Parsha Perspectives (Bamidbar, 5784) - Don't Erase Letters from the Torah

morning in Boer to may it be a day we hear BOS toos good news and good tidings for the Jewish people may the hostages come home May the soldiers return to their families with a sweeping sweeping Victory big thank you as always to our paraa Siri sponsors Becky and aviats and family memory of David Gman also want to dedicate our this morning yesterday was my grandmother's yite Ruth abof my beloved dear grandmother whom I loved learn so much from her should have an Aliyah as well we have the privilege this morning of reading of learning Pas B midbar beginning the fourth book of the Torah page 726 in the Arts scr Stone Kish please note no sheer next Tuesday next Tuesday is Arab sh there is a par next shabas we get one day between Shu and chabas to prepare but we will not be learning it together so learn it on your own you're not exempt from learning the parha but there is no par next Tuesday page 726 spoke to MOS and here we're given the climate the environment the topography he spoke to him dka specifically bbar in the desert as if we care we care what he said why do we care where he said it what matters is what was communicated what was transmitted why does it matter where it was said what the geography what the topography what the the climate whether it was in the desert whether it was in a different area why does that matter and what was the message what did he tell it's time for a census it's time for accounting this is the third one Hashem even though he knows the number he's omnipotent he's infinite he's perfect he doesn't need to count in order to arrive at a result that a number rash here tells us when you love something you count it you count it over and over and over again out of a sense of love people count and collect all kinds of things I read an article you know people collect baseball cards people collect snow globes people collect magnets people collect stamps money people try to collect money they have to count the money but I read somebody owns 20,000 pencils somebody owns 272 unopened Star Wars Lego sets and the Guinness World Record holder for the biggest and most valuable collection of celebrity hair someone else has over a thousand slinkies but someone has packets of sugar and sweetener from around the world that's got to be a Jew from pesak programs the list could go on and on the list could go on and on but I'd say the winner that I saw on a list of people who collect things is Christopher Kow who owns a collection of 30,000 banana labels among them the rare and coveted chaita sticker from 1960 who cares I don't know people collect all kinds of things and what people collect and what they count and what they cherish says everything about them so what is love very beginning of our pass the very beginning of this fourth book of the Torah tells us hashem's love his incredible affection for the Jewish people he counts us over and over again he counted us when we left Egypt he wanted to know how many we were remember it's important because so many stayed back in Egypt he counted us again after the plague ofel after the Jewish people had infidelity we cheated on Hashem on our wedding night with the golden Cafe he counted us again and now the mishan is built it's inaugurated and here again God counts the Jewish people people count what they love some count their children and grandchildren some Count Their bank accounts and stock portfolio others will count their childhood and the memories because especially if they're if they're fleeting explains the med is telling us here something so important which is that there is nothing more beloved to Hashem than CL do you know how empowering that is do you know how incredible that is for us to know that there's nothing he loves more in his whole world in the whole universe in the cosmos and all of creation there's nothing more significant and nothing more loves more than us he counts us over and over again we've learned this we've studied this we're not going to review because we talked about it in the past a name and a number they seem to contradict a name and a number what is the correlation the connection between the two but we have to recognize that every person is a special gift everyone is a unique expression of Hashem in this world we're beloved child of Hashem we're each indispensable we're each Irreplaceable we don't just blend together into some blur but each individually singularly uniquely the Mighty loves us the of bre Inman teaches a schoola for success in Torah learning a schoola a schoola everybody wants scholas scholas are quick fixes you don't have to do the hard work schoola for parasa and schoola for good health and schoola for peace in the home shom so what's a schoola for success in Tor learning you want to have an intellectual breakthrough you want to learn and study and remember your Torah here is his suggestion it's in something we can do to help us learn with great diligence to understand Torah better to retain the information we learn Schoo he says is don't speak negatively of any fellow Jew avoid negative speech of a fellow Jew don't be judgmental don't speak negatively recognize how precious every Jew is ran explains this concept based on the tradition that we all have we know the zes says there are 600,000 letters in the Torah shared this many times doesn't exactly add up we have half that amount 30485 letters how do you get to 600,000 it's for another time writes there are 600,000 letters in the Torah they correspond a letter for every Jew and that is the Jewish people is is an acronym for yes T there are 600,000 letters in the Torah a letter for everyone's name everyone a place in the Torah everybody has their Torah everyone has their contribution