Parshas Chukas: Parah Adumah.......Don't Ask

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com by the way it's very interesting the gamara says in hagega Lila that you know there's a question when was the last time we had the paraduma you know until when did we have the paraduma until the end of the destruction of this no the um I believe the mission is would purify themselves they would purify their oil they would purify their wine purify themselves with what how would they purify themselves as we see even the Amoy Ryan had the paraduma is very interesting writes that what's the reason why this man is there we can't reach such high levels like the amaran right I'm around they could be Makai Mason you know we're so limited we can't say the main reason is because we're tame mace and that holds us back spiritually in fact he does that so how did the Ariza read such he says Libya I'm Ellie my heart tells me that they are Rizal Elio I know he came to him and gave him From the Ashes of the parade okay any events yeah that's what his heart tells him anyway so very interesting begins uh yeah right so so the the parachute begins hatara that we're not about to learn the whole time we're talking about one limited specificness so the midst of haraduma she says this is the statute of the parade why are we comparing the paraduma to the whole Tyra condition tells us an aflam and alephalus River they asked him how much how far do you have to go to honor your father and mother um said foreign and they're offering to pay him 600 000 uh gold coins says eight hundred thousand points of and the key was placed under the head of his father the late Sierra he didn't wake him up he had the opportunity to make 600 000 gold coins 800 000 gold coins and despite all of that he did not wake up his father yeah you don't want to wait till he wakes up okay it was such a precious other question the next year God rewarded him a paraduma was born in the sky was the scar of aim was born of course we always need a para Dum right the mission says in throughout history there have only been the tenth one will have a meshacham so it is very expensive item is so the guy says look I know if I would charge you any amount of money you would buy it don't worry I'm not going to charge you more money than you would have been willing to pay for that for that stone of the a fight here I know that if you'd ask me for all the money in the world you would give it to me I only ask of you that you should pay me the money that I had to lose because I had I honored my father and I did not sell you the stone okay by the way he was going yeah so very interesting why is this individual warned why is he why is he rewarded with the paraduma of all things God could reward this this guy for being uh for fulfilling the message keep it of aim why death because he rewarded with the paraduma after all if you think about it what is the most logical Mitzvah that we have keep it okay and Away keep it up aim is the quintessential Mitzvah Mitzvah the most logical missile we have even got him understand you have to honor your father and mother they brought you into the world they took care of you when you're young they gave you everything you have it's a logical Mitzvah so Hashem rewards the guy for fulfillingness of humanity with what with the paraduma the Mitzvah makes the least sense the one myth which is the quintessential hike the midst of that Rashi says they insult us back that they say what are you doing you're taking a red cow you're burning it you're using the Ashes to purify people who became impure and it's doesn't make any sense so why is it why would Hashem specifically reward this guy for a cupid of aim with the Mitzvah with the paraduma okay the cloud we have to understand in the sequence of the Hamish why is the Mitzvah paraduma specifically mentioned in pashas in middle of safer Batman right after a paraduma is for what kind of halachos pure that belongs and say for that teach the laws of the laws of ritual it's not a place right so the ramban says this Mitzvah is really the completion of the laws of so what's it doing here the next of a Khan it's written over here because at the end of karach it talks about the madness that the process of Tara through the paraduma needs to be done through the kaihanim in other words really it should be in safer Viagra why is the paraduma mentioned this week's Tasha and parishes it immediately follows the end of karach which talks about the gifts given to the kahanim to teach that this procedure has to be done by the okay interesting thing that at the end of the parishes talks about all the people who died the 14 700 people that died and therefore there were many many Jews who became tame from from what happened with Kara and therefore they needed the ashes of the paraduma so in fact this is a very relevant rights at the end the alpha PK nift of Khan there are many Jews who became tame so therefore it makes sense that this uh these laws are written in dafka over here we're gonna touch State they said separated and they've got Earth got swallowed they swallowed never they never really but he had people that died they needed people to bury them so he had people who were Tommy Mason from the Rama mushrooms they they were the fire came down from samayam that killed the 250 plus people Maga okay by yours he knew we were learning harias right okay it's okay um very interesting we're going to try to offer another another reason Rabbi say why the hemswaram the connection between the end of karach and the beginning of paraduma now very interesting even though the midst of Paradigm appears in pastures this is not the