Parsha Perspectives for Today (Pinchas, 5782) - Standing Up for Hashem

good morning boca raton welcome back to partial perspectives for today we begin as always with our gratitude to our generous sponsors for the year becky navy cats and family members of david grossman nishmas this morning shear parches thank you so much for your generosity there are always opportunities to sponsor individual shirum and we're always looking for sponsors of the pasha perspective write-up this new write-up that we are providing it's being read by thousands barack hashem all over if you'd like to sponsor it for an occasion please let us know we have the privileges shout out this week of learning of reading pasha's pencils page in the art scroll stone hummish and the parsha begins even before we get to the parsha i've been sharing with you some fascinating insights from this otzer plow satoru it has some fascinating obscure and yet again on this passion i won't take the time to go through it now we have so much else we want to see how do you spell pinchas with a yud with no urd how does it appear the name is how do you pronounce it all kinds of fascinating how long did pinchas live we see that he is represented beyond how long did he live and much much more but i'll share with you one interesting uh insight that he quotes and he says the following and the safer benefit quotes why is it sometimes we combine partials sometimes we read them separately sometimes we are in sync with the reading inherits israel sometimes we are a week behind how is it divided why is it organized in this fashion in this way venire ali says contains within it the complaint again of the daughters of want to inherit the land of israel there is a love of khadivas they cherish there's an affection there's a yearning to be and to be part of and to own a piece of eretz israel so we specifically design the calendar of torah reading so that the reading of this parasha falls during the three weeks bain amitsaram this time of exile this time of destruction this time of distance from our land or our land in its fullest sense we read these parties cornelius which have explicit direct reference to the division of the land but pinchas also has the allusion to the division of the land because it invokes the complaint of the daughters of slav and the response to by the end we don't mean the tail end but the latter part of the parsha deals with the pastim it goes through the jewish calendar and the jewish holidays why are we reading that in being amitsaram specifically says because we need to know we have a promise of the fast days that we are observing these days of sadness and despair will be transformed to holidays to days of closeness to days of elevation to days of joy they're going to be transformed tisha above itself kara lai moid tishaba is going to be a great holiday we omit on tish above because it already has components of the great holiday hopefully we won't talk about it we'll be in your shalom but if we observe above this year we'll talk about what is the holiday component of tish above tisha b'av is all about despair hopelessness sitting on the floor sadness tragedy loss grief where is the holiday where is the rendezvous point the moed in that but nonetheless says that partially penecos we read it in the three weeks we've just begun the three weeks and we're studying and we'll read pastors it should comfort us and give us strength to know that these days too will be transformed into holidays what now we observe as fasting and sadness will become days of glad of joy will become days of holiday and then he quotes the true voice of eretz tv who was the eretz v the kosher glover with aryadzvi frimer the kosher glover khashoggi lover was based on of kosher glove then he became the russia shiva of yeshiva lublin after mayor shapiro he was murdered by the nazis hashem yokom damo and in his era it's true as he writes in the name of the avneza the soccer chavez there was apparently a custom among hasidim to learn the laws of yantif complicated difficult laws to learn the laws of yantev specifically during the three weeks i would have said learn the laws of hara learn the laws of honesty learn the laws of learn the laws interpersonal relationships of kindness of generosity we spoke the other night about being judging favorably there's all kinds of laws to learn in the three weeks absent a yantef so listen to the words listen to the words of the uh eritsvi and all the laws all the sacrifices for the many holidays appears parshas pinchas began parties to meet him that is an illusion a hint to this custom this tradition of learning specifically the laws of yantef during the three weeks i think maybe going back on the banaya sasha why because we long for and we daven for when these days of sadness and despair will be transformed into days of joy and days of of gladness days of gladness okay yes so much it's tempting to share such exciting i find it's such fascinating stuff but i want to get into our passion itself page 876 if you don't know who he is he's the son of a loser if you don't know who he is he's the son of aaron if you don't know about aaron no he's a cohen israel he turned back my anger my wrath my rage against the jewish people because when he avenged my vengeance among them velocilicious and because of pembroke's righteousness his virtue because of his zealousness i did not consume i didn't destroy the jewish people in my anger lachina more and therefore in the nino shalom i am bestowing upon him the nobel peace prize the individual who stood up and drove a spear between two people who were united as one this individual who brutally murdered who brutally killed these two violators transgressors gets the nobel priest pies of god shalom not only him by salad his descendants will be bestowed upon this status because everybody else possibly were spectators everybody else was watching he stood up and he stood for god israel and it was an atonement he atoned for the jewish people when he when he did so pence why is it a small yid and his name and alex era the gemara says that ten miracles happened for pimphas in that moment ten things happen for him to be able to do what he did so the year is a small yid an illusion says the gemara or others say based on the gemara there were ten miracles that happened for pimakas