Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bamidbar, 5782) -The Day You are Born and The Day You Find Out Why

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salias about the privacy of the conversation that hashem and moshe were having the notion of not everything needs to be exposed and revealed and shared not everything needs to be posted and linked and promoted and sponsored and hyperlinked and uh every other tool at our disposal but oh my wait some things are done uh in privacy some things are done quietly it happened the first the second month in the second year let's say samaritan's time when they were leaving egypt so now that we have this orientation in time and in space we know when it happened and we know where it happened lay more now we get to what god told moshe to do why do we mention where why are we mentioning midbar so there's the medrash we've discussed those measures previously the measure says why are we reorienting why is it telling us where we don't know by now they're in the desert we don't know that they're spending 40 years llama so from here we learned that the torah was given with three elements torah was given and connected to three elements baish fire bamayam and here the reference to the desert loma nitin begin with so why these three things why was the torah given why do we care about midbar the desert the dry desert what do we care so says the madrush tells us that all three of these things what they have in common is they are a free commodity they're an endless commodity the desert is open it's barren it's available to anyone water there are streams there are rivers there's rain not always we dive in for and need rain when there's not rain a lack of rain of course it's an enormous crisis and challenge but there's rain and fire as long as you can get a fire lit you can light a fire from a fire from a fire and fire is an endless resource as long as you can get the original fire lit what the mattress is communicating to us is that just as these three are commodities that were given to us they are endless and they are boundless and they are not finite so to torah kedosha our sacred and holy torah tap into it enjoy it it's available it is a free commodity there is no supply chain issue when it comes to torah and there is no inflation when it comes to the price of torah torah is an endless supply for all who want it who are thirsty for it who yearn for it torah has no delivery challenge and in fact the shamanic learns from here it's a very fascinating question that just like the medras references here that these three things were free and endless commodity total was given there was no charge at har sinai there was no turn style you didn't need to pay for a ticket there was no charge to get into harshinai so just like god gave us the torah and it was free he graciously and generously wanted to bestow it and make it available to us there should not be charge for torah classes total personalities should not take compensation which of course leads to the great question uncomfortable if you're on this side of the desk how is it that rabbis and teachers and educators and scholars and residents get paid so we have to come up with this legal loophole which is that we don't pay them for teaching torah you're not allowed to just as god taught and shared freely so too we share freely it's not ours it's his and we are simply the mouthpiece the conduit we have to share it for free so how do we get paid same question was asked by the way for physicians we have more than 200 health care professionals in our shul many more so how do they get paid how do doctors get paid who heals for free and we're supposed to imitate him the finest form of flattery and do it for free as well how do rabbis and educators get paid how do doctors get paid so luckily we come up with this legal loophole called we're not in fact paying them for teaching torah or healing the sick we're paying them for not taking another job meaning i like to think that if i weren't a rabbi i'd have a hedge fund i'd be a real estate investor i'd be a great lawyer i'd be a great doctor i'd make in the closing argument for johnny depp i'd be enormous i'd be making a ton of money so i how do i justify i have to provide for my family i have to pay the bills how do i justify not taking an income from elsewhere i'm being paid to not take another job not being paid to teach torah that's not allowed not being paid to teach the doctor is not being paid to heal mahu bakrini got healed for free the doctor has to heal for free so for what are we getting paid to not take another job so that's the magician's first point what these three have in common is they are commodities that when you can access them they are endless there is no supply chain there is no inflation there is no increased price and the same is true for the same is true for torah same is true for torah so that is the that is the madrish there's a beautiful insight also we saw the desert component the medrash ended and says that a person has to osa atsumo kamidbar what does it mean to turn yourself into a desert how does one turn themselves into a desert so it's a bit of a cutscere scottskirk says what does it mean to turn yourself into a desert what's the quality of a desert so the cutscore says hefker khamidbar he gives two interpretations he has many more if a person is stuck in a desert there is no hot salah in the desert in the desert there is no one to call out to 911 doesn't respond in the desert if a person finds themselves stuck or lost in the desert whom does it rely upon exclusively their survival themselves of course ultimately hashem one has to submit and surrender one has to defer to hashem of course it's hashem but the person has to put in the effort take the initiative the person can't rely on others delegate to others a person has to realize be the matter rise and rest with me alone i have to put in the effort i have to take the initiative i have to take ownership i have to have drive i have to have ambition if i'm going to make it out of here alive if i'm going to survive there is no one coming to rescue me there is no one coming to rescue me so what does it require a person to do and to take personal responsibility personal ownership a person has to take ahris person has to take achara's says the katsuka the same is true when it comes to torah a person has to turn themselves into hefcker like a midbar person has to realize that when it comes to torah we have rebellion we have teachers and we have sources of inspiration but ultimately if i'm going to have a growth spurt i'm going to break through in my torah i'm going to transform my life to being inspired then i have to put in the effort i have to take responsibility i have to stop outsourcing my religiosity stop outsourcing my spirituality stop outsourcing and saying if only i had a good hazan if only the rabbi gave a good russia if only i sat next to somebody inspiring and shul if only i had a good hebra if only i it's easy to point a finger but when you point the finger there are three pointing back at you ah there has to be a sense of acharyas there has to be a sense of personal responsibility of personal ownership so it says the katsuka that's what it means hefker kamidbar if you're going to survive the desert man up if you're going to survive the desert step up you've got to take responsibility it's the only way you'll survive no one's coming to rescue you similarly when it comes to personal growth when it comes to becoming the best version of ourselves it has to be personal responsibility personal ownership number two what is a desert characterized by when you talk about when you think about a desert a desert is a wasteland a desert is barren a desert is unplanted there's nothing growing there so similarly a person has to realize when it comes to torah i'm a blank slate there is nothing there's no preconceived notion there's no preconceived attitude i don't have all the answers i'm not looking to impose or superimpose my values or my vision the culture of the world i'm living in and then to redefine and make torah conform to my world but rather my world is going to conform to torah i'm like a midbar i'm a barren wasteland i'm an empty blank slate torah filled me up torah right all over me torah last week's parasha in not simply writing when you write you can erase what you wrote when you engrave it's there permanently so the midbar we have to be a blank slab a blank slate a black whiteboard say torah come right all over me come mold me and shape me engrave yourself on my heart form me into who i meant to be a bentora or abbas torah just like eric's midbarlow naval and israel was never worked and it doesn't have any thing growing up on this greatly but this is what this beautiful collection of the kansas torah this is what he collects from it these two interpretations what does it mean we have to transform ourselves into a midbar why is god speaking to moshe specifically in the backdrop against the setting of the midbar why is he invoking that setting as part of the critical message that he is communicating to motivate and inspire us to be a midbar number one step up take responsibility just like the only way you could survive then number two it's barren it's empty we have to make ourselves barren we have to do a hard reset whatever virus is in our system the virus maybe we've picked up in our youth the virus by things we've been exposed to are taught the virus of things that we watched or listened to the virus of images or icons or ideas or ideals that we allowed to penetrate hard reboot hard reset get rid of it like a midbar a blank slate torah you tell me what to think you tell me how to behave you tell me what is the vision blueprint for this for this world okay that is the katskar that is why daffka bamidbar bombing barcelona why that is why in the mid bar then he goes on but oh no and i referenced it before but once i have the cuts go up and i might as well read it to you but madrish until the all almond was constructed where did god speak to moshe from the snail remember the famous snack that was on fire but not being consumed moshe walked by it no one else noticed why did no one else notice bark who says to him you know i have chosen you you know why you are the quintessential paradigmatic leader you know why it's called torus moshe in perpetuity kisar lyros you turned to sea nobody else did everyone else kept walking do you know why they kept walking because they were texting they were looking down they were scrolling they were following everyone else's life forfeiting their own life because they were following in everyone else's instagram and facebook and checking it all out and texting our head is so down all the time we don't say kurzweil who's talking to us all the time we don't hear him we don't hear him because our head is down so we don't pick up the signal because our head is down our head is down so you have to lift your head to be able to pick up the signal that bush that was on fire but not being consumed anyone could have noticed it but no one did moshe bain was unique he saw their own so hashem spoke to moshe from a snap not only then but always until the omoid was constructed until the shul was built until the mishkan the base of mikdash who spoke once was built the madrid so where did god speak to moshe privately the kasha even on those other venues even though they were exposed the snare was outdoors and mid young was outdoors and sinai is outdoors but god spoke to moshe in a way that only moshe did not live stream every conversation with moshe he didn't post it all online for everyone to see and to like and to follow and to friend and to share there are things that are meant still to be private we're living in a generation in a time which there's over exposure overexposure and there are things that are beautiful and worthy of sharing there are things that we should maintain and keep private we have to preserve and protect that sense of privacy sneers sneeze now is not the time to define it fascinating headlines podcast this past week about sneakers but sneeze is not about prudishness it's not about covering up sneeze is about protecting the mission in shabbos that uses that language is talking about that which is the most valuable that which we care about the most we protect and we preserve we don't expose and we don't share there are things that we care about critically they go in the safety deposit box they go to safe they get locked up when a person exposes and over exposes and gives access to anyone it cheapens all it does is cheapen everything so the whole notion of sneeze is not only when it comes to our body but it's a mentality it's an attitude it's to not be ostentatious just because we have or just because we can doesn't mean we should a person who's brilliant with a brilliant mind that doesn't need the whole world to know that it doesn't have to flex and share their brilliance in every room that's a breach of sneeze it's a breach of siesta why hashem bestowed that brilliance upon them because just you have it doesn't mean you have to share it it has to be reserved and preserved for the right setting protected because that's its value when it's over shared and overexposed it becomes cheap and let's just skip right to the end of the parachute the last passage in the parsha to skip to the very end of the parasha because along these same lines we never get to the end of the passion big it's a big deal the very end of the partial page 746 special precautions the konami have to take out the we'll come back to this this is what you need to do in order to live in the final passage of our passion chapter four apostle kodesh they shall not come and look at the kodesh why it's a capital crime they'll be put to death they'll be put to death the quran had been given the sole responsibility to protect these holy items the holy kingdom of the mishkan and yet they could come in at will they couldn't