first time that Hashem commanded us about the paraduma we find already in parashat bashallah at Mara after Christ they cried out to Hashem Hashem showed them right remember in Mara they had nothing to drink they were thirsty it's God showed them the tree threw it into the water the water became sweet there they place for him a law and a statute vision and there they were tested okay that's what the plastic says they're already in Mara when they had nothing to drink what does the plastic say they were given a hike um what is this hike what is the mishpat says Rashi like in Mara already before the Torah was given the tower is going to be C9 right 50 days later and Mara they were given certain parishes to the Torah to learn what were they given Shabbos number one paraduma number two demon monetary laws you hear this even before the Torah was given on how Sinai they were given three things they were given Shabbos the midst of Shabbos they were given the midst of paraduma they were given dinam what menu admira most Hashem now we have to understand what does this mean they were given Shabbos they were given para Duma and they were given dinam because if you look in the gomoran Sanhedrin it's look at number eight the gomoran Sanhedrin says we were actually given 10 Mitzvahs what were they looking um that's consistent with that Shabbos that's consistent with what I'll shoot the Cuban of aim that ain't consistent with Russian does Rashi say keep another egg no what does Rashi say you hear this Ross she says the gemara says keep it up Fame now how do we know I already commanded you when did Hashem already command us about Shabbos and keep it up aim and Mara but here we have a major problem Rashi says that Amara we already given paraduma the gemara doesn't say that the gemara says it doesn't say one word of that digamara says keep it up aim so another question is the following this week's Parsha why in the world would Hashem command Israel about para Duma and Mara wait a second to bring the paraduma where does it have to be brought in the ayamaide there was no ayoma the car wasn't given yet you need to do it because why would Hashem give Mitzvah that has no practical relevance why would he give us the mitzvah paraduma you need a mission for the paraduma there was no mishkan so if Hashem I can understand why Hashem gave us Shabbos before the Torah was given Shabbos gives testimony that God created the world in seven days this is uh this is the fundamentals of Judaism so before we get to Torah we have to realize God created the world in six days rest on the seventh day but para Duma that's an introduction to the Torah we can't even fulfill the myths of paraduma another major question is that the maram shikh asks and that is why would Hashem command us that para aduma before the Torah was given what do you need a paraduma for someone who's tummy before the Torah was given there is no such thing as tumavatara so there's no such thing as the one part that we should get after the Torah was given you're giving it before the Torah was gone doesn't make any sense it's completely irrelevant you have no idea you have no pesos you have no term of Atara what's Hashem I could understand like the gemara says you know before you accept the Torah first keep you know laws of Manchester but you mean you take the most the one Mitzvah that makes no sense right even so much so why would Hashem take the one Mitzvah that doesn't make sense that's irrelevant you have no idea you have no you have no tamavatara oh before you get the Torah you gotta have this one it's Allah you need to teach Claus Israel and because of many of these questions okay so let's see the safer the uh reverse abstain the son of the uh he wrote a safer called macarbara and one of his major themes is that the printers have destroyed all of our slime and whenever you have a question the answer is always it's a tough Cipher it's a mistake the printers made a mistake and he uses this trick to answer this question you see he says Russia can't argue on ligamara the gemara says keep it out of aim doesn't say parado originally rashi's not gonna argue what rash she said was cuff alif you know what cup battle stands for keep it up that's a rash she said yeah Russia tables keep it up what happened what happened the printer either intentionally or accidentally changed the cuff you know if you take the cuff with the dot in it the dots sometimes if you know you can make a little connection between the dot to the cuff it looks like a pay so this prints are switched from cuff Alice to pay Alice the next printer came along and said ah pay Alice pay Alvis para Duma but really it was keeping up aim that's what it really said like the gamara says but the because what would have why would Hashem give para Duma before the Torah was given this note to another Tara there's no there's no mishkan but the printers they switch from cup off to pay off and then the next printer is read para Duma and that's where this whole paraduma business came from take a look at number nine this is Chord number ten as well right this is something the the the the the um the Titan does very often for instance you know you have van Chaves magdale and McDon right one so is it so the the Titans there's no difference between Marathon McDonald's the same thing what happened one of them comes from one of them comes from small base so what happened was the printer wrote Shin base small base the next printer came along and read it to me in shimbe's Shabbos so the next printer made up that on the weekday you say madville and the shadow but it's not there's no difference no difference but it's because the printer was just showing magdal is in is in uh tell him make dollars in small base and then they thought chinbei stood for Shadows by the way everybody uh schlugs up this starts because there's no such thing as small base because it's made up by the Christians and the King James edition of The Bible there's not something that we had in the early editions of sperm small elephant small days so remember when there's a joke about that this is a controversial approach to say you know everything is Cypher the grass says you know there's a famous on this grass says it says I say lets me say everything the balance tells you have to do except for it's safe once he asks you to leave right he's not the baldias anymore he's not your body right so now you don't have to listen to him the girl says no it's hot with two apostrophes stands for saris whatever is tells you you gotta listen except if he tells you to do something else sir okay but that's what the tartsuma says but he says look at number nine the new llama version the mafarsham struggle to find the source barashi that shouldn't foreign and we know what the source for Shabbos is we know what the source of aim is we know what the source of dinom is there's no source another question is why would Rashi leave out keep it of aim and stick in fine you want to tell me there's a Makar for paraduma fine you'll find the source but why would Rashi take out keep it of aim but everybody's wrong why is everyone wrong there is no doubt King there's a mistake in Rush why [Music] originally Rashi wrote the letters we keep it up either he intentionally either you know carelessness he thought the cuff looked like a pain the dunhoo and that's what he decided or a later printerest came back and this strange mistake emerged in other words Rashi is not arguing anymore the gamara says she wanted to thank you he tried to he did his best to get things right it's all the printer's fault so the printers says The Tartan I can't understand because the ramban made the same mistake when they're on band quotes over Rashi he quotes rash he says at par that at Mara paraduma wasn't I can't understand why it's around that would make such a simple error and not understand that Rashi never meant to write right keep it up aim ah says I'll bring you a Raya that is a printing error what's the Raya because we have a Rashi in this week's parisha that gives us the reason for paraduma Let's Take a Look reason for paraduma how could there be a reason for paraduma we know says look at Rashi in this week's fashion look at number 11. rashy clothes from his Rabbi with my shahad darshan um says Rashi I will tell you a marriage that was copied over from the safer with marshadash that we know there are various number one the paraduma the Jews had to pay for further with their own money the paraduma had to be red had to be without a mum paraduma can never have had a yoke on it para Duma had to be performed not by our own by Allah paraduma had to be burnt you needed three species with the paraduma you needed to preserve the ashes ashes of the problem for all generations why the paraduma was its name why does a paraduma have all these interesting I'll tell you the reason right what happens you know you invite a kid over to your house to play with your children he messes up the whole house he takes the chocolate chips he melts them he smears them all over the cup so what you can do you can get angry at the kid go clean it no you call the kid's mother you say look what a kid you look what a bad kid you read no manners come over to my house right now I want you to take you know some carpet cleaner and scrub it out of my carpet who's responsible when a kid makes a mistake you call the mother the mother has to wipe away the mess the eagle was a baby calf who has to wipe away the mess of the baby the para the mother cow the para aduma is an atonement for the Cato EGA para Duma says Rashi mashallah it's a parable to the child of the maidservant she a teenage number eleven the child messes up ruins the palace so what do we say bring the mother clean up the mess bring the cowbell to atone for the aega says Rashi why does it have to be red because what color is Sin associated with red right toilet why does the paraduma have to be tamima without a mum because before the Jews they were with Adam why does the paraduma have to have no yoke you have to take right or with no yolk because when the Jews sins with they removed the oil map of the Yoke of Heaven why does Allah have to do the paraduma you need a Cohen just like Aaron made the paraduma you need to cut excuse me just like Aaron made Diego you need a coin to perform the paraduma but not our own himself why not iron himself and katagar NASA Nega Aaron made Diego you can't have him why do you need three species you need Cedar Wood you need hiss of grass you need a crimson thread canega the three thousand people who were killed at the aega why do you need the tallest of all trees the air as the Cedar and the lowest of all growth because in order to do chuva you need to lower yourself if you're high up in the sky you need to lower yourself why do you need to preserve the ashes of the paraduma for all generations the same way we have a tradition that whenever God punishes the Jewish people there's always mixed in with it some of the synonyms preserved for all generations why is the aegon matame all who deal with it why is the paraduma excuse me matami all who deal with it the same way the eagle was matame all who made it and just like they were matahar from the aega with the ashes of the egal so too we are matahir with the ashes of the paraduma says of my shahadarshan the big