Parshas Beha'aloscha: The A Fortiori Argument - The Key to Access the Mercy of Heaven

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning Rai today we have really unbelievable material on at the end of the par we have an episode where M um where the the sister of M where Miriam spoke Lara about M and she was discussing who mhu married and the fact that mhu then separated from his wife and Miram said who does he think he he is is he greater than the other Nim they never separated from their spouse who does mha think he he is does he think he's holier than thou and we know Miriam contracted SAS offered the following a very brief maybe the shortest in history mha cried out to Hashem saying [Applause] kale no kale God please heal please her interestingly invokes the name k we know God has a number of names does not invoke any of those he invokes the name k why does he specifically invoke the name and then tells said to let me explain something to you about why Miriam is being um punished here if her father would have spit in her face she would have been ashamed for seven days she wouldn't be able to go outside imagine if Miriam's father spit in her face she would have been she would have been so ashamed them and embarrassed she would not leave the house for seven days now that I sort of castigated mar and sent her away certainly she should be put away for seven days let her be locked up seven days outside of the camp and only then should she be gathered in in other words re is using a certain logic to explain why Miriam deserves to be punished if her father would have spit in her face she would have been embarrassed for seven days so now also she needs to be ashamed for at least seven days what is this logic called this logic is called if her father of mere flesh and blood would have spit in her face she would have been embarrassed for seven days certainly the that's giving her s she should be uh Cast Away and locked up for seven days now Rashi points out if her father would have shown her a face of anger she would have been ashamed for seven days really if you're going to make a real it should be what 14 days but now you know what a is or in Latin we call it the a foror argument right the a fori argument in Latin the word Fort means strong like Fort or fortitude right so fori light and and heavy for example if we say like this if a guy who is five feet tall who weighs 40 lb could hit a baseball 100 ft this who's 6'5 if he weighs 240 lbs and he's been taking steroids for 10 years certainly he could hit the ball fet so you'll say you say better than that he could certainly hit the ball 200 feet no there's a rule that means the case you learn to you have no right to say is better than the case that you learn from so if this little pipsqueak could only hit it 100 ft then you the only thing you have a right to say is this big baboon could hit it at least 100 feet more than that you can't say maybe right that's called that rule is called so really technically if you're making a if a father of Flesh and Blood would have spit her daughter's face she would have been ashamed for seven days then maybe Miriam should be uh locked up for 70 years or 14 days as r says but right rash says even in my in my anger she should only be locked up seven days by the way the stier wrote a called Bas parats and in the Bas parat the styler has a section of grias in fact kki want to asked the stier if he should also write gach said no don't spend time on it I don't I don't spend time on it it just comes to me during right the says the unbelievable you should know many times the styler finds that the words of Rashi are the gatria of the word that he's commenting on many times if you the gatria of the Rashi is the know Rashi says a comment on certain words the gatri of that word are the words of Rashi so here's that's one of them so and here's the question aside from the fact that we rais that why ISU invoking the name kale why is using a when we think of we think back to our days we think about right what is a is one of the that on God gave Moses 13 principles of hermeneutical ex right which are called 13 tools before he gave the Torah or after as part of giving him the Torah he gave him these means for example and this is what we say every morning CL right the 13 principles of hermeneutics or of EX aesus what who's who's who's the lead off batter of leading off head the list okay now ask you a question we're learning here and is explaining so why in the world is we bu giving father would spit in her face he would M seven days Ah that's the cow so then that I'm the one who's castigating her she should certainly be locked up for seven days why is we giving all of a sudden now like it's a very odd time for to crap up what's K rearing its head now where does it come in would have been if he would if he would have charged up yeah I so what's the inan what's specifically why are we bringing in the now interestingly we know before if you look in the what immediately introduces now if you ever thought about it you would realize this this makes no sense why in the world would we say the of rabish before we start daving I understand before we start the K here in the young is we should start off every morning you want an introduction of the methods and the tools of how to learn but we're not about to learn we're about to DAV you don't learn during daving unfortunately there's a