Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Every Man A King - Korach 5778

[Music] I'm ready so today so parsha of course is partials karela so basically it's been pointed out that this part of the book of my mid bar everything seems to be falling apart last week we had the story of the spies that resulted in the Jewish people being condemned to wander in the desert for forty years and now we have the rebellion of Korah which almost precipitated the annihilation of the Jewish nation as a whole but instead God limited the punishment the retribution to the ground opening up swallowing Corral and Dustin Guevara mother troublemakers and the 215 Missy M who brought in sense to take a place of ayran were destroyed by a fire coming from God which consumed them now it's interesting that in corrects rebellion is often described as the Democratic rebellion of common sense because car wreck was essentially an anarchist at least in theory we're correct sense we don't need rules we don't need leaders we don't need authorities to tell us what God's will is Paul hey da coulomb Kadosh him everybody is holy everybody heard God say at Mount Sinai I am the Lord your God he took you out of Egypt so coverage was really calling for the abolition of hierarchy but indeed as is often the case this is a very interesting political party as is often the case with politicians who call for egalitarianism it is really simply a power grab so that they will take the place of the existing leadership because we actually find the way Rashi brings a number of aggression that current was actually jealous of the fact that a certain leader percent leadership position in the tribe of laving that should have gone to him went to somebody else so it's funny that he's using the vocabulary of we're all equal to kind of mean therefore I should be in charge instead of somebody else this is the famous hidden agenda behind many revolutions man you might remember George Orwell's Animal Farm which was his parody besides 1984 his long past but this was his parody of the Russian Revolution in which the animals rebel against the oppression of the human beings but eventually some of the animals become as dictatorial if not more so than the people that they replaced think about Robespierre think about the Phnom Penh the whole long history of revolutions some say the United States revolution the American Revolution might be a noble exception some say not you know even even there people people debate but this notion of the hidden agenda that those who are calling to upset the established order are really often concerns much more for their own power than they are for the truly quality of man is really a very very common feature and it emerges quite clearly in the Cobra story now there is one person who saw all to people who saw through this moshe rabbeinu who deliberately said Toccoa don't you have enough glory so moshe understood this was about glory and the other person who understood it is a very obscure character who does not even have a direct reference in the torah and this is mrs. own then peles now who is own been careless correct gathered to himself a bunch of malcontents dawson of iran 250 heads of tribes who wanted positions of authority and then it mentions an obscure person who's only mentioned once in the whole torah a man called own ben pelas from the tribe of reuben now later when the torah describes the ground opening up and people being swallowed and some people being destroyed by fire it doesn't mention that own Ben pelas was destroyed it mentions the other people so cuz I'll give us a whole backstory here and they say that on vamp Ellis's wife understood that this is a story that would not very well for her husband so when Conrad and Dustin vivillon were going to various people to solicit their participation in this rebellion against Moshe so she wanted to prevent them from entering their home so she uncovered her hair it's very fascinating even if you're a koa even if you're engaged the rebellion you're not going to enter the house if a married woman's hair is uncovered and she scared them away and she told her husband essentially as good wives will often do you are really an idiot because you will be a loser no matter which way this contest comes out if Moshe wins you're in deep trouble and if co-op wins it'll just be replacing one boss with another buzz you're not right on that balance comes home very enthusiastic Wow you know every man a king this was mr. gambatesa this was the saying of youi long i don't know how conversions all of you are with a american politics of the depression but in the 1930s there was really a demagogue governor of Louisiana Huey Long who really he was assassinated eventually but he was really creating a power base and there was perhaps a certain risk that this could have been a fascist type of president eventually similar to Hitler without the anti-semitism and Ewing Long's motto was every man a king so unbent Ellis is essentially coming on with all this enthusiasm Cora says we're all holy we're all going to be leaders and his wife says again you're an idiot it's not the way it's gonna work either way you're gonna be a nobody you'll either be a nobody under Moshe or nobody under Cobra why are you getting involved so she didn't huge religious argumentation she didn't use full of Safa chol or reasons she simply used pragmatic reasons the the alleged goals of this revolution are bogus and fraudulent and you might well not get involved and the Gemara tells us that indeed she saved her husband's life and reputation and that is why I own gun Travis was not punished in the rebellion against Iraq he simply withdrew his participation and the Gemara compares chorus wife zone been palaces left courts wife goaded him on and the only Ben fellows his wife got him out of all of this so it's very very interesting this notion of the hidden agenda it's very relevant even today maybe I'm especially today with all sorts of political campaigns in which the various promises and the various assurances and goals that are being set are often pretenses to naked power and again it's it's sometimes very scary how much a person is willing to compromise their values if there are any values just to have power in a way it's almost illogical