The Argument that Never Ends-Understanding Evil & Korach-Jeremy Gimpel:The Land of Israel Fellowship

hi guys that's uh that that's that is such a story i got a call from ari on friday and he's like jeremy quickly i don't know what what's happening i couldn't the reception wasn't good i didn't know what was happening but i heard in his voice and when i got there i saw the car was down the cliff and as soon as i saw that ari was okay i got to take all of those pictures and i was really like you know in his thing taking up taking it back taking it this and immediately he started laughing i started laughing and i think that's really the as long as we can laugh about it it'll all be okay i think that's a really important lesson in life and so ari you're looking much better now than you were looking over shabbat you keep on looking better and better i keep on getting grayer you keep on getting darker i don't know how it's happening but you look great you're just a great guy biz ratashen you'll be back to yourself soon enough you should have a reflection a speedy and full recovery and just watching how many people here were laughing just in that story you've brought so much laughter into the world just as it is fellowship that's such a funny story because i don't know anyone that just walks out of the car without putting the car in the park i mean your mind is so up high in the heavens thinking about godly things and worldly things and who knows what's on your mind that you get out of the car and forgot to put the car into park well anyway everyone's laughing and you're a great man and so we're all happy that you're well as long as you're well we're all well so let's now take this moment together and uh lift up a prayer from israel that is somehow from the hearts of so many people around the world it's just what times we live in hashem master of the universe thank you for protecting ari thank you for protecting all of us is that working now uh i'm gonna start that all over again i don't know why i was muted let's go that again okay hashem thank you for all of our helps thank you for all of our lives nothing is taken for granted every day our health our families life is such a narrow bridge and disaster lurks at every turn thank you for guiding us and straightening our path thank you for bringing this fellowship together it has made me and so many of its members stronger better wiser and closer to you in your ways thank you for guiding us on this path thank you for shabbat thank you for allowing us to start our week on sundays placing your ideals in our hearts and aligning our goals in our lives with your vision for our lives bless every member of this fellowship from the land of israel bless their loved ones guide us and protect us and please continue to bring us together bring us together in this land to show israel what has emerged in these times and thank you for allowing all of us to be a part of it i mean okay so after that real story now we're going to go a little bit deeper into the torah and maybe try to glean some wisdom for our lives for what's happening right now and this week we learn about korach it's the first and most extreme debate and challenge to the leadership of moses and aaron the book of numbers in hebrew the book is called bamidbar which means in the desert and like its name it's the book that tells over the saga of the israelites journey through the desert now it seems like most of the recorded journey through the desert was just filled with mistakes in 40 years of travel the record that were saved these like turbulent times i mean it's there's no question there were more bad times than good times in the book of numbers in the book of mommy dubai it's just a pretty ugly history um but was that actually the case the answer is no that wasn't the case most of the time in the desert the 40 years in the desert the people of israel were growing the people of israel were thriving the people of israel were learning and you can see how much israel was loved in next week's portion when bilaam tries to curse israel and all that comes out are god's feelings and blessings towards israel but the idea of bamidbar is to learn the lessons we need to learn before we enter into our promised land and so the lessons are lessons that are hard learned there we learn them like through our blood through our mistakes i can guarantee ari is never going to leave the car without putting it into park again he learned that lesson but he had to learn the lesson and learning the lessons is sometimes painful and so everyone can learn from their own mistakes but only a wise person learns from the mistakes of others that is like the theme throughout the torah throughout the prophets of israel it's to allow us to learn from the mistakes of our past in order that we're able to rectify our future and so let's look at korach for a moment we see the korach and his followers say to moshe in numbers 16 verse 3. can we get that up on the screen thank you and they gathered themselves together against moses and against aaron and said unto them this is too much for you seeing all the congregation are holy and the lord is among them why do you lift yourselves among the congregation of the lord and you know it's it's remarkable that that's the claim against moses but to really understand the irony of that verse you need to know that the word in hebrew to lift yourself up means that you've become arrogant now thinking that you're better than everyone else you've lifted yourself above everyone else you are so arrogant you've become that way moses how could you be so arrogant and it's like imagine that the one thing we know about moses and we don't know a lot we only know one thing it doesn't say that he was the smartest of all men it doesn't say he was the bravest of all men it doesn't really give almost any of his attributes we only know one of his character traits that's it look at numbers 12 verse 3 just two parties ago now moses was very humble more humble than any other person on earth that's the one attribute that we're given about moses that out of all of the people that have ever walked on earth until his time maybe beyond his time he was the most humble of all people and now they're coming to the claim that he's arrogant and lifting himself above everyone else it's like what of all of the claims they're taking his greatest virtue his greatest attribute and they're saying that that's what he's failing at that he's become so arrogant he doesn't deserve to be the leader and this is just one of the most important lessons about evil and we're learning now about evil as all of us are trying to get into the promised land because when we they go in and when we all try to enter into where we're trying to go towards our destiny evil is gonna come and when evil comes it doesn't just lie with fake news it will lie in the most perverse backwards way it will call the most humble man on earth arrogant it'll attack israel by calling its greatest virtue our greatest evil i mean the haters of israel call israel an apartheid state imagine that the only democracy in the middle east where christians muslims jews by and everyone in between have equal rights they point to the one free country in the entire middle east where everyone is actually treated free and all the other countries are surrounded by dictators with no freedom and they're calling us not democratic they're calling us the apartheid state they're calling us jews in judea an occupying force colonizing the west bank as if we're some sort of foreign entity disconnected from the land it's like could there be a greater lie the only place where jews belong the only place he has a god-given right to be free is the one place the world is hell-bent on