come in casually they were forbidden to gaze upon them in an uncovered state if they saw them while they were uncovered they would die they would die why this harsh punishment writes when the was removed the level were not to be present on the penalty of death when the arm was recovered by the priesthood people of beijing died upon looking at the aram hashem is the ultimate mister hashem is the ultimate hidden one pasik says hashem descended in the cloud when moshe requested to see hashem's countenance hashem refused whatever is holy must be concealed so the definition of holiness is to protect and keep it private and to keep it covered and not to expose karja was sanua he didn't show his elbows and he's sanua he didn't dress provocatively what is miracles it means in order for something to be holy it needs to be private the more casual attitude the more exposed we keep something the less holy it is this concept rates the rub applies to the human body as well when we attempt to understand what motivated the revolt against the greeks many invoke patriotism however patriotism is a relatively modern concept with its origin in the 18th century the main reason for the rebellion was because judaism hated nudity and in greece nudity was an ideal roman and greek clothing actually revealed more than was covered we're living in rome and greece roman and greek clothing revealed more than was covered the greeks looked upon the human body as aesthetically beautiful and whatever is beautiful should be exposed no reason for beauty to be hidden judaism on the other hand looked upon the human being upon the body as sacred the laws of burial including the preparation of the body for burial so as the laws of mourning are nurtured by one principle the human being the human body is holy humanity itself is a source of holiness or sanctity the judaism whatever is sacred should be concealed hidden from public view so the greek said the human is aesthetically beautiful aesthetic beauty should be revealed and exposed judaism said the human being is holy and that which is holy only stays while he remains holy when it's hidden this idea extends to how we must treat the terminally ill a person may have lost all consciousness lying near death in an irreversible coma such an eventuality expresses the absurdity of human life yet we have a maxim kadusa's arguable the holiness of the body does not depart if holiness is intrinsic to man it can never be lost no matter the circumstance the terminally ill comatose patient may have lost everything we associate with humanity but intellect and consciousness are not the source of man's holiness he does not lose his sanctity as a human being so our whole attitude towards the end of life the terminally ill is influenced by this attitude listen to what he ends with from the time i was young we shared this part before i learned to restrain my feelings and not to demonstrate what was happening in my emotional world my father would say that the holier more intimate the feeling the more it should be concealed there's a hidden curtain that separates between one's interior and exterior and this the rav originally commented on the pasta about the parochas the dividing curtain between the kodish and the kodisha kardashian there was a parochial curtain that divided between the holy and the holy of holies what location is more sanctified than the inner sanctum of one's emotional life if all is going well and its heart overflows with happiness he should reveal a deep interior result hashem but not revealed to others lest a stranger profane his holy of holies we have a kodashika dasha we have a holy of holies that are our inner thoughts the moment that we share it you know not everything that we think needs to be posted not everything that we think needs a video not everything that we think needs a real there are things that are private that are intimate i would humbly submit that the enormous increase in crises and relationships and relationships that are failing is because the whole notion of intimacy emotional intimacy intellectual intimacy even physical intimacy is intimacy is the result of sharing something with someone that you don't share with everybody else i'm confiding i'm trusting i'm investing i have the trust in you that i'm willing to make myself vulnerable i'm willing to expose myself quite literally in physical intimacy and metaphorically i'm exposed in emotional intimacy sharing with you a thought or an innermost feeling that i don't tell the world i'm telling you about an experience or i'm sending you a picture of something that not everybody gets to see but when you have a couple when you have a marriage when you have friendship in life in general when you share everything with everyone what's happened with intimacy there is no intimacy left there's nothing left to build upon with intimacy and we're seeing this enormous breakdown we're seeing this enormous breakdown so the cotsaker says but oh my wait it's not just bemidbar sinai every russia every vote everyone talks about midbar the book up on midbar the total was given by midbar but the torah goes on us and the qatar says because of kurdish sneeze this is a private conversation it's a private experience motion didn't walk out of the old mode and then post and text each time to a story just met with hashem again flex in the olmoway listen what he told me check out this picture the selfie i took me and him i am there are things that it's nice that are sanua for there to be holiness for there to be holiness there has to be privacy it has to be hiddenness if there is no hiddenness there is no holiness there is no holiness so sneeze is not about covering up only physically this is about an attitude and mentality and we're living in a very unsanua time not just because like the romans and the greeks is more exposed than covered on the clothing these days but emotionally we're living in an unsanua time in terms of ostentatiousness too but emotionally the over-exposure of people's innermost thoughts and experiences and feelings is creating an incredibly immodest and non-intimate world which people are struggling for that for that intimacy so that's a full circle from the beginning of the parashat to the end but oh no it is the sneakers at the end of the passion the rob's comment that even the kohanum even those who are most acquainted who are most comfortable and familiar with the holiness of the mishkan and it's caleb they too were precluded they too were prevented you can't gaze you can't stare you can't touch when you're not doing service you have to keep a sense of boundary of intimacy of hiddenness of holiness in order for it to be something which is elevated parakal plastic base back to page 726 back to the beginning of the partial what was the laymore so we know the background it was in the midbar the maui we know the timing it was the first of the second month the second year but what was the message what did hashem communicate take a census it's