Rabbi Mashiach Kelaty - Powerful Insights from the Parsha

I'm finding myself a little bit at a loss because many people just don't understand when when I speak. PEOPLE KEEP SAYING WHAT WHAT WHAT that but anyway I will try and make myself as um as um understandable as possible as much as I can without having to resort to speaking like a New Yorker. All right. First of all, um I want to very much very very much thank Torah any time. Uh and my friend Rahim is over here as well. Rahim Sev and Robbie from Kazak. Um Rahim just gave me this if I can get this on camera. This is award from Tony Time. Um was not expected. Um, I don't want it to be an Oscar Oscar acceptance speech, but anyway, it's I just want to show my hak to to Rahim and everyone at Torah Anytime. I've been working with Torah Anytime now for maybe 16 17 years, something like that. Um, yeah, it's my main source of Shirim. And yeah, it's a f if you haven't heard of it, you need to go to anytime.com. It is the most incredible um resource for Torah today on the net, there's nothing that compares to it. There's a lot of good stuff out there, but to get everything in one place, thousands of shirim, literally millions of hours of Torah in one place, it's got to be Torah any time. That's why when I when I'm in England and I speak to people and I say to them, "Yeah, Torah anytime." And they say, "What?" And I'm like, "Well, you never heard of Torah anytime?" Do you know how many big rabbis started started their careers over there? It's done me a lot of favors. I can tell you that. So, anyway, big shout out for Torah Anytime. All right, enough waffling. Uh before I start, I want to say that this year should be for the reformer of Leia Rael Batana, who's my mother-in-law. She's not very well at the moment. Thank you for shame for Leia Rael Batana. Uh that's part of the reason why my wife couldn't join me here uh on this particular trip. But anyway, I had to make it on my own. very difficult traveling without your spouse. You know, when you're doing something like this and you sort of you're calling every day, how you doing? It's like I speak to my wife more when I'm away than when I'm at home. Okay. I think that's just an insecurity thing. But anyway, okay. So, the subject is Msiah. First of all, a disclaimer. I I have to admit that hardly anything of what I'm going to say today is to do with Msiah. The only thing the connection to Mashiah is actually my name. So I I really must apologize because um I gave the title and then I realized um if I'm going to speak about the parasa to find some crossover is going to be a little bit difficult. So please excuse me. Maybe I'll try and uh bring something in at the end if you if you're still listening or awake. Okay. So let's talk a little bit about the paran. I'm going to tell you a few stories to illustrate. So this week's para is paral. It's all about Aaron. Aon a coin. So in the beginning of the para we see that Aaron is a little bit sad. Okay. The mid tells us he was upset because everyone else was doing mitzvot. Everyone else had their job to do and Aaron didn't have a specific mitzvah. So he was a little bit out of sorts, put it that way. And then Hashem brought him up to speed and gave him the mitzvah of the manora, lighting the manura, which is the in the Mishkan, which is the tabernacle, I think. How do you say Mishkan in English? Tabernacle. Tabernacle. Okay. which is a big big mitzvah. It's a mitzvah that you can do that he did every day for the rest of his life. So that's pretty much it's not a consolation prize. It's it's a big thing. Now once he was given this mitzvah of lighting the minor in the Mishkan, you'll see something very strange in chapter 8:3. If you got if you don't have Okay, don't worry. Are you okay with Hebrew? Am I okay with quoting Hebrew? Okay. >> Chapter 8 verse three. Basically, the essence of this verse is he was given the mitzvah to light the monora. And it says at the end, as Hashem had commanded. Sorry, in the beginning of the puzzle, Aaron did. So, let's think about this for a minute. Okay, we're talking about Aaron, the brother of Moses, the ex leader of the Jewish people until Moses came along. If God told him to do something, do you think the Torah should say, "Oh, Aaron did so, is there any notion that he would not do what God told him?" In other words, is there any is there any novelty in saying that Aaron did so? No. Of course, he's going to do what God tells him. You know what, God, thank you very much. I'm a bit busy today and I got to take care of the kids. You know, there's I got to do carpool this morning. Sorry, I'm not. Okay. So, listen. I'm going to share with you a few answers just to show you that anything that the Torah says, you must never take it at face value. Obviously, there is a face value to the words of the Torah, but the but the multiplicity of levels in the Torah is incredible. You should you should never take this is what I meant to say. You should never take the Torah just at face value. So listen to this. Rashi gives us one answer. Rashi says Aaron it's not that he he would have not done what God said. It's that he did not deviate. You know when you do something once, twice, three times, 10 times, 100 times, 50und, how however much you do it, there's a tendency perhaps to get a little bit creative. you know, I just I want to do it my way. And you might change something a little bit or your approach to the mitzvah might be different. Aon did not deviate at all. He did it the same on day one as in day 1500, which is incredible if you think about it. How often have you done something on a regular basis