Parshas Pinchas and Shiva Asar B'Tamuz - The Reoccurring Tragedy of the False Mashiach

Okay, I'm going to try something tonight. It's a little bit out there. It occurred to me and I said it shabas to my friend so's house. He has a house in the old city. It's overlooking the azara. The house overlooks a makdash. The last person in parala, how many Jews died in the Ma because of the sin of Zimry and Kazby? 24,000. You know, we've seen that number before. Is that the only time you've ever seen the number 24,000? That, >> right? The number 24,000 should ring a bell. So immediately you say, "Yeah, the students of Rebeeka, there are 24,000 students of Rebaka." What? There's some connection between 24,000 Jews who died in Midbar and the 24,000 students of Rebaka. Yeah. The rami pano in sepher goule namis says in fact the 24,000 students of raka were gulim of these 24,000 Jews who died in the maga and raviaka was none other than kazby basur raika was excuse me by um was none other than zimri benalo raika was none other than zimri benalo he's his other name is benurish What in the world is the connection between Zimri Ben Salu and Rabbi Aaka? The 24,000 people who died in Ma and the 24,000 students of Rabbi Aaka. So this is what occurred to me. Another interesting thing is that we read these parachuts around the time of Shabbas. There's a kdush that we had on Shabbas that we've been using it for many many years. I'm uh I'm very proud of this kadesherman writes in that there are two tragedies that befall the Jewish people in every generation. Number one, the uh blood liel. In every generation, we suffer from the blood liel. Even in our generation, right, they accuse Israel of genocide. It's a blood, it's a modern day blood liel. And every single generation were accused of the blood label. And that is a result of the sin of the sale of y, right? We created the first blood liel. We we dipped's tunic in blood. We asked we made a blood liel. Also mid mid in every generation were punished with this otherwise Rabbi Kanan said how could it be? We know that falsehood cannot exist unless there's a kernel of truth. So how could they pass off this liel in every generation when it doesn't have an iota of truth to it? The furthest thing the Jewish people are are from blood. If we open an egg and there's a drop of blood in it, even though there's not really a problem with it, you know, you throw out the whole the whole cake that you throw in the garbage, it becomes an international disaster. If one of the eggs has a blood spot in it. So, how do they accuse us of the blood label says it's mida? We brought it on oursel. But there's another tragedy that occurs in every generation and that is false messiah. In every single generation there's been a false messiah and that is a result of we brought it upon oursel. We claimed this cow is our savior, redeemer, leader. We're we're punished in every generation with a false messiah. So the question we had was the false messiah is such a great tragedy. We should have a fast day to mourn the the disaster of the false messiah. So we say we do today what happened on Shiva happened on Shiva. So Shivasamos is the the day that we commemorate we mourn the tragedy of the false Messiah. So I'm very happy about this kadesh because you know the in history one of the greatest one of the few who would fight the false mashiach and one of the first to fight was his name was Rabyakov Sasportas he's buried in Amsterdam and every Shabbas I get a call from my friend Rabbi Jonathan Seagull at the end of the day in Amsterdam it's probably it's a very long as long as it is here it's over like near It's a long fast. Shabas is over there really late on it. Every year he goes to pray at the kevak of sasportas on sharamos because of this because of fought the so he messaged me today that he's having me in mind. Anyway, I think it's very telling that the parachut that we read around is let me tell you something that says writes in his that the stories of the are not as they appear. Especially those stories that are mentioned in the Tyra are not to be understood as they appear simply don't and what's an example don't think the second of the in the greatest generation that we were led by just was loose in matters of no if you think that this is I'm not going to translate that the two things that he compares yeah No, it's it's uhis if you think that obviously there's more to it. So really so what's more to it? What what does he mean? What does mean the garra says in Russia zim lived with kusby 424 acts that's a Whoa. First of all, why are Kazal counting this? This this is part of the garra. The garra tells us. So the Imra Pina the Imra Yo of Spina the original spina reba he has a great revelation here. We know that throughout history there was a tradition that from Moyov there was a dove there was a there was a pray to that from her would come Messiah. They they had a tradition Mashiach would come from Mayav which is ultimately Ni had to convince Bayaz that this woman was the dove from which he would bring the Messiah. So this was an age-old tradition. So Zimri in his and in his kadusha and in his chuka to bring the world