Parsha Perspective For Today - Shelach 5783/2023 - Nothing Stands in the Way of Will

okay good morning Boca ratel welcome back to partial perspectives for today we have the privilege of this week of reading and learning the great story terrible story a great story of the Jewish people trying to investigate the land of Israel ultimately our Aliyah our Collective move there and many other sections as well mikoshi Jason Mahala and much more aparsha series is generously sponsored by Becky and Navi cats and family memory of David Grossman our learning ishma's we are so grateful to the gross ones for their generosity for the cat says for their generosity today she has also sponsored remember Michelle thank you thank you so much for the generosity and all of that sponsorship page 798 in the art scroll Stone right and he said send identify and find spies will investigate the land who will go see the land one from each of the tribes send one leader from among them and in this process itself already is revealed what went wrong everything that happened that was wrong what is the possible what's the next word so the kriyakar says the men were reluctant the men were hesitant the man did not want to enter the land they had powerful positions in the mid bar they were living this incredibly supported Cola Lifestyle on the mid bar all they did is sit and learn everything was prepared and taken care of for them the man fell from shemaim and the water came from the air and Safety and Security of the army the police force was provided by the anonia covered everything was taken care of all they had to do was sit and learn a very Noble and ambitious beautiful lifestyle however entering the land would require settling the land would require farming the land would require protecting the land governing the land they didn't want to go and who were the ones who loved and who had an affection for the land of Israel the nushem the women so where did it all go wrong says the clyakar anashim had women been sent we never would have wandered 40 more years we would have gone right in based something that should have been built the story would have a very happy ending right from the start but because men were sent they messed everything uses would be much better off sending women you Moshe you want men to go you think that's the way to go no problem I know it's a recipe for disaster I know we're much better off if women go you want men go for it says that's where it all went wrong is by the third word spies we would have been a much better different a much different conclusion version a much better circumstance this is where it all this is what all what all went wrong says the women that reasons Hashem Eric's Israeli nickname for Etsy Searle is Isha yaras Hashem how many spies went well tells us is once spy per tribe the Nazi the prince the leader of the head that's what we all know that's what we were all grew up with that's how we were all raised but Torah are wonderful and safer we've been exploring this year quotes of you masaka Sota says is a is means really there were two men from each tribe there were 24 spies shishas now they were divided in terms of carrying these enormously large overgrown fruit then you have to fit that in so to be keepers of the opinion that there were not 12 Spies there's a message that tells us in fact there were 24 spies 12 from each tribe is the source that we have for the fact that we're 12. so it comes out that if in fact there were 24 that has a very important consequence of ramification we know advantage in order to recite holy texts holy parts of our liturgy are davening you need a minion tomorrow require a million how many is it a minion 10. how do you know it's ten because the Torah says he bought the separate from this congregation is Ada there were 12 Spies minus two kalavin Yeshua were good that leaves how many ten that's how we know a minion but if it turns out that there weren't 12 Spies there were 24 spies subtract two maybe in order to say victusa maybe a minion is not 10 maybe a minion is how many that there were 24 spies so called the verse Sarah we learned from Israel 10 but according to the equivalent 24-2 you would have you would need 22 in order to have a minion we don't pass in this way we don't follow that but it comes out very interesting that there is an opinion that maybe a minion is not 10 that maybe a minion is no less than 20 no less than 22. okay let's keep going so these spies are identified they're targeted was a mistake that it was men chosen not women and this interpretation the cleoco was not being apologetic and responding to feminists who were attacking him it's because the Torah always puts women on a pedestal and admires women for their virtue and ability and often their higher spirituality and that's why the clioco already mentioned a couple hundred years ago where we went wrong from the to begin with from the very start was choosing men not women foreign yahushua and Moshe changes hosea's name to yahushua sounds like his name was hoshea and it became Yeshua why did it become Yeshua now why now Rashi says he added God to most to yeshua's name with a prayer may Hashem spare you fortify you give you the courage and the conviction to overcome the pressure from your fellow spies may you stand up for what's right now you have the courage to speak the truth so Moshe changes hashaya's name too Yeshua the question is when did this happen when was the name change when was the successful name change tells us that in fact it was not right now though the poslick strongly implies hosea's name change took place now it took place earlier when did it take place earlier right when Yeshua became his assistant when Yeshua became his thank you right hand man Protege is the word I was looking for when Yeshua became his Protege that's when the name changed from Hosea to yehoshua um because