The Four Names of Israel with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] midrash welcome home to torah a warm welcome we are in parshat balak that is found in numbers chapter 22. we're actually going to deal with what we call uh verse two um i'm not even the right page here we go just as a uh general announcement that i usually make and i might as well we encourage you to follow along in the hebrew so there are hebrew sheets available on the web page there's a link below um we do learn we actually do learn hebrew along the way and we encourage you to as well so actually we also use the clear car as the basis for our discussion and here we go so it says over there who balak is he's the son of tsipur we don't realize he's the king of of moab until verse the end of verse four but he is the one who saw all that israel had done to the amorite as the verse said the balak ben sipur i think we should become familiar with these first three verses and in order to um you know just as a basis for the discussion good discussion it's very necessary so in verse three it says moab became very frightened of the people because it was numerous so that's the first part of the verse and then the verse continues to tell us the moab was disgusted in the face of the children of israel and you'll understand why i really don't like that translation disgusted but we'll we will delve into all these issues so it says in hebrew of your cosmos israel and then finally verse 4 which is the longest verse that we're going to deal with moab said to the elders of midian he says now the congregation will lick up our entire surroundings and then it continues and says as an ox licks up the greenery of the field and then it tells us that balak was the king of um of moab at that time balak ben tsipour melik lamoaf okay now what we should in tune right into it that there's something very unusual going on here the first thing you'll notice is there are four descriptions of israel very unusual in in these just a handful of verses or less than a handful of verses you have the name israel that balak saw what israel had done to the amorites the second thing is that the people the the masses of moab became terrified of the people so israel is now called the people for they were very numerous and then moab became disgusted because of the children of israel so we have israel then we have the people and then we have the children of israel and they were disgusted because of that and then they called upon or they approached the elders of midian and for what purpose to get them to be allies right they knew they were up against this look like a formidable army or a massive amount of a people in the desert and they call us a kahal now it's called now this assembly that's the description that the jewish people are called an assembly that will eat up everything around them as the oxygen up the grass of green of the field okay now the very first thing just take a look at rashi what did balak see all you have to go is back to the very end of last week's parsha pretty much to see that all what israel had done to the amorites what what does rashi say these two kings meaning sikhon and og these two kings whom we relied upon i guess is like either you know a first offense or some kind of barrier if these two kings happen to be giants could not resist these people then there's no way we can either and therefore rashi says moab became terrified that's rashi and as i mentioned the clear car the very first thing he says is what's going on here i thought what happened was when the jews left egypt right the sea split all of the world knew what was going on who didn't know what was going on as it was happening pretty much i mean even in the in the in the when the sea split if i was in i don't know hong kong or beijing or new zealand wherever i could have been if i had a cup in my hand the cup would have split the water would have split the whole world was aware of what had taken place so the clear car says the hello nissi mitzrayim how you gondoli make elu valamalo hit bo name ba o tan godogos va no roi sa sho the miracles that took place in egypt including the splitting of the sea on the way out were much greater than whatever just took place in that war with sikhon and og so why weren't they considering those meaning the moabites the the nations that were here whether it's even midian but at least the moabites they were not considering what took place 39 years prior this is what's agitating them this is what's frightening them yeah so the clio card basically sums up that first paragraph delineating each one of the four different terms used to describe israel or seemingly the jewish people and he ends by saying hello davarhu this is extremely unusual this never happens so let's begin with the next paragraph where he begins to explain and it's a long explanation so i beg you to bear with us the explanation of the matter is as follows the way the world works that the kings were always literate or they had people that could tell them what was in their chronicles the history books they had such libraries which would describe in writ in a written fashion all of history but when it came to the ignorant masses the only thing they knew was the present whatever was going on how much tomatoes cost today at the shook masha rohimbe nahim what they actually saw with their own eyes o masha shamu mipiya or what they heard whether by rumor or town crier right remember those days where someone come to town and read a big letter right they would read the news most people were illiterate and it's only what they heard min hamo should be ma'am of whatever occurred in their days therefore who happened to be a king he named me yummy that's low all of history or at least the main parts of history was known to him etslo was by him yaakov he knew what jacob our forefather who by the way is called israel saba okay he's israel our great great great i'm not gonna say on and on and on great grandfather right he was the uh the patriarch and he knew what happened to us he knew what yaakov did to the amorites so what did yaakov do to the amorites i'm going to take you on a little bit of a journey we go to on the english english english sourshi number four in genesis chapter 48 it's really verse 22 but if you go to 21 this is what israel known as yaakov said to joseph he said behold i'm going to die and god will be with you and he will return you back to the land of your forefathers and i have given you what does this mean one portion of above over and above your brothers because joseph really was the firstborn of his favorite right wife rachel okay so even though routine was the was really the firstborn routhane lost that status to a certain extent and he chose um at this point to tell joseph that his two sons menash and ephraim are being elevated to the status of tribes basically and they will each receive a portion so you're going to receive one portion over your brothers but then this is the kicker which i took from the hand of the amorite with my sword and with my bow now he actually is giving them shechem it's in part of ephraim in hebrew shemechad so the word for a portion is also shechem and he is giving them the land of shechem as well so that's one way to read it that i'm giving you but it is one portion over and above and he says which i took from the hand of the amorites so in other words so that even though god promised the land of israel we didn't really settle in the land of israel at that time so we didn't settle so but yaakov is taking credit and i want you to be aware of this these are his words not mine that he's taking credit for this war or the wiping out of an entire nation in shechem with his own sword and with his own bow as the hebrew says now we should all have a problem with this because yaakov was not happy about the fact that shimon and lady went ahead and wiped out an entire nation without consulting him without right so there is a rashi here i want you to look at in number four on that verse genesis 48 22 at the very bottom it says which i took from the hand of the amorite from the hand of asav now come on how did rashi come up with that asap was not an amorite so rashi goes on and explains it's based on the midrash because acev acted like he behaved like an amorite now there's another explanation of why asav is called amory because he deceived his father with his the sayings of his mouth but also what does it mean by my sword and my bow with his cleverness and with his prayer now it says in the hebrew toe so i want to interpret his cleverness more as his torah learning and to filato as his prayer and we're going to discuss this a little bit more in depth this is very interesting so far i hope so so far what did we see that as the clear car says that yaakov our great grandpappy he's the one who is taking credit at least in in the history books and he was only one man with a few sons right he had 12 sons not all of them were maybe even participated but it was a small clan he was just like a single guy ubene beto matimus and his household was very few and nevertheless um never the that nevertheless he conquered an entire people and we just read the verse in genesis 48 22 where he says and taken credit for such a thing now according to khazal in gomorrah page 123 a the uh over there what does it mean bihar bakashi with my bow i'm sorry with my sword in my bow the gamora over there says filato now it's true it says that but it actually it actually divides it there's two types of prayer we'll call it just on prayer and because and we're going to actually discuss what's the difference between prayer which is usually and we'll talk about it being praises versus because which is requests for needs and i want to go into i do believe i have it here i think on page four a very interesting ben yahooda ben yahoo yada in the benich so i hope we will spend some time on that i think it's very interesting in the meantime this all comes out well according to the cleo car because he's going to explain what did balak see sharok balak sheriff saba lam worry but filato that that balak saw in with his own eyes in these history books what yaakov did as the gamora explains his sword and his bow is through his prayer shakol lefisha ko koko befive where is the power with the might of the jew and anybody who joins up in his mouth and i'm gonna just delineate through learning torah is with your mouth and prayers with your mouth alkane therefore what did balak try to do therefore what did he do he made every effort to find somebody an individual somewhere who also had some kind of i don't know what's called the gift of the gab something where the power was in his mouth and this is none other than bilum the sorcerer and now we understand why it says in the very beginning of our verse that balak saw not necessarily what he saw was what the uh what we did to see which had just taken place that may be true we're not saying that's not true that may be shot but there's a deeper meaning that he actually saw these history books that described the power of the jew the power of yaakov the power of israel sabah that he has the power of the mouth and therefore he sought out a sorcerer to counteract that power and the clear car goes on and explains the lone mar and that's why the verse does not say the ishma balak that balak heard you think balak was standing right on the edge of the mountains with binoculars watching what was happening maybe but he could have heard it but to put the tour goes out of its way to say that he saw and what did he saw he saw what did he see he saw all that