we spoke about this in last year's pashushire give you a little secret you're allowed to listen to previous years also that week before the parasha we spoke about it last year why do we reference pinnacle has been a lazar i did not destroy the people says god in my anger and it's safer the great balmoosur says pincha stop the plague he stopped the plague why was he rewarded what did pence do that made him stop the plague what stopped the plague loved afghanistan the torah tells us not because he stopped the particular behavior not because he interrupted and interfered with this egregious egregious act it's not that he interrupted cosby and zimri it's not that he approached this lewd licentious promiscuous immoral unethical two people what they were doing in public that's not why the torah says he is rewarded with the british shalom why is he rewarded three words the kano es kennesi what do those three words mean because the opening the article translates when he zealously avenged my vengeance okay who's going to translate those words now when he zealously avenged my vengeance how do you avenge vengeance what does that mean is you know why hashem is grateful you know why hashem rewards him not because he stopped the particular act but everybody else watched and had nothing to say god's name was being desecrated god's values and being principles were being stomped upon godliness and holiness there was wide desecration and profanity and everybody else were spectators everybody else stood by everybody else tolerated in this very tolerant progressive culture of the desert the jewish people were afraid of being cancelled so they just stood by nobody objected nobody protested nobody said boo the ribonus from the almighty sanctity a life of nobility and meaning and purpose god's vision and values for his world they were being trampled upon they were being dissected and dissolved they were being absolutely desecrated and what did the people do they looked down they looked the other way nobody wanted to say anything nobody wanted to be the victim the focus of an attack from the people who wanted to defend the right to what do you mean this couple cosby and zimri they can't show their love in public but it makes them happy who are they hurting who are the injured party they're happy pursuit of their pleasure can't people just dressed and behave and act and perform and identify and do whatever they want so god says but kanoas can i see now i want to be very very clear i'm not suggesting that anybody here follow the footsteps of pinchas grab your spear literally or figuratively and go on the attack that is not the jewish way pinchas the gemara says ghazal contemplated not speaking about pentecost in a positive sense it was a zealot and we generally reject zealotry zealousness because if it's not judiciously and carefully applied who says it's righteous and noble and has the consent of hashem so generally we do not tell anyone you have a right none of us are deputized to stand up and scream and protest certainly god forbid ever ever use violence in order to protest so i want to be very clear i'm not suggesting no one should walk out of here and consider themselves a student of pinchas and that will take it into their own hands to out against those who are desecrating god's name but i do think it's instructive that the torah is telling us there was a plague there was a plague brought upon the masses why what did they do it was only cosby and zimmer who acted it was only because zimmer was desecrated what did everyone else do and the answer is there is no innocent passive bystander when we are spectators to egregious misbehavior to a violation and offense to hashem's blueprint for his world no one has the luxury of saying you know i'm neutral i'm switzerland i was just in the middle i didn't stand up i didn't condone i didn't condemn i didn't want to get i don't want to get involved rabbi i don't want to get involved i don't want to give up and that's what blaser the cochlear gives this muscle he says imagine somebody stands up and they begin to scream and curse out and threaten the rafael the muradasa the rabbi the rashiva so everybody says look i don't want to get involved if i get involved somebody hung posters somebody cursed out somebody posted def defamatory unfair untrue statements somebody threatened i get involved because then they're going to threaten me and then my family they're going to hang a poster they're going to talk about me [Music] ellie wiesel speaks about the people who don't get involved says that's the opposite of the opposite of love is not hate it's indifference it's the but it's the bystanders and we saw the consequence of a world who were bystanders to the worst atrocity in history so hashem says you know why pentecost is rewarded it's not a matter of the particular act that he stopped it's because can i see he stood up for me he avenged my vengeance he saw me the way i was being treated the way i was being spoken about says god the way my rules my blueprint for this world being set back and he stood up and he protested and he objected and sometimes you have to be intolerant of the intolerable intolerant of the intolerable as much as we preach and we practice tolerance and as important as that is sometimes we have to be intolerant of the intolerable again not in the way that pinchas was god forbid but in a thoughtful strategic sensitive appropriate way to defend the honor of hashem his honor also deserves defense we also have to worry about keviajo so to say his feelings we have to care about him too and have a sensitivity towards him some we have a principle the command shabbos because there was misbehavior left and right and nobody said anything nobody said that's not acceptable we're not okay with that that's not right we have to stand up for what's right in so many ways between us and god between us and others the behavior of so-called orthodox jews recently at the southern wall where a group of conservatives were celebrating a simcha and to tear sedum and to spit and to throw things it's unacceptable and tolerable horrific they should be held accountable in the highest way we have to speak up we have to stand out the kanoas kinasee means to defend hashem's honor is not about who's at the kotel what kind of service they're leading in that