Transcript
Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.
okay good morning poker Tov to all we
are back
it's wonderful to be together to learn
parishas so many lessons and
perspectives for today happy July 4th
mazatav on our independence I want to
thank our generous sponsors for the
series for the year Becky and all the
cats and family in memory of David
Grossman our learning this morning
should be Lili nishmas David Ben
Menachem also this morning sure is
dedicated
my great great grandmother Esther
malkabasov whose 99th year at
site is today herna Sharma I didn't meet
her my great great great grandmother
as well
page
our parisha picks up not where last
week's left off our Parsha picks up to a
certain degree in the middle of where
last week was
this is an unusual break in partios that
there's not a natural transition between
the stories but the end of last week's
parisha was the middle of a story and
the story picks up
on the beginning of this week's bollum
Splat billum's plot last week failed
balak had recruited bilham to curse the
Jewish people every time he opened his
mouth a blessing came out instead of a
curse and so they pivot to another
strategy it's an age-old proven strategy
to defeat not only the Jewish people but
any susceptible nation which is defined
as any that has men
which is to send promiscuous licentious
provocative women to entice them to lose
their moral compass and moral code and
to give in and the Jewish men are no
different and they do and in fact we
have a horrific desecration of God's
name a horrific I'm taking place in a
very public manner until pinchas Rises
with his canals with his zealotry Pincus
responds and reacts while everyone else
is passively as a spectator standing
still pinchas responds and reacts we've
spoken many times on this power shop the
story of Kitty Genovese if you've ever
had to call 911 was invented after the
story of Kitty Genovese it's unclear
exactly the details of the story that
I've changed over time but a woman who
was brutally beaten and ultimately
murdered while countless people looked
out their window but each deferred and
thought someone else would make a phone
call would take charge would do
something and the result
of that mentality of being a spectator
cost her her life and here everyone is
watching everyone's looking no one's
doing anything until
Rises the end of last week's parisha has
been Allah
he grabs a spear and he takes action
pierces the two right in the place of
their Union the approach of their
inappropriateness he drives the spear
through both of them
of sorts and uh and takes a stand in
defense and in the name of Hashem
Israel and through that he stops this
horrific plague
and those who died in the plague were 24
000. that was last week's Pasha now this
week's Parsha Hashem responds Hashem
reacts first he gives his lineage again
in case you forgot from just a few
seconds ago
and now with your words brisi
shalom it's time to give him the
Covenant of Peace it's time to give him
his bracha and the bracha is he and
those who descend from him is progeny
will all be kohanim which is a funny
broccoli to give somebody who's
father her grandfather is a coin he was
not a coin
the kuna was bestowed upon our own but
not those who were alive
contemporaneously it only continued
naturally and genetically afterwards and
that's why penichas needed to earn it
and have it on its own but the question
is why does hashem's pronouncements of
pinchas's reward begin a new Pasha
pasius why do we separate why do we
divide the story at the end of last
week's parasha we separate out the
storyline of the very Act of zealotry
the act of zealousness the act of
standing up for Hashem and then we have
a break before we get to hashem's
response his reaction his reward why do
we have this break
delivered on partials in uh
2016 and the current on the Reba quotes
his father-in-law of Jacob yitzlig
weisbloom
who had a close relationship of Baruch
of
and he quoted that once the kanim of
yushalayim there are some extreme
zealots who act with zealousness we're
staging very extreme protests and not in
a way that the godolam of the time
approved normally they don't approve
often the acts of the kanim are in fact
against the godolam so much for that
Torah so if Baraka mentioned to the
tornado's father-in-law this question
why does parish's bollock end with the
story and yet we defer we have a break a
significant break it's only the next
Parsha that we get
and killed one of the leaders of the
tribes
waited an entire week to determine
whether the zealousness was done
sincerely and purely
or was it tainted was it contaminated
was there some other motive involved
it's a cute vort because Hashem didn't
wait a week just because we read the
Parsha a week later doesn't mean in the
Torah there was a week between the act
and his response but the vort is a
message that's powerful nonetheless
which is we read parsha's Bullock last
week we'll wait a whole week to read
pasius pilgras to communicate that
sometimes it takes a week to reflect to
look more carefully to look more closely
to evaluate was this
was this done with pure intent or was it
somehow contaminated with other forces
and other influences only after a week
of inspection that Hashem Grant
penichas's reward the lesson is
sometimes an act of canals can have
personal interest and a person has to
check themselves very very carefully and
that's why we see asteroid as a
contradiction
is rewarded for his zealousness Eli
Yahoo we're told is The Reincarnation of
pinchas is in fact criticized for his
zealousness when are you rewarded and
when are you criticized when is it Noble
and when is it something innoble so it
depends what is mixed in is it pure is
or is it contaminated with any other
influence with any other any other
concept and that's the difference
between a genuine Zealot and those whose
intentions are not purely can be found
in the reward the tone
adds you can see it in the reward why
because informed Moshe was granting
Shalom he gave him the Covenant of Peace
in reward for Pure canals is the
blessing of peace which is a funny and
peculiar reward the man took a spear and
drove it through two people and he was
given the Nobel Peace Prize
and for the kanim of Our Generation