was written all that took place in the history books wasn't it written in the books these history books that the kings had davar katuvala safer he saw with his very own eyes what was written in the book the nicknas laymore and therefore he was overcome with a certain type of a fright a cowardliness a demoralization and he says my gosh eem cain if that's the case besides if what took place i'm going to guess around 200 250 years prior maybe almost 300 years prior let's just say 250 years prior to this the jewish people coming in israel coming into the land of israel so what he said well if that happened with such a small number biyota mispar while they were just few in number mayasu autobiota what do you think they're going to do now when they are so many and so strong now we understand why four different descriptions are being used and this one was being used by israel meaning israel saba and not but nisrael not the word for people and not the word kahal for congregation it was because it was israel saba that the verse is referring to when it says that he saw actually now i think it's appropriate to just take a short break from the clear car and see what the banish high the ben yohoyada on baba batra a is telling us because he's it's based on the gomorrah the gomorrah said that the the the the sword is tefila and the bow is referring to requests so kharbi zutfila kashti zabakasha now yesh lomar there is to say ma hefrish yesh bangt filal bakasha what exactly is the difference between prayer and requests and why would there be this like i'm not going to call it a nickname but some kind of a name used to describe or the the here of the sword is somehow being used to in in to give over the idea of to filler and the the um the bow is somehow being used in terms of requests i think you can easily see the word bakasha and the word keshet obviously there's a relationship right away and he will discuss that idea so nearly it seems to me with the help of god to explain that to feel it is koi al-divarim is when we use the word where when we use the term tefila this is something that a person does in order to serve god okay to serve god i have needs to serve god and therefore my tephila will enhance those needs for the highest purpose that somehow i need to fix the world or the world's so the cult of phila sarak tikkun olamos that all the to feel is there all the prayers are there in order to fix the worlds um connected and asia then the world is organized according to these four levels i will call it emanation creation formation action now i want to make one little stop here in a caveat we and i will put the link below so we had we were we merited with brazil to have rabbi josh golden who wrote a book on the name of god and how to use it in prayer and he goes through different khazal and the the and probably the the the kabbalistic swarm that explain how each letter of the yud and the hay and the love and the hey parallel to so many different levels but one of them is the prayer and we do like this the bronchos and the curb bonus in the morning relate to the first you and actually it's the other way around it starts with the hey you'd have hey in an opposite direction but it brings us it brings us to the highest level the kerbanos is one of the letters of god's name this mirrors meaning the psalms we say in preparation for shema and prayer and then yotsier or that's the bracha for the for the shema which is another letter and then the amida which would be the smallest yud of the silus of reaching the highest level of emanation so he mentions this is connected alomos at sail the celus the bria and the etsira and the asea reaching those and they are parallel those four levels so again i will put the description i will put the link in the description box below and encourage everyone to watch that video and he says like this and this is from the zohar shaheen connected they're parallel to the four i mean those four levels of creation are parallel to the four letters of the uk vavquey barack who blessed his name haroy meis becherev which actually is hinted at in the sword itself like it's written in the zohar the holy zoar it says the youth of the uk valve k is like the tip of the sword ud and the oath valve the vav which is the straight long line is the the the sword itself goof that's the sword itself and then you have two haze right the second letter and the last letter the schnez the two hays somehow represent the two sides or two edges of the sword i think it means the two sides therefore actually listen to these two verses there are verses that talk about god's sword the yud kevke the sword of utkevke i want you to go into judges 720 right by the way we're on page four on the english source sheet it's 10 and 11. so it says over there in judges seven oh it's nine and ten uh at the very end by gideon and the sword let's read the whole verse and the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pictures and they held the tortures in their left hands and in their right hand the trumpets to blow and they cried they're going out to war we're going to win the sword for the lord and for gidon it's a sword for god meaning the sword itself is representative in the uk fk itself and in jeremiah 47 verse 6 the so the sword of the lord how long will you not be silent in hebrew again be prepare yourself for prayer and for war keep in mind this is very this is a very um fundamental aspect and point that we're about to talk about and we have we are talking about so the the um the ben yoda continues and says therefore the tafila is for the needs of fixing the four worlds we already discussed what they are the attailers the brilliancia that are parallel to the four letters of god's name which is hinted at in the sword and that's why and it's hinted at by the name