Parshas Pinchas: The Eternal Soul of Eliyahu HaNavi

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opinion number two the way Rashi says it isah P that's not the usual way to say the expression the usual way is what is now if you think about it the statement p is very unusual p is El that seems like there's a person El that's established that's well known and who's Pinas p is that well-known figure ILO should be just the opposite we you don't know anything El who's El yeah you read anywhere in the there's no such person El we know about P it should beah you know whoah is El is the wellknown P right who you're identifying whom by whom right right you don't if someone has a name that's well known and a pen name or a surname you say the pen name or surname is the guy who we know so why would we say p whoah right who's P nobody knows who El is it's in the navi people even a lot of people don't even know there's something called that's something else you're not we're not saying yosef's name we're saying we're describing him ysf you know ysf he was successful we're explaining we're we're we're appraising him but here we're talking about we're saying two names who name name a and name b we're saying who's name a um well let's try to identify name a by a name that is more welln right when you say that implies who was the first person and who P was okay we'll try to explain okay in the end of after seven days is trying to persuade M to take the Jewish people out of where says says he says please my master please send through the hands of the one who you send what's that supposed to mean please send through the hands of the one who you send through the ones who you usually send who Aon is the one who you usually send so you'll ask what do you meanon we don't find anywhere in that sent or spoke toon even right who did Hashem speak to First M or Aon so we would say of course that's why you have to know it says that already in before hasem spoke to he was already speaking toon so you say what why doesn't it say in the the answer is and we say this many times in order if you want to know you have to learn if you don't know you don't know either that's just a that it says that God spoke to even before he spoke to hasem to speak to and to send him exactly that's exactly what rash is saying rash is saying why you sending me you you already spoke to Aon so send him for this mission right orash says another whoever is saying send it to whoever you want but not me send it through somebody else because anyway I'm not going to take them into is so whoever is going to take them into is you might as well have them take them out of however says right look at number [Applause] three I beg you please execute your your mission use P why because he is going to be sent at the end of days ask question what you mean is not going to be sent at the end of days is going to be sent at the end of days so we see holds who p p is well we'll see we'll have to see okay so that's the opinion of there's a commentary on the who writes that what is the r from this P what is the remes in this p and the p where is there any remes that this refers to the answer is the answer is the word n because we find very often byah the word n is used the says let's say when was ordaining it says so the word no is used by and it says over here so there's some form of going on to indicate that we're dealing with I just tell you a little remes no extra charge that no what what does no have to do with alahu or the answer is that had the of the two sons of Aaron who died who other are their names no no that's not okay another Val that's a different share we once had about the kunun of Pinas okay what two the same way you could have one you could have two right we'll see we'll see later you could even have you could have half also so okay so we continue on and we have in this week's para so now we're learning that there's an opinion now he must must have lived a really long time because we have a tradition El is still around yeah so somehow Pinas is given the great blessing of eternal life now not too many people had that blessing right masu was buried right masu passed away ab and yob passed away there are not tooo many people in history who live forever in fact there are only two people asks right they buried him but literally only two people who are they and okay and we'll see now in this week's par tells right I'm giving you the Covenant of Peace what exactly is the Covenant of Peace says again by the way just point out that the according to the was not written by it actually has nothing to do with it's a printer concoction that actually there are three tum there's there's t m and there's another T that they had no name for it so they named it why would they make that mistake cu the says wrote the T so they figure maybe he probably wrote but the at least the writes explicitly did not write it but you know the printers give him credit so we'll call it that okay B he Tes it like this God says I swear by my name I decree he will stand whole I will make him an angel standing and he will live forever to usher in and report of the at the end of days so in other words the that the promise of is he will live forever right he will stand as an angel and he will live forever to be the now where in the world does see in these words that he's going to be a Mal and live forever all it says is shalom shalom means to live forever when we say the sh that means we're asking should make us live forever we in the world shom is there any indication that it means that will live forever I mean we