you know Aina that people during daving they're very into learning all of a sudden during daving dur says it could be it's even to be may have to do it again all of a sudden during daving everybody's learning learn why because says during the course of the day when it's a Mitzvah to learn I'm not going to let you learn but during daving when it might be to learn no problem learn you can learn B Shi I remember one time I went to show with my grandfather so we came early my grandfather always comes early and I went to the Shelf I took my Sid and myish and you know like a good I took a safer you know in case there's I wasn't to learn during daving but maybe between not this ding time there's a time for everything so why would we start daving with Bry it has absolutely nothing to do with the why would we begin to feel it that way also what is the 13th of the likewise that contradict each other now we read it what do you mean what do you mean and similar it's not similar to anything it's different than it's different than than why add the word what's that what's got that got to do with anything in fact in some S I think may say it this way maybe as well you ever hear that but either way either way it's Superfluous it's extra it doesn't really have any meaning if you look in the where does the come from like where did it start it doesn't come from the S it's the SRA the the very beginning of begins with the begins and goes through the 13 mid and gives examples of each principle it gives example of of give example OFA it gives example of bav and so on and so forth well what example does give in other words then says what is the Quint says the look at number four number number four [Applause] okay really locked up 14 days in other words this is not only a this is the textbook example of like you open up the encyclopedia and you look up the example of given is this is one a 101 is this at the end of this week's par like why is this the quintessential textbook example of what is the first in history the very first even before Adam you know who the the first was Moon before the moon even before the moon the grass how do you say grass in yish the really says says like this you ever hear this p when do we say this before right who said this let the honor of be [Applause] forever the officer of the world said this when said to the trees I'm told the trees grow by your species apple trees stay with apple trees right don't mingle with the orange trees orange trees don't mingle with the peach everybody to themselves like we learned in Seer Rus the men by themselves the women by themselves so to apples and oranges the apples the oranges the P God never told the gr and how do you say gas how do you say the vegetation in yish how you say vegetation any this vegetation yeah so has Hashem never told the Des to be by themselves he only told the the trees the the the how do you say trees again the Hashem only told the trees the bo to be by themselves you never told the gr he never but the gr the grass made of right if God wanted us to be mingled then he would have said to the trees to be to be uh separate to be Lum that's called M if God told the the trees to be separate he probably wants us to be separate as well but then the the the grass they don't usually mingle right an apple tree has its own distinct place it has its own territory usually trees don't mingle one with the other each tree has its own uh land has its own territory gr gr and vegetation they they mingle they go here they go there they go everywhere they their is to be mingled they need to be separate hasem told the the trees to be so all the all the grass grew so at that point when the officer of the world when the saw that the grass that if the trees should be separate certainly the grass should be separate you know what the officer of the world [Applause] said okay so every morning right before you know you should think when you say the that this the officer of the world dared when the grass made a from the trees question number one why was the first kav in history made by gr made by grass it wasn't even a y cup the only word for vegetables that I know is green a greenen green s green that that means green stone green stuff so who made a the and the green and and also the vegetation they all made a and the question is why was the grass the first to make a it wasn't even a t it wasn't it wasn't a rash it wasn't even it was the gur why and why was the response of the officer of the world another interesting thing let's try to go through this quick pasas Mikes when the brothers are framed they're about to leave M they open up their their bags and lo and behold o they're framed they have the Goblet they have the Goblet so sure enough they're Tracked Down the the federal the um the federal government of Egypt came tracked them down get back we got to do an audit on you what's going on you you have uh you have the king's possessions you didn't report itook yeah we got to check the books so y says you you fools you stole my goblet so what did the brother say look at number six last time when we had extra money in our purse we brought it back to you you think we would steal silver and gold from from you in other words other words if last time when we didn't even take the money you just gave us extra money we returned the extra money certainly you think we would steal what's this A fori in other words y says