that is in fact the custom when you get a position of Distinction you have a title change maybe a name change it was out of it was out of love it was out of a prayer that Moshe had then you're playing the significant role for me and for the people you're no longer Hosea you're now yahushua abramov and we find this precedent avraham was avrum it became avraham Sarai she became Sara Yakov Yakov he became is it wasn't when he originally was recruited to become his Protege nor was it when he was sent to be one of the spies according to this third interpretation when was it the name change harsinai said if you're going to be the scan rashkeilo then you can't be hoshaya you gotta be Yeshua you know Jared you're Yitzhak you're not Jake you're yaakov you're going to take over the Yeshiva if you're going to be my assistant you got to go by a different name you're now yahushua so according to Moshe already called him this not right now when he's sent to be a spy so lakhora says when did Hosea now known as yahushua first begin to be the assistant emotion where and when already in already when we were still in slavery foreign I am as The Madras tells us yes so we already have Yeshua serving as the assistant already in mitraim which would mean the name change not only didn't happen now it happened already as far back as when they were living in mitraim we have a fourth opinion and that is the Hassan sofa says the name it was given at his birthday but his father already gave him the nickname or called them this other name yehoshua already going all the way back to his bris to his childhood so four opinions what's interesting is none of them are now none of our now what we always were taught what we thought we already knew which was when he became the spy in the effort to fortify to give him the courage to give him the conviction he changed his name Carla guantanamara we'll talk about in a moment and Hosea became Yeshua goes all the way back to his childhood when he became the number 2-2 Moshe according to another opinion that happened at harsinai according to what seems to be our pasok seems to be Rashi it happened now when he was sent out on this mission that Moshe gave him this extra Courage by changing his name from Hosea to yahushua the beauty of the oatsa plus satello he digs up opinions changes what we thought we always knew you're learning the Parsha maybe the 50th 60th 70th 80th year in a row and you always find something new you always find a new interpretation something we thought we know we didn't know so that's Yeshua what about Khalifa base Turn the page page 800. if they came up they ascended in the south is Giants living there had been built seven years before so on in Egypt they arrived the valley of Ash gold and they cut from their Vine cluster of grapes and pomegranates and figs why were they coming up in the South why were they coming up in the South so yet again Rashi tells us what are they doing from the south dog they didn't all go to this come up in the South who made a pit stop who detoured zachabron just khalev the nishta is he went to godavan he went to go stop at the graveside of his forefathers he wouldn't be swayed he wouldn't be persuaded he wouldn't give into the peer pressure to conspire with the other spies to report negatively on the land of Israel now there's a question we've mentioned this in the past the Ali sure of all but wonders if Kali already anticipates that his peers his colleagues are going to be to no good and he knows he does not want to join with them what does he have to go tomorrow you know where they're going to go bad you know you don't want to join them so don't join them shine good to go what do you have to go on a detour I don't have to hijack the bus and go to Chevron bulletproof boss nonetheless just you know their plan their nefarious plans and have the courage not to give in to them sort of OBA says sometimes you can anticipate something's going to be difficult to do and you could know the right thing to do and you still need a little extra feeler that you do the right thing in the end even when you know the right thing to do and even you know though the influencers trying to get you to not do the right thing it's not enough to identify those negative influences it's not enough to identify and know the right thing to do sometimes you need a little extra Fila a little extra help to do the right thing in that moment even when you know the right thing to do that's the power of peer pressure it's the power of the it'sahara even when you know it's wrong to not give in to what's wrong that is what revolva explains and answers back to the ocean in all these Generations people went to Marsa marpella to Daven it is a place that we go to Davin is among the first to go was Khaled They came from the south he's separated from the spies and he said to his mothers and fathers he said to the matriarchs and Patriarchs to the Abus animals for me that I do the right thing who else do we know stopped it is that in that hour that our enemies and burned it because he made his way but the first to go even before and even before College was avram avinu as the Zara akadash tells us not only did avram purchase our original tie to our homeland but he went to Davina each and every day that field was filled with the highest smells with the with the wonderful fragrance of Canadian saw a light that emanated from that cave is even before he purchased it even before he designated it as the Eternal resting place of Sarah and ultimately his own he was drawn there by the light and by the fragrance of gun Aiden and he was drawn to Daven to connect there spiritually and that's what planted within him this yearning this longing he was pulled to purchase it as the resting place of Sarah and from the Zohar it sounds like it's plausible that not only avram but following in his footsteps you yaakov