time to take account of the entire jewish people according to their families their father's household by the number of the names every male according to their head count a census and of course we've discussed this you can't learn pressures from midbar without it we've discussed this many times in the past what seems to be a contradiction is it a name or a number shamos is a contradiction between a name and a number a name is specific the individuality of the person the uniqueness the distinctiveness of them a number is dehumanizing a number is just a number so which is it are you a name [Music] are you a number and we've spoken about the elements of both we strive to be both on the one hand a number on the one hand we have a willingness to simply be a soldier in god's army i don't need to stand out i don't need to be individual recognition i don't need my uniqueness to shine just a soldier i just show up and i do your bidding hashem just your soldier here in this world uncomfortable and complacent being a number but on the other hand the name on the other hand to say no i'm a unique expression of hashem in this world i have a unique mission and purpose of why i'm here and that blend between the two is what we're striving to achieve rav moshe says similarly in his josh moshe moshe feinstein says that in this puzzle you can learn the the loftiness and the greatness and the potential and the capacity of every jew wrote when the torah talks about the census the torah talks about what is the number what is the count of the jewish people what's the word that we use what does mean to lift how do we count by lifting up so what that means that when you participated in the census imagine there's a knock at the door a census taker comes and doesn't just hand a form or doesn't just start entering on their ipad how many people live in this house what are their ages what's your average annual income say can i help you i say yes my name is so-and-so say why are you here say i've come to lift you up i've come to elevate you come to lift me up elevate me how will you do that because i want to take a census imagine the person who answers the door imagine in the process of that census what by being counted you're elevated this is also an enormous challenge this is why it's called partial perspectives for our time for today the partial perspectives for today because this is another challenge in our time people feel invisible they feel inconsequential by the way it highly correlates with everything posted online if you spend your life following the life of others if all you're doing is scrolling and streaming to see how everyone else is living you say they have all the fame they have all the public eye they have all the everybody's watching and looking me i'm invisible i'm inconsequential i don't matter i don't have so many friends or followers the world doesn't know who i am and must be nothing i must have no value we're living in a time of unprecedented mental health challenges unprecedented and all the studies today show it highly correlates with the over sharing and the posting and the social media because people feel invisible inconsequential i don't make a difference so tara comes along and says rosh bene israel you know how you lift somebody's head if i tell them you count you matter you mean something you make a difference we don't measure a person's value or worth by how many friends or followers they have we're here to make you feel counted we're here to make you feel lifted and ramosha writes so khashi was shoving cool and caught and kagoddle when they knocked on rabosha's door for the census and they knocked on some isvar's door they knocked on someone who's 80 or someone's eight and it doesn't matter someone is great and somebody is small all those who are eligible obviously for the census benefit because every jew every year to every human is it we have an estimable potential and capacity we are a manifestation of expression of hashem in this world we are unique so lift your head stop hanging your head low stop carrying your head like it's so heavy stop looking down like you're worthless and invisible and you don't mean anything lift your head door to door motion you'd pass in front of him and he'd say you count and you count and you count you're a name and you're a number you're a soldier in the army of hashem but you have a name nu what's your name who are you where are you from tell me about yourself you count you matter the world is waiting for the difference that you and only you can make it's not a coincidence that we read this pasha we read bamba right before shivohas you know why because yeshua many people is to the holidays and they say kabbalah receiving the torah i can barely break my teeth on rashi scripts i barely know anything do you know my backgrounds you know how limited my education is i have add i can't sit still my memory i don't remember what we said yesterday so there's no room for me in torah there's no space for me it doesn't matter if i learn it doesn't make a difference if i observe or if i keep who am i i'm a failure every time i try to live an inspired torah life i fail and flop right on my face so why bother what's the point it says ramosha we read this right before shibuyas su raise the head of all of every member of the jewish people and how do we raise our head we count take a census take a census every one of you passed before moshe rabbenu and the godola israel all the time and they'd say you count and you count and you count no i'm going to count you by your number you're an army you're in the soldier in the army tell me what's your name what's your name what's your name so we count and that's why counting in classrooms called to lift we lift the head of those who are counted to say about this too here we have another census even though we just counted those who left egypt the seventh time emotional sportsman israel beats us mr and even though we were counter when we left are we working with here how many do we have how many will be traveling with us how many kosher meals do we have to order eagle and count it after the horrific mistake of the kaita ego has and now is another counting after the inauguration of the mishkan the mishkan is up and running the mission was established and hashem says how many let's lift the head and rashi says why are we counting again why are we counting again boss on the front of mona osan shah because you count what you love you count what you love how many how many years how many children grandchildren great grandchildren you count they're precious you love you count you review some people count their money over and over and over again they have less to count these days we need the stock market to go back up some people count their bitcoin doesn't take them long these days but takes people count people count how many rbis how many rbis aaron judge how many home runs he has what he's on pace to get people count what they love what does that love us sometimes