everyone has their voice everyone has their impact everyone has their influence says the H if we speak negatively about a fellow Jew we are in effect erasing their letter from the Torah if you speak negatively critically judgmentally if you marginalize or dismiss a fellow Jew you are erasing their letter and what happens to a Torah with a letter that's erased what happens to a Torah whose letter is blurred out or letter blends into another or letter is erased what's the status of such a Torah P it's pel sa Torah missing a single letter is disqualified can't be used for Torah reading and if we disparage a single Jew a fellow Jew our Collective Torah is incomplete and you can't learn properly so you want success in Torah learning love every Jew see every Jew's letter in the Torah every Jew's contribution every Jew's participation every Jew's space in the the Torah once got up in front of shabas before sh and he asked the following the shabas before PES is called shabas that wasn't such a hard question shabas it's hard for me I have to prepare you just come listen to it sit in these comfortable chairs and try to stay awake shabas before p is called shabas shabas before yum is called shab what's the name of the shabas before sh the answer is it's called shabas why is it called shabas because kazal rabis tell us that the way we treat one another interpersonal relationships preceeds Torah before we could receive the Torah we had to learn how to love a fellow Jew we had to commit to practicing and living with d it's common courtesy and kindness so therefore if there's a shabas aod and shabas shua the shabas before sh this shabas is called shabas is Torah on the explains what does it mean it means is thees what's an introduction a forward a preface the introduction to a book tells you what's in the book more often than not I skip the introduction because I'm about to read the book I don't need you to tell me what's in the book I'll just read the book what is the the introduction tells you what's in the book so what's the introduction to Torah T the introduction before you could open and start studying before you could learn and live Torah the introduction is says tah if there's no Torah there's no without there can't be Torah listen to what writes on those words says 12th century Spain first you have to become a vessel to receive Torah how are you a vessel to receive Torah first you have to work on and improve your mid your interpersonal skills your character Torah cannot reside Torah cannot be lived Torah cannot be promoted Torah cannot be proclaimed through someone who doesn't have a proper character if you're cruel you're unkind you're obnoxious you're rude you're courteous doesn't matter how much Torah knowledge you have you're not a vessel for Torah you're not a Ben Torah you're not a b Torah says first you have to improve the character traits and then the Torah can endure within such a person first you can't learn Torah and then acquire good character traits first you have to have good character traits and then you could acquire Torah which is why what have we been doing counting up and building towards kabalas tor counting 49 days of self-improvement 49 days of working on ourselves more patience more generosity more positivity more love more humility less anger less Envy we're working in our meidos why because the shabas is shabas is the introduction to Torah the Torah is a young man got engaged he went to the he said I came to get advice I'm engaged I'm going to get married please can I have some advice so the young man expecting that the sadic Rin was going to tell him learn this safer or always bring this darar to the table but you know what Rin told him he said always make sure to put your socks in the hamper don't leave them on the floor next to the hamper it's not respectful to your wife someone else has to bend down and pick him up and put him in the hamper always put him that the message simple everyone expects some huant some righteous some Noble some virtuous some complicated just put your socks on the hamper just put the cover on the on the toothpaste just be a mench be a mench it's the hak it is the introduction to all of Torah so loves us and he counts us each and every one of us each and every one of us are a letter in the Torah and when we honor each of the letters in the Torah we have a Kasha Torah and if we speak negatively or we lack or rude or inconsiderate or we dismiss any Jew we've erased their letter from Torah and our Collective entire Torah is disqualified it's incomplete it's pule it's not a good Torah all of that is number one number two number two in honor of the rashash the G rashash is in America right now he was in New York and now he's in Chicago so in his wonderful sa Das he says the following alter this third book of the Torah is given three names the world calls this the book they call it bbar open any and you'll find the third book of Torah is called bbar you find that it was called The Book of V speaking why that's the opening word of the whole book our rabbis had a third name for the book they called it so our book has three separate titles three different names either midbar V or what does p mean the counting the book of counting because of begins with a census it begins with counting so the explains with the story was in Siberia during the war he got a letter from the I guess the mail was delivered even to the Jews of Siberia when they were incarcerated in Siberia and in his letter the B the Bel sent them one and that understood the was telling him a Jew's job is when they find themselves in a place absent God in a desolate desolate desert speak godliness in introduce spirituality plant the flag of Torah of is waiting a Jew is never stuck a Jew is wherever they're meant to