in the 12 tribes all David and that's where Khalid got that in the soda where did Colin get this Minogue where did he get this idea that you go to kivre evos where did he get this idea that you go and you stop and you Daven at the graves of your forefathers you got it Khalif because the heads of the 12 tribes who got it from yaakov who got it from yitzlak who got it from avram because of them perceived there was something special there and that is a place that we go to connect the rambam writes in a letter talks about the Merit he had to go to America yeah in order to go kiss the graves of my forefathers in the cave and says I stood in the cave is I praise them I thanked Hashem for all the good foreign would be designated as festive days as holidays for me right the rambam the ramban also writes in a letter that he said to yerushalayim to his son that he married it was that he too was able to go tomorrow tried to designate a grave there as well the ramban writes in his Parish on the Torah as well why does the Torah take up so much real estate to talk about this real estate to talk about avram's purchase of Chevron he overpaid it he overpaid because the Torah wants to tell us exactly where the mara is we can't neglect the burial place of our forefathers we don't move on we don't ignore we don't neglect we maintain we preserve we protect we know where it is and we go back and we visit next week I have to go to New York minute for a wedding I'm flying into Newark and I left myself a little time I'm going to go visit my grandparents I'm gonna go say hello to my grandparents who are buried near Newark Elizabeth New Jersey we know where they're buried and we go and we visit it's a big effort we're gonna have him behind the bhima but in Europe the Jewish cemetery some of which are being destroyed neglected intentionally with malice and others without malice but there's a big effort to try to restore and protect and preserve these tombstones and these cemeteries and the places where our forefathers are where they're buried remember my wife's grandfather he would go back to Germany to visit he would say avos he had no interest in going back to Germany despite his feelings of fondness for full day in his childhood but he had no positive feeling of going back to Germany he went back for one reason kimfri avos the value of us it is a Jewish concept so the question is why and what what are we doing there are we diving into them do we think that they're in a position of influence and power to change our destiny why do we go back why do we go back to these to these places and here again the Torah is giving us this precedent Rashi that person has a trying circumstance you go back to kivriavos you know last time I went to my grandparents grave you know what I found there on top of the tombstone a pile of invitations that my cousins had gone because there's a Minogue that you go and you invite those who are no longer here to your simchas an invitation to a wedding invitation to a bar mitzvah Zohar kadash tells us this is not a made-up Rabbi talking point for under the huppa you know talking point 122 even those who are not here physically are still here under the it's not just some rabbinic talking point they teach you in smyrha I can give you the mocker if you want it that our loved ones even those who are no longer physically here they come back down to attend the simchas of their children of their progeny of their grandchildren to reap the reward to enjoy the nachas to see the return on the Investments that they left there is a tradition a truth that we have that they come back and therefore there's a very beautiful custom it's a very comforting custom for those who will experience their simcha as bittersweet because a loved one will not be there when you go and physically place an invitation I don't know what you do today with the invite the Evite what's the email address of those who are no longer here at cemetery.com I I don't know at gane.org I don't know exactly how you address it the Evite I don't know how you do that today I guess you could always print it out and bring the print out of the Evite and put it on top of the uh it's still worth doing the Evite now printing still worth going to an Evite but print it out and you put it and it's very comforting that Bittersweet simcha when you can feel I'm putting something physical on this Tombstone because they will be there not in theory not because we put a Talus not because you're wearing a Kittle only but because our tradition is that they come that they come back so we visit every of us are important we go back and we visit and what are we doing there are we diving to people there of course not the mahario rights Tinus because one of the times that we go to a cemetery specifically is on a fast day so enough of Tennessee writes um don't put your Hope and Faith in those who are buried there is you're talking not to the deceased you're talking to Hashem but the deceased now have more access to Hashem a closer connection to Hashem they are living more adjacent to Hashem so you're asking them to represent to Advocate to be ambassadors to be a male at the ocean say I'm down here in the physical world in the world of Temptation the world of Desire the world of mistakes the world of failures so I only have limited way of asking Hashem but you are living in the ulama MS you're in the world of truth you're in the Yeshua Myla you are living in this place of God's countenance undeniable your soul is reconnected and restored and returned to its source so since you now are in with the judge I know that he's the judge not you we're not asking our of us anymore to determine Our Fate that is Hashem and Hashem alone and we need to know this Mario when you go to the all of the Rebel and when you go to meron and when you go to cemetery in Warsaw and when you go to wherever you go in Darwin you're not diving into the people who are buried there we don't believe in it that's not our religion khalilah but we are appealing to the one who's buried there who's now in an ulama MS who's now clean and pure of whatever mistakes that because they're in a better position please Advocate please be my Ambassador this is quoted by the verdev as well as Mario the milk has a loser wonders of the Mario we're following that colleague benuefuno went and what does he do it says that he's dominating to them so maybe that's a question on the Mario so the moon catcher explains the Mario actually yes you're saying please help my davening be on steroids help my davening go even higher help my darling be even louder be even more readily and easily heard so that's why we go lastly who's buried so the good morning everyone says double suggests there's two pairs doubles and pairs so who's there mamrei kirias arba um it is the kirya it is the area of the four pairs with the four pairs is that it anyone else buried gimmo tells us that asaphale his eyes his eyes were plucked out of his head and rolled into miles says the ears of ASAP made it in and the measure sounds like his whole head he was decapitated so some gruesome part of asaph is also in the maora the yakut shimoni says to his Nation he should be brought who's he talking about he says Yehuda made his way in Yehuda snuck into another medicine says in the name of the Safar you know who else is buried there Moshe and sipora foreign that's why Zion others the fabricadesha dinner because the camera had off that day none of us were present so but Moshe after he was first buried in arvas Moab then was reintered in marasa marpela says the medrish yakuten Moshe and he was reunited with sipoda others say you know who's buried there the ramban because in this letter of the ramban he says I visited and I got a grave right there so there is a tradition that maybe even the ramban is buried there in the mahara again that upends and undo's everything we thought we knew about everything but does it by bringing sources at least so it makes it fun so who's bearing is it the four pairs that we all know or maybe some extras made their way in Asaf Moshe and sipora Yehuda maybe even the ramban himself Zion moving along spies come back they return from investigating the land and they say we come from the land that we were sent the guns it indeed is a land flowing with milk and honey and this this is its fruit succulent delicious check out this amazing amazing Fruit by the way this amazing fruit we saw it identified which fruit was included which food was included should be so identified anavim onim grapes pomegranates and and figs so the greater the worse Organo he writes bikurem the Mitzvah bikurim when we come into the land we take our first fruit you bring it to your shalim you make a declaration in front of the coin first fruit the Mitzvah of the first fruit was the antidote the repair to the mistake of the maragon because the Mirage The Mirage spoke negatively about the land and the Metro bikuram was given as the antidote because of the love and affection of the land and how do you know this says listen to this this is a hint the Muslim the mishna gives an example how do you fulfill them a person goes down into their field and you see a fig that ripened you see a cluster of grapes that ripened Ramon shabikir a pomegranate that ripened koshiro begin a rubber band around it and you designate it why'd the mishna give these three examples there are seven fruits of the land of Israel that bikurim applies to why'd the mishna give these three examples dafka you see a grape you see a fig you see a pomegranate he name was current consulation because there is an illusion within the mission itself when it gave three examples of first fruit specifically chose from among more they could have three examples of first fruit though exactly were the fruit that the Mirage brought back why because bikurim is the antidote bikuru is the tikkun of the miracle good so this muragoon come back and they say it's a land flowing with milk and honey it's beautiful and this is its Delicious Fruit this is not directly it's another beautiful safer we've been learning from called it takes the teachings of rabi nachman and applies it to the Parsha Kasich Israel when the Mirage returned from investigating the land from investigating the land at first they came back and they praised the land we just read these words they said can imagine the assembly the show was packed everybody was there The Mirage take the stage no what'd you see what'd you find what's going to be how's it going to go they grab the mic checking one too the first thing they say is um the land it's flung with milk and honey check out these fruit who hasn't had a breakfast in Israel you shall I am it's the best part of staying in a hotel that breakfast the fruit the vegetables in Israel So Fresh So Delicious at first they began with praise look at the size of these fruit look how succulent look how delicious look how ripe Le marocha matarasa is their ultimate game their ultimate goal their ultimate plan was to make the people fear entering the land but they couldn't hide they couldn't resist the fact that we're talking about a very special or very singular land rabinasan writes likute Allah Israel the main place in the world where the power of the will is the land of Israel will will meaning our desire our yearning our longing our will the main place where one can see the light and the energy and the power and the effectiveness of Simply willing something is the land of Israel as ice doctor be nothing this is a few hundred years ago I found that fascinating because it's a famous quote from herzl which is anyone know it if you will it it is no dream I can't tell many people have it as their email signature if you will it it is no dream hurts