Who present themselves as pure
and sacred but in truths are driven by
Passion sometimes for wreaking havoc and
creating a corrupt and chaotic
atmosphere or by a desire for honor the
worst punishment they could receive is
brisi Shalom if you thrive off chaos
you know you want a partial perspective
for today I was once meeting with a high
level uh person in the issue of the
palestinian-israeli
conflict I hate that word because it
sounds like it's two-sided the Israelis
are not engaged in a conflict only in
self-defense
they always say golden mayor said if if
the Arabs would put down their guns we'd
have peace so the Israelis of the Jews
who put down their guns we wouldn't have
any more Israel so there's no conflict
as if it's two-sided but I was speaking
to eye level person who said that the
truth is that the industry of Think Tank
people
and politicians are not really invested
in a solution that's permanent because
they'd be out of a job the whole
industry revolves around and livelihoods
are based on the continuation of the
conflict so if you're a kanoi if you're
a zealot you thrive and you in fact
profit off of Chaos
the system rewards poor Behavior so you
see that
what was the reward for his ACT brisi
Shalom if pinchas in fact were driven by
Honor it pinchas would Thrive off of
chaos off of zealousness he would have
been grateful for the reward of Honor
that would have been the end of his
career it would have put him out of a
job Shalom peace Harmony tranquility
that's not me I guess now I'm a nobody
but the fact that Penthouse was so
grateful and so excited with the Breezy
Shalom is itself the evidence that
Pinterest was driven the Shem shemaim
that he did it in fact for the right
things Congressman Richie Torres who is
a staunch Advocate stands up for Israel
spoken or Shula was hosted for a
fundraiser in our community last year a
couple years ago was talking to him and
he pointed out this is an enormous
challenge with politics today people are
rewarded for bad behavior and they're
punished for good behavior the more
outrageous things you say the more
divisive things you say the more
confrontational and provocative things
you say the more followers you get in
social media and the more money you
raise and the more you say Let's cross
the aisle let's work together let's
partner let's find Common Ground let's
speak respectfully nobody cares to
follow you and nobody wants to give you
a penny so it's a challenge when you
live in a world that rewards the wrong
behavior and punishes the right Behavior
so the fact that pinchas embraced his
reward of brisi Shalom is evidence that
he was in it for the right reasons
because he wasn't interested in
profiting from chaos and zealousness he
was interested in peace and in Harmony
and you see a very powerful lesson a
very powerful lesson someone shared with
me right before Shear the headline of
the Sun Sentinel that we should all if
you subscribe you should cancel major
front page huge headline Israelis go
into camp and kill eight
that's like America goes into
Afghanistan and murders after 9 11.
Israel went in in order to take out
terrorists who were planning horrific
attacks against innocent men women and
children it's backwards and upside down
rabbis told us that if you're kind to
the cruel you will be cruel to the kind
if you're kind to the cruel you'll be
cruel to the kind and sometimes the act
of pentachas a proactive Act of zealotry
in order to eliminate threats you're
rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize because
peace sometimes is only achieved through
a display of strength not a display of
weakness that's what Israel understands
that peace is achieved not by laying
down your weapons and emboldening the
enemy sometimes peace is only achieved
through a show and a sign of strength
and that's in fact what we should be
proud and what we should dive in for the
continued Safety and Security of our
heroic soldiers who are putting their
lives at risk and going in
have been successful and should only
continue and that is part of the lesson
of parshis of
is criticized not every Act of zealotry
and zealousness is rewarded when it's
laced with personal interest and
personal honor then it's incredibly
dangerous
and it gets the stamp of approval of
Hashem then the Zealand himself is
grateful to be retired is grateful to
have the British Shalom to be able to be
out of a job to be out of business
asked a great question
once again we're given his lineage
penichas is the son of Allah
and he's the one who through his act got
Hashem too quiet and withdraw his anger
from the Jewish people how the
canoe
he's zealously Avenged my Vengeance
among them
lineage yet again because his
contemporaries his peers were mocking
him they were sarcastically ridiculing
him
so how
you see this person his father was an
idolater his father is somebody who
fattened the idols look at this person
so therefore the Torah comes and
says yeah yeah on one side it's true he
descends from idolaters but do you know
who is zaida is on the other side do you
know where he comes from
so what does the normal normally so I
understand the cynics and the scoffers
the haters you think they didn't know
that his other zaida was Aaron a coin
they knew that while they were still
pointing to the zaida who was an
idolater didn't stop them so when
they're reminded that he also descends
from arunacho and now they're going to
stop oh oh we didn't know oh you're
right we shouldn't say a not nice thing
about Pinnacles of course they knew it
already they weren't told anything New
York
how did it help what was the point of
highlighting and focusing that Pinterest
descends that in fact he's the
grandchild the inical of Aaron says the
normally yes
sometimes we go through life
and we come to a Crossroads and we have
a decision we have to make and we're not
sure exactly what the right thing is to
do
is
do this or don't do this we have a
dilemma that doesn't appear in the
foreign
we're not sure it doesn't explicitly
appear what the right thing is to do the
Torah can't delineate every single
circumstance that could arise in life we
have the overarching
do what's right and good in the eyes of
Hashem sometimes you don't know what am
I meant to do in this moment what does