moment it's about the misbehavior of these thugs and hooligans who have a higher responsibility because of the yamakas on their head and because of whom they associate with and the way they behaved so it's true in every direction there are people who are who are misrepresenting hashem in some directions who are blurring lines and ruining definitions and misrepresenting hashem blueprint for how we're meant to function into personally in this world and there are hooligans and thugs who are misrepresenting hashem in another direction who think what they're doing is zealotry of pinchas but it's not and we can't afford to be silent bystanders and spectators the canoas cannot see i'm elaborating too long on this opening comment we have to move on but you talk about a passion perspective for today it's not the particular act that pink has stopped it's the phenomenon will we watch from the sidelines or do we get in the game of defending hashem's honor when we see injustice and we see a lack of righteousness you shallam was destroyed cause nobody wanted to get involved because nobody wanted to speak out because nobody wanted to confront the bully because nobody wanted to say that's not acceptable behavior that's not what we stand for that's not what we believe those are not our policies procedures that's not what we believe we need to learn we desperately need to learn from it how could it be the shvatim opening rashi rashi says pink has been allah the other tribes used to denigrate they would insult pinchas how would they insult pinchas you know who is you know who isaid is isaidah was an idolater ben putih pitim avaimo his mother's father used to fatten the calves to serve idols do you know from whom he descends so they used to make fun of him they used to make fun of him so therefore the torah associates not only with the israel his mother's father says of course pink has acted inappropriately incorrectly he's violent he has an anger problem and where did he get that from his zeida yisro israel the idolater israel the pagan that's from whom he descends and that's why he misbehaved in that way so torah says well not so quick you know who isaidah is on the other side arunachalen his others say this aron and what's aaron's defining characteristic oh if shalom varudev shalom aaron is all about peace he pursues peace he loves peace he practices peace he reinforces and promotes peace he also has that dna of our own so lest you think he acted out of violence and anger he acted in the pursuit of peace that is hashem that is the torah's response now it's kind of peculiar what what led rashi to this discussion what led the medrush to this conclusion normally the torah identifies someone exclusively by their father this is unusual that the torah here identifies not only by the father but also by the grandfather the two zeidas so why by the tuesday this this is what the rashi comes to clarify it's somewhat peculiar because the truth is shouldn't we analyze and seek to understand pinchas's behavior on its own merit if what he did is wrong then what do we care if aaron is his grandfather if we did his right who cares that israel was his other grandfather what does it matter from whom he descends what does it matter who his grandfathers are shouldn't we analyze and understand his behavior in its own merit was it zealotry righteous or not was it right or correct or not what does it make a difference to his grandfather czar what spiritual dna he carries it's an interesting question it's asked of david salaveczak so i'll leave it for you to think about but i want to ask a different question how could it be that the shvatim are making fun of pinkas think about the events we sometimes you know we get so caught up in the rashi we don't zoom out the lens and think does that make sense we don't see the whole picture last chapters we spoke about an incredible sofa who reminded us that we had eyewitnesses to every event in the torah except bilaam and balak jewish people had no idea they were in danger they had no idea they were saved they would never have had any idea that the episode ever happened it had the torah not recorded it we spoke about then why didn't record it a beautiful sofa so similarly here zoom out the lens and ask an obvious question when pinnacles acted the way he did he received the nobel peace prize he got the god peace prize much greater than the nobel peace prize consider some of the recipients in the past in the nobel peace prize it doesn't carry much weight at all so he got the god peace prize much much greater what did the people get did the people as a whole benefit from pentecost behavior his actions yeah there were 24 000 people who died 000 tahara's 24 000 funerals 24 000 has paid them 24 000 shivaming yanum 24 000 shiva homes 24 000 widows and orphans and what happened when pence acted stopped and what was the result they started to make fun of him they challenged him they doubted him they denigrated him how does that make any sense shouldn't they be grateful to him who would have any question about his lineage about his history who cares about ezekiel's they were suffering a horrific terrible plague do we care okay i'm dangerous to even say this but do we care how the vaccine came to be do we look into the lineage or who was involved in bringing it in record speed there's a vaccine there was a plague a pandemic there was a vaccine who cares the lineage bottom line is if it worked if effective or not who can doubt pinchas motive who cares where he comes from who endorsed pence's behavior none other than ribonus shalom not nobel kurish baruch who gave him the peace prize so if hashem says his behavior is righteous his basham says his behavior was purely motivated so much so that he earned the peace prize the torah peace prize the god peace prize isn't that enough why do we need this rashi why did they denigrate why do i need to invoke oh no no no his other zade does our own you have to check out the mahooten that answers it all who doubted him what do you see from here what a powerful insight into the human psyche we so badly don't want to be beholden to others we so badly don't want to have to be grateful to be mock your toef to have to carry what we call a debt of gratitude that what do we do the most cynical part of us kicks in and it makes us see the worst in