Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Failing/Falling is Reversible

[Music] can hi everybody good evening and I want to start off with a an observation that the Gemara makes the Mustapha Shabbos slow-mo hemella from the book of Mitchell a talks about a wise woman who builds her house that is standing on Seven Pillars of wisdom and hazael say the wise woman is none other than the Torah and there are seven books in the Torah they are called the Seven Pillars of wisdom so the question is very obvious we know there are five books of the Torah so the Gemara explains that the book of Bamidbar actually comprises three books so you have gracious as one schmoes to buy equal 3 by mid boar another three and devorah is number seven how is my mid part divided into three different books so there are very very unequal size the first book of a mid boy is from the beginning of a mid bar until the time when they leave Mount Sinai after almost a year with the verses why he been so around that we say when the tour is taken out that when the art of the ark travels Moshe said let your enemies Hashem scatter the second book is only two verses for he been so are owned by young men Moshe Kumar Shem for your food so even arise God let your enemy scatter for Nusa me son enemy pinaka may those who hate you flee movie new Hoyo ma which we said we were back to tell remember the ark came to rest Moshe said chuva Hashem Revo sofa Israel return your Divine Presence to the myriads of Israel 2 vs. 2 vs. is Hamish number 2 of the midpoint Commission number 3 is from after that point so it's a very very to the end of the sacred so it's a very odd configuration that the two verses of I he been so AHA our own should be called a homage with neots moe they separate Hamas he does it rural baby wouldn't we wouldn't call it how much we call it a safer and I'm using from us colloquially you're correct but because I'll say it's a safer but if they are smoke now moreover yeah yeah yeah I'm using I'm using commercial than just the conventional division but you are correct obviously you cannot have a seven-part too much that would be that would be impossible logically correct now moreover if you look at a safer tour and somehow mushroom it is you can see it as well the two verses by he been so our own and Avenue Hoyo Mar are set off by nuns that are her inverted nuns that are turned the opposite way and according to some even upside down what is the meaning of the nuna for so rhapsodic says a very very interesting insight he basically says that the first part of my mid bar is the ideal Jewish Society and the third part of Bamidbar is the sordid reality of the imperfect realization of that society and the two verses in between are the transition that's explaining how do you go from up there to down there and therefore you have ideal reality transition what's the explanation so the first part of my mid bar god is clearly creating what you might call the ideal Society we have the Mishkan in the middle and around the Michigan has arrayed all the different tribes and we spoke over this a number of times each tribe had its own unique function its own unique way of serving God its own nasi its own flag we mentioned last week that even though the carbon notes that's the missing in brought to dedicate the Michigan everybody brought their exactly the same offering but in point of fact there was a different kibana and the uniqueness and God is creating a society which recognizes diversity the beauty of differences different approaches different ways of serving God within of course the common framework of Torah and therefore the beginning of my mid were is trying to create a society in which there is unity and common commitment common cause while tolerating and even even celebrating the uniqueness and diversity of individuals now that's a very very difficult thing to achieve because obviously the more you emphasize individuality the greater the danger that you're not going to have a community anymore because everybody's doing their own thing and la hepa as you emphasize community as we see in the religious world today there tends to be a tremendous emphasis on conformity and sameness everybody has to look the same everybody has to sound the same everybody has to talk the same how do you balance Octus unity community and submission to God with recognition of difference and individuality is a very very difficult challenge but that is the attempt that is the blueprint of the first part of safer by midpoint the third part I'll come to the transition in a moment the third part is when things fall apart because after all I mentioned last week that the three positive forces of holiness are Torah avodah Camillus Kassadin Torah learning divine service of Prayer in carbonate and kamila such a tax of loving-kindness right they are slow she'd of Orion Halle mom ate the world stands on these three pillars but just as the world stands on the three positive pillars of terrabona gamelon so sudden the world gets destroyed by the negative pillars of kena jealousy tie the lust and carve out a desire for honor we spoke about that last week as well but let's look at the fact that if the first part of my mid bar is stressing Torah avodah jameelah's Kassadin the third part of a mid bar is stressing kena type of a cover all right the first thing as soon as they leave Mount Sinai they complain about the month the money's tasteless they say even though cause I'll say it could be anything you wanted they desired they had at IVA for meat they had a lust for the sensual that was unnecessary the sin of the Moroccan according to the Zohar we'll talk about this and much more length in a moment that's the part of the week but according to this hour the sin of the Mourad limb was a sin of covet because they were afraid that if they come to average Israel they're going to be replaced by a different group and therefore they wanted to sabotage coming to Eretz Israel because of the desire for covet so in Kimbrough sativa the downfall is Tyva in the maragua according to the so we're at