sword fine however when it comes to requests because what was the original question what is the difference between prayer and requests when it comes to requests those are the shayla tsar shalom shaheem hazel that is for the needs of a man in this world deemoto lakeshit this is similar to the kesha the keshet by the way is it like a rainbow why does the rainbow face this way right i hope you're all looking at me it goes like this because the truth is the arrow is going to shoot straight up right this is your needs you're actually praying right that's why the the the symbol of the rainbow is going straight up um so anyway he says that the the the rainbow which is the keshet is half of a circle and so too this world we call almanza was created with the letter hey and hey is half of the unit half of ten hey it's five so this rope is created with hay which is half of the yud which the world to the the world to come is created with the yud i want to stop here and discuss verse isaiah 26 4. look at number 11 on page four trust in the lord forever for in yah the lord is the rock of eternity now that is a translation it's not the only translation look at the hebrew kibiya meaning in the yud and the hey hashem uk valve created or formed the worlds it's through the yud and the hay of god's name that's yud for the world to come and the hey for ulam by the way just to look at the name ish and isha okay the ish it's aleph yujin i think i have this on number 12 by the way and i know this is very contentious to talk about nowadays but we'll call it the ish is a male masculine right the man and that is the yud look at the letter it's all of your chin so there's a yud there as opposed to a woman which is an isha it's the same owl of shin but it has a hay the hay represents the feminine the the the female the woman there are such things right as men and women okay i don't want to get off on any side points here now the benjamin goes on to explain that he already discussed this idea uh somewhere else in perch out vote see in perchia vote you'll see that number 13 ethics of our fathers it's chapter one mishna three antigonos of soho received the tradition from shem and the righteous and he would say don't be a slaves who serve their master for the sake of reward article but rather be as slaves who serve their master not for the sake of reward and that's ella having she and really the fear of heaven shall be upon you you moyer shamai malaikam so what is the what is the benja yada trying to say that what we should be involved in right we should be looking for the pros in the world to come not looking for the world the interesting the word pros in hebrew is very similar to the english word prize correct okay so the reward you should be looking for the reward in the world to come not this world high nu scarborough mazette right don't be looking for the reward in this world suprashin is that that prize that reward was created with the half of the letter which was created with with basically it's the hay not the yud it's only half of the letter you it it's about this world kosha therefore the what we do we make requests and this is interesting that the requests are for needs of this world which are shame cash that's why the bakashots are referred to the kesha because it is a it's the um it's like the letter hey now what is it sonic we all want to beat siddiqui we want to be righteous so what does that sonic do he's oh you say kyle it's the righteous people who are successful who somehow another have the ability and strength like there are malachi but you know what those things what this person needs and makes the request are usually for this world now he goes yankee betsake that yes sometimes you do have needs in this world but then we're here to elevate this world and that's why you have to get married or you should try right through through through marriage you you're bringing together the male and the female that can really be utilized to elevate this world into the uh the world in the higher realms to become transcendental you want to be transcendental just find your mate work on trying to find your mate what we're here to do is elevate this world therefore when when yaakov took responsibility for taking whatever it was he took from the amorites it was bihala sharacity right with the success in which i have done it's because of my prayers and my requests with my sword which is my prayers and with my requests in other words he took he if the prayers already represent whatever it is he's trying to accomplish in the world to come that's already taken care of but also the picasso all that i need in this world i am using hopefully i'm praying for that that i could use them to elevate this world okay so let's go back into the uh the clio club okay ava moab what about the harmon what about the masses of these moabites the hainu klau hamonam this was the uh the general population lohit bo name bin masha avar they were not considering were considered of the past they were not even knowledgeable about what the past the lo pacha do therefore they had no fear ki iman the only thing they feared was the present moment the only thing they feared was what they saw in their own eyes in front of them and what was that the verse says it because it was numerous moab became very frightened of the people because it was numerous there were two groups in the desert it wasn't just one group there were the national naturally born israelites from the 12 tri 12 sons of jacob and 12 tribes and then you had a group called the arab rav the era of rav was the mixed multitude that believe it or not moses on his own decided to bring them out because he saw potential he must have seen potential in them because believe me they were troublemakers yet there was a lot of potential so that's why the verse