be and wherever we find ourselves particularly if it's a place that's Barren that's desolate a place that's a desert of spirituality of Torah of sanctity get to work your job is to plant the seeds of Torah there and that's why so in other words he was giving him the BBA was giving the chab you're in Siberia what am I doing here why am I here wo is me how can I learn how can I make a difference know that a Jew is where they're meant to be there's a reason you're there and based on this P transform this midbar plant let it Blossom let it come to life with spirituality with n to with the Sparks of kadus of Holiness don't view yourself as stuck as a victim view yourself as you're there for a reason and therefore Elevate that experience elevate it we told the story recently in the living with munir about a group of laab reiton who were in England for a conference and their flights got cancelled and they were panicked because their husbands could only go so long watching all those children what was going to happen they needed to get home so they called and they spoke to his secretary and they said please tell the Reb we're stuck in London should D for us they should give us a help us get a flight help us get out help us get home we're stuck in London and the Reb sent back one message a Jew is never stuck you are where you're meant to be get to work you're not let yet leaving London because your work there is not done learn and Inspire and develop relationships if you were meant to leave you'd be gone if you're still there it's not cuz you're stuck it's where you're me meant to be a Jew should say wherever I am there's a purpose there's a reason there's a mission how do I transform this midbar this desert how do I make it come to life and he grew great and he realized I'm not stuck and I'm not muted here this is a place that I should come to life and speak the word of hasem espcially loves Hashem especially cherishes when a Jew who's in a place where it's unpopular where it's difficult and complicated where there's never been words of Torah says I'm GNA introduce Torah in this place in this SP so this book is called the book of starts speaking start speaking speak words of Torah speak words of Faith speak words of godliness don't be muted don't be silenced don't be defensive our mission our mandate as a people is to introduce the world to Godliness to Faith inem to that's to say who we are what we're about but we give it a different name we don't call it generally we call it because we're remembering the beauty of the Jewish people they followed Hashem out where into a midbar into a desert and this is what says we sing iter I Will spare you wow hem says I remember your I remember like a there was a love and a romance and fatuation how did I know it how did I see it how did you demonstrate it because you followed me out we got married and you said I'm in wherever you want to go we'll go to a midb bar we'll go to a midbar there are in 1,700 kosher restaurants and 400 schools to choose from and there's not the most M and there's not the brand new most beautiful Spa like Mikvah but you want to go because there's a difference Stu to make I'm in we'll go to the midb bar we'll go to the midar we're supposed to remember as we read book of we read we always read Pas midbar right before what why because this story is not a part of our past we are not nostalgically remembering and patting ourselves in the back that our ancestors followed God out into a Barren desert but rather we are living it right now we are recreating it right now we are committing to it once again right now is I'm read the because some of you don't understand it's in the hand of every Jew to give hasem this each of us could show that same love that same affection that same willingness sometimes our midbar is not where we live geographically B still the greatest compliment you could give us is that we're still out of town people think out of town is an insult it's the greatest compliment but we have every kind of restaurant you could want and you have every amenity jewishly that you could want every week I get another text or email about the newest school that's opening in our community good bad I don't know it doesn't make a difference it's happening anyway but every amenity that you could want but you know what in a personal life even if you're living in a blossoming blossoming not a midbar but in our personal lives sometimes there are moments of midbar in a doctor's office waiting room when you're waiting to take a fertility test when you're not sure where the parnasa is going to come from when there's a loneliness in a person is looking for the Basher when a person's checking the news all night long what's happening these fires in the North of Israel when will these hostages finally come home there are midbar moments desert moments where it feels Barren and desolate and alone and hopeless and despair we say Hashem am in I'm following you even into those places even into those spots even when I don't know where the nourishment is going to come from even when I don't see the fountain even when I don't have an oasis I'm following you I'm following you into that midbar in the midbar moments in our lives and that's what we say in person sometimes feels dead sometimes they're external causes that make us feel it's hopeless and helpless despair desert and sometimes it's internal we feel empty we're struggling emotionally and mentally in our health sometimes it's a physical desert and sometimes it's an emotional spiritual or mental desert sometimes it feels like I'm in a desert it's bland it's tasteless there's nothing I'm parched I'm parched I'm in a midbar I'm struggling to learn and I feel far away I'm in a desert and I'm [Music] parched even even when we're