Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The Mystery of Moshes Leprous Hand

[Music] welcome once again to the urban a big brush and we are dealing with the Clea car the explanation the Clea car gives on the partial Teixeira pass classes will have links in the description box below ok so I encourage you not only that you know what else I encourage you to do to like this video and to share with your friends and also subscribe and once you subscribe hit the bell because then you get the notices when the new videos come out not just mine but other given that classes ok without any further ado we are going to be in in numbers chapter 17 verse 5 we're dealing with the very interesting concept here without getting to all the details of Korah and his congregation and his Assembly who come against Moshe ok and maybe we have to give some background ok we have to give some background Moses and Aaron come from Amram and Imran was the firstborn okay from LaVey right from now eeeh tar was the second point and karak is the child of guitar and he figured if if iron and Moses have the authority is all coming from the firstborn I who the second one actually be second place but will really set him off was because the fourth Warren meaning his uncle the fourth eldest brother the youngest brother was in charge of lady so the whole thing was just a little bit weird for him and in all honesty many psychologists have gone at length to discuss this many rabbis I should say as well as psychologists what causes someone to create such an argument is that power is it hunger for power to control others so without going into all that you have to understand that it was much deeper than just power and let's start interesting Rashi just to start off let's say number 17 five so what's actually happening there is a altar outside of the Holy of Holies is in the courtyard and it's called the copper altar why is it called the copper altar because there's copper plating but weird that copper plating come from so the pans that were used in this argument God told them to take these pans and to send them out and use them as a plating for this altar and it should serve as a reminder this is in verse 5 but if you could I think it's verse 3 earlier on and also mentions is gonna be a sign right here verse 5 it says is a reminder for the children of Israel snicker um Tiffany Israel so that no outsider the Monticello you crave each Tsar so the no outsiders not at the seat of iron will approach to burn incense before the Lord low issues are low you Caray these are actually means era are oh no my Hawk tier Qatar isn't an airship before the Lord so as not to be like carcass company Volodya khakkhara hookah at oh those words are important I share deeper Hashem be odd Moshe low these words are very difficult to translate and to understand as God to spoke as God spoke be awed Moshe means through Moshe but the word beyond is a very unusual word to say through and it could have used another word but it used be odd Moshe which means to put the hand of Moses low to him now who's him about him about our own that's the first shot Rashi says no it's talked about Cara not to be like Cara which Hashem spoke through Moses about Cora so let's look at that Rashi because without seeing this Raj's gonna be fundamental and what we're gonna discuss you would be missing a lot so the first part of Rashi so as not to be like Cara that's what the literal explanation is but really it means kadesha logic Media khakkhara in order that you don't end up like Cara and either as to remind you not to get involved in arguments or there's somehow an approach here that we're talking about the burning of the off burning of the incense if you're not account if you're acting like a Cohen and you're not really a Cohen okay Cohen they coning the priests have their place and where's our job we should be jealous we shouldn't be involved but really I think if the second Rashi is going to share shed more light as the Lord spoke regarding him through the hand of Moses remember those last year words shared D bear Hashem be Yad Moshe low so the word low lammott love literally means to him it could mean about him here okay so it really means about him and according to the first explanation it's about our own meaning God spoke to Moses that he and his sons meaning Aaron and his son should be Connie therefore as we see in the verse no outsider who's not at the seat of our own should draw near so he mentions anytime you have the word lead lower lehem in connection and in conjunction its nakute in proximity to the word deep war which has to a speech it would always mean regarding speech regarding so that's consistent it would be speech regarding era however its midrashic interpretation the word low is referring to Co rock so go back into the verse as the Lord spoke regarding him through the hand and Moses saw somehow another the approach to burn incense offering before the Lord is referring to chorus so it's not to be like arc and this company is the Lord spoke regarding karak through the hand of Moses so this is like we're gonna open up a can and not of worms but of marshmallows we're gonna have such a delicious dessert eating this Torah it's gonna be unbelievable so as Rashi says so what is the meaning by the hand of Moses why does it use yard why not simply el Moshe to Moses it alludes to those who rebel against the kahuna meaning who are arguing over the position