Parsha Perspectives for Today (Devarim, 5782) - Say Abracadabra

good morning welcome back to parsha perspectives for today i want to thank as always our very generous serious sponsor for the year becky navi cats and family and members david grossman sponsored the partial series this morning's show is also sponsored by gloria alphine and evelyn stanley weiss in commemoration of the year side of ruth wise and by howard stricker in memory of his mother as well should have an aliyah this is our last year for a few weeks we're going to be taking a break for a few weeks so please pay attention to when we will resume in person a few weeks from now as always i remind you we have many years of pressure classes online you could find you can listen to there are also plenty of other people who give much better pressure classes online so the fact that i will be away does not mean that you are exempt from studying the parsha you still have a responsibility to delve deeply into the passage so you can still do it together with me from years past or with others but take advantage of those opportunities okay this week we have the privilege of beginning the fifth and final book of the torah the book of dvaram these are the words that moshe spoke to the jewish people in the desert being and it gives us the exact coordinates it plots exactly where they were when moshe begins this monologue moshe begins to deliver this soliloquy this monologue the torah tells us exactly where they are standing where moshe is this is the final day of his life and he's going to review all of jewish history until this point and he's going to use it as a prism as a filter through which to communicate where they've gone wrong what they can do better give a charge in the mission of where they can go right who they're meant to be and how to become those people the mentorship already notes that this moshe when hashem 40 years earlier recruited him and said moshe i want you to be my mouthpiece i want you to be my spokesperson moshe i want you to be my ambassador my age and i want you to represent me he recruits moshe solicits motion to be the leader and what does moshe do what does he say lo i'm not a good speaker i'm not an orator i'm not eloquent i struggle to articulate thoughts i'm not your man seven days a negotiation seven day recruitment seven days back and forth and back and forth the measure says that hashem in fact didn't let moshe into the land and moshed for all those days corresponding with the days that hashem had to plead so to say and push him kajol moshe to accept the responsibility but moshe he hesitated he demured lois devariman i don't speak well i'm not your man so i shall say no problem that's why you have a brother and your brother will be the mouthpiece your brother will speak for the two of you but i need your leadership i need your presence i need your stature i knew who you are he says the madrish though this individual who couldn't find his words we have an entire book a fifth of the torah are the words and the speech of the moshe who couldn't find his words somebody found his power of speech what happened what changed speech therapy what changed where did he find this ability what was the difference between when he responded now what did he get in between torah hakadosha some suggest the torah gives us a vocabulary the torah is a language the torah gives us the power of communication torah gives us our our ability to speak you know somebody who is not that moshe was sheldon insecure but somebody who's not confident struggles to speak when do i speak up and what do i say and who am i to speak and how do i know i'm right when a person has torah when you know that you speak not for god in the name of hashem we're tapping into when we are spreading the truth of torah then torah tells us without we don't have to be apologetic and we don't have to be defensive we don't have to be in retreat the torah gives us a language torah tells us while the world is struggling on what to believe it's the total review on fill in the blank the torah view on god free will abortion gender whatever the issue is one who ordinarily doesn't know what to say torah tells us here's our viewpoint here's what we believe it's nuanced it's complicated it's multifaceted torah is not simple and don't over simplify it however the torah is the vocabulary it's the language this lois in the same ocean didn't know how to speak found his power of speech okay we got a lot to say in this opening that probably doesn't surprise you we begin with an altar of rashes says on the words where are they what are the coordinates here they are then the other side of the ordain bar they're in the desert they're in the wilderness they're opposite being paranoid first of all tells us that these are rebuke there are messages moshe's communicating lessons for them to have learned but he is he is couching it he's hiding it it's nuanced it's subtle because he's trying to preserve their dignity and self-respect their honor he doesn't want to come out lash out he doesn't want to embarrass humiliate he doesn't want to provoke a sense of shame so he embeds the message within the locations and he reminds them subtly with nuance remember when we were there remember what happened there and remember when we were there you remember you missed babes and you complained over there and then we traveled and camped over there you remember yet again how you he doesn't say it outright he protects the dignity of the people it says we'll come back to that in a moment them to israel to preserve the dignity we learn a big lesson then when we have to rebuke when we have to give constructive