Who is Pinchus's Grandfather and Why does it Matter? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome home to torah a warm welcome back to the yubane bay midrash i'm going to tell you we are in for i don't know a surprise perhaps we are going to deal very superficially with the clear car and go deep into a profound statement that he makes but what we're going to deal with are fundamental principles in judaism okay so on a certain level i hope and expect that you are familiar with the story if you're familiar with the story of pinchus and his zealousness then we and his vengeance which we're going to talk about then we can go deeper into things that perhaps you didn't think about and maybe you did because there's something that puzzled me for years and i'm not saying i'm i totally worked it out but i'm somewhat satisfied with some of the answers that we're going to come up with tonight okay now i just want to mention we're still praying for all those people who are not yet found in the miami uh in the surf side collision crash um we're very very saddened and it hurts us deeply and uh bizarre to shem hashem will help heal those that need healing and console those that need consoling um also just happens to be the name cosby is a very unusual name everyone has to admit except those who grew up in america in my generation when you talk about jello because there's a man by the name of bill cosby from philadelphia where i'm from and he was convicted for um let's just say alleged sexual problems issues and it seems like every year when we get to this parsha he's in the news again and for those you don't have to watch the news is what i'm saying right it's all right here in the torah everything you need to know is right here in the torah you don't need to find out what happened to cosby this week okay now let's go what we're going to start with i have the hebrew sheets and the hebrew sheets are page one through four and on the top it says pinchas cafe and then it says balik on the left cuff bet because we're going to refer superficially i'm going to go through it quickly because i want to go deep deep into some of these ideas that have been troubling me and i think that it will not surprise you that it should be troublesome so let's start on the right with pinchas who's the son of al-azhar the son of aaron okohen the clear car immediately tells us that this is obviously coming to inform us of something meaning why did it need to tell me he is the grandson of aaron just tell me like everyone else he's the son of alazar we already know and in fact a few verses earlier it also told us who he was that he was the grandson it's not the first time so why does it have to say it again so the truth is like this even though he was the son of a lazar now who is al-azhar we we know eleazar from chapter 6 verse 25 and that you can find on the english english source sheets and number two eleazar the son of our own took himself one of the daughters of putiel to himself as a wife in other words he took for himself one of the daughters of putiel who in the world is putiel that is going to be the the treasure hunt the theme who in the world is putiel number one and why is he taking vengeance is there a relationship because i want you to go right away to rashi on that now we're talking about right elliot elazar right he is the he took the from one of the daughters of putiel now i want to stick in the in the clear car second he says that that putiel the daughter of putiel mizera is that who is putiel it's none other than jethro which means what i just want to ask you this one question what does pinterest i'm sorry what is elazar and moshe have in common besides a brother a father our own guess what they both married sisters right keep that in mind now but the clear card is bringing down from gamora from sota that misery isro that putiyo must be isro okay now let's i just want to go back to that rashi in exodus 6 25 who is putiel rashi tells us two things of the seed of jethro one of the daughters of putiel of the seed of jethro here we have it it must be jethro and what did jethro do he was fattening the calves for idolatry now you should know that when someone converts or becomes righteous we never remind them of their past deeds so we have to describe this in terms of this is actually a praise for israel but in the meantime the we'll see that the shevatim that the other tribes or tribal leaders were making fun of pimples and saying how dare you who are you to take vengeance or whatever you killed right cosby and zimri but anyway we're going to get into that what exactly is the word um and um well pit pot okay we're going to deal with those words because we did discuss already in 625 that his name is putiel how in the world did jethro come up with the name putiel and if you want to go to exodus chapter 1 which is on page 1 by the way at the bottom jethro was called by seven names ruel jeter jethro hovav jeber kenny and putiel putiel so jethro seems to be who putiel is correct so far but go back into rashi on 6 25 where he continues and says who was also the seat of joseph what are you saying this is like a little bit of a puzzle here is it a mock locus that he that that what that pinchus married a daughter of joseph or of jethro or that's like like a chinese menu you got column a oh jethro column b or josef or c both of them so it never bothered you how can it be but it actually says and of the seeded so you have to understand rashi's telling you that she whoever whoever picks his mother is was of both seeds see the both now what does pete tame have to do with this because that same a similar word of putin has to do with fighting your yate sahara and that's what joseph did right you got to remember who was he fighting his yates are against a woman by the name of potty far potiphara which is going to add another little bit into the puzzle because it sounds too familiar what do you mean poti