Hashem want me to do what will give
you
what's the right thing is
and we're sometimes tempted and
sometimes our judgment is clouded and
it's distorted and it's trying to lead
us to the wrong conclusion
so we don't have the clarity we know the
confidence we know the objectivity to
know is it the right thing the wrong
thing is
when someone trustworthy comes when
someone righteous and virtuous comes and
they do that act and now we all can see
the way they did it with sincerity
authenticity
so now we know how to resolve the
Dilemma if they did it that's the right
conclusion that's their posture that's
the perspective that's the attitude then
that's the correct response
so they're all watching Cosby and zimri
are engaged in this incredibly
licentious act in public by the way for
many years of my life we read participal
and we couldn't imagine who could be so
bold who could be so Brazen who could be
so modest to engage in such an activity
in a public way
sadly and tragically we don't have to
imagine we're living in a time where
it's not hard to Picture People boldly
and brazenly trying to prove that
there's nothing to be ashamed of because
we're living in the age of shamelessness
so people can engage and act in any way
in any public sense so the people
sitting and watching didn't know what do
we do do we turn away and walk away
cover our kids eyes do we take a spear
and drive it through them how do we end
this act this definition this
what do we do they didn't know what to
do
chariz
after all is not some isvar from the
street zimmri is the Nazis the prince of
the Jewish people talking about one of
the leaders one of the role models one
of the board members who's now acting in
this way when is
and they all forgot the law that when a
person is acting Pokemon
then it demands a strong a strong
response
and he revealed what is
now they knew this was the right thing
to do
but at first they didn't know so where
did this come from
why did pengas react this way was this a
noble and righteous we just talked about
the two types of canals you can be
a zealot with pure intent for the right
reason where you can be a zealot because
you thrive on chaos you're an extremist
who loves extreme Behavior so they were
watching and didn't know what was
driving pencres's Act
and at first they said you know
descends from an idolater I bet his
behavior is in fact informed by these
foreign values and influences
they didn't know and that's what the
Torah comes to tell us no it's not Avi
emo who is
Zara it's not that this attribute or
this act was the result of the influence
of his maternal grandfather who did
expose them to values that are not our
own but rather
is
know this was the right thing to do
where did pengas get the Courage the
conviction the tenacity to rise and do
something no one else did
not because of his maternal zaida his
paternal zaida because of Aruna Cohen
because he descends from Aaron a Cohen
and that's what gave him that's what
gave him this this uh
that's what gave him the strength so you
see that zealousness zealotry is a
double-edged sword pun intended I guess
zealotry is complicated and a person has
to be confident it's for the right
reasons and don't try it at home and
don't try to be penrhus because it most
often fails but the Torah in fact is
testifying that Pinnacles did it for the
right reasons and how does the Torah
give that testimony
did it for the right reasons by
connecting him to isaida Aram that's
number one number two listen to this
beautiful insight
when a person is when you're trying to
how far can I push myself how can my
davening how high can my davony be how
much learning can I do how willing am I
to push myself out of my comfort zone
and do has it so when we're operating
only within our own
boundaries expectations imagination then
will only push ourselves as far as our
imagination goes however
Tov but when you see among somebody else
you say wow you learn what how much you
remember and how well wow your darling
is so sincere so pure so connected wow
you do so much you're giving so much
Dhaka now you see somebody else who
raises the bar even higher
and now you have a proper kind of envy
and jealousy not because you don't want
them to do it but you want to do it just
like they do roots
and that's what it means
implanted
among the Jewish people listening to
this word
because you know they say I'm not a
runner so I'm not going to remember the
details you'll forgive me but they
couldn't break the barrier of a certain
minute mile
for many years for history the four
minute mile they couldn't break the four
minute mile forever nobody could run a
mile in under four minutes nobody the
professionals not amateurs not Olympians
nobody could break the four-minute mile
they thought it was impossible it
couldn't be done until
who did it
Roger Bannister Roger Bannister
confidence until Roger Bannister broke
the four minute mile and what did they
say it was like a couple months before
everybody was breaking the four minute
mile so how does that work nobody could
do it everyone tried everyone failed and
as soon as one person did it now it was
no longer
impossible it was no longer a barrier
now everybody could do it until the line
moved I don't know what they
lowest minute mile is now so that's what
the normally Malachi saying
everyone sat around and they said we
don't know what to do in the
circumstance none of us have the courage
none of us have the conviction none of
us know what to do pinch has Rose and he
did the right thing and by doing that
what did he do kanois
he created he broke the four minute mile
the four-minute spiritual Mile and now
the rest of Christ can I see he
implanted jealousy and envy and
competitiveness
and now they said you know if he could
do it we could do it if he could fight
for Hashem we could fight freshen if he
could be
so aspirational in his relationship
we too can be so because
not from the Russian kinna of
zealousness the militia of jealousy and
envy he implanted a healthy and a
positive competitiveness and Envy in us
this
is
so now there's no killyon now there's no
destruction There's No Boundaries
there's no barriers in Indiana
because instilled a healthy
competitiveness Hashem says I'm giving
him the reward of Shalom
tells us