know we know that this is the like says at the end of but we are in the is there any indication that he's going to live forever now if you look in the blessing given to was slightly different there's one word added and that is here it doesn't just say sh what does it say so maybe also there's some kind of going on it says shom it says shom in just like shom and the is together with okay but still doesn't say here we can't invent our own our own but so where is there any Remis to this says writes this week's he says why was it that was rewarded to live forever what's the we learned from here when put God's Wrath to rest that allowed the Jews to continue had not taken the law into his own hands the would have wiped us out soas gave CL what eternal life we're here today thanks to Pinas our descendants will exist because of Pinas so Pinas gave the Jewish people eternity ah says you gave the Jewish people eternity I will give you personal eternity those years have no end therefore measure for measure quid pro right measure for measure the Jewish people p was rewarded that he would live forever like the says in by the way the Z says the same thing says what also did it how come he don't he says so why I hear good question maybe because by says I'll destroy them and I'll make CL come out of you so they would have been destroyed but there still would have been a CL here had it not been for P that would be the end of them okay and the Zar says the same thing um means you know what kind of Peace when the when the G says when that blob comes at the end of one's life who's right the Mal so he's coming as a Warrior when you have peace with him then what happens you live forever the peace is not peace from your uh your enemy it means peace from the big enemy okay the says further very interesting spno amazing says from the angel of death let me let me know if you're familiar with this Shalom God makes peace in his upper spheres what kind of Peace what kind of angry they're they're fighting with each other this Mal wants a bigger piece of K the other Mal says no it's my what are they there there's there's no in gives them peace from the says the why would you say why would you refer to not dying as peace this is very interesting says Theo peace is the opposite of death why decomposition deterioration you know as as people get older they're not the same as when they were 15 or 20 or 25 right every day the body is a little bit less efficient than it was the day before why why is there a deterioration deterior ation comes from the counteracting of opposing forces so you have to see what that means this of peace with inner peace of all the opposing inner forces was fulfilled in Pinas says the because he lived very long more than any of the other people of the generations he was around in Mish during which was many many years after yosu theakim uh passed away and certainly if you want to say that it was the same Pinas in the time of who P didn't go to the m like we learned in a couple weeks ago and certainly if you say that is and he lived forever certainly he was to this piece of the piece of the inner turmoil of the opposing forces within a human being now what in the world does this mean so there's a chuva over here from the of the it's also a very big sadic when uh boys needed to uh get out of the army the uh the Polish Army so they would go to him for br and he would give them something special to drink it's actually a cup of his tears that he would cry for and this was a a skoa for the to to get out of being drafted then event he he writes like this within a human being there are four forces which he calls four types of four types of liquids four types of fluids within the body there's some kind of black liquid G bilea there's a green liquid adum a red liquid Lana and a white liquid and all these four liquids somehow work together but they're they don't necessarily they're not necessarily in sync with each other and therefore he says like this what causes the toration of the body is the fact that these four fluids work against each other P sh inner Shalom that all the various forces and inner workings with then the body exist existed coexisted har harmoniously and he was able to live forever because of this okay we could explain a little further Angel explains a little bit further that every human being is made up of four is a composite of four elements and this is what the Ancients thought right a fire May water r r is a spirit offer a dust writes that all the mid within a person come from one of these four elements for example when a person sees the alarm clock ring in the morning so what's the first reaction he makes believe that he doesn't hear it right and then when it's really annoying you you you you accidentally turn it off instead of pressing snooze right so where does that come from what mid does thatas laziness laziness is the force of the afar afar is gmas it's it's pulls you down the comes from also comes from all these four forces within human being says in his which I just saw yesterday they recently republished in a beautiful print so sayle the four forces within a man are responsible for all of a person's mid in P now normally these four forces are counteracting each other after a while after a while when fire and water are together long enough one of them is going to put out the other either the water is going to put out the fire or the fire is going to boil over the water one or the other right so therefore says theel was given the BR that all his all the all matter that composed him existed harmoniously and he was