exactly the same? Repeat, repeat, repeat. And yet he had, the Torah tells us, the rabbis tell us that he had the same vitality to the mitzvah from day one till the end of his life. Exactly the same. Imagine a Bitza boy. He's all excited. He's got to fill in. gets to shore, starts wrapping and everything. Put amazing, lovely. And the straps are all new and he's trying to wear them in. You know, that's great. You feel great. Your dad's bought you fill in. Wonderful. What about after a month or after a year? You still got the same desire for the mitzvah or like that old song title, you've lost that loving feeling. It's not the same anymore. Yeah, not the case with Auron. He had the same vigor, vitality the whole way through, which is very difficult. You got to be really plugged in to get that type of uh reaction. Okay, that's one answer number one. Number two, for this I'm going to give you a little bit of example. Are you okay with the accent or you you understanding me? Okay, good. So um I don't have this problem in England. In England people just like speaks like everybody else but anyway second answer this is from aidic rebi called bunim of parishra. He says like this I'm going to give my own mashal my own analogy so that you can understand. Imagine if there's a guy who's working at a job and he has peers, he has colleagues, they're all like a group of people all at the same doing the same job. Maybe they're all working for the same boss. Then the boss comes into a business meeting one day with this guy and another uh 15 20 people and the boss zeros in on this one guy and he says to him I need to speak to you. Takes him into a side office says to him you know let's call him I'm very pleased with your work ethic. I'm very pleased with the way what you've brought to the table in this company and I want to promote you to become uh senior division head make up some title whatever. So he is like wow boss I wasn't accept I wasn't expecting that but of course because it he doesn't really care about the kavan but because it means better money of course he's going to take it his wages are almost be doubled now what's going to happen now he returns back to work after his promotion and all the people he worked with now work for him. You see, you see the change? And now he doesn't talk to them in the same way. He doesn't mix with them. I can't mix with you guys. I'm your boss. Yeah. All the social stuff gone. All the all the like uh chat and all the banter with the colleagues, with the P, hey, how you doing, man? All gone. Cuz now you guys, my former colleagues, work for me. You see? and it can go to a person's head. What happened to Auron? Aon had a job. Now he was promoted. Now he's going to be the first going to be the Coen Cole. Then he's lighting the monora. He is now head and shoulders above people who we used to hang around hang around with for one of a better phrase says he did not change one iota. He treated everybody the same. There was no lording it over his people who he used to be with. Okay, that's a very important point. You know, King David, I'll tell you something. It's not in my notes. I'll just deviate a little bit. Aon did not deviate, but I'm deviating. What can I tell you? Anyway, King David in his palace, he had a small room in the corner. What was in this small almost like a closet, like a cupboard. What was in this closet was a very old coat and a stick. What were these items doing in King David's palace? You know what these things were? Because King David wasn't always King David. King David wasn't born a king. He was born a shepherd. He literally had his shepherd's coat and his stick and he was hering the sheep around. That's that was his job. In fact, his father expelled him from the house for various reasons. The reason basically the reason is he thought he was illegitimate. It's hard to understand, but that's what happened. So, he was out in the field with the sheep all day, every day. And then whatever happened happened, he became king. Why did he keep his coat and his stick in this room in this little closet? You know why? Cuz he never wanted to forget where he came from. Now he's Mr. King. Everybody has to listen to him. You can't argue with the king. Yet he remembered where he came from. You know, it's very easy. You can have your head in the clouds. You can forget your old pals, your old friends. You can move on in life. You move on up the social ladder, your social climbing, and you forget all your old pals. And they're like, "What? You used to talk to me. What happened now? you became aster that was not and that was not either. Okay. Third reason for me this is the most stunning reason and it's from what does say you need a little bit of context to understand this this next point. Okay. So we said just to recap, we said Aaron was given the mitzvah of going into the Mishkan and lighting the manora. Okay, cast your mind back to Parashat Shimi. Paras Shimini was talking about how uh the Mishkan was dedicated. Okay, on that day was the most fantastic day. At least it started out that way. It was the culmination of a massive kalis royal project making the mushkan and now it's going to be dedicated. What happens on that day? Two of Aaron's sons go into the keshashim. They offer unauthorized sacrifice of fire and they get killed on the spot. two um like flames that like threads of fire. What do they call like a like a like a laser beam went into their nostrils and completely burned out their insides. The the body the outside was fine. The inside completely obliterated. Now who was there to witness this? Their father Aaron watched the whole