Parsha Perspective For Today - Korach 5783/2023 - Not About Us

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doesn't were the sons of eliav and own Ben Palace of Ruben Israel 250 leaders of the Jewish people they collaborate and conspire in order to attack in order to challenge Moshe rabbenu and we've already spent many years and we've analyzed and shared many approaches to what does it mean if somebody incites a rebellion if somebody is the source of machlokas there are a lot of words we could use to describe what they launched what they began but why the word he took what did he take so Rashi says he took himself to one side of the issue he extracted himself from being from being united he removed himself he became an antagonist he became a opposition he became an adversary he took himself sort of out of the equation for which he was meant and again we shared many interpretations in the past but I want to share with you new interpretations this year from the safer imros tahoras the Rach Mischief quotes that told us the told us says the following tells us what does it mean why do we use that verb he took he took a Mecca it was a bad transaction it was a bad deal it was a bad decision what does that means spoke about this a little bit yesterday you know the context tells us how all of Torah was Consolidated and summarized in one principle the righteous live they find life they tap the essence of creation they fulfill the purpose of creation how with amuna so yesterday we developed in the amunisher peeling back the layers of the onion looking behind the curtain and finding the wizard seeing Hashem as the Puppeteer pulling all the strings at sadik a righteous person does not give in to the illusion of this world doesn't give in to them to the facade of this world but the sadak sees the Matrix that is behind akadesh Borg who is calling all the shots pulling all the strings finds life as he wears she wears in order to experience life there are in fact 613 so how can we summarize how can we consolidate how can we say the whole Torah can be reduced to one Mitzvah and what's that one mitzvah but it's not true there isn't one Mitzvah there are 613 aren't we neglecting aren't we marginalizing the other 612 when we reduce all the Torah to the one so he writes at the core at the root of the source the essence and the purpose of all mitos is emuna 613 mechanisms and means and platforms to connect to our creator to see and to feel Hashem in this world and in our lives so what does it mean stood them all up all other 612 Mitzvahs rest and rely on the one listen to this insights yes it's impossible for one should we keep all six thirteen not one Jew is a coin lady in Israel at the same time you're not a man and woman at the same time you're not living in Israel outside of Israel at the same time you cannot fulfill all 613 at the same time so how do you fulfill all toyotaic the answer is Unity when we see and Define ourselves as one when we are unified as one so the coin is me the Israel the Israel I am in the coin we are really one we are integrated we are different different limbs of one body is in honor of and on behalf of all the Jewish people so when we live with that Muna when we see ourselves as the children of Hashem when we understand we are all his creation but we all Source ourselves back our root is in Hashem that we are all United and when we are all United then then we can complement one another and see ourselves as fulfilling all of Mitzvahs all of mitsus but you can't fulfill artists without a moon is one of the overaring themes of our partial will continue to elaborate on it this morning is how do you avoid mahalokas when you see what brings you together what you have in common what unites you with others then you have a healthy sense of actus but when you see yourself as different and apart when you see that other person as the other as the adversary as different than you have mahalokas but what unites us in the end of the day people are different and we disagree people aggravate us and they bother us so how are we able to unite with them because of emuna when we see ourselves as all the children of Hashem we see everything that happens as it all comes from above Hashem Israel so you're not going to get aggravated you're not going to get bent out of shape and you're not going to get riddled and embroiled in a macholocus because it's all from above it's all from Hashem and these are my brothers and my sisters we're all part of one family we're all the children of Hashem you can't really have artists when someone aggravates you it Grieves you when someone hurts you you're going to get angry you're going to want to take revenge you're going to be pained will be missing and lacking is a sense of unity but when a person feels actors Unity we're all children of Hashem we're all United everything's for a reason everything's for a purpose everything's from above so people did something behave in a certain way write a certain thing post a certain thing they come together as a certain Community you won't be aggravated or bothered by it because it's all from above it's all part of a master plan it's all from Hashem when you have a Muna you can have