you have to break that sense of jealousy
and envy in you and the answer is you do
but you have to Define what's jealousy
and what's Envy if you're jealous and
envious of something someone else has
because you think you deserve it instead
of them I should have that car I should
have that spouse I should have that job
I should have that position of Honor not
them that's an unhealthy
self-destructive jealousy but if you see
someone else and it motivates you and it
inspires you and it drives you cannot so
for him
competition among Scholars creates
wisdom creates wisdom so healthy
competition is good which is why a
couple of weeks ago
when Aaron are coming after the
Impressions
he says it's not fair to me how come
they all get to bring corbanos and I
don't it's not fair to me Hashem doesn't
give them a stick of patch and say you
get what you get and you don't get upset
what does Hashem do he says
not fair to you you also want a piece no
problem Aaron you get to light the
menorah why does he reward him for that
jealousy what seems like
childish jealousy he rewards him the
answer is Hashem loves healthy
competitiveness
I love that Hashem loves healthy
competitiveness Hashem loves healthy
unhealthy competitiveness where you have
no self-esteem self-confidence
self-worth unless you can compete where
you're jealous and envy and defying your
identity and your happiness based on
others oh that's unhealthy but a healthy
competitiveness that drives you that
creates ambition for growth it's
beautiful and that's why Hashem rewards
it in our own and it's why Hashem
rewards it here now in pinchas the
kanoes
you introduced to Claud Israel you broke
the four minute mile and now you set a
new bar and they're all competing with
you and any no says Shalom here is the
Nobel Peace Prize wow what a beautiful
it would have evolvedic a thing that
you've done what an incredible thing so
pinchas is rewarded and we have a new
attitude towards midians
you have to strike the midianim
and harass them and smite them because
they conspired against us in the matter
of poor and they took us down then we
have a new census
I'm sorry
why do we have to strike the medianism
we have to go confront them we have to
go have a conflict with them why because
they harassed us they conspired against
us in a matter of poor the matter of
cause be the daughter of the leader of
Midian which just tells you also by the
way
how corrupt a nation when the leader
sends his daughter to act promiscuously
and provocatively
he uses his daughter and treats her like
I won't even say in order to defeat an
enemy kind of a Nation what kind of a
leader does that to his own child does
that to his own daughter
who was slain on the day of the plague
in the matter in the matter of the
matter of for kids
so again normally my third normal of the
day
some here we're on our Poland trip we
had a tissue if I bring that the uh
outside the cover of the normally
together I'll never forget
translate the word sororim
go confront them go take them down why
does the word so remain
they are
sorry let me put it differently what
tense
what tense is so Rim past present or
future
present
one does the normally melach yes
what what median did to you is over it's
in the past
the plague ended
so why is Hashem say you need to go
confront Midian because of what they're
doing to you in the present tense it's
what they did to you sorry not sorry
and what are they doing now
what does the word
they harassed you how means
by conspiring
through their strategy through their
plans through their makshava
higher
myself
what do you mean
go stop them for what they're doing
right now still in the present tense and
why do you need to stop them because
they conspired
because they conspired
you know the reason to avenge the Nazis
is not because they had a final solution
but it's because what they carried out
of the final solution here Midian
caused a plague through sending Cosby
and got us to Worship balpor in an
incredibly undignified way and that's
why we have to stop them why him what
they did that was so egregious is that
they had a strategy
is because they conspired that's what
they did that was so bad that we have to
avenge that we have to take them on so
it says
the truth is Midian tried to come at us
in three different ways
the action we know that's what the Torah
testifies that's what the narrative
tells us they came at us with the story
of Cosby they came at us with the story
of balpor
but people also who didn't worship poor
but they spoke about it they spoke in a
way that's not proper they spoke on
topics that are improper they spoke with
profanity that's improper and even those
who didn't engage in the speech heard
those talking about it and it caused
them to think about it because
that every time that we do or we see an
Avera it creates within us a residual
effect a residual impact
real possibility we now know that it's a
real possibility and it's seared into
our mind
because
so even if we certainly if we engage in
a behavior The Nostalgia The Good
Feeling the pleasure
even if we have regret and remorse but
we're still holding on to a little bit
of the geshmacht that we got from the
Avera and if we didn't do the aveira but
we watched we witnessed we observed
someone else so now that image is seared
into our mind we remember we review
maybe we're tempted maybe we're driven
because we want it the gam Khan
as long as Midian continued to exist as
long as Midian continued their practices
we continue to remember our encounter
our connection our engagement with them
Israel so the fact that they attacked us
the fact that they seduced us the fact
that they enticed us towards idolatry
Hashem took care of that we could move
on why did we need to continue to engage
them why did we need to avenge them
because of the makshava because until we
purge them from our mind we needed to we
needed to still engage them is
so we see from here that when a person
begins to do chuva if you want to return
repair recover from something wrong that
you did the first thing you need to do
this purge this residual impact image in
your mind is
telling us what's the method how do you
do it
you need to you need to do something
against median because they're still in
your head