we count even though we know but the process of counting the exercise of counting is in itself an expression of love hashem knows the answer to the census hashem is infinite omnipotent all-knowing well-being he can just give the number to moshe why do we have to go through the exercise because hashem loves us and he wants us to love one another to count one another and to remember that we count us we can't what we love so why is it important one deserves few more jews a few less jews why do we need an exact number we need an exact number i get all the time how many members in brs how many members are in your shule ah give or take plus or minus do we have to give the exact number each time i gotta go on school cloud and look up how many members in good standing today how many have paid members associate members friends of beer spirits global how do you calculate so what does it matter just give you know more or less plus or minus round it out does it really matter when you can only ask that question it's like saying how many children do you have i don't know plus or minus seven around give or take give or take a few every child is precious each one is a gift from above never to be taken for granted every jew is unique every jew is distinct every jew is an individual the world never saw anyone like him or her until he came here she came here and the world never again will have someone like them we should tell him look him god is infinite and the way he can manifest himself or express himself our infinite possibility and we human beings are each a unique expression of him unique expression our job our mission like we've said many times our job our mission is why am i here what was the world waiting for me to contribute and what can i and i alone give that no one else can that if i don't do it the world will be bereft it'll be void it'll be absent what i meant to do who i meant to be the difference i meant to make below islam and we need to know that there is no competition and there is no comparison and whoever i meant to be whatever difference i meant to make nobody could take that away nobody could do it instead of this nobody can do it exactly the way i do we're each unique we're each distinct the world is waiting for us and that's why hashem counts us that's why he counts us just to skip here to the end because a lot more to cover allah you know what a school it is to learn we have all kinds of schools and shortcuts that people subscribe to a little schlitzlehala a little red bendel a little this a little pitta doors from a clap a little everybody has all their schools and shortcuts and superstitions said you know what the school is to learn bahasa you want to break through and succeed in your learning you want to remember your torah you want to be successful in learning you know what the answer is never speak negatively about another jew okay it's virtuous righteous it's a very nice idea it's a great goal to set don't speak negatively with another jew what does that do with learning torah what does it do with learning torah listen to this teaching we have a tradition that there's 600 000 letters in the torah that correspond with the 600 000 jewish souls when you speak negatively of a fellow jew you have erased their letter from your torah but for the apostle so if every means every jew is a letter in the torah that torah that is the word of hashem the diary of hashem that torah that is the blueprint for creation of hashem every year every jew is a letter in that torah that's why we have a minute when we lift the torah you're supposed to look at the torah there's no source for pointing but there is a source for bending and there's a tradition that's brought down by great capitalists to find your letter in the torah you're supposed to not look at the back of the torah you're supposed to bow because satoru when you can see the actual text of the torah and find your letter if there's a meaning to point the point pinky your fourth finger whatever you want to pin point with and find your letter and say that's me there's room in the torah for me i matter i make a difference in torah in this world i have space in torah torah welcomes me torah makes me feel comfortable torah invites every jew no matter how great no matter how big the men are small no matter how perfect or imperfect there's a room in the torah for me for my letter every monday thursday in chavez during hagba when we see our letter in that torah it reminds us and it strengthens us and gives us that the torah speaks to me the torah welcomes me and makes space for me and that i have something to contribute in torah but what happens as rabb nachman if you speak about a fellow jew you know what you've done you've erased their letter from your torah so what happens when you learn torah it's an incomplete learning your torah's puzzle can you read from a torah that's missing a letter if a letter is missing if a letter is incomplete the torah is possible so when i speak of a fellow jew and i erase their letter i've made my torah puzzle so my learning now is corrupt and that's why a school for learning you want asmada in torah then never speak negatively of another jew keep your torah kosher keep all their 600 000 letters in give every jew space in your world in your life let them realize they have a room in the torah don't erase their letter or else you make the whole torah puzzle so that's why the census matters that's why the census is urosh with moshe we're lifting the head rab nachman we don't say give or take round it out but every year every jew every jew matters every jew makes a difference paragal of possibility [Music] we're not included in the census which is not possible where is passage where is says something astounding men are selling incredible measure says puts his eye the living are not counted among everybody else have their own independent private senses they are not included with the other tribes or the other members of claudius why not why aren't they included what did levium not participate in the levine set it out they watched from afar they said this is a mistake this is a bad idea don't do this you've you miscalculated when moisture is going to return and you've miscalculated what you're doing by now building this ego don't do it it's a big big mistake it's a big big mistake so the measure says borjo says my eyes you know who i look at you know who i look to you know who i admire you know who i count on you know who i count and cherish shave it levy and not all the jewish people you know why they were trustworthy because they were trustworthy and because they came through they were trustworthy and they came through when the rest of you failed me when you saw me being distorted when you saw a violation you sat by and you participated the levium they protested they refused the great rabbi he writes how is it possible not to be overwhelmed with fear really the service in the basement was supposed to be done by the firstborn of every family the