those quote I found that fascinating because long before Rabbi nachman taught the Makoma Israel the place where if you will it it is no dream is the land of Israel Eric Israel Nick race it's called the land of T which an Aramaic city is to Will how do you know that if you ever listen in the reading of a subba under the huppa maybe I listen more attentively because I have the privilege sometimes of getting to even read foreign makes this commitment that commitment he will honor This Promise This pledge in Aramaic is ratson he Wills she is where is the place where we spiritually are awakened and aroused where the will in US is directed to Avinash Israel you land in Israel and the air all of a sudden you feel in touch and connected with your nishama you yearn for something bigger and more call me if you're connected to the Holiness and sanctity of the land of Israel something in you is awake just when you come there especially one who lives there is in the latest edition of Jewish action on the 75th anniversary of the state of Israel it has entries about different godola Israel and their description their connection to 1948 the state of Israel and to Israel in general so talks about his father's connection to the language of Israel and ravaran's first trip to Israel when he returned came back and gave a report not like the Mirage like the Mirage Yeshua gave a report positive Yeshiva is in this learning and this was Dakota and this is what I saw on this is who I met this is what I experienced and her footnote when he was all finished said you left out the most important part and he said what's that I'm only paraphrasing it's worth reading it inside I think we have three copies in the lobby so you left out the most important part what's that he said did you feel the kadusha there it's a straw forget who what where when The Heir the land did it radiate Holiness and sanctity did you feel were you in touch did you connect with its kadusha and he records that that was to the rest of his life in his Mantra was a significant and as miraculous as the state the court of Aransas it's sanctity it's singularness it's uniqueness it's Singularity and that's what he's teaching here that when you come into the land of Israel it's a place that one is awakened in the ratsam and but the rain is in our generation we've married you can live in Israel you can move to Israel and all of us my friend Leo D if he's listening it's not if it's when all of us not if but when it's where we all belong it's where we have to go it's not if but when we will be there but in the earlier Generations the generation of ravnakman Aliyah was filled with all kinds of dangers and threats and was for all intents and purposes almost impossible rabi nachman himself tried to go wanted to go made an effort but with the rut Zone when a person Wills something the will alone can bring about and create a reality which is if the trace exactly where it comes from that's what herzo was paraphrasing himself if you will it is no dream there is nothing that stands in the way of the ratson is the same word as rats to run why because when you will something you get there even faster you run towards that goal towards that result you don't really want it you procrastinate you're lazy you stumble you get there eventually but razon is rats your Rats on the stronger your will the stronger your desire the faster you run the more you accomplish that goal why am I telling you all this why is rabi National telling us all this because what they didn't connect with about the land of Israel what they didn't believe in was the power of ratson the power of will the power of a dream the power of a drive the power of a desires the obstacles the impediments that's the problem you see when they come back this is so important to understanding our pasture when the monogam come back and give their report did they say anything inaccurate no everything they say is true do they exaggerate no everything they say is right on point what'd they do that was so wrong and if you look when Khalif responds and kalev grabs that mic and has his Moment of Truth and he turns to the people he doesn't respond to each of their points he doesn't contradict it or respond to what does he say Allah let's go we got this let's take this that's not much of an argument they got a board meeting should we build the campus not is it a dream what a reality can we make it happen so one person says you know here's the problem here's the other problem is the third problem is the fourth problem you're all the reasons we can't do it so I think we should drop it someone grabs the mic and says let's do it let's go we got this put the show the ground is that an argument is that a response is that persuasive is that compelling what's going on over here so if nachman says you have to understand where the monogam went wrong is all they saw was what was right before their eyes all they saw was what they could see what was superficial what was exterior external they didn't understand the power of a dream the power of Drive the power of failure not being an option the power of the person who sets their heart their mind puts their eyes on a goal and says I'm not stopping till I get it I will run over walls around walls under walls I will run right through that wall because this is going to happen I can refute your points Point by point but if you are already so close-minded that all you see are the reasons not to do something then you'll never hear the refutation so there's no point in going there what you need to know is the power of ratsan that ain't that aretz Israel is a land of ratsun that if you dream it if you will it it is no dream that if you will it it is no dream aimed our omit before it's what the miraglam were missing it was the height of the Mirage it's where we went wrong and it's haunted us through our history