they're still in your thoughts they're
not part of the past it's not sorry it's
so Rim so you need to do something to
purge them and get them out of your head
and in what way are there still in your
head how are they still conspiring
because they're still they're still in
your head and as long as they're in your
head they've got you so it's true you no
longer engage in actions with them
they're no longer seducing you
physically to do the wrong thing but
Cole's man that you're connected with
them you're thinking of them you're
imagining them you're fantasizing about
them as long as they're taking up real
estate in your head
in the present tense they are continuing
to get you how benef because they own
you because they're in your mind you
need to chavarus
you need to do something to push them
away so the Misa is over and the Deborah
you're not speaking about them but the
mahjava get them out of your head you
need to now get them out of your head
you have to find a way to put them down
you have to find a way to purge them
from your mind you have to find a way to
stop perseverating over them you have to
find a way to stop thinking about them
because as long as you're thinking about
them and they own you you continue to be
corrupted and compromised by them and
now you can understand says the normally
that's why it's so Rim not sorry because
they continue to be working in your head
and that's why it's
the most egregious thing that they did
in the end of the day is not just the
action and the Deborah but the makshava
it's the fact that they're still in your
mind this also answers back in
preciousnesso you get a bonus not just
this partial perspective for today but
we keep going backwards too
everybody knows why do we have why do we
have patience
Nazir why do we have the story of the
nazia the law of the Nazar coming right
after the story of the Sota the Wayward
woman who was disloyal to her husband to
teach us that a person is
if you see a Sota and you see what
happened to a Sota yes
then you say whoa somebody was
intoxicated somebody who drank too much
ended up crossing a line in a boundary
secluded with a man
practiced infidelity and look what
happened to her I'm staying away from
wine I'm becoming a Nazir and the
commentaries asked wait one second here
why do you have to go so far to become a
Nazir if you saw Sota a big hill Kula
what does that mean
it means you saw the whole thing what
happened the husband warned her don't
seclude yourself two witnesses testify
she secluded herself we don't know what
happened in that room where she says
nothing happened they were just playing
Mahjong but we're suspicious because she
was already warned and she defied the
warning and secluded herself nonetheless
so how are we going to establish the
truth she's brought to the basement
where her hair is uncovered she's
disheveled she's embarrassed we're doing
everything we can together to admit why
do we want her to admit we wanted to
avoid drinking the water we don't want
her to die and we don't want to erase
God's name in vain
but why does Hashem allow his name to be
erased in the story of the Sota
because the only way this is a beautiful
insight
the whole story of the mesota is not to
find her guilty the whole story of the
mesota is to be able to prove her
innocence to the point that her husband
will ever trust her again
because if she says nothing happens and
he wants to believe her he can't help
but always be suspicious the rest of his
life
but because Hashem is willing to let his
name get erased in one of the
ingredients of the Sota and when she
drinks it if she's innocent he'll know
about her innocence he can with a full
heart move on so it's not a way of
indicting it's a way of exonerating and
that's why Hashem goes that far but if
indeed she's guilty what happens
she dies how does she die a peaceful
death in her sleep
no her belly fills with air and
ultimately she explodes that's what
we're told we take her outside move away
from her we don't want her to
contaminate anything when the body parts
go flying it's pretty gruesome it's
pretty graphic it's pretty horrific it's
pretty terrible it's my son's favorite
part so far that we're learning together
now before you react all the women get
all upset so she does this horrible
death what about the man that she
cheated with you should know he dies too
wherever he is when she drinks he dies
too he violated Asia's ish he crossed
the boundary by Sleeping with a married
woman he dies the same horrific death
wherever he is that's what's in what's
interesting is it's wherever he is he's
on the couch watching football with his
friends and all of a sudden
Paul
[Music]
because she was busy in the basement
dealing with the accusation the sashalem
of bells the belzareba says you know
what you see from here
you see that someone can drink something
over here
and it impacts someone over there
and that's why when we make Allah and we
drink
we say the person
that's being celebrated all the way over
there over here could have an impact
over there he says look at the mission
in Sota if she can drink and he dies all
the way over there if that's true for
mother if it's true for death then it's
true you could drink Allah over here and
then somebody will have the benefit over
there a beautiful thought a beautiful
kavana next time if you enjoy a nice the
bottom line is she dies a horrible death
so colorota
who needs like reality TV if you're
following the Sota and you come to the
basement and there's a whole audience
waiting
what's going to be they don't break the
commercial they don't say tune in next
week right then she's going to drink the
mesota and you're going to find out
what's going to be and what happens
she explodes she dies
so what's everyone watching witnessing
gonna say to themselves whoa
I am never doing that
I don't ever want to be in this position
I'm not even talking to the opposite
gender I'm not getting secluded with the
opposite gender I'm done
why do they have to go to such an
extreme to be yaziras
simply seeing what happens to her should
be much more than enough to get you to
not want to come close why do you have
to go to this extreme
come back to the normally Malachi that
we just learned because how did Midian
work by getting into our head it's not