in a place of M even when we feel dead we're dead inside that's how someone describes it someone going through a hard time will say I feel dead inside feel dead inside but even when a person when a Jew feels dead inside they're dedicated Hashem I'm following you I'm walking after you I believe in you Shem says and that isidar so we have V is wherever a Jew is they're never stuck start speaking teaching inspiring sharing planting the seeds of Torah and make the Desert Bloom that's Bidar wherever a Jew is even even when a Jew feels I'm dead inside I'm in aert it's Barren it's desolate there's no way out I'm parched I'm dry I'm desperate still I'm all in and I'm following you nonetheless and the third answer I'm just trying to summarize because he goes on it's a long piece says why did m need to be the ones to count anybody could counting Counting is a very simple activity right my grandson can count in four languages unbelievable Spanish yish English and Hebrew unbelievable and he's uh four years old three years old four years old less than five years old so anyone can count a 5-year-old a four-year-old can count you need mha AR to be able to count this was a different counting this was a counting of a census anyone who wants to make minimum wage can knock on your door and fill out a form and take a census but if you want to not just be a number if you want to feel counted I count I matter I make a difference I'm Not Invisible I'm consequential not inconsequential I matter who will make you matter more than the G saying you count you matter you mean something you're a letter in the Torah they had to appear da before mos andon in every holy Jew is a richness needed the power of M and and that is something that continues and all the generations to feel that we are the progeny the children the students the Disciples of Moshe and Aon that we matter that we count that we pass before them it gives us list he quotes great who says we have to count what's the says count the minion why because by counting us we become a you know we have a principle in in Jewish law called B A Drop of milk falls into your chicken soup is it kosher yes it depends depends on the ra the proportion if it's less than a 60th then the milk is nullified in the soup the milk is as if it's not there soup is kosher if it's more than a 60th now your soup has become B of meat and milk it's trfe it's no good it's not Kosher if it's less than a 60th it's kosher should you eat it let's say you decide I want to be stringent I want to be strict I want my kids to get the best so I want a reputation for being the strictest person around so I'm gonna give that chicken soup too to help I'll give that chicken soup to the male man the non-jewish person I'm not going to eat it even if it's less than a 60th is that righteous is that Noble no why writes in because don't be firmer than God God said milk and meat is forbidden God said less than a 60th that's permissible if you nonetheless don't eat it are you really worshiping God or are you worshiping yourself don't be more religious than God so the P says there is nothing virtuous about not eating it you should eat it because you should show that you're serving Hashem not yourself and PES he's the one who said it's no good he's the one who says it is good now what happens what happens if a non- kosher egg gets mixed into a dozen eggs then do you say it's btle what if it gets mixed into a 100 eggs a thousand eggs the answer is never nullified why because we have a principle D minion in a bottle something that is counted that is sold in a count like a dozen eggs something that is is counted by the number you never apply B they never apply nullification so once the Jewish people became counted a by hasem counting us and making us a minion no matter how outnumbered we are by the other nations of the world anyway on and on he has from the very very beautiful idea from from we're going to get past the first P say every week we will I don't know how far past we're going to get past the says now we get to the topography the geography why do we care where this was said this message to count the Jewish people this command was given where midbar in the desert because wants us to realize that the Torah is not in some Ivory Tower the Torah is not reserved only for the bright the brightest and the best the most brilliant it's given to each and every person Hashem the Torah was given specifically where in a desert a desert doesn't have all the bells and whistles a desert doesn't have all the amenities a desert is not a five-star Resort it's a place of drought starvation dangerous animals it is the lowliest lowliest place in the world a desert a desolate Barren desert is the lowliest emptiest place on Earth because the Torah is given to and accessible to everyone doesn't matter who you are what your lineage what your background what your Jewish Education where your starting point is doesn't matter how far you're fallen or what life you're living the Torah is available to you the Torah is the birthright and the heritage of every Jew the festar Jew and the desert desolate Jew there is no Torah can reside Torah can be transmitted Torah can be learned wherever you are you can't I need to be in the Yeshiva the right air conditioning the bench has to have just the right amount of padding need the righta I need the new safer I need everything to be right no the Torah can follow is available and accessible wherever you are and to each person wherever they are don't get stuck and say you know what I looked at at night all night on the internet I'm going to learn Torah the next morning do you know how much l i speak I'm Gonna Learn Torah do you know how much I struggle to dve into hasem my I'm Gonna Learn Torah do you know how limited my