least the downfall is covered and then we're going to read about COEX rebellion which of course is based on jealousy for the position of Moshe and Aaron so you have mirror images here you have negatives and positives Torah avodah Camillus Kassadin part 1 kena Tyva covered part 2 everything disintegrates everything falls apart now the key so how do you get from point A to point B in the negative sense are the two verses of transition which described they're leaving Mount Sinai and because I'll say when the Jewish people left Mount Sinai after almost a year remember they came to Mount Sinai Rosh Hodesh even three months after they left Mizrahim and they left the 23rd of a or so which was more than eleven months eleven and a half months 11 months and three weeks so it says when they finally get the sign from God it's time to go right the cloud begins to move it says they ran from Sinai like a child running away from school because they were afraid we got so many mitzvot that Sinai they every day we stay we're gonna get more of them Hashem we're out of here which means that once connection to Hashem is very much a function of their attitude their enthusiasm their joy if you look at the Torah as a burden if you look at the tour as something that you want to escape even if you're keeping it at some point you're going to fall at some point you're not going to be able to sustain yourself and therefore the tragedy of where we got from the Torah voda gamelon so sudden to the Kin a type of a covet is because they left Mount Sinai cat enoch ha Barea me base are safer that's why it is so important both for ourselves and particularly if we raise children in the home that we have to convey Judaism as a joyous happy emotionally fulfilling way of life not kind of yeah I hate Pesach too but we got to do it because God commanded it now it happens to be true that even if you hate face up you got to do it because God commanded it that's part of being an effort Hashem that is a hundred percent true and better to do it and hate it then not to do it I would think but in the long run if we convey a Yiddish gate that is devoid of enthusiasm and happiness and excitement and joy it is not sustainable it is not transferable to the next generation and indeed something dies even within ourselves and that is why those two verses which represent the attitude of leaving Sinai Catina Hebei Reyes we base our safer is how we move from the Torah of Oden Camilla Sodom of Part A to the keener the Taira and the coverage of Part C now rhapsodic says that is why those two verses which is the beliefs are missing I are set off with nuns because we know that none connotes a message of Neth Fela famous Gomorrah right the Gemara points out McMurran Bracco's as a mime er of rabbi Yochanan we know everyone knows Tehillim 145 which is popularly known as RA although Austria is not part of that some RA is a verse earlier in tell them but the tehilim 145 begins with de la la da vid a praise for David and our invocation okay okay I'm Ella right and so RA is written as an Olive basic rustic every letter of the olive base begins a different verse about right except for the letter nun we go from men mouth who's come out whose color l'm in remember out the fiber holder of a door and we skipped noon and we go to summer so many Hashem will call in no flim and we're vo Conan raises the question why is there no nun PASOK in ASHRAE and review Oakland and answers because none is a pasa is a word or a letter that connotes a word of Nephila as the puss success in our mice talking about the godless nut flush she shall fall low social comes she will not rise but Sula Israel the virgin of Israel she will experience such a falling that she will not be able to get up and David MLF did not want to begin a pursuit with a letter of Nephi Lana and he only mentions no Fela in the next verse that says so make hussion Hashem supports we call her no flim those who fall so noon connotes Nephila and since the tube sukham he been so around which is describing their leaving from Sinai represents the spiritual fall that they had because they work at Enoch American base are safer it is set off with Newtons this is the source of Nephila the source of Nephila is attitude the source of Nephi lies lack of enthusiasm the source of Mithila is complacency and not caring here's where Reposado gives a fussy - a twist why are the No is reversed because it's important to know that all new Fela is reversible no matter how low you fall no matter how much you've lost the road is always going to be open the road of Chula is always there this is such a gift that the Almighty has given us that you know a person sometimes feels there's no hope a person sometimes feels what's the point but the gift of chuva says you can always come back and it's never too late and the Fela can be turned around and reversed and rhapsodic says that is the remnants of the new novel by the way the fiduciary am the first guerra Rebbe says again this is last week's partial but I didn't mention it last week of course for the Diaspora it's this week's pressure so I guess I could be out say for the foots largest listeners if there are any and that is last week we read about peso Chaney right people were today and they were not able to bring the carbon pesos and they asked Moshe Rabbeinu why should we be deprived of bringing the carbon peso so Moshe asks God and God says if somebody is to me or somebody is direct with coca somebody is distant from Jerusalem and they can't make it in time for Pesach they are given a second opportunity one month later to bring the korban Pesach and this is called Pesach Shanee it's the 14th of E all right the regular carbon peso has brought the 14th of Nisan and it is eaten the night of the 15th which is the night of the seder Pasolini is one month later it's brought on the 14th of ER and it is eaten the nights of the 15th of the year peso Shanee now the Collegium says that there are two important lessons of peso Shaney we know that often a human being a Jew feels I'm so impurity that I have no way