criticism or feedback to another don't do it full force we don't have to do it in an explicit strong attacking way we can do it with subtlety and with nuance we can do it in a way that preserves the other person's dignity and respect but why does he invoke these two places why does he invoke hatsey rose vidi zahav what to these ahav what happened there the eggil and what precipitated what caused what brought about the terrible poor judgment of the ego when they miscalculated and they didn't know when moshe was going to return and they panicked and in their panic they built an ego an idol why what enabled them to do that what commodity did they have gold they had plenty of gold if they had no gold they had no mineral no expensive jewels they wouldn't have been able to build an ego so what enabled and allowed the creta egal di zahav was was that gold was that gold so says the altar of calm romney you see that moshe the hidden subtle rebuke he was giving was not for the egypt it was not for the ego you abandoned god cheated on god the wedding night infidelity you build and you worship an idol but that's not what moshe is holding them accountable for that's not what moshe is rebuking them for rather moshe saying it says i'm not asking you to repair i'm asking you to change see the jewish people are held accountable here not for the mistake but what led up to it if we're not careful with our circumstance our surrounding if we're not careful with our priorities and our focus if we're not careful with what we pursue and where we have our drive and the fact that we later given us to come to that temptation it's too late it's too late we're human and we have human failure so what we're held accountable for is this also big law rob zahav in a material society with an emphasis and a focus on wealth if you accumulate you a mass and you have too much and you're haughty and ostentatious and you show then it's going to lead to a haita ego so what mushroom here is alluding to in the subtle nuance tribute he's giving is not the actual hate but what led to it is what led to it not the symptom so to say but the illness itself that's what he's calling them out that's what he's calling them out for revolver also has a comment revolver the great masjid says here el advan where he's admonishing them d zahav means more d where's the word d come from d means from the word die what is die enough die enough when you have enough enough wealth so what was he alluding to moshe d zahav you didn't know how to say die you didn't know how to say enough one of hashem's names we've spoken about this before shindala yud sha um that hashem looked at the world and he said you know he could always do better could always do more but hashem had that capacity introduced and modeled for us the ability to look and to say you know die it's enough we invoke the name of hashem when we are reminding ourselves about the important that character trait of whether it's the ability to simply say die that's what we sing on pesach night dayenum die die no what are we singing you know what freedom is freedom is the ability to say you know it's enough the person who has this insatiable appetite for more who can never say enough is not in fact free you're enslaved to whatever it is you're pursuing more friends more followers more fame more money whatever it is that you want more of whatever you collect in life and you can never say it's enough whatever you feel and want more of you are a slave to subjugated too so what do we do on saturday night what do we sing a bizarre song saying each of these things would have been enough when they wouldn't have right now we're not going to take the time it's not pesach but we sing dying we die it's enough so rashi tells us sorry the um revolver says these embedded in the name is the moosa you know your failure you know what led to the height d zahav you didn't have the ability to say die zahav you didn't say it's enough rashi writes that motion told hashem in fact caused the sin of golden calf by giving so much wealth the measure expands on this and gives us the example of a king of his son who gives his son food and drinking adorns him and puts a big wallet with money around his neck and puts him at the door of the bay zona and what can you expect from that son you set him up for failure give him wealth spray him with cologne slick back his hair and put him outside a house of ill repute and what do you think that young adolescent son is not going to act on it so how could bene israel be blamed for the ego so the answer says revolver difficult situation we always have the ability to overcome that test so i'm telling us that their wealth caused their sin gaza telling us that the best way to overcome the test is not wait till the moment we're in it this is like the altar of calm a very similar idea but to understand what are the triggers what are our triggers what will lead us to cross that boundary or line yeah if you're outside the base zona looking good smelling good with money to spend you're going to cross a boundary a line if you put yourself in a circumstance you know what triggers you you know when you're weak and vulnerable and then you're going to find yourself later in a place that you regret the lesson that we have to learn is don't put ourselves in that circumstance don't place yourself with that device or with that technology don't go shopping and buy that food while you're hungry that you claim you don't want to eat and yet you line the pantry of your home with don't surround yourself with the people who bring out the worst in you and you'll find you say and share and talk about things that later make you feel worse about yourself not better to bring out the worst of you not the best of you don't ever say i won't be effective we need to know not in that moment obviously on the test but before we get there to begin with says robert that's what you learned from here and the deez die we have to know what is enough and when we don't know where to place that boundary in that border of what's enough and we enable ourselves to be triggered triggered then we will come to ultimately violate it it's a beautiful a beautiful teaching of nachman why does the torah tell us all these places so rashi we read this rashi that each of these places is an illusion a subtle nuanced rebuke there this happened and the other place the other thing happened let's go on a journey a trip down memory lane not a slideshow where we had our vacations the pictures but what the mistakes were there and how he could have been how he could have been better but dying why do we have to bring up the places after shivasamatamas you could go watch the video or listen online we spoke about going from hypercritical to hyper complementary to stop being a people who intuitively or instinctively turned to criticism to judgment to marginalizing to dismissing to pushing other people away we're not entitled in who are we and what right do we have the differences and the distance we place between ourselves and others and how we sit so hardly and arrogantly in judgment in judgment of others and why is that a problem we mentioned then we didn't really have a chance to go into it was at the end the mission in the second paragraph of us that tells us don't judge your friend until you're in his or her place so here's the thing could you ever be in someone else's place by definition you can't why not because you look different you have a different iq artistic ability athletic ability you have different parents a different socioeconomic status you're born in a different day a different time every one of us is different than another no two people are nearly the same so how could you talk about makomo how do you know what it's like to walk in his or her shoes we don't have the faintest clue what somebody is struggling with or what someone is going through we don't begin to understand what it is to live life through their perspective and just give you one example one example have you ever had a toothache have you ever had a stomach ache have you ever had a chronic pain which was debilitating and you are irritable and obnoxious no one would want to be around you because you were in such pain that it just overtook you you ever had such a pain hopefully lasted a day you got to a dentist hopefully it was a couple days until the virus cleared up then you went back to being your joyful cheerful pleasant self but for that day or two you were a misery to be around and while others were upset at you for your behavior you said do you have any idea what pain i'm in do you understand how much this hurts do you understand that it won't go away do you understand what's in the background all the time do you understand that i can't fall asleep and i can't eat and i can't concentrate and you expected and wanted the world to have sympathy and understand and give you space to live with that pain well do you know there are people who live with chronic pain every day their entire lives do you know there are people who live with chronic pain that doesn't go away so you might see them as that grumpy grouchy person you might sit in judgment of them why can't they be happy with what they have why are they always in such a bad mood why is that person always react that way why are they always so step do you have any idea the chronic pain this physical chronic pain we'll talk about hashem will be in you shalom so we won't but if we're going to read this motif sitting on the floor we'll talk about before and people who are in spiritual chronic pain and how lonely that feels if you have no idea what that's like to be in physical emotional or spiritual chronic pain how dare how dare you judge another how dare you judge we have no idea actual taguila macomo that's what the mission ella says so essentially if you can't judge someone so you can be in their place and you can never be in someone else's place what is the mishna telling us you can't judge stop judging and if you're going to judge because we spoke about people naturally judge by the way our passion speaks to judges can't judge till both people are in the room you have to hear both sides don't be afraid of judging you can't be afraid of the litigants torah in our passion when it speaks about the rules of judges is talking to every one of us because we are by default by definition by design we are always in judgment we need to we judge our circumstance which other surroundings we have to make judgment calls throughout our day all the time we make judgments we're just supposed to condition ourselves to make positive judgments to judge positively be down the cafes to see things positively positively so we judge but condition ourselves to judge favorably so says listen to this teaching it was worth coming today it was worth waking up today just for this teaching of this leo it's amazing whose nickname is place who do we refer to as place [Music] don't judge your friend until you become god until your makomo until you're god don't judge anybody you're perfect you get everything right you're never in a bad mood you're never the grumpy grouchy guy you make every call correct your god until you're god some people will say well i'm already god but a person who's honest to themselves knows they're not until your god don't sit in judgment of