it's a one of the daughters of pootie ale potiphar i mean this gun it's like really a tongue twister here so let's let's start going let's go back into the clear car so far we we're on the third line down that that um elazar took from one of the wides one of the daughters of putiel from the seat of the israel whoever that is okay fine now i think we're talking about pinterest pinterest kept himself from following in his grandfather's footsteps his grandfather either converted or became a righteous gentile as yet isro is known as and penthouse did not follow in his father's footsteps meaning in terms of idol worship penamer lolita li ne hador lest the people who are mockers of the generation people who get together and mock people might say that the daughter of israel who gave your father permission as if they would mock pinchas who gave your father eleazar permission to marry who whoever it was she's not jewish she's a convert she's from the seat of jethro but guess what jethro was cohen midyani's he was the count of midian so you're going to take vengeance on that nation that you're actually from again we're thinking that it's israel we're going according to the opinion at least like we said the chinese menu a b or c c means both so we have to go according to at least uh the seat of jethro how can you take vengeance on the seat of jethro when you're from the seat of jethro and not only that your father's father he tame a golem love zara he fattened calves from buddhism he was a cohen he was a priest and and then how can you take out your vengeance on avodah zarah hoya ben arnakoen and therefore the torah is telling us he's the son of our own get it straight from one side it may not be the greatest lineage but hold off on that okay don't come to that conclusion but you might have thought because they're making fun of him but the turtle goes out of its way to his defense hey he's kosher he can do it because he's the son of our grandson of iron cohen well guess what yo moulau what did aaron a cohen have to do with any calves didn't he make to a certain extent create the golden calf that the jewish people also worshipped so habio virgos he made the ego maybe they can make fun of him that way as well see alpha p k nevertheless what is so unique about pintus he was low mahpil akubodo he didn't care what people said about him he was for the truth standing up for the truth and he wasn't concerned at all about what people would say and as rashi explains that the shivati and the different tribal leaders tribes with muvazi moto they would try to shame him so guess what this could be what the intent is all about meaning rashi even though the the tribes were shaming him or trying to shame him making fun of him the torah goes out of its way to establish his um genes gene pool right his um relationship to arunachal to say guess what see for this person is extremely pious ki so even though meaning pinkas even though that is even though he's the son of allah the son of aram there would still be a place for them to find some kind of reason to try to shame him nevertheless he made himself insignificant he was like a fly on the wall that's literally what it means he made himself insignificant he made himself like a beam in the ceiling he wasn't concerned at all about his own honor and furthermore what does the torah teach us he actually did and performed the same act that arun did aron stopped the plague on more than one occasion right and guess what so did he because there was a plague going around 24 000 jews had died and because he did what he did the plague stopped meaning hashem's anger he was able to stave off hashem's anger alkane therefore he clung he seized the traits of his own father ai arun akhalin and he actually also if you look at it he also kept the trait of israel because israel prevented himself from worshiping idols and he too also stuck to those same traits okay so for those who are watching whether you're jewish or not jewish these are important ideas right if we see our great grandparents they have great traits we must cling to them right now the next paragraph mentions that the word kinah is used twice so if you look in right we're in chapter 25 look in i think it's verse 11 right i don't know if you can see it in the english but in hebrew read the english on your own in the hebrew it says right in english it says he's zealously avenged he then he zealously avenged my my basic my my vengeance okay that's how you would read it so the very fact it's used twice one is regarding a vengeance for idol worship and the other is for znut unbelievable now we're going to understand why he can be from both yosef and and israel isro in terms of evodazar in terms of idol worship he turned his whole life around and became righteous right in terms of vital worship he no longer worshipped idols on the other hand what about joseph at sadiq we call him yosef at sadiq because he was put in a precarious situation with his owner's wife her name was potiphara right and he kept himself guarded against sexual immorality that's why it says kinati or let's say kino or kenati twice this idea of vengeance is used twice because he actually was taking vengeance on two things oh because of hashem he was taking vengeance for the sake of god and the other idea was taking vengeance for the sake of motion now that's just one idea he was taking vengeance in defense or in for the sake of hashem and in defense or for the sake of moshe that's one column hashem anybody who desecrates god's name he's also desecrating his rabbi's name and it's a kava homer the other way around meaning if hashem is so great and you have no regards for hashem you certainly have no regards for your rabbi either right [Music] now if god's presence the divine presence is not considered important to you so rabo local chicane of course your rabbi is meaningless to you so to the span of kingdom these people had such chutzpah they