bachor had the position of distinction but they were replaced they were fired and they were replaced by the levium and the levine instead got that great position that great job a great mission why because they protested because they stood up when hashem's name was being desecrated they weren't passive and they didn't participate but they protested these parties on to us look what we lost out on look who we could have been look at what we could have done look at the position we could have had lmi what happened we failed we failed so shiva lavi are called the monet they are the trustworthy they are the ones that can trust they're the ones who show up and that's what this parachute challenges us to ask ourselves are we in hashem's inner cabinet can he rely on us can he trust us will we show up we're also living in a world where the ego is all around us there are distortions of hashem's name they're desecrations of hashem's name they're a violation of hashem's blueprint for this world so who are we like those who passively watch those who participate or we like shave that lady that we're willing to protest that we're willing to protest we're learning this now on wednesday morning in the description of the media of chaser are you willing to be a kanoi for hashem they have to be very careful can't just be a zealot very very dangerous you have to do it with the tremendous tremendous supervision and support of israel can't just be a kanoi but minimally you have to be disturbed on his behalf let him call their rights imagine you have a good friend who's being beaten you have a good friend who's being cursed at a friend is being bullied you just stand there and watch you don't intervene and interfere you don't step up step in and do something you're obviously not a good friend if you're a good friend you couldn't tolerate you're a good friend you do something so if you're a good friend of course we care and love the ribonuclear that we can't watch passively to step up and step in with the caring way to make a difference and that's what the medrash describes the rest you're good but how you li where are my livium where am i levine who in that moment that challenging moment that crisis they didn't fail but they stood up and they passed the test and they were there for me let's move on to parrot bay's passing base and now we have the detailed senses and then move over to the next chapter page seven thirty two but the bear shall emotionally marshall spoke to moshe naron [Music] of the jewish peoples from the camp each by his banner according to the insignia of their father's household at a distance surrounding the tenth of the meeting shall they in camp here we get to the camping we were more like glamping i don't think we were roughing it entirely we're roughing it entirely in the mid bar but coach barco came and it was not open seating again also there's one pressure from it many times we're the privilege of discussing this but we're offering some new insights today it was not southwest airlines i hate southwest airlines i hate south i need to know where i'm sitting am i gonna have an aisle a window leg room i'd like to know who i'm sitting next to southwest airlines i can't stand southwest airlines no seat assignment okay the bags i'd rather know where i'm sitting i'd like to know where i'm sitting so the jewish people were giving seating assignments it was not southwest airlines they were told by their tribe exactly they were the positions where they were meant to encamp where they were meant to be when we discussed this previously we saw a beautiful piece by ruby rockhambar destler about the notion of seder of order the value of order in our lives of punctuality of order of organization we can't be a hazard you don't just figure it out but order this is the powershell order isha aldi glow bosos they each had their own logo their own insignia their own flag we were meant to can't be positioned where we meant to be and we didn't violate those boundaries we kept that formation and we camped and we traveled in that formation because that formation was from above it was divine it made a difference and it mattered and it mattered the magistrate tells us something else the medrash here says that what happened showed a tremendous affection because who showed a tremendous love our shirt is being hacked online as we speak so i'm trying to delete that a great khiba that that he gave these flags he gave these insignias like whom jewish people were jealous of the angels felt recognized they felt visible and here we're continuing the theme that we began with of nasa's that we are lifting the heads of every member of the jewish people how by telling them they matter they make a difference and they count and one of the ways that we feel we make a difference and we matter is that we don't blend together we're not a bunch of penguins dressed in tuxedos at a wedding that are all wearing the same outfit but everybody had their own colored tie everybody had their own logo their own insignia everyone had their own individuality and their own expression this was the kiba says jewish people were jealous of the angels because every angel had a name and every angel had a mission and every angel had a purpose so claudius charles said we too don't want to blend together don't put me in a box don't make us look or dress or act all the same each have our own personality our own character which have our own assets and skills and talents and our own liabilities so because claudia's trolls expressed that envy of the angels and wanted to each be unique and distinct as well because barclay said i'll tell you what i'm going to give you socks it's a big thing not even among the ishibish they were black and white but socks silly socks that's how you distinguish yourself the different funny different colored socks answer was i'm going to give you your own logo i'm going to give you your own insignia let me give you your own sign you will know the banner that you're fighting under so i said this was their aim their goal is so how did this answer though how did this answer they were jealous of the angels they wanted their individuality who gave them their logo and now they were satisfied that took care of the tension that took care of the competition is between them why weren't they still envious of one another so you know what the answer is says what do you see from here that when you discover who you're meant to be then you're confident and capable and you're no longer competing with whoever someone else is when someone is trying to be or compete or compare to somebody else it means they're not confident in who they're meant to be but the moment you have your logo your insignia your banner your bumper sticker the moment that you have your logo the moment that you have you know who you're supposed to be then you no longer need to care about who someone else is you care about them because you love them fellow member of the family fellow member of claustro but you're