anybody else ah is that explanation not his place until you get makomo his place until your god until you're infinite omnipotent until you're all knowing until you know and see everything until you can really know the truth you cannot judge anybody else every person has a place every person is in a place we even use that in the vernacular i'm not in a good place sometimes the person will say i'm not in a good place you say what do you mean 7900 montoya circle it's not a good place it's not the address it's not your coordinates you say i'm not in a good place you don't mean where i'm standing right now not in good place means psychologically mentality not in a good place every person has a place our place is defined and influenced our place is informed and inspired by the family we're born into by our genetics by our health by our everything but in that place the place predetermined so much for us our place not only our physical our spiritual and our emotional coordinates predetermines and sets us on such a trajectory in life in so many ways and yet in that place we have so much free will yet in that place we have free will and we can make choices and never forfeit it and never stop believing and never despair no matter your circumstance no matter your genetics no matter the model good or bad of your parents or ancestors before you no matter the cards that life has dealt you you still get to choose how to play them you can't change the cards but you could choose how to play them and you can make any hand a winning hand if you play them right that choice is still up to us so it says this wonderful saver teachings of the pasha maybe that's why mosh rabbin is mentioning all the mccombos that's what she meant he's invoking all these makomos places because what he was saying was you have a makam in life you're in your mockum in life in your place in life but you know and nobody can judge your place until they're in it because only god the makkom knows your makko and yet even within our makkum we have free will we've shared an insight about this before which i'll remind you of who are the biggest casualties in the rebellion of korach here on this opening mosha reminds them of that rebellion of korach and who suffered the greatest casualties which tribe was it not levy kodak comes from the tribe of levy and korach led the rebellion but it wasn't the tribe of levy that suffered the most casualties which tribe was it reuven sort of devin rabbi of the eratica rav nevin salan is beautiful if you are moving you come upstairs to the almighty and you say what what happened here because we lived next door to korach so many of my tribe my family were taken by kodak's charisma joined his rebellion lost their lives so many widows and orphans in my tribe and in my family but hashem how did i end up next to korach because i wanted that house because i negotiated for that deal because i went on zillow and followed it for years until in boca i found the normal price how did i end up in that house who determined who determined the encampments in the desert hashem divinely ordained hashem said you to the west you to the east you to the north you tried next to this tribe here's your address here's where you're going to live go unpack so if you're reuben you come upstairs and say hashem what's the deal oil russia now oh poor unto the wicked person and on yeah but how did i become their neighbor i shouldn't you put me there it says you think in life just because hashem made that your makkum sometimes you think hashem gave me this job or this family or this neighbor or this community or put my children to this school so this is just the way it is i guess it is fatalistic i guess it is predetermined i guess that's the way it is i can let down my guard and i can forfeit my free will because of hashem planted and put me here that's what's meant to be it says i've never sell no if i shouldn't put us there it's for a reason we may never know what it is but we can't let our guard down just because for whatever reason that is our mukum doesn't mean that we don't still have free will that we don't have autonomy that we can't make the most of it and that's what's going on here says moshe is giving the rebuke by mentioning the places because moshe is telling them every person has a muckom in life what place are you in mentally spiritually emotionally physically what place are you in but just because you find yourself in that place in life doesn't mean that you can stop trying it doesn't mean that you don't have free will it doesn't mean that you can't still make decisions and you can still determine and you can't still decide where you go from here one more insight on this opening pause again we'll move on there it's a very clumsy language or by dabber moshe what's eladvaram seems to be somewhat of a clumsy a clumsy language explains these words were not just delivered in that place and in that time they're meant for all of cloud israel always wherever savant varm is the ultimate muslim safer long before we had orgasm or allah or any other muslim safer we should not gloss over or pass over the opportunity simply be safer is the quintessential muscle safer and therefore it doesn't say i should be more so israel as it normally does the torah normally tells us because hashem is speaking these words not just to that generation in that place and at that time he's saying them to who to whom to you and to me i'll call you israel he's speaking to all of us in all times so these dvaram it's redundant it's clumsy divarum i sure do bear same word is being used in this passage to mean two separate things devarim [Music] things i should debare that