thing play out. So the Torah there says Aon was silent. Now does that mean he was cruel? He he didn't have any emotions. Of course not. He must have been raging inside with emotion. But yet he became vom from the lashon deama do which means inert like a stone. Why? because he completely identified with the reason why God took the life of his two sons. He completely got it. So he had that moment of connection with God there unlike any other point in his point in his life. Okay. Super human. Yes. But that was one day. Follow my idea here. This is okay. What was Aaron commanded to do? To go to the Mishkan and light the manura. Where was the manora? Inside the Mishkan. What was Aaron effectively doing? Walking into the place where his sons died on that day. He walked in there every single day. So he had to relive that pain every day. So Maron was one day when he was silent. Imagine that every day reliving that agony. Who does that? Aon does that does that and he did it every single day for the rest of his life. So that says is the superhuman power of Auron to put aside his own niggiot his own feelings and attachments >> biases right >> sorry >> to put on his put away his own biases >> biases correct correct he put he put the and he again relived that whole thing every single day again I don't know how he picked up on that incredible point. Okay, let me share with you how we doing for time. Okay, let me share with you a story. You know, it's very easy to um judge people unfavorably >> when you are a victim of a certain reaction or what you think is a reaction to something you've done. Sometimes you think the worst. you think this person hates me and you make up all sorts of things. Now, that's not what we're supposed to do. That's the natural reaction. We're supposed to override that and judge people favorably cuz let's face it, all Jews are judges. We all judge. So, if you're going to judge, judge favorably. Okay? I think that to me that's that's really what it what it means to me personally. Anyway, this story is like this. There was once a kidic rebi living I think it was uh maybe in the 50s in the 60s something like that he was the son of a rebi that died passed away in the holocaust okay so the son by default become or became the leader of that particular dynasty I don't know the name of the dynasty it wasn't in the story and good job too as you're about to find out there was a wealthy wealthy person. There's always a wealthy person in these stories, right? This wealthy person approached this Rebi and said to him, "Rebi, you know, I owe a lot to you, to your father, your late father, whatever sim you have, consider it paid for. I am going to underwrite every single sim that you're going to do." Bitzvah's wedding. This guy was obviously tremendously rich. But mitzvah, weddings, you don't have to worry about a penny. You leave it to me. Okay. It's very difficult to take generosity like that. Okay. But the Rebi accepted it for what it was. So the Rebi made a mitzvah. So the guy says, "Don't worry. I told you I'm going to look after you." So he sent a tremendous amount of money to this Rebi. all he just paid for the the service providers. Basically, he he did what he said. He did what he said he would do. Now, once this was done, the rich guy assumed that the rebi would uh write back to him or contact him or write him a letter or something saying, "Thank you so much. I really appreciate what you did uh to scale. That's some type of gratitude. Nothing. The rich guy was waiting and waiting and waiting. The Rebi never reached out. Now this guy, of course, you know, you wait a week. A week is a week. A month? That's a bit weird. Nothing after a month. So the guy the the wealthy guy thinks to himself this reb is not worth anything. How could he do this? I supported him. I pledged to support him in the future. He's done nothing to not even a thank you note. Nothing. So he started to mulchin to speak lash and harah about this this rebi first of all in his head. Then he started telling other people this rebi he's nothing. Anyway, not exactly the the nicest thing to do, but anyway, he that was him. He was not pleased and he made sure other people knew about it. And he in his head he said, "I'm not going to support the Rebi anymore. I've done it once, that's it. He's burnt me. Nothing." Now, that was then in the 50s, 60s. In 2020, this is a true story. This is unbelievable. In 2023, only 3 years ago, so many so decades had passed, a book seller finds uh he he finds in his collection or he bought a collection of safari and he found a safer that was written by that Reb's grandfather. So it must have been a very old book. And he opened up the book and he found a letter in this book. And this letter was written by that Rebi, the Rebi that the rich man had supported. and he he he wasn't going to open it up, but he opened it up and he could he he read the letter and it says, "Dear so and so, thank you so much for uh uh paying for all the things you did for my son's beitzvah. I appreciate it. You know, I can never thank you enough." And oh, the whole gamer. What had happened? He must have been learning the safer of his grandfather. Put the letter in the book and forgot about it. and it turned up decades later. Now, this book seller had no idea who the Rebi was, the Reby's grandfather, but he he see he thinks this letter should have it should go to its intended recipient. So, he tracked down uh the the details of the the rich guy. Unfortunately, he'd passed away at that time, but he his son was still alive. So his son got the letter and the son was shocked when he got the letter and