insignia the camp the seed assignments but isn't that also going to breed divisiveness its diversity but one would also lead to divisiveness says reveal a cover name is Lea Cove no you know why because true if all you gave out were seating assignments people would fight I'm better I'm on the North I'm better I'm in the South everyone knows of you in the south you better but I'm better I'm on the west I'm better I'm in the east they fight it bleeds the divisiveness says drove Yaakov you know why I didn't lead to divisiveness because what was at the center of the circle what was in the middle of the whole encampment the Michigan and as long as everybody looked up and realized that they were equidistant in a circle from the Michigan the Michigan is in the middle and the Michigan empowers and the Michigan gives each of them their their status their credibility and their and their mission then there's a sense of unity so when we have told her again Arbeit arrogance deserves great credit it's really such a beautiful incredible I may be unprecedented program maybe she'll go off smoothly but what can bring the full spectrum of Orthodoxy of the total world together only when you're sharing Torah I'm Lavinia honey some of the Mosconi DUIs Volodya Katz if that's how you avoid the fighting that otherwise might take might take place okay we're running out of time I wanted to get into some beautiful ideas about HeLa told us Aaron it lists the children of our on of Moshe and then it lists Ireland's children why did it do that we don't have time for it but remind me next year to speak about miss olive it chick says an incredible statement miss Ella Jake says something astounding about this astounding I'm glad you're all sitting down those who have the courage to have their cameras on are all sitting down because we were so excessively amazing you ready he says I'm not gonna read you the whole comment but I'm just gonna just gonna give you an appetizer wit your appetite we are all acquainted with the akkada that often perform but we don't pay sufficient attention to an arcade that was carried out by Moshe Moshe is arcade there was perhaps more awesome and terrifying than albums after Avram offered its the two of them returned from muharram area with great happiness motion never experienced the satisfaction in his case the Rebbe initially requested and received his sacrifice the simple you ready listen to this because it resonates unfortunately in tragically for right now for too many the simple right to leave a last will and testament to die in one's own bed surrounded by his children was denied to moshe moshe died alone on a mountain before he died he did not lay his hands on Gary nor Eliezer his sons but rather on yoshua been noon moshus power was bestowed on Yahshua not his own progeny and the rubber lab rates on this we know today too many who passed away without having their family by their side denied and deprived their family's ability to even attend their funeral or grieve them properly Moshe paid a great sacrifice he made an incredible Ikeda in in not having his sons and again maybe we'll share more of that next year but I want to share one other thought in closing i somuch somuch we're not getting to okay one last thought including and closing it's a beautiful inserted by celibate recast at the end of the parsha just to prove to you that we can get to the end of the parsha only because we're skipping but we can get there so the partial plastic says towards the end of the parsha it says Vanessa were left suing or takács will pursue begging clear Kayla smell mama you put a covering of takács skin and on top of that you spread a cloth of pure blue wool the Calum the the utensils of the Michigan were covered with these items and only then when they traveled when they journey through the Michigan they were first covered before they journeyed and what were they covered with they were covered with takács a certain type of skin and with trayless with the color turquoise we're familiar with trailers from the mint from the mid-south senses we saw that she points out why specifically these two things why were they covered why is it that the the shell or the covering that protects the Kaleb when you're on a journey through a mid bar are these two things so he says because I'll teach us that the Kahless which is similar to the color of the sky doesn't fade in fact the way you know that you have genuine stainless as opposed to the counterfeit version is the counterfeit version when you put it through the laundry at fades but the genuine real Kahless they never fade they last not exposure to sun exposure to bleach not exposure to - the wrong color in the laundry it doesn't make it fade it retains its color number one what about the tough the tough skin was made from a certain animal that cause I'll tell us only existed at the time of the Michigan doesn't exist now this Tasha takács had the array of the rainbow had multicolored the skin had bright beautiful colors bright beautiful colors and says her by salivate check you know why these were the covers of the Caleb and the mich gun and they took us through the mimbar the way there were takes us now through our history you have to have doodie ISM that doesn't fade it has to be vibrant and alive it has to persevere and be tenacious Judaism can't fade they can't disappear because of the sunlight they can't disappear because it's it's confronting an opposing force it can't fade and it has to be multi-coloured dynamic and vibrant and alive those were the two coverings then that protected in the journey through the mimbar and they are the two coverings for us now as we journey through our mid bar as we go through our lives our children our families we have to protect the calum the holiest things in our lives we protect it with that which won't fade and with that which is dynamic and bright and colorful energetic enthusiastic and alive so wishing everyone a beautiful week a happy healthy and a holy week a happy young Musial I'm mister Shem this Friday if you're watching on YouTube please subscribe to the channel even if you're not watching please subscribe to the channel wishing 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