to the he knew about this tradition. He knew there was some woman somewhere who has in her sparks of kadusha from which Messiah would come. Now who is Kazby? She's a daughter of Ts. Who's Ts? Balak. Balak. Balak is Melik Moyov. You could say so if he's Melik Moyov, where do you think this dove is hanging out? If anything we need to get by the way the she is brings to from the katkar that we have to we had to take royalty from mayy because there's no royalty inherent in the Jewish people. Royalty is antithetical to Judaism because that one person should be higher or greater than the other. The concept doesn't exist in in Judaism. So he had to borrow it from Moy. The kip of Moy is ga. So who do you where do you think royalty would lay? the daughter of the king. So, Zimri thought that this tradition that in Moyov somewhere lays dormant the seeds of Messiah Benavid, he figured she's the girl. His intention in living with her was to bring Messiah right away says Im of Spina. That's why the secret of the garra that he lived with her 424 times. 424 Gamatria Messiah Ben David. So he was trying to he was trying to uh expedite the redemption. He was trying to expedite the redemption but he miscalculated. She wasn't the He didn't have he didn't have official word you know he did his was not clear. He did not have um it was not signed off. You know, heaven did not sign off on this. So, this was a premature attempt to bring the Akran. And how many people died because of that? 24,000 people. They tried to bring the Msiah early, prematurely, in the improper fashion. So, here we go. It's deja vu all over again. This is a all over again. You think it's a coincidence? We read this by Shivas Batamas. That's the tragedy of Shivas Batamasal. The the premature attempt to expedite the redemption. And this repeated itself again. I'm afraid to say this. Rabaka thought that Bar was Mashia. That we know that's that's a fact. We find that ini we find that in Midrashim. In fact, a Tana by the name of Yan Benasa told Rabi Aka like you know cool off a little bit. Grass will grow in your tongue before this guy's Messiah. But Raba thought he was Msiah. Now Rush Shapiro we said over over the years that if Rab Yaka thought he was the Messiah then it must be he could have been. He Raba would never make a mistake. How could Rabika make a mistake? Raika knew the Shaun in a way that Mosha didn't know. So if he thought he was, then he could have been and he would have been maybe had his students not um been lacking in their interpersonal conduct, he could have been. He would have been. But I'm not saying this. I'm going to tell you what Barnell writes. Barnell says in the safe Yeshua, you know wrote a trilogy about the coming of Messiah in Berdaled. He says that grass will grow in your pallet. What does it mean? What did it mean? that grass will grow in your pallet, that you will be put in the earth and be buried and grass will be coming out of your grave through your body before Mashiach Medav comes says that Barbanel Rabo was not correct in thinking he was Msiah. He says kasha harug I'm afraid to read it even butel says who knows if not for this reason raka's was punishment with a more harsh punishment than any of the 10 martyrs why it's miscalculated maybe it was it was according to his great level and it was according to his godless. But the upshot is it was not correct. It seems pretty eerie then that the according to the imm of spina the ara of zim was in a in a certain way strikingly parallel to what happened with rabi ka and his 24,000 students who according toel they were punished for sure rabbi yaka barbell says because of his mis miscalculation in uh thinking this was the messianic time. So we read the week of Shabbas about the Mif of the 24,000 Ben Shim which according to Imra was their attempt to try to expedite the Messiah. It repeated itself in the times of rabbi according to and it's it's very timely that we read about this and learn about this in the time of because all the tragedies that happened whether it was it all started with the which according to theel was the origin of prematurely attributing messianic power to someone before we get the official signal. Rabb Schwab writes, "That's why we say every day in Davin, we have five halleluas. Each of the five halucas correspond to another epic in Jewish history. The first halleluah is before the coming of Messiah, before the time of the coming of Messiah. The second halaluca is as Messiah is coming. The third halaluca is the arrival of Messiah. The fourth. The fifth. What do we say in the first halleluah? In the time before the coming of Msiah. Never put your trust in any human being. Never start getting caught up. He's the Messiah. and any human being that cannot save you. Why? They're going to die. They're going to go into the earth on that day. It's all lost. What should you do? You can only trust in God. who the players will be. It's irrelevant. Doesn't matter. Don't get caught up in it. It's dangerous. It's so dangerous. We suffer from it in every generation. That's one of the main reasons we fasted today. And we should therefore be to see the revelation of the Messiah. Amen.