we've only survived because we didn't listen to that message here we are because we didn't look at the reality tell a group of Jews who faced the Inquisition the Crusades a holocaust the odds of leaving Egypt tell Jews who faced those odds and those realities throughout our histories that if you dream it if you will it we will overcome who faced the story of Hanukkah tell Mordechai and Esther who faced the story of Purim and if you listen to the voice of the maragu in our own heads at this point in that point in the other point in the odds and the data and the likelihood and the statistics and what the oddsmakers are saying we wouldn't be here today we would have given up long ago didn't care and our ancestors who faced the Crusades the Inquisition the Holocaust and those skeletons who survived in 1945 three years later cobbled together old parts of cars to form Israel's first Air Force if you haven't seen the film that was done by Steven Spielberg's sister on the first Air Force to the founding of the state of Israel you can't watch the documentary and not think that the amount of state is not a miracle skeletons who'd never flown planes who just walked out of concentration camps took spare parts of cars to make planes that wobbled through the air that became Israel's first Air Force if someone would look at those parts and look at those people and say what do you think should we take on seven surrounding Arab countries with their Air Force and their armies and their military what do you think of those odds did the morogland had a chance to grab a microphone and stand up would we have a state of Israel today it's because we silence the voice of those moragam in our ears and we see beyond the surface and we understand the power of razon of dreaming of Desire of Drive of will that ended in the world the light the energy the power so what was their answer bharats no they're too strong they're too powerful we can't go up what does Khali say I can refute your points Point by point after I'm happy to sit and go few I'm happy to sit and go through and refute Point by Point later but the first thing you need to know is nothing's going to stop us if we dream it if we have the drive if we believe in it if we will it we'll make it a reality okay now you want to know the strategy how to respond and refute your points no problem pour a drink make a coffee light a cigar we can go through them one by one but if you're not first with me that Alona Allah if you don't believe that we've got this that our will is going to make us overcome it then forget about it it's never going to happen and that's really the story of the versus the voice of Khalif because that's not the beautiful piece we studied this last year last year we saw four or five different opinions or two years ago we didn't have schlock last year two years ago tough Shin payoff 2021 could find it online we saw four different approaches to Allah but this is another this is a furthering their approach of Allah anola's Khalif saying we got this this is ours we believe in this this is going to happen this is ours this can happen this can happen this was their miscalculation and this is why College came up he stopped in Chevron and he doesn't and he responded that we can we can make it happen we can make it happen there's a beautiful Alexander Rebel he is Mark Israel 1853-1910 the Alexander River he says the maraglam were concerned if we're worthy it will be tovahara it'll be a land of condition tahara but there's also Tama Israel is a complicated place you know there are people who send their children for a gap year to Israel because they Bank on Israel flipping their child out Israel will set my child straight Israel will be exactly what my kid needs to come back on the straight and narrow and it's true it's a beautiful land yeshivas the seminaries it's amazing but there's alsoam but there's also the square at the end of Ben Yehuda there's also the underground there's also places of Temptation and challenges there's places that kids can easily fall in in Israel too and that's what the maragon's fear was what if we're unworthy what if we come up short what if we aren't up to the test what if we don't have what it takes yeah there's a lot of reward if you go to Israel and you get it right but there's a big risk if you get it wrong can argue I'm going to get in trouble for this that's one of the calculations and issues when considering Aliyah there's a lot who go and their children Thrive and flourish and Blossom there are many who go and children depending on the stage of Life struggle because I'm it's not also only easy so there's enormous reward but commensurate there's also a lot of risk and that's what the miraglam got up and said see the fruit see the land it's filled with possibility it's pregnant with potential this incredible reward but we've got to tell you we were sent to investigate we were asked to be honest so we've got to give you a little honesty reality check it's also filled with risk so one does the Alexandra Israel so where'd they go wrong what's the matter with that report sounds pretty honest isn't it fair what was wrong in their thinking moreover he says the same thought process I'm with you wherever you go but yaakov says maybe I'm unworthy maybe I'm not up to the challenge maybe I'm not worthy of hashem's promise and protection so why do we vilify the meroglam but we lord and praise yaakov when the people leave Egypt did they not express concern and resistance and fear and doubt as they get to the Sea the Egyptians in Pursuit and yet we celebrate not all of them and the miraglam are vilified so it says the Alexander but here's the fundamental difference Jacob was scared he was nervous he didn't let him hold the back he plowed forward he planned for his reunion he marched on he mentioned the concern he has he was only honest and real but he