artists and without amuna there cannot be actus so now we can understand the gamara [Music] came and he was able to stand up all of Torah al-aqas the other 612 all of Torah Mrs all of taryag rest and reside they all rely on one namely the Mitzvah of there is nothing is so now why am I mentioning all this why is mentioning all of this because that is the undermining the story of Quran did not feel that Unity it did not feel unified he did not see himself has integrated in part of the people around him he did not see that every role that we have is from Hashem so we're not competing we're not comparing we're not envious and we're not jealous because it's all from above so what does it mean he's separate he divided he couldn't fulfill all of Torah because the only way to see myself is fulfilling all of Torah is to be United with Allah Torres called Torah is the greatest deal the greatest investment Taurus the great acquisition that you could have pursue all kinds of material things they want to amend possessions they want to Purdue material things but the greatest Mecca there is Hashem says new thing that came out really what's it called what version where can I get it does Amazon Prime deliver it's called Torah it is the greatest greatest thing that you could have but korach couldn't and didn't have access to Toro because he was in my location without actus you can't observe all of Torah for him it was a Mecca not a lekaktov and that's why the Parsha begins his attitude was it wasn't Allah because the problem was what was korak really all about in the end of the day he was Royal about atsmo when your religious experience is about your ego your honor your glory you're covered your kibudim then in the end of the day you're going to be jealous and enviously when I was there he used to say how come no one gets upset they didn't get an Ali on a Tuesday on a Wednesday on a Friday on a Sunday you don't walk into shulen some man charges up to the guy by and again in Aaliyah Sunday why does no one get an upset upset when they're not getting a lead on a Sunday because nobody else got nalia so are you upset you didn't get nalia are you upset someone else got nalia what's the source of your religious experience you need the honor you need the covered as a rabbi they buy them off and say Rob I want to give you an Alia I always turn down the Aliyah I don't want nalia even since Torah because she I don't want I don't take an Aaliyah because I understand why people want I understand why people want to feel connected to community they want to mark an occasion certainly a yard site or a simcha but some you have people upset angry you got to get the cards you gotta mark them they know exactly the last date they got in Aaliyah they know how long it's been they know how many times the other guy got since the last time they got everyone else again why we all get to say birha Satora every morning you say birha set or the same broker they say when you get an Aliyah do you say with the same carvana do you quiet everyone around you please pay attention to my birha Satora you mumbled on your way later sure if you made it to show nobody heard no one was there nobody saw you didn't schlep it out you didn't cracked it out you didn't the whole world didn't have to hear the whole walls didn't have to shake because you weren't standing up on the bhima you want so the condition of slavery says what does the medus mean he took Allah says there are two ways you could serve Hashem is serving Hashem but it's all about them I want to sit in the misrah they wait for me for ashrae I Gotta Give the schmooze it's about them in the guise of a being about Hashem but it's ultimately really about them the people who honestly and genuinely and in truth are serving Hashem and it's about him not about them all they care is about there was someone said that Russia someone gave us they don't care foreign [Music] but a person who's driven by ego a person who is self-centered person is narcissistic and it's all about them person who has a personal bias invested in their avodas Hashem but it's really the abodes Hashem is really just a platform and a means for their own honor their own attention their own ego over this even because they just want the reward someone more qualified someone's better everyone wants someone else I'm good someone else but not Korra what was the problem with korash what did he take the problem with korach was it was all about at small so two people on the outside could mostly doing the same thing learning and give sheerman rushes and be giving out stucka and be responsible for coordinating if I said but one is doing it all about the mission the goal and the other is doing it all about themselves Jim Collins and his Monumental work his wonderful work good to Great talks about five levels of leadership and level five leadership he identifies the highest level of leadership is when it's not about you it's about the cause and what's the evidence of level five leadership succession planning when you know when to step aside when you know when to hand it over when it's not about you you're not the brand not your name not your honorary Not Your Glory not your power not your ego it's about the