you fool you stole my goblet so think about what the brother says y take out the big thumb and go like this if the money that we took Adam that we found in our sacks we returned then you don't have cup you don't think you think we would steal your goblet what's going on here Y is threatening them with their life and they're telling him is saying why did you steal myself and they're telling him even brings down like this is the strangest place for for um to crap up here they're being threaten with their life and the brothers are saying over you know bris they're saying over oh take out the another thing hasem tells M to tell the take the Jews out of so what does say look at number eight spoke before God saying if don't listen to me how will listen to me I don't speak well now he adds another thing to it I don't speak I think about what's happening Hashem is m is coming to complain to hasem if the is don't listen to me even the don't listen so how's power going to listen to me again you know this is a wrong time to give doesn't need what's going on why is using seems like a very strange place also the med says that when shame came out of the he he would bumped into none other than Abraham Abraham and Abraham said and what did you leave the T and shame said I left his in the mar of so said there were beggars in the T well you had guys coming out around during with a letter from the V of Queens to give them money what Sak was there in the T so shame says you know you don't understand the animals we didn't sleep all night all we did was feed feed feed at that point in time said like this if and his sons had they not given Saka with the animals they want have left but once they did Saka Hashem rewarded them that all mankind comes to them imagine how much there is to do with a B with with a human being where did Abraham learn the mid of from shame and through which Mida through which one of the what methodology did use to learn out if shame to the wild animals on the table imagine what would happen if I did to people that's where learned from also a very strange place to make a so we have a the end of this week's par we wanted to know why did invoke the of we wanted to know why does it say at the end of we wanted to know number four why is the quintal the the the end of this week's par number five why was the first K in history made by none other than the guz and the and the green singan right and we wanted to know why in mik the brothers giving um a p share by saying that come on don't suspect us of stealing we return your money how could you suspect us of stealing we want to why was giving the rebon that not going to listen to me how's going to listen to me why did who's the of the Paragon of why does he learn out and finally if you look inar kadan an amazing thing thear kadan says a story that RAR and and don't say they were sitting at a party and whose party was it the party of the son of RA and Ra was the waiter and he gave the co to Reb say no I can't take it you're the god you can't serve me RAB said you could serve me no problem soar said yesu what are you doing you can't have serve you he's a God say what's the problem we find greater people than him who served lesser people reab alzar what's the problem Rua says we have greater people that Ser lesser people and that is what does it say abouto serve the serve the the three was he during the when did he come over came over yeah when did he came over to Shan after I guess this is well after the ma because is descendant of Shane he was just asking you know how did you survive and and he told him the M but so how did he survive the M who shame no he wasn't born yet he wasn't born but when did he come after the M 10 Generations between and Abraham so a little bit a little while later after the generations got it started you make it sound like came them right then and there it was not not Mish the next day okay so ra is serving Ru andar doesn't want to accept and Ru says what's the problem the god serving me serve the guest AB you think he thought they were we know he appeared they appeared like Arabs so in other words yes making a served the Arabs could serve us said what kind of K is that have a much better K if God Almighty gives us breakfast lunch and supper then can we all feed us also but bottom line is who are we learning from from Hashem from Abraham but with Which principle are we making this could serve the Arabs then certainly could serve us if God could serve us so there seems to be a connection between that is derived from and this is something we're going to explore it's something which is and that is if you look in the the teaches us an astounding idea all it's really just an observation and that is the says that in the the number 13 is very significant number one we find right and then you have the 13 principles of Rish and the also makes note the r the ram also has 13 now the Mas doesn't necessarily say that the three 13s are connected but he just observes that the number 13 is significant comes the h mayor the great Mal not in his commentary on but in the and the Mal wants to know why at the end of this week's par was with the name kale kale says the that actually even though the sayem is number one is number two are not part of they're the source the the of the in other words it's really kale is the first and are the and the source of and which is batting off we said which is the