of connecting the lesson of peso Chaney is there is the gift of the second chance you could be Tommy you could be Derek Lakota I'm far from God right off the derrick so to speak you can come back but there's another lesson here what's interesting is pets akshay me was not given as a mitzvah until people came and demanded it it really is in the sense a grass roots Mitzvah what would have been if the people who were too many simply would have said okay we're tell me we can't do what we can't do it and that's a legitimate claim because the people who were Tamera we're doing a mitzvah they either were carrying yo safes bones or they though there were the ones who took another than Ivo who died in the Michigan out of the Michigan so they were doing a mitzvah if their tummy and they can't do it to their partner I mean imagine if we would get a letter from God and let's assume we could prove it's authentic that say you don't have to keep a stuff this year we wouldn't necessarily complain we might be a little lob remember I have an easy year this year but they weren't happy with that because they loved mitzvahs they loved divine service and they begged and they pleaded and they demanded an opportunity to serve God and God as it were gave in it's it's hard to understand the dynamic exactly but textually it seems very clear had they not asked it wouldn't have been offered it was offered because they asked so what's the lesson God always gives you a second chance and more than a second chance that you have to want it if you don't want it God's not going to inform you of all of the opportunities there's a beautiful quote from of all people Gert the German poet and obviously he was not writing about Judaism but he was writing about the idea that when you make the choice in life that you're supposed to make all of a sudden wonderful doors open up but you have to make the choice first God doesn't like make it easy for you God does not give you the signs he waits for you waits for us to make the decision and when we make that decision all of a sudden things open up that we never would have seen opportunities to serve Him right a person decides that I go to Israel or person decides to go to yeshiva or a person decides to keep Shabbat or keep mitzvahs and there are so many hardships and so many difficulties and we often have this attitude which is understandable if only God would give me a sign and sometimes those signs are not forthcoming but what happens is once you make the commitments then things start happening they may not happen before you make the commitment but they happen when you make the computer feel beautiful quote from Goethe who actually actually says that and they think that's very true in Judaism and that's the lesson of passive Cheney God will give you the opportunities but you gotta want it and in some way you even have to demand it knowing of course that God can always say no to anything we demand but you kind of I wanted so much I need it and and alike you know much of Feinstein used to say that the old Yiddish phrase is an old Yiddish saying since varus's I needs it is hard to be a Jew remote refines and said with some hyperbole some exaggeration that that destroyed a whole generation of American Jews between the 20s and the 40's we know that's largely a lost generation because you had European immigrants who were very very religious who came to the United States at the turn of the century or after World War one and overwhelming their children abandoned Judaism many intermarry those who even didn't intermarry stop keeping everything now it's a very interesting phenomena now eventually after World War 2 orthodoxy began to get stronger and stronger it's still a minority in the United States but still with the day schools and the like or that actually had a great resurgence a great revival there is Burke Hashem a lot of Torah observant Jews in the United States but between 1920 and 1945 is really a lost generation largely with a very very few exceptions and Reb Moshe said that part of what made it a Lost Generation was it was so hard to be a Jew there were no protections for people who kept Shabbos so people who went to work and they would work from Monday to Friday if they wouldn't come in on Saturday they would have no job on Monday they had to find a new job there was poverty people worked at the working conditions but while we're we're awful in those days they didn't have protective labor laws and the attitude that a young kid who comes to America absorbs is to be a Jew is so hard so much sacrifice so much pain why do I need it in a land of opportunity and remote assistant I mean he's not faulting anyone but you think when the attitude that's conveyed is that Judaism is all about suffering the next generation who doesn't have to live that way is not going to accept and that's why it is find it so important that we try to create joy now of course as it's always the case in order to create the proper environment for your kids you have to believe it yourself what is the old salesman saying you can't sell what you don't buy you can't sell the product you don't buy so in reality when we talk about what we have to convey to our kids what I'm really saying is what we have to convey to ourselves and we have to be we have to try to be that type of that type of person so this is an important much above reps I like the idea of approaching Irish guy Torah mitzvahs with the joy and enthusiasm and a passion and yes you have to have year accession fear of God and not just a bus a sham but even us a sham is primarily not the idea that I'm scared of God but rather there's aw there's reverence right ye rise a funny word because it has two connotations and the main idea of you are the most important idea Veera is us Aram Loomis which is awe and reverence and that in turn links to got links to love because the more I revere God because I see the magnificence of his creation and the power and beauty of all that is in the universe the more I love that perfection and I'm filled with gratitude so in truth Urata Onision abba are almost contradictory emotions it's hard to me to love somebody when I'm scared they're gonna hurt me but here at Tyrell Mama's or and reverence and love are not at all contradictory they feed on each other because my love of God can stem from my appreciation of his greatness and his grandeur and then the gratitude for all that he's done for me and all that he does for the universe every single every single moment ok so that was kind of a general thought I wanted to share with you but let me now talk a little bit about the faith on the raglan because this is a very very pivotal part of all of the sins you know the ego was pretty bad and indeed as I'll teach us that in every exile and Punishment of the Jewish people throughout history there is part of the AYGO that's being paid off it's a debt that is still on us but the fatal egg of itself you know God wanted to destroy us then in their motion managed to negotiate a way out of it the Fatima Ragland is the one instance where Moshe could not really negotiate a that punishment and there was literally a decree that the generation would wander in the desert for forty years they would die except for Yahshua and colleg and only the new generation that was either born in the desert or that was under the age of 20 at the time of the Marah glim would enter the Land of Israel oh yeah yes so the women also the women were not nicolau in the south of Morocco so they were older women that came in to enrich Israel shave it lay me that that's my hope is the practice of the souk immediately we did die in the later Moroccan it was only yoshu in college now that that went in so the Fatima Raglan was a devastating devastating blow to the Jewish people these were the Jews who experienced the ten plagues in Egypt these were the Jews who experienced the splitting of the Red Sea these were the Jews that experienced mime in our scene I and the the revelation of mattandsarah and they died in the desert and again poetically at least there is actually something beautiful about the fact that Moshe too died with them because although it's true Moshe had his own sin of hitting the rock etc but there's also kind of a concept of the captain goes down with the ship that's Moshe a Bane was attitude always was that if you're going to get rid of them get rid of me and in a sense Moshe Rubino's words were MacWilliam that he died with the generation that he took out of his time there was actually something poignant and on some level beautiful about the idea that Moshe was such a faithful leader that he went with them so it is obviously very very major stuff so I want to really talk about two simple questions question one is there it was there a sin and I would remember the chronology the moraga line came back on the 8th of of they gave their negative reports and when the Taira says the nation cried that night and complained it was the night of tisha buff and house I'll say that God told them you are crying a Buffy Michelle phenom you are crying a cry for no reason I will make this night an eternal day of crying the day of the Corbin bias reach out the day of the Corbin bias Shanee so there's a direct bees line between the Saitama Ragland and the Corbin based on McNish of tissue birth so question one is was it a sin to send the spice after all God right there the plastic says Hashem says demotius and spice to check out the land so there's a big mark locusts Rashi and the RAM bang was the she Lua camera not the report of them Raglan was the she look of the meringue limb in a very Rashi schita is it was because when God said send spies God is not saying I want you to send spies rather people demanded spy so God said if that's what they want do it but it's not a good thing because Rashi apparently understands that if they truly had faith in God if they truly had a muna they wouldn't have to know which is the better place to attack unless the the lesser place to attack they would just know God said you're going to have victory you're going to have victory so according to sheet this Rashi it is not just the watch and horror of the maragua batson Avera it was the SM she Lewis come around them that's an event ROM bond takes major issue with Rashi rom bond says even if you have a divine promise that God is going to give you victory you still have to engage in military strategy as part of what is called your his studless is part of your human effort you have to organize an army you have to determine the best place to attack you have to determine your tactics you have to know the enemy strengths the enemy's weaknesses that is not a lack of faith that is part of the reasonable he studless that a person engages in and the Ron bond has an ironclad proof that this is Emmis because if you're gonna tell me Sheila , Raglan is a nivara and it's inconsistent with faith in the divine promise then how could you host shoe have been known who knows more than anyone else how sinful and devastating the sin of the Mogollon was when he becomes leader in the beginning of yahshua he sends two spies to check out yuri ho how can he do that he doesn't believe in God's promise the ROM bond says it's obvious that that is legitimate military strategy and not only that there's even a better proof in the Torah itself Moshe obey no you may not have noticed this maybe you'll notice it in a few weeks when Moshe Rabbeinu was waging war against a small group of Canaanites he sends Moraga lence only one verse he says Moraga l'm to check out Yas era before we Congress so after the state of Aragua Moshe Rabbeinu sends maragua so because of this the Rambam says there is nothing wrong with sending spies this is the same way if you're sick you go to a doctor even though God is the source of healing and the same way if you need to earn money for your family you go to work even though God is the source of bernessa so if God tells you the Conqueror lands you got to have a military strategy and I can just kind of you're not just gonna show up and assume everything's going to happen miraculously so because of this the Ramban understands that the Sheila la cama Raglan was totally appropriate and the Moroccan had the right and the obligation to talk about the strengths and the weaknesses the difficult parts of the land to conquer the strength of the people the height of the people how strong they were all of that was fine what was wrong was there editorializing there drawing conclusions that it is too strong for us we are like grasshoppers all of those things their job was to report the facts their job was not to opine whether we will be able to be successful or not be able to be successful they are not opinion writers Hashem gave them a commands and that was a lack of faith and that destroyed the morale of the people but the actual report the Ramban says was legitimate and that's legitimate Estados so we have the smoke locusts Rashi and the Ramban there is a third compromised position a very interesting position that is offered by the Nets if the mid cig was the great 19th century Russia Shiva of the world famous volusion yeshiva mid sieve is an abbreviation Rev enough totally savvy yahudah berlin and his commentary on how much is still quite very very beautiful intricate commentary called ha- our candidates have died in the 1890s after the Russian government forcibly closed down the garage in yeshiva that's a whole story in and of itself and then it's if says the following then it's if says it may have been a sin to ask for the morale gloom but once you ask it becomes a mitzvah to send them out then it seemed evelle opsahl thesis that the degree of hashtag loss the degree of human effort that you need to get divine assistance is a function of the depth of your emunah in God the stronger your Emunah the less you have to do the weaker your Emunah the more you have to do so then it's if posits Rashi was correct that the people should not have asked for the morale they shouldn't have asked from around when they should have had such faith in God they saw you'd see us with ryeom the Mako's Korea's young chief mattandsarah the man that was falling every day and they should have just said God will take care of us we don't need to have a strategy but once they were medela once they revealed that they were frightened they were insecure they needed a plan then that becomes mandatory then they have to do it so Moshe Robina was responding correctly to a demand that came from the people that may have been in improper demands but if that is where they are that becomes the way that God is dealing with them so it's kind of an intermediate position okay so that's that's question number one is the she Lua come around considered to be AC siren of emunah Rashi says yes rom ban says no and it's if says initially it is a concern of emunah but once you have that Lisa rent it now becomes mandatory that which shouldn't have happens may become necessary when you're at a certain level where you're not Zota to that special hush girl but now let's look at it from the more a glim standpoint so the Mogollon were given a mission according to my bond it's a legitimate mission and they come back and they kind of put terror in the hearts of everybody except the women the women brought him loved the land and had greater faith and the women engaged and we're not mix well in the Gazzara but the men at least right the men say again well in fact well okay on the other hand you know again that women can be violated in all sorts of ways and and still they they had trust but the men was scared the men were frightened and as we were talking that you were talking about before this year all of the good things talk about seeing everything in the negative the beautiful giant fruits which is a sign of the blessing that God is going to give them they take that as a negative oh the food is so big you know the jug that's how they got giants and they're going to kill us and the fact that they saw many funerals so they said oh this is a man that kills people when in fact God was getting rid of the enemies so they would have an easier time right now what's your perspective they see everything in the negative light in a frightening light and they take away the enthusiasm the people had and they substituted it with fear and doubts and trepidation and everything got ruined what was their qivana because after all Rashi himself says all of them to see him for righteous people when they left on their mission Moshe picked them because they were righteous now Moshe suspected something might go wrong remember that's why he changed Yoshi was yoshu his name was originally Hosea like the Prophet Hosea but God called him yahushua yulian hay is god's name may God save you from the evil counsel of the spice so Moshe suspected something may go awful awfully wrong but exactly what went wrong here the Moroccan were righteous people so being that sieve and the malbim in refresh they all have a very similar approach and that is the Moroccans qivana was actually a sin with shame shamayim and that is they were focusing on the fact that God's relationship to the Jewish people in the deserts is very different than his relationship to the Jewish people once we come to Erica's realm the desert is like a spiritual cocoon of godliness you're living on miracles that you see every single moment of the day the Hmong comes down from heaven you have a traveling well of water you are surrounded with clouds of glory the presence of God is obvious it is palpable it is so clear once we come to Eretz Israel there is going to be a tremendous concealment of the divine you're not going to have money anymore you're gonna have to plant fields and plow and harvest and Thresh you're not going to have water so to speak you have to look for wells or rely on rainfall which we know in there which Israel is not as constant as it is in some other countries no clouds of glory you're going to have to have lawyers and doctors and accountants and there are there are dangerous with that and the tyrant itself says one of the dangers that you'll have is you'll no longer understand that God is the reason for your success you will attribute your success to your strength Cokely VOT muni my strength has given me all that I've achieved you bridge the rumble of a vessel your heart will be high and mighty and arrogant we shall Hawk - America so one of two things could happen or both at different times one is you will lose faith because you will be overwhelmed by the problems that you face or the opposite reaction you will be intoxicated with your power your success your ability and you will not attribute it to God so says than it says you know what the Marah gleam intended the Marah Glen wanted the Jewish people to remain in the desert for a longer period of time so they they and their children could absorb the godliness they could absorb - gossip practice they could absorb the miracles just as thanked there was a cartoonist students Barry years ago and one of the characters in doonesbury was a guy who loved school he didn't wanted he didn't want to enter the working world so he went through every PhD and MD program that the university offered so every time he finished one PhD he went into some other program and at some point after 20 years he had finished all of the programs and he was in a genuine panic because he didn't know what to do there was like no other program he could enter of course today we have postdocs you can keep on you know keep on going for a while and in some ways this was the door amid bar Venice IAM basically said we are not ready for this challenge we're not ready to confront a world where God's presence is concealed and we have to somehow connect to God even though we don't have these miracles we need the life of miracles we need the cocoon we need to see God every single day because maybe maybe maybe if we internalize that experience for longer and longer and longer we'll be ready for it just like a kollel person might say I need to be in : longer and longer and longer to prepare me for those challenges and especially keep in mind the following they also knew that Moshe a Vania was going to die in that desert they knew this even before the sin of living the rock Moshe didn't commit the sin yet but if you remember L didn't make that our proper sign that Moshe will die in yoshua we'll take them in so if you're a Nazi and you're saying we're gonna face the challenge of a world where God's presence is concealed and we're gonna face it without emotion Rubino let's stay in the desert a little longer now seen in this way amazingly instead of looking at the 40 years as God's punishment God is giving them exactly what they asked for you want to be in the desert longer you want Moshe Rabbeinu to live with you longer you will have that opportunity you see so this was really a cry from the hearts we need the open godliness of God the challenges of building a society without motion and when there's Hester punim the concealment of God and when we have the challenges of not only hostile enemies but creating a society of gaash meais doctrines means physicality that's going to break us we need the purity the pure oxygen of the spiritual cocoon of the day of the midpoint this is how than its it understands it so it turns out in fact this explains in another you can use the new tips to explain another interesting question if you look when the Moroccan give their negative reports so it says your shoe and Kalle fell on their faces and prayed but you'll notice an interesting thing the only one that actively speaks up to try to convince the people not to follow the maragua it's only collies yoshua is strangely silent why doesn't joshua take a more active role here why isn't your surely the one in fact is anything why is your sure though given the leadership bro we would have expected maybe color to be the leader color is actually much more active here so there are actually two reasons than before so given they move in opposite directions reason number one is yoshua made a freshman that his intervention would be ineffective because it would be perceived as a conflict of interest because politically look at it this way moshe is gonna die and yoshi was going to take over so if you shoe us says we should go in people are going to say well of course you're saying that because you want to be the boss so yoshua didn't intervene because you're sure a politically thought his words would have no credibility because he might be people might say he's saying it to bolster his power position as opposed to KO life who is not going to be the leader when they come to Erica's realm so his position would be perceived as more objective so that's reason number one but reason number two is what's in the tip suggests actually moves the opposite way yoshua actually had insecurities there because if the fear of the Moraga limb is how can we live in a world without the open and visible presence of God and without the leadership of Moshe repiy who would feel that void most then the one who is destined to take over the leadership and fill those shoes so this is a little scary according to this interpretation the reason why Yahshua didn't speak at that moment is because the taina of the Marah glim resonated with him fact the remission customer says that's why Moshe prayed for yahushua and not for Khalif Moshe had confidence that color would be okay Moshe had less confidence in Yahshua because he knew that Yahshua and his humility would feel he was inadequate to take over and that's why he needed the special divine assistance of prayer so this is a very very fascinating point so what are the practical lessons that we get from this overall understanding so I would suggest there are many lessons but I would suggest maybe four lessons that we can extract number one that the goal of a Jew is to sanctify even the physical and material aspects of the life the Moraga limb liked the mid board because the mid wear was pure spirituality once you come to Eretz Israel you got to dig ditches you got to build cities you got to create businesses you got to have armies and all of them they thought that would be a contradiction to avodah session and they wanted the pure undiluted connection to look