came against him and they were saying the daughter of israel yes well guess what he understood from that they were really making fun of moshe as well he understood that in fact he did something that normally you should be forbidden you're not a lot of you can't determine in the presence of your love you're your teacher you have to have a lot of honor again even if your rub is the the postsec of the city you shouldn't do it but there are there are ways to go around if you ask permission number one or you um that's the best way okay let's go on now this is what allowed him to actually rely on this idea because he did it he went ahead and killed these two individuals right zimri and cosby without asking his love now there is a reason for that and that is that in terms of being a zealot you're not allowed to ask i mean you're allowed to ask but once you ask you can't do the act okay we heard this the other night from rabbi brideowitz but the other idea is that his own rabbi moshe was we called nogaya badavar he was how would you how would you translate no gay about davar bias is usually how they translate it but i wrote myself another translation i can't find it so easily but uh no game a dover he was had personal interests and when you've personal interest you're slight you know you know you don't ask okay so um and so pen your marlow less they would say so he took vengeance for the for the sake of his rabbi unless they ask who gave you permission to marry the daughter of israel now the next piece uh i think i'm going to skip because it's not it's relevant but not so relevant and i just want to read the last paragraph on the right side which says part of what he did was israel as a result if you look in verse and it shall be for him in his offspring after him eternal a covenant of eternal priesthood because he took vengeance for his god and he atoned for the children of israel this is an important idea how is it that killing this person atoned for the true children of israel we do not believe in human sacrifice correct however i want those who are christians listening well okay that if somebody is perfect blemish free human being he will never atone him he'll never atone for other people it just doesn't work i described this before okay there is such a concept of people suffering and therefore easing you covering over a a harsh punishment on a generation or people but that's because they themselves are not perfect and they need to suffer for whatever reason whatever little blemish they have because hashem loves them so much and wants to give them more reward in the world to come and therefore they would suffer but only that kind of person would suffer if they had some blemish if they had no blemish and they were perfect they would never suffer there would never be a reason to to he couldn't even absorb this because of any sin or other people's sin he could never come over cover oh cover over anybody it's a very deep thing i just want to go on but i thought it's important so when we read this that it says we're talking about zimri was a russia and he killed him israel and this is what saved the jewish people the plague had stopped the next log now it says as if so get this straight by killing this guy it was as if pinchas made an offering to hashem like sheep and goats cows and sheep this is why god swore attack you were actually a cohen forever you were now elevated to being a cohen because what you did was you began your stage you began your internship you performed a sacrifice you did the service of the khanim you actually did it and therefore you're a cohen already you became a cohen and i'm telling you you're coming forever unbelievable now put this to the side right we are in parches pimples if we just go back to parshas balak when and we did this we talked about this in depth i i guess it was last week that um we're on the left side that balak the benefit saw all that israel did to the amorites now the first paragraph explains are four different words for israel right which is very strange you don't find that anywhere in two two three verses these four names i'll just tell you in review what they were we said that they were the name israel the word the word benae israel and the word kahal i want you to go back and watch that video but in the meantime we're going to discuss the word kahal kahal is referring to the binay yosef why if you remember what we spoke about was that the um i'm just going to go back to myself sorry and go back to it you could find this i think in chapter 22 right it says that the moab said to the elders of midian now israel was not coming in to take over midianite property the midianites had nothing to fear why would moab try to get them because they're looking for allies they want someone you know misery loves company if we have to fight against the jewish people we might as well have as many allies on our on our side right uh maybe we'll win maybe we'll have uh the proper defense correct so they come to the elders of midian and they use these words now the congregation will lick up the word kahal will lick up our entire surroundings as an ox licks up the greenery of the field who is the ox the horseshoe is yosef it's i don't want to go through all the verses okay trust me go into look at for yourself that in the blessings that um moses gives at the end deuteronomy joseph is giving a blessing and blessed by yaakov himself in genesis okay so let's go through this one particular verse so you'll see um let me see where i want to go down to the last paragraph there on the page uh namar it's the same right you're looking okay the omar moab al-ziklimbian so the elders of midian went i'm sorry moab went to the elders and midian and said to them now they're going to lick up like an ox what did the midianites see to let a bear our riff to in other words to it to a conceive of a scheme to to um that right that to bring these people in when there was no