The Jew Crosses Every Red Line, but Moshe Will Not Disown Him

welcome to everybody joining us from all over the world the united states of america our brothers and sisters in florida may hashem protect them all bring nissim and the flyers to claudius cyril and to all those who are anticipating great miracles and our hearts and prayers are with all those who have lost loved ones in the serve side tragedy and our hearts and prayers are with all those who are waiting for this and waiting for miracles we should hear only yeshua's venus amen kenya hiratsu thank you everybody for joining us today is thursday morning of course thomas thompson paal of the 21st of thomas 5781 july 1st one today's class is dedicated by a dear friend of mendel zilberberg in the loving memory of his father rava kiva ben in honor of his father's yard site this shabbos on the twenty-third day of tamil's which happens to be also the yard site of the great ramak the author of the paradise and time advisor and many other great kabbalistic works ramak passed away in 1570 in svas the old cemetery in swash you'll see there are marcus buried theresa who passed away two years later is buried right near the ramak so that's also thomas harava kiva zilberberg was a well-known and dedicated askin an activist of a great dynasty of terrorist scholars and teachers and during his years back in europe and then in pittsburgh and then in new york he dedicated his life to spread ava saturday ava's hashem and obviously may his memory be an everlasting source of blessing and inspiration to his family to his children grandchildren to the homies bacha and to all of us and to all of the jewish people amen so we began on monday segment one of a sikh a sheer by the lava chereb in the cote siches volume 18 parches pinchas analyzing and dissecting a rashi in pinchas we did the first section in the in the previous year and now we're going to do the second one thank you for uh posting the pdf on on the chat and the zoom yes please open your pdf if you're on the zoom they just put a link in the chat you can find it or you can go to the shiva.net v t-h-e-y-e-s-h-i-v-a dot net and you'll see the top shear what's the title the title is thursday class the web is take on intermarriage and over there on top of the video you'll see view source sheets and you can open your source sheets or below the video there's download and you can download your sources because we're going to be learning inside but before i begin i just want to say you know sometimes when you're learning one of the things i've seen over the years learning myself and teaching and learning with others is that people often don't realize and don't master the full structure of something they hear of art here and inside here perspective okay there's a question there's a proof there's an answer when you ask them to give you the full picture what's called the kudas it's called in kabbalah to be able to really present the full fledged picture like a structure every every singer is like a home it's an edifice that's built there's a beginning there's a middle there's an end to able to be able to capture the full holistic experience it only then does one really have at least somewhat of a grasp and an understanding so when you finish learning something reviewing something whatever it may be a blood gemara whatever it is that you're learning at the end to be able to really grasp the full picture see the whole idea that was being presented but also be able to convey it at least generally through the details through the paratham that were conveyed so that the person really gets a feel a full understanding of it so what i'm going to do now is give a very brief summary of everything we learned in the first section in the first year for two reasons those who were there it's not for those who were in there for those who were there to be able to really just get the full picture it's gonna be a very brief summation and then we're gonna go on to section two if you didn't learn section one you'll still understand section two but it's still worth it to review monday morning's class because it'll give you a fuller understanding so let's begin right away the context of this is arashi and pasha's pinchus after a devastating a devastating catastrophe that befell the jewish people many many jews fall prey to the temptations of promiscuity with the young women of midian and the women of mayof in addition to that they fall prey to the devastating and strange idolatry called baalpoi they begin worshiping it and you know as rashi says the gemara says in sanhedrin the way they worshipped baal paar was that you actually defecated and urinated in front of this idol this deity and this was the way to worship it we're not getting in now who would invent such a form of idolatry it's a fascinating discussion but it's the on the beyond the realm of this class now in many ways this was one of the greatest disasters in jewish history in fact the gomorrah says that the problems of baal pair still plague the jewish people till the resurrection of the dead maisha passes away at the end of hamish and it says where is he buried baseball he's buried parallel to this one of the pagan ashrams of of balpar which is a very strange location to identify marsha's grave with that and the our sages explain the meaning of that and the reason for that i'm just trying to bring out how serious this issue was and you're not talking about a few individuals you're talking about as we learned hundreds of thousands in other words a huge percentage of the jewish people this wasn't a small percentage mama is a huge percentage and as a result of this there was a plague a plague an epidemic that claimed the lives of twenty four thousand jews in addition to that in addition to that the posix says that moisture moisture told the judges to judge to bring to court so to speak in the desert anyone who has committed these capital crimes and if there was appropriate witnesses and appropriate warnings and everything there could be a death penalty it wasn't easy to get a death penalty in jewish law but maisha bainu tells the judges that those jews who worshipped idolatry who engaged in valparais hear gu isha nashv they should be given the death penalty if they warrant it if they deserve it okay so you have a plague you have a mageifa and you have all these people who were killed through the courts granted comes the possibilities and says after the plague after the plague after the epidemic what happens hashem tells moisha and elazar al-azhar is of course the successor of arab count the jewish people i want you to count everybody from 20 and up up those who are eligible to go and serve in the army and that's what they do and the continuation of the parachute deals with the senses that's taken the reckoning the sins that's taken of the jewish people comes rashi and says after the plague after the plague hashem said to count the jewish people and he gives the famous metaphor the shepherd and the wolf what was the metaphor there was a shepherd and wolves wolves came in to his flock they came in latoya adored they came into the flock and they started to kill sheep or goats or other cattle so the shepherd starts counting the survivors to know how many survivors there are in the flock that's rashi's metaphor to explain he doesn't say what why why he's saying this metaphor but obviously he wants to explain something then he gives a second explanation of and the second explanation is when the jews left egypt and they were given over to moshe as a leader they were given over to him through a census they were counted after the exodus so they would not just god didn't just say here take these people it's with a number with a husband now it's time for moshe to give back the sheep when he was given the flock when he was given the flock it was with a number now the shepherd needs to give back the flock because he's about to pass away later in this portion hashem is going to tell my shepherd to go on top of the mountain he's going to pass away that's when he appoints a successor this is the parachute where moshe begins preparing for his passing so how do you give it back you give it back with a number so hashem tells me i should count them and then you'll give up the flock those are the two insights in rush now what's bothering rashi he says after the plague hashem said to count the jewish people fine what what do i need an interpretation here let's go on so what's bothering rashi so this is you see it in the come in the footnotes of the explain very simple very simple explanation what's the connection between the plague and the senses it says it happened after the epidemic god said to count the jewish people why after the mageife what's the connection even if one happened after the other and the toyota could have said after this he said to count the jewish people that attorney says and it happened after the mage furthermore they didn't have to say anything so they could have just told the story of the epidemic and then say the next portion god told moshe to count the jewish people we would already understand that it was a chronological order usually it's it's chronological but the terrorist says no it happened after the plague this means that there is a thematic connection between the two so this is how she has to explain what's the connection because there was a plague therefore we should count why counting is a good thing you take a census nations take senses all the time every few years i think in america every 10 years we take account it's part of the law you got to know what's going on you had to know how many people you're handling with i understand in the army they take a set that people take senses what's the connection with the plagues or how she has to say because a pack of wolves infiltrated the flock and they killed many sheep no kidding many sheep were killed so the shepherd counts he wants to know what he's left with that's why after the plague god says to count the jewish people it makes a lot of sense beautiful says this ram says this who else says this the devic tov says this this is the basic the basic uh yeah here's the problem the problem that ebba raises is this can't be an explanation in rashi and here the reb is going to ask eight questions eight questions that these all of these questions bring him and us to a different way of understanding rash and again i told you in summaries it's important to get the full picture so you want to get all the questions what are the questions question number one let's go fast question number one if this is the meaning in rashid we have a problem he already said this in the beginning of bamidbari over there there was a count forty years earlier there was a count rishikesh year the second year after they left egypt there was a count so rashi says why and he says god loves the jewish people and therefore he's always counting them of course if there's no change you don't have to count them if you have a money in the safe and nothing changed you don't have to count them whenever there's a change and something could have been affected there's always a count they leave egypt he counts them they sin in the golden calf and many perish he counts them again he builds the mishkan and brings the shrine among them he counts them again whenever there's some type of change he counts them that's what rashi said so it's a very clear why he counted them here just like it says earlier when they fell in the golden calf and he loves them so he wanted to count he want to know how many were lost and how many are still here here again many jews were lost he counted them rashi already explained it in the opening of bamidbar why this need for a whole long explanation and a whole long metaphor so you're going to say well people forget what he said earlier this was bamidba this is pinchas it's a few shabbas ago okay so remind us briefly and say the reason we were counting is to know the survivors why do we want to know the survivors you already told us because we love us i got it no rashi gives us all right she doesn't say he loves he gives that he doesn't even talk about love here he doesn't say god loves us he gives a idea that there was a pack of wolves that went in and there was a shepherd and the shepherd wanted to know you already gave an explanation god loves us and if whenever there's a dramatic change especially when there's loss you want to count to remind us of that explanation he seems to give here a different explanation at least a different touch that's question number one question number two why is there a need for a metaphor a metaphor is here to explain something that's incomprehensible or at least it's difficult to wrap my brain around so you give me a metaphor a parable an illustration an allegory that's why people give them a shalom you give metaphors what's the diff what's the difficulty here that moishe was a shepherd of the jewish people is quite clear at this point of the game for 40 years this man has led the jewish people through difficult and easy situations he led them with absolute commitment and self-sacrifice that we have seen again and again and again and we fought for them and prayed for them and rescued them and saved them in fact when they ever said this it was shabbos pink is tough shalom dalit summer in 1974 that ever added it's not here in the print but that bad when he spoke it ever added he said it's the other way around if you want to bring if you want to explain what a shepherd looks like you use moisture as a metaphor if you want to give a workshop for shepherds how they should take care of their flock the illustration has to be martial emotional let me tell you how it works with maisha and