How Jealousy Can Destroy Lives and Humility Can Give You Life with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. Heat. [Music] Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the ya mash. Welcome home to Torah. A very very warm welcome home to Torah. For those who know, we've been using the clear for from forever from time in memorial. We're never bored. We're never It never becomes dull, but we did a little bit of a shift in lanes. And we're using a safer called ear gibborim, which is written by the very same Clearar, but he uses Medish. And he discusses um as we always have fundamentals in Judaism. So, this is good review, know the sources, and um for those who are online and they want to follow along with the Hebrew source sheets, there's a link below in the description box, and I encourage you to follow along in the Hebrew. If you're interested in receiving the English source sheets, please shoot me an email. Just want to mention as well that we've been collecting uh money to buy and purchase to fill in for the Kylen and we've already has donated 90 pairs so far and we're collecting for the last 15. The last request was for 15 pairs. We have enough for over just over 10 pair. We're still short. You know how expensive they can be. And uh for those online, if you want to donate, there's a link below. It's a big mitzvah. These are people who are in milowim mostly or some of them are actually uh guys themselves who see religious people around them domining in the morning and want a pair to fill in and have committed to put it on every day if they got a pair. Um so let's help them and that's only going to help Israel be victorious in every front in every way doing Torah and mitzvah to mitzvah. Okay. So we're in Pares Korak. There's a famous medish that the clear anytime I use the word clear we're referring to the ear goreim safer right so the first thing the clear brings down in the ear gibborim is this famous medish if you look on the right side okay so korak took the korak he took what did he take right it doesn't say other than the 250 men and a few other guys 253 people alto together. But there's this famous medish that he took a garment full of a particular color called what color that is somewhere between blue and greenish. We don't know. We hope that we have it. I mean some reverse engineering has taken place in the last you know hundred years. Um, in the meantime, uh, if you look in the English source sheet number two, actually let's look at Rashi on numbers chapter 16:1. That's where we are. That's how the the the um the para begins in chapter 161. So Rashi says there, what did he do? He took himself to one side. We're going to discuss this. What does it mean that he took himself to one side? He disassociated himself in order to separate himself from everyone else. We had a little discussion today. I'm not going to mention any names, but when a consensus of rabbis say a certain thing, it's kind of like you do really you really don't want to go against them. Okay? They're not they don't have the same weight as their Sanhedrin. I get it. But I'm Israel, we have leaders. We need leaders and we need unity more than anything else. Amen. Okay. Shalom goes over. It trumps truth sometimes which is a very difficult pill to swallow especially when we many of us are baluva right we want truth but sometimes and if you're married you'll understand this that sometimes shalom not sometimes almost all the times is going to trump and I'm I'm using that word intentionally uh trumps uh truth but anyway so he took himself to in order to disass associate himself in the congregation in order to contest the appointment of Aaron. So is it against Aaron or is it again mo against against Moses? Because who appointed Aaron? Moses did. So he wants to be the co he wants that position but on a certain level he's also he's he's he's making a claim and we're going to see what it is shortly. So that's a very important rashi. He separated himself in order to persist in a dispute. The Hebrew we're going to use the word mlo although ankalis uses the word it palag which means to separate yourself and we're going to see that later as well. Look at number two source number two bidbar 183. So what did he take the very last para in last week's in other words the last paragraph in last week's para was what titis. So when it says he took what did he take? He took tits, right? That's logical. That's what he took. He took tits that was entirely a particular color called and he wanted to know from Mosher Rabenu. Is this garment, it's a four corner garment, it's completely does it still need an additional thread? He took an example of a house full of cifrey Torah. inside the safer you have the this you know one little paragraph actually two of the schma right and he's asking Moses if I had a house full of these these Torah scrolls which the muza is part of would I then need to put one on the doorpost? Now I just want to like re uh what do you call it regress just a little bit. The source for the idea that he took a garment full of is because of last week's para meaning there's a there's a a close proximity the adjacency of titus to him taking my question to you and this is a little bit of unusual because I'm asking you questions here where is the source that he had a complaint about the muza if you have a room full of would it be obligated in a muza or not. So in number source number three, this is what the kakar in another place explains. If you look at number 16 27 so they withdrew from around the dwelling of Kora as they were told to do and Abraham and Denim. What did they do? What does it say they did? The it says they went out standing tall at the entrance of their tents. There was this an anger. There was a defiance that these two men had as they left the doorway of their tent. And um look at Rashi on that. What does it mean? They went out standing upright nitim in in source number three with a hotty bearing to curse and to blaspheme. Understand that the clear is claiming that this is where we understand they had a claim on the muza just like Korak had a claim on the they went out where's where what's by the entrance the muza. Now to on a certain level, we're going to see what was Karak's claim. Everyone's holy. You don't need a leader. You don't need one person to stand out. We're all holy. And you usurp that for yourselves. You know, both Moshe and Aaron, you took that for yourselves. So, in a certain sense, the clear explains somewhere else that what do these two things represent? the and the muza supposed to remind you like you know a store has a lead I forget what it's called but a leader a lost leader in order to bring you into the store it guides you the leader right in a um in a tour group has a little flag you follow the flag right that's your I don't know your compass whatever it is that's where you need to go see where the flag the leader is your guide he's saying we're all guides we're all holy we don't need any reminder because we're so holy If we're so holy, we need no reminder. It's only the people who are not holy that need reminders. But if you're all holy, you're all leaders. That is some background to what we're going to discuss as well. Okay. So, let's now begin with maybe I'll just read it in Hebrew real quick so you can see the the midrash. What did he take? He took a talis that was completely and he took with him 250 people happened to be most of them were from the tribe of ruain and he got them dressed up in this garment that was in completely this color and he came before Moshe and he said and he said the same thing about the rooms full of cif would it need a muza or not? Okay, so let's now begin. We already discussed in paras jealousy kina is jealousy. It's very interesting because God himself is called a jealous God and and therefore jealousy is not always negative. Most of the time it is. Right? So in the meantime back in parasave that the clear discussed the the shameful aspect of this type of character trait and it could be so harmful and so damaging that it it really is self-consuming that there's no cure. So self- conssuming that he it's like you're eating your own arm. Can you imagine? It's self-consuming. It's it's so damaging and debilitating. When you have this jealousy towards something else, towards another thing until you remove yourself, you've been removed from the world. And then we're going to see in it actually says those words. Let's look at that first and I'll explain it. It says in per it's number four in the source sheet chapter 4 verse Mishna 24 razer hakapur would say that envy which is kina that jealousy uh tya which is desire and lust and hakavod which is honor and um uh it's bas we'll see it's a lot of audience involved. So it removes a person from the world. What does it mean it removes you? You're there today and you disappear. you're no longer there. It means think about your mind. Your your mind is consumed. It's um it's occupied, right? You're bothered as listen to what the clear says that you're bothered. You're occupied uh away from the from the world. You're not even in the present. Wouldn't that be great if we could be present, right? You're present. You're living your life to its fullest at the moment, but instead you're you're this person is living rentree in your in your in your house, in your in your mind, in your body, in your soul. So that's what I think it means. You're not present. You have been removed from the world. And um interestingly enough the clear car brings down what is the word a means knows but it also has a a um um a meaning of anger right but also it means also however as it right look what he says here he brings down in brachit 192 look at number five on the source sheet that um basically there were four individuals I'm not going to call them people, but there were four entities that spoke and used the word af. And and you can see in number five what they actually did say, but because they opened their mouth with a with anger, what happens? They were also consumed with anger. I'll read it in English. So by the snake if you look in Genesis 4:1 so the serpent or let's just take about the four all four of these individuals or I said entities um open their mouths with a and who were they serpent and that's in Genesis 4:1 he said um did perhaps God say you shall not eat of the tree so the word afa is used uh in Korak Karak also and that's in chapter 16 verse14 in numbers he said moreover um a not to a land okay hmon is the third who used the word af when he spoke to to Esther and um who are we missing the baker so the baker when he heard the dreams being interpreted by Yseph, he heard his dream, which was not such a good dream, you know, interpretation. And the head of the the winery, the the the head steward, what do you call him? The bartender. And he interpreted Yseph. Ysef interpreted his dream positively. So there was a jealousy. And he used the word a. And of course, it didn't end well for him. So it didn't end well for any of these people that had anger. Okay? And it was all based on jealousy. The anger comes as a result of jealousy as the clear will explain. Look down in the right side of the paragraph where he says the so there were four that opened their mouths with the word and all of them were taken out so to speak. the the serpent, the baker, which is our para and he explained over there. These are all different nuances or languages of anger and they are someone who has this trait which we are going to pray to God and do the best to stay away from this character trait. It doesn't end very well for them. And what is their real issue? They are tummy. They're they're angry with whatever happens. Whatever Hashem meets out, right? And that is really everything that happens in the world, right? Stubbing your toe, coming to a red light and losing money, right? Anything that that Hashem does to them, they're going to be angry with. And now this is the jealousy that we see amongst people. anything that you see in your friend and it's going to cause you a jealousy or an anger or some kind of pain. is so too those four individuals right the snake and Korak and all these guys Hmon and the baker they all opened their mouths with a which is alam which you know you can really tell a lot about somebody the way they speak right not just the way they look not just the way they dress but a lot about the way they speak okay um the razar Kino there's a hint to like an acronym an acronym you know like moniker I like Alicia's terminology I think of moniker the word kina is spelled kuf nun alhe so it's the rishi kina means jealousy and if you look at each letter kina korak kuf ku for karak nun for the nash alif for the baker for the o and hay for Hmon. We all know Hmon was so jealous of Mori wouldn't bow down to him. The wasab and for some reason the snake was jealous because man had Adam had married his wife and the baker was Mccana Basar Hamashka. He was jealous for because of the steward and that had interpreted the dream for good and this we know we just discussed it. He had this jealousy towards Moses and Aaron and because of their status where they were standing they were elevated to a certain status. [Music] We know that people do not become jealous for someone who is not on their level. They have to have some kind of camaraderie. They have to be on the same status or class or strength as he says some kind of uh equal balance because we have this rule. You're not going to have this lowly street cleaner or this guy who shovels coal into the ovens going to be jealous of the king. It's not gonna happen except if it's on you're on the same level on some level like the way that's how the world works. That's when you're going to have jealousy. The Gomorrah tells you that plumbers have jealousy for each other, right? There's this natural jealousy that people of the same lawyers profession they actually same profession. There's a natural jealousy, right? Except there is an example of rabbis. You know, you don't want to get on the rabbis bad side. But it says the katan is normally you cannot open, let's say, a pizza store. If if you if you need a 100 families to maintain a pizza store and you have a town that only has 100 families, a second guy cannot open a pizza store in the same town. But if you have 200 families, you could. Or as the rule goes, if you make something different, you make a special calazone, you make salads, you make bidditi, you're not just making pizza. So also you can, but when it come So you're not allowed to steal someone's parnasa basically by opening the same u type of uh of store. It comes to a school, however, comes to a school. So there's a difference because let's say you need 50 children to make the school function. Guess what? You have 50 children, they all go to one school. You can open a school, you don't have any students. What's the point? Ah, you're going to make a better qu better product, a better quality product, and now you're going to attract half the kids. Okay. So now the guy who's left only with 25, he better get on the ball and improve his I don't know what you want to call it, but his, you know, his goods and get them back or increase, right? So the increase, it's going to increase wisdom. When you have competition by the rabbis, it should theoretically increase wisdom. If there's any jealousy that's on the negative side, in my opinion, it means he wasn't a rabbi to start with because it says Hakma. So if it's not, they're not a rabbi. Anyway, that's just my opinion. Let's go on. Where did I start? I'm sorry. Let me just go back. So therefore, we we were just mentioning they have to be on the same level. And this is why uh Auron had I'm sorry, the Korak had such a jealousy for Aon because he actually had these same character traits. We discussed the idea you can have character traits that are good or from bad. Just like Hashem is a jealous God, jealousy is not always bad. Like in marriage, if you're not jealous about your wife or your spouse, that's a problem. This indifference is not good for a relationship. There has to be real love. And that love can generate a healthy jealousy. But also, we know it can create an unhealthy jealousy. It can. So Aon, I'm sorry that Korak had the same character traits that we're about to discuss that Aaron had. He was on the same level, right? And that is the following. It says in Perkyavote chapter 5, Mishna 17. You'll find this and number 17. Oh, I didn't do it right. It's number what? Seven. Seven. That's what I meant to write. Okay. Look at number seven. Any dispute that is for the sake of heaven. Any locus that's for the sake of we'll have to discuss what it is, but for the sake of God, not for my sake. I'm not trying to win the battle. In the end, that makus somehow continues to exist. But it's not a bad thing. Doesn't have to be a bad thing. the that's the bad one because it's for self agrandisement. You're somehow trying to pump yourself up as we'll see. It's not it's about you. Not about finding and getting to the truth. It's not for the sake of heaven. It won't have existence long-term existence. And the example given is for some reason I mean you had two people obviously Moshe was lashim but Korak was not. So we'll have to understand that because we're still talking about it today. I mean there's no argument anymore but we're talking about it. So we'll have to find out what that means as well. And I think the clear has a really fascinating idea. He begins at the last paragraph on we need to concentrate and really think about what the idea here is that's the word used we all saw in Rashi that uncle is called plut means a dispute a division but kazal doesn't you do not use the word pluta they don't use the word riv in modern Hebrew a riv is is a fight right a fight or a plut is a divisional use the word maklo lut alain therefore we need to concentrate what does the word maklo mean or symbolize obviously it means to divide is to divide [Applause] therefore it seems we can explain the wayal I'll say in vikarin that's number 9 on the source sheet 269 there's a puss in in Leviticus 21:10 if you look at that verse number 8 first it says and the coen who is elevated above his brothers so in Hebrew so usually we we're used to hearing the wordeno the word godo is talking about his position here. I'm not sure the terminology, but it's hagado. The coain is hag. He is bigger. He's more elevated. But the the letter he so he's going to be bigger in five things. The coen who's the coenado is greater than all the other kanim in five things. And I think the cle doesn't mention it, but I think that's what he means. Especially because it says ha but it's vigora. It says in number nine. What's written after the statement the priest who's greater than his brothers. Why is he called the high priest? It doesn't say he's the high priest. It says he's cohen. He's greater than his brothers. Again with the he because of five matters. There's five things and he's greater than all the other. In other words, whoever is going to choose him is going to choose him because he's greater in these five things. He's greater inma wisdom. He's greater in kawak strength. He's greater in no some kind of beauty. He's greater of somehow in wealth. And he's greater in I don't know why they translate as years, but I get I do understand why. But um in for honor for some reason obviously the older you are the more honor we would give you. And I'd like to read this medish. What does it mean in beauty? It means he's prettier. He's fairer. He's more handsome. Huh? And what about power? He's actually physically strong. You saw what Aaron did? He waved. He literally fig picked up 22,000 one at a time. Of course, that's a lot. We had a Cohen this morning who was raising his hands and the kazin was singing and this guy's not used to holding his hands up so long except for like you know yam kipper or something. Anyway, I don't want to embarrass anybody here but uh it was quite funny afterwards when the co I had to raise my hand for so long but anyway the cowing god though is very strong. He waved physically lifted up and moved like a a lulav you know three times to the right three times behind him each ley 22,000 of them so obviously the cone has to be very strong and also wealth interestingly that if he's not wealthy the all the other priests are going to help him become wealthy there was an incident involving Pinas the stonemason they appointed him high priest he was just a lowly worker and what Did they do you hear this? What did they do? Don't leave. Don't leave. Listen to this. They took gold and threw it into the quarry. So when he was hitting there doing his work as the as the uh stonemason, he became rich because the fellow Coanim helped him become rich by throwing gold into the quarry. Okay, let's continue. The last thing we read was that this this this medish it's the last three lines on page um that he was greater than his brothers with these five things and these five attributes these five qualities they include all the other good things you can imagine. And regarding these attributes, King David and King Solomon actually put into into Psalms. Even though all the good qualities, these five it said not just included all the others, these were the top-notch. These were the best qualities that a Cohen gut should have. There's a way to think about it. There's a way a path to either explain it or even to acquire them. But he says this concept called beauty. It's not the physical beauty. It's the beauty of doing Torah and mitzvah and doing them in a beautiful way. Right? when you have a certain amount of money and you can buy tits. Okay, so you have a gamut of what you're willing to spend. It could be spend a little bit more. Go on the high end and buy the nicer titus or to fill in or say for Torah or whatever it is. As we can actually see here, it's look number 10. Look in number 10 on the source sheet in Gmor Shabas 133b. What does this mean? Zaleve. Even though we would normally translate the anveu perhaps as um this is my god and I will build him a house right is referring to a bas mikdash referring to a a dwelling that's true but it also means I will glorify him I will elevate him and glorify him I'll make him beautiful the rest of the verse is also interesting right this lord is my father and I will raise him up so the sages interpret the first part right of the asi right you look at the word noi is part of the root so beautify yourself before god in mitzvah even if you per you fulfill a mitzvah by performing it simply which is fine it's nevertheless proper to perform the mitzvah like we say mahader mahadrin uh more beautifully as beautiful as possible make yourself a beautiful suka, beautiful lulav, a beautiful chauffeur, beautiful ritual fringes, which we're talking about, right? Beautiful Torah scroll, right? Write it with beautiful ink, especially God's name. Use a nice quill, a beautiful quill, and use pay expert scribe and put beautiful uh silk fabric around the safetar. Whatever we do, that's what it means. I'm going to beautify the mitzvah. So there's something you can do and that's what he says. This would really be the true um aspect of beauty and you would be doing it shayim. What about kak co that's power oers wealth and cavode it's going to be the same way if we look in peravo chapter 4 mishna alf that's number 12 on the sor sheet that zma would say right we all know this who is wise someone who learns from every man there's a pk in psalms 1199 from all my teachers I have grown wise everyone's your teacher The guy walking down the street. I meet you for the first time. You have something to share. I want to learn. Learn from every man. Who's strong? Someone who overcomes his own inclinations. As we know, it says in Proverbs 16:32, "Better one who is slow to anger than one who with might, one who rules his spirit than the captor of a city." That's who is um as we say is strong overcoming your evil inclination. Who's rich? Someone who is satisfied with his lot. Right? Okay. It says in Psalms 1282, if you eat the toil of your hands, fortunate are you and good is to you. Okay. Honorable. Who's honorable? This is I think very important. What is because we're going to see honorable is actually going to be I'm looking for the word transformed into the word enough. Who is humble? We're going to see humble is in the list. Not in this list but it's exchanged. Okay. So honorable. Who's honorable? The one who honors his fellows. It's amazing. You give honor. Like I'm always worried about you and your honor. Then you know honor will chase you. You'll become honored. That's what it means to be honorable to honor others and then it'll come back to you. I think it's a very important lesson. I mean I'm trying to incorporate it because I have to be more sensitive to people around me and honor them. Okay. So here we are where we left off. We just read Shabasimo to that means to uh beautify yourself before doing mitzvah. And then we said that's the real true uh act of doing things. And then we quoted the other things and here's the the mission of perkot in Hebrew. Who's considered strong? The one who's that's the one who overcame his inclination. And who's someone who learns from everybody and who's the one who's who honors others this is done for the sake of heaven and he says so too with what is the good wisdom what is using wisdom for good that's using it for and then your is being done shine if you're using it for God. But there's also a bad type of the and in in Yermyahu Jeremiah 4:22, where is that on the sour number 13? This is hard to say, but this is the rebuke that the the the um prophet gives. For my people are foolish. They know me not. They are foolish children. and they have no understanding. But these are the words they are wise to do evil. See, even wisdom can be used in the negative sense. And we're going to see the clear explain these five traits can be used to the left or to the right. And I'm emphasizing the foolish ones, the evil ones are who use these to the left. And the the the smart ones who are doing it for the god's sake and for the right reasons and are praiseworthy are the ones who do it on the right to the right and it's not just the right side but it's correct. Right is correct. Okay. So we got done saying there's actually a type of wisdom that's not good. And we read the Five malo. But someone who has these five positive character traits, meaning they have them, but they're not using them positively. Aloo, they're using them for the negative. Again, I'm using the word left as negative. He's using this beauty in a physical beautiful sense. What about he's using the wisdom he has just for physical I call you know just for the physical sake nothing spiritually involved what about oer obviously that's money he's not using his money properly and basically he's expecting other people to give him honor and what about that's power. They overpower other people. They right it could be turned into abuse, but it's um it's it's overpowering others. Shalom. Shay. This is not used for the sake of heaven. So Karak had these five attributes. There's no question he had them. He wasn't using them for the good. He was using him. Now look at the letters. Again, Alicia used the word moniker as the me is for money is forma. Now the lammed we never saw before the word lashon. But wait till you how he understands the the lammed of lashon as we will see that. So lammed for inlo and kuma which is stature think of that as to which is beauty. So you have the word mock locus reminds you of all these five attributes that these five attributes in in essence those are the five attributes we mentioned relate to the high priest and here they go alif mure oair the me right we said is money because he needs to be rich. We saw what they did for Pinas the stonemason. They made sure that he was rich. Can't have a kar who's poor. So what are you going to do? Not appoint him. He's the best guy for the job. Let's make him rich. That's connected the we mentioned already earlier using it for Torah mitzvah. What about to beauty? That's noi, right? That's simple. Kuma. Kuma really means height, but it means stature, like elevation, like where you're holding. I was thinking about this guy who used to be the head of the FBI under a different administration. I think his name started with a C. And he was really tall. I mean, he was one of the dopiest he was one of the dopiest guys I ever met. But because he was tall, that's probably how he got such a good highle position. Yeah. Okay. He's, you know, being around a seven foot guy is kind of scary, right? That that was his name. It is his name. Anyway, what about Kuma? That's stature or height. Can they get a cavode? You're going to give this guy. You're going to stand up for him, right? Because that's the bal. That's what we do. We stand up for people who stature. Or or maybe it's or perhaps it's just for someone who's very honorable and we stand up for him when he comes in the room. Okay, what about lashon? I said that was a little bit difficult cuz we never saw lid before in terms of lashon. How does leong have to do with power? The answer is very simply look in it's in proverbs 18:21 but the clear card says it's the power of a person is in his tongue. Right? We know this about the Jewish people that our weapon of war, right? It's a pipote. It's a double-edged sword. Pipote is like two mouths. We use our mouth for Torah and we use our mouth for prayer, right? The power is in the mouth, but it can be used positively and unfortunately at the same times we all we all know we've been victims and we've been perpetrators. We have I mean I I should speak for myself. Anyway, in Proverbs chapter 18:21, which is number 15 on the source sheet, death and life are in the hand of the tongue. Sure, you've all heard that before. I mean, there's no question about that. And if you look into 12 verse 5, which should be the next thing on the sori, with our tongue, we will overpower. There's some power. Again the word is related to the right this idea of this power of the tongue. So the clear continues and he says right that anybody who's interested in fighting they have these five character traits. Doesn't mean they're all for bad but they're using them in a very negative sense. just like that. That that he took himself into this locus because he had these five traits that were also similar on the same level. He said you have to be on the same level as the other guy that the guttle had. Therefore, he um uh made a claim, right? He complained about this position. He had these things, but he wasn't using them for for good. It wasn't for the sake of heaven. Shalom. Like we already mentioned, it was used in a negative sense. Negative sense for himself. Remember we said that he's going to be taken away from the world. He's removed from the world. That's what it means. Not that it's the mus continues forever. But that the person who's doing this ceases to exist. His existence ends as it says it's well known by someone who's not doing it for the sake of heaven. And he has these five character traits. that he himself the he will be lost. The attributes obviously will be lost. He will because the attributes are within him and those are the five malos. These five malos he will lose. He will lose them and he basically is taken out from the world. Um as we saw again in Perkyo chapter 5 Mishna 17 shal any locus which is not for the sake of heaven it will not have any existence it will cease to be just like these traits in the person and the person themselves. These five malo, these five character traits near mazimlo. We already saw how the letters of maklokus hint to these different ideas. He had these five small but he went to the dark side. Interesting. What is shin alif lmen? That's a name for the devil. One of the the Satan has many names. One is Sam. We call him the Sam. If you think about it, this is side point clear mentions with the rrestling. There was a with Yakov and the angel of Asaf. Okay. And you want to know his name, whatever. But he this was according to Rashi the archangel of Asaf. Okay. Yakob was art was fighting was wrestling with the archangel of Asaf. His name is Sam Alf lid. So the word why did it why didn't it use the word wrestling? It uses the word avak right that means dust. So when people wrestle I don't know if you ever seen it but usually a lot of dust rises up right you're you're you're fighting a lot of dust. So the idea is that also represents blind blindness right. So the goal of the is to blind you to ale it wants to blind you to the truth to ale to God. Okay that's just a side point. Let me finish. We're almost done. Hang in there and then I'll take your questions. So the last thing he says was small which interesting it's a it's um why is the left side right the dark side as I mentioned not for the sake of heaven therefore he is lost or it is lost and all of the good attributes to be acquired they will not stand but rather what will had the fame will push him away. Now we understand the the the expression whatus means that it hints right it's the the five letters it hints to these five things there's two sides to it there's two aspects of it that either it's shim or it's not it's either to the left or to the right like we said before and that's the lion of makus which is to separate and divide. It's could be used for good, could be used for bad. Okay, so we're on the bottom part of Kufet 149. There's also another hint in the word because anybody that has these five character traits, they have a certain pride. Pride is not always good and they're going to try to undermine, they're going to divide themselves. They're going to argue with the authority with the leadership bizul that they see the others the gorima this is actually causing more division more fighting and more plagues more negative consequences for the Jewish people. Now in order to testify recognize these five traits that was within Korak and his company the PK says look in number 162 it's number 18 on the source sheet they confronted Moses together the 250 men of the children of Israel what does the Torah describe them as as nia adah chieftains or you know leaders of the congregation uh moed representatives of the assembly. An shame. These are like three phrases that describe what they were and they are somehow related to some of the qualities we discussed but to the left side right to the negative. So this phrase hints to the actual five different traits that we say exist with the co noi beauty power uh money wealth kak strength wisdom and honor and how did how are they described so the first let's say nier right that means like the representatives that's the the leadership that rem is of course that hints to the honor that we described side. Right. This is um basically they have been elevated to a position of um what did I write here? To to guide and to direct the people to um bombote to that people will honor them. That's the position they're in. like it says in Proverbs chapter 30 verse 32. Now sometimes the clear card just brings verses for text proof. He just wants to show you but it could be there's some meaning behind it. I don't want to spend too much me much time on the meaning but if you look it says in number 19 30:32 of Proverbs if you have been put to shame you will be in your ascendancy. So this this idea hnasus is ascendancy. It's talking about an honoral position because there's no shame. If you if you were a shameful person like a miscain, there's no shame, right? The people who dressed a certain way and right there there's nothing they can do that brings any more shame than the state they're already in. It's only someone who's in a leadership position that the the higher you are the god forbid the the the fall the harder you fall or the further you fall. So I think that's just a text proof regarding what the word vasut means to be in an honor position. What about the word adah? So ada we call the um what's the word the test the tabernacle uh um what are you looking for? Oh, and it's called, what is the tabernacle? It's called, oh hell moed. Oh, hell moed. It's a tent of testimony, but it's a tent of meeting, right? A vad is where everyone gets together. So, who gets together on the city council? The leaders of the city, right? You have a city council. Listen to what he says. What's ada? Ada is it's referring to people of power. Has to do with power. Shaka that each one of these people 253 each person had the power of 10 people. That's how powerful each one was. And what do we also know about the word adah? It means a minimum of 10, right? A a minion needs a minim minimum of 10. And that's what he's saying here. He says it means you were parallel or minimumly parallel to 10 p 10 10 men like it says in braos it says not you don't have an ad less than 10 these 10 spies right last week they were called an adah and that's how we know that an ada is not less than 10 what What about the word ka? So that hints to and there's a text proof the word z the in Jeremiah 11:15 as zonto kora. See the word kora there. Okay. If you look at it in the Hebrew, you have the word kora and to or y to in the same p. What about moed that is that hints to um that hints to a wealth. Like in other words, when you have a group of people who are making the decisions like like to develop like so these people are the developers. These people are the city council. They're the ones that are investing. They're the rich guys. And that's what the word moed is based on the word vad. Am I right? Okay. And what about and what do we know about those people that have money? Um it says in Mish 14:20 it says over there number 22 right rich people have all the friends right the poor man hates is hated even by his friend but the friends of the rich are many right the rich right you buy your friends right so they they follow the money people follow the money what about the words, right? It hints this hints to the people who are wise because right David I remember you used to walk around say this all the time right to shame to right a good name is better than a good good oil. So basically what is the idea of that a wise person wants to leave behind it could be a legacy but he wants to leave behind after him for generations by perhaps writing books writing memoirs writing his wisdom so other people can follow having children but that's what he says he says that's what meant when he said a good name is better than good oil that all these good qualities but he didn't use them for good right but he saidim look in numbers chapter 163 he was saying everybody has a holiness to them and God is dwelling with them. So what was he really saying? Wait till you hear this. He was saying that the whole Jewish people have these five qualities. We all have them. Are we use them for good or bad? That's the question. But we had them. Okay, listen to what he says, right? That the whole people, they're all holy and God dwells in them. And there's a statement in Shabas that God will only rest on people that have these qualities. Okay. By the way, that list talks about. Okay. So, another is replaced perhaps with I'm not sure. Um, Gibber is there. So, he says like this. Let's look at it. We said it's in number 25. Am I right? The very last line in number 25. The divine presence only rests upon a person who's wise, mighty, wealthy, and we said kuma tall. But there's only four here. Wait till you see enough is going to be listed. Enough is very important. Okay. So we just read in the Hebrew now after the fact that God did dwell with the Jewish people um then certainly all these character traits that they had in them just like Aaron had. It is true. There is a truth to what is saying weem was dwelling with us. So we all had these traits. If that's case if that's true then what was the complaint? Why are you appointing yourself? Why are you being raising yourself above everyone else? We're all the same. We're all equal. That you're somehow think you're greater than everyone else. That you're putting yourself above everyone else. Moses heard this