someone to challenge their motive to undermine why they did it to question who they are their sincerity what a horrific insight but an authentic and true insight into the human psyche that we have that capacity this is what we spoke about at the end of the tamas about the kafsrus we all judge we're naturally designed to judge the torah says our default our instinct should be to judge favorably instead so many judge unfavorably that's the default we find the negative we find instead of giving the other the benefit of the doubt the way we give ourselves instead of defending the way we defend ourselves excusing the way we excuse ourselves rationalizing the way we rationalize ourselves right this is the attribution error when it comes to us no no it's the circumstance it's external factors we're excused when it comes to others it's an internal failure internal flaw it's because they're always late because they don't care it's because they're not god fearing it's because they're not punctual it's not reliable dependable righteous it's a terrible mistake the fundamental attribution error that we make and this is the three weeks we're supposed to overcome that and you see that in our parsha you see that in our pasha pinchas could save your life and you still say ah he didn't really do it for me he's violent i was the beneficiary he happened to be as violent stopped cause being zimmery it's not the plague but he didn't do it for righteous reasons i'm not putting him up on a pedestal i'm not gonna admire him i'm not even gonna thank him you know why he did it he's got an anger problem he's got rage he's got so i'm not gonna thank the volunteer security committee ah they sit in the sweltering heat and they defend and they protect shul in our community they do so without getting paid just to be generous and kind well you literally hear what people say this nah they like to have a badge they like to carry a thing they like to feel important they like the power trip they like to ah i don't have to thank them they do it for themselves they let this is their excuse they don't have to sit through shul they don't have to go to davening they feel good about themselves they're standing at the gate are you out of your mind do you know how hot it is out there are you crazy no matter how much you dislike dominating you'd rather be in the ac in florida in july than standing in the parking lot out in the gate standing on the front line if god forbid something were to happen but that's human nature and you see that you see that here in this story by the way they did it about moshe rabbenu they were slaves they were dying their children were being murdered and they were liberating liberated from essentially the concentration camp of egypt and what do they say about moshe ah he was on the take with the mishkan he took a little money for himself ah you know he's sleeping with people's wives ah you know he doesn't get along with his wife that's why he's never home are you crazy this man has been most her nephew she gave everything he gave everything mordechai saves the jews of shushan he orchestrates the whole scheme that saves the people from extermination and there's a re-election there's a vote for his next contract as the chief rabbi of shushan and what does the magilla say the rasoi larovichov you got a majority a majority i want to meet the person who didn't vote for mordechai which resident of shushan said we could do better he once walked by me at the kiddush and he didn't say good shabbos i vote no they are their mind but that's human nature that's human nature and that's the human nature we have to overcome to not be cynical and sarcastic and to now look for flaws and faults and to not question motive and intent but to just say thank you thank you you sacrificed you were mostly nefesh you acted when others were passive you stood up and you risked everything which pinchas did turns out he made the right move but he didn't know that till it was over he didn't know that till god put the medal he put it on properly in the front but till god put on the medal he didn't know that he did the right thing that hashem was approving with the peace prize what could have happened instead first of all he could have been killed what if he was trying to drive this beer but they were quicker than he god could have struck him down he could have received the death penalty for what he did he was mostly nefesh just say thank you don't doubt him don't vote him down don't question his motive don't gossip about him don't judge unfavorably just say thank you just say thank you what a powerful powerful insight the beginning of our pressure if not also has the comments revengeland says why does he get the peace prize this we've spoken about a lot in the past as well very peculiar first of all he gets the burst kahuna that's like you know the story about the person who comes to the rabbi and wants to buy the right to the coin aliyah and to duchen it's the oldest jewish joke in the world it's the worst like most of the oldest jewish jokes in the world and he says i want to buy the right to the first aliyah the rabbi to hold back and forth but i'll spare you the terrible joke but the rabbi the punchline says why do you want to be a cohen and he said what do you mean my father was a kawai my grandfather is a ko and my great-grandfather's going so pinchas needs to be awarded with being the cohen pinnacle has been a lazar ben aron ha cohen wasn't he automatically a cohen i'd love to find that one i'll go over to cohen and shul and say you know the shul is so grateful to you and we so appreciate everything that you do we're not honoring you at the dinner we're not giving him after yonah we're going to treat you like a coin we're going to give you the award the koh i know i don't need your coin i was born a coin i've been getting the coinalia since i'm born what does that mean the pinchas got the coin the brisk kahuna he was already a coin wasn't he my second question for today i'm not going to answer i'll leave you to think about why that why that really is but what was he awarded with peace the bruce shalom peace that's a kind of peculiar ironic reward it's a funny award for someone who violently and viciously and graphically just drove a spear through two people he put them on the spit to roast them together that's pretty ironic the bris shalom where does that come from what's going on so if nachman says the following pinnacle has killed the the nasty of shiva shimon zimri ben salu and this midianite woman cosby bassoor we saw cosby that's a rough name for these types of behaviors because of their behavior a pandemic and a plague spread among the jewish people when hashems gave you get the births of shalom so one does make sure this is not a direct teaching of nachman it's a beautiful savior and shabbos it's extracting from rab nachman's teaching applied to the pasha so in order to answer this you have to see it very interesting insight says you know what the definition of peace is i love this insight shalom peace is not when everyone conforms it's not when everyone is uniform it's not when everyone's exactly the same that's not peace you may say peace is dress the same act the same vote the same be the same think the same that's not peace peace is when you have opposites that are uniting opposites that are integrating opposites that feel unified kegon fire and water loving kindness and strict justice fire and fire or water with water or kindness with kindness or justice with justice that's not called shalom what is shalom shalom is not when you have many of the same shalom is when you have a connection between that which is different how does that what is the root of the word shalom peace shalem whole when everything's the same it's not whole when is something whole what is made up of different pieces when are you finished with the puzzle when is the puzzle whole when all of the pieces fit and are put together is now in your uniform and not when you conform and want not when you're a carbon copy of the other when do you really have shalom when you have disparate sometimes opposite parts then nevertheless piece together they come together and now based on this insider of nachman what real peace is now we can understand why pinchas was rewarded peace pin pinnacles did an act that was zealous it was zealotry it was violent he showed strength brutal force and he killed who omni moses zoska de la capra israel why did he do it to bring atonement to the jewish people the many the masses were dying he did something violent in order to end a mass violence of illness they said whenever you have promiscuity in the world whenever the boundaries are blurred and there's promiscuity in the world there's destruction we're living through that we're living through a period of that of moral decay as much progress of me wade we are regressing morally in terms of these values and ideals there's promiscuity and licentiousness there's blurring of boundaries this blurring of modesty this blurring of public behavior this blurring of appropriate speech this blurring of protecting even the privacy and modesty of our emotions and feelings the way it's splattered all over the world today every thought every feeling every emotion every experience is shared with the whole world and the more people see it and like it and repost it ah the more that we think we have and what's the consequence an enormous spike of mental illness but more than that there's moral decay pinkos was ready to give his life he was ready to die to save the jewish people if you look superficially externally looks like a act of jealousy zealousness anger or violence maybe it was the act the will of the eight sahara so that's what the torah testifies no this came from a pure place and therefore the bris was shalom he was uniting sometimes when when israel has to take act in order to eliminate danger and threat and terrorists is that the pursuit of peace or is it violent it's a violent act towards the goal of peace towards the goal of peace our rabbi is very very astutely noted those who are kind to the cruel ultimately show cruelty to the kind if you are kind to the cruel if you're a pacifist and you show peace turning the other cheek is not part of our tradition we are peace lovers that's all there's nobody who wants peace more than the people of the state of israel the israeli army there's no more moral place than the state of israel and the israeli army and yet in order to defend themselves and achieve that peace sometimes it takes acts that look like they're violent if you turn the other cheek and you allow everything then you are showing kindness to the cruel you'll be cruel to those who are kind and that's why while it seems paradoxical or ironic or inappropriate it's actually the most appropriate award for pinchas which is the briss of shalom of peace because that is his motive and that is his goal you know i give him the peace prize the stipelergone writes in a letter crying into igrissa second volume chronic digress our collection of the letters of the stippler crime's father and uh based he writes the following yesterday you know sometimes to bring peace there has to be some conflict now again i don't want to speak lightly about this because the danger is that every person takes the matter into their own hands and decides they're the zealot in the name of god so this is to be weighed very very carefully and this requires expertise and greatness and gidola israel and das torah this is not to be taken lightly but we're living in a time that believes you know let everything go and let everyone be happy and don't confront and don't ever push back and don't ever challenge and don't ever but sometimes for the pursuit of a greater goal like peace it requires tension or discomfort and that's what you see from this story that's why in other words shalom is not an absolute value it's hard to sometimes understand how you achieve it i'll give you a quick example the gemara says sometimes meshana shalom ms is an absolute value ms is a supreme value god's signature is emesis truth god's signature is truth we have a tremendous fidelity of loyalty to truth and yet the gemara already records messianic shalom that when your wife says how do i look in this outfit at that moment everyone looks beautiful amazing perfect but if one had to consider what's more important in that moment ms or shallow the gemara already says the answer is shalom gimmar says it exactly no matter what the kala looks like when the when the hassan says isn't my kala radiant isn't she beautiful you don't say look i'm a i'm a niche ms i'm a cutscore i'm sorry but you're