he said, "My father never forgave the Rebi for what he thought was pure lack of gratitude." What we call kaf ingratitude. He never he died really not liking the rebu. Had he seen this letter, none of this hatred, none of this lash on would have occurred. Now, why am I telling you this? It's because it's it's one of the simplest uh stories just to explain how we are supposed to behave behave when something it's a bit odd. It's off. Don't jump to conclusions. It's the first thing the want you to do. Jump to a conclusion. Judge him unfavorably. think the worst because he's probably he's probably a bad guy. I can't imagine. You're supposed to fight it. You're supposed to think, you know, you can our rabbis tell us you can make up these crazy like stories just to make you think favorably about this guy, even if they're wild crazy stories. And you know what people say often say to me, Rabbi, why would you do that? These are like figments of your imagination. You're making up stuff. Oh, you went up the wrong side of bed. You must have done this. Must have done that. None of this is true. Why would you think that? You know why? Because it's not necessarily the truth. It might not be the truth. But you know what it does do? It helps you. It trains you to think better of your fellow man. That is extremely important. even if it's not true, you need to train yourself to think uh uh positively about your fellow man. Okay, that's that's that. Now, let's move on quickly because I don't want to go over time and we all need to go home. I've got a flight tomorrow morning, very early in the morning. So, I'm going to make sure you all get home in good time. So let me share with you now a very interesting idea which actually is supported by Russian figure like consider this bin Israel were told by God you're going to be leaving Egypt we're going to go and get the Torah and then from there we're going to be going to Israel and then that's it we're going to populate Israel And that's going to be the end of the SA. Now, the first bit happened, they left Egypt. The second bit happened, they went, they got the Torah. And then the next bit where they're supposed to go to Israel, that's when things went a bit pear-shaped. Okay. Now putting aside the golden calf incident which was the black spot of our history along with the spies various other things that was really the peach that was the Anyway so what did Benzrael do when they got the Torah? They turned around to go to Israel and they were excited to go to Israel. Really excited. And God told them they were going to go to Israel and they were happy about it. Yet, we're told that they were punished because of this. Now, if you listen, we were all there, right? If that was me, if I was if I could remember what it was like to be there and I was told, "Hey, what you did was wrong, I I would straight away say, "Sorry, which part of it did I get wrong? You said we're going to get the Torah. We got the Torah. Then I turn we turned around. We headed towards Israel. What which part of it was wrong?" So listen to this. Russia gives us the answer. He says, "What was our reaction when we turned round and left Hari to go to Israel?" He Rashi describes it asotim like children who run away from school. Now, I don't know. I don't know about the American school system. I know my school system in the UK. We had a when I was growing up, we had a blackboard, you know, it was a black graphite thing and you had chalk and you used to write with chalk. Can you believe that? Nowadays, everything's whiteboards, electronic boards. This was old school. So the teacher would be writing something on the on the board and he's about to explain it to the kids and then suddenly the school bell rings and he he finishes up and he goes, "Okay, right. You understand what it and he turned around and nobody was there." Right? As soon as the bell goes out the door I tell you this is what I used to do among my friends. So it's nothing unusual but Ben is got punished because of it. Why says the rabbis it's because their attitude was when they turned around and went to Israel their attitude was God gave us 630 mitzvah. It's not just the ten commandments. He gave the whole 613. Let's go before we get number 614. That's what they thought. They thought enough is enough. Come on. And that was the attitude. I They were happy to go to Israel. Nothing wrong with that. But why would you leave the site of the greatest the single greatest public incident in world history, the giving of the Torah, bar none. This was the epoch of the Jewish people's history. Why would you leave that and say, "I can't wait to get away." That's your attitude. That's like kids running away from school. That's what Rashi meant. They got the next bit right. We're happy to go to Israel, but you can't. It's got to be you. What should their reaction have been? Their reaction should have been, "We're happy to go to Israel, but also we're sad to leave Hari. We're sad. We know we have to go, but they should have left with a heavy heart. You know, when you when you I don't know. I'm I'm just thinking when when I was courting my my soon tobe wife when we used to when we were dating, we used to leave the house. I I I I used to visit her at her parents house. And then when I was on the way out, it was like she was like, "Oh, don't go yet." I was like, "All right, all right. Stay a bit longer." And then like 10 minutes go by. Okay, I've got to go now. Yeah, but don't go. And when I eventually had to go because it was like 3:00 in the morning, it was with a heavy heart. I didn't want to go and she didn't want me to go. But can