because what I would think in a truly moral person power is a means it's not an end I mean you have power to do certain things but if you're going to compromise those things in order to get the power then the power becomes an end and not a means then it's simply all about all about ego and the life right so that's I think one very important lesson that we see from the parsha of color but to take it in a bit of a Kabbalistic turn for a moment there is a very enigmatic statement of the result which focuses on Demetrius and the original does not explain this but he makes the following interesting numerical comparison he says the gamma trio of coal rock is 308 and the gamma tria of Moshe is 345 the difference between 345 and 308 is 37 and 37 is the gamut area of a bell so we affect essentially have three gamma Trias here moshe is 345 Hevel is 37 and quran is 308 so if you play with the mathematics here moshe - hmmm equals quran or KO ROK + 0 equals motion the irie offers no commentary no explanation to what any of this means so it's open to a variety of interpretations so let me share with you a very interesting interpretation of a great Hasidic master the Seamus Shmuel Shana Schmalz father was also a very very great goggle and post sake as well as Christina - Rebbe the Omni major the suckage / Rebbe and the shame Ishmael was the son and successor of the suffrage of a Rebbe it's an interesting saver because it is one of the sperm that if people are interested in casitas and they're not really initiative so this is kind of for a basic level Seamus rule is one of the beginning to see the conspiring that are recommended for people that miss Eva shallow though it's a little easier than some other Hasidic Spartan and the Seamus Shmuel says the following you know the IRAs Allah was very big into reincarnation but the idea that our nationís comes back multiple times people often ask is a belief in what it's called gilgul yoga is reincarnation is that an article of faith meaning if you don't believe in gilgul are you or not be tourists are you a heretic so again I just want to make it very very clear that the concept of gilgul is not mentioned the Talmud so one cannot assume it's an absolute article of faith it really was developed by the capitalists now again that doesn't mean it's not true in many many ways we would assume that the Kabbalistic understanding of the inner dynamics of the universe would indicate that it is true again on the other hand as great an authority as reps a GM denied real agility of reincarnation and be sure you don't confuse reincarnation with the eventual resurrection of the dead those are two different processes all Jewish thinkers within the halacha tradition believe there will be a physical resurrection of the dead at the end of days but that's not the same thing as the transmigration of souls coming in two different bodies nevertheless this was a cornerstone of the results of teachings and his famous students who really was his Boswell that I rewrote almost nothing so everything we have of the erased teachings has come down to the writings of Rev Khayyam the towel so when people talk about kids very Halloweeny they are really talking about the kotoba of zion patel which in itself went through many many many rewritings and additions and etc some of which he buried some of which he burnt and some of which was retrieved from his grave facts of the whole publication of retirement owls teach explanations of their result is very very murky and very very complicated but one of recline betal swaram which gives us the Aries teachings is called char have yo goom's the book of reincarnations in which he identifies all sorts of people that are reincarnation to other people let me give you one quick example which is not our main main topic he makes the point that robiola Zhu Ben Azaria the great Tana Rubirosa Ben Azaria was a reincarnation of schmoyer the Prophet and he says and this is the meaning of famous passage that we have in the Haggadah which is a Mishnah behold I am like a person that its member of a little bit as already said behold I am like a person that is seventy years old and I did not marriage to know that you have to talk about the Exodus at night until until Ben Zoma gave us that teaching now why this ruble is open as I say I am like a person that 72 the kymaro explains he became the head of the Sanhedrin as a result of robbing from Leo being deposed because of a disagreement with Rovio schewe but he was only 18 years old people wouldn't respect him so lo and behold his beard turned white so we would have the appearance of an older man and people would respect him and that the gemara says ISM is the meaning of the words behold I am like a person of 70 years old that's right so their resale rights their resale rights that because Shmuel Hanavi died at 52 rabbi yosef in Azaria was born with a soul that had already spent 52 years on earth so when he was 18 his neshama had spent 70 years on earth irani k'vin shiva by the way in terms of the Gemara that his beard turned white because he was he needed to look prematurely old so people would respect him my wife always likes to interpret it a little differently she says he turned all because of the responsibility that he was given that made him prematurely turned gray and she always reminds me that all of our friends who did not enter the rabbinate still have their beards they still have dark beards and I'm little more gray than than some of my my friends who are the same age or even a little older okay but that's that's what happens anyway so reincarnation is a very big you sowed in effect they arethe all right most of us are not new souls and it's very rare that a new soul comes into the world these days we are all recycled in various ways because we have to keep on coming back till we finish our mission now what's a little unusual is we don't know what that mission is necessarily and we don't necessarily have a memory of those past lives and the whole science of past life regression is not really fully substantiated but gilgul we are so now they're Rizal goes further and says this this is the shame rule elaborating he says if you look at the first actually thought therefore the first murder is the second crime the first murder in the