of authority of the priesthood they are stricken with sorrows they are stricken with this we're going to you know it's not leprosy okay it's a spiritual disease and it affects the skin or we're seen on the skin but not only you can affect a house a walk and affect the clothes so it's definitely not leprosy okay it's it's or us and Moses took it out what does that mean if you go to Exodus chapter 4 verse 6 which I do have somewhere here on this on the sheets but if you look through this is at that burning bush the snap what happens there so this God Moses is elected selected chosen by God to be the schlaf to be the Redeemer to be the messenger to redeem the Jewish people and Moses says certain words which are this is going to be the topic of this tonight's discussion he says they won't believe me they're going to say God never appeared to you let's look it up so you only Chara Healy quotes the one part good extras for six when God says okay I'll show you a sign right see that stick you have in your hand throw it down to the ground turns into a snake okay and then he tells him now grab it and turns back into the staff now put your hands into your shirt by your foot sub right and it's gonna I'll take it out and turn into a leprous snow like affliction on this hand now put it back and then it comes out and it's cleanest and it's it's not soiled it's not sick and the oldest Hamlet's leopards like snow now we're also gonna deal with this Lucia you're gonna find this in in Chronicles it's very near the end but Lucia was stricken with churros okay what do do do you do okay Lucia you look it up we'll get to the hemily show you where it is on the sushi you could find on number 11 in the source sheet its second chronicles 26 verse 16 when he became strong his heart became haughty until he became corrupt this is about King buzios from the seat of Yehuda and he was so arrogant see his heart became corrupt odd wash beats and until he became destructive and he transgressed against the Lord his God he came to the temple the Lord to burn incense on the altar so by presenting himself as a KO'ing doing a job that's restricted to only the coning the if you read through the verses he got leprosy on the spar head okay he was stricken with leprosy so back in this Rashi always saw his leprosy has to do something to do with karak and at the same time has something to do with trying to be a Cohen when you're not a Cohen with that introduction we're gonna now go to the Clea car parish Rashi shallow yielded batarus as we saw Rossi's definition here or explanation is in order why should you not be like Korah and his his assembly in order that you should not be stricken with this thing called cerasus leprosy so the word we saw Rashi brought down the word lo is shove alcoholic a lacuna the lo is somehow not just responding it's reflective of the one who's arguing on the Kahuna which according to the second shot in Rashi is Cora the con had been show L now here anybody who is intelligent anyone who's thinking should ask this following question and what's the question that Miriam is a much better example all we saw for a strict I don't know how long a few seconds Moses pulls his hand out and it's got leprosy and he puts his hand back in and it's and it's now healed what about Miriam isn't she a better example of arguing about this idea of priesthood or leadership so let's Reba Hebrew Miami and sriracha moshe la jolla lake alcoho what exactly is the connection what real it's the relationship of the Saros on Moses his hand towards anybody who is gonna get who who's arguing about the priesthood the yoader kinda hone it actually occur into the clear car would have been more proper being I am a dealer ayah surah taha Miriam if brah she would have where the Gomorrah would have huzzah would have brought hey Miriam who does she do she talked lush and Jara about her brother and she got her ass new isn't that a much better example according to the Clea car show hi MA a mock latke toshack hora it's so close it's so similar it's much closer in it resembles the argument the Cara had team o'clock now shall Cahoon an in shock me master colic on the Vitosha Moshe because in fact if you really think about the argument that Cara had it was really did mote was Moses really the chosen was he getting the vet direct the divine instructions from God or was Moses making up things as he went along as Clark actually claimed by the sixes and by the mezuzah and that you'll find in the first Shearer I gave on par shot carafe and basically what was car exclaimed low Shalaka Hashem the Hashem didn't senton but that was car exclaimed that wasn't army strong plane we'll see later boom easy him in hi Raja Miriam this certainly is the same type it seems to be the same type as Shiraz that Miriam got that were claiming here that Cora had why look was Miriam's claim if you look in numbers chapter twelve verse to her rock aqua motion diversion what it was only this is Miriam speaking she speaking to her brother right what it was only Moses the spoke to God hello gone pondered the bear didn't we didn't we also speak to God hadn't he spoken to us as well so look at Rashi right has only right him alone right what his only moshe that doesn't have marital relations right because he's that he's stayed away from his wife Zipporah that was the lush and har that was being discussed between Miriam and her brother Aaron this idea what we have not abstained from marital relations not only that but when it says we also heard Hashem we're talking about if you look at the next Rashi I'm sorry to do this but on number nine and number sixteen three [Applause] the second part of that Rashi why do you raise yourself above if you've taken kingship of yourself you should not have chosen Kahuna for your brother this is this is car ox claim right not only you heard it Sinai I am the Lord your God and you shall have no other but we all heard it so going back we saw Miriam's complaint isn't that similar to Cara's complaint when he says in chapter 16 verse 3 he kool-aid the coulomb kid Oshin or isn't the whole nation holy and really Rashi was over there right low attempt divided attention Martin bar scene I know Hillary huh it wasn't just you he wasn't right it wasn't only you Moses we all heard the ten commandments we all heard the Sr and he brought the 10 statements remission okay so what about the Taurus on the hand of Moses what in the world is the relationship between the Taurus on the hand of Moses connected the room with the argument of Clark so basically what the cured clear card did he set up a straw man if you wanted to show you look the truth is if you really look at the mock locusts between you know well the argument that Miriam and her brother were having about Moses it's much more similar nature to the argument that the Clark was having against Moses very similar however that's not what the Rashi says and that's not what the Dora says and I thought that what the measure says that's not what cuz I'll talk about they talking about Moses and so the bottom line is we need to discuss it and we are going to be happily surprised because these are amazing pieces of Torah so the clear car begins this introduction about what he's about to give us the answer of a yachtie son 9fo right now right now raise up your eyes and see ki Kenan in the car even yawning I'm going to bring close together these ideas the you are hardened be a deaf huh and they will be one idea and the yogaha diamond the diamond the afflictions are very similar there's no question when we sham tika ryeom we talk about the affliction on the hand of Moses and the affliction of karak really I'm gonna tell you something that like this that Cara should have gotten surahs' he should have been afflicted with for us why we shall take a grinder II of the type we're going to show you a great proof that anybody's her like on the Auto Show Moshe is locked in bits or ass anybody that comes and argues and contradicts and denies the prophecy of Moses will be afflicted with a type of terrassa and we learned in the gourd this is gomorrah Shabbos dhadak dhadak Zion Amidala this is a very important concept in Judaism and in life how high shape the Sharia anyone who has suspicions we're talking about bad thoughts thinking the person's a criminal thinking the person's a sinner it's you think bad thoughts like that you're suspicious about someone who is kosher meaning he's fit not that he keeps kosher of course he keeps cushion but he is kosher meaning he's fit that's what kosher means by the way it's fit to eat if your consumer suspicious about someone who's kosher look at the GU fo the Gomorrah says that person will be afflicted in his body Midna on the gomorrah wants to know from where do we know this lesson from and it goes on to describe we learned it from moshe from this very story how do we know three shores had in according to the strictest letter of the law in other words the way God created the universe called Karma I mean whatever you want to call the different mechanisms that God uses of course we'd like to use me to connect and meet and measure for measure okay but according to the strictest leather letter of the law should really law so Stella clay said it's actually proper to happen to the person who is suspecting of others cashiers imam la SOTA have actually what should happen to him exactly as he was scheming about should happen to his brothers as we know about eight in the ZOA mean these are I don't know how to translate in English is there an English translation they're not false witnesses they're worse than that because you can have false witnesses don't end up in this fashion this case of aliens don't mean let's say you had two witnesses that came to the court said we saw this guy murder somebody okay it could be any crime they saw someone murder somebody so they made their claim and then two witnesses two other witnesses come and claim that's impossible for those first two witnesses to have witnessed what they claimed they did because they were actually with us in a different City and a different at that time so what's gonna happen the punishment that would happen to this first set of witnesses who will call claim falsely but they're Adams own of him their punishment is actually going to be what they had desired and wanted that first guy to get so since the first guy would have gotten killed for murder even though he didn't murder anybody but had it been true he would have been killed so those two witnesses in other words the the sentence for false witnessing is not death but in this case it is in this case they're gonna get what they wanted the guide to receive so when we think bad thoughts about people God knows what we're thinking ah it's a good good reason to really think about what you're thinking about and to control your mind because if you could as we're going to discuss