background is I can't make sense I don't know if to hold the book this way or hold the book this way I can't make sense to these words I can't read these letters I'm Gonna Learn Torah a year a Jew should never say that about themselves no matter who we are where we're from no matter our background no matter our level no matter our starting point no matter what we did all night long the Torah was given in a desert and even if we are and feel like a desert the Torah is there for us just get started just get started open a book make AA attend the she challenge yourself just get started have your own personal all quoted by the the says mid is an illusion to something else what is the prerequisite to receiving Torah a person has to be like midbar sini midbar a desert nobody's arrogant in the desert everybody's just fighting to survive there's no room for arrogance in the desert nobody swells with pride look at my Hummer look at my canteen look at my everyone's just trying to survive a desert is a place that humbles everybody was the lowest of all the mountains the most humble of all the mountains you can't plant anything nothing takes root in a desert a desert and Har what they have in common is humility said that and that's why the Torah is given the midbar SII that's why we care we care about the topography and the geography because there is an embedded message and the message is if you want to receive the Torah next Tuesday night if you want to be standing at the mountain next week shab then you better work on getting humble between now and then God doesn't give his Torah to arrogant people you know why you're not interested you're not going to learn you have nothing to learn you're going to hear what Tor has to tell you the Arrogant person has all the answers the Arrogant person has a monopoly on the truth the prerequisite to receiving Torah is hard reset reboot delete I want you to tell me hasem I want to download your message I want to absorb and hear what you have to say I want to read your blueprint and your instruction manual for the world if you have all the answers if you're arrogant if you think you have Monopoly on the truth you're not a candidate to receive the Torah that's why the Torah was given be like a desert be humble be humble be humble person has to be humble in order to be a candidate to receive the Torah now what's the problem continues the problem is that if you're now so humble you say I'm just like a desert I'm a nothing I'm a nobody so I'm going to learn Torah I'm a desert I'm a and desolate hopeless helpless pathetic lonely desert I'm going to learn Torah if a person is so humble that they feel so inadequate and So Unworthy then they're never even going to start so how does the pasta continue humility shouldn't lead to sadness being humble shouldn't make you sad being humble should make you happy and joyous I'm not competing I'm not trying to keep up I'm not comparing I'm not it's not about my covod humility being humble should bring joy I'm humble and I'm happy and now I want to learn I want to soak it up I want to download everything hasem has to teach me so therefore that's the connection that's the connection the one more on this brings we should have and then we should have given the specific place the and then the general place the desert and yet when it came to time we said in the the first day of the second month and then we say the second year so which is it do we give the general than the specific or the specific than the general there's a contradiction between the location and the time when it comes to the location first we give the general then the specific when it comes to the time first we give the specific and then the general [Music] says the whole purpose of the ior the core and the root of serving Hashem is to believe in him is to have a relationship with him is to speak to him and hear him speaking to you is to feel his but a person is so distracted and a person is so overwhelmed and a person is so confused by the need to earn par she is so a person mistakenly thinks that they're the one who earned they're the one who earned so what does the Torah say the Torah was only given to those who eat the what does it mean eat the if you didn't eat I didn't eat the you ate the so we're not candidates to receive the Torah doesn't mean literally ate the M that fell from heaven it means the attitude that all that we eat all that we have all that we buy all that we serve it's all like the man it descends from sh and from hem to live with a sense of to follow hem and to say hasem I'm going into a midbar I don't know where my next deal is coming from my next paycheck is coming from but you know what I trust you I love you I surrender to you I do my take my initiative I do my but after that I Let Go un likee God you can't live with Holiness unless you live with faith with a relationship with Hashem and that's what we're getting at when we left L midbar we left with and through that we got to the by going through an attitude of through a midbar we arrived at the we arrived at the and then we say in the second month the M began to fall that's how we leave Egypt we leave that place of superstition we leave that place of Egypt when we trust and we have faith we apply all that we've learned in this relationship with Hashem told you we get past the first then we have the census of the Jewish people and the census ends top of page 732 the Jewish people encamped according to their logo their emblem their Insignia according to the way that they were commanded and the should encamp around the Mish around the so that hasem will not get angry will safegard the watch of the Mish of the Mish what's going on here what's going on here in his introduction to saur B midbar the ramban writes that saur