he said so which is it are dwarf things word varam words and the answer is yes the answer is both it's a very fascinating etymology that the same word has both meanings and whenever an hebrew we find one word having multiple meanings there's a close connection between the two and what is that close connection and how does this relate to the time in which we find ourselves the nine days above ah such a sad time and a sad reality of our own making the answer is you know what creates things words dvaram dibor creates dvaram dibor creates dvaram and that is the source of the magical term according to the oxford dictionary the word abracadabra that magicians proclaim before they do a trick was first introduced and dates back to the second i like that i paused as if any of you would know it dates back to according to the oxford dictionary the second century but i say it goes back to this passage because some suggest that the word abracadabra is actually abra kidabra abra means i will create abra i create abra i create kidabra through my speech abra i create when i speak abra cadabra because we create reality with our words we create reality with what we say our words get someone a job or a up they can move markets and they can close deals they can lift spirits and they can restore life or just our words can make markets crash you know some newscaster says from an inside source the fed is thinking about raising rates and the market crashes through words nothing changed nothing happened no one did anything but when we are not careful with our words we can destroy we can undermine we can corrupt we can prevent you could break up a shadow you could cause someone to lose their job l words can elevate or create they can destroy and profane that's what we read last week when you make a promise the beginning of pashas matos toro tells us we mentioned last week lo jachel what should you not profane d'varro your divorce you know why because through your d board you create dab davar abracadabra abra kedabra i create through my words with my words i create don't make cool and don't profane don't waste those words those words create worlds so the truth is every one of us is a magician we're all magicians but you don't need to learn a trick to be a magician how are you a magician simply with our words we can create with our words there's some people we wish we could make disappear with our words but we can't but you can create reality with our words with words you can make things appear and disappear like someone's entire portfolio or value with words you can abracadabra you can do magic the words we use wire and rewire our brains they create a physical reality so de beer moshe says you ready buckle up i got an entire fifth of the hamish i've got something to say this lo ishvarimanochi says listen carefully i've got something to say and through his words he creates a reality i'm not going to belabor because we've shared before the bachelorette was very strict about this a positive language positive psychology positive thinking and that's why the reb insisted he never used the term deadline what term did he use due date when you talk about something having a due date something's going to be born when you talk about something having a deadline something's going to die he was asked to give a endorsement to a hospital in israel and he said only if you call it a bait refueler not a baitholim if you call it a big hole in the people lying there feel why am i here i'm here because this is a place for sick people i guess i'm sick but if you call it a bait roof well they say to themselves why am i here i'm here to get better this is a place that people get better he didn't call it kiriv here of means you're far and i'm close and i have to bring you closer to me because i'm right you're wrong i've rea i've arrived and you're far away he didn't call it kirov instead and their list goes on and on with the examples that the rebbe had because through and why why was the rebel consistent books have been written why the rebel was so insistent and the examples and stories and letters where he was so mock bit on language it's just a language who cares just terminology that we're using who cares just the technicality who cares the answer is the answer is because the rebbe who was a magician from shamas who was a magician in this world he understood abracadabra with my words i create and he did and we can too we bring back davar that's why later in our pasha toro is going to tell us that moshe sent the spies it's going to remind us the story of sending the spies and moshe says if you remember you recall spies i sent you and why did i sent you i sent you to be able to bring back you approached me and you said send spies we're going to investigate via osano davar we will bring back davar it's a strange thing to bring back it's a funny souvenir my miraglum went to israel and all i got was this lousy davar what's a davar viashivo what are you talking about yeshiva davar says rasheed you know what davar is our pasha you know what they came back with said the miracle we're going to come back moshe says come back and find out is the lasher named what language are they speaking okay why is that important what language they're speaking which dialect of arabic what language are they speaking who cares are the cities fortified where there are military positions what kind of weapons do they have what do you mean islam listen to what the maharaja says in his commentary he says reflects the people what language are they speaking means so much more than which dialect but it means not only which language but what are they speaking about what do they