company it's about the cause it's about something so much bigger it's not about you that's level five leadership some people's identity is so intertwined they can't separate out what they work for the organization the cause the company from their own ego and the highest level leadership is when it's not about you when you just want to see the continuity and the succession and the success and it's not about you korach was not level five level four level three level two level one the end ended up minus one he ended up on the ground he was level -5 not level five leadership he was below ground he doesn't say that Jim Collins I'm just throwing that in what was the problem the key word in identifying where Kodak went wrong was he took a mecca for whom on the outside it was a religious machlokas as so many mahaluksim are leadership schools and everybody says I don't want to be fighting this fight it's a shame it's Le Shema what can I do it's for Hashem it's a religious fight but you know what underneath it if it's about you your ego was bruised was damaged power so it says the conditions said whoever's most qualified whoever Hashem wants I'm good as long as it gets done korach said me it's not whoever it's not Whenever Wherever has to be me I deserve it I'm entitled it's not fair to me he was lucky he took this what turn says what turns Torah from what turns it from Allah one word the ego stands between us and God the ego is at the core of a lack of Shalom bias in the home the ego alienates children from parents the ego sabotages success professionally and in business the ego is the Kryptonite the ego is the poison that contaminates that even went on the outside it looks like it's for Noble reasons and goals the ego is what undermines the ego is what can bring people down the rambanon Wonders the following question this Rebellion that's how our Parsha begins atmo when did it take place when did karak leave this Rebellion when did this happen no so you'll say on page 820 that's when it happened it happened after partial before partials wherever it appears that's where it happened right but the very opinions so the ibanezer writes the incident with Quran took place right after earlier after the mishkan said whoa whoa whoa whoa what's going on here not him me what is the even Ezra make sense chronologically you inaugurate your rectumish gun the main characters are about to play their main role it makes sense that Kodak would stand up and say wait whoa whoa whoa not him me but they're on ban says differently the ramban says when did this rebellion of karate place after exactly where we have it after partial last week The Mirage was miscalculated and korak then got up and said ooh not them it's time to impeach them it's time to indict them it's time to eliminate them me I should be in church why did korach wait until now to challenge Moshe why didn't he do it the moment these various appointments were first made why in mitzrayim when Hashem tagged Moshe you're it didn't get up and say no no no I am the leader I Am The Liberator why not when the mishkan was inaugurated as the Ebenezer says according to the rambam that it only happened now why did korach wait until now never bother you red precious korak a million times ever bother you Kodak leads a rebellion why now but they've been angry before they were angry when the water was bitter and they were angry when they got sick of the mun and when they hear when they wanted a barbecue and there wasn't a slave and they were angry because they missed they were so angry they missed the Cucumbers of Egypt that's anger that's another level anger so they've been angry plenty of times they've been disappointed plenty of times they've been on the brink of Extinction plenty of times they've complained they've been miserable they've been incorrigible but they wait until now dafka now korakhan is 250 men dafkin now is when they lead the Rebellion not according to ebenezero but at least the way the Torah presented it's now and he's angry at the appointment of fun and he's jealous of our own why didn't korak raise his voice after the ego such a terrible miscalculation Moshe you were the leader when the people cheated on God when they worshiped the calf certainly our own you were part of it maybe you have a justification it was a delay tactic but you were part of it it's time to impeach our own wouldn't that have been the perfect moment why why didn't that ever bother any of you until now why is amazing isn't the Parsha fantastic every year you read the Parsha and there's a million things you never thought of you never asked you never wondered and it's a home departure for you as one person here ever wondered why not immature and why did Quran wait until now what was it about now after pressure not many people died minutes for the people 40 days and 40 nights and this Filas were successful the almighty forgave they didn't forget you forgot and very few casualties so that was not a Time Moshe just saved and spared the people yet again he bailed them out they should have been wiped out after the eagle Moshe intervened Moshe interceded Moshe saved the day that's not exactly when right when the leader makes the economy flourish and