Parsha Perspective For Today - Pinchas 5783/2023 - Leadership

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