not competing or comparing the people who are constantly trying to measure up to others the people who are jealous or envious of others i want that job i want that spotlight i want that position i want that role the people who are acting in that way why it's because they're not confident or comfortable in who they are so that was really what he was answering them like the angels i'm giving you your each logo means i'm assigning you each mission i'm telling you who you're meant to be and how you're meant to live and when you know that and you can lean into that you can fully embrace that and you can pursue that then you'll no longer need to look around you'll never no longer need to measure up you no longer need to compete and compare that's the mission of this mission made us so precious so beloved that we were created in his image should never tell him it seems very redundant and that's what everybody asks on this mishna his mission on the third paragraph of us khabib adam should never sell him precious beloved is man all of humanity that's pharisees earlier by the way writes does it say kham of israel no is it the only jews of but by the taliban people use that term so disparagingly by the non-jews are non-jews who all human beings have a taliban are only jews so it's very israel and mishnah writes note it says adam doesn't say israel doesn't say by the yiddin they're built with the telemalo kim by the they're a bunch of behemoths mishnah does not say that it says that all human beings are created in the image of god all human beings are expressions and manifestations of god in this world and in that comment on obvious the great deference israel writes and he starts to quote all these non-jewish brilliant people who made contributions that benefited the entire world including for jews in medicine and in technology and astronomy and science he lists all these people but anyway the question begs itself why the redundancy repetitiveness man was created incredibly in the image of god and there was another another affection that man was told he was created in the image so why the redundancy the feed divided now we understand in addition to the very fact that we were created in the image of god meaning unique and distinct and individually there's another layer of affection that ho dillas one thing is to be unique and distinct another is to merit to know our uniqueness and our distinctiveness to know that every human being is different than distinct we each have a unique mission and purpose that's incredible but to discover what it is that's a whole other level and that's why the mission is not redundant the first layer the first level is just know that the kurdish miracle did not make any two people the same each is a unique manifestation each has a unique expression of godliness in this world know that know that you're precious your chavez because everyone is unique manifestation that salam allah came in the image of god but there's another nadas there's another layer and what is that to know what your individuality is what's your mission what's your purpose why are you here why are you here was it mark twain who said the two most important days in a person's life on the day that they're born and the day they discover why two most important days in a person's life of the day they're born and the day they discover why that's what this mission means is that you're born is the day that you discover why the day you discover why and that's the significance of ish al-diglo each of us having our own sign our own insignia our own logo what we wanted like the malachim and what the nations were jealous of was our understanding our mission our purpose because once you have once you can you don't have to look around you don't have to compete or compare you could simply live your life with drive and ambition to pursue uniquely who you're meant to be who you're meant to be and there's nothing more gratifying perry kimmel flying here moving right along allah told us iron emotion beyond diversion these are the children the progeny of aaron and moshe on the day hashem spoke with moshe at harasinae we just introduced it by saying these are the children of who you are we introduced it by saying these are the children of aran and moshe and then we list the children of arum what happened why did we say these are children of iron moshe only to list the children only of arun what happened to the children of moshe zaktarashi he taught them torah malamad what do you see from here it is if you teach your friends child torah you have given birth to them they are born to you you've given birth to them why because a person's physical genetic biological parents they give them life in this world but a person who teaches torah gives us life in the world to come in the next world biological parents give us physical life in this physical temporary world but those who teach us torah they give us immortality they give us life forever they give us life and they give us world forever why does it say illu although it's as if he gave birth it says if he gave birth sort of destler quotes it doesn't mean that he didn't really give birth it's only as if the truth is giving birth spiritually is more real than giving birth physically it's even more real so we don't mean out there of martial it's as if a person who taught us torah who gave us our soul back who lights it on fire who gives us eternity immortality has actually given birth to us so why does it say why does it say illu used the term ke ilisa the altar of kam is that whoever gave birth to you physically is only giving birth the greatest birth the ultimate birth the most authentic birth the most lasting birth the most real birth is the birth of those who give us the world to come and that's the governor bob and sia teaches islamic immoral what happens your father and your rebbe both lost an item whose do you go find first your father and your abby each ask you for a glass of water whom do you bring a water to first you're having your rebbe over for dinner with your father and time to bring a bad bowl of soup who do you serve first says because you give your rebbe first and you save your rebbe first and you return your rebbe's lost item first why because your father gave you life in this world but your rabbi gave you life in the world to come tells the story he once went to a talmud's home and the mother greeted him at the door yelling at him is it true rabbi that if i was drowning and you were drowning my son would have to save you first is that what you taught him so if schefter says he told her and he corrected her that this is a misnomer what is the gemara talking about you have a rebbe and a father he said the rebbe teaches you independent of the father but if the father pays the tuition for you to have a rebbe then you save your father first because your father is the one who gave you that immortality by getting you that rebbe so when your father puts you through yeshiva it takes you to keep learning