Thrive and everybody's prosperous and doing well and everything's healthy and everything's peace and there's no war you don't raise your hand and say who's in it's time for a coup you're not going to be successful was the wrong moment his approval rating was through the roof ISO his approval rating was through the roof and if somebody would have tried to incite a rebellion a coup of Moshe at that time what would have happened they would have stoned him was biding his time was waiting he was patient he was looking for his moment he was looking for his opportunity but now the complaint started and now the punishments were being meted out and now people started to die alayam it's a very interesting comment of the ramban it's not true Moshe Daven for them what did the ramban mean the ramban is not saying the emotion is all the text says yet again he advocated for the people something about the way moshadavan was different after the maragon after the ego Daven differently and because he dive in differently Hashem did not nullify the decree um and all the leaders all the spies all the princes of the tribes died in a plague the niggsu and there was a decree that this entire generation would not make it into Israel we know that they would every year on Tish above the date that the Mirage reported their poor report they would dig Graves and lie in them knowing a certain percentage would not wake up because they knew that they were going to be wiped out so when you find out there's a pandemic people are dying everywhere businesses are shut down the economy is not flowing there's a supply chain issue the approval rating is as low as it can get that's the moment you incite a coup that's the moment you lead a rebellion Mara everyone was bitter and believe Moshe can't get us out of this Moshe is not a transformational leader Moshe can't bail us out this time and then says he did everything he spared them and he saved them all of some connection nobody could challenge moshe's approval rating was through the roof they would have been stoned they would have been crazy but now the incident with the monogam they were punished they were all going to die they were more it was a general depression sadness now is an opportune time now is an opportune time what do you see from here the Weinfeld who visited our community recently based on this ramban he says you know what you see from here about leaders it's all would you do for me lately Moshe has an illustrious Legacy Moshe has made a prestigious career out of saving them over and over and over again he liberated them he backed them he saved them he advocated for them over and over and over again but you know when it comes to the rabbi I mean the leader it's all but what'd you do for me lately but what about the last thing you did but I don't like that they didn't call me but I don't like the brand of egg salad at the Charlotte but I don't like who got shlishy instead of me but I don't like it's all what'd you do for me lately ah it's time for the Rebellion not only did they throw out moshev this was the opportune time for Kora Hawaii because the heita maraglan unlike the other mistakes who is the one who sent the Mirage Lim last week's parship again Hashem says as for me I'm not sure this is a great idea you want to send spies you can do it so who took the responsibility for the decision to send the maraglim Moshe and as a consequence of moshe's decision everything went wrong it changed the course of Jewish history this is when korach LED his Revolt he led his Rebellion stature should be infallible there's no room for error there's no room for a mistake I don't care about his track record I don't care about the history there's not room for even one mistake there's no room whatsoever and if Weinfeld tells a story there were hasidim saying stories and mosten from the rebels and he said a mofis with his Reba that was greater than all the other moves him everybody said these miraculous stories I have a Memphis I have a story a miracle with my rabbit said he deals in Lumber one time there was a ship with a lot of lumber he had the chance to buy it very cheap inexpensive but the river was frozen and the ice would have to melt in order for him to be able to distribute to ship this Lumber to actually turn a profit the question was would the ice melt in time should he invest in this lumber for inexpensive and be able to turn to profit by shipping it so he has the rabbit Rashad what to do and the rabbit said buy the lumber and sure enough the river stayed frozen the entire winter and when he was able to sell the lumber it wasn't even at the same price he had to take a loss he had to take a loss so he held on to it it went even further down he took a bigger loss that's a myfus they were all telling stories of their ribbon the biggest Miracles he said the mifa says I stayed his crusted that was the Memphis the miracle was I stayed in meaning someone got a brock that didn't work out ah I'm done he's a fraud the rabbi gave me advice it wasn't perfect forget about it canceling my membership we're gonna launch a new breakup forget about it see the incitement of korach despite moshe's track record and only had done at the first opening Kodak was biting his time korok was waiting at the very first opening Kodak jumps and launches this Rebellion because he found his moment he found his chance the Auto Plus the safer shaven Musser and he quotes an amazing quotes infidelity we had an affair we worshiped an idol and the demon continued to fall yes but the day that there was nothing to do with God it was just two people competing for attention one person competing not two and that day the mun did not fall why because you see that machlokas is worse than avodezara getting involved in March Locus tension conflict enmity animasity so pernicious it is so poisonous it is so damaging it's so destructive that machlokus is worse than cheating on God then a lack of faith and I voted Zara because the day of maklok has no man the man continued to fall and the shla kadosh learns from here if you want to look up the kadosh says is have a job it's the biggest school of aparnasa but says the schlach says the you know the biggest school of aparna says the biggest school is the biggest school of prepar NASA is avoid mahalokus because you see the man didn't fall the day there was so if you want the month to fall in your life if you want it to rain paranasi You Want To Make It Rain then you have to avoid Mach Locus the safer has a safe for Yosef to hilos and he writes that Hashem is so amazing that even after we make a mistake you come up short even after you fail the Creator Hashem nevertheless provides paranasa he says that's the shot in the pasok no saying he provides for everyone even why his kindness is so great you could fail and we're learning to consider Snippets last night snippet last night's sitter step over to the sixth brother of the amida Avenue they listen on any podcast player where you can sign up for the WhatsApp group and get it delivered each time we do a snippet so the sitter Snippets we started at modani what number are we up to I don't know I think we're closing in on 500. foreign forgiveness means when it comes to a human being I fail you say I'm really sorry I blew it I'm so sorry please forgive me so you know what everyone deserves a second chance no problem then I do the same thing again I'm so sorry I know I said I wouldn't do it again I could not but I'm so sorry please no problem you're forgiven I do it a third time I don't know by the third time a boss of a dumb a human being by the third time the fourth time the 30th time you say I'm done I'm out I can't take it anymore you don't really mean it you keep doing it forget about it Hashem is marbellas over and over and over again every day we fail them every day we make promises we don't fulfill between chakras between chakras we have to keep coming back he's quantitatively forgiving even though we keep failing him and he's qualitatively forgiving says Robin even if our chuva is not as developed as it should be is superficial he's still forgiving he's no saying he continues to provide for us we can continue to have a roof over our head a car to drive and food to eat why he's so kind so the day the Jewish people built the eagle the man despite the infidelity and the faithfulness Hashem continued to provide the man even that day but according to the Sheba Muslim that we just quoted 17th century on the day that instigated the Rebellion stirred Mark Lokes the mun did not fall six hundred thousand men over twenty two to three million people went hungry that day when there was no parnasa it didn't mean you didn't have the Costco size food in the pantry if the month didn't fall you had nothing to eat when the mun didn't fall you were hungry and two to three million people went hungry that day why Division and fighting are intolerable they are inexcusable says worship an ego but you fight with each other I'm out I'm done I'm done and Rashi says you see familiar the severity of mahalokas somebody emailed me asking me this question so what is rash Rashi say s come and see just how severe machlocus is in base then when are we punished only if you're over 20 over 20 years old see money Godless you have to be over 20. based on when the episode of korach the 250 people so many from the tribe of Rubin because they lived to Jason just because they were neighbors and they were influenced and the power of peer pressure they all went down literally went down into the Earth among them were not only the men over the age of 20. among them were babies and infants and you can't help but Wonder we don't find in the rest of Torah a baby is punished because of the sins of a parent that's not just that's not fair that's not right that's not righteous says Rashi you see how severe machlocus is the effects of mahlokas are terrifying that innocent babies who've lived such short lives were swallowed by the Earth as punishment for the fathers why because that is the power of machlocus that is how pernicious makalokus is that is how damaging and dangerous it destroys families and it takes the lives of children it seems that korra's followers were not punished as of usher-wise says you see that korach's followers were not punished as individuals they were punished as a community when a community allows the Flames of machlocus to rage then the guilty and the innocent