nice in spirituality but part of the lesson is God wants you to take that spirituality and translate it into the concrete realities of everyday life I'm not sure if I mentioned this but this is similar to a debate there's a parallel debate within the Zionist movement 150 years ago you know Theodore Herzl was in favor obviously of a Jewish state it could have been Uganda wherever it was but he thought there had to be statehood and there were others I mean about secular zionists al Qaeda I'm sure Don was a cultural Zionist who might call him who actually said he wanted Jews he was a Zionist he wanted us to come to Israel but he didn't want Jews to get their hands dirty with the politics of running a state he wanted Jews in Israel to look at Israel as a cultural religious spiritual intellectual center and let the grubby details of building a society be left to foreign powers whether it be the Ottoman Empire the British Empire whatever rich would be in a sense the Moroccan were what you might call cultural religionists they wanted a religion but they didn't want it to be integrated with the gritty details of everyday life they thought that was too dangerous they thought that was too risky they thought it could either lead to arrogance or hopelessness or despair and therefore they wanted the mid more more and more and more and more which represented a withdrawal from the world and the mistake was that God's command is sanctify the physical build your businesses and your farms and your armies and understand that God is giving you the strength to be successful the second lesson is more of a personal lesson and that is if God gives you a challenge he will give you the ability to meet it Hashem said go to Erica swell and conquering you're afraid but if Hashem gave you the challenge it would be perverse for him to not give you the ability to surmount the challenge and as a result implicit and included in faith in God is faith in yourself I have a mission I will be able to accomplish it and this is the famous board of the kutsuki Rebbe that when the Marah glim says the people of the lands were so big and so tall we were like grasshoppers in our eyes and so we were in their eyes so the cuts Goretti has a beautiful beautiful heart it's so typical cuts it starts off with you if you look at yourself as a grasshopper that's how other people will look at you it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because we were grasshoppers in our eyes we became grasshoppers in their eyes if you have a sense of your mission of your strength of your ability then you will be able to accomplish it every morning we get up and after we check the obituaries and we see we're able to get out of bed so we say modani I give thanks to you God Chavez art Beamish mati you have returned to me my soul Basim Allah with compassion with graciousness raba immunise AHA your faith is very great now the two words raba amina taka is actually a fragment of a passage in a huh what does it mean your faith is very great emunah normally means I have faith in God so we should say raba and muna t my faith in you is very great what does it mean your faith is very great no no I do want to be honest here and say that in Biblical Hebrew this is really not a question because Emunah in Biblical Hebrew does not mean faith at all it means faithfulness reliability and dependability so when I say God is a God of a moon ah that does not mean God is a God of faith rather God is a God that is faithful reliable dependable so Rob a moon Ataka means I'm praising God's dependability that he keeps the world alive every day so that's probably the grammatically correct answer but in colloquial usage we talk about emunah as faith so at least colloquially the caseta mask what do I mean God's faith is great it should be my faith is great than God and the vort that they say is beautiful voice they say God's faith in us is very great that even when we lose faith in ourselves we think we're inadequate we have missions in life and tasks and responsibilities that we think we're not able to meet every morning that God gives you life he's whispering in your ear and he's telling you I have faith in you I trust you I believe in you and that's an important message because so we have to admit sometimes in the external world we don't always get the validation that we might need right I remember when I taught law school I think the first day that I became a teacher so the Dean to the faculty in the Dean told a nice story he said there was a guy that was over sleeping was time to go to school and his mother came and shook him and said you got to get up time to go to school and the guy says I hate school people make fun of me and people criticize me and I don't get any support and and whatever I do you know it turns out to be bad and mom said you gotta get up you're the Dean so that's the way it is you know we don't always get everything at the idea facts we don't always get the validation that we need but we have to know that if God gave you life that is saying I believe in you and that's one of the lessons of the morale glim it's not just a fait against God it's a faith against believing that a Shem will give me the cohorts that I need to accomplish my mission then a third lesson is that a Shem always wants to give but he gives to those who appreciate the gifts when we don't appreciate the gift God may take it away and therefore one very simple lesson of the hokkaido magnum is the importance of a carotids self and the current to talk even the translation is very interesting a corrective Tov literally does not mean gratitude it means recognizing the good meaning our problem may not just be we don't say thank you our problem is we don't even realize that something good has been given to us we live in Eretz Israel resulted to live in the land that our people have been yearning for for almost 2,000 years and for the past 70 soso years we've been able to leave here with the State of Israel and there's a lot of things we complain about a lot of things bureaucracies and whatever it would be