removing him from that a jew can't live in judea imagine the lie trying to turn us into a foreign power disconnected from that land it's like taking the one truth in the world and on that truth splitting it up and calling moses arrogant of all things so the lies and the manipulations it's like in korach we see how evil operates and they will manipulate the most basic truth to accomplish their goal but not only that we also learn how truth and good manifests in the world and that's even more important for us you know this was the first debate and challenge for leadership in the torah it's recorded in the sages of israel as the archetype of evil debates of an evil argument a debate that's not for heaven's sake the sages of israel say it like this every argument that is for heaven's sake will endure in every argument that is not for heaven's sake will not endure which is an argument for heaven's sake the argument between hillel and shamai two giants in the talmud and in the mishnah which is an argument that was not for the sake of of heaven the argument of korach and his company now what does that mean perhaps here the distinction is that the argument with quran against moses wasn't for the sake of truth it was for the sake of victory with korach what's at stake wasn't the truth but power it wasn't a debate of you know possible opinions that were trying to figure things out he wanted power he wanted control he wanted everyone else to be equal he would be the leader of all the equal people how convenient and how reminiscent that sounds of so many marxist movements today it's almost like the roots of communism and the evils that are in it were already rooted here in the torah whenever a leader says everyone should be equal everyone is holy right there you can already see that the leadership of those equal people they're not exactly equal they want the other people to be equal but they themselves will be lifted up amongst those equal people but here we see that on the side of israel the sages of israel say something it just it's it's counterintuitive it's is that an argument that's for heaven's sake will endure i mean wouldn't we want the argument to be solved i mean there's two sides if it's for heaven's sake let's get to the truth of it it says no an argument that's for heaven's sake that's gonna stand and we're taught something really really deep here a debate between people who aren't trying to win but are arguing for heaven's sake who are arguing to grow closer to the truth closer to each other closer to who they could be who are arguing to learn as well as to teach there's an inherent value to the debate itself the argument isn't resolved because the argument is making us better the diversity is actually an ideal in a holy and therefore it should endure in the vision of the final days isaiah says there's a house of prayer for all nations in jerusalem people are streaming into the city to do what to learn the ways of god i mean that means there's many nations with many opinions and everyone is still learning and growing no one has the final solution it seems as though no one has all the answers even in the messianic area but everyone knows that to seek the truth we all need to turn toward israel we all need to turn toward god we all need to turn towards jerusalem but there's an ideal here to have many nations with many opinions and create a space of love and respect where everyone can feel welcome and everyone can feel blessed that is the temple experience unconditional love no matter what the debate and the debate and that love that's what endures and preparing for this fellowship and i you know i pray for this fellowship and i constantly interacting with people from this fellowship and reading about like the evil arguments and the arguments that are for heaven's sake and then really thinking about that friends there's nothing like our fellowship anywhere in israel or anywhere else in the world there's nothing so close to that ultimate vision of jerusalem so many nations so many backgrounds so many opinions and we've created a space of unconditional love and created an online community like a giant beautiful holy argument that makes the world more beautiful that makes the world more loving that makes the world more accepting more godly we're like the first example of what a messianic gathering in jerusalem might look like a house of prayer for all nations and we're just getting started who knows how far hashem may take this fellowship it's not about winning the argument but it's like holding a space where we can all pray together with one heart shoulder to shoulder because of the arguments it makes this fellowship more beautiful it's the argument that actually endures and so we're so fortunate we're so fortunate obviously to be alive and to be healthy and to be well but we're so fortunate that we join together every week taking another step closer to figuring this out to modeling ourselves after the vision of the prophets and helping create this light in the world and so thank you for helping us bring this gift that hasn't been seen before and thank you for helping us rebuild the land of israel and truly taking a part in restoration and in redemption it's like like this is a virtual gathering but soon it's going to take us all physically to the ultimate gathering we're all waiting for in jerusalem amen all right ari you're on hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world there are live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that unites and brings together such a diverse group of people backgrounds and nationalities it feels like prophecy it feels like something we need in these times a window in to a better future on the horizon there's a divine unity we experience every week in our fellowship broadcast we heard these amazing teachings from an authentic hebrew and israel perspective and our jaws drop not only because they ring so true and are such a blessing because they are so consistent with what we believe these sunday morning gatherings are nothing less than a house of prayer for all nations cindy lo the united states of america the land of israel fellowship is an amazing resource for learning torah the bible and the prophets unfiltered and uncensored directly from the land of israel we've been studying torah for almost 20 years but we feel we are stepping into it more than ever in seeing new depth and dimensions to scripture we're encouraged more and more every week calen ardell usa members receive access to all the archives in the library of teachings on every portion of the torah the biblical feast hebrew prayer prophecy sessions on the ancient wisdom of the prophets of israel to help us navigate through these turbulent times these sessions are so rich i re-listen to each and truly each session is the best one yet tehela is a tremendous asset and the teachings ari shares are so rich i've read the bible so many times and i've known the things you are teaching the hebrew understanding is what christians have missed for centuries sister georgian from germany the land of israel fellowship is truly unique because it's built upon personal relationships with the teachers of the fellowship myself rabbi arya bramwitz in tehillah gimpel every member has direct access to the staff 24 6 via email or direct whatsapp to ask questions to comment to connect directly to all the teachers and over the last years we've connected to some of the most beautiful people on the planet so if you want to find out more and join the land of israel fellowship you can click on the link below and if you want to try it out for just a month you can email fellowship at the land of israel.com and we'll hook you up i hope to see you shalom from the mountains of judea you