talk about what are they talking about you learn a lot about someone by listening into what they speak about the famous quote are they speaking about things are they speaking about people or are they speaking about ideas what do people think about around the shabbos table what do they talk about at the literal or proverbial water cooler what someone speaks about you learn a lot about them so via shivolano you know what you should bring back not marzipan wrangler don't bring back a new yama car t-shirt don't bring back a souvenir yes find out what they talk about because if we need to know who they are and what they're all about then listen in and tell us what they speak about what got us into all this trouble the bachelors think about it what was the problem that night that fateful night the miragum what was the what was the problem that got us into this bakri ladoros that for the last thousands of years we've been crying in gullah's tish above through the ages tragedy and tribulation what was the height of what they come back and do they steal they rape they pillage now what they do they misspoke through their language they created a terribly negative reality through their language through their speech they destroyed they came back and they reported through their divorce they created a dover that continues to reverberate negatively until today what's the tikkun what's to repair ella varma so this is the time of year every time of year but especially now that we are hyper focused on our deburr how we use our power of speech are we magicians abracadabra are we trying to with these words create positive outcome lift spirits create build or god forbid the opposite we misused and abused the power of speech when we created division so division that led to the destruction so if that's what was the cause then it's also the solution yes to use that power of debor to bring about the gula to bring about the redemption israel it was on the 40th year in the 11th month the first month moshe spoke to the jewish people according to everything that hashem commanded him to them which two words in that passage are extra which two words are extra hashem commanded him to them seem to be extra words my good friend of emerson pointed out a beautiful inside of the menachem we got them into them zaks you know he's become one of my favorites so he says on these words this word al i am read the pasta again let's read it together from page 9 38 to 9 40. the bear motion israel motion speaks to the jewish people hashem as god commanded oh so commanded him allah what does allah mean to them it's completely extra what is it absolutely maybe maybe it's a reference to what we saw earlier god spoke to motion iran and he commanded them regarding the jewish people says rashi siva alayhim why did god have to command motion out on regarding the jewish people what was the command he said this people they're encourageable they're miserable they're going to complain they're going to criticize they're going to be suspicious of you we have that in our parsha too i don't think we're going to get to it but the people were suspicious moshe leaves laid he leaves early he has no shallow bias he's this he's that it's miserable leadership can be very very very lonely and at times painful and hashem warns moshe at the very outset while he was yet in smith so you sure you want to go into this because if you do negan the author of kam said you see from here the core critical criteria of a leader is patience patience sufferance the ability to lisbolo some they're going to make your life difficult they're going to be miserable they're going to complain they're going to be unappreciative they're going to be unfair they're going to be suspicious and that's what the pastor is telling us and it was in the 40th year kolomar after abraham as moshe it's been 40 years moshe it's your 40th anniversary in the rabbanus we're going to dedicate a safer torah we're going to name a wing after you we're going to send you in the rebecca on a vacation you know why we're going to do all that because you have no hair whatever hair you have left is gray and it's because of this congregation it's because of these people this extra word says teaching us that even though it's 40 years in moshe has not lost any patience moshe like a loving father remains completely patient and loving and doting on the people allahim even the bahiba iba in even though it's the 40th year i'll lay him he continues to have the patience he continues to care he continues to shepherd he continues to be incredibly devoted to them better god possibly based turn the page some suggest this is why we always read pasha's dvaram before tishbo because here moshe says how can i alone carry your contentiousness and your burdens and your quarrels [Music] last year two years ago i remember based on this ration i'm not going to repeat it an amazing rib nachman of breslift i'm not going to repeat it got to go back and listen to it says rashi malam and shaha you hiked in moshe lattes what happens this is the suspicion if moshe got up early left amra mah rob and i'm almost ashamed why is he leaving early he has no shilling bias he tries to stay out as long as he can he works the longest hours you know why moshe look works the longest hours you know why moshe can be found at the office all hours of the day because he has no peace and harmony in his home says you know what happens when he sleeps in you know what happens when he leaves late after a lovely brunch with his wife says you know why he's late to work because he's sitting at that brunch with his wife scheming and plotting and stealing from us that lazy