able because of that to live forever ah so we come to a very interesting gamar take a look at number 11 amazing gamar says hey we're going to learn a little bit about so that if you see them you know who it is okay mik one Gabriel two alahu four the eight and when things are going good for him or bad for us it's one so zero in what does it mean so the way he understand means all four things that composed him were working in all full cylinders they working to full capacity they worked harmoniously his his all were able to peacefully coexist that's the meaning of and now we know that why ultimately does a person have to go to why does a person have to leave this world well if a person sinned so then it's a punishment but what about big sikim that they never sin so why do they go they go because that's the verdict of man there's no escaping it it's called once on s with the doesn't matter what we do we're good we're not good that is the verdict of mankind everybody has to end up in the soah though well we're going to see in a minute big though they don't die because of their sins they die only because of the the curse of the snake so it says Engel by SAR it says vas AR she died in the city of AR why what's the meaning of that arba means she was such aad that in her two all four elements were working together in Perfect Harmony LMI why did she have to go because that's the the verdict of mankind okay by the way the learns a little differently he says that mik is take a look at number 14 mik is on the right side of he is is the for mik to carry out a mission reun allows mik to carry out the mission in one swoop he doesn't pause because once wants to bring go no stops he doesn't stop you know in um by the rest stop to get a coffee no once says bring one fop then butab says to Gabel you can only do it in two swoops you got to take one break in between maybe I'll reconsider what does that mean if the Mal could only kill someone in eight swoops how many stops does the Mal have to make seven now says you know by why when you bring the forur you make seven stops you hear this when they bring the forur they stop seven times why also carries out his mission in eight fell swoops seven stops that's that's a deration yes yeah that's what the says it's now the says that means how many breaks does elah take three that's why if you look in the navi when El brings the kid back to life it says the word three times because also El takes three breaks okay let's go a little further writes also where is there a in the word shal that will be P that P will be he won't die the word Shalom could be a not a compound word for shal sh sh that he won't die also the letters s Shalom are the same letters as bris shal y bris said he won't die okay so we're learning is that P is so let's think for a moment what is the gatria ofah AL is one L is 30 Y is 10 that's 41 plus hey 46 plus v is 52 what's P P is p is 80 y is 10 n is 50 that's 140 is 8 148 plus is 60 208 Alo is 52 p is 208 time four is p that's the meaning of the says is one of the that writes down the of has numerical value four times does his mission in four swoops now this is a beautiful one what's El's job to be how is he going to be what's he going to say right what's he going to sing what's he going to say is also says what it works it works that 4 * 62 right you're right it's 4 * 52 yeah that's what I said four * 53 yeah okay so the there's also an amazing now we're going to try to get into why is it Pinas who El is should say you know who El is he's good old Pinas who we knew from thees why do we say you know who p is he's who you don't know yet no it's it's the opposite way around so it says the K you're making a mistake Kaka writes now this is not the kakar Onish it's on which is not as easy to find writes would seem to me that I heard where I found that at first was one of the when said let's make man the said let's not let's you know let's not make man El is one of those so what did Hashem say to ELO he said you don't want me to make man God sent him down in a physical form just like the angels that came to Abraham also took a physical form and they looked like they were eating so toah first was a Mal and then said go down to this world you're going to be p says in theid also he quotes very similar to what the kakar says that at first was a Mal and when hasm wanted to create the world was up there and he came down to teach the world about say we understand why always say and really it should be the opposite way around you know who elah the well-known Pinas no who came first first came alahu he was the Mal you want to know who that he is he is right you know who is excuse me right you know p is p is the good old wellknown alahu who came first says the according to this the language of is so sweet why don't they say the other way because came first okay now we know that the med says what sorry yeah yeah is B 20 208 which is doesn't work out yeah is is n is 50 me is 40 that's 90 it's 104 104 104 208 and P now right is p yeah that one works out okay so now we know tell us give him a calcor they don't need a calcul tell us like this that we have a tradition that we put out an extra chair and there's a tradition now there's a question what the chair is for if you look in thisno he says it's not for for somebody else I'm not going to tell you who we have to see but right but the T writes there's a we make this the chair for why because in says that the Jews are violating says so says I swear that're that we're not going to make a br until what until you see it and because of this because of this