what your kala is is homely somewhat grotesque difficult to look at uncoordinated i'm anisha ms i'm godly i'm godlike i'm telling you the truth now we say sometimes there's a greater value of truth than what seems to be that truth a.j jacobs is a fantastic author jewish not observant we had him on behind the bema i don't know we're up to episode 95 so somewhere before that he wrote a few great books he wrote a book a year living biblically he actually just came out with a book i don't get a i don't get uh any kickback he came out with a book about puzzles solving puzzles recently he's a great author fun author anyway so he wrote an article years ago called radical honesty right his whole life is living a certain way and then writing about it a year of living biblically and then writing about it he told the story actually in our in our uh podcast in that year of living biblically when he got locked in a bathroom on an electric toilet with a sensor and he wouldn't get up because it was a year of living biblically and he spent the rest of that saturday it was a year of living biblically what was it like a year of living biblically fine so he wrote an article radical honesty what would life be like if you practice radical honesty with the examples i just gave someone says what do you think of my of my kala and you're radically honest with everyone about everything you think it's a great you can google aj jacobs radical honesty the torah does not endorse radical honesty the torah endorses relative honesty again you have to be incredibly judicious and careful in how you apply that because everybody will always lie for that greater good and then you'll become a pathological liar who forgets how to tell the truth we know people like that when you lie for no reason you're not serving any other greater good but in judaism these aren't absolute values to the exclusion of others and similarly here perhaps the way to achieve says the stipeler the greater shalom is achieved not by being the pacifist in that moment but actually by confronting that is how you achieve the greater value the greater good of shalom the mega yosef yosef starkin has an insight here and he says the following who always interacts with us measure for measure but here pinnacles does something violent and hashem rewards them with peace to me honey how could it be it's wondrous he says brisk so the brisker says the following with a mouse everybody okay a mouse in your house near my akira's bias vachatul domim so what happens the woman of the home it could be the man of the home but brisker said the woman of the home and the cat in the house share a goal which is to catch the mouse both want to catch the mouse and kill it however so if you just look externally the the wife of the house and the and the cat of the house are perfectly aligned in their interests they share the same goal catch the mouse and kill it but they have very very very different motivations and why the the cat loves the presence of the mouse and wants to catch it and kill it because he wants it for breakfast she wishes the mouse never came to begin with she's chasing after it with pain and anguish and fear what if another one comes and despair and misery more likely she's standing on top of the table or chair yelling for her husband to come but it depends different houses different people have that responsibility we don't want to generalize even though generally it is true so she's chasing the mouse wishing it never came and hoping desperately another come and then the cat says i hope that there's another mass closely behind because i keep loving to catch them and eat them for dinner is really a grandson of aaron pinchas has the peace sign he loves peace pinchas is pursuing peace he talks about peace he promotes peace he doesn't want this problem to have ever come into his doorstep he doesn't want this mouse of cosby and zimri he was thrust into this situation against his will he told rashford hashem get rid of them i don't want to have to take action against them i wish they didn't come and i want anyone to follow i'm peace peace man i'm a grandson of aaron i don't want to do this so while it looks like what he did was a violent act it looks like he acted like the like the mouse he was acting like the akira sabayas and what is the confirmation of that what is hashem's endorsement of what his motive was that the real driver of him was the arunachalen that he did so so reluctantly is that he received the british shalom another way to understand it is based on iran later in safety we'll learn about the era a idolatrous city torah says that when we properly dispose of the idolatrous city by leveling it we receive a bracha of greater compassion wise and again that ironic and there says sometimes when we do something demanded of us by hashem that asks us to invoke within us a behavior which can be cruel we need to offset it with a greater commitment towards and a bracha of compassion as a parent we want to shower our children with love we want it to be all kumbaya and fun and games and love and affection sometimes for the child's own good we need to take a strong stance we need to do something which is punitive we need to take something away we need to act with a certain level of of intensity and we are invoking from within ourselves something that we don't want to be cultivating or growing so in that moment we have to do something sit down and learn a muscle safer go practice loving kindness in another way don't get used to me the sarsarius don't get used to practicing that that cruelty a surgeon professionally cuts people open they've become accustomed and comfortable with putting a knife and cutting someone open they're doing it for a greater good they're doing it in noble reason there's nothing wrong at all with what they're doing but imagine you've now become a person who's comfortable with cutting open a human being with driving a knife into another person so you need to do something to cultivate the rachamim to create that balance so what's true for the ernie dakhas suggests based on this suggests the megadios it may also be true here because the moment demanded pinchas to behave in that way because who doesn't want him to become a cruel person he balances it out with any influx and injection of shalom of peace his full lineage his