Pinchas: Can You Escape Your Yichus?

Hi, it's Donovski uh with our para in five where in five minutes we try to give you an insight into the para and this week is paras in general we only do father and son right we only go back one generation when it's more than one generation we have to ask why like in paras Korak where it traces him all the way back to Ley. So you have to ask why, but normally it's just father to son. And so of course the Rashi is bothered in this week's para where it says why did it go back to the grandfather? And the answer is says Rashi because people said Eliza married a girl from the daughters of Yro the Benet Putiel. Now there's two short in that but one of them was Yro which means that Yro who was a non-Jew and had served a bodhis he was an idol worshipper had all of these terrible tendencies in him and when he became a Jew those tendencies still existed inside of him and so they said how could Allah son who came from Benet Putiel Pinas take a spear and stick it through two two of them. One of them who was a nussi who according to one view in the Gmorra was actually Shaw Benakanis. He was 250 years old. How could you do something that cruel? It must be because of the non-Jewish influence that he got from his other grandfather Israel. And so we trace it back to his grandfather Aon. We don't say we go from uh just to Allah because then you can make this point. No, it's not. Just as an loved peace, loved people, so too was penas. What he did, he didn't do as an act of cruelty. He did it because uh he was trying to save. A plague was killing everybody and he was trying to save him. So it looks to the untrained eye as something cruel, but it was actually something nice. There's actually something positive as the okay but at the end of the day he's still descended from Israel. So okay you decided to go in a different direction but that doesn't help us. is still descendant from Israel and that influence is there and the says you're right it is still there but the power of aon was so overwhelming it canceled it out which means a very important thing yeah can affect us where we come from is always a a something that becomes real to us. It becomes a part of us. uh there was a young man who wanted to get into one of her mach Shapiro Shir which was only for married people but he couldn't go to any other shir and so he says I'm sorry you know you're single it's not for you he goes but I have a special sigula to become a so says yeah what's that he says it says lomate somebody who becomes embarrassed can't learn but it says in babasra one of the three traits of the Jewish people are that they're bishonim they get embarrassed so they're always at a disadvantage when they learn Torah but my father wasn't Jewish when I was born so I'm not such a bish so I'll learn more Torah so Misha looked at him and said in English you're okay kid but the idea is yeah you could pretend that where we come from has no effect on us. But you know, you're being silly. And here I'm talking about, but everything wherever you come from, it's going to affect you and it's going to it it goes into your makeup and that makeup you're passing on to your children. We spoke uh you know on parasidba about how ruain shevet ruain was affected by something that ruain did so it hundreds of years later it was still affecting them the midas that you pick up yeah the kamar says this guy always used to say let's go to court let's go to court he says he must be from shva dun which is judgment Yeah, this guy said he only wanted to live by the sea. He wanted to have a house by the sea. He says he must come from Zulan cuz Vulan was told they're going to be by the seaside. So yeah, traits that we have are carried down to us. And so uh we have to be conscious of that and know who we are and where we come from. Sometimes we need to work hard to overcome it. Where we come from and who we are very much affects who we are. And when people poo poo yeas, they're making a mistake. Where I came from and how I grew up and what I received is something that I either can use to my advantage or it's a challenge I need to overcome. Hashem, all of us will give all of our children only the most positive things. Chabas.