then shepherds should learn from myself mystery doesn't have to learn from a shepherd mission was the archetype maisha was the ideal shepherd like attacker the first story about martial what does it say in schmoyes was a shepherd as the madrid famously explains over there why do we need a metaphor with wolves that come into the to the flock and kill them and the shepherd is worried and wants to know just tell tell me the point moshe cared for the jewish people he was their leader he wanted to know how many survived question two question three yeah you're with me are you with me you're with me okay question three the metaphor is inconsistent with the story here who told moshe to count the jewish people the owner of the sheep mush is the shepherd masha takes care of the sheep but the owner of the sheep is hashem rashid says in the metaphor the shepherd went to count them that's what rashid says but in the story here hashem told moshe to count them it's the owner of the sheep who told moshe to counter so there's something inconsistent here but that's not what it actually says right she says the shepherd counsel not the owner but in the story it's the owner who tells the shepherd to count them question number three so you're going to say you'll answer no hashem is telling moshe to do something that he should be doing and he wants to be doing okay fine but rashi could have just said that ratchet could have just said the metaphor is that wolves came in and they ate sheep and they killed sheep right and the owner said let's count them just just make it suitable that's question number three question number four in the madrashim in tanhuma and madrid the source of this rash it actually didn't write this on his own he got it from madrid over there the metaphor is brought in context of the owner of a sheep number five question number five empathy empathiza you have almost an identical rashi almost verbatim rashi says did that after the jews have created the golden calf god told maisha to count him and he gives a metaphor and the metaphor is what there was an epidemic and many sheep died in the epidemic and the owner of the sheep who loves the sheep told the shepherd please i beg you count them he wants to show everybody how much he loves and cherishes his flock so rashi already in a similar situation where jews died after the golden calf gave the same metaphor and there he attributed it to the owner not to the shepherd do you know why because this was hashem's idea not moisture's idea it was the owner's idea now the shepherd said that here rashi repeats the same idea he changes it he changes it the way it says in madras he makes his own metaphor that the shepherd did it when it's completely inconsistent with the story that hashem did it and it's inconsistent with what he himself writes and parishes he sees in a similar story that's question number five which brings us to question number six in the previous story he says there was a pen an epidemic here he says there were wolves in fact the epidemic makes much more sense because it says not wolves mageife is not a pack of wolves that come and devour sheep a mageef is an epidemic it's a plague that's what my game is aveeno malcano we said to the festive should have given the right metaphor not wolves that's what he said before by the eagle he said there was a devil there was an epidemic and therefore the sheep died here he changes it suddenly it's wolves it's very strange that's six number seven in parishes he speaks about love the owner of the sh of the flock wanted they to be counted to demonstrate his love to them so when some are lost he wants to know who's lost and who's left because he loves them here ashley ignores that expression over there he uses twice the word he doesn't say a word about having love he just says there was a shepherd and the shepherd saw the wolves came in and sheep were killed and he wanted to know how many had survived what happened to this love to this affection he ignores it completely number eight question number eight this is in a footnote why does rashi says avim wolves he should have said a wolf a wolf why two wolves and actually he says martial is one second is a vim wolves why wolves one wolf you say well it was a pack of wolves why do you need that so you'll say what's the difference i'll tell you the difference in madrish where actually took it from it says eve one wolf rashi again changes he says wolves what's missing in the metaphor if it's one wolf that came in and wrecked wreaked havoc and that's why he counted them and then there's the ninth question and the ninth question is why does he actually need a second interpretation dover that the reason moishe counted them was because he was about to die and give them back he says why do you need a second explanation what's wrong with the first expression in fact the second explanation is inferior to the first explanation that's why he says it as a second because the second explanation does not explain the connection to the plague it's connected to maisha's death not to the plague and that's why rashford puts it as the second he says why does he even need it why does he even need a second explanation what's wrong with the first when actually brings a second explanation now she doesn't quote every comment commentary that's there in every matrix on every possible he only brings those comments that commentary that explains the literal meaning of the posse that's rashi's race and the yeti's mission statement so when he brings a second explanation it's because there's something lacking and missing and disturbing and not unsatisfying about the first those are the nine questions the laboratory poses i hope i didn't lose you guys you're taking notes good nine questions you could review it you could review it afterwards even if you didn't understand everything what's the answer what's the answer he gives so somebody asked me somebody asks her why don't we just say that it's possible that rashi made an error rashi just made an error and that's why that's how you answer the rebbe's questions no you tell me what you think what do you think about your own answer just without getting into many details i don't know how exactly how to respond to it but i'll just give a very basic response to you and that is when you when you read a a book a commentary and you see genius perceptiveness meticulousness precision rhythm and infinite depth in every word and every sentence and then you stumble on a question what do you think is the most intelligent thing to say the person made an error or i should maybe investigate a little more to give you a very practical example if you're studying your own body your own biology and there's something in your body that you think is useless or inconsequential you know there are a few things in the body that scientists still struggle you know why do we need them wisdom teeth whatever it is what do you think is the rational conclusion there's 80 trillion cells and each one plays a role the body is filled with endless different dimensions and components and each one contributes something to life now you come across something you don't understand so do you say the whole organism is just one big mishmash it's a mistake it's all an error or maybe i have to search a little deeper that's the answer to your question next question are the 24 thousand students will be achieving the same souls of the 24 000 people who died in the plague oh that's a good question yes that's what dariesel teaches but it's beyond the realm of this class one more step it's the 24 000 people who were killed in shechem by shimon and levi by the story of dina but that's a separate that's a separate class so let's now get to the answer what's the what's the lapavatra's answer his answer is rashi we have nine questions that have to be answered nine questions and the answer is one answer and that one answer answers all the nine questions why the answer is what was bothering rashi was not why after the plague god would say to counter jewish people that we already would understand what's bothering him is something else do with two factors that caused the deaths of jews i mentioned it in the beginning one is a plague that claimed 24 000 but there were more than 170 000 who sadly and tragically war into the death penalty and as rashi says the judges had them killed their lives were taken more than 170 000 so now i ask you if it's 176 thousand versus 24 thousand and you have to mention a cause of loss you have to mention something that caused the loss of so many jews which is the greater one the mageifa which claimed 24 000 lives or the executions that claim the lives of 176 000 jews as rashi says at the end of balak this is more than seven times the amount of the first seven times 24 000 is 168 000. so this is more than seven times and the trader is silent about it says after the epidemic he says to count the jewish people after that epidemic why because you want to know the survivors yeah because you want to know how many were lost and you want to know who survived shouldn't you mention the much more titanic devastation and catastrophe the much larger and greater corbin that happened with the death of a hundred and seventy six thousand jews so after the death of all the jews the pandemic too the the epidemic too the mage for two but that's 24 000. not to underestimate 24 000 god forbid but you ignore completely the loss of a number that's seven times larger than twenty four thousand you ignore it i don't understand after the plague shouldn't you say all the jews that were killed 176 thousand plus the pagaif the entire ignores it serious question what happened it goes so far that there's mufashim if you look in the ramban you look there's commentators that say that the judges didn't kill anybody the plague took care of everything rashi disagrees it actually clearly says at the end of bullock that the judges did kill according to the law of terror but i i'm telling you how far it goes that some commentators say even though moishe said we have to kill those who deserve the death penalty it never materialized you look the ramban has a whole discussion on this he brings in the footnotes but rashi clearly says that there were these death penalties you completely ignore them in the aftermath of the story i don't understand imagine a person a person has a huge company and in the company there's a safe and the safety is five million dollars and somebody comes in thieves come in and they steal five million dollars five million dollars are gone the same time there's another thousand dollars not five million thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars in one of the draws and another thief comes in and steals that money now you're making a reckoning what's left so you say by the way you know that what happened to this company five ten thousand dollars were stolen say hey you got a bigger problem you got five million dollars that was taken ten thousand dollars is important don't ignore that when you're making a reckonings like we have to figure out what's happening here with the money because ten thousand dollars were taken you completely ignore the five million dollars something is strange there was a much there was another major catastrophe a clear question so for this rashi needs to explain something and that's why he gives a unique metaphor and that's why he needs a metaphor which answers question number two we're now going to give an answer that's going to answer all the nine questions we're gonna answer eight we're still gonna get to the ninth there was a shepherd and a pack of wolves came in and the wolves killed the sheep and the shepherd wants to know the survivors and this answers everything this parable of rashi answers everything why so somebody says here it's apples and oranges the ones that died through the judges it was a rightful punishment you're right but the ones who died by the epidemic was also a rightful punishment it came from god so rabbits in aviva i hope that's answering your question so the explanation is as follows when an owner of sheep takes account of the sheep afterwards after there was a loss what's the purpose of it the purpose of it is he wants to know how many sheep are left how many died how many survived why because he cares for them he lo as rashi says i can i care for it this is this is my cattle my sheep my animals my money my assets i care it's irrelevant if it happened because of a hurricane a tsunami a natural disaster an earthquake or because of lionesses or a pack of wolves who came in and my shepherd was negligent that's a separate situation but the owner makes a count in any situation whatever the cause of death was i care and therefore i want to know what i'm left with i want to know how many were lost and how many survived the reason for it negligence or natural disasters that i can't blame anybody but mother nature or god that's irrelevant to an owner taking a census because the reason i'm taking a sentence is because i care for this thing that i lost for these flock for this flock that i lost many many of my sheep many of my goats many of my animals many of my mammals i care for them and therefore i take a census a shepherd is an employee he doesn't own them when he takes a census he's not the bookkeeper why is he taking a census he has a job to do he's not the owner he doesn't own these sheep he's an employee that's what we're talking about there's the owner and there's a shepherd he's not the owner he's the employee he doesn't have to take a reckoning he's not it's not his thing how many there are how many that were the owner wants to know because it's his i want to know what i lost and what i still have great the shepherd works so here is the sheep go do your job why would a shepherd take a census that says one reason if a shepherd feels responsible if i feel that i may have done something to contribute or at least not to avoid the catastrophe i now feel responsible and because i feel responsible therefore i want to take a reckoning because i tell myself i have to re-think how i'm doing this work so i have to start all over again got to press ctrl alt delete and start over again so i want to know how many sheep i now have to take care of because i cannot just go back to the way things were before i kind of say okay let's move on whatever there are no no i need to make a plan because i feel negligent that's the difference between the senses taken by the owner the senses taken by the shepherd okay number one number two what's the difference between an epidemic and a pack of wolves an epidemic the shepherd can't avoid coronavirus travels or another epidemic spanish flu travels there's nothing the shepherd can do a pack of wolves there's a lot to do you can build a wall you can have dogs you can have a stick you learn how to chase away wolves there's ways people do it all the time the epidemic the shepherd couldn't avoid the pack of wolves he feels responsible got it now point number three what was the difference in the sin of the golden calf in here sin of the golden calf moisture was on the mountain he wasn't there when they did it he was completely not connected to the consequences there was a there was an epidemic there was a mage for three thousand jews no three thousand jews were killed but there wasn't it doesn't say i don't think it says how many jews died in the plague by they're called by the colonel but it wasn't connected to him unfortunately he was on the mountain god said go down it wasn't there what about here what happened here in pashas balak what happened what happened was the jewish people engaged in promiscuity in adultery in idolatry and a plague broke out hashem a plague broke out against the jewish people it says when the jewish people did this hashem god's wrath was burning as rashi says there was a mageife and that's when moishe tells the judges you have to give the death penalty to those who deserve it and then what happens is there's a man his name is he publicly publicly cohabits with a midianite prince's princess by the name of cosby and he does this in front of moshe and he speaks to moshe and he tells mueller i'm doing it because of you you married a midianite woman see poera i'm allowed to be with a midianite woman and moishe and everybody is weeping he does not know what to do and what to say and that's when pinchas reminds moishe there's a halal ram is if somebody publicly has intimacy with a non-jewish woman canoeing the zealots are allowed to kill him they want to kill him without a court case once he stops once he's fit once they separate you're not louder you would be killed you would be given the death penalty you don't kill somebody outside of court there has to be a coordinator but there's a few situations somebody who's having a relations with a non-jew sexual promiscuous intimate relations that's what does he kills zimri he kills cosby and that's what causes the pandemic the epidemic to stop and rash he says so everybody cried everybody cried there was a reason why hashem wanted pinchas to become a cayenne but moishe forgot allah so maisha felt responsible for the plague because when pinkas did what he did and he killed zimri the plague stopped but not before it claimed the lives of 24 000 jews maisha felt i have responsibility in other words it's not an it's not an epidemic it's wolves why does rashford say wolves plural so the rebel says in a footnote because the deaths came from the map for the deaths came from the wolves the sheep died from the wolves but there were two sins there were two wolves that caused the death what were the two sins idolatry and adultery the terrorist says number one there was terrible harlotry with all the women of midian and m with many women of midian and life number two there was the idolatry of power wasn't one wolf there were two wolves two wolves infiltrated and killed the sheep two wolves the mageifa came because of two reasons if this is now the case everything becomes clear by the eagle rashi talks about an epidemic and rashi says who's counting the sheep the owner simply because he loves them i don't care if you were responsible or not it's not about blame i want to know how many jews survived the sin of the golden calf and he speaks about a pendant an epidemic keep on using the word pandemic he keeps on you he keeps he uses the word epidemic why because it's not the guilt of the shepherd he's not responsible for it he was on the mountain the owner said to make her senses because he loves his sheep he loves the jewish people and every jew is precious every jew that was lost is precious and every jew that survived is precious i want to know who i have here here it's a different count moishe wants to do the count you know why because he's the shepherd and he feels responsible because he feels vulnerable he wants to know how many sheep he has left so that he should understand now how to make a plan for the future that this will never happen again so i have to know i have six hundred thousand six hundred and three thousand sheep i have to figure now out of way how these people are gonna be protected and this will never happen never again will there be a mage on my watch there's also another point here important emphasis has another point by counting them and counting the survivors maesha realizes how many were lost he realizes he realizes 24 000 were lost because you see the contrast of the number before and the number now and this reminds him his responsibility and it reminds him about the sin of negligence so there's two things here moshe wants to take the count he wants to be reminded to see clearly what his so-called negligence relative to his level has cost when i count the losses it wakes me up it tells me the truth this is what's going on this is what you have to face that's number one number two he wants to know the numbers so you could make a new plan of how to lead them i'm saying these two points because people who learned this didn't understand both points are important this emphasizes both points ah now i understand why he doesn't talk about the other deaths only the magaitha the other deaths masha couldn't feel guilty for that they were done according to these were jews who committed capital crimes there was a system of law that was followed and that's why they died moshe couldn't have done anything to avoid it russia can't take away free choice from people so this was not his responsibility but the plague this he felt responsible for because he forgot the halakhah number one and because zimri confronted him about his own wife and it's his marriage that justified and he had no response so here masha fought responsible for that's when god tells my to count why because this is a count that's associated with the shepherd god is telling the shepherd i you need to count the jews this is your thing why is it your thing because there was a mage the other jews 176 000 is a significant loss but that's not something that moisha feels culpable for he doesn't feel that he's responsible he couldn't have avoided it here that mcafee feels he could have avoided at least he could have minimized it so that's why he wants to do a count so that he should remember what has been lost under his watch because of something he has not done to be careful never ever ever to allow this to happen under his watch and also to be able to reformulate a plan for the future he has to know how many sheep he has so that's why rashid can't use the word the owner he uses the word the shepherd that's why rashid doesn't talk here about an append an epidemic he talks about wolves that's why rashid says two wolves not one wolf but two wolves this is why rashi has to give a metaphor he can't just tell you moishe wanted to count him he has to explain to you the idea it's a wolf it's not a plague all the eight answers are ants all the eight questions are answered the ninth answer the ninth question is not answered why he has to bring a second explanation question why couldn't meisha just know the reason why it happened and then he would prevent it again yeah he didn't know the reason he knew the reason because of the mageife and that's what plagued him pun intended and because it played because he was going to die then he couldn't correct oh oh good question good quail you know how i know it's a good question that's derebba's next question the next question is moishe is about to pass away moishe is about to pass away the shepherd says i want to count all the flock i want to know how many were lost i want to know how many i have why because i want to always remember what my negligence may have caused and i need to make a new plan for the future so i want to know how many flock i'm responsible for and that's the purpose of the count both to know the losses and to know the survivors so that we can make a plan for the future one second in this parasha masha is going to appoint yahushua binus a successor shouldn't have he then joined the census hashem should have told maisha and allah and yahushua to count because he's the next leader in a few months it's not in a few years great question rabbit sin you did well great question you have iron the hurst yes i do and i was thinking also um yo yeshua is the next leader maisha is not going to be around for 10 years he's going to be around for 20 years i'm going to be around for one year this happened in the last months of his life remember aaron already passed away aaron passed away aaron passed away with so this is there's only six months six months left for maisha's death six months my should would die zayan adar soon rich khai deshvat maisha would start safe at divarum so there's literally this is in between aaron's death and moisture is that those few months in the 40th year maisha can't make here long-term strategic plans devise a strategy how to lead the people your time is up and he knew his time was up god already told him that you're going to pass away just like aaron passed away miriam pastor so this is a beautiful explanation moshe wants to remember what negligence can cause moshe wants a plan for the future you should have bring your bring yeshua into this he's the next leader you're going to appoint him soon and this parachute god says appoint yahushua whether it was a day later a week later but it's this time was a very unusual person because there was a time when hashem wanted to do away with beginning and moisture beta yeah less concerned but there was wasn't a typical owner he was ready to get rid of his people and most urbano cared so much for the people he wanted to keep them going excellent excellent now you'll say somebody said well misha could have counted them and then he could have given the number to yahushua he could have told yeshua here's the number of jews so that you would know but that's not the point the point is not giving him the information the point is when yeshua is involved in the senses it creates that awareness it creates that consciousness that moisha wanted as a shepherd to be able to really see what happened to be able to see the losses as a result of the playing that's what inspires and it empowers and invigorates you by doing that senses you're also number two reminded in a very visual way of the law says not just give me a number on paper it's seeing it by counting jew after jew after drew after jew you get to see it yahushua should have been part of that experience part of that process which would inspire a deeper type of leadership in other words maisha if you're a real shepherd then think a few months ahead think about the next shepherd if you're a real shepherd you don't just think about yourself you think about the next shepherd right we all understand this it's a very important concept the great leaders think about the day after the leadership he wanted to take responsibility i'm not saying to blame joshua if joshua i got it i got it but but allah was part of it you're saying moshe had to do it exclusively but hashem told allah to be part of it and why did he say allah should be part of it allah wasn't guilty i think the answer is because maisha and iron did things together aaron passed away ellazar represented his father allah represented his father and allah was a leader so even though he wasn't maisha but he was a leader we see that the daughters of people came to allah so that's why he wanted allah as well but yahushua is the next leader and if the whole point here is real leadership for the future bring in joshua so the rebbe says that's why rashi knew that the first explanation as beautiful and as eloquent as it is is insufficient it's missing this touch it doesn't satisfy this question that's why he has to bring a second explanation what's the second explanation that the reason this census was conducted is because moshe was about to pass away and god said i gave you the sheep with a number now give it back to me with a number this is only for mush this is not about the responsibility of the shepherd because the wolves infiltrated the flock this is about moishe was a leader for all these years you received a gift you received this flock with a number when they left egypt now we give it back also with a number this is something that's connected to moshe himself why a lazar because i said it's my shannaran who were given the jewish people aaron passed away already so allah represented his father but yahushua was not part of this this second