Semuchim M'yad - Connecting Parshas Pinchas With the End of Balak

Recording in progress. >> Okay. Good afternoon everyone. Hope you're having an easy fast. We're having the Shiurim today instead of tomorrow. We're going to begin with Smoochum Miyad explaining the juxtaposition of the Parshios connecting Parshas Pinchas with the previous Parsha, Parshas Balak. And here away we go. Parshas Pinchas. Now, the juxtaposition of the Parshios would be very obvious, which is probably why the Balak Turim didn't comment. The end of Parshas Balak, we read the story of Pinchas that he prevented the Magefa and he saved the Jewish people. And the story continues in the beginning of Parshas Pinchas to tell us about the reward that Kodesh Baruch Hu gave Pinchas. And that's why there's no explanation in the Balak Turim for the juxtaposition of the Parshios. But, we could add a little bit further explanation that the reward of Pinchas was Heishiv es chamosi. He reverted back my wrath. Mayal benei Yisrael bikanoisi when he avenged my vengeance. Diloi chilisam es bikinoisi. So, we have this uh description of Hashem's anger and his vengeance. He protected Klal Yisrael from the cheima and the kinah of Kodesh Baruch Hu. Well, how how would we describe that kinah? How would we describe that cheima? Well, that's what it says at the end of Balak. The last pasuk of Balak, uh it was vayiyu hameisim bamageifa arba ve'esrim elef, 24,000. Namely, the cheima and the kinah was so great that 24,000 people died because of it. So, therefore, it's a big deal that Pinchas was able to turn back that wrath and that vengeance because look what it did before he turned it back. Furthermore, the juxtaposition could be explained as follows. That if so many Jews died, >> [clears throat] >> then what exactly did Pinhas accomplish? What was his big achievement? What was his big contribution? He saved us 24,000 people died already. The answer is no. The Lo Yichli Si Hashem Yisrael. You're right, 24,000 uh 24,000 members of the Jewish people were were killed in the magefa. But it could have been utter annihilation. It could have been kilayon. So, the parsha Parshas Balak ends 24,000 people died. Which begs the question, so what exactly did Pinkha- Pinhas accomplish? The answer is Lo Yichli Si Hashem Yisrael, that the Ribono Shel Olam did not utterly decimate the Jewish people. That was the big achievement. That was the big accomplishment. Okay. Now, uh look in the uh Sifrei HaMar of Rabbi Avraham Saba, and he adds some uh very powerful Kabbalistic ideas. It says at the end of Balak that Pinhas took a roimakh, he took a spear. And it says in the Zohar that Pinhas saw the middas hadin was outstretched against the Jewish people, and the Malach HaMaves was dancing among them, and therefore he took a spear. Now, Chazal say that we have 224 248 limbs that we're supposed to dedicate to Avodas Hashem. So, this is merumas when it says that Klaal Yisrael violated the Chayrem, Malu BaChayrem. BaChayrem meaning they violated the 248 limbs and therefore there was a Mageifa. So, Pinchas came to reverse the Chayrem, the fact that Klaal Yisrael sinned with 248 limbs and therefore he took a Roymach, he took a Roymach in order to turn back the wrath of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. So, the juxtaposition of the Parshios is that Pinchas saw that Klaal Yisrael had violated the Chayrem, therefore he took a Roymach and the Midas Chayrem, the Tzur HaMar says, um, was the Midas, the the Chayrem was transformed into Rachamim, but then the Tzur HaMar adds another Kabbalistic secret, namely, if you look in the Zohar, it says, "What did Pinchas see?" It says, "Va'Yar Pinchas ben Elazar HaKohen." What exactly did Pinchas see? Chazal say he saw a floating Mem. You know, the doctor tells you, "If you see a floater, you have to report it right away. It's very dangerous to see a floater." Pinchas saw a floater. He saw a floating Mem. What was that floating Mem? It was the very same Mem that appeared when Adam HaRishon ate from the the Eitz HaDaas, it says, "Va'Tikach Mi Pirya." He took Mem Piryo. When he took the fruit, there was a Mem there. Mem stands for Misa. The Mem that Adam HaRishon unleashed combined with the Vav Tav of Va'Tikach, Va'Tochal, there are many words there that start with Vav Tav and the Mem combined with the vav taf to create mavet. And he took the mem of and it created So, Pinchas when he saw this floating mem he was very frightened. The floating mem represents the mesa, it represents death. So, he took roimakh. What does that mean? He took the mem of the malach hamavet. And he combined it with the reish chet of his name. Pinchas is gematria 208. Gematria reish chet. Pinchas with a yud, with the yud equals 208. So, Pinchas took the mem. He combined it with the reish chet of his name and he created a roimakh. Now that he grabbed the mem of the malach hamavet and he combined it with his name, the mageifa stopped. The gematria >> [snorts] >> of Pinchas, 208 is the same as Yitzchak. Yitzchak is 208. Yitzchak is pachad Yitzchak. Pinchas clung to Yitzchak. And he grabbed the mem >> [snorts] >> of the malach hamavet to be merachem on klal Yisrael. Just like Yitzchak was sanctified on Har Hamoriah. So, therefore says the Tzur Amar, because Pinchas took one letter from the malach hamavet and attached it to himself, so Hashem gave him an extra letter, the ot yud. Pinchas is spelled malei. Why? Because he was mekaneh on the covenant. Therefore, it was given to Pinchas the secret of the ot brit, which is the letter yud, which is the atarah, the atarah of the brit. This is what it means. Hinni no same lie as brisi shalim. >> [snorts] >> Now, here I want to add one idea. At the end of parshas Balak, it says that Pinchas came vayavo acher ish Yisrael el hakuba. Vayidkar shnayim es ish Yisrael v'es ha'isha el kavasa. Rashi explains the word kavasa is like the word hakiva, referring to the fact that Pinchas stabbed Zimri and Cozbi in the zachrus of Zimri and the nakvus of Cozbi. He slaughtered them with his sword b'makom hamila. So, we could explain the juxtaposition of the parshiyos. It says vayavo vayidkar shnayim vayavo el hakuba, which means he struck them b'makom hamila. And then it says Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aaron. The rashei teivos is Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aaron equals 86, which is the gematria of mila im haklal, to remez that he pierced them in the makom mila. So, that's another explanation for the juxtaposition of the parshiyos. This is smuchim meyad on parshas Pinchas. >> Recording stopped.