Wine for Whiners

Just to end today's daf with one short ha'arah that I saw in the safe Teras Yaakov, which is one of the many, many seforim that were written by HaGaon HaGadol Rabi Akiva Eiger shlita. And that is he brings in parshas Shlach, so Teras Yaakov is a sefer on Torah Nevi'im u'Kesuvim. This is in parshas Shlach. If you want to look it up, it's in siman kuf lamed alef. It's page kuf chof beis. The pasuk says in Shir HaShirim, this is perek alef, pasuk yud alef, "Eshkol HaKofer dodei li becharm Ein Gedi." First perek of Shir HaShirim. If you take a look at the Targum on this pasuk, it's very, very long. Targum takes us down memory lane a little bit. Talks about how Moshe Rabbeinu went up to Har Sinai, he was mekabel Torah, the Luchos is the chet ha'egel, so the Luchos Shniyos. I'm picking up in the middle. "Bei hei zimna ochrei Moshe ve'avad yas mashkena." At that time, Moshe Rabbeinu went and he built the Mishkan. "Vayas kelimav v'he built all the kelim of the Mishkan, vayas aronah." And the aron as well. Sounds like the aron is not one of the kelim. "V'shavi ba'aronah yas treinei Luchos acharonos." And he took the Luchos Shniyos and he put them into the aron together with the shivrei Luchos, we learned that tomorrow recently. "U'maniyus bnei Aharon as Kohanim." "L'mikrav korbanaya al madbacha." To be makriv the korbanos on the mizbei'ach. "U'l'nascha yas chamra al korbanaya." And to bring wine as nisachim on the korbanos. "U'min nachalei chamra l'nasacha." Wait, the Targum. Wine for nisachim? Where did they have wine? They were in the midbar. There are no vineyards there. Where did they have wine? "HALO INUN BA'MIDBARA. LO ASAR KASHA l'vei Yisrael ba'aflei >> And I don't think they had dates, figs, they didn't have pomegranates. They didn't have any of these fashion in the green side again. So where did they come to this if they're in the midbar ever says the Targum have as in the car may and get it. They used to go to the vineyards the care of in Gedi. The not swimming time on and they would take from there a score in the in they would take an escort of a novel for a trim and a hammer and they would go and harvest it they would make wine from it. And they would pour on the mizbeach how much rather he knew it in the kata a quarter of a hen for one sheep. So says the Targum that's what the positive means when it says ash called a coifer do they do we the car may in Gedi. It's referring to the escort of a novel that came from in Gedi when they ARE DOING THE MIDBAR THAT THEY WENT ahead from there they made their wine to use as the second for the carbon noise. For the carbon noise that they brought. Now this Targum is obviously going according to the mandolin that holds carbon in the second in the midbar. But the Targum says something fascinating that you want to know where the second came from where did they get the wine? The hollow in and by midbar after the second of a Zara the after seeing in the goof in the Roman you know where it came from it came from car may in Gedi. There was an escort of a coifer do they do we we took this escort and we gave it to do they do we gave it to the master. Where did it come from the car may in Gedi that's where the iron for the second came and at first glance this Targum says I'm so a little bit sauce on. He said why is it that the wine came from car may in Gedi and what's this positive in Shasheerim that's bringing out the have a that class is all had for a good as far as we brought the second and that only did we bring the second but we brought in the second from car may in Gedi it's a little bit tone beer. He said a Dover Nifla. And that is, we spoke recently about the surprising Khidish that the parsha of the Nisachim is not mentioned anywhere in Tairas Kainim. There's a reference to Nisachim in Tairas Kainim, but the parsha of the Nisachim is actually in Sefer Bamidbar and Khumish Pekudim. It's in parsha Shlach. In fact, it's right after the whole episode of the Meraglim. And the Rishonim already much to try to understand that why is it that the Torah placed the parsha of the Nisachim after the Khet Meraglim? What's the Smichos between the Khet Meraglim and the parsha of the Nisachim? And recently we mentioned two Mahalchin from the Rishonim. We mentioned that the Seforno says that had the Yidden not sinned with the Khet of the Meraglim, they wouldn't needed Nisachim. But because they fell on Madregah through the Khet of the Meraglim, now in order for them to get Ritsu by bringing a Korban, it's not enough that you bring a Korban. Now already there's an Indian you have to bring the Nisachim as well. We shall to the Seforno in the parsha Sisu who says that had the Yidden not sinned with the Khet Egel, then it would have been Mizbach Adam Pasuli become Makam Asher Askir Shmi. Again, Lo Siven Es, Lo Siven Es An Gozes, right? Lo Amayim There's so many Halachos that dictate the simplicity of the way that really the Makam Hamikdash was supposed to be. But because they didn't sin because of the Khet Egel, now to get Ritsu, to get Kapara, they needed to pick up their game a little bit. History repeated itself. And after the Khet of the Meraglim, again Klal Yisrael needed a little bit more. And that little more was the Nisachim. We mentioned that the Ramban or Rabbeinu Bachya, this is the