b midbar revolves exclusively around the mitos that b were commanded at that specific time and the Miracles that were performed with them this was in order to relate all the acts that hasem performed wondrously for them the ran writes that seid is not really a book of mitzvos we had a ton of we're gonna have a ton of MIT midbar is about stories of Divine Providence divine intervention the Miracles Hashem did for us now there are specific Mitzvah in b midbar as well there are Mitzvah there as well but that's not the purpose and that's not the theme the theme of isce stories of hasem of Divine Providence it's what the Kari is referring to when he writes that there was a certain godliness that descended on the Jewish people the that dwell with the divine presence what does that mean the divine presence so in his introduction to says that Divine Prov divine presence the feeling that Hashem is intensely Among Us is twofold it manifests internally the revelations a person has in their heart you feel it sayem I feel your love your support I feel a purpose a mission hasem I feel I feel you but that requires that a person be certain beyond the shadow of a doubt that Hashem is there and additionally it manifests in not the internal feeling and awareness and Consciousness and conversation with hem but the external this thing happened in this way that was an incredible display ofh which inid was expressed by according to the ran all the wondrous things that hasem did for us these two aspects of hash are independent hash Works in accordance with the Revelation in the person's heart it's a situation and such that the Revelation in the heart is firm and his believing is unwavering theness will also be overt but if the Revelation in his heart is more hidden then n will also be hidden the r also writes the Divine Providence the Divine inter vention the Divine interference that we Merit to get from hasem is directly proportional to how much faith and trust we have in him no different than any other relationship if your children ask you for advice and reach out to you and are grateful to you and welcome your presence in their life you lean in and you want to give more and more generously and be more present if they say but out mind your business don't need you don't want you you say no problem I'll take my resources and my wisdom and my life experience and I'll I'll share it elsewhere K is the same the more we lean in the more invested the more grateful the more we ask for help the more he responds the less and the more we think arrogantly we could do it on our own the less present he is this thread of runs throughout the entire para and this P this P we just read what does it mean the levim are tasked with encamping around the m and the Torah warns let God not get angry at the Jewish people why would he get angry so rash here says if they do their job Hashem won't get angry but if they fail in their job if they fail in their job if they don't do the work they're entrusted to do then Hashem is going to get angry this says can be understood in light of's statement K say even a foran's appointment is ordained from Shai and from Heaven wherever we are and whatever we're tested to do whatever we're appointed to do none of it is coincidental nothing is random nothing is chance it all comes from Hashem so a person should think carefully before dismissing himself or herself from a position of authority because the very fact that they were appointed to such a position is when the rabbi approaches you and says well you chair this committee will you work on this event will you take on this responsibility says R be very careful before you say no because the very fact that you've been identified and asked to speak at a is is Hashem deciding this is your job this is what you're meant to do and just like here if you turn down the task that you were asked to do if you don't show up for your mission because this world is not a place that we take from we're not takers we're givers life is not about rights and entitlements about duties and obligations it's about if I woke up this morning what am I meant to do who am I meant to be what difference am I meant to make Raa related that when he was first a child when his first child was born Raa says when his first child was born it brought to mind theu what is a person that you should remember him and a man that you should be mindful of him says what are we in the end of the day who are we and what are we that you should remember us or be mindful of us R translated as that you entrusted him with a deposit if you're learning the da right now B you're learning about the the four types of guards and four types of people who are responsible for guarding property and the gara's language is if I give you something to watch what's that called that which I entrusted you to watch is called a p you're a showare but the object that you're usted to guard is a p it's a deposit it's a deposit translated when gives us a child it's a p he's given us a a deposit and we are the showare a person becomes a parent he shall feelm has given him a deposit and he must care for in any situation that arises for the rest of his life the Pinnacle of is being entrusted with a child it elevates a person to a place that they are partner with Hashem if I give a Sher something to watch trusting him they are entrusted with this P when AEM something we should not take for granted at all when AEM not a given and we shouldn't take it for granted and we DB him for those who are waiting and longing when Hashem enables someone to conceive he's given the greatest vote of confidence in them he saying I'm inviting you to be my partner I'm giving you this deposit I'm making you a showare why should you be worthy to get this P when we make the