suffer together men and women adults and babies if machlokis is allowed to take hold if is allowed to metastasize if machlokis is allowed to grow then you see everyone goes down it's not just the individuals who incite the mahalokas it's everyone Associated it's everyone connected the guilty and the innocent the adult and the child the terrible punishment incurred by makhlokas was expressed by by the Ariza the Arizona to explain Apostle can showtimes if you're unable to understand an issue between blood and blood judgment and judgment to plague in plague words of strife in your Gates following the destruction of the based on miktas and the calamities that Prophet Israel the malachim couldn't understand hashem's judgment why did Hashem do what he did where's the Justice they said Master of the Universe you wrote in the Torah that when it comes to cover the blood Clyde Israel runs freely through the streets and is neither covered nor buried you wrote concerning a house with Saras you shall empty the house and the coin shall inspect the house and all its contents have been consumed by fire you wrote in the Torah when it comes to srita you're not allowed to loss you can't kill the mother and the child the same day it's cruel and Khan and her sons were killed the same day so Hashem you are not carrying out your own will unable to understand the difference between blood and blood it's an amazing result the mishpat when you don't see the Justice expectation of us but the way he's bathing you can't figure out why Hashem is being more severe more intense why Hashem is being more just a stricter Justice you know what the answer is it's because there's machlokas in your Gates it's unbelievable shot did you hear that the Ariza is touching Apostle can show them say I don't understand Hashem you said that we have to cover the blood and the Jewish blood is Flowing freely you said that there's Justice and the Jewish people are being treated so unjustly they negle a Nega you said that a mother and a child can't be killed the same day we're being killed the same day where's the mishfat you know what the answer is you know what's bringing this on because you are allowing in your Gates and in your community reeks destruction peace is indestructible it's a shield it protects it secures and when there's no peace there's no Shalom there's no safety there's no security so everyone's so worried gotta spend money more guards more safety more Security anti-semitism's on the rise how much are we spending security assessments security grants hard security soft security security security it's important it's very important but you know what the greatest security you could have Shalom when this peace and this harmony there's security and if you remove the peace and the Harmony When there's mahalokus then you're welcoming you're welcoming danger you're welcoming threats you're welcoming threats diversary and you see that where do you see that because even young babies died it seems so unjust it is unjust spot it's a Pella where's the Justice little children were swallowed up by the Earth yes by association yes by Community by community so the month the month fell the month fell on the day of the eagle but it did not fall on the day of it did not fall on the day of the mahalukas of korach says don't be like be like Mike don't be like the rambam omits it the bahagada smacked the safer uranium and others count avoiding mahalokas as a Mitzvah this pasok below is a Mitzvah it's one of the tariag don't get involved in makhalokas there is a love don't get embroiled in a fight or a conflict run away stay away revova quotes the altar of kelm that you can't get involved in machlokas even for a noble cause even with good intentions because after all what was korak's argument everybody's holy everybody's righteous he thought he was pursuing a noble end a noble end and I think we very much in our lives and our times we see this such partisan politics such division division such differences such anger and everyone will argue I have to it's for a good reason it's for a good cause we have to avoid being drawn into machlokas or we have to work to end maklokus the rise to the fact that Moshe sought out he tried to bring it into the mark Locust he didn't stand on ceremony he didn't say uh who here is called rabenu not you you come to me meet my office you make the first move you make the first phone call Moshe doesn't say that he doesn't stand on ceremony he works to resolve the makhalokas and rash she quotes you see from Moshe initiating Avira not standing on ceremony that you have to work and that's this foreign you want Shalom you take the first step you make the first move you make the first phone call you make the first gesture you make the first move you have to make the first move you have to make the first move tell you an amazing story have time I'll tell you an amazing story was known for his tremendous concern to preserve Shalom and avoid machlokas he was a man of incredible peace and he stayed away from machlokas at all costs one time someone published paschke villain posters hanging criticizing and condemning him and the Bubba vireba was afraid that it was going to lead to makhlokus so in