because of this we put out a throne fori at the bris so between me and you ELO comes and complains and it says what the Jews they don't do BR soem says they don't do BR you'll see they do is that a a reward or is that a punishment we would expect it to be it sounds like's punishing Al right doesn't it sound like pun saying you're saying about the Jewish people it's might sham they're not doing bris you'll see with your own eyes they're doing bris so is that's a punishment that's a punishment I would say it's a reward to go to a bris first of all you get free bagel and you get a free breakfast and not just a breakfast you get free lunch also you don't have for tomorrow you wrap it up right you wrap it to go now I know what to do so so why is what's the punishment what's the punishment so says the padar revealed himself I'm jealous I'm zealous what you're such you're a you're you're about you're a Kan k in this week's I swear that cannot do bris unless you're looking and that's why we make a special Throne a chair for the Mal F says the P commenting on this med number 23 that this has to be a reward in other words ELO did a good thing Kan is good it's good to be a Kan if you see people not doing the right thing you got to speak out you got to tell them they're wrong so it must be cuz the preacher says like this is going to AIS a good thing or a bad thing it's a good thing so it's a good thing it must be a reward now you only reward people for doing good things so it must be P did a good thing so it must be because you're a I will reward you that you go to a bris so the pre starts by saying but then the pr says as ifem is telling you're being children you're you're speaking lar you'll see with your own eyes they do the bris so the asks if it's and he's being punished for being so what's the punishment says it's a big punishment to go to a bris you know why CU otherwise you'd be in the You' much better to learn it's a thousand times a thousand times it's a billion times better to be learning than go to a bris people you know they come in with their bagels and you know where I went I went to a bris and I saw was there and I got a from the sandak there was an Hashem punished you today it's a punishment you've been better off learning Tyra aah is being punished by going to a br you want a learn T those are good things that mean you shouldn't go to no it don't say that it's a go to but if the alternative is the rest of the time he's in the basement so it depends if otherwise you'd be twiddling your thumbs of course bris is wonderful thingi and the sand and the crying right you kadav at the time of the r all the SK all the SK all the nice things coming here is that a punish but just the coming here what yeah who you talking about that he's what coming where coming to coming to this world is that self of punishment that he leaves learning in yes that's that's what the is suggesting that the punishment is yeah look at number 24 sends his agents he loses out that's a that's a so basically he's never there because every other day is Bri now you know later in the afternoon I guess he gets I don't I'm just reporting I'm just right is a spark a spark what what does that mean spark that which which is coming himself not a spark so we'll see we'll see hang hang on to that for a minute hang on to that okay now the B brings down and once we're on the topic of BR brings down a medish that I don't think has a source it's not in any of our extent midashim but nevertheless he quotes it and he says the med goes like this he says sh I heard that there's some I'm going to go to the bris I'm not going to be happy first of all I'm not going to be happy with the m you know somebody's going to be peeking out I'm GNA ah no I'm GNA have to speak up and then you know the the Kat is going to get a little too close to the I'm not going to be happy and then somebody might be talking by the so says I can't be Cil I'm going to go to a bris and I'm going to see a guy who one time he spoke during Kar I what am I going to do to the guy I can't tolerate him so says look El I'll do you a favor you want to go to the bris you're you're afraid that the aien won't be such a good guy and you can't tolerate him I'll forgive all the sins of the aen so you said but maybe the May will be in a oh wow hasem says I'll forgive his sins also so he but maybe some of the people around will be a Hashem says I'll take care of their sins so we see from here that Hashem forgives the sins of all the people there but by the way even though Hashem forgives everyone's sins it's still better to be learning better to be learning Tyra than have your sins forgiven it's true doesn't make sense ites it does it does it does make sense does make sense cuz cuz sins forgiven okay no see you'll do cha later but learning you can never get that with any other it's the greatest possible thing so anyway so this is the med that brings down this could fit into the meaning of the because such a so therefore what does hem have to do has to atone the sins of otherwise will never be able to show up at the bris so heard this quote of the and this is printed in the the footnotes of the andam is a little bit incredulous that this in fact is a real credible Source I mean there's no we don't have any Med that says hasem forgives all the sins of the people at the bris so says how could that be Hashem just forgives people sins there's no such thing there's no such thing in Judaism hasm just forgives people's sins doesn't mean only if they do chuva it can't mean only if they do chuva because then sing I can't tolerate