judge favorably guess what it's gonna actually come back to haunt you in a good way because God will judge you favorably but if you judge other people favorably unfavorably there's a consequence to that let's just go back to where we stopped in Cana cliched Nilka biota Makkah after everything we just said that the one who has suspicions he will be afflicted with the same hit the same affliction that he that would have been fit shahi so Roy Lago Ellen Nick shot that would have been fit to come upon the person that he had the suspicions about my Yahud lover i met if that would have been true Moshiach I said sul did you know this when we just read the verses buoys again that would be in Exodus chapter 4 verse 1 Moses suspected the Jewish people the build team are meaning the Novato that they wouldn't believe his own status and of prophecy as it says the halo yangmi newly they will not believe me he tells God kyoro what will they say he claims to God but they're gonna say low near a laugh a sham right they're gonna say about Moses that God never appeared to you I know mama dear a Clorox Amla this is really literally what Cox claimed was low near a a laugh a sham God never appeared to you you made it up the atop boat called me leave the car in always an invention from your own your own heart as I mentioned already the whole idea of the mezuzah what if you have us a room full of Cypriot aura right it's what is the reason for Missoula to remind you back on so if you have a room full of holy books what you don't need a mezuzah because you have a reminder of every square inch-- where you have a garment that's full of this color to Kahless it's not really blue but whatever the tailless color is a bluish green that if you have a garment that actually is that Kyle you wouldn't require you wouldn't seem to need ceases because his whole claim we're all holy and if the whole room is holier the whole garment is holy but they were assuming that Moses was making this up because it goes against this idea for all holy what do we need these special signs for so if that was all true that will be said so far that the claim of karak was well let's say the Jewish people so far we only know that was Cara's claim but if the Jewish people made that claim then for sure he would have responded by saying I am Sheila Hani kilo merely B knows God has sent me and I didn't make any of this up he didn't do that because that was not the Jewish people never made this claim even though Moses claimed they would and that's where the problem comes in ha ha Schad Moshe s Israel Moses suspected the Jewish people shocks he should've Watteau that it was the Jewish people that were going to contradict his prophecy his ability to be the Prophet and say low near a lacquer sham that God did not appear to you and we will Cabo there and from your own heart you invented these laws could they lineage or also Carlino in order to be the leader to be to place your own authority over us we need the unrolling shamil commotion with Serrat now from the very fact at the at the at the burning bush we do see the Moses in hand right Moses was afflicted with sore us our Ishod Namba ma shame to him he actually suspected the Jewish people of something that wasn't true Sh'ma me now so what do we hear from this what is it infer Sheila hired a brunette that if it would have been true how you use around the cocky shame the what that if it would have been true that Israel would have denied his ability to be the top dog prophet I thought you surround Loki but rather than Israel friendly would have been and his robe was not afflicted with sirasa the fish are dumped in Marsh amen because right had they he says he would have suspected that was something that was not true Manila who biota sorry today the new coat that mawkish I see Roy lavalla ham so then he would have no clue but ultimately he would have been afflicted with the same marker that would have been fitting to come upon them now if that's not the case no you and me the connect Minh that's the whole point here that the reason it works is because a measure for measure it's always going to work that way anyone should be quaking in their boots when they understand how just Hashem is I say just I don't mean that God a vengeance but a God of love God wants us to do truly so much he wants us to return in that ultimate relationship that he sends us through prophetic signs measure for measure exactly what we're doing wrong and the person should be prima should be praying to a Shem please allow me to see the signs I see that I'm being afflicted I'm seeing that there's things going on in my life I should be conscious of and I see that it's a sign I want to understand the sign so I can correct my behavior God is sending them as signs for us to correct our behavior that's what it means when we say the word punishment or measure for measure it's all coming from an ultimately Hasidic place but darkly of Kesha's Imam are so passive but that's the result nevertheless whatever one person had in mind in a nun in a very judgmental way not a positive way so just like he thought in his mind it's fitting actually come back on we can ray Brewer here we have clear-cut proof sure holic ahkahuna it's someone argue someone disputes the the idea of there's a priesthood lore kibbutz or us he would get afflicted with trois Pecola holic ahkahuna and and ready anybody who argues on this whole idea of Kahuna so he's highlight gonna