explanation in rashi answers this detail that still remains difficult from the first explanation why yeshua is not part of the senses why doesn't rashi bring the second explanation as the first because the second explanation has a much bigger problem and that is the connection with the plague is very unclear it says after the plague he said to make the senses according to the first explanation we understand why it's after the plague the whole reason for the senses is because of the plague because of all the losses moshe wants to know how many survived and how many were lost as we explained at length but according to the second explanation that moishe is now about to pass away so he's giving back the jewish people so to speak with a number doesn't do the plague it has to do with this timeline after the plague at some point but the terrorist connects it explicitly with the plague the second explanation doesn't explain this that's why he uses it as a second explanation first explanation is the primary one because that gives a clear explanation to why he achieved the association between the plague and the senses but there's still a problem why wasn't your yeshua part of it so he has to give a new second explanation now somebody asked me a big question on this and i'll address it at the end of this let's now go to the next point yes that's unique that's unique that in the middle of a pasek there's a new parsha mageife and after the words there's a new parsha you see pei something unique in the middle of a passage there should be a new pasha which she discuss is also one of the footnotes let's continue now if you if you haven't opened your source sheets you can go to the shiva.net and you'll see today's class and there's source sheets there or you can go to here in the zoom right somebody put it in the chat i think beautiful okay so go to your source sheets or you can open up a look at the assistance volume 18 that's also fine you can go to project liquidity systems this is what they're learning this week in project locations and you could learn you could follow it over there so where are we if yes so in our source sheets that would be page 331 331 we answered all nine questions the reba answered all nine questions that were posed in the class if something was unclear that's why there is replay and if you need double speed i give permission to listen on double speed if you need 2.5 that works as well if 1.5 works it works as well i know that bezier always says he doesn't listen on double speed because you don't listen to music on double speed but for some people it's music and for some people it's something else so they could listen on double speed fine we have one major question left what's the question after everything's said and done what's the big question now the big question is and there we come to the to the to the grand finale huh you're right we ended the last year on zion and i just said the whole zion outside i said the whole zion outside because because of time limits and i want to finish so therefore i did zion outside thank you for noticing thank you for noticing it means a lot sometimes people don't notice if i'm holding zion vove hey dallas gimmel or maybe i could you know somebody once said when you give a speech they said like this a story you could repeat once in two years because people remember a story for two years a joke you could repeat once a year because they remember a joke for a year advaitara you could repeat twice in the same sermon so it's very very meaningful that somebody actually knows where i'm holding so i did zion outside i love to do it inside the language is very rich and and isis right seeing inside makes you wiser and you understand it more but let's go to madafo fashion means understand favors you explain we explained everything but one thing is problematic why didn't god want to count them on his own as the owner just like after the ego just like after worshiping the ego hashem wanted to count the jews and rashi explained in parish ki sisa because the bao hatsune the owner of the sheep loves his flock and because he loves his flock he wants to know how many were lost and how many survived and even though god knows everything he wants to demonstrate he wants to show and display to for all to see that he cherishes them and he loves them why was that element missing here it's true maishirabenu felt that he shared responsibility in the epidemic i got it and that's why the shepherd felt that he also wants to count but just because of that it doesn't eliminate the factor that the owner cares about the losses and here that is completely absent in other words rashi is explaining what the pasik says beautifully ex beautiful explanation the way the labacher have understands it but now let's get back to the very essence of it this doesn't answer the bigger question why does the puzzle only mention the magefa because the pasta only speaks about moisture's desire to count them because he feels responsible but why is there not the element here that god wants to count them just like he wanted to count them in previous occasions just like he counted them after the seta eagle to show his love to them and then the puzzle should have said it happened after the mageifa and after all of the deaths of more than 170 000 people or however the passage wants to say it after all the deaths through the judges because as we said for the owner there's no difference in terms of counting how they died and who was responsible and who was not responsible he just wants to know who survived and how many survive so the owner needs a census and it's no difference if they died because of the mageifou they died because of the judges because the death penalty of moshe was responsible which was not responsible as we said in terms of the owner and his senses it doesn't make a difference who was guilty and who was not guilty it makes a difference for other things if he's going to keep this shepherd or not perhaps if he's going to sue him but but in terms of the senses it's about the sheep i own so why don't we have this element here it's completely absent and you see rashi doesn't use the word love rashid just says the shepherd wants to know how many survived and we explained why because he feels that he's responsible partially responsible and he wants to make sure it doesn't happen in the future and therefore he wants to count so that he could see what losses he caused and he could figure out the future plans so rashid doesn't use the word chaviva fascinating but why is that element missing here so here we come now to the last piece of the sister and it's a very intense explanation very intense and even more powerful is the duality that the reb is going to demonstrate two extremes that seem so paradoxical and yet really are one is the beer in them the explanation is what happened here why was there an epidemic and why did all these jews die by the hands of courts and the answer is they had relations with these heathen women with these heathen girls of maya van media was from peru she fired them as kannoyan pagan by uncanny aides based in azerbaijan for staging the bahamas the oyster rashi said at the end of balak that there is a unique usually when somebody commits even a capital crime you need to bring them to court you need to have witnesses the witnesses have to warn them you need a besden it's a whole process that is very intricate and very complicated before you can give a death penalty to the point that the mishnah says in sanhedrin that there were sages who said that they would only give the death penalty once in 70 years and one of them said i would never give it i would always find a loophole cause you can always find a loop here we have a unique idea that if somebody's boiling ramus if somebody is engaged in intimacy with a non-jewish with a gentile woman boyla ramas the halacha is kanayam people who are true zealots like pinchas are allowed to kill him without bringing him to court without a whole process without an investigation once the intimacy is over he's not allowed to and if he does he can get the death penalty because he's considered a murderer you can't just kill somebody that you think is a sinner but in the middle of the act there's a halacha of kanoa in pagan that was the justification for pinchas that's the maisha forgot and pinchas went and he took his spear and he killed zimri and cosby and that's when the mageife this is what rashi taught us at the end of balak this means that even a child a five-year-old child understands that this sin has a heinous and serious element to it that is absolutely unique you don't have witnesses you didn't bring them to bed in fact if you go to bed and then you ask them hey zimri is being together with cosby physically can i kill him and what would besides say they will not tell you to do it this is not something they will not tell a jew to do it bring them to court bring them to court we'll discuss it in court and by the way as we will see there's no death penalty on earn on in court for somebody cohabiting with a gentile woman it's a sin it's an isakaris but there's no there's no death penalty the only penalty that can be given is while it's happening through a kanoi through a zealot who doesn't ask beside if you ask besdon they're not going to tell you to do it what do we see from here that we're talking about a very serious sin and indeed as a result of this around 000 jews perished that's a crazy number it's an insane number because we had 176 000 from the death penalties plus we have another 24 000 from the epidemic so how many do we have 176 plus 24. it's 186 196 exactly 200 000. he says approximately 200 000 because we're not giving flat numbers here but approximately 200 000 jews were lost because of boiler ramas and rashid brings earlier that bilum told balak you want to destroy the jewish people their god is he hates he hates zima he hates sexual promiscuity it's something god does not like what you could say god doesn't like any bad thing that's true but this is something unique say nazima this is something that god is allergic to when he sees a breakdown of moral boundaries of intimacy this is something that god loathes so the rebbe says so over here you can't say the idea of chavivus the idea of love to those that were lost because they were involved in such a serious sin that saint zima this is what you hate you don't love and what you love you don't hate and therefore in this case unlike the ghetto ego the ghetta eagle was idolatry but idolatry if you see somebody worshiping idolatry you're not gonna kill them you're not allowed to kill them if you kill them you get killed you have to bring them to bed you need witnesses you need a whole process it's not easy this is a unique exception so even the child learning understands the seriousness of it and that's why rashid says from bilaam that god hates it and bilaam said if you do this if you get them to do this they will be destroyed and billam was successful 200 000 jews went because of this to say that god would count them afterwards as a display of love to those that were lost rashi doesn't see that rashi says no this is something unique this was something very serious and that's why we only focus on moisture's count not on god's count counts them because he's a shepherd and he feels responsible but the same senses that god said after the hetta eagle because the owner loves his sheep was not applicable here because of the unique sin now he gets in a little deeper the um explain this more to sweeten this more ham tucker yumtuk is a beautiful word yumtek means we're going to make it sweeter we're going to make it sharper sweeter give it a little more salt and pepper or a little sugar aldera let's explain this from halal perspective if a jew cohabits physically with a gentile woman a midianite a moabite and so forth it's not something there's a death penalty for even if there's warnings and there's witnesses somebody who intermarries or somebody who just has in intimate relations with a gentile woman there's no death penalty there's no lashes there's no sacrifice there's no monetary compensation there's no death penalty absolutely nothing there could be a heavenly death penalty called car race between you and god which today the whole concept of curious is already a different concept as explained in tanya gary satruva and you could do trouba for that but there's no earthly death penalty absolutely not it's not like when somebody commits adultery with a jewish woman who's married if you committed under gymnast it could be a death penalty if you have relations god forbid with an animal with another man with a sister with a mother with all the arias all those promiscuous relationship over there there could be death penalties but if you have relations with a non-jewish woman there's no death penalty there's a heavenly punishment that's between you and god there's one exception and that is kanojim while the person is in the act a person like pinchus can go and kill them and that's fine the moment later you know lara comes the rambam and says you might think that intermarriage is not such a big deal and i'll tell you why there's no death penalty if you commit adultery with a married jewish woman there's a death penalty for you and for her depends of course if it was done willingly and she wasn't forced she and and you know nobody was forced and there's witnesses there's warning it's not easy to get a death penalty trust me it's very very hard unless you are a machine and if you're shockingly anyway didn't get a penalty but intermarriage boiler ramus being with a non-jewish woman there's no death penalty so your ambulance says fascinating rambam you may take it lightly