people who are imperfect so saying what don't worry the people who do chuva forgive their sins but probably not everybody will do chuva and El might not appreciate everybody's company at the bris so it must be without shua so it says how could it be Yer cannot atone for sins without Chu you know that we if somebody fasts on and they don't do chuva means nothing thank you nothing nothing happens so so sh you have to say like this an a is like a stain it Su you it makes you dirty ELO is going to be at the bris with all these dirty Nas he's not going to be comfortable so you know the says at the time of the bris when El yahu is there I will temporarily give everybody a clean slate as soon as you leave that bris it's back to usual your sins are not removed but at least at that time in other words hashem's going to give everyone a clean pair of spiritual garments so that when comes that's not bad that's not bad so fortunate is somebody who's able to try keep a little bit that clean feeling as they leave the bris okay let us explore couple other items now what does it mean that yeah that's yeah now let's think for a moment the says and this brought down in the when you're singing your Mal who's the main character that you sing about right right why says that since can come Friday says he can't come Friday people are too busy making CH and he can't come shabas because he can't leave the the first time he could come is sh we're now eligible again for come so therefore we sing so has one simple question if ELO can't come on chabas cannot come to the so then how do you make a why would you make a for bris chabas yeah why would he make for bris chabus that means can't come to the bris chabas come before shabas and what he comes before shabas Miss and if they're two bris on shabus out of the from each other how does get to both of them no the says he will not come CU it's out of the no he's coming he's coming he's coming he can't come if you're you can't come what but still can't come out of the and and if the seder's Friday night okay I would ask you right another question even without Friday night how does ELO come to the SED there nowo coming to the S there is not such a big question doesn't say that anywhere in the comes to the S okay we have a tradition but we can ask what's that tradition how could he come to the S it's out of the how does come this is the of I'll ask you another question when you have a the gar and the gar which we say stands for I know he's going to answer our questions what you talking about if we have a question in let's see says a Raa says b says C Andi would come in say what do you think I think like Raa would that mean anything no so what do you mean it's not what good is say you know you will get a from you and we'll take advice but not not ask you another question we started off the she now that he's a no so doesn't have to keep the once somebody dies you don't have to keep the anymore says there two Alis two there's a physical and there's a spiritual Mal when's time to to leave this world came the says look 31 there's a fiery Chariot a fiery horse separated between ELO and Alisha andish sees his re go upor that point went up to heaven and became the but there's something called down here in this world there is somewhere in this world it's not on the GPS they haven't found it yet but somewhere in this world there's G's body was left in G and at certain times God will be the of into his body and could stand up like any and appear as a human being says when ELO comes to the bris what happens all of a sudden doors open and a man in a long white flowing beard walks in and everyone you know kisses his hand and he sits down and kisso no it's ELO the it's the Mal it's the angel It's the spirit when AO comes to the your house by the S is a old man with a white beard come and drink the cup or it's the or it's the ru the ru is Shak right is drinking the wine it's the Mal the Mal Is Not a Human Being the Mal is not bound by the Tyra he's not a living creature he's not a living Adam he could come to theab he's not bound by he could come to your s there he's not B but when what's going to happen we're going be we're going to hear is coming hey who said that but some spirit is gonna say no the his will be put into his goof in the and a human being by the name of the prophet the of who lived with in the times of the he will get up and walk and come into our shs and say is coming the human being not the Mal the human the he will come he can come on he's Bound by he can come on Friday he's not going to disturb our children he could come on shabas when Mia comes and we have a if the angel bothers to tell us something we say have a nice day but he's going to our say who are you to he says who am I I've been around for 3,000 years my re he's a human being says is the not the the the say there so why they call him then it would be U not te oh why what T why T I don't know remember that now I don't know remember that by the way now well you wanted to know how y could come to so many bris in one day yeah so we say it's not the physical you can't like we say you can't T you can't dance by both but he says like this he says that that which we say reveals himself at every it's not the whole who comes to every it's only like we said before a spark from him goes to the brist and flush a spark goes to Bar Park another spark goes to Lakewood now some some spark some spark Hills get a big spark right the more the a is and the family is the more a piece of they get at their bris 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