good-for-nothing bum get to work moshe moshe could he was lost either way he didn't have a fighting chance because they were so cynical it was the cynics i can't win i don't remember if i told you the story last time this goes back years and i once got a call from somebody who's upset says rabbi i haven't been in shul for weeks you didn't notice nobody noticed nobody called nobody checked in on me i said i'm so sorry it's terrible you know we have so many miniatures this morning in such a seasonal community people come and go but i feel terrible you're right and i apologize and please accept my apology and i'm so sorry so sorry how are you where were you welcome back so great to have you i hang up the phone i say to myself who else haven't i seen in sugar for a little while i should probably make a phone call so i thought of somebody i hadn't seen in a few weeks and i called say so-and-so i haven't seen you in a few weeks hope everything's okay i'm just checking in he says and i quote rabbi what are you taking attendance now at shul sometimes you can't win you can't win either way whatever you do rashid quotes says this was ap where's the apicorsus in this listen to last year's rebellion said you see from here in monegam you see that you can't win don't expect to win you're not in it to win you see from this possible mushroom is reality that you're not in it to win why taka did moshe sometimes leave early and sometimes leave late mosha had erratic schedule it's a pretty consistent schedule in the mid bar the month fell the water was available and the protection of the clouds and the fire why did he have an erratic schedule but if you're looking for problems and criticism if you want him to be later then you see him as leaving early and you conclude he has no shallow bias if you wanted him to come early then you perceive him as leaving late and you suspect him of scheming and plotting against you it wasn't moshe who had different schedules it's when you're looking for the bad when you're looking for the negative you will interpret the reality to conform with what you're looking to see what a great insight but it tells her no these cynics and scoffers were not noticing about moshe that motion was inconsistent moshe was the epitome of consistency ah so how could some say he left early and some say he woke up late the answer is because each of them were predisposed each of them wanted to arrive at their suspicious conclusion so they interpreted the time based on what would support the suspicious reality that they thought they had prosecuted you answered me and you said the thing that you have proposed to do is good the thing that you propose to do is is good what's going on here says rashi you answered me tells us what's going on i couldn't bear the burden alone so i needed to ha i needed to delegate i needed to recruit other leaders and there would be a chain of command a hierarchy and i would only deal with the things that no one else could deal with because i couldn't favor it alone and when that proposal was offered what did you answer about tata nuoci what did you answer tomorrow you said it's good that works you can have a team of rabbis you can delegate you can have a robust staff absolutely you answer that works that's good but rashi says something that this is a criticism rashi says vatanuosi you answered something negative why what's going on because moshe rabbin is israel kashir higuia what's the criticism what's the muslim here moshe says you know when i told you this plan to delegate you should have objected should have said no moshe we want you we only want to learn from you so so since moshe albania heard it directly from god it would have been the most authentic transmission and the people should have objected and said we don't want to hear it one person from another we want the most direct route that there is we want to hear it from as close to the source as as possible megan yosef the megadose jose moshe here says the suggestion was made to delegate who does motion not mention who gave him the suggestion who came and said moshe you're so overwhelmed i'm worried about you moshe my dear beloved son-in-law you need a staff in your team you need to delegate i'm worried about you moshe gives it like he never mentions israel why not go back to parshas israel when you find that of course this was israel's idea so what happened to omar bashem omro what happened to bringing redemption into the world by acknowledging the source says the mega yosef vanira levara pimashevi rashi we can explain it based on the suffering issue [Music] the whole purpose of this parsha is musa there is no muslin saying that israel is the one who conceived of the idea yes forgets the credit he deserves the credit and yisrael gets the credit back and pashas israel but it wouldn't have added to the musser to invoke israel here since the whole purpose is to give musser therefore moshe only tells them the problem was you accept it when i said there would be a barrier in between when i said i'm giving cancelling this year we're moving to zoom you should have said what no way not last year and we want more not online we want in person not through someone else we want you and their failure to do that showed a casualness on their part a willingness to compromise on their part and that's what moshe is saying the emphasis of the reason to repeat the story is not because the israel originated but rather to give the muslim and that is why and that is why he leaves it out of base page 944 returning pages don't get whiplash bush is making his way through their short transition until that point and again he is giving a good muster but