she says boy eli mrs the rambam says allah quoted in turin as he says in the footnote says i want you to know that in this sin there is something that no other promiscuity has none of no other arayas arayas means all immoral relationships are different than this one there is something unique about this that you will not find in all of the other promiscuous sins despite their severity so if somebody engages in a relationship and has a child even if that relationship is absolutely wrong and sinful and immoral the child remains a jew or becloud yes he's considered a jew so if somebody god forbid has relations with a married woman who did not get divorced what's the status of the child somebody god forbid has relations with a relative that's forbidden you have relations with a relative that's forbidden the child is a jew any type of relationship that is forbidden between a jewish man and a jewish woman even if it's absolutely immoral and even if there can be a death penalty the child is a jew me nakosis is one exception when he's with a gentile woman the child is not jewish um the toughness bollock says the fascist means this sin is unique because as a result of that you destroy jewish souls because these souls that are coming from the father will not be jewish anymore these souls are going to become non-jewish souls as a result of this act of intimacy with a non-jewish woman so there's no death penalty you're right the court will not punish you but the rambam says don't take it lightly because there's something unique here that doesn't exist in any other relationship even those relationships that the terrorist calls areas they're immoral is all other sins that a jew does even those relationships that are completely forbidden in terror nonetheless the person does not trespass the borders that god created between the jews and the other nations what do we say in the havdalah there is a half dollar there's a border god chose jews to be jews and he chose non-jews to be non-jews and that havdullah that separation is genuine it's part of the system of creation there is a jew and the jew has his or her mission and his or her soul and there's an andrew who has his or her wonderful mission is a wonderful so every human being was created in the visage of asha every person is a reflection of god every person's life has absolute and non-negotiable value like it says in your xiaomi in the dharmic test that rabbi kiva said the most important principle of terrorist i said no there's something even more important every human being is carved in the image of god so the carbon aid there was a commentary on your xiaomi rep david franco the rabbi of berlin he passed away 1762. he says what's the advantage of benazir over rabbi akira makkiva says that the possibility you have to love your fellow jew like yourself but nazareth says i'm going to bring you apostle that includes all of humanity every person was created in god's image not only a jew every single human being was carved in god's image and that's why that passage he says is a more important principle in torah fascinating amari xiaomi xiaomi nadar in pariktas and also brought in tyra's kayan kadashian i say this because sometimes people who were molded and educated with a strong jewish education don't appreciate the fact benazza here the greatest time is argentina he says more important than is the idea that every human being not just jews every person was created in the image of god and therefore every person's life has absolute value and therefore every person's every person is a source of inspiration because every person reflects god in a unique way this is true with the jewish truth with an angel together with this there's a border there's a jew and there's an andrew and to go from a non-jew or the jew it's a different soul it's a different look it's a different mission any sin that a jew does even idolatry adultery and other sin very serious sins they do not trespass this border that god wove into the fabric of the universe there's a yid and there's an angel and each has their destiny their vocation their mission their purpose because even after a jew does a sin he or she remains a jew you remain a jew the famous gemaran sanhedrin member about says over there he did five of the worst sins you could look it up sanhed what the guy did trust me he was no saint five of the worst heinous sins in torah and the gemara says he remains a jew a big sinner and he got serious penalties it's a whole suggestion and not only that the gemara says there that yahushua wanted god to tell them what ahn did and god said i don't speak loshanhara and then the gemara goes and tells us everything he did well i thought god doesn't speak lashanara the answer is the gemara wants to say israel who doesn't mean only somebody who doesn't come from or somebody doesn't put it up in the times film somebody doesn't dive in somebody who does everything that did which was terrible terrible still yisrael there's one exception is there a sin that i can do in which i can trespass the border i can cross that essential eternal border that god created between israel and ahmed is there anything i can do is there anything a jew can do that allows him to become not jewish what's the usual answer come on house 101 is there anything that you can do to become not jewish and of course the answer is no but really there's one thing what there's one exception when somebody has relations with a gentile woman his seed his seed is a jewish seed his seed his sperm his seed of life is jewish dna it contains the potential for a jewish soul if it's now conceived incubated and developed in the womb of a jewish woman even if that relationship is promiscuous and immoral the child is a jewish child one exception if he has relations with a gentile woman what happens that seed that zera that relationship his child which essentially carries you know his chromosomes which contain his nuffish it's a jewish soul but what happens to that soul that soul crosses the boundaries of creation it crosses the boundaries that god created that is a jew and there's an andrew and my child is not jewish my child is not jewish because his mother is not jewish so you took a jewish nephesh you took your seed you took your creos you took your soul because in your child there is your seed your dna your soul your nephesh and what did you do you transferred it into another world into another universe there's no availa in the world that does that every other mayor in the world is alphapi and even even when the child is a monster the child is illegitimate the child is blemished but he's a jewish child you didn't go out of that realm you remained in the realm of claudius now this doesn't mean you didn't do something serious the rambam says somebody was over the desire somebody who engages in idolatry somebody who desecrates shabbos publicly he's like a guy so the wine is nessa but he's still a jew alpha p shakhati is still a jew they're famous rajasthan a jew converts a jew baptist baptized the jew completely leaves judaism becomes an overdose and then he betrothes a woman she needs a get even though you say he's a guy he's a girl that gotta be different but essentially we call him a jew the marine condition it's an argument okay beyond the discussion that everyone said that in sifri you see that huda there muay that the bottom line is you remain within the realm of cloud israel even though you have negated even though you abdicated the throne you abdicated the throne you even spit on the throne you burnt the throne but you're connected to the throne you swallow but this child who's born from the non-jewish mother if he betrothes a jewish woman there's no marriage there's no israel he's not a jew he's not a israel it was the case that somebody was how i can make a children for i was he had a daughter with the non-jewish woman and the director say when she died and despair someone they came to the synagogue and you make a friend again he comes to cry and he said what happened my daughter died yesterday yeah so what do we see from here what do we see from here the rambam says don't take this lightly because here you have to understand what the rebel is saying he's saying based on the rocket shovel is taichung the rambam it's not just the child is not jewish it's your child is not jewish your child is jewish but as a result of your choice you took a jewish soul and you transformed it into a non-jewish soul this is an incredible infinite power that a jew has usually i'm i have to remain in the realm of god it's not my world i didn't create the world i can't decide i'm a bird tomorrow and start flying or i'm a monkey and jump from trees i'm going to hurt myself i'm not an eagle or i'm not a fish i'm a fish i'm going to go into water it's not going to work you're going to make for you come out why these are the boundaries of creation i'm a human being this is a fish this is a bird this is a mammal i'm a jew i can't change that i cannot change it i'm a jew i'm a jew and i'm proud and i'll sing it i'm a jew i may like it i may not like it i may love it ellie wiesel once said he said you can either he says jews either love god or they loathe god but they don't know how to ignore god you know you can love your spouse or you can have issues with your spouse but you can't ignore your spouse i'm a jew either i love it and celebrate it and breathe it and enjoy it and i dance every day with it or i'm like like they used to say fine that's your relationship but you're a jew and a jewish atheist is also a jew in fact jewish atheism is uniquely jewish you'll see that jewish atheists their atheism is jewish because they deny god with religious jewish fervor ever saw jewish atheists talk about god he doesn't just talk about god and say he doesn't exist he talks about god like a jew he gets upset at god they say that an atheist once came to the altar and he was screaming there's no god there's no god statement said i better exist why are you getting so angry if he doesn't exist he can't be saying this doesn't exist so why are you upset so it doesn't exist fine if it doesn't exist there's no reason to get upset if something exists you get upset i we say in rambam yeah this different halachus where this person is treated like a guy in terms of wine in terms of other things shrita whatever it is but they're a jew there's one exception i take my child my seed my soul it's supposed to be a jewish soul and god gave the jew the ability to be able to take that soul and to transform it that it becomes a non-jewish soul wow that's a unique unique unique accomplishment that represents the represents the power of the jew just like god in this way we are god-like we don't just fit into the rules we create new rules we create new realms we recreate nature says now we'll understand what's happening here's the rule and listen to this rule those who exclude become excluded these jews who were all balaramas they caused all the children that came into the world as a result of that relationship to be excluded from claudia israel they took all their souls and turned them into non-jewish souls meet the connected media they're also excluded so when it comes to the count and you say why doesn't god count him afterwards to express his love to all those that were lost he says in terms of the love it's as though they have been excluded from the flock after the ego the sin was avoided it was an intermarriage the sin was avoided you're my child you're my child even if there's punishment and this serious sin afterwards god says take account i want to know who was lost and i want to know the survivors i love them i'm the owner here something else happened this boiler-ramas those who exclude are excluded those who include are included they excluded all these souls they threw them out of claudio israel me the knight they're also considered excluded so therefore after the mageife after the story god says i'm not involved in the senses he tells moshe to count them the shepherd needs to countable susie why but in terms of god he's not counting them as the owner of the sheep expressing love because if he would count them then he would mention not only the mageife he would mention also the other reason for death because there's no difference why they die but because these were boiler amisses and therefore and it's such a serious thing you can't say khabibos over there you can't say khabib's and that's what the rambam says that this type of intermarriage this type of act in terms causes the jewish people to completely become entrenched in avoidance it takes them away completely so because of that when it comes to chavivus when it comes to showing the love they're excluded from that the display of love cannot be applicable to them when they completely extricated all their children they extricated all their children from the jewish people they took jewish souls and they ex they they excluded them that's why he says this idea of the rambam gives a whole new depth to what's happening here so now you want god to count them to count those who were lost count those that survived to display his affection his connection his relationship he wants to show how connected but this is the one sin where you become disconnected now it's true that those jews even after they intermarry they're still jews but all their children are not jewish so me the connected media it's as though to some degree they're also excluded so that connection that serious connection and relationship which love intimates doesn't apply to them and therefore the owner doesn't say to count these sheep that were lost because it's like they're not my sheep they took all their children and they went over to another nation so