lead off batter of K says corresponds to so what's the leadoff batter of that corresponds to kale now we understand in in number 14 and said forsook me and Hashem forgot me why do we say that Hashem Hashem forgot us because we said the two names of Hashem are the two heads of so in the when we're we say the two names ofm have forgotten us so says you think I forgot you can a woman for get her baby from having Mercy on the son of her wound even if I were to Forget You Even if a mother would forget her child says God I would never forget you CL says Hashem Hashem Hashem forgot we said what happened to you some what happened would a mother forget her baby of course not but even if that were to happen I would never forget you what's that called if a mother would never forget her baby I who have no forgetting and I can't forget and I don't succumb to any weakness certainly I would never forget you in other words you know what Hashem is saying the malum introduces the following aing principle that are intertwined with and that means kale which is the first that you corresponds to says you think you no longer could access your I'm going to make you a in other words of course not of course you have access to that's the connection between you want people think you know I learned what does that accomplish I'm learning about should say to I should I should do things that Gain No you want to gain you want you learn you want ra you learn you want b b we'll see what that means so says the Mal an amazing thing we'll say it the way the Mal says it but then we're going to say it later differently what is telling which type of Li what isem saying is making shame I to corresponds to comes look at number 15 and the says exactly what we just said in the Mal but he quotes the of M who says like this that gave therefore so when the brothers are in MIM and they're up the creek without a padle and they're being confronted and framed by the king of the world by Y and what do they need now so the only way to get is what they're being that in when you're in a g when you're in a tight spot in this world and you need you need kale kale is the most powerful of all the it's the most powerful the only way to get it is learn learn I learn I should sit all day and be you and learn comes the say for is written by not if you open up any you have on the side if you could just get me two batteries I need batteries for here um um if you open up any sh any the is on the side of every let's just figure out let's just break through um we're good we're good we're good now and so the on the wrote a super commentary on the called he also wrote on and he asked an unbelievable question laan runs after yaku on the seventh day he catches yaku and he says to number 16 listen carefully to this one second I had the ability to do bad to you but the god of your father yesterday he said to me careful what word did he use yes y now in this it's not the name of hem right means I have the ability the power like but you should know that's a very strange word it's like why would L use the word he say yes have the ability why is he saying yes it's not's name but why would he use that word it's a word that we don't find anywhere in only in in if you look in the Sid of the on the words right that we said who said right the master of the world when did he say it when the made a the says on the words the what's the 25 25 what's 10 32 32 what's 25 + 32 57 57 the which is 57 is kale kale is 31 26 says on The Words which is it has the same as the question is what's the significance of the fact that has of the the then goes on to quote exactly what we said from the that when responded and that is and he's going to say it the way I always said it not that when heard make he realized he just the opposite wants to be to the strongest name of RA which is kaleem says you want K you got to learn says the holy and if you made it today you're going to be God has different names kale why does God need so many names Hashem should just say this is my name and just don't call me late for supper that's it why does hasem need so many names there are different features of how we relate to Hashem there's elim what's elim God is in charge he's the he says we're okay he says we're okay we're he says don't steal I don't steal he says don't um don't speak I don't speak lash that's it why am I listening to hasem because I can't violate what he says relating to Hashem as elim does that honor Hashem it's not really an honor it's just we're afraid of him so we we listen to him it's not really aim you know what's aov it's a coved if we say to ourselves if Hashem said he hasem doesn't if Hashem doesn't want us to do a doesn't want us to do B how does that show covered because then it's not just that we're afraid of him but we really genuinely want to do what he wants the fact the proof is we're figuring out what hasem wants when we make a to to try to figure out God's will that is that is the greatest katasha that's kale God as kale is a way that we show him honor how do we show God honor when we make a interestingly what did the officer of the world say when the grass made a kavak because the officer of the world said they one hasem said Heaven and Earth there's Heaven and Earth that doesn't show Hashem honor what are the options Hashem is the king of course there has to be Heaven and Earth and they too hasem said Let There Be Water hasem