Shnayim Yomi - Matot - Masei - R'vi'i - #4 - Rabbi Dovid Kimche - Step by Step in Ruchniyus

Ravi. So as we begin para's mass, the Torah lists in quite rapid fashion um all the stops that Khali had in the midbar all the way from Mits from Ramseay as they left Mitsime all the way up to where we find ourselves now in Arasmo at the threshold of ET isra and the Torah lists. So it's interesting give us the name of each of these stops. Now if you think about it the nameal tell us the name have has deeper significance. Each name has a deeper significance. It almost must be that way because when in the midbar when you're in the desert and you go to and you stop in a certain location, there was no township there really. They stopped in a certain location and Torah gives us a name and Kazal say that name symbolizes something deeper about something that happened there or or their spiritual standing at the time. So the names carry deeper significance. The Torah when describing their encampments says it does it in an interesting way. It does not simply give us a list of all the places A B C D E F G. It doesn't do that. What it does is that it says the following. It says Charlie travel traveled from A to B and then the next part is they traveled from B to C and then from C to D and then D to E. Okay. Now why all the extra wording? Why not just simply give us a list? So the mushroom explained that each step each encampment that Khalis camped in really is a symbolic of Klis's growth. They had to grow. They had to grow in a in a rrookn way in the midbar. Rashim Pashas hukas actually says that at one point in Klis's encampment they regressed seven encampments. Now what does that mean? That mean they just move move back. No, it means that of course on a rni level they slipped in their level. Rabbi Dr. Terski has a very interesting insight over here and he says that the reason why the Torah stresses each encampment individually individually and deliberately is to tell us that when it comes to to spiritual growth the growth has to happen incrementally in steps and each step is an important important marker on your spiritual journey we cannot and we must not um skip steps when it comes to our there is a I guess it's a good temptation for us to say suddenly oh we want to bead right away and tomorrow I'm going to bead And it's a it's it comes from a good place I think I guess but the problem is it's misguided and it's actually each step in our level has to be incremental has to be careful you cannot skip steps in our level had to go step by step and indeed so do