mystery of the paraduma has been uncoated we really comes along the Tara tumima and he says if the purpose of paraduma it's a kapara for the egal then when the Jewish people are at Mara they never sinned with the aega there was no ego so why in the world would Hashem give them the Mitzvah paraduma if the whole purpose of paraduma is they had not sinned with Diego yet therefore there is no doubt that when Rashi says it's a mistake it's a printing error Rashi never meant paraduma the whole reason for paradum is why would God give us and therefore therefore what therefore we have to say it's a printing error in Rashi ah so you might we might have to say that but that that is the argument of the tarotomima that there's on unquestionably this is this is a printing error comes along with Yak of kamonesky and he says I'm sorry but the tartsima forgot about something very obvious and that is there's another Rashi in Hamish mishbatham rash the empiricism tells us something very interesting look at number 12. NASA and Moshe came he told the people all the words that Hashem and all the mishpateem look at number 13. yeah this Shabbos foreign commentary who wanted to say that is a printing error and that the letters cough aleph were mistaken for payout and then they were read to mean that is wrong because Rashi explicitly and say in fascism says both keep it up I am and paraduma so what printing error emerge over there says abiakov kamonesky therefore he concludes that this metharish without saying who it is obviously we know who it is we learned who it is this mafari is just wrong look at number 14. the Shabbos Hiro sarashi mentions paraduma not like I heard somebody wanted to say that there's a printing error around the one who wrote the cuffed him because here as she counts both of them and therefore says there is no doubt that Rashi meant to write not make mention of paraduma yaakov the gamaran Sanhedrin is only listing the mitzvos that are negaya La Mesa the only the the San Andreas only listing those mitzvos that have practical relatives like we mentioned there is no tamagotara there's no I am there's no heikau it had no halachic relevance and therefore the gaman sanhajan does not enumerate it ah so why does Rashi mention it if the gemara doesn't mention it says obiaka of an amazing thing look carefully at the Lush narashi the Amara no San loham does Rashi say God gave us these missiles to perform no he gave us these missiles to learn about in other words Hashem selected certain midsize to learn about not to perform so now we have to understand why would Hashem of all the parishes in the Torah that God wanted us to think about and learn about why would he specifically give us the Mitzvah Duma to learn about what lesson of paraduma was so critical that we needed to learn about the paraduma even before the Torah was given by the way just to add support to the bjakov kamonesky from a reshine explicitly in parishes bashallah tells us the word right is the Gematria Para aduma the word Shan 340 is indicating very clearly not like the tartanima that at Mara God gave us number 15 the malaturim so now we have to wonder a number of things think about the following before the Torah was given God gave us a few minutes Shabbos that I don't have a problem maybe the most important Isa that is the testimony that Hashem created but think about the other tomatoes keep it up aim and paraduma the most logical mitzvah and the most he packs them together and Hashem says learn these tunitzels why dafka these two mitzvahs foreign he gave us some of the parishes in the territory be involved in Kalima meaning to say [Music] the purpose over here was learning and at the Fulfillment not the Fulfillment of it so the question is what are we learning exactly skip a line now according to what I said we could understand you know why before we accept the Torah the most important lesson that we need to learn is we don't keep the mitzvos because they make sense to us because they're logical because they're reasonable because they make us healthy they make us we have a benefit we keep the missiles for one reason because Hashem Commander Hashem Sahara [Music] probably thinks oh this is going to be a very uh excellent body of laws it's going to help keep our society in check and it's going to keep us uh no a little bit it's going to teach us how to deal with our fellow man and how to live reasonably no that's not why we keep them needs to learn before they get all the missiles in the Tyra that we don't keep amidst us because they make sense to us so what does Hashem say this is we're adding on our own we're adding I'll give you two Mythos I'm going to give you the midst of keep it of the aim the Mitzvah that you understand more than any other Mitzvah I'm going to give you the myths of paraduma the one myth so that makes no sense in your eyes you need to keep these missiles in the exact same way of course you honor your father you want to show honor to him you want to show how karasatov you want to respect because it makes sense but ultimately that's not why we're doing it we're doing it because this is what Hashem said this is the haktama to the entire Torah this is the introduction to the hotel before we receive the Torah we need to learn the lesson that we don't keep mitsos because they make sense look okay good good look what he says Mr Cleaner we don't keep them because they make sense and they seem just and reasonable here we have amitsa that the only reason for it is this is a very appropriate introduction to the rest of the Torah because even the rest of even if we understand it that's not why we keep it we know in the past we say