a Tish and rashford he said the following he said the people who wrote these posters and hung them but if anyone decides to start fighting with the people spreading them I'm not mokel you not in this world and not the next the people who put up the posters they're sick they Disturbed their wrong God Bless the people who put up the posters but if you create maklokas because of them I'm not mocha you not in this world and not after and of course nobody created macalocus because of it there was an old Mac Locus maybe the worst in the history of the Bob of his great great Sons battled against the sadigara hasidim a son of the original a son of the original was a problematic personality who joined the masculine as a result rejected all the San Diego and they went to battle there was a bitter bitter mock Locus and stayed in Galicia all the years this tension between sons and all the branches of sadigur and all of its branches are bitter bitter Mac Locus so one evening in Borough Park listen to this storyb is walking home from his basement [Music] and he passes a stibo that's a branch of the Sadi and they were marking a yard side the third of the earth side of the original and the Bob of robber who descends from the debrahim who had this and they battled bitterly and they didn't speak and they fought vociferously and now walking in Borough Park on the third of hashvan he's outside the small brijner stable they're marking the yard side of the helicarizona and the Baba rabbit stops with his Entourage and he looks inside the little to see what's happening and he turns to his Gabba he turns to his khasidam he turns to the Entourage and he says no let's go inside I want to join so the guy by stunned and he says went to war this was the Battle of his life and we're gonna go against that masora we're gonna join the Tish to honor the earth side of the original who spent his whole life making peace preserving Peace fighting for peace compromising for peace turned to his Gabby and he said the following words he said I don't have my Zaid in the Divergence Torah I don't have the khasad of maize foreign I don't come close I don't have his leadership qualities I don't have anything like the devrichheim the one thing that I should emulate and keep the one thing I should follow him in is being in this maklokas if it's the one thing I have from him I can let go of that as well no let's go inside and with that he went inside and he joined the test for the original avoid Mach Locus it's a posse in the Parsha Lo yeah the other money admits is counted as a Mitzvah in the Torah one of the tariag avoid machlokas at almost any expense okay that's the first possible let's start gimmel on so they gather korokan cites this Rebellion he stimulates this Rebellion when they gather on Moshe and Aaron and they say um it's too much for you it's too much for you everybody's holy it's too much for you who are you every week give someone else on Aaliyah um why do you exalt yourself why do you hold yourself over and above everybody else what does the word too much for you you've taken too much power you have too much power too much power too much control too much ego too much honor too much you have too much that's the shot of Rashi the word you've taken too much too much power however has a different shot so it's quoted by the haligerator says means you're being too much of a RAV too much of a rabbit is Ada before they made this accusation what was their challenge Russia quotes Ms levitch famously coined that the common sense rebellion and what was the common sense Rebellion said if a house is filled with Torah doesn't need a mezuzah if a baguette if a garment is made is woven out of turquoise doesn't need cities so Masha said yeah of course every room needs a mezuzah every four corner garment is said that's ridiculous that's absurd that's foolish if one Parsha Isuzu the whole state for Torah in a room certainly you don't need a mezuzah if one strand is then certainly if the whole garment is said what was the problem korach was trying to employ common sense but I can't tell a physicist it doesn't make sense that if I drop something it falls should stay where I Let Go that doesn't make sense physicist says uh it's a little something called gravity did you go to school do you study anything when you study things come back to me and then we can talk but you think you're going to apply your common sense while you're in ignoramus about physics you're a fool and the same is true with Torah Torah is no less sophisticated than physics Taurus the greatest wisdom that we have and you have to be steeped in it to understand it and challenge it you can't be an outsider who tries to apply your common sense and if salivichuk was talking about that in his time and certainly in hours that you can't just say it doesn't make sense to me that that rule that principle that ashkapha common sense so that was how they challenged him so says bigger than you you can't even answer about a room of separator and a mezuzah you can't even answer about a garment of trailers and cities there's a greater love a greater rabbit than you foreign very interesting listening whoever's an expert in all Shas shisham communion gone is