said um let there be a firmament it doesn't show honor to hasem that the creation listened to him but on day three when the um excuse me on day four when the when the grass no excuse on day three when the grass made a andem told the trees to be and the grass made a the grass could have said hey you told him to beam you didn't tell me to beum when the grass made of and said if God wants the trees to be separate he wants me to be separate you know what that demonstrates honorem and the officer the world said that shows that shows because the grass used which mid which name of corresponds to so when we say who said the officer of the world why because the grass made of he they demonstrated says what's the number 57 do you know what else is 57 Z food because God giving us food is the greatest on us is the greatest which name of hasem is associated with this that's why the of isale is the most intense that is why on Tuesday it says twice you know why that is why Z is 57 is what 57 L 57 57 is God's most intense mid of and how do we relate to that mid of said we honor God by doing not only what he tells us but figuring out what he wants he was the first person to do that that the grass that's why the grass is called 57 K that's why of all the names of you never find it's you ready for this wow your grandparents probably DAV so you should be to hear this listen to this every also is the this is I'm in the if you want to follow it inside on the a number 16 on page three on the the end of the second paragraph he makes this point about in the third paragraph he says like this every also and every what is God as kale how do we relate to hm as kale we say God we don't only do what you want we figure out what you probably want through a but there's also kale for example there's La Kim God's name is it okay if anybody wants to go they're welcome to go I need 15 minutes and then I'll well that okay so everyone's free but no nobody well I have the camera it's okay everybody could go but if you want to hear is m is beautiful there's La Kim that's God's name and that's when I says yes we do yes when he says no no but there's also what's when we say God said this I don't care I'm hungry God said don't eat pork I don't care I'm hungry that's then there's kale kale is when we do what we figure out what Hashem wants like the grass but there's also kale La for example Hashem comes to and he says watch out don't say anything bad to so Lovin in his corrupt mind is thinking H Hashem said don't say any bad words to yov I won't say a word Lan says to himself takes out his gun and he tells yob I won't say a word but what do you mean if God said don't say a bad word you can't can't kill him I'm k i don't buy into kale I don't make no that's so says I have the bad K I could do bad to you you know why because M God only told me not to do bad but I'm I go into the different God called him that's the secret of by the way the um writes about the correspondance between and we have it on our sheep one two three four places brings it he quotes in number 18 He quotes from and by the way if you're listening to the share and say you know what I think I heard this before I'm going to say that I never said before M over the moon over the moon over the gr over the the Gren everything everything listen to this and fruit is that I know okay says that also from said you want you want that's the way I I like to say it slightly different than the Mal he says in number 19 also m it's out of order don't we say first and then so why in the says anyone who learns buries his children and makes says it says and it says it says exactly what is the meaning over here what does this mean to teach you why would person needs um such a terrible punishment to have m number says says such beautiful words about 12 lines down in number 19 this is our way the whole day it is not a coincidence that one should be learned from and one from it is all with wondrous wisdom in other words sometimes we need to gain and Gaz would be which mid ra and says the the the when we learn when we learn we gain what ra if you want to protect yourself to keep your children and sustain your children then you learn gains how about the the is necessary to have children so for example when as meets yobu yob says as says who are these right soob says the children to have children you need to preserve your children you need ra by the way why why to have children it's why you know you have a kid he's 1 and A2 years old he's going and everyone nobody knows what what he's talking about but the father and the mother they're smiling they know exactly what he means why the kid has charm in the in the parents eyes the kid finds in the parents eyes what do you need to have children to be a father corresponds to what Bion Bion is being a father the reason why we say first you need to have the children then you need to preserve them unbelievable so I'll tell you one last thing that um quotes in numerous places from his was in 1831 says about him there was nobody who was so delved into CA like in fact he was known as the b a play on words like you know the officer of the Z but interesting what I find interesting is the Mal was known to have learned from so I believe that what we see in the Mal and what we see in the what we see in the it's stemming from the same from and let's look at the final one of the 13 how what is you know the final batter the