world was kaien killing heaven and let's analyze their names a little bit kava gave them both their names kaien comes from the term Shenyang to acquire to UM heaven comes to the word for breath heaven nothingness steam vapor all of that is heaven so the Shamy Shmuel says try and behave Oh represents two different personality types they are archetypes they are prototypes of the human personality kaien represents that aspect of man that seeks to dominate seeks to control seeks to rule and that's why kyon is a lush on of Kenyan heaven represents that aspect of humanity that is passive and humble and submissive just like the air just like the vapor now reps elevate check applied this in a non capitalistic way to an earlier distinction not the difference in kyon in heaven but the account of the tunes the stories of the creation of men Bible scholars have raised this question for really over a century and that there are two different accounts of the creation of man in Genesis one gracious para talents and in Genesis two in Genesis 1 we simply read God created man and woman together there is no reference to taking a rib there was no reference to dirt from the ground God created man and woman in the image of God that is Genesis 1 Genesis 2 gives us a different story God took dirt and from the dirty formed the human shape and he breathed into that shape his divine breath and then he saw that man was lonely and alone and it was not good for man to be alone so he made it put him asleep and he took a part of him and he constituted a woman now these are two different accounts in Genesis chapter 1 man and woman emerged simultaneously in the image of God in Genesis 2 first there is man and man feels a deep existential loneliness and God makes them from the dirt and then makes a woman how do you reconcile these two different counsels so the standard Bible critic says oh two different authors and some sloppy editor just put them together like that's not Bible critics all the Bible's critics always understand conflicting narratives the drops elevate chick says the following about salvation says if we understand that the Torah is not here to give us a scientific or even journalistic account of creation but everything the tour is describing is for a moral or religious purpose the Torah might be describing the creation of man in two different ways - Oh lewd metaphorically - the two different aspects of human personality meaning which way God did it we actually don't know but the Torah describes two processes because in a human personality there are these two processes and he called it Adam one and Adam - this is maybe perhaps the most famous article that druffs elevated guy ever wrote was called the lonely man of faith and there it was written probably in 1940 and this is where he basically says Adam 1 represents the humans and human being in terms of power creativity autonomy and that's why it says man is created in the image of God it refers to my majesty and my power in my ability to affect creation God does not want human beings to be passive and ineffectual God doesn't want human beings to look at injustice in the world and say God will take care of it God says we have to be his partners so chapter 1 talks about man in the image of God and it talks about man not in a helpless lonely dependence day but man and women together come into the world with power and ability and confidence and skill so that's Adam one that is called majestic man Adam 2 is called redemptive man as man becomes aware of his limitations his weakness the fact that he comes from the mud the fact that he's lonely and needy and ineffectual and needs a partner because there's a void with it in rough solavei chick says human personality needs to be a combination of majus and subservience because if all you have is atom one you have arrogance you bris a sense of conceit that you are the master of your fate on the other hand if all you have is atom - you ask passivity quiescence you don't do anything in the world because you simply say God will take care of it if you remember one of the classic ways that slaves were kept passive in the United States was this emphasis that there's another world out there there's the world to come don't worry about it you don't have to do anything about your life in this world before some say one of the reasons why the Torah does not emphasize the world to come is because God wants us to look at this world as the Avenue in which we have to try to improve it we can't just say let the world go to hell because there will be this world economy we have an obligation of tikkun olam to make this world better so reps of a chick sees this dichotomy in the two accounts of animal but in truth the eye result saw this dichotomy a little later in kaien in heaven kyon represents the creative within man the desire because again we can talk about ego as being a very bad thing in many cases it is a very bad thing on the other hand it is eco that creates the skyscraper in his ego that finds the cures for cancer and other diseases it is ego that creates scientific discoveries without ego we would essentially be passive and we would simply take things as they come so the world needs that meter of Chi and to acquire to dominate to control but it has to be with the humility and submission of Ewa and the lesson of time the hell is that when man's ego overwrite symbolically you can kind of MLS archetypes and the Jungian psychological sense that when the power of man overpowers their sense of humility it destroys to happen when the Cayenne destroys that about there will be tragedy that's what results okay that's kind of the the issue of the arezzo kyon VFL represents these two different forces one is the urge for power and domination and the other is subservience and humility and in reality the perfection of the human personality requires the combination of both because each one by itself can be destructive now based on this theory Saul says Korra was a reincarnation of cayenne that urge for power and co-rec was in fact a very very gifted person they're armed aggression that talk about collapse profound knowledge of Torah he understood aspects of Torah that even Moshe did not fully understand according to one view Cara understood the secret of the red heifer