Death of the Righteous Atone for the Living - Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] the time everybody was high didn't forget we did forget one book okay we'll survive welcome everybody we're working on parshat cool cuts that's gonna be Chad to start the chapter xix but we're gonna start with chapter 20 tonight and we're dealing with the verse it's verse two in chapter 20 chapter 20 of numbers so it's just like this it's really chat verse two okay so the children of Israel a whole assembly arrived at the wilderness of sin in the first month and the people settled in Kadesh Miriam died there and she was buried there before we go to the next verse or in Hebrew we are opening is Recoleta mid partisan behold the shirisha the Yishuv armed but the Kadesh the talmud shall Miriam Miriam died there the chick a bear shop and she was buried there very important and the next verse is law I am I am Elena and there was no water for the congregation now we know that this is the point in time this is the 39th year that were in the desert we had a rock that follows us around in the desert and provided water for us for almost 40 years Miriam dies and now all the sudden there's no water do you guys see that Miriam dies and all of a sudden there's no water so this is obviously a very strong connection between me dying and the fact that don't have any water of course this then falls into the story where Moses ends up hitting the rock and not speaking to the rock we're not going to go there tonight okay so we want to know what exactly is this a punishment and anyway when we talk about punishment but what is the word punishment mean anyway I'm sure an English probably means something very different than what it means in Hebrew when we think of the word punish Hebrew for punishment is Amish we always think that it's neither can negative either its measure from measure and why it's prophetic God wants to speak to us God wants us to do truther he wants us to be tracked to return from what we're doing wrong from the mistakes that were making therefore the onus as we'll call it is not really a punishment in the sense of how we think about in America or in English or lessons of Western society or culture but rather it's a sign from God it's prophetic that he's sending this to you as a perfectly measured out message so that you should return she should have become cognizant and aware of what you're doing wrong so the clean car begins by saying there was no water for the congregation outside ha Amish cluster a lion from the aspect of an onus we'll use the word punishment or maybe the word penalty or the word lesson but we understand it to mean measure for measure there was a lack of water why he claimed the fish low his do hakuro because the Jewish people did not eulogize hesp it is a eulogy but it's more than just a eulogy it's expression of loss whether it's from crying to sitting on the floor - ripping your clothes - having just a feeling of that which is no longer with you so because it was a lack it was not she was not eulogized properly and he proves it keep the motion of the our own both with Moshe and our own died you know what it says that o regard them the youth school of combinations found that the Jewish people cried for them it actually tells us the Jewish people cried when they died Vic I'm here it doesn't say that they cried for her lonely and Marvin youth cool top they didn't cry for her in fact the verse says the tamasha the took a bear shot she died there and she was buried there that's it that's top that's the whole story kiba Malcolm chanita in the very place that she died sham to hate rats our outer there she was buried immediately immediately and when someone gets buried immediately without any words the mistress had to make me late they actually forgot her as a dead person from their own hearts the love here issue they had a rock cloud they didn't feel the emptiness to vacuum the word ed there I in dollar H is that vacuum that emptiness they didn't steal the loss at war al came therefore as of measure for measure Nixon rule ahem the Mayan became a lacking for them of water right the certain amount of appreciation for 39 years and the truth is really that when Miriam she's one of them I forgot they called them the the maidens that helped bring birth to the to the children while they were in Egypt and she was the one who fed these children so they could survive she was a ballast castle she was full of kindness so here you're talking about for 39 years they benefited from the water because of her you know we called the bear that the air is the rock or literally means spring the rock that caused forth water were forth in the desert was called the air Miriam the the well of Miriam I'm sure you probably heard that in English condition a doula my Freya shall have by air I gotta scoot Miriam the reason the wood was lacking to them in order they should become informed and toured in order to let them know live my friend my friend means retro actively now after the fact that the bear that well was in the merit of Miriam and because I'll tell us and you get more and more cotton on 28 a there's you know what the word SP hoot we use in English we say juxtaposition there is a one called coincidence right we're not using the word coincidence we're using a reason actually why one partial of one subject it is juxtaposed is put up against or followed by or proceeds a particular paragraph so in the more and more cotton it tells us this Mikami total of partials para the reason why that the death of Miriam it is juxtaposed to the parsha of the para Duma what is the paradigm that is the red heifer that is where the it is slaughtered like in there are certain similarities to ate or an offering it's not really an offering as we will see but it has enough similarities to an offering that it's going to eat and what is it offering do and offering atones are you listening to this offerings atone so it's telling us ready for this you have to be sitting down to hear this maja cubanos methoprene just as the offerings in the temple make atonement you know what I'm about to tell you I've meter that tsadikim macaw parrot so to the death of righteous people cause atonement cause whatever the even the word makup air will escape air it's to cover the sin it's somehow to remedy the sin la misma who doctor Lapera so the clear car really asked he doesn't understand exactly why that you have this juxtaposition specifically into a para after explaining that just like the Kerberos account so to the death of the righteous of town guess what keep the event in a court but the truth is the para a Duma that red heifer is not really a Corbin why because cubanos the offerings are not allowed to be you can't do many of the services outside of the temple they have to be spoiled within the temple the blood is usually plural to the altar obviously that's in the temple whether it's burnt or even it has to be done in the temple none of that's true but guess what there is a name for it rock mash and Athena Chikara the truth hot ass unbelievable wait till you hear the word hot ass I think we learned this before at some point we'd only find one comparison is that the fact that this this I'm not going to call the Corbin but that the para duma is called a hottest the hottest is a sin-offering it acts as a atonement for sin it's actually called a hottest and you can find that in numbers 19 verse 9 if you go did I do it right I'm a toe foot thing I said to go to 22 I'm sure she here I don't think I put it here okay my bad but if you go to we say it's 19 verse 9 so first 19th verse 9 says I do have someone at the source United stood for a pure man shall gather the ash of the cow and place it outside the camp in a pure place for the Assembly of Israel it shall remain as a safekeeping for water sprinkling it is for purification listen to the Hebrew it is for purification and the Hebron says the may need the hot I see the word hot touch which is very strange because that name that means that word is associated with sin and yet the same word hot toss which is associated with in is the same word for purification so he says ok now he's about to bring in a famous medic now I did bring a piece one of the source sheaves it looks like this like this anyway this is from the Madras and it's famous measures and it basically says that just like what's the what's the principal purpose of the para Duma and member if the principal purpose of the paradigm is X and the claim here is the death of the righteous also act may get remember it's plural here so we're not talking about one individual in the world is doing this we're talking about every generation could be thousands of people it could be us we are acting in the place if we are Siddiqui and God you know then we pass on this is what happens so we see like this cached shot parabolic laconia so odd Bona just like the param that the pirate is an adult count right the red heifer has to be at least 12 months 12 months it comes to clean up the feces of her son and who's her son Diego and a gal is a calf meaning that the para Duma is coming to clean up the sin for her son which is the golden calf so - that's a Decca's so to the righteous people and this Whittle my Miriam here so he's mentioning a woman so - a righteous woman in cosine in cocci who's the mother of all living things the me salsa Makana hot so hot Toula tell her death comes to clean up the feces of her progeny okay he says blamed the groundwork when he's about to go into he's now going to tell us the virtues and the advantages of having righteous people not only while they're alive but also what types of benefits they do for us even after they are gone Sneaky's ooh naveen bin hamad rushing barber McComas but he brings me says that this mattress these types of met this type of lesson is brought in four different places so on this page of the Meldrick i just want you to see two real measures right no nobody's making it up here so it says like this this is a new bed abba-abba-abba ba Raveena nicknamed madness maja parshat mrs. Miriam for what purpose is there a juxtaposition of the parsha of the death of Miriam which we just saw in numbers chapter 20 verse 1 lay apart to the dust the ashes of the park Elam mob the mula me to teach you the Shan Shan a for upon the copper just as the ashes of this pair of the red heifer atones cat meat attach the deck as a deacon macaw parrot so to the death of the righteous also eternal revenue Don McNay Magnus muscle missus ara now what about the the juxtaposition of the death of our own to the breaking of the tablets if you look in Deuteronomy chapter 9 verse 6 you can see it it dimensions that Moses Moses should carve out for himself the second tablets and a few verses down you see that mentions Aaron dies so why did Moses mean to carve out for himself a second set of tablets the verse says