Pinchas - 2nd Portion

Join me as we learn kumish for Monday paras the second Torah reading which is chapter 26 verse 5. Yesterday we began the commandment that God told Mosha Allah to count the Jewish people. This is the fourth census that the Jewish people are going through before and this is another one right before Mosha's passage verse five who was the firstborn of Israel of Jacob the children of Ruven the family of and the family of Palui. Why does he say the family of and why does he tell us each name twice was because the nations of the world were saying who are you guys to be able to say that you are from which tribe you may be because you may think that maybe the Egyptians while they were in Egypt they took and they uh were not they were uh they they may have mixed up who they were married to and things of that nature and they forced them to take their women as wives. Because one would suggest that if the Egyptians were governed over their bodies, meaning that they gave them forced labor, how much more so you can say that they probably took away their wives as well and maybe these children were not legitimate children and their fathers were Egyptians. Therefore, what God did was he put his name amongst them for following made them follow saying I give witness that this is their true father and the women were not promiscuous. This is what it says by King David. This is the nation, the tribes of God are a testimony for the Jewish people that God's name Ka is a testimony to the fact that all of them were uh holy and did not engage in any type of relationship with the Egyptian people. Therefore, we're going to find all of them it says however doesn't say it. He didn't have to say it. But by he didn't have to say it because the name already has God's name. The yud in the beginning and the he at the end. It's interesting to note that when we talk about the story of the fellow who was blasphemous and said God's name because he didn't have a place and his mother was the one who was attacked by an Egyptian man. over there the medra says the reason why this was only a one-time event because since she was the only one who was with an Egyptian man and therefore we don't find any other instances and the Jewish people didn't know what to do because this was not a recurring event and this is something that the Jewish women are credited to during the time of their while they were in Egypt how they were faithful to their husbands as well verse family. These are the families of their count was 43,730. Verse 8, and the children of was the children of Ali. This is the the famous who were the chosen of the congregation who incited the Jewish people against Mosha in the assembly of Korak when they incited the Jewish people against God Rashi. What is it talking about? What's this incitement? They incited, they created uh divisiveness and cited the Jewish people that they should complain against Moshe when they also when the Jewish people complained about God. He as well meaning that they incited the people they caused them to get upset and angry and make problems against Moshe. And the Torah concludes and tells us what happened there at the time. Where did they go? And the mouth opened it, the ground opened to its mouth and it swallowed them. When the entire community was dying, while all the people, while the congregation died and the fire destroyed the 250 people that were in the tabernacle trying to bring those insens on the pans that Moshe said, and this became ultimately for a sign that everyone should know that this dispute, what Korak did was never again disputed that Moshe, Aaron, and all the people that Moshe appointed was by divine uh inspiration and what God wanted. Rash the word as a sign and to remember it's that nobody should ever complain against about who is the right. The Torah adds in something over here in verse 11 letting us know the children of Korak did not die. What does this mean? Rashi explains they were the ones that were part of the incitement of Korak's coup against Moshe in the beginning. However, once this became got out of hand and they started the ar the fight became larger they decided to repent. Therefore, therefore a place was made for them in hell that the in purgatory that meaning that the earth that was beneath them opened up and they were had a a hollow space to escape. The yashu shaman they stayed there and therefore they were saved from uh death. The word over here when we talk about purgatory when the the ground opened up meaning that everybody else fell into the ground but therefore it's considered as a terminology of purgatory that they went to verse 12 for the family of the descendants of according to their families. verse 13 and over here Rashi tells us what does it mean in telling us the names of the families and we'll notice that sometimes the families are different from the families that were mentioned previously. So Rashi explains why that is the for example it's the same person as because the word comes from the word Zohar which means to shine means to shine later on we talk about the name of Shim then he long by this by this count none of them were still alive anymore we find this later on as well when it comes to the tribe of five of his families are no longer he came down to Egypt with 10 children. But over here when we talk about the count there's only five of them. So we will find that is no longer for the family of God. And forb seven that means from three tribes seven families went missing and I found this in the track of in the in the Jerusalem that when Aaron died the clouds of glory went away as well. Boakan and the Canananites came to wage war against the Jewish people and they had some of them decided you know what we don't want to fight the Canananites and we'll go back to Egypt and they went backwards eight travels eight stops from as it says in the book of Deuteronomy that the Jewish people traveled from and over there Aaron died but didn't he die in like we learned and from it's eight different stops. So where did he die? Was it a backwards? These seven families tried to go back seven stops go towards Egypt. The ch tribe of Ley chased after them to bring them back and seven of these families were killed as well. And because of that and from the children of four families died which were and then and from only mentions here that means it was only very few the fourth one I don't know which one it is. So what happened over here is therefore it says that Aaron died there meaning that because of the terrible uh pain and the the loss of families that happened because of Aaron's passing it's as if he died as well explains that the people that are missing and the families were missing that they died during the plague after the story of bum Shim. However, according to the count, if you do the math, if you see the difference that from Shvet Shim, from the tribe of Shim, you're missing 24,000. And it seems like that all of them that died during the plague were from the tribe of Shimon. And this was 24,000 different from this count to the previous count. Verse 14. The families of was 22,200. Verse 15 for the families of God. Verse 16 for the family of the family of because in the accounting of the people going down to Egypt we don't find anybody by the name of Osni. So therefore, Rashi says and must be the same person. I don't know why they changed his name from from Spain to and why they don't call them the same name. [snorts] These are the families of God according to their count which is 40,500. Verse 19, the children of Yehuda died in the land of the children of according to their families. Verse 21 and the children of Paris were the family. Verse 22. These are the families of Yehuda according to their count 76,500. Verse 23, the family according to their families. Verse 24, for the family was the family of the family of Shiman. Rashi. This is the same name as we look when in the book of Genesis when it tells us about the people who went down to Egypt's family. There's a fellow by the name because all the families were called by the names of the fellows who went down to Egypt and the people that were born anytime afterwards were all part of the same families besides because the only ones that didn't come down to Egypt were the families of the children of Yoseph that they were all born in Egypt and the children of Bella the son have been and I found in the in the books of the discussions of that really their mother went down to Egypt when she was pregnant with them. They were twins and therefore she was considered as part of those that went down to Egypt. Therefore they were split into different families. For example, and were grandchildren of Yehuda and they were also considered from the people that went down to Egypt. So too and they were also considered part of the people that went down to Egypt. So over here when we're talking about the different families that went down to Egypt, uh there's different ones that some are considered as the grandchildren and some are the children as well, but they're all go by the names of the people who came down to Egypt. Rashi continues back onto what he's talking about. Erd and Neon were the grandchildren of Bella because the mother came down pregnant. Back to what Raisha Darian says. He says if this is what from the rabbi if Darian's giving this based on what he read in a medish based on the rabbis great but if not maybe if this is because of a mistake I say I think Bella the son of had many children. And therefore from these two sons came a great family more than the rest of the brothers. And therefore they're all called by Bella's name. We see the same thing happened by Manasha that he had the children of that the families are basically split into two. One is called by the children of Manasha. is called the children of Mak because basically there were many families that were the he was the majority of all the families. So they just all attached them to him. Rashi continues and says another thing he found pertaining to said there were five families as we mentioned previously in the Rashi that there are five families missing of the family of this is actually we are part of the prophecy of his mother came true. So she called him the son of my uh the son of my pain or the son the son of my suffering and when the story of the plegish and giva which is spoken about in the story of judges which then most many of the tribe of were killed. This is where she talks about my suffering that over here five of the families of bey were killed which is suffering and as well even later on that many more of beyammen were killed. This is where Darian explains when he talks about the families of biny. So what we have over here is the rashi is telling us that many times while the Torah tells us about the families, it's not necessarily directly those descendants of that exact family. Many times the smaller family were con mixed with the larger families of that tribe. Verse 25, these are the families of according to their counts 64,300. We're now with the family of Zul. We go through the different families of the families of according to their names. these are the families of the according to their count according to their families and this and here which was 60,500 verse 28 verse 28's family according to their families which was verse 29 had again gave birth to Gilad family. These are the children of Gilad. The Torah tells us now about a fellow by the name of the son of he had no sons. He had no sons only daughters and the daughters of these are the families of and their count was 52,700 verse 35 these are the families of according to their families All the other families and children of were called by the name of and from Aiden as well was a very large family. They were called by his name and the family of was considered as two large families. You will see this by making the calculation. You'll find uh 75 families and from the ley family you'll find eight families. So you have now 57 plus I'm sorry 57 not 75 57 families and then from Ley you have another eight gives you a total of shishim 65 this is why the Torah tells us in the book of Deuteronomy you are the minority if you take the letter hey and the word so the word hey which makes five so if you take the letter Five ma 70 minus 5 is 65. Telling the Jewish people that you are five minus the entire nations of the world. There are 70 nations in the world and you are 65. You're five minus them of all your families. He says this is what I understood from the commentary of however I needed to add and deduct to draw this conclusion. verse 37 if these are the children of the family of Iran as Rashi just explained that these were two families that came and therefore they mixed all the families into these two large families these are the families of quoted the entire account it was 32,500 these are the families according to their families. 38. We're now to the family. The family of according to their families. He was called because this is my brother that was taken down to Egypt. All those children, he named them. As we learned in the book of Genesis, that all his 10 kids, he named them about what happened to his family and his brother Yoseph was named because his brother became great and greater than him while he was in Egypt. the family who is we don't find this name in the children of that the book of Genesis. He says who this is the same fellow as Mupim. This is because Yoseph was had to be um when he was taken first by the brothers he was considered that he was like a slave by them and he had to be uh the concept that he had to kneel and so to speak be um full to whatever they need at their times and therefore he gave him the go the word mup uh called him. However, when he called him the name Mupim was because he also studied Torah from his father from the word mip. We continue with verse 40 and the children of these are the children of according to their families and their countish was [clears throat] 45,600. Verse 42. These are the children of Dan according to their families. The family this is the families of D according to their families who is this. If it's just if you take the same word and you spin the words around you'll get meaning it's the same. It's the same fellow. 43 uh 43. Yes. All the families of Shukami according to their count was our boyish was 64,400 the family of their families the name of the daughter of was this is the families of according to their account [snorts] which was the for the family of Usher was the amount of 53,400. If you notice the only one woman that they named over here was Sarah the only daughter of Usher and this is because she was still alive. She was blessed by Yakov with long life and therefore at this point she was still alive and therefore the Torah tells us her praise and her greatness that she had such a long life and therefore the Torah gives her a shout out. Verse 48. The family of according to their families are the family of the family of these are the families of according to their families and their number was 45,400. These are the counts of the entire Jewish people which you would come to a number of 61,730. This concludes the second Torah reading of Paras.