para Hamas which is considered to be the most mystical Mitzvah in the Torah we'll talk about it next week Cora was extremely wealthy fact in Yiddish there's a saying when somebody's you know very very wealthy person writes me Kyra here is richest iris and Kyra was was rich was intelligent was gifted but Cora had this urge for power down the urge for power once again when it's a means to doing something good it can push a person in a very good direction but it can also destroy a person so Cora was the reincarnation of kind be a resurface but at the other side of the coin Moshe Rabbeinu was the reincarnation of heaven why the devil represents submission and modesty who was the humble of the humblest of all people Moshe Rabbeinu Moshe Rabbeinu was an ugly color down but in Moshe Rabbeinu unlike Iraq you see a rectification of heaven because an one in hello represents humility submission but the problem with humility and submission is it is too passive it doesn't accomplish in the world in fact even spiritually it doesn't accomplish who was the inventor of the idea of bringing a Corbin to Hashem which was a wonderful thing that Hashem loved for whatever the reason exactly which was client not heaven hell imitated and improved to be sure but heifer was not capable of innovation because passivity does not innovate passivity responds passivity can take what other people do and acceptance so Cayenne was an innovator even in the spiritual but Cayenne wanted to kill Heather destroy al so Moshe Rabbeinu got the neshamah of heaven and took the quality of humility but still became a leader became a monic became an innovator essentially moshe rabbeinu did not allow the Innova of his personality to take away the responsibilities of leadership and in that way moshe rabbeinu was meta ken whatever had he took the good of FL and he rectified which was negative and not quite not quite right like that is how the same issue explains the process of gilgul in the re seen in this way therefore the gematria now becomes startling because the gamma tree is making the point that in every single respect other than one karate and moshe are identical their spiritual powers their perception their initiative their capacity for leadership is exactly the same and what distinguished moshe from KOA only the quality of humility of heaven cobra equals moshe - the heaven I know you think right the heaven is 37 Moshe is 345 Caracas 308 FL is 37 Moshe is Koh ROK plus half M KO ROK is Moshe - in that way karate is actually a classic instance of what we might call Greek tragedies you know the concept of tragedy in Greek literature is not simply a building falls down on somebody that said but tragedy is when you are destroyed not by something external to yourself but when there is greatness within you but there's a fatal flaw that prevents your greatness from being realized and you are destroyed from within right that is the term Greek tragedy seen in this way the tragedy of Cora was not that the ground opened up the tragedy of colourant was greatness that was equal to moshe rabbeinu hmm got destroyed because the desire for power was so all-consuming as the old saying of lord acton power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely now we're going to see a very similar thing just to give you a heads up that bilham is in that sense very much the same villain was a prophet of the gentiles who was as great as moshe rabbeinu and yet bilham also gets destroyed for those flaws that are that are within right so correct in that sense is a very very tragic case because those are tragedies you know when bad things happen to people but there was no flaw within them they are sad but within the Greek definition colaprico they are not called tragic but this would qualify as a tragic event within that within that's within that definition now just to bridge this over to the haftorah the whole story of Korah God did a tremendous miracle the ground opening up to establish in a public way the definitive nature of Moshe Rubino and I Rome's leadership this was something that established it and there's a results there would no longer be like what is the public saying they'll shall no longer be someone like Loras and his congregation meaning nobody can ever make the arguments that Moshe Rabbeinu was not entitled to be a leader Darris I confess a little aside with clams from Levites as an alternative translation of that book that is very cute but a very true thoughts he says that in the case of Colorado this was the only mock locust in history he says where one side was totally right and one side was totally wrong in any other McLucas there will be some truth on both sides and when the server says there shall never be again correct in this congregation that means that's the only time in which there's nothing right than the other side meaning in any month locus we have to learn from each other and that is indeed a very important message in every jazz well you know maybe it's because of my American tendencies but generally speaking if somebody tells me something that I disagree with so instinctively the way I would typically talk is I see the point that you're making but you need to consider this so what you're doing is you're incorporating some aspect of legitimacy in the other person and then you try to qualify and try to persuade that's almost an instinctive way I think that an American more typical putting inside Trump and I'd like but typically historically that's the way Americans interact that is not the way discussions take place in Israel if you say something I would disagree than I'm an Israeli whether it's radio it's not even a religious secular view it's the general personality might responsibly you're an idiot and your response would be to me I'm an idiot and the reason things never get resolved is because each side looks at the other position as totally illegitimate stupid foolish destructive evil including all of the words released in the religious vocabulary I'm more like a river I'm you know just add words up because it's clear everything everything everything now as a result no one ever moves there's never any movement that's going around here because each one simply looks at the other person as totally illegitimate and reflection Levitz reminds us that in my cloaks and at least among Jews there will always be a kernel of truth in someone's position and you need to find that kernel of truth and from that kernel of truth there can be a consensus of sorts even if it's only to agree to disagree there's a famous busing admission I probably have mentioned it before but I'll mention it again slow mama XS come I am upon him upon him came late for don't Lea dumb as water reflects the face that you show the water so to the heart of a one man one human being reflects that's what you show it and the double gone explains when you look at a reflecting pool of water whatever face you show that water is the face you will see I smile at the water I will see a smiling face I frown at the water I will see a frowning face whatever I show the water is what I will see in the water so to says my MELAS as water reflects the face that you show it the hearts of man reflects that which you show it I show a person respect legitimacy I show that person that I'm attempting to understand where they're coming from then they will feel the same about me on the other hand if my attitude is that that person has nothing to offer there is nothing on the table that's worthwhile then they will look at me the same way that's why I greatly greatly applaud that this is a person who I I don't know him but I am so enormous ly impressed he may have heard of banana bomb back in the baiter this is a it's on YouTube so it's really something to see he is a Hasidic person he's a Carson he saw her said he went through so see the Shekinah all of his life he does not have a an official secular education at all but he started a school which number one for fricassee the kids cocina karate kids not the movie masks modern orthodox regular karate kids - number one he incorporates secular studies okay that's that's one thing but number two by keeping them I see them keeping them with all of them in hug him all of the helices that they keep all of the hinako's to inculcate within the educational system a sense of respect and tolerance and appreciation for all segments of Israeli society religious and non-religious so the particular YouTube video it was quite amazing this was a program that he had for casitas children on the amazi Karim which I have to say unfortunately is not necessarily widely observed in the cocina community that Iranian community generally and he showed these Hasidic kids with pace you know regular walk coats everything he showed them a picture of a little boy looked like eight years old didn't ever keep her wearing shorts and a t-shirt and he was frustrated he was lying on top of a grave it's not clear when it probably was his father's grave and he asked each of the children to describe what they thought the picture meant kind of a Rorschach Rorschach's s and the children were forced to talk about everything what this child feels what his father had sacrificed for the Jewish people and this was really one of the most moving things I have ever seen because here you have kids who depending on the school like that and like never even talks to that type of Jew in which they were genuinely learning to identify with the struggles and the feelings of a totally different segment of society and to respect and appreciate the different sacrifices the supreme sacrifices that's how you would make for the Jewish people and for the State of Israel so as you would expect sometimes rarely brahmbhatt gets gets condemned for the secular studies for the whatever it is the outreach to the different segments but if the religion if the religious world would have ten such schools in Eretz Israel I think everything with everything would be different everything would be different the whole relationship between religious and secular which is now fraught with so much tension so much animosity so much hostility and so much fear if that could be broken down we would realize we're all on the same team we all do we have fundamentally a similar goal because you know there's an old saying in military science that the biggest mistakes that generals make is when they fight the last war by the general remembers the last war and develop strategies based on what worked in the last war when in fact there are new challenges I have to say that much of the Caribbean coast scenic world has a certain memory and some of the memories are justified unfortunately of things that were done in the 40s and the 50s where there were Zionist leaders who were men some some that not all even then who are very aggressive and openly anti religious in some ways and that created very very bad residual memories in which on what hands the religious population was very small and very powerless and on the other hand there was a certain aggressive tendency to create the new Jew not the godless Jew the new powerful Jew that didn't need done and those memories linger in the collective unconsciousness of a of a religious population that is now very large and fully participants in power and life but there's still this memory of being a little kid who was picked upon by the bullies and even when you grow up you'll look at the big big bully and you just have so much hate for them but that's frankly not the reality that's not the reality even secular leaders are by and large not anti religious yo your lap it is not Tommy love it father father and son it's a different type of it's a different type of picture again I mean should you be suspicious of I want to get it's about six too much I'm not endorsing anybody and then he sighed but what I'm saying is that part of what goes on in the religious world is they are fighting yesterday's battles and those battles didn't leave a lot of scars I'm not denying that but that doesn't automatically reflect the reality so rabbi Bamba in that sense is a very very profound thinker in that way no they're almost on his own he came to this nobody taught of this and I hope and I pray that that will be the direction that the religious community will move because that will do wonders for religious secular relations it'll do wonders for the State of Israel and it will create a new commonality of calm Israel that will frankly bring machine it'll bring much it it's a double budget agreement yeah because if that which is monicab the gorilla if that which holds back the redemption is the sinner sinner the hatred and polarization that exists in Jews if we can surmount that so that that's the condition for bringing the goal Oh also I would say as well that when you get rid of those animosities then the second the world itself is going to be much more open religion it's been pointed out over and over and over again that even a sea will need you in Israel is much more connected to Jewish tradition then let's say secular Jew in foot slow its number one I mean you can't escape it really you can't escape it and a very high percentage of so-called ceiling in the light Shabbat candles no matter what they do afterwards Chanukah haisa yom kippur many many things bridge me live all of these things and if there's a sense that they too are accepted and legitimated and welcomed and befriended then they would be open to all sorts of things you know you never really know what's gonna happen so again you should check out there only brother they using YouTube videos I think they're really very to me very very exciting new developments yeah BLM be ACH yeah you kugel that there you'll see a lot of things in fact it's been picked up in newspapers a lot of newspaper stories and his working bitterly yes written by dog my dog weapon yeah yeah so don't look I don't know if you know this dope Lipman grew up in my community I remember him as a little boy yeah you know I knew his paranoia's parents very very well so so when people sometimes in in some of the circles I'm in people will talk oh the you see what don't whooping did you know the matter is I agree with almost everything development did and maybe it was a little premature maybe it was before it's a time you know that things have a certain ripening and and the like but yet it was certainly he would be a person that would strongly endorse me bum bum bum is working the profits are not they're not enough of them because you know we read story after story of people throwing rocks or spitting or abusing whether it's little girls or kayo limb but we have to know there is another side to that story and hopefully that other side will eventually become dominance and be the main the main idea now just to switch over to the October if the parsha itself is about establishing authority to prevent dissension so the haftorah deals with a parallel story you know we talked about last week the idea of Shawwal becoming a king and Schmoyer was against the idea of a monarchy but once the people wanted it he gave them the monarchy but interestingly enough at a later time Shmuel did a ceremony you might call it a coronation ceremony called a Shambhala and why there was a need for a position was not entirely clear but apparently Schmoyer himself needed to show that he was fully supportive once there's a monarchy will fully support it because of all of the opposition he expressed earlier so Schmoyer created a coronation ceremony called Cedars Mooka in order to dispel any people who would argue that shovels milkless was illegitimate because God did not want them to have a king right so the parallel to cobra is that the opening up of the grounds was the coronation ceremony for Moshe Shmuel had a coronation ceremony for sure all to establish shoulders Authority now what I wanted to talk about in there in my remaining time just a few a few different aspects of this that is the first king of Israel was shown all her military shows of course from the tribe of Benjamin and one of the big questions that the commentaries raise is that when Yaakov Avena was on his deathbed in purchase for your feet so Yaakov gave a brother to the tribe of you who da in recognition of you who does superiority as leader and Yaakov said lo you're sore shavette me Ahuja who Merkel check me bein what love the scepter of authority shall not be taken away from you who doesn't and this is interpreted by Rambam to me that God is declaring that monarchy was in the Jewish people must come through the tribe of you who didn't know later became dove it got narrow but at least initially all Muslim must come from shaven Judah odka de castas the round-bottom writes that all of the kings of the ten tribes were in violation of Yakov's a blessing because those kings were from the tribe of ephraim the Rambam then goes on and says that the cosmonium who took who established a monarchy after the overthrow antiochos they shouldn't have done it they should become Kings they should have after they achieved a military victory they should have looked from someone from Yuda because of lo Yasser Sheamus kneeled so the question becomes if this is indeed her luckily a requirement there's monarchy the royal family so to speak must be from Yehuda how could there have been a mouth good shot in the first place and after all it was God that shows mouth could show why didn't God choose double another maybe he was too young when somebody from the tribe of youth so there are a number of interesting answers to this question the Rambam himself says that since the jewish people at that time were requesting a monarch for illegitimate reasons and God was not happy with their motivation they wanted to be like all of the nations etc so God deliberately gave them a moment that was doomed to fail because permanent monarchy only belongs to you huija any other monarchy would by definition be ephemeral and temporary and since their motivations for wanting a king were improper God gave them a temporary ephemeral mullets there's a lot of conscience on this because that means according to Rambam shovels mouth was intended to fail from the very beginning it was never meant to last that's what the Rambam says the problem is that seems to be contradicted by the narrative in the book of Shmuel when Shah loses the Mount Hood because he failed to kill amalek social system had you been faithful to the word of Hashem you would have sat on the throne of Israel forever and ever and ever and you are losing it because of your sin I think that is a contradiction to the rom-coms idea that this was ephemeral mullet let me offer a second explanation which is again political but I think you may have a certain validity again go back to American history I apologize for the the amount Americans Lincoln's vice president for his second term was Andrew Johnson and Johnson which became president when Lincoln got assassinated Andrew Johnson was a senator from Tennessee now at least part of Tennessee had fought on the side of the Confederates so why would Lincoln choose somebody from a Confederate state so the historians tell us that because the Confederates were rebelling against the United States Lincoln felt it necessary to show that even the former Confederacy is now part of the nation now Omaha still you can actually apply this to show the Millers shortly before schmoitle there was a great devastating Civil War of all the tribes of Israel against the young'n do you remember the story this is the infamous story of the concubine the peel egg ish be given and this was a woman that her master she was a concubine she was not a regular wife she was a mistress but the one that control there was traveling with her through the tribe of Benjamin territory and actually the way he treats her also was despicable and he basically left her outside to sleep out of sleep on the porch so to speak and he went inside and in the course of that evening she was repeatedly raped and eventually murdered he comes out in the morning he kind of trips over her body again I mean his own his own behaviors extremely callous and what he that does is again the whole story is filled with with disgusting things he cuts her up into 12 pieces and he sends a piece to each of the other tribes of Israel and says look at what these Bahama Knights did he demanded justice in this very crude way so what happened was that the tribes demanded what we would call today extradition of the wrongdoer to be tried shaving phenomen refused to extradite they took the interesting position again it's a fascinating legal position they took the position every tribe was a sovereign country sovereign state and therefore the other tribes had no jurisdiction over all they rose that were committed in Binyam and i territory it's really the states rights argument every tribe is a sovereign nation and the entire Jewish nation waged a civil war against this one tribe of Benjamin now you would figure the odds were never very good for the younger those numbers against them and the young man was almost entirely decimated their population went down to 400 men and not only that but the people of Israel took a vow that nobody would allow anyone to marry a daughter from the Yemenites which would mean in other words the tribe would eventually be extinct eventually the vow was annulled and Benjamin was readmitted so I would suggest by analogy to Lincoln that maybe a Shem wanted the first MELAS to be bad Africa from Benjamin to show that Benjamin was re elevated and readmitted into the Kali Israel as a tribe in good standing it was a way of legitimating their standing I think could have been perhaps a coach Barclays Cushman by the way there are some in Russian that say that a large number of Binyam and ice fled from the battle and they migrated to Europe and some even say that the British royal family somehow has some genealogical connection to the tribe of Benjamin I'm not sure maybe you can tell me more but either one of the Royal jewels are something as some story connected to the Yemenites and then and there's some type of murky legend or connection to that so Jews are indeed all over the place I in that way but they're rabid Russian that say the Bahama Knights did flee some of them fled to Europe and it varies here in various European countries claim has been made for the fresh yes yes yes yes yes well then well the de vich again the DaVinci that's the DaVinci Code that's the word they got famous goes back to his getting married to Mary Magdalene remember like Jewish we'll throw McGeorge king of what agree but yes yes to France different that that I wasn't doing it defense and interesting very great so there may be Jewish blood and all sorts of monarchical monarchical minds now there's a third so so we have two explanations right the Rambam says since their motivation was improper so God gave them a monarchy to fail set up to fail second is my political speculation that this was a way of readmitting benyamin into cloud israel as a tribe in good standing there is a third explanation that is offered by the bar vanilla and a foursome and that is shawwal was given one job which he didn't fully carry out the job to eradicate a moment and there is a Kumari that says i'm alec can only be eradicated by the children of rockville and not by the children of leia and we see this pattern throughout the total that the first war against the Moloch was conducted in the desert by yahushua been doing from the tribe of ephraim Yosef righto shawl or Melek has given the command to eradicate I'm more like knocked over the Miller and if I can cover the most time there were I'm gonna like him and double did not automatically take care of them Mordecai and Esther mortify in Esther who I descended from sure all are the ones who engineered the destruction of hummin from a mullet and finally we have the enigmatic figure of Messiah Ben Yoseph who was supposed to come before Mashiach Ben David and the roll over here when yo safe is to finish off on moment so the one thing you see in common is the destruction of our Moloch paves the way for mouth coast-based of it but mouth l'espace governor mouth of space Yehuda is not capable of dragon more like my life must be destroyed by the car lock of Raquel and not the colors of Leia and that's why there needed to be a mouth good shot Wu from Benjamin as a precursor to the Mount Hood of mm Ella Lovelace you who don't now why that is so once again there are different reasons that that one would give but one of the reasons would be because I'm elec comes from Asaph I'm not like you say subscribe son and therefore I'm elec represents the negative destructive power of one brother hating another brother just as Yakov ace of hated yuckles so the argument is all of the children of Leia all of the tribes that sold Yosef into slavery represent the power of hatred and therefore they are vulnerable since they exhibited hatred to their brother they are vulnerable to the hatred from their brother racism it is only Joseph and Benjamin who elevated the Yemen of course was not involved in mysteriously Osage and Yosef was the victim so they were free of this taint of hatred therefore they are immune from the power of hatred that I'm all that represents right this is the idea so these are three different reasons why the Mullis has to go to show over first before you go to Dublin and October tells us that there was a Duchamp Guha there needed to be an official coronation ceremony the other thing that's interesting again we'll talk about it more when we talk about in greater detail that is when show when Shmuel says the show why did you not carry out the order so at one point shawwal says I was afraid of the people and I listened to them they wanted me to spare the sheep so says show and I listened to them and that itself is very very telling because what Shmuel essentially tells shall rule is that one of the qualities of leadership you of course have to listen to people of course that's so but there needs to be a fearlessness you cannot be afraid to do the right thing because it'll make you unpopular this is a famous again in a white political science associations you're coming to me tonight but you may have read at one point in your life a very very famous letter written by Edmund Burke it was a great great member of Parliament's in the 19th century and Burke was writing a letter to a constituent he was elected from a district in which a constituent said that you better vote a certain way or people are going to vote you out of office or whatever it is and Burke wrote a very very interesting letter it's really a classic and political philosophy in which he says a representative job is not to vote the way the people want them to vote but it's to vote based on his judgments of what is best for the people and that might not be exactly what they what they want they may be uninformed and even though why is my judgment that in their judgment I says well that's the nature of the Republican meaning to say that I was elected because of my judgment because of my skill I must use my judgment to make a decision of what I believe is best for the nation or best for the people and it is not simply to automatically respond to whatever you happen to want now that doesn't mean you'll lose the next election and that's that doesn't mean that and you don't necessarily squander it on minor things but certainly a major things your job is to use your judgment and not necessarily simply follow their judgment there's a very famous warrant from Marisol cilantro the mission at the end will Allah said with this the mission at the end of massage is soda talks about the different signs before mushiya comes the birth pains of mushiya how difficult it'll be and everything you know economic pressure and then terrorism and and youth culture where the youth will despise know the agent and wisdom will be disregarded so at the end it says and the face of the generation will be like the face of a dog it's a bit of an enigmatic expression the face of the generation will be like a dog what's the comparison so every sauce hunter says the face of a generation is a term for leadership because they're the ones that look ahead that give guidance perspective now what is a dog so he said the following you're walking your dog so in one hand your dog is always in front of him but the dog is always looking back to see where you are so he says that's what's leadership is going to be before machine comes there will be leaders that's supposed to be ahead of us but all they're doing is looking where we want to go like you well there's the expression though you see which way the wind blows and like and that's what politics often is you know if 51% of people want abortion the candidate will become pro-choice if 51% don't want abortion they'll become provide you know whatever whatever the policy is what people all of a sudden believe in right that sort of resource launcher says a leader cannot just follow what people want a leader must be fearless and this is what ul tells Schaal what do you mean you were afraid of the people you thought you would become unpopular you have to do what's right even when it's not popular there is a interesting dinner there's a dinner that if an animal falls off a wall that's a chicken falls off a wall so welcome we are ho shakes we are afraid of a skeletal dislocation and the animal is philosophy at raiffa you cannot check that anymore because the skeleton may have gotten dislocated but it's brought down if you put the animal in water assuming it can swim and it's a swimming animal like a goat or whatever whatever it would be so swimming is a sign that it's healthy and you could check it I always think the animal never wins meaning if it's not healthy it drowns and if it's healthy it's going to be chefs it but ok so then the show tomorrow says the following obvious qualification when is swimming a sign of health if it is swimming against the current but if it's just swimming in the direction of the currents that proves nothing because even a dead fish will move with a moving current and the barley butcher say this is a metaphor for what it means to be spiritually alive that is when you go against the current that shows that your vital person who is thinking about life if you go with the current doesn't mean anything because even a person that's dead it can be carrying with the current and certainly with the leader that's a very very important thing and again I bring this up because sometimes we have to realize even religious leaders are sometimes on some level terrorized I don't mean literally sometimes whether we most of the time not literally but but figuratively they are terrorized by the unreasonableness of their followers who will not allow the leaders to espouse positions that the leaders themselves believe I'm getting into much trouble tonight but but this is the idea that sometimes that's a problem even in the Torah community itself where there are cajoling who would want to be much much greater voices of moderation but they will say I can't make certain statements I can't do certain things because my father words will will attack me and and will simply you know not listen to anything that I say that's kind of going back to the butcher that Shmuel gave so vanilla that you gotta take a gotta take a stand okay y'all have a good week [Music]