reason for midian to join in so they developed a scheme and what was the scheme according to what we find rashi had mentioned so go to it's 31 6. i think if you go to did i put it down here it's number 12 on page four it says moses sent them the thousand from each tribe to the army so keep this in mind because we're going to see later that there was 12 000 by the way there were 12 thousand but it says um elif lamata el flamatte another right here or another place that's because believe it or not 10 12 000 that's a thousand from each tribe a thousand from each tribe there were 12 actual warriors soldiers and another twelve thousand levites who stay behind and learn torah and pray keep this in mind so if you ever have to discuss the draft in israel for this for the yeshiva students keep this in mind we always need one for one for anybody who's going out you must have someone who's staying back and praying and learning but in the meantime go into the verse it says along with them with pink son of a lazar am i right am i right in the you know what i'm not reading the verse one second okay it is oh sandes pimples it says oh tom vet pimchas them along with pinchas who's them who's them it's the sanhedrin the sanhedrin goes along with it now pimples is amazing because we're going to learn tonight about what we call a special cohen who leads the army but he doesn't go to war he tells them in advance to we're not even going to go into detail so you have to know we're talking about here he warns them that if you feel like you're a sinner don't go to war right if you were just married or you just built a house or you have a vineyard right and if you feel like you're a sinner you got to leave the front lines don't go to the front lines but it gives them such he's looking strength like in braveheart lahav deal right you're about to right you're serving god you're fighting for god and you're going to go out there and you're going to win this war they were already told they were going to go out in peace and come back in peace there was no reason for this we'll call me cohen the special meshuach especially appointed to go out there it was really no reason so why would pinchas go for revenge this is going to even show you more reason why it was only because of revenge for what we'll soon see okay but the rest so so let's see um i do want to i do want to go in that rashi and it's like halfway down on page four where it says how do we know that pinscher's mother was this oh let's go up sorry another interpretation he sought the vengeance of joseph his maternal grandfather for it says the midianites sold him in genesis 37 36 how did joseph how did we get joseph involved in this vengeance that pimples is going to take on account of yosef because joseph was sold where to egypt who sold him yes it was the midianites there were ishmaelites and there was midianites those ishmaelites and many nights he went back and forth but in the end the passage tells us it's the medianites that sold him now how do we know that pinchus mother was descended from yosef because of our verse in 625 because it says al-azhar son of our own took himself one of the doors of putiel meaning whoa meaning the descendants of isro it's all mixed up here and from the descendants of yosef okay now we have to really get to the bottom of this how can it be number c it's not only a and it's not only b pinchas comes from both but we want to feel it right we want to get the the words of the torah into our neshama into our guts to really resolve this puzzle okay so now i want to go back to where we left off which we left off in the mid in the lower paragraph on the left side where we just said otam vespintus that pinchas went to take vengeance on for joseph who the father of his mother of the emo the father of his mother as it says now in genesis 37 36 that when the minion unites sold yosef to potiphar the the egyptian and therefore the banayosa for called kahal remember we start off by saying there were four names in partis balak how is joseph so now if you go to it's 3511 in genesis so let's see where that is that is 14. right it says and god said to him i am the almighty god be fruitful multiply so this is yaakov's blessing to joseph a molt a nation and a multitude of nations shall come into existence from you and king shall come forth from your loins okay so in the rashi he's talking about obviously we know the the shot of the pastor he's talking to joseph but the details of the verse what does it mean nations well let's say be fruitful multiply this was talking about yubinyamin who was not yet born although rachel was already pregnant what does it mean nation benjamin nations means menacing ephraim and now this is going back it's not the bracha sorry but this is genesis 35 11. and so you have all these ideas referring to the um the sons of yosef so yosef is kahal i'm going back into the clear car so he says obviously is talking about yosef so too moab moab said to the elders of midian also they were saying you also have to be afraid of this kahal that's coming like an ox that's coming up and licking all around our surroundings not us personally but the surroundings right meaning outside the land of israel who are they the bina yosef ki shiyutsu lakak because they are going to take vengeance for the sale of yosef but who are sure of them the first born ox who's their father zosa amar now we understand what it says this congregation is coming to lick up all of our surroundings as they ox licks up because the cajao are the binet yosef the banayosa from the horseshoe are the firstborn ox and they're going to come up and lick all the surroundings like an ox licks up kidaylikak nikama to sure like they're going to come up and take revengeance for the the for the ox and that's how the clear clear car ends now i just wanted to mention because we're just getting started here this was all preliminary just to get an idea of the background