in your father pays for you to have that rebbe father pays for that life then you save your father first you save the father first so this gemara is true but it's true in a case of a rebbe who stepped in independent of the father the father was absentee in teaching torah and the rebbe tortora so then the rebbe takes on the role of the spiritual father who becomes a priority but if the parents paid for the rebbe for the education then sahalakura you got to save the parent over the rebbe said he was allowed to stay there for shallots let him come in so you see that's the that is the halacha that is the uh so the ilo is in the other direction the real birth is the one who gives us our soul who gives us immortality who helps us understand not only that they were born in the words of mark twain basically our parents are responsible for the day we're born our teachers are responsible for helping us figure out why and helping us figure out why is holier and higher because that gives us immortality than even the day that we first come here even the day that we are that we are born shakhtar and is safer it came out the second volume except in the parachute in the first volume ela told us iron moshe quotes this as well another example of the existence of a father-son relationship which is not biologically based is the opinion in irishmen bikurim a convert presenting his bikram the base of mikdash can say arami can a convert say avo my forefathers according to the opinion that aguero convert can benching say that you have given to our forefathers as a heritage how can the converts say that they don't biologically share the same foreign fathers how can they say no was the founding father of the jewish nation it includes all future converts as well and therefore the convert can include avocado my forefathers because spiritually they share the same forefather they are the spiritual progeny of the same ancestors and therefore they can legitimately and accurately say forefathers the that muslim couple unable to physically bear children can partially fulfill the mitzvah period of orivia if they adopt a boy or girl and raise them with torah values there are people struggling it's among the most painful things that exist among the most painful things that exist are those struggling with infertility in fact you know yesterday there's a minute to recite that era if one more person sent me a text or email or an alert reminding me to say that we love the version we're all reminding each other but can you imagine what it's like to not have children and be getting the alerts and the reminders and the emails and the texts don't forget to say this to fila for your children if you have children it's a beautiful thing to get that reminder to stop and pause and say that fila but could you imagine the salt in the wound or the pain of the person who doesn't have children but needs to be a reminder that art school made for free it's beautiful of art school i'm not ranking an art school you need to remind it here's the text there's the beauty of it i just realized that last night we have to we have to qualify we don't have to stop talking about having children people who have children have done nothing wrong you have to feel bad or apologize or hide it but we do have to qualify and we have to be to be careful so when we share that we should say and what about the single person by the way who says at least the couple who don't have children have each other to feel terrible and miserable they don't have children the single person says i'm all alone i don't have children and i don't even have to share that with anyone that i don't have children so we can't be callous we have to be sensitive and careful when it comes to these issues but the says that even those who don't have biological children can fulfill the myths of how by adopting or by supporting by donating by contributing to jewish education by caring by running youth events by inspiring young people that's a fulfillment you see that from our passion illa told us i aren't emotional they're moshe's children even though they're not as biological children but because he taught them torah killer yodo is even greater that's why the gemara says we'll be asked a series of questions when we get upstairs the quran shabbat says and one of the questions we'll be asked is i sacked the period of borivia the martial points out it doesn't say did you fulfill the mitzvah period that's not in our power how many people desperately want to fulfill they want to have children but they can't they can't so we're not asked that you fulfilled peruvian we asked asakta did you occupy yourself with peruvia the martial there says along the lines of here that you can fulfill by inspiring children and by sponsoring children by contributing to children and by strengthening children by teaching children by being role models and examples to children they may not be your biological children but the ki-ilu of going backwards the kilo of desolation comes kilo that when you inspire children you give them immortality through religious inspiration you've given greater birth to them than their own biological parents and biological parents that we have their capacity as well in that in that way i had 10 more things i wanted to tell you gotta make this an hour and a half oh i had a great druk that we didn't get through last year that i saved for this year but now i'll have to save for next year such a great room joke i'll leave you with the question appear to be we have the census torah references it again so rashi tells us that moshe says how am i gonna count the children what am i gonna enter the tent with the nursing mothers and a breach of sneeze how am i going to count the young children i don't belong in the tent and the privacy of people's homes their boundaries so what are kirschborg say you do yours and don't worry i'll take care of it so mosh rubbing went 10 to 10 and he stayed outside he stayed outdoors and the heavenly voice went out and said there's three kids in here there's two kids in here there's five kids in here there's one kid in here so if druck wonders if moshe wasn't going to go into the tent and do the count himself if there was a miracle of a heavenly voice that would proclaim exactly how many children then why do you have to bother going couldn't just go to the basement here's the census of the children here's the fine account of the children sounds incredibly inefficient and unproductive why did moshe about to bother going if the count was going to be a miracle from above anyway trying to remember this question until next year until next time tomorrow morning we have 10 minutes of meetings living with the moon and tomorrow night behind the bema with rabbi beryl wine we'll get ready for the holiday of schwes with the great rabbi wine take us a little journey through history in the transmission of torah looking forward to a great conversation with him until next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy