Manna From Heaven

foreign [Music] why would they complain for no reason I mean if there's they're lacking food if they're lacking uh pleasure if they're lucky whatever okay you complain about certain things but complain about nothing generally speaking most people's complaints are about things that are not so far away from nothing but nonetheless here it's truly about nothing and now we'll see a little bit more of what's what's behind the scenes here but they got into the mood of rebelling and they uh you know because they started pitying themselves pitting themselves and in essence they wanted God to hear and be angered and succeeded and Rashi says ended up paying a very heavy price this is like a child that is a uh seeking attention because he feels like he should get more everybody got a toy and he's not happy that everybody got a toy he wants more everybody's eating but he's not getting attention everybody's this and he wants more he wants more than everybody else he wants to be the first she wants to be the first so what do they do when they're when they're not automatically the first ah they start causing trouble hey flip the play they start yelling they start causing other people they start troublemakers why they want attention foreign troublemakers when they're little children but when they're adults and they're caught trying to cause there's something behind it there's something behind their Rebellion who gave them a very heavy punishment and the question is why were they looking to complaint what were they pitying themselves about they're pitting themselves about the fact that now that they have left Mount Sinai they now have to fulfill all of these meets vote you have to wake up in the morning you have to say modyani you have to pray you have to put on to filling before you eat you have to say you have to a uh uh ending blessing you have to eat only kosher food you have to only be with your wife for part of the month you can't be together all the time even if you love your husband more than everybody else you're still not allowed to hug them during that time that you're Nida you know after the water breaks if you're pregnant which is the time that you feel that you need the most amount of attention who says you're not allowed to touch your husband so the attention has to come with words and not with hugs or kisses and all types of things so all of a sudden Ami said is realized that his Torah is serious and it obligates them to change their day-to-day lives to the point where they have to have a who in mind at all times specifically put in the desert and not in Israel right away so they can learn Torah without any distractions of trying to earn a living or anything like that and when they complained about this not because something was wrong but rather because they started pitying themselves that hey we weren't uh we weren't uh obligated to do all these meets vote when we were in Egypt maybe the slaver in Egypt was better than this foreign was angry about this and burned their leaders he didn't burn the people that were complaining but rather the leaders that's why that's what it means when it says that he uh the fire consumed the edge of the camp Rashi says what does it mean the edge of the camp at the edge of the camp were the leaders they were put in place that anytime people were getting out of order they were the ones that were supposed to convince people uh to get back into shape to rebuke them to tell them something but when he saw that the leaders themselves were not saying anything it was the same as if they were agreeing with them it was the same as if they were doing it themselves and therefore is the leaders because if the leader is not going to lead surely the flock is a lost cause so here we see that who punished them severely for not rebuking this is the same thing for anybody out there that finds themselves in a Kayla and a uh and you see the people are talking in the middle of prayer or you see that they're putting a uh a person to be a khazan when this person is not uh a logically permitted to be a Kazan either because his wife doesn't wear kisulos or because he shaves with a razor or he sends his kids to public school or he doesn't learn Torah every day anyone who doesn't learn until every single day you're not allowed to allow him to uh to to be hazan it's not to be a Hassan anyone shades with a Razer anyone who sends his kids to public school not allowed to be a Kazan person doesn't learn till every single day his wife doesn't cover her hair doesn't matter how good his voice is says that a person that comes to become a Kazan only to show off his voice is not only not bringing a blessing to the community but is actually bringing a curse on everybody is there so when you see that you're in a community where they're putting anybody to be a khazan you seriously should say something to the rabbi tell listen this guy's not fit to be a Kazan or you see people speaking in uh or in the middle of Prayer in the middle of kadish you have to say something to the rabbi Tom yeah you know listen there's a problem if you see that the rabbi after you've told him a few times not doing anything either you say something or leave you can't stay there and uh simply pretend like a uh uh like nothing is wrong you have to make sure that if you're gonna go to shoe you're going to get a blessing not a curse but a person has to know that many times the the rabbis are scared of the kailan they're not not because they don't know the truth not because they don't want to say the truth but they know that if they say the truth they'll get fired because this uh this synagogue is not really a synagogue it's more like a uh you know it's more like Corporate America board of directors you know there's three four or five secular people or four or five America so don't know anything they're the main the ones that make the rules so as soon as the Rabbi says anything that's the truth he knows he's gonna get fired so he can't even afford to say the truth he figures that maybe he'll whisper it some other way he'll teach you some other way hopefully save a few of them so in essence tequila killed itself and killed the rabbi's ability to be a rabbi so if you find yourself in such a sure you have to run away as far as possible run away as far as possible because a shoe like this is not going to bring you any blessings and and no donation in the world is going to be a a mitzvah for such a place because it's not really a show especially if they have some of these khazanim some of these uh uh kazanim that come there uh literally they look like they're rock stars look like they're uh singers at weddings and bar mitzvahs with mixed dancing parties a person like this so a person has to know that you have to rebuke you have to rebuke if you are in a position to rebuke yourself then rebuke but if you're not you have there's a leader there's a rabbi over there you have to let him do it you have to tell him to do it quietly with respect With Honor you have to be very very respectful to Tami which we'll discuss a little bit tonight but it's very very important for a person to know that the Mitzvah rebuke is very dear to Hashem so much so that in this week's killed the leaders that did not rebuke Kami slave in essence blaming them for Israel not going too far and and not not doing Shiva before it was too late [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music]