never hesitated he didn't use it as a cop-out to hold back part of him said I can't but then he was determined and the bigger and greater part of him said I can when we stood at yams if we panicked we considered turning around we doubted if we ever should have been taken out but then we pushed forward then we jumped in the water anyway and the problem with the Mirage was not that they had doubts the problem with the monogram is not the reality Chuck the problem with the Morocco is not the voice he says are you building too much can you afford it the interest rates what are you taking on those voices are welcome they're needed they're necessary the problem is when you let them hold you back you have to persevere and overcome responsibly strategically but it's unforgivable it's unforgivable to abort the mission and the plan because you indulge and you give in to those that voices of self-sabotage and self-defeat when you give up and you give in instead of pushing forward and believing that you can colleague jumps in that's when he blurts out alola we got this who's in with me who's in with me who's coming that's the answer the ultimate answer that he's giving one foot in front of the other you gotta plow forward we don't have a voice the miraglam said that was their Mantra and what was khalid's answer foreign if you had to just contrast the two voices and I have to tell you I find that people can be divided into one of those two camps they are the Lonely People everything you raise everything you suggest every idea every proposal won't work out can't be done we tried it the other failed uh so I gotta say one of the reasons I have the best job in the world I speak to colleagues and Friends rabbis in other communities and they go to their board first of all they need approval before they can send out an email but they go to their board they have a big idea they can afford it and pay for it they have an idea it's fiscally responsible but no that's not the way we do it here this is why it'll never work out don't try it this won't be against it that won't be unhappy about it so no and they're stuck and stagnant and I'm blessed to be the rabbi of the greatest show on the planet where there's a leadership we say Rabbi here your wings go fly as long as you're doing it financially responsibly why not why can't we why can't we we got this and you have to ask yourself in your family and whether it's about your own health physical spiritual mental whether it's about a project you want to finish shots finished on our finished mission of finish Mr whether it's about a dream that you have professionally do you bring the attitude of it's never going to work out it's never going to happen I'm not deserving I can't pull it off there's all the forces that are against me my parents my spouse my children my boss my neighbor I can't or do you bring the mentality of Jacob in the progeny of Khalif where does Khalid get his name I happen to have a son-in-law named khalib I said this under his where does colleague get his name the measure says Khalif comes from Calaveras culo leave he's all heart is all heart when you're all heart when you have drive and desire and passion I play tennis against my son-in-law Khalif he gets to every ball I hit a ball that should be a winner anyone else I would play he's cool if he gets to every ball whether we're from his tribe or not what's our spiritual Legacy never gonna happen can't pull it off forget about it abandon the dream or are we a people of aim Dover home there's nothing that stands in in the face of us I said before this is also I think the shot connecting the miracle in the beginning of the Parsha sits us at the end of the Parsha The Mirage sent La sura and sits as it says it's not coincidence the same language is used the beginning of the past the end of the Parsha the Markham are sent to investigate the land La sura is very same words investigate and see investigate and see how to set this work now we're skipping to the end of the pressure how does this work how does it works contrast turquoise and the white trailers when you see the turquoise it reminds you of the sea the sea reminds you of the heavens Heavens reminds you of the Heavenly Throne it reminds you of Hashem so when you're tempted to do the wrong thing but you look down at your sisters and see the contrast of those colors what kicks in what kicks in to save you from your own the power of the imagination you're looking it says it's all you see are a bunch of threats white and turquoise but you're not just supposed to see what's right before you what are you supposed to employ and engage the power of the imagination so you don't just see turquoise and white you see oh that reminds me of the sea that reminds me of the sky that reminds me of the heavens that reminds me of hashem's Throne oh yeah I guess I shouldn't say this do this watch this eat this or go there how does it work though the mechanism is the power of the imagination URI samoso Jews have a third eye we don't have two eyes we don't just see what's right in front of us you know sukkas the four minimum correspond with our four senses so the the Lulu love is the spine and the asteroid is the heart and the aravas are the two lips and the hadasama are the eyes problem is how many had to ask them are there I know it's Sivan but you got this guys how many had awesome are there if there are two Arubas one asteroid one lulav how many had awesome three how do they correspond with the eyes how many eyes do you have two so like it's close close enough it's cute how does that work one to love one spine One S Rogue one heart two out of those two lips three hadasim two eyes the answer is we don't have two eyes Jews have a third eye and what's our third eye is the eye that doesn't see what's right in front of us the eye the dreams the eye that has ruts on the eye that sees