and he fell on his face. The Pik says he fell on his face. What is falling your face do? It's like you're saying I'm humble. I'm low. I have I I submit. That was Moses was trying to tell him that's what you're missing. Karak. You might have those five traits, but you're missing this one very important trait and that's listed that's listed in that Mishna in perkot as well in the chabas. So that's what he says by saying Moses heard he fell on his face he was hinting to them Moshe was hinting to them that's why God chose them. It could be he's talking about the whole Jewish people. He could be talking about just him and our okay but this is why God chose them not because of these particular traits alone because of this very important trait called humility he was hinting to them through this falling on his face because He's showing them you have to be humble. You have to be submissive before everybody. That it's better to be amongst the offended than be amongst the offenders. I remember back in the day in Asia Torah there was a certain father who was very upset that his kid was becoming religious and he was a Holocaust survivor and he came he came to Asia to the door and he wouldn't walk in he said I'm not walking in but I want my son to leave I want him to come I want to talk I traveled all this way and I believe it was Rabbi Mati Berger who had a conversation with them at the doorway and however it went there was one line that Rabbi Burgerer says to him you were in the holocaust if you had to do it all over again, would you choose to be a victim or a Nazi? And he said, "I'd rather be the the victim. There's no way in I don't know what words to express in in in in this world that I'd ever be a Nazi." So, it's better to be the offended one, that's the the humility, than be the offender. That's why Moses fell in the states to show and there is a p in 698 number 26. So as we mentioned in in Psalm 698 and it's number 26 for I borne humiliation because of you disgrace has covered my face. I think again he's using this just as a text proof that that there's a connection there um with these uh with these ideas but could be if you look at it deeper you'll discover other things. Now this is a very important piece he says here in Gmorra 89a now if you think who's who's humbler is that a word who's most humble Abraham or Moshe So you would have thought who you would well it does say in the Torah these most humble of all but think about it Abraham says I am but just dust and ashes right I am but that means I'm something if I could claim to be dust and ashes I am something although how small it is is pretty small whereas Moses says about him and our We are nothing. He says, "What are we? We're not even nothing. We don't even know what we are." Listen how insignificant we are. What are we? So that's what the Gore says, "Greater is what was said by Moses than what was said by Abra. Where is Abra?" It's written in Genesis 18:27. I am but dust and ashes by Moses and Aaron and it says in Exodus 16:7idos in another chapter another book clear discusses this further in his safer that Moses was hinting to Korak right by the falling of the face and everything else the it says says that God will not rest his what this shabas his presence and here you have the rest of it a gore an oer and an someone who's an someone who's humble the Moses had them all he was the most humble of all that's Why Moses was chosen? Because of his humility in his group, Malos aloo even though they had those five ingredients but it had to be mixed with enough otherwise you're going to the left. Therefore, therefore God did not choose them. us. They didn't have, they didn't grasp, they didn't seize the moment to take this most important trait such as the but what did they do instead? They chased after leadership, appointments, authority. It's the opposite of what Moses mitak minisara Moses ran away. I understand when he was growing up in the palace, he ran away. He could have been the second Pharaoh. But later on when God says, "I want you to lead the Jewish people." He says, "I'm not that talented. He got the wrong guy. I have a lips. I have a a speech impediment." Says like this, "Lo says in Exodus 4:10, which you'll see in number 30, he says, I am not a man of words. I have no charisma and I cannot speak. I'm the wrong guy. I I think this is a good place to stop. I just think this is very important that we're learning this. Believe me, this goes on for pages. We're just scratching the surface. The villagon says the purpose of life is tikunidas. Everyone speaks about it, right? Actually, the Rambam, interesting enough, says the purpose of life is to reach prophecy, to reach the level of such intimate knowledge of God. But he says the only way to do that is to work on your midos. So really there's no contradiction here. Work on your midos. This is something that I battle every I'm going to say every day, but every moment of my day, right? Uh and bizm with groups like this, right? Where we get and learn Torah because Torah is the instruction manual for life. It's there to instruct us how we have relationships with God, with other people. I'm going to say but most importantly ourselves and I wish everyone in this coming new month number one number two have a great shabas and always say have a great life and we have a new page that was turned recently in the global political situation and we can have a little bit of a a breath of fresh air in know we can get a good night's sleep on one hand but we cannot turn our backs there's a makus who's going to win the war. And I'm serious. It's Some say it's Persia. I'm talking about in the Talmud and the uh in the mystical writings. 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