they excluded themselves through that those who exclude become excluded now you're going to ask what about counting the survivors okay don't count those that were lost count those that remained lay dominion on thesaurus so the rabbit says no because those who did not sin are not called survivors they're not called leftovers they're not called those who survived it's as though there's no connection between the two groups even though there is a connection because they're part of one nation but in terms of the love in terms of that powerful display of affection there's no connection in other words you can't say i'm going to count the because i want to see who survived from the previous group where so many were lost it's as though there's no previous group it's as though you create it's like a new nation here it's not laid the minion hanaysares to figure out the number of those that remained from the early group it's as though there's no connection because as though the first group excluded themselves from being part of the flock from being part of the nation from being part of the people they took their souls and they transplanted them and metamorphosized them and transformed them into non-jewish souls so you could count the people but if you're counting them you're counting them as a new nation as a new people it's not you're counting them to figure out who was gone and who remained they're not called people who remained he said this is yes even though they're still jews but that display of affection that deep intimate connection that love represents is missing because l.a.k.m zemo there's an element of sinner of loathing of disgust which is the antithesis of chavivos so this means that if you want to count the group that survived it's like you're not counting the group that survived that survived the others who didn't survive it's like a new hefster it's a new arm so why are you counting you want to count a group counter group but you're counting to see the contrast you want to know how many were here before and how many are here now because they're part of one group but that group it's as though it wasn't part of this group so there's no they were here before and they're here now that they the two days are not the same unit that they that were here and they there are here are unfortunately like two separate nations because of what they did so that's why god's count as an owner doesn't exist here and that's why there's no word chavivos so why is their account maisha as a shepherd counts them moisha as a shepherd counsel hashem in terms of says the owner he doesn't count rashi says who counts them god tells moshe you have to count as a shepherd of the jewish people and you feel responsible for the mageife because you could have avoided it or at least avoided it partially so now it's your job to count them to be able to make goods to be able to make good on what was done to be able to make amends to be able to make sure that there's a new system in place for the future during the next months when you'll be leading them and for you to always remember what has been lost so that you can take care of them so now you can ask a question i don't understand if god excludes them why doesn't moisture exclude them now comes the last piece of the tests they're fun from here we learn the paradox two opposite lessons we're going to learn now two lessons and they're opposite soviet means they're two extremes one is on one side and one is on the other side and really they're not opposites but they could seem opposites on one hand we see how deep and devastating is the result of the sin of marrying outside of the faith of having really physical relations with a non-jewish woman as their hefsted is nervous because we see from here it's not just if there's a child the child is going to be not jewish in other words your seed your soul your dna your divinity as a jew you're going to take it and transform it to becoming a non-jew in that child that's number one but further the person himself who did it it's as though he's excluded from god's flock wow he is excluded not just the child is excluded he took a jewish soul and transformed it into a non-jewish soul he himself that's what we see here that god says i'm not counting them they left they're not part of the they're not part of the group they're not part of the unit and those who survived are not part of the first unit it's like a new separate entity in other words the rebbe says because they're not really excluded even a jew who intermarries will see in a moment is not excluded he's a jew and these 24 000 jews who died in the plague and the other 176 000 jews who were killed they still jewish they're still jewish he says but in terms of a revealed relationship of love and affection it's not there it's like a father wants to show love to a child the child says you're not my father he changes his name you can't change your dna but you could change your name and you say i'm never having to do with you i'm going over to a different family i don't want to see you i could try to love you but i need somebody to be able to be here and stay here to be able to love every other sin the jews still even if he betrays even if he betrays his father he's still a jew here it's one choice where we cross the ultimate boundary our child is not going to be a jew anymore and that's a boundary that is absolute and you crossed it for a non-jew to be an andrew wonderful wonderful the rambam says the pious ones the good gentiles says that may have been by that good gentleman they're going to have the resurrection also fascinating but to take a jew and turn them into an andrew that's the only possibility for that is boiler almost and that makes that those who exclude are excluded they themselves are so to speak excluded from saying my research like you're not part of the flock anymore why because you're causing your souls your child to become a non-jew so you it's you yourself so to speak extricate yourself from the god's flock of them learn a lesson for the great privilege and the great responsibility for people who have the capacity to avoid and influence even an individual from marrying outside of the faith from intermarriage the rebel of course is speaking in 1974 into marriage and america and other parts of the world were becoming more and more rampant those years especially in the 1970s and he's saying realize the tremendous privilege the tremendous responsibility of saving one jew one jew you say yeah but there's 15 million jews there's so many other jews you're right but realize the tremendous just to influence one jew from engaging in intermarriage not marrying outside of the faith to explain to him that it's not good for him it's not good for her if you really love the non-jewish girl don't do something that ultimately will be detrimental for her and she should understand if she loves him she shouldn't do something that's detrimental for him besides the statistics of the terrible divorce rate which exists even marriages of people from the same culture you're talking about today in america close to 50 divorce rate of first marriages 60 second marriages some places it's a little less but intermarriage has a unique mind-staggering statistic of divorce and it's very simple it's not so complicated because even two people who grew up on the same city and have the same culture and the same faith and the same tradition even they have a hard time getting along ask any marriage therapist what's going on today in the world of marriage you have somebody comes from a different world they're fine people but from a different world they live they'll never think about the holocaust or auschwitz like you feel about it they'll never be able to feel about israel like you feel about it they'll never be able to be willing to die for the same things like you and you can't expect it from them you can't expect it from them and a very core place you're from different worlds you have to respect each other but it's not for marriage because marriages two souls becoming one and you have to respect that boundary wonderful people the jew is a wonderful person the nun is one where you have to respect that boundary the problem is that most people they decide to get married in their 20s or their 30s when they're young and religion and faith and tradition and family doesn't mean much because you're young you know you're more bohemian and uninhibited and you think nothing matters then they get married and they get into their 30s and their 40s they start having kids and now becomes a question bruce no bris bar mitzvah no baptized christmas kratzmark hanukkah oh can i share with you the conflicts that happened then suddenly you realize you care about your father you care about your mother you care about your grandmother you care about your synagogue you care about your god you care about your faith and even if you're an atheist you want your son and daughter to know where they come from you want them to be cultural jews you want a menorah hanukkah suddenly she wants to take them to church even she's an atheist you're both atheists but you're still people you want to belong you're part of a community part of a family you're part of a tradition and as you're raising your children you want them to have these connections at least in many cases and the conflicts are so powerful and so painful and so many couples split up and even those who don't are often often a very very rocky and difficult marriage but besides all of that besides all of that besides all of that this is something that's not good for the jewish soul it's not good for the non-jewish soul and as he puts it here the jew makes a step here that no other sin does the giant step what do they say one stall one small step ah one second one second one sec the step the radical step here is is tremendous as the rambam puts it it's the one area in which i have the power to so to speak defy god's world to defy god's structure because i take a jewish soul and i don't just rebel i don't just do what i desire i don't just do other sins which are all very serious but rather i transform the soul into a non-jewish entity and even for the person himself even if you're not gonna have a child with the non-jewish girl you say i'm not gonna have a child the person himself so to speak transforms himself from being part of god's people and he says that's why those who can influence even one jew and then he says even one time you say what's the big deal he has a relationship with her he says i fell in my even if you can influence him that even one time he shouldn't have this relationship he shouldn't engage in this sin you have to realize the tremendous host a tremendous privilege in that including people who have already failed who have already stumbled and they already committed this so you say they did it already no no no a person doesn't understand how precious it is to help a jew sin one time less especially this he says even if there's a relationship already and he's been involved so let it go and i'm gonna influence him what for one time not to do it he says yes you don't understand how powerful that is every time a jew engages in such a type of relationship what a stab in the chest of god it is and therefore if you prevent it it's an incredible privilege this is one side of it now vintage labacher he's going to go to the other side now listen to this this is where you see the rebbe on the other side zetman abraham let's look at this would count them does not say they're excluded and god doesn't want him to exclude them everything that we said is percent true comes the rebbe and says wait moshe when it comes to take care of their needs when it comes to protect them from wolves when it comes to keep them safe and secure soothed and seen mushroom the faithful shepherd of all the jewish people is the man who will have mysterious nephesh for every single jew he does not look at them and say get out he will put his entire soul in to help these jews lake tsukarai he will immerse his entire being every fiber of his being will be dedicated even to help and rescue and preserve and elevate and inspire these jews he calls them sign myrie so you are my sheep you are my flock and therefore god tells my i'm not going to count them as the owner who loves them because of what they did but you moisha the shepherd of the jewish people count them count those who are gone and count those who are no sorrows those who remained from the first group in other words it's still one group they're all your flock they're your people they're part of adoroi they're all your flack even those that were engaged in this relationship and died and they're not just at the edges of your flock rashi says toikadore the wolves came into the essence to the midst they are in the middle of your flock they're part and parcel of your community they're connected to you not just you know at the sidelines we could say hamachen all the way at the end that grouchy says in baalois it's the a river of no no no this is and here the river answers the tenth question the tenth question what was the tenth question then the question was in all the midrashim the language is wolves came and fell on the sheep wolves killed the sheep rashid doesn't say that rashi in his metaphor says marshall the royal shenanigans the wolves went into the flock and they killed sheep but i don't understand the met none of the madrashima say the madrashim say the wolves fell on the sheep the wolves infiltrated the sheep rashi changes the language he says the wolves infiltrated the flock his flock now we get it moishe as a shepherd he doesn't just say they ate sheep he doesn't just say they fell on the sheep no no no these sheep are all my flock they're my either my eda means your group you're your family your tribe your clan never gives up on every jew on any jew he will not exclude any judaism but he's intermarried she's into married he's into marriage forget about them god says i hate this saint ezema they took their children and made them not jewish they crossed the boundaries that nobody ever crosses they crossed the boundaries that created that's true and that's why when it comes to the owner the owner says there's no display of affection because of the very serious thing that happened but you know what even such a type of jew martial you never ever give up on him and you never ever exclude him and you never cease being a shepherd connected and attached to this jew you say one second rabbi it's all nice but this is like a kaphakela first you go from one extreme now you go to another extreme and that's what he said there's two extreme lessons that we learned from here and the truth is they're not a paradox because if it's about ego if it's about me and my nachas and my comfort and what it looks like to me and my expectations then you're right you either go to one extreme or another extreme but that's not how emotional looks at it and therefore it's not how the rebel looks at it on one hand you have to know what a serious issue we're dealing with this is not a joke intermarriage is not a joke and this just to be able to influence one jew to avoid intermarriage even one time one time to avoid such a relationship even if they have already engaged in it is beyond estimation that's absolutely true the problem explains the record trevor explains and everything the sikh explains but moshe will still count him moisha still wants to know every jew who was lost in the plague he feels responsible for them he feels that he could have avoided their deaths and he wants to make sure this never happens again and he wants to know who was lost and he wants to remember who was lost and he calls them saying my research this is my flock they came in they were part of my a they're my people and when i'm counting the survivors i call them survivors they're still connected to the first group it's one unit part died and part survived and i want to know who the survivors were which means they're still connected to the first group because my should have been as the true evid hashem as the true shepherd of the jewish people knows that after everything said and done god wants you to always remain connected and to always remain loving and to always be a shepherd to protect them to provide their needs to be there for them in every possible way and not just as the people who stand behind and i'll throw them a bone no these wolves came in to the middle to the center of my flock they are part and parcel of my heart of my soul and of course in his classic example in footnote 46 the rabbit shows the precedent for this footnote god wants to wipe out the jewish people after the sin of the golden calf and moishe says if you forgive them great and if not blood out my name from your safety in other words i cannot exist without the jewish people even those who engaged in the golden calf a similar thing happens here even though here it's not avoiders or it's boiling moisture so to speak says i do not separate from the people they intermarried they boil our armies i don't separate i don't separate i stay attached i stay connected because ultimately that's what brings people back ultimately that's what brings people back and he brings in 47 another fascinating idea everyone who inherited eretz israel it's not the people who went in territory's role in heritage israel there was a whole system amazing if four people went in territorial four patriarchs of families and they inherited there to syrah the piece of land went back to their ancestors who left egypt and then it was bequeathed to their children so he says even these jews who died in the plague 24 000 and the other jews who were killed they too were part of those who inherited eretz israel as the dead who inherited the living unlike the spies from whom it was taken this means they were not excluded from the jewish people and then in 48 he brings a medusa at the end of parishes bullock that god didn't only want to count the survivors he wanted to have a number of everybody who died he says because when a wolf comes in to your flock and kills the sheep you want to know all the sheep who died not only all the sheep who are alive so that's fascinating that's fascinating that after everything said and done we see all of these hints that every one of them remains precious and every one of them remains divine and the rebbe says in 48 after quoting this madrish that we see that the torah specifies the number of those who died in the plague doesn't specify the number of those who died by the judges but those are that he actually specifies in other words those who died by the plague which maisha felt responsible for he specifies their number becomes part of turner it's part of the lessons given to every jewish person because everything in today is a lesson it's a lesson for life and the last navi was the navi malachi and the last message he gave the jewish people was remember the torah of maisha hashem servants so this is part of the torah and part of the lessons for every jew which we tell us the navi thousands remember the terror of misha this is part of the turn of marriage i want you to always remember that together with the pain and the devastation of a jew who engages in this type of behavior of biola ramas and my responsibility to do everything to be able to influence him or her stay away from it the other side of it is moshe remains their shepherd moshe mourns them and longs for them and yearns for them and fights for them and wants to protect them from wolves in the past in the future i will never exclude them and this is part of what maisha does as an evid hashem because there's a relationship that could never be severed even when you have crossed every possible boundary even when you have done the impossible and you used your power of choice to cross such a boundary i will not give up on you and i will not sever my cords with you and i will never ever disown you let's take a few questions if she died in your lifetime got it it's a story with the mitchell question why didn't moishe tell zimni that he got married before martin taylor great question there's a beautiful sishi from the rebel about this you'd base 1969. i taught it a few years ago if you go to the yeshiva.net on top on the home page there's something called torah you'll see a category toyota interior you have le coutis circus and there you'll see a whole share about why moisha didn't tell zimri i did it before matantera gevalde over there next question what would there be a difference between our approach here to the possibility of rashi making um okay somebody's asking her a question of if hazal could make a mistake in physics or mathematics or science it's a good question but it's it's beyond the realm of this class it's it's it's an important idea important conversation about you know the perspectives of hazal on math and physics and science but i just don't want to confuse myself with the listeners so moshe didn't think his reason was purely for hashem no maisha did but he forgot and he felt he felt responsible did you say that a crazy person should be killed no i said a crazy person can't be killed doesn't the gamora say that violating shabbos gives you the status of a non-jew i said that but that's only in terms of certain laws you're compared to andrew for example that the wine that you pour i can't drink but if you go and you marry a jewish woman you need to give her a get why because you're still a jew get it but if you marry a non-jew and you have a child that child if he marries a jewish woman if he as a jewish woman she doesn't need to get we live with the devastation of this reality every single day in our community where i live in the state of texas i can count the amount of children born to two jewish parents on my hands do you understand what that means you guys live in communities with a lot of jews and big jewish families i can count on my hands the amount of jewish children born to two jewish parents either the father is jewish and the mother is not jewish which means the child is not jewish or the mother is jewish and the child is jewish but the father is not jewish most children have only one jewish parent in my community this is a woman who's a shliya she's a khabar ambassador in in the state of texas and unfortunately more than not it's only a jewish father which means the kids are not jewish it is really heartbreaking for me this is the people i'm dealing with this is the people i'm teaching these are the people in my community especially when the father starts to rediscover his jewishness he grows in his yiddish he meets us he starts coming to classes he starts coming to shabbos davening and meals and he loves yiddish guy and now he's married to a non-jewish woman and his kids are not jewish and i have to say it's like a hell to be torn between their own soul that is on fire and the children they brought into the world who are not jewish it tears my heart every single day it's a very very difficult situation of what has become of our people in the united states and other parts of the world listen it's incredible what you're writing here and uh you know i think people who don't live in such communities don't even begin to fathom what you're saying and and and understand that your whole life and your whole mission and work connects to these is about connecting to these people but i want you to remember uh uh dini what the rebb is saying here about maisha which is incredible that with the entire seriousness of intermarriage and what it means but he says maishirabeno will never ever let go of these people he will be there with them he will protect them he'll drive away the wolves and he feels regret every single day that he couldn't protect them because that's what a shepherd is and you see here the paradox and the sikka and it's a paradox that was so powerfully embodied by the rebbe because it represents the emmys of tyra you see we have two extremes we have those who say don't take halacha so seriously and you know you got to make peace with reality and it's not as bad as you think and it's fine and there's precedent for it and there's good intermarriages you know that's one extreme and then you have the other extreme where you just say the truth it's a horrible thing and you just disown all these people but here you see the nuanced the nuance the nuanced approach of the rebbe which comes only from attachment to tachles when you're anchored in real truth when you're anchored in terrorist emes when you're a moisherabeno when you follow maishirabeno you see how both truths live together on one hand he explains at length the disaster of intermarriage on a spiritual level and on so many other levels but then his punchline is that even if god will not count these people as the owner of the sheep but the shepherd will never stop counting them counting those who were lost and counting those who were part of the group that were lost and survived and that loyalty and that connection is as he says at the end is a lesson for every single jew what if the couples don't have children he said that before children is just one element of the couple has children the child is not a jew but even if there's no child the jewish man who engages in this relationship and the jewish woman who engages in this relationship they are so to speak to a certain degree extricating themselves from the flock of hashem because intimacy touches the essence you have to understand this we see it in in sexual abuse a person could be mugged a person could be traumatized in many ways and it's horrible but the effects of one-time sexual abuse is incredible you know a father hits his child and it's the wrong thing to do and the child gets hurt if it happens once i assume there won't be any serious impact maybe in some cases but usually not but if you're raped once be sexually abused once it can have a devastating impact for decades and decades and decades why because sexuality touches the essence touch is the essence that's why sexuality allows us to create a child sexuality goes into the deepest parts of your identity and your soul and therefore when you're violated there your essence is violated people who don't understand this don't understand this and you could see they don't understand it but if you understand it you understand it so when i have one relationship sexual relationship with a non-jewish woman there's no child but that itself redefines the person's soul that's what he says and that's why they're not counted from god so that's why it's it's relevant even if there's no child what if the woman is a jew and the man is not jewish the relationship is still devastating but the child will be jewish so it doesn't have this component in terms of the child in terms of her herself yeah what if the children convert then they're jewish but that's only that's a new reality that happens later but the fact is that i took my soul which is jewish and my child which has a jewish soul and through my act i transformed that soul into a non-jewish song what about the changes in he himself is it only a change in his child yeah a jew who into marries still is a full jew and he still has to put on twilight and he's the less to keep shabbos but as we said there is something about it that is very very uniquely serious it's as though he's extricating himself from the divine flock question this is a question rabbi shalom sent to me he's the rabbi the chief rabbi of port washington and he asked the govaldica question i don't understand the rebbe said that the first answer is insufficient why because hashem should have told moshe to bring yeshua on board okay so so rashi has to give a second answer what's the second answer second answer is yeah i'm just giving a share the second answer is what's the second answer that uh you mental i'm just i'm just finishing i'm just giving a share in the circle of the week say that i'm finishing in a few minutes so rashi gives a second answer what's the second answer the answer is that moshe did the count because he was about to pass away and therefore he gave back the jewish people by number just like he was given they were given to him with a number so when misha returns the flock he also does it with a number and actually says when my shirt returns the flock so shalom asked a question i don't understand if the first answer is insufficient because of the reasons the labacher ever explained why don't we just go back to the the question the beginning of the sith rashi already said in the beginning that in the beginning that it was because of the love that hashem counts to jewish people constantly why invent the new answer then you're saying the first answer satisfies the second answer doesn't satisfy the achievement if the second answer doesn't say that go back to the answer of bamidbar boss on my noise he counted them because he loves them and because he loves them therefore he counts them and that's why he counted them again in other words if the first answer is not a good answer why is the first lesson not a good answer because you sure should have been part of it because it's about the shepherd thinking about the future so that's why you have to ignore the first answer and give me a second answer david and come up with a whole new reason why to count the jewish people because much is about to die if you have to come up with a whole new reason go back to the basic reason that they never discussed in the beginning of the sith and god loves them so whenever there's any significant change especially loss among the jewish people he wants to count that's it i i you'll say why just the second answer doesn't explain the way he acquires right anyway doesn't explain the way he achievement gave so the question we have why don't you mention all the other deaths still is with the second answer as well why don't you mention all the other things because the whole yeah doesn't make sense according to the second answer which is why it's only a second answer not a first answer so why don't you just go back to the basics and just say boss on and therefore he counted them now he counted you have a question for yaya okay you have a question i got it that's why i gave you a first answer but the first answer was problematic right the royal the mice you should have had yeshua so go back to the second answer and what's the second answer the answer to this is if i'm not mistaken it's simple the moment you said and you ignored the 176 000 jews who died you right away showed me that this is not about hibasa you can't go back to that even though that was 24 000 and you ignored 176 000 means you're not in the realm of chris anymore you're ignoring most of them why are you ignoring most of them why doesn't the owner care about 176 000 people and only 24 000 people if 200 000 people as much as it is to 24 000 people but seven times the amount the fact that you said whether the first part of the second round you went away from the world of ribosome and that's why rashi had to say that it's about araya and it's about za'avim and it's not about the owner he can't go back and say no really it is about the owner so why does it the question of mageife is too strong to go back to khibasan mageife proves that it's not the gedder of the problem is the first answer is not fully satisfactory why is it not fully satisfactory because yoshua should have been there so he says there's another reason why the count happened because moshe was about to die it says after them i gave something else happened what's the connection you have a good question yeah i have a problem with that but it means chronologically after the mageife why don't you mention 176 000 great question great question great question and that's why i need the first answer i need the first answer to answer that question why you mentioned magefa but you had a problem with the first question with the first answer so i'm giving you another vert would be like somebody would say after the time of the magefa sometime later a day later a week later a month later hashem told the maisha to count the jewish people it would be like chronological after them and hashem told them is it connected to them no why does it say good question that's why i went back to my first answer but ahmad is about chronological so one second so why don't you just say boss on the front of because mithikhi boss on was already excluded by the first explanation of rashi the second explanation can't undo everything the first explanation provides the first explanation tells us that there's a big issue that you can't say there's an element of because this is too of a stark emission to exclude 176 000 people so there's a big problem that's why rashi told you that it was the roya who wanted the count they know you wanted a count and because it was the royal who wanted to count because of his responsibility therefore it says maglev why is yeshua not here so i'm going to give you another explanation after the mageth some time after god says count the jewish people why because you're about to die and therefore it's time to give them back with a misspear i could have just said hashem told them to count okay you have a good child of a yacht so now you're going to tell me one second so already say why doesn't it say 176 thousand you have a good question you have a good question but it's boston no because that right away tells us that it's already not boston because you're ignoring so many people so i think that's why he goes to a new second channel and he doesn't go back to the material bus on the front of mine is some culture did i answer your question i think there's something here i think there's something by the way take a look at this they both struggle with the second shot that ever brings both of their masks and he disagrees with them you'll see why so that's why i'm not they give other they give other shot which he brings in the footnotes masculine but but that's not negative to your question another interesting thing is that rashi in the second shot rashi says if you take a look at his lashes what's even in the second chat rashi uses the muscle all the second shot why did you think about that why i understand signing in the first shot why it's sending the second shot no what's the vart the vart is because maybe maybe moisture is about to return his flock it's his sign it's his sign but they became his son why is that so relevant here i got them from you i got a gift from you you gave me with a number i have to give it back with a number why do i have to give it back with a number let's say absolutely you deposited in my house yeah in my in my in my farm which is 100 which which is a thousand acres you deposited 10 000 sheep and you went on vacation for a year or for 40 years and now you come back and you say can i have rabbi why why can i have back the sheep i say of course and i come to you when i say listen you gave me with a number we went through ten thousand let me give you back your ten thousand sheep and i count them what happens if the number you gave me i don't give back to you i don't give you back ten thousand sheep i give you back five thousand sheep i have to be accountable right i have to say listen this is what happened and here's what i'm giving back to you especially if i was negligent if i was not negligent then i still want to give you back the number but it's ultimately not about me but especially if i didn't do my job well over here i especially have to specify the number because this was my responsibility and that's what we have when you're not accountable if so the second shot if i'm right the second practice is a continuation of the first shot because rashi is saying that moishe really felt the need to give the number of 24 thousand people because that was his responsibility if so the acharya for the question of the rebbe why only the mageife is mentioned is also answered a little bit in the second answer that after the mageifa where moshe felt responsible he wanted to especially give it back with numbers and say here are the numbers and 24 000 are missing i don't think it's mama's straightforward shot but maybe this is just abyssal why he doesn't go to the turkey bosom because this also explains the indian of mageife it still doesn't explain why he ah that it's directly connected to the mag because the idea here is that he's giving back claudius during his miso but could be this episodical i'm talking here that after them i gave her where the numbers 24 000 were a result of moishes and keva yoco not doing his job fully so therefore he felt more than has to be maxed out okay any more questions oh wow it's late oh so many questions wow can i and her can i not another 13 questions okay very good yesterday yesterday tuesday morning i gave a shirt in roshima's chiveras teslav speaks to sugi and yuma pay gimmel it can be daffy me tomorrow shabbos if a clap if a building collapses so whether you know if somebody is there or not then even if he's there he may be dead and you don't know if it's a jew or an andre you still have to clear the rubble the rabbit goes through all the three ideas from a spiritual perspective there's a jew he may be there he may not be there he may be alive he may be dead he may not even be jewish which means he's completely alienated and you still have to clear the rubble that third level is mamish consistent with the idea in the sikha about maisha bainu with these very good horror very good order the shepherd the way i understand it the shepherd wants account the owner wants account the owner is concerned about his inventory the conscientious employee shepherd also wants to know how he erred to avoid it again it's not about inventory yes very well i don't understand moshe doesn't exclude and god does it doesn't make sense moishe is more compassionate than hashem and god told moshe to count them so god also counts them my doesn't give up on any jew and god does great question the answer is it's like by the kata eagle he brings in 46 footnote 46. god says i'm going to wipe out all the jewish people i'm going to start with you merchant says no no no if you don't forgive them then wipe me out as well blot me out what one second so moisture was more compassionate than god hashem tells my shahani leave me alone so i could wipe them out so rasheed says god was telling moisha if you don't let me go i won't be able to wipe them out he was basically tell him telling him i need you to fight back because in our relationship with hashem there's two levels there's the conscious revealed relationship that can be interrupted through sin especially idolatry and adultery and then there's a deeper super conscious relationship that can never be obliterated so moishe brought out that deeper relationship when it's after allah he brought out the deeper relationship between hashem and the jewish people and hashem wanted he should bring out that deeper relationship that could never be broken and here too hashem says i myself i'm not counting them as the owner who just loves his inventory and wants to display that love because of the terrible terrible thing that happened the choice of these people to exclude themselves from my flock but he tells moisha to count them because as a shepherd you never ever let go of them even though they have crossed such a powerful boundary you never ever disown them friends important tonight 10 o'clock p.m dr david pelkovitz and myself are going to be doing an interactive zoom divorce number three we had a series on divorce number three today we're going to be focusing on second marriages after a death or after divorce second marriages bringing two families together and other aspects of the life of people who are divorced after divorce that's going to be tonight thursday night 10 o'clock p.m it's going to be on zoom coach menachem zoom the lake would zoom and it's also going to be on the yeshiva.net but if you want to join on zoom so then you can either sign up to our whatsapp groups or send us an email to info at the yeshiva.net and they'll give you the zoom link it's not the regular zoom link it's coach menachem zoom link that's going to be thursday evening 10 p.m please share it with friends or relatives for whom this may be of interest to again this is divorce number three dr david pelkovitz a famous therapist and professor of psychology in yeshiva university and yours truly i also want to add um just a special mention and tribute to one of my teachers in yeshiva who has taught us hasidis for many years and he passed away yesterday harava of blessed memory who passed away yesterday at the age of 86. he was a a true and special hasid a true god-fearing jew who embodied in his daily behavior very very authentic hiroshima fear of god and love of god and inspired and mentored many many many hundreds or thousands of students over the years and uh he returned his soul to its maker yesterday and i wanted to mention a tribute to his loving memory of rapinicorph repenters thank you very much everybody have a beautiful and inspiring and meaningful day and a lot of atloca and everything i hope you'll be able to review the sikha well and uh have a great shabbos and