beyond the surface the eye that sees possibility where others see what's impossible and that's why when Moshe says so and they get it all wrong they come back and Report only what's on the surface here's the military stations here's how big they are here's the fruit here are the data here are the details they only report as far as the eye can see the end of the Parsha we learn when it comes to titsis that what does it means so doesn't mean see what's in front of you it means see beyond the surface see with the third eye see with the power of imagination see a color that reminds you of the sea in the sky and the heavens and Hashem see well beyond that's why we're here we're only here the Jewish people because we see beyond the surface we see beyond the odds we see beyond the possibility we keep going further and further and further they were anche medos they are described as being anche medos all right anyone have an extra hour they spoke negatively about the land and they describe this is a land that consumes its inhabitants and all the people that we saw in it are people of midos what does it mean to be people of midos people of no what does it mean you could cheat look at the English they were huge they were enormous they were people of great measure no human growth hormone needed for these kids they were fine they were people of great measure people of great measure what is means listen what it says listen to what he says he says you know why we have no possibility of conquering this land because these aren't fat overweight unhealthy schlubs in there they don't just rest to their heart's desire their anshamidos they're all on Weight Watchers they're all eating exactly the measure they're supposed to eat the drinking the measure they're supposed to drink so they're ripped they're an incredible shape they're star athletes you can't contend with his army because they're on chemidos well we're busy eating and well give me some more over here and shortbread and we're eating all the things that clog your arteries what kind of an army are you that's where the Mirage turned to Claudia's room they say I know we couldn't even have this meeting without offering refreshments none of you would have showed up to hear our report they wouldn't have had a what do we always need to get what are the meeting tonight now what do you need to get a uh Quorum so moragam come back and they say we wouldn't have even had a quorum if we didn't put out a kiddish that's quality so closer as you can't you can't arrive at a quorum unless you put out a Kiddush so we're giving you our report while you're stuffing your face with shortbreads and Pacha and kiggle and chulant and kishka and charcuterie boards I gotta tell you you know why we're in trouble because in cananda's you know what they're doing they're eating the right measure the right amount exactly what they're supposed to eat where does he get this from Dallas you know who else does this deos says foreign himself was a doctor writes the reason people get sick and get ill is because they're eating either the wrong Foods or even if they're eating the right Foods they're eating the wrong measure of itos we have to be anshamidos don't overeat I'll tell you a little secret it's not well known you're allowed to stop eating when you're full you go to a restaurant and whatever they determined was the portion is what you feel you have to finish your plate now I understand part of that's been ingrained in us through generations of being on the run and pogroms and Holocaust and being starved to death that we've ingrained within our very DNA you got to finish everything on the plate but you don't have to finish everything on the plate you're allowed to finish and stop eating when you're full and the ramam says you'd be surprised to know this that's actually a very healthy way to live sometimes you don't even have to change your diet enormously you just have to change not the quality but the quantity and who would you be emulating the those who lived in the land who were anshamidos what made them Superior what made them people we were afraid we couldn't conquer was they were ancient midos they ate the rate measure that's what the rambam says rambam writes there in the arrivaled he says I'll guarantee it the Rahman says I am the guarantor eat the right Foods in the right measure join the ranks of the ancient midos and I guarantee you will not suffer from cholesterol blood pressure and sugars and the many issues that are plaguing the Free World the Western world today the ramam says I will be your I will be your guarantor is has a different interpretation you know what he says the miraglam saw the children of the yearly day anak and he saw they were anshamidos they were really well behaved and Moshe says the spies are out of the turn and they say our kids are little bullies they're a little aggressive on the playground they're not sharing even though it's caring our children they got a long way to go and I found in Israel The Mirage say they're ancient mitos they have good midos and we're going to have trouble conquering them when they're balling me those tovos when they have fine midos it's an era because the better Midas are going to persevere over the poorer midos so we need to improve our midos if we're going to be able to go in and Conquer fascinating new interpretations of what does it mean anche midos he has many more we got about a third of the way through what I wanted to share so depressing how tsets work why does it say mode mod could have just said the word mode don't rebel against Hashem oh all right what can we do tomorrow morning 10 minutes of meeting we're heading towards concluding I'm living with the Muna tomorrow night we're going by in the speaklock the founder and CEO of ahmudim until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy have a great day everybody be well