just about the ACT it's about the image
that is engraved in our mind that
continues to haunt us and tempt us and
seduce us so if you see a Sota you know
what you saw until now you said
I can't imagine anybody would actually
have an affair I can't imagine anyone
could cross that line This is not
breaking the four minute
barrier for the good this is breaking a
different boundary for the bad nobody I
know nobody in my world nobody I can
imagine nobody in claw Israel nobody
could ever do that and now you saw
somebody did that say I guess it is a
possibility I guess it does happen I
guess it's real I guess it's not only
hypothetical now you're in trouble
so therefore you have to do something to
erase the image yes
if they're still in your head you're in
trouble do something in order to purge
them from your head from your
imagination okay moving right along the
new census because we love censuses in
the Jewish people
lift the heads of the Jewish people from
20 years old and up and count them
counting is lifting when you make
someone feel counted when you lift their
Spirits when you lift them when you make
them feel counted you lift them up and
we go through the whole account
all the way to page 884 don't get
Whiplash
and so on how are they counted how is
the land divided
so I'll go back to possible
why is the census taken now because they
were poised and positioned to go into
the land and how is the land of Israel
distributed
how is it divided what tribe gets which
section
according to the
according to the uh how do you say Doral
the lottery thank you according to the
lottery shall one inherence be divided
between the numerous and the few
so is the lottery is relying on a goral
a good thing or a bad thing so here we
turn two our first odser plus a Torah of
the day incredible safer oh
unbelievable safer so he deals with the
following
so we know the gemara tells us
how do you know you're not supposed to
ask agoro we don't rely on girls
because we have a past that can save it
we walk purely with Hashem we don't
believe in Superstition
we don't believe in horoscopes we don't
believe in silly girls we don't believe
in it because
astrology and agoro a lottery
silliness you don't flip through the
book and the pages and you know it will
tell me what I meant to do that's
believing in something other than Hashem
it's kishov that's something sorcery
it's a Superstition it's following and
believing something other than
hashems
so on the one hand says
you have to follow Hashem and don't
believe in anything else
I was in Tennessee last week and lottery
winners are not usually from Boca Raton
they're from places like Tennessee so I
thought let me buy a Mega Millions
ticket
so I went into the I'm trying to finish
this campus
I thought I said Hashem
this is it we're done just make it easy
so I went into a gas station to buy a
ticket
I said do you sell the Mega Millions
Powerball tickets here so the woman
buying the cash will just says no the
owner of the gas station is very
religious I said so am I why don't you
sell why don't you sell lottery tickets
she said well he's very religious and
Lottery's gambling so they don't sell
here so I went next door and bought a
Powerball ticket and let's put it this
way our campaign for the campus
continues so tell us how successful I
was so who was right maybe the Gas
Station owner's right and I'm wrong
what are you doing maybe we should
gamble by lottery tickets maybe you
don't you know flip through the book or
spin the thing or determine your destiny
because of a lottery because of agoro is
it good is it bad is it right is it
wrong which is it because you see
most
how did the coin determine which goat
was for God and which one was going to
be pushed off a cliff
it was done through a lottery
here
the land is divided how through agoro in
the basement
distribute the jobs each day who got to
do what
quotes
that that which it says
we don't engage horoscopes and
Superstition to try to predict the
future that's when it's Usher that's
when it's Usher but in order to decide
what to do then it's allowed so which
code is which one
to randomly choose it's all from Hashem
apiagara to distribute the land of
Pierre garal to distribute the job of
the name of Pia goral because that's not
trying to predict or anticipate a future
that is in the present then only the
utter plus Saturn would do many many
pages a long essay on examples of when
we use a Goro I'll just briefly because
I still want to get through more give
you some of his examples the midst of
ibom if a man dies and he has no
children his brothers are obligated to
marry the wife lover of marriage in
order to continue the name let's say he
has more than one surviving brother
which one does even
says
the oldest brother but you have two
twins
so the one who died had twin brothers
one is older but let's say you don't
know
um
both of them want to do who goes first
so
you do a Goro you do a lottery to decide
which one the Morgan of Rome writes
quotes many posts Kim listen carefully
am I going to remember
you have people on the year of mourning
and somebody who has a year outside and
who gets kaddish who gets to lead the
Ahmad says the mugan of RAM
eeny meeny miny moe
stick out your fingers Goro maybe
they'll buy him in the handbook we have
to need to put some Goro so a girl wrote
to determine says the magana from the
Minogue in vermeisha
Kasha U.S roganville when do you love
him and it's
who gets the best
they did it through a guro master
the moon catcher a bar mitzvah and about
yuritzite who gets the mafter
munkacher nistapakti La Mesa is
so the yard side was that day and a bar
mitzvah boys
and they both want mafdir the Don
shambaricus
there's a big discussion who goes first
horizon
really about your psychos first but
they're gonna Pelt them with their game
if they take away the bar mitzvah boys
you know today a bar mitzvah boy still
gets the rest of the Parsha he leads
musaf he has a logo design then a new
yamaka he's wearing he gets a trust fund
with the Israel bonds he has all
technology gifts he could live without
them after but in those days
that was the whole bar mitzvah so he
says true that the earth side comes
first
but that's the kid's whole bar mitzvah
you're going to scar them for Life he's