who prepares the footsteps of man says RBA we should bear in mind that wherever we may find ourselves it was that put us there wherever we find ourselves our footsteps hash hasem put us there like those women in London a y a Jew is never stuck we're never stuck like the CH in Siberia is what the bells of the was telling him was you're in the midbar that's where you want callid hasem wants you to speak to call hasem prepares our footsteps wherever we go wherever we are it's not coincidental it's not random or chance it's all from above it's all designed from the four formations the Torah is now giving us the encampments and the four directions and it wasn't coincidental each tribe where they were designated and where they were meant to be their coordinates per chapter two 17 says 17 the tent of meeting the camp of the should Journey where in the middle of the camps the leim where was their place their designation their coordinates was in the center in the center on this where is Torah housed the the broken and the complete tablets in the original saer Torah were all contained where in the Aron in the ark and where was The Ark in the Torah has to be in the middle of all the camps why does it have to be in the middle because no tribe can claim Torah is closer to me I've got the truth of Torah there's 12 there 12 tribes there there's Lish there's ashas there's there all types of is all types of lfish nobody can claim I've got the Torah closer to my M the Torah that's in my Camp that's the real Torah you've got the counterfeit you're wrong you're distorted you're perverted where's the Torah right in the middle everyone equal access there's different traditions we have there are 12 tribes but it goes right in the middle just like the be is right in the middle of the sh just like the was right the tree of life was right in the middle of G the Torah is our tree of life everyone has to surrounded and the Torah is right inside right inside and right inside all of us a very powerful image is giving us that sh Le traveled in the center of the camp and the Torah was right in the center of their tribe so that Torah and the Aron would be the coordinates right in the middle of everything like was the middle of ganen the Mish which is Torah is the center point around which life revolves it is the central point of Our Lives not having the biggest house and the nicest car certainly not getting into any ivy league which would be insane to ever go to that's not the aspiration of a Jew the centerpiece of our life the focus of our life is the Torah that's why it's in the center it says it's not closer to this one or that one it's not in this or that doesn't belong to this tribe or that tribe it goes right in the middle equally accessible equally owned equally the birthright of all perim page 736 V told us our emotion M these are The Offspring of Aon and Moshe on the day that hm spoke with Moshe on har says RAB Sal going to the we are all acquainted with the this is a very powerful R listen to this we never think of it in this way incredibly powerful and Incredibly important we're all acquainted with the AA if I say the word AA who in our history made the ultimate sacrifice or was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice of giving his son what would you answer aru Aram but we do not pay sufficient attention to an AA that was carried out by Moshe moshe's AA was perhaps more awesome and terrifying than aam after aam offered Yak the two of them returned to Haram Maria with great happiness but mosha never experienced this satisfaction in his case the Reon requested and received his sacrifice the simple right to leave a last willing Testament to die in one's own bed surrounded by his own children was denied to Moshe Moshe died alone on a mountain before he died he did not lay his hands on gam or Eleazar his sons but rather on yahushua moshe's power was bestowed on yahushua and not on his own progeny more tragic still was the fact that moshe's children do not appear in the book of Jewish genealogy right now when we're tracing the children of Moshe you don't find his biological children's names Moshe twice counted clais and counted the tribe of Ley initially Torah says these are the descendants of Aon and mosha on the day that Hashem spoke to mosha RI Torah should have listed the generations of Moshe his own children along with the generations of Aon yet the subsequent pum ignore mosha entirely and center around Aon alone the Torah is silent where are moshe's children where are the generations of Moshe tor doesn't tell us Moshe did not Merit the normal satisfaction of Flesh and Blood to be reborn through a child to live again through the child to feel the great joy that upon his own death his progeny will remain Moshe had two children and of course he loved them both same way that AB loved Yak The Creator asked both Aram and Moshe to give up their children to sacrifice them on the altar unlike abam No Angel called to Moshe don't stretch out your hand the knife mercilessly tore apart the relationship between Moshe gam and elzar in the book of mosha son gam was not designated as Ben Moshe but Ben man because moshe's children no longer belong to him for the receiver of the Torah for the teacher of CLA Israel it's prohibited to have a connection to one's family he's the father of Israel every Jew has an equal share in him it is prohibited for one individual to have a closer relationship than anyone else moshe's Torah must be inherited equally by all the Torah is analogized to a desert in the sense that it is free to all for the taking the receiver of the Torah in the sense Moshe is also a desert belonging to everyone the burning bush Hashem told Moshe take off your shoes take your shoes off your feet cast off any private matters