but to realize the privilege the honor the service of being in the place that Moshe Rabbeinu so much wanted to come and Moshe Rabbeinu himself was not able to come in here we who are nothing compared to Moshe Robina I were able to be here and the whole lesson of the Moraga ylim is when you're grateful fresh hams gifts he gives them to you when you lose that gratitude then transfer Shalom you can lose the gift you can lose the gift and of course I pointed out many many times I think that the very translation of the word Jew hoody means a grateful person it comes from who da because leia called her fourth son Yehuda because she said I am grateful to God for he has given me more than I deserve because she knew with Ruach Hakodesh there will be 12 tribes there are four wives so for the first three she figure she's entitled to three 12/4 lives is three when she got number four she got more than her portion that equals gratitude and says this bus ms every Jo is called the Yehudi because we have to go through life feeling Hashem has given us more than we deserve now this is true for all the blessings of life and it's uniquely true for the gift of Eric Israel so I think the maragua ms both a lesson in Hakata tov generally and a lesson in how we should love and appreciate their rich israel does then what happens is in fact it's interesting I'll take a little story this is a story that's brought down I think even from the Rishon him it's actually written you know it's a made-up story but it's brought down as a as a Marshall that there was once a princess mainly the pretty amazing story there was once a beautiful beautiful princess who was also righteous and brilliant and all sorts of suitors were coming to her and they often were not worthy of her so she would what she would do is she would make herself like ugly or crazy and as a result people wouldn't wouldn't marry her and only when she met the right person did she show her beauty and her intelligence and her greatness and she explains that she knew that these people were not worthy of her but she didn't want to embarrass them so she made it as if she was not worthy of them and it was a way of not shaming them now what is this a muscle for this was a muscle that how come sometimes a person comes to Eretz Israel and they hate it they hate it everything is hard everything is hard they just don't like it so did we shame him City if a person is not worthy to be connected to the land the land makes herself repulsive to him so he shouldn't feel bad so to speak he should feel that the land there's no good it's almost like a Tessa it's like the princess being ugly so the person won't feel as bad as he might otherwise feel an interesting idea that to appreciate this particular this particular gift let me just send with one thought about that and that is there's a Midrash raba that says why when Joseph died in mitzrayim he merited to be buried in a rich Israel but Moshe who died with Lawrence did not merit to be buried in that richest realm why couldn't they take Mochis body it was a much shorter trip yes they had to take all the way from its ryeom Moshe was right over the Jordan right why was motion not zoca to at least be buried in Eretz Israel so the Metris says quite an amazing thing no safe did not deny his origin when he was asked by Pyrrha where are you from Yosef said from the land of the Hebrews so since no safe did not deny his origin he was so fed to be buried in this place of origin but Moshe Rabbeinu denied his origin when he throws daughters asked him where are you from Moshe identified himself as a Schmitt 3 an Egyptian man since he was Co fair he in his origin in their richest route therefore he was punished by not being buried in a rich Israel this is what the Midrash says now the cash on the meander is very obvious Moshe never wasn't there at Israel in other words why are you calling him a culprit Moshe Robina was born in Israel and he came from it's Ryan he didn't deny anything he didn't say anything untrue and yet the metrics calls to make ofer be art so one who denied his origin so this farm occupation say you see from here that no matter where a Jew is born no matter where he lives no matter where he grows up he has to feel that he's from Eretz Israel yeah moshe rabbeinu had never seen average Israeli never wasn't Erica's around but when he's asked where is your land where is your origin he should say I'm from Merritt Israel and the fact that he's it was called on his Madre got at least a cofre BRS was like um no Ksyusha Rebbe whose family had been in Poland for five hundred years when he was asked where his family is from he said we are using from you shall I am but for the past 500 years we've been in Poland and Germany in Russia but you know we're really from Eric Israel that is our home that is our place I think people from Brooklyn off sometimes talked that way too you know they've been in Milwaukee for 50 years you know we come from Brooklyn but Eric Israel is the che wish of what we are and therefore might Romania was called a kafir kafir BRT so be as Ratish em I think all of these lessons are important to sanctify the material world to recognize that a fashion gives us challenges we will have the ability to surmount them to be grateful for all of the gifts that God gives in our lives and to understand that when we don't have gratitude glad forbid we can lose those gifts and finally in particular to appreciate the gift of Eretz Israel with all of the problems cause I'll say Eric Estrela is acquired with Eucerin with difficult experiences all of us have probably had our share of those difficult experiences but we have to know that it's still among the most precious tips the Kurdish particle has given us and in this time of difficulty and I hope hopefully were coming out of it but who knows it's even more important that we are mark your toe for all of the goodness that asam has given us and in the source of that occurrence at South may we merit the Hasidim of our Kurdish portion over and over and over again be well and never get jealous [Music]