because you smash them so after it mentions the most smashed tablets then Aaron dies so there's a juxtaposition to teach us what Ellen the middle I made shame kasha to sneak uh - Sparkle that it's difficult obviously nothing's too difficult for God but try to use your imagination that this is difficult to God with sea salt Oh shall our own career Abdullah's that it's difficult the difficulty of the death of our own was as if whatever difficulty there was by the breaking of the set of the tablets okay there's a lot of before team on the side of this page they have I probably answered a lot of the questions will have on it delicious continue repeat every bit here Barbara back at Venetian Mesa punished al-arab lama mosque amuse us ability ported so it seemed we know that it that na da da dee you that the two sons of era they died on the first of lisan which is not not even close on the calendars the opposite of Yom Kippur so if you read that chapter over there you'll see that Yom Kippur is mentioned right right away so all the loss of young people are mentioned specifically so why is that LM not look Milani should be ashamed she young hockey pouring the cop they're cops awesome incomparable right in order to teach you just like Yom Kippur what is Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement just as the day itself you realize that they itself it talks for us of course we have to choose that's gonna be all question also on the side what part what part that we have to do to acquire this this tongue is it a free-for-all or is there effort on our part it seems like to all the unfortunate there has to be something we do okay so you dwarf LM ashamed young people macabre technically in the cabarrus not unique and where do we know that the Dave Yom Kippur itself you look at Vayikra in Leviticus 16 30 it says keep your house there it actually says it's the day itself key beyond mozzie it's today itself as you copper leg hem the tires can do the words of the first census today itself and where do we know where the death of the Siddiqui my comparison me night you're gonna see such study chemical Paris ah so that you can look in small bet second Samuel 2114 I'm not going to go into that but you see so far already that that this is this is actually amazing right because many people are of the opinion that it's a Christian idea and the truth is that whatever truth there is in Christianity many of it is not true a lot of fake news but whatever is true comes originally from the revelation outside so then we're going to continue on in the in the clean car he said of sniffles ooh why I also thought of something if anybody ever accused me of being a Christian I don't invent it I'm gonna say oh yeah yeah yeah JC he's pretty he's prophesized the Torah I know all about it yeah just look up check Deuteronomy chapter 13 and 18 you know anyway I had a big discussion something yes YouTube channel that okay so back to this piece where is Michael du Midi Muhammad rushing Barbara mikanos the truth is I just read that one mattress that brought these four places he starts off with our sniffled meet at banan eira' the young hockey boring macabre right the juxtaposition between the death of the sons of arrow to Yom Kippur works as in a tone also the smooth linear in apparent our partial that that Miriam and the mentioned in close proximity and just as the powerup is Mahathir so to the death of Miriam who's masseteric the speaker's of our road the big day Kahuna the supreme this we did really go into but there's an idea to read in shed like in our first in our chapter verse 26 okay so you can see also that there is the death of era and the verse before or earlier the first talks about the the gutting the clothing of the cargo tow each different part of the colonists dress atone for different sins of the people whether it was for thought whether it was for action whether it was for speech and didn't you know inadvertent sins of different types okay when you could find that in para que Lu magatha ba and in parts of a calf there's a semi hoot which we just went through the leases are rubbish Rufus the death of arrow to the breaking of the tablets you can find that in Deuteronomy 10 verse 6 but you go back a few verses earlier you see God tells Moses to carve out the second tablets because you smashed the first ones and then you see our guys and that the lesson here is chakashi Mississippi came kashmir Salukis that the difficulty of the death of the Siddiqui was like the breaking of the town's and not only that this is this petition min-cut Sadiq the Aguila the adora Arba me me to load that from emanating from each righteous person reaches our grasp the people of that generation at least images for for advantages for positive things to come to the people who are alive behind ready if the first one is should call the hola Muslim sciutto while he's still alive the whole world benefits all the food is coming down as if God only wants to see this one person who's you know like studying Torah day night and such a sad thing such a righteous person and we all benefit from his nourishing himself even if all he's eating is carrots I mean you ever eat carrots they break your teeth I mean it's good when it's all really finely ground and he can mix up a little sugar you know and bake with it or and make it chocolate milk for the kids or something but that the whole world is actually nourishing on his account on his merit he got more brocco as 17b mentions color Allah leaves on Bischoff and Mina Benny okay that that God says the whole road was be unbelievable do you know that I just what I heard today I know I always knew it but it just it hit me that the Amuro Ian the when I talked about the ten I honor the prophets the prophets we already know could do this that the tannoy who wrote the Mishnah could do this but ready for this deal arrived the people if someone's name is mentioned in the Gemara they could doesn't mean they had to they could resurrect the day you imagine that's right to death anyway I heard of amazing stories about what you know different times there was a boy did such a length and then we go on as well to skip a few sentences here it's interesting because who are motion and Aaron called in the song of songs in song of songs chapter 4 verse 5 the verse says snake should died not to go to the it's on page 4 number 25 so if you go to if you go to the article translation let's just read that first it says Moses an arrow now Moses and Aaron's name and I mentioned in the verse Moses an arrow you're to sustainers are like two fawns twins of the gazelle who graze their sheep in rows like bounty now you can read the arts girl commentary on that which I suggest but everyone else Chan's lated literally and even in the article you'll see the place transmitted translated literally snakes that survives means the two breasts and what are they to rest dude they're the ones that sustain your to sustainers they they feed right they nurse and who are they that's Moses and Aaron Moses an and the pillars the pillars literally the pillars are the sustainers and you can see that in Rashi on that portion on that first so - now in the nor titus mentions should the scoop miriam Playland a bear it was on account of the merit of miriam that we had water for 39 years and not only that should i am i speak leaves your cards on hand she provided to the jewish people all their needs first of all we didn't need to shower for 39 years can you imagine 40 years we are shoes to wear out you didn't have to change your socks you didn't have to go to the bathroom she didn't sweat there was no it was but still where there was no excess from the food to be a because the only food that we really ate was the mind so it was spiritual angel food that got totally absorbed and i can't describe because i don't really fully comprehend it but they had no need so the water was for drinking and the truth is amazing fort I made most to tell you member eva-- the rugged charesse why is it called main meriva may we revive used the worries of strength it was only the last year he says like this there's specific laws of a mikvah mikvahs like the baptism thing right so when a woman is in a state of Mita so about once a month she goes to make them that she can be with her husband the best she's pregnant University who she doesn't have her menstrual cycle now there are laws about a regular in-house liquor that came through rain water that was collected but has to be still it can't be moving and then there is a spring which obviously is moving there's different laws now if that regular Victor had a hole in it and that hole caused the water to be moving obviously there's a hole but what are we really if you had enough water obviously so you couldn't go to that victim because it's not supposed to be moving so that's how you plug it up with something so now there's different opinions but let's say you plug to that with something that should not have should not have been something that is macabre to of something that accepts the contamination will then affect the water as opposed to using something does not affect completed settlement does not make about an effect the possibility of contamination what ended up happening was when the God said to Moses take the staff we all know that Moses was a very humble person but the rugged Charter says that he over stepped and it was too humble and he took the staff from before Hashem what is before Hashem the iron Hakodesh lead lead the ark and inside the ark is our own staff now the difference between most of the staff and our own staff and that we spoke last week about our staff being dry wood but imagine Moses staff being dry wood and our own staff being petrified that are turned into some kind of marble some kind of stone so when Moses overreacted it was Rumpel which there's many claims to what his sin was so apparently according to your own chakra that was his sin he took the staff he should have taken as I should have believed in himself and taking his own staff and said he put himself below where he should have been and he took our own staff thinking that's the more important staff but that was macapa tula so since it was in the capitulum and when you hit the rock in other words what else they need the water for for the mikveh so the club where is the strife because if a woman can't go to the mikveh so what happened is when you you know a man and a woman they they get a little bit of a squabble and there's a I don't want to say you know they call it make up sex you know we you go to the mikveh and everything's fine you know everything starts over again so unfortunately for the last year or the road each other you gotta the Jewish brilliant way to go to the mikveh and that's why it's called may meriva the words of strife Wow anyway that's a side thing okay crazy right that's the wrong each other so it was in the merit of Miriam and she supplied all their needs and that's why they're the juxtaposition of the death of her death to this cow this cow which is the mother of the caste which comes to fix remember that measures we spoke about that the mother cleans up after the child right every mother can understand this and every parent can really try to understand this that the mother comes to fix that which is needs fixing from the child if that's all the first time okay the second thing that a righteous person does they belong on the whole they're efficient mitzvahs they teach the righteous people teacher how all the benefits of serving God of the ways of God and following his missus that's why that it's compared the death of the righteous person is compared to the breaking of the tablets when it's breaking the tablets like breaking that's like losing the Torah they are like a living Torah scroll okay there they're there to teach us to land God which is what the Torah does and the third thing is they're mugging in their merit sciutto Magan can sambuca beggin Assuan lahat Sylacauga huh he uses two languages here that in their merit there's a guard like shave and a garment they act as a guard against well let's see as that because he says to save us from heat and cold so the the sale would probably save us meat and the garment would save us from the cult clears mud and therefore when they die sar Cielo which is interesting because you know that you would think it could mean when they died then the shade leaves no seal on the same word for shade shadow refuge is the same word for the image that God created us in God created us in His image His image is a shadow right when you put your hand up and there's light Sun any kind of light so it's an image but there's nothing really there but it's there that's what our soul is in the image of God we are godlike but not God you couldn't call that shadow but at the hand it's the shadow of the hand so it's the sound which is shade or shadow Selin is the image and likeness of God so anyway the luck the image likeness of God that we have is free will okay that's a whole story in itself and therefore listen to this hooray hate a rooming become next sin they actually became naked those when Aaron died or the same Miriam dies who everyone that's not the gods what happens they become naked from any covering and listen to this verse it's you go in our chapter chapter 20 verse 29 it says the year ooh cold ADA King Guevara now it actually says you have a good with it say right so you go to the verse I said it's 29 chapter 20 verse 20 [Music] so it doesn't have that same rate it's a zero Cola a de which you translate they did that when the entire the entire assembly saw that Aaron had died but with the same rainy good which is their the yarrow it means they were seeing this moment island I'd the claim were exposed when Aaron died they were exposed meaning the begging because off they're covering the clothing clover cloak of invisibility lost the cloak of invisibility was lost Heine the Sun God the clouds of glory an insha Allah beggin which are compared to clothing was removed you follow what we're talking about here is this me from the big day koona and that's the juxtaposition to death of Aaron with the special clothing of the priesthood and the fourth benefit the fourth attribute should who miss Harper a lamb to me so so that the Sadiq causes atonement to his death and that's where we see the snitch of the young people it's right now on a very practical level when someone dies and the righteous person dies and you feel the loss right someone eulogizes someone gets up there and speaks about his life and how he he used his abilities properly and you know all the stories about him you're her you're hearing about and how did you feel about yourself you know that you are lacking you you have so far to go you know that's called Trula forget the metaphysical and the mystical for second what does it help when these person such a person dies that you realize your own but you realize how mortal you are if they're so righteous and they die right and they live they actually used their free will and they became more godlike right how what do I need to do to become closer to fulfill my own mission not to be like them God's not gonna say why were you our own how come you weren't like Moses he's gonna say Scott why aren't you like Scott you think you have to write and and and mayor and Kathie and everyone else is sitting here right everybody why why are you why didn't you become who you were supposed to be so you know there's a whole lotta that if you were faced with going to either a wedding or to a funeral and all the parameters are the same the variables that are saying it's not a relative whatever you should be going to the funeral first that's gonna bring you to the everlasting life because that's gonna atone for your sin by going and listening to them to the eulogy okay so that's on a very practical level obviously in a very mystical level I'm sure that it's also true but just know the difference between Judaism Christianity this is not a pillar of our faith this is just a fact of life that that righteous people they suffer in this world right the Jewish people suffer in this world and it's all for the decimal advantage okay it's not all for naught and for a righteous person that he dies there is some residue effect on the generation and he says Carla hevene [Music]