going to grow up and write a book so
therefore what do you do NASA Goro you
make a Goro you make a Goro okay
and he says we find many more in the
postcam where when there was a dilemma
what to do the solution was agoro like
the Posse
so zagoro telling you what the truth is
is the girl just telling you what to do
it's like flipping a coin because you
don't know what to do so it's a good
solution what is the role of a Goro
whatever was done by accident is a girl
a sign from him he has a long long essay
over and over can you do a Goro and
Shabbos and yontef is it motivated
he goes on and on
unbelievable to go to La Gras they've
been familiar with the stories of the
god of hagra what's the difference
between a poor and a goral the story of
Purim answer Plaza Torah goes on and on
but we have some more ideas to get to oh
yeah yeah
okay
also contains the succession plan
foreign
come and say not fair to us my father
Our Father didn't have a son we don't
inherit how does this work another one
of the areas of Allah that Moshe forgot
he had to go back and review and consult
with Hashem and Allah
and so on Zion
is
I'm sorry the successor
tessain 888
May Hashem God of spiritual flesh
appoint the man over the assembly
Hashem it's time to appoint my successor
because if I'm not making it into the
land these people can't can't go forward
without a leader
I think it was impartial Class A few
weeks ago we spoke about level five
leadership Jim Collins good to great so
level five leadership is it's more about
the cause than it is about you so Moshe
rabenu is concerned a level 5 leader
plans their succession
they planner is going to take all over
so that's what a Moshe comes to Hashem
and says there needs to be a worthy
success successor and what's the quality
is looking for and locate harukos he
calls Hashem Hashem who knows the spirit
of All Flesh Hashem is
why does he have to introduce his
request from Hashem Hashem you know
everyone you know them better than
anyone knows themselves you know the
inner kishkas of every person well it's
time for a successor
what does one thing have to do with the
other
it's true Hashem knows everybody and
it's true it's time for succession
planning what do the two have to do
together sarashi says you know what it
has to do with
the successor has to be somebody who is
willing to accept and recognize and have
the incredible patience to know
that everybody's different
Hashem you created you fashioned
everyone and you know that
you know that everyone has a different
personality and attributes and assets
and liabilities
the critical criteria for a worthy
leader is
the word sovel
is the root of the word
what does this mean
s
patience
the root of the word patience is sovel
sovel is sufferance
a patient person is willing to suffer
in order to be patient
When God Says Moshe says Hashem is going
to take us away
the burden
of Egypt because patience is a burden
patience is sufferance you have to be
willing to suffer so why does he
introduce
avram
first in writes
it's an amazing Insight you know what
makes a good manic what makes a worthy
leader is someone who is not trying to
make everyone conform
a worthy leader is not trying to make
everyone fit into a box a worthy leader
is not trying to make everyone a Carby
carbon copy of themselves a worthy
leader is able to validate and recognize
and honor the differences in people that
just like Hashem
Hashem you surely know the differences
between people you created them so we
need a leader who will be able to be
sovel who will celebrate and honor and
promote and encourage and support the
individuality and the uniqueness of each
and every person recognizes
that people are not entirely similar
everyone is not exactly the same so what
does he say Allah
Hashem is moved by this
pasok
he says climb the mountain
I'm sorry we went out of order a little
bit keep succumb earlier
why did Moshe say I need a successor
because Hashem said climb on the
mountains climb the mountain look at the
land you're not going in
it's for another time we've asked the
question is Hashem cruel
torturing motion you're not going in
Nana
climb the mountain give a kick give a
look beautiful you really want to go
well you're not going
why would I shouldn't do that just
torturing Moshe but motion responds
Moshe reacts by saying it's time for a
successor and here the Salvation writes
the following immediately after the
narrative regarding the daughters of
Hashem commands Moshe go up to the
mountain and look at the land and what
you have seen you two will be gathered
to your people just as your brother Aram
when Hashem refused moshe's request that
he'd be allowed to pass over the yard in
river to Israel Moshe argued at the very
least he should be buried there since he
carried Joseph's casket in the desert
for 40 long years to be buried in Israel
Washington Hashem not given the same
privilege
ask the wrong
Moshe slept the bones of Yosef for 40
years
that is the longest Act of a pallbearer
in history
40 year Paul bearing
40 years
and all he asked was fine I can't go in
alive can I at least be buried there
and Hashem says no why not why not
hashem's answer was Yosef acknowledged
his land and you did not acknowledge the
land see in captivity yosef's identity
was tied to the lands of Israel he says
gracious I was stolen from the land of
the Hebrews but when Israel's daughter
is mistakenly identified Moshe as an
Egyptian to their father Moshe didn't
correct them he didn't say no no no I'm
not an Egyptian I'm really I'm Israeli
I'm Jewish I'm a Hebrew and as a result
of this Omission he didn't Merit to get
buried in the land what do you see from
here khabra
our identity has to be intertwined and
connected
to the land of Israel even if we have a
legitimate reason
there are legitimate reasons not to yet
make Aliyah there are no legitimate
reasons not to be struggling with Aliyah
Aliyah is not a question of if but a
question of when there are legitimate
reasons not to be living in Israel there
are no legitimate reasons not to be
struggling with when we will live in
Israel and that identity that connection
that pull to Israel has to be part of
our core identity there's no such thing
as a Jew who lives in the diaspora who
says yeah I'm good my siblings live