says the yagar moab that moab became very frightened because of the people um remember one of the questions the first one of the first questions how come there are four descriptions four names for the jewish people and this ham was very numerous of uranus they could find the lorry zechariah and these two groups were not like each other and the reason they were afraid of the moa of the aravrov the mixed multitude is because they were many ki midrash now it's brought down in the mikhail to number 14 that it says there are three different opinions how big the arab rav was i don't know if there's any other opinions besides this about how big but if rabbi ishmael says they were double what we were so if we were three million that means there were six million of them actually says there was one million two hundred thousand meaning there was twice the amount of six hundred thousand that's what um he says may of the s remember ishmael okay a hundred and twenty ten thousands one million two we say right the torah tells us there were six hundred thousand jews they were twice what we were rebbi akiva holds twice that two million four hundred and rebbie natan helds held three million six either way you look at it they were greater in number than we were okay so if moab is looking at the jewish people which in the desert so the israelites were all together in a certain formation surrounding the mishkan and then around them was a whole another group that was quite separate to a certain extent and that was the ere of rav so he says like this day that the erev was at least twice the amount that there were jews so regarding them now we understand when it says that moab grew very frightened because of the people who are the people the word is a code in the torah for the aravrav or for the more inferior evil amongst the jews okay so it says that the way the arab rav is always called they're always called the people killobimnes because they're not from the children of jacob they're not part of well at least then the truth is they converted at sinai and they did become and you're allowed to marry because we don't know who they are you are allowed to marry them basically jews today ki rav who because they were many kirabhim hema bemes they really were more than the jews anyway there were quite a lot of people avaab in israel when it came to the jewish people shallow how you ko kak rabi we weren't as many as the arab rav mayhem so they weren't afraid from us the the israelites because of the multitudes but it was from a different reason that they were afraid of us i share all of myanmar now this gets a little hairy it says in our parsha the yokatsu moav moab became again they translate as disgusted because of or an account of the jewish people the word coats the root of this word is like a thorn right when you have a thorn it's very bothersome you want to get rid of that thorn but we're going to read it a little differently weeds weed thorns and thistles are weeds okay what does that mean we're going to go back on a journey back to the land of egypt where they were disgusted because we were multiplying greatly and they had to come up with a plan to even cause more slavery and more hardship on us so that we wouldn't multiply right so if we were working so hard we would come home from a long day at work right and not be interested in procreation right so let's listen to the verses here we just said by moab they were vyakats look over there in partial schmos that's exodus chapter 1 verse 12. look at number 15 on the sorcery but as much as they would afflict them so did they multiply and so did they gain strength and they were disgusted because of the children of israel now what does that mean the egyptians were disgusted it's the exact same words the yokutsu mipnai bene israel they became whatever this word is on account of the jewish people rashi tells us they were disgusted with their own lives some explain at that point they were disgusted with themselves okay so what the car will then do is actually prove that in their own eyes similar to when we came into israel and we said were grasshoppers in their eyes so too the egyptians were felt truly inferior to us as if they were what as if they were weeds to be uprooted and if we go with that and you'll see that's the example that the cleo car expresses so too the moabites felt that they too were going to be weeds that were going to be uprooted to plant or replant or enroute the jewish people who were compared to a grapevine not just any grapevine but a grapevine that is going to be uprooted for the land of egypt to be replanted in the land of israel and as everyone knows a farmer must get rid of the weeds before you go and plant your very nice crop so let's go into the clear car and where he says like this regarding parshat shmot it says by the egyptians vayakutsu they were again disgusted or whatever yakutsu means on account of the jewish people and and and the clear car says it's not like rashi explains shayna peru israel nasu the end of that rash he says are our rabbis however it interpreted to mean that they the israelites were like thorns in their eyes it's true there is a gemura that says that but the clear car wants to go a step deeper the incame javila maymar because if that was true the clear car claims it would have said yakutsu binay israel not mipnai bene israel it says on account of or in front of or because of so he wants to say the opposite is true the entire opposite is true that the mithsarim himself do you understand it was that the egyptians themselves felt or compared themselves to weeds in relationship were in value israel shin nimsholu legefin how do we know that the jewish people are compared to a luscious fruitful vine look in psalms in number 16. psalms chapter 80 verse 9 and 10. king david says to hashem you uprooted a vine from egypt gethin me mitzrayim and on the way you drove out the nations and planted it mama's got rid of them to and then you cleared a place before it again you're getting rid of all of the all of the weeds panita yumamish opened up the area you cleaned it out vittash in order for it to take root with tamale arets and even rashi says there that basically the jewish people are compared to this um this vineyard afterwards you drove out the seven nations and planted israel in their land when it says you cleared out before it means those who are dwelling there so you got rid of the shaft you got rid of the weeds now how does the clear car know this he's going back to egypt because remember the same words were used over there and he's going to explain exactly as we know there's a tradition in khazal that this is how the egyptians saw themselves as weeds going to be replaced by this fruitful vine called israel so after we just read psalms chapter 80 verse 9 and 10 the clear car says this is how the world works how does the world work that when the owner of the field desires he wants to plant a vineyard however the field is full of weeds as who i care hakoitsim he must get rid of uproot those weeds minasharesh from the roots themselves and get rid of just throw them outside of the fence because they lead to the coma magethen in order to plant in its place the the fruitful vine this is how the egyptians feared or saw themselves too embarrassed that they saw them becoming so numerous and they felt they were they saw them as being planted in the land of egypt like a fruitful vine the hema allu minarets so interesting what does it mean for aluminarets so if you just take a look real quick at exodus chapter 1 verse 10 um it's number 17 at the very end of that verse so this is what pharaoh said to his people behold the people of the children of israel more numerous and stronger than we are get ready let us deal very shrewdly with them lest they increase and war befall us they join our enemies wage a war against us and what is the next few words and depart from the land now from reading it and rashi will say it push it shot means they're going to leave there are possessions we don't necessarily want them to leave the they're our economic base i mean if we own them they're valuable and they're doing valuable work so that would affect us negatively if they depart from the land however however and we'll see rashi actually says like this and like the clear car is going to base his opinion on rashi to a certain extent that no they're going to become so numerous and become enrouted as this fruitful vine we are going to be kicked out so in exodus chapter 1 verse nine and ten he said to his people behold the children the the people of the children of israel are more numerous and stronger than we are get ready let us deal shrewdly with them lest they increase in a war befall us and they join our enemies and wage a war against us the all lament arts and go up from the land you might think the push-up shot is that they are going to leave and we're going to lose our possession but rashi says that our rabbis however interpreted as depicted by pharaoh as a person who actually is cursing himself in other words when a person feels that he's cursed but he'll ascribe the curse to others nobody wants to curse themselves so you'll somehow make sure that whatever negativity may be coming on you is somehow deflected and pushed on the others as it is written as at and it is as if it's written here we will depart the from the land and they will take possession from it meaning as if it doesn't really say that it just simply says in very vague terms they will depart or someone will depart something is going to go up from the land which leaves the interpretation to be probably them i'm not going to say me and that's why the clear card right away says he says over there um well it's right after that i'm skipping one verse for a second it's actually gonna bring it in there is a verse in second samuel chapter 23 verse 6 that mentions which means godless men are like wind blown thistle okay that's just a side point but an our verse which we just read in schmosh chapter 1 verse 10 the the clea cars quoting from the gomorrah the alinu remember they're the ones speaking right it's the egyptian speaking we would go up but instead of saying we would go up let's put the curse on them that they should go up or leave it open and vague 100 percent right i'm saying okay so that's pretty much if you look in 18 uh gamora sota 11a very much describes that idea rabbi rabb abba bar kahana said by stating this pharaoh is like a person who curses himself but he doesn't want to do that so he instead applies the curse to another so that's why he left it more vague with anybody interpreting it as the jews would go up but really the fear is that he would go up meaning that he has to realize he's the inferior i mean that's how he really feels about himself as if he would be thrown out of the land of egypt to look at look at the continuation of the clear car this is the verse used by the egyptians israel against that they the egyptians would be thrown out or shaken out of the land on account of the jews who would be so enrouted because they're compared to this luscious fruit that's why now it says over an hour parsha by moab the yakats moav the moab was again disgusted or felt like weeds because on account of or in comparison to the jewish people shayu uraim that's what they were afraid of pena moav that they felt maybe they were like weeds that were going to be discarded uh thrown out from the land on account of the jewish people who are the geffen who are that luscious fruit i share you see hashem it's rain that hashem uprooted from egypt in order to expel the nations that were here and to plant the jewish people in their place that's why it says bin israel remember we have four names four names of jewish people and the the the yahkats israel all right moab and israel because of the banay israel that they were afraid of um it doesn't say israel it says binays are the children of israel because israel is no longer around he's already in the the he's already in the the world to come and his children are the one coming in binay israel the children of israel the one entering the land of aloha of course the arabs are coming in but the heir of rob are like i i don't want to use such a negative term but like almost like a parasite right almost they were just clinging on to the jewish people they came in agav the only merit they have was that they wanted to join the jewish people to whatever extent they wanted to join we're not even sure it could be they just wanted to leave egypt it's a little bit shady but they definitely had potential and that's why they're called by the word is always that negative the people who are always be causing trouble kima govar megurim um what exactly is the benefit advantage that the erev had over the other you know 70 nations that existed shigaresh that god ended up removing you know the seven nations and planting even the arab rav in its place in the land of israel eem lo agave in israel it was only on account of the jewish people very strong statement okay we're in for the last paragraph that's why it says the yomer moab el zigne midian i know larry raised this idea in the beginning and here we're going to address it that the elder that the the moabites went to the elders of midian and told them now the the congregation is licking up our surroundings why what are they trying to do they're trying to gain an ally and what is their um you know what's the hitch here and what how can they draw in the the midianites so that's where we're going to start marrow why would they be enticed to join a fight that's not theirs what could the moabites possibly convince them that will um you know that they'll conceive yeah yeah sure we'll fight a war that's not ours ella luther metzina shapiro is rashi if we go to chapter 31 in numbers in parshas pentecost i believe in 31 6. go to number 19 so moses sent them to fight and who did he who did he send it says he sent along with the jewish army along with each tribe a thousand from each tribe he sent along pinchas now pinterest is true he's a he's a cohen and he probably served in a very special role it's called the cohen mashiach the anointed cohen who serves as the head of the war but nevertheless that rashi tells us that there's this long locus who exactly is the putiel that um pinterest's mother descended from so there's two different opinions and i i want to say the clear car resolves it somewhere else he says it's not two different opinions remember you have four grandparents everyone has four grandparents so uh pinterest's mother is eliezer's wife and eliezer's wife is the daughter of petuel pituelle and pit 2 l there's you'll see there's two different opinions if you're looking at rashi on numbers 31 6 it clearly says that it means the descendants of jethro and the descendants of yosef so it's not a mock locus the clear car proves that what rashi's saying is true it's not that it's one or the other but there's um from the the mother's father or the mother's mother and where the she came from that it's true that so basically what we're concluding here is pinchless was sent to take vengeance on what on the fact that yosef yosef was sold by the midianites in other words let's go quickly to verse uh in genesis 37 36 it says in the midianites sold him to egypt to potiphar okay um le potiphar okay and you can even look if you want on baba bastar 109b it goes through the whole idea as well that it's also coming from yosef there's an opinion right yosef is of eventual um he's p putiel as well okay so let's finish up in the clear car and now that we are established that pinchus was sent to fight the midianites because shahalath lincom nicholas yosef emo that he went to take vengeance for the vengeance of joseph that he went to take vengeance for the vengeance of joseph which was his maternal grandfather as it says in the verse we just read in in genesis 37 36 that the midianites were the ones that sold joseph into egypt and what else do we know about bina yosef they're called kahal remember the fourth term used for the jewish people in the desert in this time in these verses they're called a congregation so it says in genesis 35 11 you can find that on uh number 24 right when is that right in 35 11. god said to him i am the almighty god be fruitful multiply a nation and a multitude of nations shall come into existence from you and this is referring to menashan ephraim look three lines down in the rashi when it says a nation a nations menasha and ephraim so the single nation is benjamin and that's also through rojo but menacing ephraim through yosef who were destined to who were destined to emanate from yosef and of course they were counted in into the uh the level of the tribes so that's what kahal is referring to minas nafrian meaning yosef the kane so what were the elders of moab saying to the sorry what would the what was the moabite saying to the elders in median that you guys right i want you to be my allies i'm moab and i'm talking to you the midianites you have what to fear because of the kahal the children of joseph that they write that they're going to want to take out vengeance on you because of what you did to joseph who's called the horseshoe the firstborn ox okay now i want to i want to finish this paragraph just one more line and i want to go back into a little bit of a hint about the golden calf and this is what it says in our parsha right now the uh this kahal congregation is going to lick up all of their surroundings like the way a l an ox licks up because it's the kahal the banane yosef which is called the mahorshore therefore ilahaku autonom they're going to lick us up they're going to wipe us out like a shore licks up could they leak nickmas ashore in order to take out the vengeance on the ox and this is a parish a car i just want to mention i was always bothered by what does it mean by this golden calf the arava were basically responsible in other words they if if our own collected the gold and threw it into a fire and it came out as a calf and then these people who instigated the whole thing basically turned around and said these are your gods of israel who took you out of the land of egypt who would ever imagine everyone knew that god did it with the ten plagues and the splitting of the sea bothers me what bothers me is that everybody knows this thing wasn't around it was just created right now so they're gonna say this is your god's original took you out of the land of egypt who would buy into that that thing i knew that's you know these new religions you know whether it's christianity or there's like some new new invention something our own fathers didn't know i mean we're we're taught over and over again don't fall for anything that you weren't taught or knew of previously so how is it all of a sudden these people are coming and saying these are your gods of israel who took you out of the land of egypt it was god himself or at least moses had a major part of it but this cow was not around so i want to say like this this is um a very interesting idea rashi on that verse in exodus 32 verse 4 where that says these are your gods of israel it's number 25 on the sorshi who brought you up from the land of egypt at the very bottom well it says these are your gods but doesn't say these are our gods so this is one of the proofs that was the erev rav because if it was jews that said it they would have said this is our god but these are outsiders saying these are your gods right and he the rashi says from here we learn it was the mixed multitude who had come up from egypt were the ones who gathered against our own and they were the ones who made the calf so what does it mean they they made the cath if we say that our own threw the gold in to the fire and it came out it was because they had something on their mind i'm not sure i'm not going to say it's sorcery per se but what we think ends up becoming reality whether it's on the positive side of the negative side that's why you should always be thinking in torah and positive thoughts so i want to say like this when we we the jewish people the israelites on the 10th the night of the the firstborn were being wiped out we went around asking our neighbors for gold that's where the gold comes in what was moses busy with moses was fulfilling a promise to joseph joseph made his brothers and his children swear we are not going to leave without you right we're going to we promise we'll take your bones up and as moses approaches the nile in order to bring up the bones of joseph he says allah sure allah sure those are the words he uses right um even the the blessings in deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 17 and number 27. it says over the to his first born ox is given glory this is a bracha to fry menasha that's called the horshuro and even in genesis 49 22 when yaakov is blessing joseph a charming son is yosef a son charming to the eye of the women each one strode along to see him in hebrew it's allah sure there's this hint there's some hints going on about yosef and the shore and this ox and we have it right here with the kahal so going back to what was on these people's minds what were they thinking we need an intermediary we see through the suction that moses is not just delayed but he ain't coming back right if moses delayed okay we still need an intermediary but we need to create one now because he ain't coming back right supposedly allegedly whatever it means that the sutton made them think that he was dead so they created this ox or their thought process helped fundamentally create this ox that comes out of the gold on its own because they were thinking we need an intermerious intermediary moses is no longer around so what power in whose merit did we leave egypt moses must have known the secret moses went down to the nile and brought up joseph's bones i mean it's a misunderstanding on their part you know if you're looking for a power and obviously all the power goes to the hashem all the glory goes to god but if you're looking for an in something of an intermediate it kind of you get a logical conclusion where they can get it from where they could be mistaken that you could say we could not have left egypt if we didn't bring his bones with us because he made them promise they couldn't leave without it right so in a certain sense they're thinking oh my god we're all going around or everyone's going around getting the gold but moses he's doing the holy work of bringing up joseph bones as if that's the great secret of our redemption from egypt so that's why someone has to be very careful they have to follow the rabbis they have to follow the sanhedrin whatever great body of terror knowledge exists and not go on your own and try to you know make up from your own logical conclusions what you think is right follow the torah follow the instruction manual and you'll be blessed and that's what what can i say i think that's a true statement if based on this whole conclusion of of the clear core over there with the word kahal and how it's referring to the vengeance of yosef because there's no doubt that before shore is referring to yosef itself okay with that have a great shabbos and a great life and we'll see you next week [Music]