your human personal needs because your place in the history of Jewish people is filled with sanctity and Purity it is prohibited for you to involve yourself in private family life wow what an Insight of the ROV AB we know the way the story ends so we celebrate he walks back together with Y survived wow Moshe ultimately ends up sacrificing his children the AA of Moshe and the evidence is right here in this census we don't associate his children with him they are not listed as his project Aron's children all of us everyone that he bequeathed and taught the Torah to we become his children that is an incredible incredible incredible image of the price that Moshe pays the price that Moshe pays quotes based on the children ofon are called to MOS why Tau Torah we learn from here that anyone who teaches children to someone else it is as if they gave birth to them and we spoke in the past we quoted from the schah and we quoted from poim schuger and others that one can fulfill the Mitzvah someone who doesn't have biological children of Their Own by teaching Torah supporting Jewish Education sponsoring yeshivas growing Jewish Community they fulfill the Mitzvah to have children why what's the purpose of the Mitzvah puru to have children the purpose of having children is a continuing the Jewish Mission and purpose if a person can't biologically do it but they can support and enable it they can teach Torah to others literally or by supporting it they have had children the the says it's you're giving birth parents biological parents they bring a child physically into this world but the re who teaches him Torah the parents can be the same by the way it's not either or parents could both physically birth a child and spiritually birth a child that's the ideal but those who spiritually birth the child are also birthing a child insor from teaching Torah quenching The Thirst of a Jew Outreach inspiring others supporting Outreach supporting Jewish communities supporting Jewish cont ity supporting yes and supporting shs and Torah learning you're giving birth to Children Torah is meant not only to be learned Torah is meant to be taught Torah is meant to be taught Torah is not ours alone we learn Torah to position us to give birth through teaching that Torah to other people you know on the recent flying every year we fly into New York we meet with rash and Reb and communal leaders we met with rashin binski big the great rinsky so we met with him we talked about his Mish unbelievable unbelievable Super Genius said how do you do it how do you learn Torah in such a way that you remember it that you remember it the way that you do so he told us he quoted from r r said R also was a super genius rad had maybe a photographic memory but he worked diligently to learn too it wasn't just the gift that he got from birth that he relied upon he worked tirelessly so said how did he Merit to remember so much Torah because every time he learned something he learned it with the intent to share it I'm learning something that I'm going to share I'm going to teach I'm G to give over to somebody else I'm not acquiring something only to myself so when you learn something only for yourself it's a Tor you've turned the Torah into an individual a personal a selfish Torah but even when you're First Learning something you say I heard a great vort I can't wait to say this at my shabas table I can't wait to go home and tell this to my spouse I can't wait to tell us to my grandchildren when they call me to wish me a good chabas I'm listening and I'm learning with the intent to begin with that it's not my own it's a I'm going to share it with others know the says the that we say on Torah the T you don't say UNH her Torah if you're only thinking you don't say Tor only when you speak it when you say it or if you write it that's what obligates you to say a t but if you're thinking Torah you're not obligating t and then explains why why do you only make the BR when you're gonna speak or write the Torah because the bra of Torah is it's a learning which includes that you're going to teach the whole essence of learning Torah is not to keep it to yourself the whole essence of learning Torah is a learning to share to teach to give birth to inspire to elevate to enrich to empower if a person learns on their own it's a very self-centered Torah it's a Tor like the says it should be a if you keep it to yourself it's a Torah that's not of but if rinsky said this was his advice to us everything you learn if you want to remember it the best way to acquire it and make it your own and really remember it is to learn it with the original intent when you're first learning it the kavana is I'm not learning this from me I'm learning this in a way in a manner I'm going to share I'm going to give it over to others and through that to give birth to others to give birth to others to have hundreds or thousands of children all over the world if you're in a position to teach Torah it's the greatest blessing on the planet wow what a br to teach Torah but if you could sponsor this is not a solicitation the global campaign is over but I'm telling you not for me will be happy to take it I'm telling you for you for us that if we can sponsor Total Learning sponsor air sponsor AI sponsor Yesa sponsor a program sponsor a sh sponsor and enable and Empower more people to learn Torah you're populating the Jewish world you're creating Jewish continuity and if a person wants a schoola person is doing for their own children for grandchildren doing for others they know to have children you can help them have children give birth to children by supporting toal learning that's is saying that's what we say that's what we learn told us should be to have many of our own children and many spiritual children we he yes