there my family lives there I'm happy
for them there but I'm happy here and
this is where I am this is where I'll be
and I'm good a Jew has to know I'm here
temporarily and if I have an excuse or a
reason then I have an excuse for a
reason but my core identity is
intertwined is tied to that land that's
part of who I am this week I'm behind
the bimo of Natan shirensky the great
Russian refuse Nick who's a minister a
leader
of Israel and his story if you don't
know it we'll talk about it tomorrow
night
he was secular he didn't have any like
the other Russian Soviets was denied
being able to learn about his Jewish
identity
but he felt connected his first
connection was after The Six Day War
was to the Jewish people it was to the
land of Israel and how that led to his
exploring his Jewish faith and the
courage it took for who he was and who
he is and the difference he's making so
ultimately ISRO Moshe rather didn't
correct Israel's daughters when they
said he's Egyptian he didn't say whoa
whoa whoa just temporarily
as opposed to Yosef who all time he was
in Egypt said but I really come from
from the land I really come from there
you see how important it is our
connection particularly as we're going
to be starting these three weeks these
three weeks are a time to review and
renew our connection to the land
Hashem
okay
so
back to where we left off I'm sorry we
went backwards there for a moment
go find somebody over there says
what is it that much looks for in
qualifications find the rabbi you know
find the rabbi with the longest aslay
find the rabbi with the best pedigree
the rabbinic search committee what are
they looking for him
that's what you're looking for what are
you looking for I'm sure you'd say this
who will go out before them and come in
before them who will take them out and
bring them in that's what you're looking
for says you need somebody who is going
to dedicate themselves who's going to
demonstrate their dedication because the
spa that this leader is going to give is
not with his words but rather with
his actions he will speak much more with
his actions than with his words
so you don't have to take a test on
Shahs it's not a question of yours it's
not how long is right it's a person who
goes out and comes in
is there most enough is for the people
do you care about do they love the
people are they patient with the people
and they demonstrate real being a real
evident Hashem in their own midos in
their own relationship
and you see here the criteria of a
leader is do they practice what they
preach because ultimately that leader is
going to teach much more with their
actions than they are with their words
listen to this girl wants to know
when you hit the rock
as that he wasn't entering the land so
why didn't he immediately say I'm not
going in
I guess it's time for a successor why
does he wait until now after the episode
why is it only now
so the cutskar says Hashem
because he didn't ask for a success or
he thought he had his man who was his
man
no-brainer was obvious it was all
pinterestes was going to get the job
but now when he saw Pinnacles act like a
kanoi he says the cutskar
says the cutskar he saw Pinnacle to
react as a kanoi even though what
Pinnacles did was correct and it had the
endorsement of Hashem and he was
rewarded
but still a leader can't be a kanoi you
need somebody on the side every Rabbi
needs their kanoi in their pocket
but the kanoi can't be the rabbi
so Moshe rabena when he realizes when
pinchas acts out of Kanas he realizes
I'm glad I have a penthouse but he's not
the successor he's not going to be the
next leader it can't be Pinnacles back
to the drawing board time for a search
committee who should it be and of course
they conclude it's none other than
Yoshua why they conclude Yeshua bear
with me one more moment and I'll end
with the caduceus
foreign
patient and will suffer
the difficult people
and the conditioned slavery of Navy it's
like says on this something a commentary
which is really autobiographical of who
the Buddhism was
this leader is going to find the people
bathing in a disappointing
ways
this leader has to be able to be patient
and understand their human beings they
have fault their failures they have
shortcomings they have misgivings he has
to love them not nonetheless but love
them for who they are pimples warts and
all and the leader has to be effective
at being
the leader has to be able to stand up
and say but look how beautiful but look
how wonderful the leader has to be the
most loyal Defender
he has to say no it's because they live
in this world and attempted and driven
by the Temptations
why does he give the angels to eat and
drink he knows their Angels who don't
eat and drink what he was saying to them
is welcome Angels but let me tell you a
little bit about our world we have a
little something called Cape Cod potato
chips
we have a little something called Trader
Joe corn chips we got a little something
called Fourth of July barbecues with the
bun without the bun whole wheat bun not
all we bun one number hot dog we got a
little something called Temptation in
this world malachem Welcome to our world
and don't judge us from your perch
judges from down here in our world where
it's a battle and it's a struggle
because the leader has to be able to
advance these arguments did
and his successor would need to and
there was nobody maybe more in all the
Jewish history
the great defender of the Jewish people
so that's why Moshe says God you know
their differences and you know that you
gave us the yet Sahara and you know that
you drop this in the positives in the
world of Temptation you need a leader
who's not going to expect and demand
Perfection from people you need a leader
who's not going to appoint with
criticism
the leader who's not going to indict you
need a leader is not going to knock them
down you need a leader who's going to
lift them up who's going to defend who's
going to fight for who's going to
support
and in this Insight was really giving a
message about himself wishing everyone a
wonderful day tomorrow morning 10
minutes of meeting Mrs asharam followed
by living with a moon and tomorrow night
behind the Bima with Natan sharensky
have a phenomenal day stay happy stay
healthy
and stay holy