the same numerical value of the word gone so you're a gone if you're a Baki Bashas if you're a Bucky and four of the six orders and if you're a Bucky if you're an expert in three more that's what the me we write in this introduction to avos that these titles correspond with how much of Shas you know so there's somebody who knows more there's somebody who's bigger than you that's what he meant by RAV lochanisms joined and even though Moshe was not at fault he made the first move he sent to appease them don't not only maintain the argument but make the effort to end it and it's clear from Russia you don't maintain an argument does not simply mean don't fight it means initiate make an attempt be proactive try to change it although we should emulate musha's conduct says revolba the ability to disagree without taking the argument personally is not an easy skill to master this is a brilliant Insight of revolver so are you allowed to disagree do we all have to vote the same thing the same behave the same we're the same Daven the same one minion you can't have eight separate practices schools youth groups camps if it will be the same we can't disagree about how to improve the economy can't disagree about gun control we can't disagree about how to make peace in Israel of course we could disagree question is how do we disagree agreeably how do you disagree without it becoming a machlokus how do you have healthy disagreement but not take it personally but maintain it stated at the funeral of his wife that they lived in peace together and even though the minute is he said I don't have to ask mahila for my wife because all the years of our marriage I never did anything I need to ask mahila for is a very humble person he was extraordinarily humble and yet he stood up and confidently said at the Levi of his wife I don't need to ask mahila and then he a short time later ran into a Tom and who had been recently married and he asked him how it's going the Thomas said things are great we never argue we never disagree so shalamazam and said is everything all right is your wife healthy so Thomas said everything's fine why why is Robbie asking said it's not normal for a husband and wife not to disagree about anything she wants milkshakes for dinner you want Fly Chicks for dinner she wants to go to her parents if you want to go to your parents for yontiff there could be a million things reasonable legitimate things to disagree about so is everyone okay are you healthy is everyone feeling all right that you can stand here and say you've never disagreed so shlomazam and said didn't you yourself say the Thomas said but Rebbie didn't you say at the levia you had nothing to ask for from your wife said absolutely since our disagreements did not affect our relationship there was no reason to ask mahila we disagreed it was never personal it was never an attack it was never harsh and it never got between us we disagreed and then we decided what to do what are we doing for our vacation where should we go what should we have for dinner we disagreed because people are different and you disagree when you're different but you could disagree without it ever becoming personal without ever needing to ask makila without ever rising to the point of Mac Locus life is full of disagreements but disagreements are not the same as Discord a disagreement without Discord that's our goal islamizamud said I spent my whole marriage disagreeing but the disagreement never left never led to Discord that if you claim you never disagree there's probably something very wrong with your marriage are you spending any time at home do you talk to each other do you eat together do you go out together disagreements shouldn't lead to Discord I'll tell you one last cute thing from those adorable and there even though we're halfway through aye so much more there are more questions to make it overflow that's not like a newfangled new age talk about machlocus that could lead to it every month a Shabbos if you're not the one who also cleans up the wine that you overflowed to spill so everyone assumes where does that matter come from overflow the cup of Abdullah onto the ground we learn this since where do people think the minute comes from I want it to rain I want it to flow I wanted to overflow so I make the wine of the Brach of Abdullah overflow so that I can be filled with bracha Rama specifically writes don't make it overflow into the onto the plate make it overflow onto the ground what's the reason [Music] writes the following but this will end he says you know why you're making it flow there's nobody writes you're serving the king and the King says make sure all the servants got so let it overflow till it reaches all the servants no matter where they are she is so that everybody will say that the king is generous and gracious no matter where those servants are who are on the ground and in the ground can also get some of the wine of Abdullah that's why we make it overflow that wild that's where the Rama writes is a place where they are swallowed up where they are beneath and below the ground we are off next week we pick up in two weeks until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy and have a great day no