you imagine if I said, "Okay, I'm going now. I'm happy to go. I'm happy to go home. I'm happy to leave you as well." That's not the attitude you're supposed to have. That's not It's not even a choice. Your your natural tendency is you don't want to part. you want to be there. It's hard to to So that's what the BL should have done. And because of that, that's what that's why they were punished. And that is unfortunately played out in various different times in history where we've um been less than enthusiastic or rather we've had a lack of um that sort of uh attachment. when you leave a situation that is positive and you you want to go, there's a lot there's a lot of incidents that happened over Jewish history where that unfortunately played out. It's not a good thing. And there's evidence in the Torah about this uh running away from school type of syndrome because if you look in um chapter 10 verse 35 10:35 you'll see something strange if you look at your I mean I can't really show it here. Maybe I can show my camera over here. If you can see over here there there's a very strange thing here. There are two nuns over here. nun the the letter of the alphabet like almost like brackets in in the middle of the and this is in the Torah two nuns over here but they're not nuns they're like regular nun they're reversed upside down nuns backwards nuns what's going on okay so there's an explanation that says it's like it it's a partitions um these two verses There's two verses between these two nuns. So those verses are a separate portion in the Torah. That's the normal answer that we're given. It's a separate book in the Torah. That's why there's brackets over there. But there's a deeper answer because nun is another word for fish. Fish is dug, but nun symbolizes fish. So that nun backwards shows that you know fish travels in water. Fish travel, they go straight. You know, sometimes salmon, they they swim against the tide, but fish uh um when they travel away, they turn their back. So these two nuns symbolize the fact that because they're upside down backwards, it shows that we turned our backs on Hari and we left. So when you see those two nons, you realize why they are what backwards. It's because that's our fault. because we turned our backs on harassi. Okay, so that's the hint in the Torah. Okay, how are we doing for time? Right. Okay, a couple more points. I'll try and do this very quick. 11:16. There's a lot in this para. A lot. A lot. A lot. So 11:16 says, let's read in the original Hebrew. God said to Moses, gather for me 70 people from the elders of Israel. Let's translate that last bit. Whom you know to be the elders of the people. This is the relevant part. And its officers. So these 70 people were officers. Officers of what? We're going to find out. Uh, take them to the tent of meeting, which is the Mishkan, and have them stand there with you. So, who are these 70 officers? Officers of what? So, they were the people who in Egypt were the officers over the Jewish people. Sort of like capos. You know, in World War II, the Nazis, Yamaha, used to appoint Jewish people to be in charge of the other Jewish people. They were called capos. It wasn't a job that was relished by many Jews. Uh so there's a lot of mixed views about what their relationship was with the Jewish people. Anyway, these officers in Egypt were like capos or they were in charge of group large groups of Jews who were sent to do the work to build the cities etc. Now the what was what was significant about these officers is that the Egyptians wouldn't deal with the Jews, they deal with the officers. So if one unit of Jews were supposed to build x amount of bricks and the Egyptians wanted to check, has that been done? They'd go to the officers. And if the officers said, "Well, I'm sorry. You know, we've got 70% of the bricks ready." The Egyptians wouldn't go, "Okay, no problem. Try your best. We'll be back tomorrow." No. They would straight away get out their whips and whip the living daylights out of these officers. So these officers took the brunt of the punishment on behalf of the Jewish people unlike the capos. They took the the the beatings. So because of that because they took punishment on behalf of their brothers. That's why they were rewarded to become the 70 elders that went with Moses to see parro. Okay. Whether they did, they didn't, that's that's another story. Uh okay. they they weren't uh perfect in in in certain respects. But anyway, that was their privilege. They became the 70 elders. The question is they stood up for their brothers. Do we stand up for our brothers? Do we stand up for our fellow Jews? It's a big thing. If we see one of our brothers suffering, could we in any field, anything, do we reach out and help them? I mean, I've heard amazing stories of of of people who do, and I I'm going to share one with you now. So, again, this is another true I like true stories. This is a true story. It happened with somebody who lived in Israel. His name was Michael Mel. Now, this Mel, let's call him Michael. It's easy to say. This Michael, unfortunately, was diagnosed with a very terrible disease. I'm sure you can imagine what it is. And um for some unknown reason they couldn't treat him in Israel which I find a little bit hard to believe. Israel can do anything. But they told him if you want the treatment for this particular strain of the disease you need to go to London of all places. Okay. Apparently there's something that we could we do right apparently. Okay. So you have to go to London, see a certain specialist and uh he will be able to perform an operation and uh it should be successful. Okay. So he flies to London and he didn't have money to go to London. Maybe he borrowed the money. Turns up in London, goes to see the specialist and the specialist said, "Yes, this is treatable. You've caught it in good time. We can do the operation. It's going to cost $60,000. He didn't have two pennies to rub together. This guy, he like I said, he probably borrowed the airfare. Comes back to Israel and somebody told told him, you know, there's a medical gamak who lend out money. Go to them. Maybe they're going to help you. Goes to this medical gamak. They hear his story. They said, "We can help you with $5,000." Okay. No, five five grand is better than gornished. Okay. So, he thought to himself, "Okay, that's $55,000 that I need. Maybe there's I can I can do an appeal. I can do this." He thought things to do. Somebody told him, "Wait, there's a guy who lives in Tel Aviv in a house that's set apart from the the the main streets." So, he lives like on a hill. Nobody knows where he lives. Go there, cold call him, knock on his door, and see. Apparently, he's like a generous guy. Maybe he might be able to top up some of that money. Maybe after him, you might be able to go to somebody else. But he's a good first first port of call. So he gets the address, goes to this guy. He has to go up like a windy hill, you know, one of these um these palatial houses. They've got these like, you know, he gets to the top of the thing. It's a big ornate door is knocking on the door and the guy himself answers. Not his butler, not his not somebody from the West Wing. He himself answered. He invites the guy in. Remember this is a cold call. And the ill guy opens up his heart and he explains exactly what happened. And the guy, the rich guy is listening. He's listening. He's thinking to himself, "Okay, I understand." He goes, gets a checkbook. He writes out a check. 55 grand. Gives it to them on the spot. He'd never seen the guy before in his life. He topped up the money. That's it. Nothing owing. And the guy, ill, guy was like, "What? I was not expecting this. I thought we'd go maybe visit other people. He said, "You know what? This money is my investment money. I had a business deal and I saved I put it aside for this deal, but you're here. You need you need the help. Don't worry. I God will give me the money if he wants to give me the money." Fine. So, he hands him the check and the guy goes out. can't believe his luck, his mazalan. Unbelievable. So he thinks, "Okay, now I'm going to go organize the the flight. I'm going to get the operation. Everything's going to be fine." He goes, "But that guy just gave me 55 grand. I can't just walk away and say thank you. I got to do something special." So he goes to one of these silver uh stores like Hatsurfim or one of these places in Israel and he buys a beautiful silver manura and he finds like a this is before Amazon so he finds a delivery guy and he says to him listen I need you to deliver this package to this house at a very specific time and he told him the day, the date, and the exact time. He goes, "You need to deliver it not an hour before, not an hour after, exactly this time." Why did he say that? Because he'd already booked his operation in England. And he said, "I want to give him the gift at the time that I'm having the operation, probably because of fine." So the delivery guy says no problem. Uh the guy goes to England. He's having the operation and the guy the delivery guy is he he's got his brief. Goes to this house of this rich guy knocks on the door with a package in hand. Right. No answer. Bit weird. Okay. Knocks again. Rings. Nothing. And then he hears behind the door there's like a sort of moaning crying sound and he puts his ear to the door and he hears it like like this. So he says, "Hello. Hello. Who's anybody there?" No answer. Just moaning. He thinks something's going on here. So he's got a bit of with this guy, this delivery guy. smashes the door down and he sees the owner of the house on the floor. He was having a heart attack >> and he's like, "What?" So he quickly calls the Israeli equivalent of 911. The ambulance comes and they and and they rescue him and they bring him back from the brink of death and they said to him, "How did you know when to come? Had you come half an hour later, the story would have had a very different ending. Now, this guy had no idea. Who is this delivery guy? What's he doing at my house? Oh, I I I bought you a a gift from somebody. Who's who? He explains this guy. It's called Michael. Apparently, you paid something to do with the operation. He goes, "What? That's the guy that I pay to have an operation?" because I paid to save his life and because of that he saved my life. So you see you know not not often do we see this type of uh ending but we know any time that we do a it definitely not maybe not 90% definitely will come back in your favor definitely ah you might see it you might not see it but it will definitely come back to you and as Jewish people we are kings of I'm sorry if you It's it's a a sweeping statement. I know a lot of communities in within the non-Jewish world. Sikhs are a good example that do amazing many but sorry per capita there's no one like the Jewish people in terms of in terms of just accept it. That's the truth. There's plenty of figures to back this up. Okay, I need to wrap this up now. Uh uh I got to do a eeny meenie miny mo. What am I going to do? Okay, I'm going to cut to the chase. I'm going to finish with one more story and that's it. But first I'm going to give a quick quick recap of what we've done so far. Chapter 8:3 it says vas Aaron. Aaron did so. Aaron listened to God when he was lighting the monura. Why? Three reasons. Number one, Rashi says he did not deviate. had the same energy for for the rest of his life. Never waned at all. Answer number two, he did not change. He remained the same humble person despite his new position. That's third reason for he went to the place where his two sons died and still he served Hashem completely. He was there every day and he had to relive the death of his sons. As you remember the mashall about the teacher writing on the on the blackboard and the the class running away. That's why we were punished at Harosi because we didn't have the right attitude when we left Harinai. Let's remember um the two backwards nuns. That's evidence why um it shows that we turned our backs on Hari. Let's remember the 70 men. Why were the 70 men chosen? Because they were the Jewish task masters. They took the whipping on behalf of their fellow Jews. That's a big thing. And we we have to ask ourselves, do we stand up for our fellow Jews? Um, okay, here's my final point. Now, we're all we all know Miriam. Miriam, the sister of Moshe and Aon. Uh she um she spoke it's hard to say this but she spoke lash on harab about her brother Mosha. Now when we say it wasn't like you know what Masha did he did no I don't believe it that's lash on our level on her level she spoke lash har quote unquote like of the like the subtlest lash she spoke only to her brother Aon she did not in any way shape or form mean to demean her brother every tolet that was pos every excuse Every mitigating factor was applied to Miriam. Yet technically it was lash technically. Why was she given such a punishment? Because she got tarat by the way for this. She got tarat. She got I don't know how to it's not leprosy but it's tat right. She became had these spots and everything. And everyone waited for her for one week. the whole 3 million people sitting twiddling their thumbs. Well, I wouldn't say twilling thumbs anyway. They're waiting for a whole week for her. Okay. Now, why was she given such a whacking great punishment? To me, it's because she was judged. Okay? There's two ways that God judges people. One is right uh a merciful judgment and one is which is strict judgment. Now if you've got sadikim like Jacob Moshaim, right? Why would you want to judge them with why would God want to judge them with with mercy? Go way beyond that. They don't need that. They don't. In other words, to be judged favorably with raim. It's if you've done something wrong and you need that extra little, you know, little consideration like mitigating circumstances that's wasted on they're never going to be punished. The only way you can you can judge a sadic is by. So in other words, the tiniest infraction will bring correction. Why? Because nothing else registers. They don't do the big sins like we do. Okay. So Miriam again with this most subtle version of the only way she'll be punished is which is what exactly what happened to her. Now, in what merit did the entire Jewish people wait for her for seven days? That's a big ask. That's a big thing. Okay, we'll wait. Come on, we'll wait half an hour, an hour, maybe, right? One week. What What is all that about? And I'll I'll finish by just sharing with you a story and then you're going to see we're going to give the reason after that. And this I literally I'm going to wrap up now. I don't want to get home too late. So this is a true story that took place in Israel maybe about 30 20 30 years ago something like that. Okay. So this is a story of a a young lady called Henny. Henny was married. She was pregnant and her husband was not working and her brother wasn't working either. And she was the sole bread winner and she was working to support her husband and her brother and she's pregnant. Okay, that's a Jewish woman for you. Now, she had a job, but she's not going to have the job when she's pregnant. When she's in the ninth month, she's going to have to even before the 9th month, she has she's just going to have to stop working. And she was worried that if she stops working, she has a maternity leave. She's going to come back. There's not going to be a job for her to come back to. So, she was understandably worried. Now during her pregnancy period uh there was an office party and uh the boss was the big boss was there and all the employees were there. I it sounds like there were about maybe 30 40 50 employees there and the boss didn't necessarily know who each and every one of his employees were and he was speaking to each one finding out their life stories and he got round to this henny who obviously was showing now he says to oh what's your story where you from etc. He goes, "Yeah, well, originally I'm from America. I'm from Does it say here? I can't remember." No, it's it was from some I think I think the story says that she was from East Flatbush somewhere in New York. So, she says, "Yeah, I'm from this place, East Flatbush, and uh uh uh we moved to Israel." Anyway, he's telling the story to the boss, and the boss said, "Wait a minute. What's your what's your maiden name? She mentions a maiden name. He says, "What? What? Is your father so and so?" Cuz she says, "Yeah, how do you know?" He says, "I don't believe it." He says, "I must tell you this story." He says, he proceeds to tell this pregnant henny the following story. He says, "You know, I came from a very poor family. My father was a struggling electrician and he was working hard to put food on the table. But the problem was he was not in the union in those days. If you were not in the union, they wouldn't look at you. Now he had a friend. My father had a friend who was in the union and he was getting regular work. And my father was friendly with this union guy. And they used to walk home together, talk shop. You know, electricians like to talk to each other about wires and etc. And my father struggled, but he he he always tried his best. But you know, he he died before his time. He died young and he left us left my mother as a widow and me and my siblings as orphans. Now this union electrician came to the shiva and he spoke to my mother and I don't know this part of the story is a little bit unclear. Apparently he went into the kitchen and looked in the refrigerator and he saw there's nothing in there. Basically, this was a house that they they didn't didn't have food on the table. So, this union guy approaches my mother and says, "What is it? You've got no food in the house?" Uh, she was a bit ky. No. Then this union guy would not take no for an answer. He went out the next day. He bought a ton of food, filled up the refrigerator. Now, he didn't just turn up and knock on the door. It was the shiver. So, he had an excuse to come in. went into the kitchen, put the food there and and he did this and and my mother couldn't do anything. She was not comfortable with this, but what could she do? So he did this every day for a month, something like that. Some ridiculous like everyday food for the whole family. Then my mother, she felt very uncomfortable because it's like you're not comfortable receiving charity. It's hard. It's hard to do that. So my mother said to this union electrician, he said, "You know, you were friendly with my late husband. You know that he had tons and tons of electrical components and wires and drills and z and he kept them in the basement. I don't know how much they're worth. Give me $100 and you can take the lot." Okay. seems like a good deal. Pays $100. Goes into the basement and he sees a ton. It's worth way more than 100 bucks. So for the next three weeks, this union guy sorts out all the stuff. It was all in a in a balagan makes and and he makes a yard sale. What we call in England a car boot sale. Makes a yard sale. He sells the whole lot to fellow electricians and he makes a ton of money and then what does he do with the money? Gives it he gave it to my mother and he said here you go. This is this is what your your husband would have wanted. So what an act of And then the boss is telling Hedi this story and he says that union guy was your grandfather and I would not be here if it wasn't for his and therefore you're worrying you're not going to have a job if you go and have a baby and come back you your job is underwritten. you have a job and not only that, he probably found out all the backstory. Not only that, your husband will have a job and your brother will have a job. And that's exactly what he did. Now you can see aided like that. Okay, it's a nice, you know, you you you fill up the fridge, you pay 100 bucks, you you sort out the stuff, you sell it for a ton, you give out. It's nice, but you're not really going to see the effect that has until many years later, whatever it's 20, 30 years later when it when it came out. And then the real effect was, you know, her job was safe and her husband and her brother. Now let's go back to Miriam. Miriam, why did she merit the whole of Cloud Israel waiting for one week? You know why? You got to go back to the beginning when Moses was a little yingala. He was six month, no 3 months old if I'm not mistaken. His mother put him in a basket like Noah cuz he was Noah. By the way, Mosha Rain was a gil a reincarnation of of Noah. Noah came back into a into an ark. So Moses put in the in the in the Moses basket, sailed down the river, and who was there watching and waiting to see what was going to happen with her brother? It was Miriam. You know how long she waited? She waited a total of 15 minutes. Quarter of an hour. Chick that. And then 50 minutes done. Okay. She goes home. That's when she saw Bacha put her hand out and said 15 minutes and because of that year 80 years later every single Jew waited for her for one week. Now there is a heshon that is made don't ask me maths is not my thing. There's a heshon that relates that 15 minutes kaf works out to uh three million people waiting for one week. But that's not the point I want to make. And this is my literally my last point now is because God could have rewarded Miriam on the spot. You waited 15 minutes. Great. Here's your reward. No, God waited 80 years. What was the reason God waited 80 years? To show that this little tiny insignificant act waiting for 15 minutes. You know what? import that had because now the she saved the life of her brother and now now at the time he was a baby. Now he was an 80 something year old man leading 3 million people. So God was telling Miriam and by extension every single Jew look what happens when you do one little action and you see what the reward is for that action. say here on all of us should take these phenomenal messages from the parasa I'm sorry I didn't mention anything about mashiach okay that's really my apology it was it was okay my apologies but you can see please God all of us who take the wonderful lessons from the para realize that any action you do it could be buying a monora it could be waiting 15 minutes it could be anything it it will increase exponentially and hashem should reward us by showing us The effect of the mitzvah but even though we don't we don't need it if we see it will give us and Hashem will bring us the biggest reward that he can give us which of course is may it come speedily in our times of our mate.