whole resume pinchas [Music] so since we did that for the russia we have to do it for we did it for the sorry we also do it and identify fully the russia so who is the russia zimri bensalu the sea base of the shimoni why why do we have to know the family of the russia so rashi tells you we're going to go all the way back and invoke the descendants of the tsaddik for the good that he's the grandson of aaron that we have to invoke the descendants antecedents of the russia for the bad but why because you need to know that when you do something bad big or small in addition to whatever consequence you will suffer there's also the impact that we brought on our family name we have a responsibility to our family name we have a responsibility to the people who come before us and this consequence whatever consequence we suffer here zimri suffered the greatest consequence he was killed capital consequence he was killed so on top of that we say zimmer listen you're going to get killed for your actions they were so egregious and also by the way you're responsible we're going to mention your family name because you've brought them shame does he care once he's given the electric chair he's got a spear going through him does he really care and the answer is yes because he says you see from here from this rashi the tremendous responsibility we have in our behavior for those who come before us and for the name that we carry moving right along there's a new census which is taken of the jewish people after this plague of new census where are we at how many are they in the middle of giving the census in case you forgot from just a few partials to go we remind you of the story the ground opened up and swallowed korach is children they survived korach's own children didn't die corrosion children didn't die and we know that when do we remember them to hell them every monday the share shayom we try to inspire ourselves by quoting by referencing the text the liturgy that was composed and authored by these bine korach by the children of korach korach is one of the greatest villains in the torah and yet his children are authors of art filos rashid says they weren't just passive bystanders two innocent children of the villain of history they were part of the catalyst they prodded their father daddy tati abba i don't know what they called korach but whatever they called them you know why moshe it should be you why aren't you sitting on the bhima why aren't you on the mizrah why don't you get to give the drasha why do you still have all your hair and have no sorry they never said that why do you still have calm in your health and you don't have all the agony in this no they didn't say that but why don't you have the fame and fortune why don't you have the spotlight they were the ones who pushed kodak in this rebellion so how were they spared how were they saved because in the moment of the rebellion they had second thoughts and what did they do did they stand up and declare truva did they radically transform their lives no says rashi what did they do hear haru batshuva all they did is decide you know that wasn't right here they contemplated they dreamt they had an ambition and aspiration for chuva bilibu in their hearts it wasn't even manifest you couldn't even measure it you didn't see it externally there was a high place in gahannam that they sat and ultimately that they climbed out of and they climbed out of it so successfully that ultimately we quote them and we invoked them it's an amazing thing the children of other tribes died and dasanva virum went down but vinay korra held on why because hiru betruva and the author of slovakia says that sometimes in our lives we're confronted with a moment of truth and in that moment of truth are we going to identify with the with the breakaway with the insurrection with the rebels are we going to stand up for what's right what's true are we going to and in that moment here rubichuva doesn't even take the action what precedes the action the prerequisite to the action the hiroru bachuva just contemplating just thinking just considering just becoming determined to do chuva in its own right can get us survival like it did like it did bene korach perhaps try to get in a few more now we're talking lineage we're going all the way back up some of these names we use it's interesting that we don't find people naming after all of vanessa we know some noah's i don't know any hagla we know milkas i don't know any tirtsa but anyway these are the daughters of five daughters of slav and they stand up to moshe and they say it's not fair to us our father abba tati i don't know what they called him died in the desert and why did he go down he wasn't part of korach he died because of his o we have a tradition what was his height who was torah doesn't tell us but we read the story of the makoshi sim the one who gathered the wood who violated shabbas and was put to death for violating shabbos so the tradition of the gemara says that was he was the makoshi sim he gathered the wood he didn't go down with korach he died for his own reasons so why are we being deprived what words do they use lama yigara lama yigara should sound familiar who else said those words where did we see them those who were impure came to moshe and said lama nigara and pasak shani is the holiday of lama nigara and hereby say same language what does it mean why should i lose out wow judaism can either be why do i have to or judaism could be when we can't why do i lose out what are we projecting how do we live what do our children see what type of a yiddish it is a is it a why do i have to or when i can't why do i lose out during corona was it this is fantastic i don't want to go to school i could wake up whenever i want dab in whatever i want go whatever speed i want this is fantastic i wish it would go on forever or lama yegara mishul i miss laning i missed philip at seaboard which do we which attitude do we show so is the same lama and they quote they approach moshe by a crave moshe s mishpatan moshe doesn't know the halacha and he brings the question to hashem the times that moshe forgot an analysis of each of those times why here does he forget the following they went out of their way to say that their father did not participate or go down with the rebellion of quran so moshe saw himself as now