the following here we have a Joshua gemara tells us that the Torah cannot be sustained only in someone who literally is most beneficial tells us it's almost up to there right that if you want to really understand Torah you need to give up of yourself you're going to learn Torah you know I'm a hammock with the iced tea and the lemon right with somebody Fanning you not bad this is kishmak but if the Torah doesn't have uh it's not sustained that way you have to you know something a little thirsty you know it might not feel good at the moment but that's how you acquire the tire sorry the one place in the whole tire where it tells you you need to push yourself you need to be most beneficial a little bit you know you need to like hold up your eye by the para Duma does it it's insane in Shema when it talks about the Mitzvah learning Torah I should say by the way you know how you have to learn no this is the place you know what because we've just learned that the Torah is not a system of logical dictates that it's not a system of rules that make sense these are laws that are La Mala mise they are above and beyond human comprehension they're who Kim these are Godly Divine Commandments they're not subject to the laws of the universe and to understand them you need to deal with them in a way where your rise above the physical parameters of life comes of Mosher Feinstein and the donation and he says the following that is why the beginning of the parisha says this is not just a limited isolated statute this is a guideline for kalhatarakula this is an attitude we have to have to the entire Torah and that is we have to understand and view all the missiles in the Torah as if they have no reason says it makes an interesting thing we know the Torah says you can't take too many wives right because they might turn you away from Hashem he said ah the reason why you not have too many wives is because I'm gonna turn you away from Hashem but I won't be turned Cesar of Maisha what was mistake what he misjudged himself really he thought he wouldn't be turned but really he mistakenly wasn't he he misjudged himself he overestimated himself no that wasn't the mistake he knew he judged himself absolutely correctly that he would not be turned you know what his mistake was even when the Torah gives you the reason the reason does not define when the Mitzvah applies you're right you're now to get married to too many wives and the reason the Torah itself gives it so it doesn't pull away your heart but for a person who it won't pull away his heart he's still not allowed to do it because even when the Torah gives a reason the reason does not define the reason is what we call it's part of the Torah it's another dimension of the missile but it doesn't govern the midsom what was the mistake of Kara said Talus if the whole house is made of so what do you need to put a trailer string on it what you if the whole purpose of trellis is to be reminded of the kisiakabod so if the hotel is you'll be reminded what was karak's mistake but since this is not to remind you Croc's mistake was one mistake even where the Torah gives you a reason the reason does not define when applies in all situations even where the reasons doesn't apply because reasons are merely added right if you look in the same means taste taste it gives taste to the Mitzvah to understand why we do it but these are not the reasons ultimately there are no reasons for the missiles they're all Zeus they're all statues they're all so we'd like to suggest that right after the parashofkara where karach's blunder was he thought that mitzos have reasons and where the reasons don't apply and it doesn't apply Hashem says one second I gotta remind you about something which has no reason and no logic is not merely a one isolated missile that has no reason this is the attitude you have to have to the entire Torah we do mid slice even the most logical Mythos we do it not because it makes us feel good not because we have compassion and we should have compassion and we should also do it because it makes sense on our father because of that cause that's life but deep then with the understanding that at the core we're doing amitsa because Hashem commanded us that's not in Latin right so yeah [Music] are they obligated to follow them because it's rational or it's because they have to keep because God commanded but if Moshe writes in achuva that goemer also commanded to keep mitsos the logic of it is an added reason to do it but it's not the reason to do it so therefore we would conclude tries to give in a offers an explanation why the uh why this guy was rewarded with the paraduma about with uh the mahalas that we're taking we would like to explain that this guy is demonstrating that his honor of his father and mother goes beyond just you know it makes sense to honor my father so I'm gonna do it because the extent that this guy took to honor his father demonstrated that he's not just doing it because of the logic of it because it makes sense because it's reasonable because maybe you could make the case he could have rationalized you know his father would have wanted him to wake him up right which father but still the guy said this is you have to honor your father this is the will of Hashem whether I understand it or not what's the reward the reward is the para aduma the one Mitzvah that we don't understand and this is this is the attitude we take to the entire Torah and that is why even before the Torah was given the one mitza Hashem commanded us is to teach us that this is the type of mindset we should have to all the missiles in the time you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com