last batter of that it's introduced with a very unusual word what is that word what do you mean or some say and here so we already learned the rule that correspond to what is the 13th of the number 13 according to the m is he cleanses but he doesn't cleanse so it's a does cleanse or does not cleanse so says it depends if you do CH if you do Chu cleanses if you don't do CH he doesn't cleanse by the way in you know when you do you say the other what was created that's the 13th of the of that corresponding to in other words listen carefully what's it is a case of and you need the third in to say you need if you do if you don't do so when it comes to kale is not a so it's called K all right so excuse me so is not K right excuse me K is not a it just corresponds to ra is not corresponds is not corresponds but it's doesn't just correspond to it is that's why it says and here and here in many places but kale is theid of kale is theid of that is why if you want to learn who's the Paragon of who's the greatest abah how does learn the he makes he says the whole the whole the T they got out because they animals inly where do we learn out with methodology so I see that's brought down the number 23 and he also brings down that according to the in the Rin Gamel was the Nish of Shame so amazingly it comes full circle made a from shame and ra who shame made a from cuz when they were when they were serving him when they were serving him in at his son's party the elazar was incredulous that they were allowed to take the of RA to which they responded what's the problem what do you mean if could serve the gas he Shame Shame okay I want to share with you we're almost there we're almost there we know there's a rule that we don't distribute punishment with a it's called in other words we don't say if this guy who did a small crime gets Mis or malus certainly someone who did a worse should get a few good should get um malus what's the reason what's the rale of what's the concept behind that interesting in the veld was one of the in the times of he says if you look in the SA ofel who offers many Logics why we don't um punish some with but I'll you know why you can't punish some with since corresponds you can't distribute punishment and with is really what activates and R say We'll close we'll close with this oh actually I have one and I'll tell you a story says angel in the again he quotes exactly what we said in the name of now I didn't see this anywhere but it's pretty clear after this why we begin daving every day with because when we're daving we're trying to gain and we're trying to get gain and there's no better way to do that than from understanding to by the way there is another medish in Number 27 thear where came toam and he told them I can't believe what you guys did if someone who speaks lanara about a stranger it's Mak on your brother how could you talk about your brother says that Hashem is trying to beam them immediately that you need tremendous here you can't just try to gain you need to go to the top you need to gain kale that's why wasam in at the onset of speaking to AR andam that he makes the that if your brother that if you talk about your stranger you would you would be punished certainly about your own flesh and blood one last thing the points out after trying to explain why this is the reason why we say like this how do we know that God is going to fulfill his promise to so the makes it says the that if listen to and he blessed and he made numerous it seems like in order for us to know that hasem is going to fulfill his promise to who do we make a from and says theel it could be because since and we need to soften it with or even more maybe in the end of days when is not on such a high level and we're we're yearning for how do we know we'll be able to gain it we have to we have to sort of ourselves in that is the best way to gain I'm going to end off with M um an amazing story and I didn't say it the first time I gave this she but it's something which is Earth shattering there's a saer m from one of the in Europe who later survived the war and came to Chicago and he writes really astounding stories of m nees about ands and the like at the end of the war they had nothing to eat they were at near death and he writes there was one thing that was M there's one thing that strengthened him it was maybe the springtime and he saw the grass started to sprad the gr and they went and they took the grass and they ate the grass and that's that gave him the that the is going to have on them they're going to survive and he say you know why the grass because he remembered that who is the first to make a the grass the grass said that if the trees which naturally grow separate have to be L certainly the grass the grass represent what and what did the say when the grass grew and says which are the two grass represents and represents the mid of the strongest of and he felt that the grass was a message from sh that was going to shower them with because of what we learned today and this was what gave him and allowed him to be himself until showed the survivors and liberated them that when they saw the grass they saw the know whenever you open up a gamar and you learn a suya and sometimes you know it's not relevant to me this is this this is how we gain for ourselves for our families may we be to gain always you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com