being bribed he couldn't pass in this for himself why because if he didn't participate with korach he would want to rule favorably he would be predisposed to rule favorably knowing that the the father was not part of quran therefore he brought this before hashem therefore he brought this before hashem moshe bainu did not he understood that he was puzzled to decide it for himself he was biased because he would show favor to somebody who was not part of korach and that's why he brought it and that's why he brought it to hashem i saw the cutscore as a different interpretation telego says wasn't afraid to take the courage boldly sometimes when he didn't know the din moshe just used his logic he decided on his own three times he did it and god endorsed it so why wasn't this a fourth time is it a tremendous leap to know that if there's no sun the daughter inherits why did moshe have to bring it to hashem the nearly ashave so says the qatsker it's a wild kotzker the nakhla sarathas isaram in order to inherit a portion in eretz israel you have to be committed to shabbos shabbos demands the worthiness to have israel eretz israel is the observance of shabbos who was the makoshish he was like so moshe said to himself maybe dafka they don't deserve a portion in israel because their father was the first to break shabbas that's a whole of the story and we definitely don't have time but it happens to be we don't have time but it happens to be that slaphad was an average ma he violated shabbos intentionally why so that the world the jewish people would see he would be put to death and they would understand that when moshe told them we have this thing called shabbos don't mess with it don't play with it it's a capital crime with a capital punishment called skila and people would say ah you don't mean that ah it's not true ah you'd never do that ah you're just trying to make it sound like it's important but so slofhad said i'm going to demonstrate what happens so that the rest of our time in the midbar and going into erit israel nobody will ever violate shabbos he did what's called an available are you allowed to do that it's a whole discussion esther did not we sometimes see that someone does something takes it on our hands the second volume of shakhtar and the pasha has the whole essay in this week's question about this question from this case but says akatsuka moshino looks and he says to himself that in order to earn living in heir to throw you have to value and cherish shabbos their fathers makoshi jaitsen he's the one who gathered wood what malacca did he violate amir what's the malacha also a discussion what exactly did he violate did he gather the wood to burn it mafia amer what was the malacca but he violated shabbos and he's put to death and maybe therefore his daughters don't deserve abortion and that's why though it would have seemed logical and obvious to jump and to know he did he hesitated and he waited and only turned two to hashem we have time for one more which one should we do oh yeah yeah right after bonus moshe then thinks of his own succession he knows it won't be his own sons he asks hashem for insight who to get and hashem points him to yahushua and he does what quality does he need if god's [Music] he's not going to live forever what reminds him of that is the daughters are talking about inheriting moshe says oh boy i don't have immortality nobody does what will my succession look like this is a top five leader jim collins good to go he'd say the top five leader cares about succession it's not about their name it's about the brand it's about the it's about the the mission so moshe albano is once gave a drush about this the qualities of the top five leader and jim khan is good to great mosher abbini checks them all off here he's a top five leader he wants he cares about succession what is he looking for appoint a person who will go out before them and come in before them will take them out and bring them in who will treat them not like sheep that have no shepherd interesting interesting description so the vulba says about this revolba writes he says what do you see from here moshe's concerned not find them the smartest find the best orator find them the fromist find them the one with the longest way find the one with the most homeless none of those are on the list that moshe asks hashem for his successor what matters to him his successor someone will be their shepherd who goes out with them and comes in with them who sits with them who cares about them that's the most important that's the most important of kalmar from musampstead who was an icon of this who was brilliant brilliant and answered shiva's he was absolutely brilliant but his compassion is showing up the lengths that he went to be there for people to go in with them to come out with them to sit there with them the vulpa says you see the most important criteria of the leader is not their head but their heart of course you have to a good head the leader can't be a fool or ignorant but that's not the criteria the qualifications which moshe asks for for his succession what he looks for is somebody who will go out and will come in somebody who has that rashi says what is this who is the bastard rashi says somebody got it what is the qualification says rashi you need to find a maniga leader who will be so veil what does the word so mean suffer under the sufferance of egypt we are tortured take us out from the civilized mitraem to be so veiled but what's the root of the word sovel patience patience is sufferance patience is the ability to sit with suffering so there's a miserable incorrigible who judge unfairly and don't give the benefit of the doubt and complain i still love them i suffer through them that's parenting i just summarized by the way but also the rabbinate and also leadership but i still love them so i suffer through them i'm so vel i'm willing to be so veiled because the love i have for each one of author of kelm spoke about and wrote about from here you see the most important quality of a leader is patience patience the capacity for so-called sufferance the ability to live with patience is the most important quality all right there were so many other things i wanted to share so many other beautiful ideas we leave them for next time 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