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Parashat Devarim: Making Aliyah To Israel

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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And then Musher Benu tells them the journey of 11 days from that's mount zi to kadesh it only took us three days though tells for any normal human being to go from this place to that place it's going to take 11 days. Hashem wanted to bring you your parents to the land of Israel so much that he made a miracle, an unnecessary miracle. So it would seem instead of 11 days, three days, meaning you were three days away from entering conquering the land, building the beta mikdash and the ultimate salvation of the world happening. No one ever dies. But what happened? You said, "No, come on. Let me check what he really said that. Can I see? Can you bring me a source of uh where it says that I'm not allowed to do such and such? Oh, it's not enough that a reliable person already told you. It's not enough that he gave you one source. You want to see five as if you're a scholar. It's not enough that Bah gave you all the blessings in the world. You need more proof that he exists. The generation needed more. They wanted to see. And therefore they sent spies. Spies to see the place. That lack of confidence in Hashem. The outcome of it is tishab. The spies came back with a bad report and for that we suffered back then instead of going to Israel in 3 days we had to wait 40 years giving us an idea of what timing is in the eyes of God in comparison to our timing. We make a sin that takes one second. The punishment is 40 years. Imagine living a life of sin. And yet people think that gay is maxed out at 12 months somehow. For one bad report, we got 40 years of punishment and everybody had to get a death penalty with the exception of a couple of people that didn't sin. Yeshua Benoon and Khalif Ben. Everyone had to die. And in fact, in the most gruesome possible way, every sh everyone would build themselves, dig themselves a grave and sleep in the grave because literally tens of thousands would die every single year. They would not wake up and it was just too much burden for everybody else to bury them. So the whole nation had to sleep in graves on Shana for 40 years to alleviate their children and their loved ones of the burden of burying them if they don't wake up the next day. 40 years everyone wakes up not knowing if their loved one is going to wake up having to get up out of the grave to look into their loved one's grave. Why a sin that took one second? 40 years of agony for one second of her heretical comments against God. And yet people believe the notion that you can live a life of sin, violate Shabbat on a regular basis, steal from people, do horrible things, and yet maximum statement is only 12 months. How foolish. are those people that believe that and how evil are the people that teach it. But this whole thing happened because we didn't have confidence in God. We didn't take him at his word. When he said he's going to give us blessings and curses as a package deal, when we do his will, we fulfill his commandments, we get blessings. When we don't, we get curses. Can I see? Like a child who wants to see everything, doesn't want to believe their parent that what they're saying is true. For that, we lost everything and had to dig ourselves out of the grave over the next 40 years. Unfortunately, Abu Tai The same thing is happening now. Hashem has defeated all of our enemies. Yes, we've had trials and tribulations and wars and pograms and inquisitions and holocaust, but at the end of it all, we are here and they're not. Where are the Nazis? Aside from protest in little towns in the middle of nowhere, where are the Romans aside from history books? Where are the Greeks aside from the grave? Where are the Spaniards and the Babylonians? Where are these great anti-semites that are constantly on the news bringing fear to the Jewish world? Where where are they? Are they stopping you from eating? Are they stopping you from drinking? Are they stopping you from learning Torah? Are they stopping you from business? Oh, the BDS is doing such and such. So what? Oh, this anti-semite singer said bad things about the Jews on stage. Who cares? Oh, look at this rapper. He doesn't like Jews. Fine. Does that stop you from living? Are you so concerned with anti-semitism that you forgot that this is a tool that himself put into the world to remind you that you are Jewish? Bel defeated all of our enemies. And yet we are worried about everything aside for the reason of why he allows our enemies to defeat us. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless.