Placing your Life on the Line for the Sanctification of God by Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] good evening everybody we're partial spin class we have a big evening ahead of us we have three different parts we're gonna start with the beginning that would be chapter 25 in numbers verse 11 I want to just pass on to you guys one more time we've discussed this before the numbering system is not a Jewish concept through the Middle Ages or were they called middle evil ages the Christians put us up for debates they want to debate with us the way we divided it up was yes according to par she owed that Ezra divided and we would know if you wanted to tell me a certain verse it was in the third alia of parshas picked us and it was the fourth first of the fifth verse and parshas Pinkas but guess what because we were called up to debate they already had a numbering system so it made sense if we're going to debate somebody have to talk about the same verse so we adopted their system but on what he called grudgingly so our partial begins right where we act we're in verse 11 of chapter 25 begins versus piphus so I just wanted to point that out Barcia Stannah actually verse 10 but doesn't matter 10 11 so you see as proof of the persecution in the exile and the the downtrodden and look at where we are today amazing okay Hashem spoke to Moses saying Gedaliah either no emotion lame or pinkos been Eleazar Ben are on a co-ed who is pimp tough spitless is the son of Eleazar son of iron the priest the co-ed and what did he do he turned back my wrath from upon the children of Israel hey she's s Hamas seen the albinius rail and these are the words we're going to concentrate on as well that when he zealously avenged my James began o @p naughty the token among them so I did not consume the children of Israel in my vengeance Volokh ET anthony abductee naughty so the first thing we're gonna deal with is the lineage of our own why did we need to hear I'm sorry business why did we need to hear that he's the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest couldn't you just tell me the printer Torah I'll tell you another secret God cares about Jewish money do you have any idea how much the ink cost do you have any idea how much the cloth the animal hide costs that if God's going to tell us a story why would he ever repeat anything or put an extra letter every single letter is absolutely necessary and holy first of our art all of our owns children Kohanim the answer's no because Pincus is one of the elder sons and when God promised the Kohanim took the service the service in the temple to our own it was to his sons that would be born after that point and Pinkus was already an older son now I'm sorry Pinellas meant Pittman Arad and eleazar eleazar were pointed pencils had already been born that's what I meant to say okay great so the clea car begins by saying why do we need to hear all this so it's very interesting the Alpha pitcher hiya Ben Eleazar Asher look our club in Libya knows booty L he had taken we're talking about Eleazar the father of PIMCO's had taken as a wife one of the daughters of pootie on whose out Jethro now who's Jethro he was a Cohen he was a high priest of idols I hope everyone's still there okay he was a high priest of Midian who worshiped everybody in the world he was sure he was a searcher he was looking just much like us we were all searching and he found eventually the God of Israel and converted apparently anyway Eleazar that's pincus's mother was guess what his mother was the sister of moshus wife motion married one of the daughters of Jethro as well that's why we're going to see later on Moses would could not act in the same way as we'll see in a second throw so what do we see that she was me Zahra you throw sure Pete aim of gully avodah Zarah she was not she's not just her with over my Pinterest Pincus was from the seat of Jethro who fattened the cats for idol worship below them Noah thoughts mom he must is it but you know what he did pen class prevented himself he didn't no longer write he did not act as his forefathers did he prevented himself don't tell me yet Jethro as well penny over long lutely Seimei at door lest the mockers people of the generation you know what they would say to Pincus but you throw me hit Televisa who permitted your father Eleazar to marry a non Jew okay the truth is she converted and her father also did repentance the a katana mechanic at home in Jenin Midian eat how are you able to as we know we read in last week's Varsha you had a prince we had a Jew who was and let's be adult about this he was having sexual relations in public with a non-jewish woman okay I don't know which one is worse but either way that's what was happening and pimps us took his his word in his hand and he actually put it through their genitals while they were connected together and he held them up and the plague that was consuming the Jewish people had stopped which we're gonna see as we already saw the words that he turned back my wrath from upon the children of Israel we're gonna see that's very significant so now that we asked this is what the mockers of the generation would say against Pintas so the paint avi avi PT McGowan la vara Zara like to get ready but basically we okay so the fact that he's a Midianite and comes from Midianites how are you going to be taking vengeance on Midianites that's the first idea and also your grandfather who fattened up cans for idol worship how are you taking out your vengeance because of the idol worship well how you been I earned a Cohen and that's why it tells us that he's the son of iron Ocoee meaning to save the young ruler a via visas epidemic livadas ara the fact that you wouldn t mean avodah Zarah the fact that your grandfather he's the one who made the golden calf afar PK law in Mokpo doc evaldo nevertheless pitiless was not concerned with his own honor he right you know when you feel guilt or you carry some badge of disgrace it prevents you from acting but pentakus was so true to himself and true to the Torah this did not prevent him from acting so to Rashi explains Shia Martina vazhi moto that actually the other tribes made fun of Pincus the holyoke Shizuka Vaughn at oh is that possible this was the intent when they made fun of him the IU Taoiseach rush party mabashi moto berkutov the very fact that they made fun of him and that's what Rashi says that's why the turbos out of its way to say no it might be true that he married a convert it might be true that his hidden marry cover up saying his father married Howard it might be true and it is true from the mother's side right for sure she comes from not such a great lineage but the father's article so there's a relationship there on the positive you could say and possibly even a negative so really each receipt oh but the truth is he comes from Hana Cohen is related the torii shows that he's related which we know Aaron was a very pious person for pichia I they should been observed in our own and the muhkam news Votto even from the side of his father they could still make fun of them I'm not saying it's right but they did become become Nick nurse via via Korra well oh hey Yoshi Schmidt Votto he was so humble he was like a fly on the wall you didn't even notice him you didn't even he was humble it wasn't a personal thing at all it wasn't about personalities he knew what the Torah said he had to act on it and furthermore the plastic tells us I am a chief crema then may she came up he actually caused the wrath of God to retreat to go back just like who our own remember there was a plague and I went out there with the incense and he stopped the plague just like his father his grandfather did so - he did and therefore the more insane Hedren payback I'm at bed says I'm cannot has not several Tavia though he followed in his Twitter father's foot scram father's footsteps he acted in the same way with saved saved the Jewish people by turning that God's wrath the actions he seized he grasped the actions with his father in his hand now if you notice that the word for vengeance is used twice and we translates that zealously avenged my vengeance among them that Cano at Cana tbut Oh calm but you know what it says it says that TOCOM amongst them it doesn't say cannot teach by him I took my vengeance in that or through them no but rather in them and what does it mean in them it teaches us that any time that we sanctify God's name we sanctify God's name amongst the Jewish people by having 10 I got 10 fingers up here once you have 10 you have an ADA you have a keloid you have a congregation monk them you need to have a congregation now there's a laws about sanctifying God's name I'm gonna give it to you on a very brief way first of all obviously the way a person acts sanctifies God's name you're doing the right thing great you have good character great but there's another thing called it's one of the 613 minces and if God forbid somebody asks you to violate a commandment I want to hear what you you guys are thinking people if someone says eat pork I'm gonna kill you or break Shabbat I'm gonna kill you what are you supposed to do are you supposed to break the commandment or or be killed I'll tell you the torch has lived in them you live in the Midlands which means you live by them and don't die but there are three exceptions and those three exceptions are the great three cardinal sins murder idol worship and idolatry for those myths is that someone says do it I'm gonna kill you you gotta take the boat you have to take the bullet now that's all if you're all by yourself even if you're in the desert let's say you don't have enough water to last two you know to find society to be healed and the guy who has got you tied up he also doesn't so you're both gonna die in the desert and he says worship that idol I'm gonna kill you it's just you and him you would think okay there's nobody around he ain't gonna survive I'm well maybe I want even to survive no even in that case so Hitler Shem has nothing to do or sanctifying God theme doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the amount of people or even being seen by anybody just worshiping that Idol is a desecration of God's name now that's what a husband but let's say you were in Nazi Germany and they were killing Jews left and right and they said dance or they want to cut off your pass which it's not a big deal I mean you'd live by then right it's one of those misses you live by you're not gonna die cut off my pants but once there's a concept called schmod once there's this anti-semitic feeling and they're killing you become or they're they're making funny or they're making fun of the Torah where they're persecuting because you're Jews to the extent that it's public then even for the slightest thing even if they want to cut up your pants in public ten in front of ten people once you're died one should like thinks they eat the pork but you have 10 Jews around you and it's smart a time of SH March Maude means heavy persecution we take the bullets okay so I just educate a little bit on that aspect so this idea here we learn that the kiddush Hashem the sanctifying of God needs to be but Tok Benes or dr. amongst the Jewish people ten of them and listen to this if you go to Leviticus 22 verse 32 so you'll find that on your source she's not mistaken here we go it's number three you shall not desecrate my Holy Name this is God speaking not me you shall not desecrate my Holy Name I shall be sanctified amidst don't boys go by the English admits the children of Israel I'm Lord sanctifies you look at the Hebrew then Nick - T but talk amongst the Jewish people I will be sanctified amongst the Jewish people Irish em who sanctifies you and that's why we understand later earlier on if you go to verse 7 look on your source sheet the regular text right looks like this verse 7 if it's there it says this is a last week's portion pimp the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron saw he stood up from amidst the assembly he was somebody made it as a sham he sanctified God's name by doing the right thing well deal Laden this comes to inform us of this shift I shall Pincus of the set of the praise the praise of Pincus show you my Sanath show he was willing to give up his life i'll kiddush Hashem for this honor and then sanctity of God what does it mean he was willing to give up his life because he was surrounded by the cousins by the tribe of the person he killed you don't I mean it doesn't make like those make him a lot of sense to do that get a sniper 300 meters away take the guy out but you're in the midst of all that evil you're in the midst of all his friends you're there cheering him on and you're out there putting your life on the line that's what it was he put himself in danger so that's what I mean should I am i sir not shocked it is a sham alpha peace sure honey but Ojeda even though he's amongst the congregation nevertheless it was a muckle Masuka myth nay cravings Imre yes he was amongst the Jewish people but amongst the closest people in physical proximity to where he was were the relatives of Zimri the man he killed but come become sob now shut the cough oh listen to these beautiful words nevertheless he placed his own life his own soul in his hands the outsider remnants and there's a beautiful hint to this it says we saw that it says he took his spear he took and took a spear his hand what is the spirit Ebru roma Roma we have 613 commandments 365 don'ts those 365 don'ts parallel the 365 days of the solar year and we have 248 positive mitzvahs that parallel different limbs and organs in your body it's as if he took his whole body in his hand many so he took his life in his hands is it beautiful you've heard this before robot he took his life in his hands keep'em I said that some korimako avoir of the capo through the action he placed the romaso which is spirit but it also means the 248 race 200 men 40 set 8 248 limbs in his hands and we did see that there's two types of vengeance well the vent the word of vengeance appears twice okay you'll see that in the second verse which is number 11 verse 11 right he's Ellis Lee avenged my vengeance so look in the Hebrew big Cano at peanutty whenever you see two words usually back to back it means it's an extra like it with an emphasis but here it is used twice and therefore there are two types of vengeance --is according to the clear car now even though he says there's two types of entrances he says there's two levels of these two types of engines the first one has a Libertas are what was a vengeance on the item worship and the other was on the sluice on the illicit sexual relation that was going on and that's why it says double twice the kena it cannot e or on a whole nother level one of these Vantage's was the Vengeance for God as we do see clearly God says for my vengeance and the other vengeance was for the honor of Moses he call the howl a shame anybody that desecrates the name of God what do you think's happening to the rabbi who taught him aina finally covered the Rob bowing it's you're not giving giving honor to Rabbi also write your app rabbi who's teaching you all about God and then you go ahead and desecrate God's name your your shaming your rabbi at the same time simultaneously as a carve a comer how much more so she email SP nephesh through the connect doe if you're not considering the divine presence important important in front of you the divine presence isn't important so how much more so your earthly teacher is not important Rob you look closer Kane used to follow the logic and so to how a spot of connect de anybody who's been that so brazenness and such cooks plug it in front of you to say such words as but you throw me to the FOB right the your mother is the daughter of the intro who permitted your father to marry her think about it that's like saying to Moses never Moses married also the sister of Aaron's son Eleazar one of the daughters of you throw out the Sabbath Pinkus hora halacha lomasa birth name Locke Moshe Bravo did you know that you're forbidden to adjudicate law in front of your rabbi your prime rabbi where the rabbi of the town the rabbi the city or the chief rabbis it's your teacher you can save rabbi didn't we learn if you teach me this again I want to get clarification you can have a respectful discussion with your rabbi but people are standing around asking me to wrap my questions and you step up to the plate and answer for him that's not respectful in fact we don't have the same head room today we don't have the death penalty today but this apparently is one of the very severe punishments and pitiless actually in a sense cos can't he determined the law in front of his Rabi which is a big no-no so what are we saying the truth is that rob his Roth meaning Moses was no gay was biased how could he was not passing well determine the law when he himself has is personally affected the truth is there's constant concept of being a vigilante we're not going to go deep into that today but Pincus was the true vigilante that you don't ask if you have to ask you're not a vigilante okay you ever hear that idea you go and you start questioning your go to a police station what if I do this but they're gonna tell you no no no no no you can't do any of that but when you are a true visit Lanny you have the right to act and you sometimes have to act immediately but just to reiterate for the sake of the audience on the video that none of these laws apply today because we follow the laws of the land and when we have a Sanhedrin that will be the law of the land that things would be different and it should happen quickly in our days and the next paragraph that's why it says Lehane mr that this is God speaking to Moses in verse 12 therefore say he and me behold no table Oh at the brief D shallow give to him I'm giving to him my covenant of peace I know it all of your Torres in whatever English translation it's with a capital M according to the clean car it should not be a capital M my again how did we translate it therefore say God is saying to Moses this is what you should say behold I give him my covenant to peace why does the clear car say it's with a small M amen ahem hey little Omar because it should have said love cane and Merlot thoughtfully you should say to him but he says such we shall say elevate you or what does he mean that a cut of Spira who is saying to Moses the same MO on the coast Rob this is what I I want you to say to all the Jewish people watch me huh upon yourself regarding yourself Henan e.i Moses behold I am giving to him my bristles my covenant to peace in order that the Jewish people do not say there's no peace between Moses and pigs us because pimp's has violated that law of pie of determining the law in front of his ready know that what pentacles was done was right and you are not holding any grudges no peda no grudges against piphus for doing one of the most grievous crimes in Judaism there for toady on the Robie therefore let it be known publicize to everybody the Talmud meet city cop let them know from yourself he need me no taillow behold I am giving to him is going on Moses behold Moses was so humble it means like we saw the word he may me or he Denis is always with love and fervour remember we saw that so Moses was letting everyone know he got no grudges no problems with Pintas now parallel to this to what there is a vengeance for God so there was a vengeance from Moses because Moses himself they were making fun of Moses to indirectly by saying who gave you permission who gave your mother your father permission to manage such a woman who gave Moses so one vengeance was for Moses no one about vengeance for God hi it too low Lazzaro i her off briefs Kahuna hola taka Shekinah little cow that I just if you look at number 13 verse 13 it shall be for him that's Pinkus and his offering offspring anybody that any child he has as been a covenant of eternal priesthood why because he took the vengeance for his God this was the vengeance for God meaning the reason is the Tom's ax a McCoy our Masha it's not at all going on the previous statement of behold I'm giving to him why the features of sorrow of Shekinah Allah Moshe the Covenant of peace was the reward he received for the the vengeance he took out for Moses sake this is the reward he got for taking vengeance for God and then the less you virt the lesser sentence are very interesting because as we mentioned the beginning pendulous was not a coming not at first he then was elevated to the status of priesthood so when it says at the end of that verse which we just read number 13 and he atones for the children of Israel in Hebrew the atop there up in Israel and he told to the children of Israel you have to ask we're told by Pinkus atones for Israel by killing an evil person behave thee at two rushes and the Khepera I'll coleus around how was it how was it that through Pintas killing this evil person there was a tone meant for the Jewish people the Knicks shablow cooker buck kaha cravat Perry blessing when he killed that evil June simmering It was as if he actually made an offering to God of a cow or a sheep how came mish-mosh and that's why God swears he says I thought cow MLM you are a count forever gosh Eric Ulta Mishima Kuna just like right now you acted in the way the Connie Mack the colony they make the offerings in the temple and that offering becomes acceptable and atonement so - just like he did now I'm gonna tell you a great secret this is one of the proofs that Jesus JC cannot be an atonement for anything okay he can't because we learn that it is true that righteous people can atone for other people's mistakes even for all generations but that righteous person cannot be completely righteous he is to have a smidgen of sin or else he can edit or absorb the sin of anyone else anyone who is completely righteous can never atone can never absorb sin for anyone else it's only someone who has sinned himself who has a smidgen of schmutz can then accept the schmutz of someone else we learned this before a long time ago and that was one of the things that you know they claimed the claim is that JC was the perfect unblemished offering and when I came across this idea I said wow this is very powerful okay I hope I didn't upset anybody in the live audience bar on skype [Music]