Ikur Mahalchin Rishonim, they say that the Smichos is because after the Khet of the Meraglim and the Yidden were told that that whole Dor wasn't going to go into Eretz Yisrael, but their So, the were going to go into Eretz Yisrael, it was going to be after 40 years. The possuk says that they were in a state of aveilus. And they thought to themselves, "Who knows if it's going to ever work out? I mean, I know the Aibershter is telling us now, 'Oh, but you're going to go in and live well.' How do I know that our children are not going to sin the same way we sin? And maybe they're not going to go in." So, the Aibershter went and told the Yidden two mitzvahs. Two mitzvahs that are clues for it. The mitzvah of nesachim and the mitzvah that follows immediately afterwards, which was the mitzvah of challah. To give the Yidden a nachas. You have nothing to worry about. You see, you're going to go in. And we spoke out from the Geder Rebbe who said over from the Eshte Rebbe the Kodesh Aryeh who said over in the name of his Rebbe the Rebbe of Binah who said that it wasn't a mikvah that punk the Aibershter decided to pick the mitzvah of nesachim. But, it's nesachim is wine. And the possuk says, "Tnu shechar l'eiveid v'yayin l'marai nefesh." I mean, the klal Yisrael were in a matzav of aveilus. They were mourning. And they were managed depressed about what's going to be. So, the Aibershter poured them a glass of wine. He gave them yayin. That was the source of nachama. That was the source of chizuk. But, that we already spoke about. But, in Beis Medrash B'lo Chiddush, Reb Yaakov Chaim Sofer says that if you take a look at the perush of the Recanati al ha Torah, in Parshas Shlach, the Recanati says, "V'samach Parshas Nesachim l'Parshas Meraglim." There's a smichus between the parsha of the Nesachim and the parsha of the Meraglim l'fi shechatu b'zemiros haniskaros. It's because the Meraglim sinned with the zemiros. His'kiram b'Yehuda. It's for that reason they were warned b'Yehuda specifically with regards to the zemiros. Thus meant the Recanati. What it means is the possuk says in Parshas Shlach, when the Meraglim came to Eretz Yisrael, it says, "Vayavo'u el Nachal Eshkol." They came to a place called Nachal Eshkol. "Vayichretzu misham zmora im eshkol anavim echad." And they went and they cut off this cluster of grapes with the branches. "Vayisa'uhu bamoit bishnayim." And it required two, as she says, it was even more than two, a whole bunch of people, literally a whole army of men to go ahead and and carry it. And what they did was, they brought it back with them to the midbar. What was the point? They wanted to show the Yidden that k'sheim sh'peiriyah m'shunah, kach amo m'shunah. They were doing it to speak negatively and to try to scare the Yidden. You don't want to go into Eretz Kenaan. You know what's going on over there? Now, this was very momentous. You know what was momentous? Look at the next pasuk. Lamokem hu korah Nachal Eshkol. That place the pasuk refers to as Nachal Eshkol. In real time, it wasn't even Nachal Eshkol yet. It first became Nachal Eshkol because of this story. Al odos ha'eshkol asher karshu misham b'nei Yisrael. This was a huge, huge, huge deal. But says the Recanati, that when the Yidden were in the midbar and they sent the meraglim and the meraglim went into Eretz Yisrael, they sinned b'chudoh with regards to a zmira, with regards to an eshkol. V'hei yavo'u Nachal Eshkol vayeichrusu misham zmira v'eshkol anavim echad vayeis'u b'mos bishnayim. And you see it was so significant because lamokem korah Nachal Eshkol, it was the eshkol asher karshu misham b'nei Yisrael. It's for that reason, says the Recanati, that's why there's a smichus between the parsha of the meraglim and the parsha of the nosach. But it's still it's a dayenu omer dorsheini. What's pashut shat? So Rav Chaim Soloveitchik brings Rav Chaim Palagi in his sefer Nefesh Kol Chai. This is in Ma'areches Nun Os Yud Daled. He says the oinik what the Recanati was trying to say was is that we know the meraglim were in a lot of aveiros, a lot of bad things during that episode. But roish b'rishoin of all the lessons we take from the story of the meraglim is what? Right, there was kefirah, there was the story of that Yimatsu Eretz Chemdah, right? All things that we've spoken about b'ezras Hashem over the years. But Chazal took from the whole story of the meraglim more than anything else the cheimer of lashon harah. In fact, Chazal say maduach the meraglim spoke lashon harah it's in Bavonim k'dei cheimer for a person speaks lashon hara about That's why parshas shlach is always the parsha of lashon hara. Because the maraglin, their chet uh was It was a chet of lashon hara. What was the lashon hara? It was a lashon hara on Eretz Yisrael. That's what the lashon hara was. They spoke negatively ABOUT ERETZ YISRAEL. SO THEY NOW They now said Rav Chaim Palagi, HAD TO BE MESAKEN the fact that they looked at Eretz Yisrael and they said "Kishim u'fyarim meshunah, ka'am meshunah. YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS COUNTRY. You don't have anything to do with this land." So you know what the tikun was? The tikun WAS YOU'RE GOING TO GO ahead and you're going to take from that land and you're going to bring it to the Aibershter as a hakrava. And that's going to be