go to show Moshe he's actually arguing on Moses because Moses chose him not because not because he himself invented it because God told him the over in linear a lava sham bleating Laura Shushi thinker who know the island after this is what they were saying not the Jewish people Korah and his group that God never appeared to you to give you permission to place the code the carnem for specific varieties maybe should have been someone else like Clara and they suspected Moshe the hoisters emotionally bro nos no our Keith they would their claim was nepotism that was Moses himself that made this unilateral decision would that God had nothing to do with it now why teroz we're gonna ask now and why the hand of Moses well one of the other questions by now one should ask is well I didn't see sera I didn't see the karak and his congregation gets stricken with sera so where we going it sounds like you're pulling a fast one on me here is you know wait till you hear why they were not stricken with churros after going through this whole piece so why teroz specifically handle the fishermen Sina we find the Tarasque comes its Bourgas asaru a violation Hara it's going to come upon anyone who is extremely Hardy or speaks Russian hora and we find this as I mentioned that first Rajah we saw Lucia the king of Yehuda nits Tara he got to us as we see it to go to second chronicles 26 16 Diwali bow right he he became so haughty odd mihashi eat until became destructive friend but if you I want you to read the verses there and you'll see that the carny told him don't do it don't go in there you're not you're not allowed to do this and he went anyway even though he was only from you who they're not from and he went ahead and burned incense on this off on this altar and as a result he got leprosy shallow Yishai okay there's another verse in Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 5 and it mentions gather y'all here low again mother now this verse means he is an arrogant man he doesn't stay at home what is the arrogant why does the arrogant man not stay at home because the arrogant man in this case gets leprosy and what does it mean not stay at home he is put outside the camp he's not allowed to be in the Mokka net in the camp he is as diverse as the clear car explains the fishes Sofo Laish a bird aadmi hoodlum Ahana his end will be sitting alone outside of the camp by himself you know how you shreya built imam meenie minee votes Moshe now if it would have been true that Israel had remember Moses was harsh and he suspected they're gonna say I don't you know God never appeared to you and they don't believe in him but if it was true that they didn't so then the stahma rushed him oh so then that means that they would have suspected him he'll evolve or history or Alea moutoku moscow makarov right by making this claim basically all on account of his Dominion that's why he wanted to drag them to follow him just for him to be the leader in Ohio in Ramallah now if they would have said they did the Jewish people never said this this was only this was only Cara lo Mira Allah Hashem God does not appear to you God never appeared to you there's a Russian no chaos mean I think here it means as rebuked by Yvonne died MacLeod Mississippi Russian Hara the truth is that anybody if they would have said this then they certainly would have been in the category of people who speak loshon Hara and what do we know from this well let's say for sure this is what the language wasn't an exact language but this is Makar who say mission aids da da de Melo a union Malcolm betras so from both aspects of arrogance we certainly lose certainly Clorox had as well as as well as in SAP relation Hara that he certainly and his people certainly deserved surahs' al came closer DNR Moshe Shahada I'm shallow kiddin so then certainly would have been logical for Moses to have also gotten leprosy because he had originally suspected the Jewish people now what about the hand Taurasi odd doctor we mentioned right that it was through the hand of Moses it's a very awkward language so it says in the Gemara erican it brings now tap uh sick initially proverbs chapter 18 verse 21 Marvis the Heian that death and life are be awed lashauwn does that make any sense that death and life are in the hands of the means and the power in the power of the top right but the question asked the key Asiad lomasa is there a hand does the is there a hand I mean to use the hand I understand taking Moses hand originally that's great but then you're saying that Kasia D bearish M beyond motion low it didn't have to use that language so there's a verse where am i okay so Ella you know what it's teaching you yeah it's right the the tongue doesn't have a hand but rather maja odd name is Allah Shawn mamie's just like a hand can kill right like today we say it's it's not the guns that kills the people that killed it's the hand that kills right just like a hand can kill so - I hung could go and that's why the verse says the yard Russia and in the handle of the tongue just like a hand can kill so to be cognizant be careful of your speech as it says now this is an interesting verse in Jeremiah chapter 9 verse 7 we'll have it here it's said I beg you to look it up it says their tongue is like a drawn arrow now it could mean like this their tongue is like a sharp arrow but either way Kate's shut listo nam the hates is the arrow ahout could be drawn or sharp leshawna as their tongue their tongue is like a drawn arrow now you know that korean excessive are that korean achieve is where it's written in the torah or the Tanakh one way and we have an oral tradition of actually how to read it so God knew in his brilliance that this is going to allow you to have two understandings of the same word or many more understandings there's going to be passion the way it's read and usually it doesn't leave the explanation and there is a deeper or another explanation on top of that and that's how its read so the way it's red is show Kate show cake is a ritual slaughter so what it's really telling you is there's their tongue is like a drawn arrow it's not only going to kill the other person actually it's going to it's like you're smothering yourself listen to the words keha rains the boulder yelled show Kate like a dream just like this person is coming to kill others NIM such a hoot he himself will be killed kill us and Hara to lost the cow because by speaking Russian Hara three people are killed do you know who the three people are the one speaking the loshon Hara the one listening yeah listening to the lush if he accepts it and it doesn't protest right why do you think we have these little fingers and these little things on the side of our head you start here in Russian heart you go like this I think we gotta get the point you like those figures better they work better the guar says it there you go the more it says it so here we have and who else is the third person of course the person being spoken about is also considered murdered now the hain't Cara Kaiba cloud cat lady Carrick was considered in this category of let's just say the worst kind of human being okay like it's brought in the mattress a similar they were you know how we know his name truth Rach Petco rocks the acronym comes out to the word cash it Roma and Sheriff a cash it is a bow bow and arrow the Roma is a spear and the ferret is the sward soko Rock goof rash tent and if you look in Psalms 57 verse 5 it says when they adopt about people she mayhem whose teeth are honey hockey team whose teeth are Spears and arrows leshawna and their their tongue is a tear of color a sharp sword so this if you look at the verse you're talking about all three of these utensils the cash it which is the key team the Roma which is the honey and their leshawna which is considered a tariff you have all three this is what the verse is talking about people whose teeth are Spears and arrows and whose tongue is a sharps word they they're not good people okay now the final let's say the trimmings this is like the best part why why was Cara not punished with to us after we built up this whole scenario that he certainly should have been so we're introducing an idea Marshall Oh ninotchka Roth Matroska Moshe that's called Kim lei Buddha robbery may if someone committed to severe acts of crime at the same time we're not gonna we're not gonna hold an account we're not gonna take him too quick for the lesser of the crime right if someone has committed a crime which has the death penalty and a lesser at the same time a lesser crime we're not really interested right now in the lesser crime were only interested in the death penalty and here we go so this is the deal sure a far be Corbett or Moshe he had a very severe crime he denied everything he deny God and the Torah of Moses and what did he want to do bharat salavat Illawarra and he wanted to get rid of this authority that moses had which came directly from god i share meesa hot side not not on had in sharm in hablame so now when you think about it he's deserving of the death penalty which means in this case that the earth should open its mouth and swallow him up and further work vara marseilles hashem 'god oh he not just him we all saw right with the jewish people they had seen already the great plagues in in egypt mashallah rogue israel wish leaked Audrey Shan Shan Moshe but they had not seen Moses at the burning bush at the very first agency when he was selected to be the of Israel and this is what this is why our versus you go back to the original verse become a chapter 17 verse fine right zcorum live nations going to be a remembrance a reminder to Jewish people Lamanna shall ye craft each Tsar lactic torus so that a regular Jew non in a non calling should not enter and come close to entering and then offering this incense he has are a car a because any Tsar any non coming that comes clothes miss Navajo Lake he's obviously arguing on the new who of Lucia he's saying I'm not a coming to do it anyway we saw be Lucia become a commas are Hikari nevertheless them tourists warning us that any normal Jew that comes close low yet carvaka a dato don't be like don't get the same punishment shove abolish don't don't do that we never saw that that would be the honest but we're learning it now he Carlotta how you caught him good old hymns who was there the reason why they didn't get it is because they committed a much greater crime le yak I shared Eber Shem be God martial law but rather you should be as do as God spoke be odd motion through the hand of Moses God spoke to you through the hand of Moses to Cora commotion Shalaka be other Madras he afflicted the hand with surahs' kaki Lubitz roscoe her lacunae that's why the punishment is the way it is is it clear clear as mud amazing okay so we're going to do part two but if we wish everyone a shabbat shalom and looking forward to seeing you again [Music]