you approach to me and you said let's send some people they investigate the land of davar we talked about this earlier we should go up and ascend and the cities that we have to come upon come upon them says stein says the following message says you know what part of the lesson of the story is here a person could be approaching the finish line you could work your entire life you could earn a secure reputation you could try to achieve certain goals and yet you could throw it all away at the end one bad decision one act of poor judgment one moment of letting down your guard one giving in to your animal instinct and you can lose it all in a moment the eight sahara never takes a vacation the eight sahara doesn't retire the sahara doesn't take a break the eight zahara is never on vacation so here the jewish people are at the finish line the end of life they're almost there here the jewish people are about to realize the dream in the jewish people have come so far and yet in that fateful moment when they came back and they could have reported positively or negatively they could have used that power of speech to build and to elevate instead they used it to undermine and to destroy and because they did they compromised the entire mission just when you let your guard down just when you think you're done just when you think you've arrived you ever see a video of somebody in the marathon in the race and right before the finish line you ever seen football the guy who's celebrating at the one yard line he tries to moonwalk into the end zone and just at that second an opposing player knocks the ball out of his hands he fumbles falls and he looks like an absolute fool we actually have a term for this i like to use this term we say we say don't spike the football before you're in the end zone you ever hear that term don't spike the football before you're in the end zone claudius spike in the football and they fumbled at the one yard line and the lesson for us what moshe was telling them you were at the one yard line we could have all been in israel mashiach would have come could have built the base on minktester would have been everlasting moshe himself would have escorted them in don't prematurely celebrate don't fumble at the one-yard line don't let down your guard don't feel you've arrived it doesn't matter what age what stage of life doesn't matter what time in your career the itsahara never rests sahara never takes a break the itsahara is never ever done and therefore don't ever don't ever let up don't ever let up one more thought we'll end with this we have more as always all and with this we have a levia of a very special and holy woman one of the early pillars and founders of our community momentarily this morning this is hijack will end with this name and you found favor in my eyes and we found 12 spies and they went and they headed out moshe testifies shalor actually is negated not us that he didn't oppose their plan but the ramban explains the beginning of parsha that moshe sent people to see the land not only to see the land but how to conquer it and from that goal the people were very happy so was the miragum what did they do that was so wrong if moshe was happy if he was satisfied and happy if he bought in and if he endorsed it would they go wrong so listen to what the author of kell says israel it says shoving and pushing everybody was bitter there was chaos and commotion you wanted this so bad moshe had a plan moshe had a goal from the spies but the people denied they didn't believe it they panicked there was hysteria there was pushing and there was shoving and that was the ego the eggel is hysteria and panic a failure of faith to not believe in a leader that there is a plan and there's a mission irbuvia there was hysterica there was panic they had lost their manuka a year a jew is always meant to live with manuka a sense of calm to know it's going to be okay here's what we have to do the moment there is their bouvia someone just sent me a video yesterday i saw of the small plane where a pilot passed out so a passenger who'd never flown before had to call the tower that guided him into landing the plane and while you listened to the voice from the cockpit it showed the flight pattern the plane was zigzagging if you were just looking at it you'd think you don't know what and this person had never flown a plane while the person walked in through it landed the plane safely you saw the zigzag until he finally came in and landed safely the most remarkable part to me of this little video that was sent was the passenger was completely calm what do i do next what do i do now how do i do this what do i look at am i doing okay he wasn't screaming he wasn't panting he wasn't out of breath he wasn't hyperventilating if a person really is a moon and believes in god then they remain calm at all times keep calm and carry on because god's in charge but when you act bigger bouvier when you act with panic and with hysteria when you shove and when you push when you panic it is a failure of faith you don't believe it will be okay you're not confident that there is a plan and that hashem is watching our back that was the miracle the catamaran was not asking for the miragum the maybe was not even the report of the miragum the was the response to the moroccan the irbia the panic and the chaos the failure and the breakdown of faith in hashem and that is what we continue to suffer from until today please remember we're on break for a few weeks no parsha class you could listen to old dears you could listen to other people's posture class so until we resume until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay homey