your way of coming close to Hakadosh Baruchu. And that's going to be your idiyos that you're giving the Aibershter. That's the reishis of you're giving to Hakadosh Baruchu. Because by doing that you'll be mesaken, you're going to realize that this land is an Eretz Chemdah. That what YOU WERE MOYIS ON AND WHAT YOU THOUGHT I GET, WHAT YOU SPOKE LASHON HARA ABOUT, TO THE CONTRARY, this is mamash the best OF THE BEST. AND THAT'S WHY THEY WERE TOLD TO GO ahead and take a LITTLE BIT. BUT WHICH CHELEK OF THE LAND WERE THEY TOLD told to take? Says the Recanati, Zoch Rav Chaim Palagi, this is what he means to say, that being that the chet was be'ikur with the nachal Eshkol. Vayeichazu misham zemorah min Eshkol v'od me'achad. Take that Eshkol, take that zemorah, and I want you to go ahead and I want you to bring it to Hakadosh Baruchu. The inyan, the smichus between the parsha of the maraglin and the parsha of the nesachim, says the Recanati, with his beer amuk from Rav Chaim Palagi, was is that the chet of the maraglin was a chet of lashon hara. A chet of lashon hara on Eretz Yisrael. It was vayamasu b'Eretz Chemdah. And they were told now you want to go ahead and you want to do teshuvah. You want to do a teshuvah shalmishkal, like Rav Ben Yona says, that midas teshuvasi is al pi midas mishuvasi. Right, the teshuvah is may end the head that the person did. So, the head was looking at Israel at this in this derogatory way. What you need to now do is you need to take from Israel and give it its put it on this pedestal. I'm taking from Israel that and I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to bring it to and bring that the head before was in the and all the so that's what they were told to take from the and all the so it could be out. I'm sorry for the fear now. It's so It's so moving. It's so beautiful. Why the even though you saw in the middle of the come from the Getty. Why did it have TO COME FROM THE GETTY? Why couldn't they bring from somewhere else? NOW, THE TIME TO ASK THE question was there wine but the truth is it's not such a strong question. And the reason is is because we know there were different and the they could have been but the is because THE WHOLE OF THE WAS TO TAKE FOR THE HEAD OF THE GARDEN. IT WAS A FROM THE GARDEN. IT WAS A FOR THE AND ALL THAT THE SPOKE ON ISRAEL. And if that's the case, the way that we is by taking from Israel and becoming close to recognizing THIS IS THE THIS IS THE LAND that you want to have a too. Therefore, even the that were in the middle of the had to come from the garden. He brings one final matter of this is a the in them. It's above. The over there asks the same exact question. May I How are you in the common Where did the have the when they were in the middle of the for those 40 years? said in the They got it from the and we met In fact, most of the things that you didn't have in the middle of the came from the Now, we always know the had water. Much more than water. So, how there might have been the show him me and me and you >> What did the Yidden say? Now you're saying it? You should have said it right away. The terrorists Cisco they always had it. They always had it through the Bashar message. It says you want to know where the Yidden got wine from the they got it from the Rabbi says no that's not where they got it from. You know they got it from? They got it from the esco. The came with an esco and they brought it back to the midbar. IS IT POSSIBLE FROM THAT ESCO? YOU don't even realize how big those were. And it was from that big cluster of grapes that the Yidden were able to be in the second. For 40 years the Yidden were being in the You want to know where the were coming from? It was coming from that esco. It's the in the water. The wasn't that esco. You don't want to have anything to do with this country. You don't want anything to do with this land. They had to do the was Oh boy do we want to have something to do with this land. And that is we're going to take from the we're We're going to take from that esco that we ourselves went ahead and we were and we're going to bring from the The reason right after the The Yidden were told the cuz that was the mission. That's how they were going to do for. You did for. Or you sinned because of the fact that you looked down at this esco and all of them. Now the ticket is going to be to take from that esco and all of them to be in the for. And to recognize that Israel is a place that it's a place that you can come so close to Hakadosh Baruchu. That Eshkol of K'shem She'er Periy Mishneh K'ach Eilam Mishneh, ultimately the Yidden realized Eshkol Hakoyfer Doydi Li B'charmi Ein Gedi. It's a pasuk in Shir Hashirim my heart, but we know what the theme of Shir Hashirim is. It's the ahavah between Knesset Yisrael and Hakadosh Baruchu. The carrot Eretz Yisrael is the place where a person can become doveyk to Hakadosh Baruchu. The direct result, the tikkun of the chet of the meraglim was to realize Fakir, to realize the Eshkol Hakoyfer Doydi Li B'charmi Ein Gedi. By the way, this gives a whole new light to Israeli wines, right? The wine that comes from Eretz Yisrael. Napa Valley, I ain't Napa Valley, I am. I mean, this is the whole Indian, the tikkun of the chet of the meraglim was the yayin of Eretz Yisrael. And we are going to stop here.