the overall picture now i want to go to gamora sota it's still on page one now the truth is some of this is not that necessary to go through but i want to run it through quickly until we get to the main points when it says autumn so we're talking about in other words when we said that pinch them and pimples are going out the in that verse oh time is used twice by the way do you remember where we saw that um because i want to just refer to it again i think it was numbers 31 6. it says the islam oh tom is used twice so the gomorrah basically says one of them is the sanhedrin and the other is the iron itself well it doesn't really say the arm but khlei kodesh so what is the klikodesh some are going to discuss it as the names of god that's inside the arnica dish others will talk about it being the the the the trumpets or the chauffrost so now i just want to go down turn the page mem gimmel ahmed alef and looks like this it's just on the other side page two on the hebrew halfway down halfway down okay it's like this so agav by the way the gemara brought a verse regarding the war with midian to teach us that they took out the our own with the luhos for war now the governor is going to bring up bryson that's dealing with this war so we're dealing with the war tana that the brices says like this did not go to war for nothing he went for a reason i already told you this the title of this chapter is called muhammad it's talking all about the laws of that appointed cohen who goes to war what he says what he's what he does and we already concluded there was no reason really for him to go okay so why did he go ella the euflora din of the emo for payback payback right in order to extract payment or the judgment on his father's mother because he was sold by the midianites we're talking about joseph obviously not jethro right as it says in genesis 37 36 ryan right he was sold by the many knights to egypt we're talking about joseph now the gomorrah wants to clarify if that's the case how can you be so sure that he's from the seat of joseph pence is it really true can you really say that he comes from joseph don't we have another verse our verse in our parsha chapter 6 well it's not really psych it's not we're discussing it that's in exodus chapter 6 verse 25 about el azar ben aron he's the son of arun right true he took from the the daughters of putiel lolita and who's putiel putiel is none other than israel my love da sumi israel is it not israel jethro we already know that putil's israel so at the top left of the same page it mentions he fattened the calves for idol worship that's what you saw did no change your thought get get your head straight me joseph he comes from joseph who was what pit patro what does it mean to pit pete bietzro he considers his yates or her like nothing he overcome his evil canadian when he was put in such a precarious situation with the wife of potiphara he ignored his yetzer hara he fought his yates or he overcame his yetzara and that's why he's from puti we're talking about he so what a second how can it be he took wait well we said there's possibly number c of the chinese menu being from he took from the daughters of israel that's very nice he took from the daughters of joseph very nice but how can it be both that's what we're stuck with and yet the gamora's just right now concluded no he took from the daughters of joseph maksha gamora singamore asked no didn't didn't the tribes make fun of him hashvati mavasimoto so it must be what what must it be right they made fun of him because he was the from whoever putiel is who was mepatem uh making fat the cats for out of worship and not only that he also killed a nussem he killed zimri who was the true one of the leaders of the tribe of shimon what a chutzpah it must be the son of israel meaning one of the daughters of israel okay so here's when the gamora comes in with an unbelievable answer and that's we're gonna this is all preliminary we're gonna go deep into the uh comments so the gomura answers no you can't say emo martial about me israel you cannot say he didn't come from israel but rather he also came from yosef he came from both how's it possible ella got my yosef gamney israel because you're going to say like this you know if you want to say that the father his father's mother right from yosef and or the mother's mother from israel or maybe the other way around the mother's mother from yosef or the father's mother from israel and daikinami not only that it's proven that you know when you say i have a father we know he is there's no question it's going to be ironically but my mother she has a mother too and my father has a mother if i have two grandparents they're both female right i mean i have four grandparents two are male two or female fine but we're talking about the right so you have four grandparents so it could be now i have on the page in the english on the very last i think it's the last page page seven so basically keep in mind that it says nos potiphar right comes from the daughters of potiphara didn't we um i'm sorry then putiel putiel in other words go back to where are we in other words in exodus chapter 6 verse he took himself one of the daughters of putiel to himself with his wife not that he took from one of the daughters but yes daughters is plural the word daughters is plural so whoever the daughter was came from daughters in other words there's another generation to count and therefore go back again to what i said in page seven now if you look at the first right possibility on the father's side it's for sure ella's been our own and we already know the mother and the father of elazar is eliza but on the mother's side so we're going to call whoever it is the daughter of putiel but on the mother's side she could be from the family of joseph and the father could be israel himself or in verse in version 2 yes it's going to be the mother is going to be the daughter of putiel but the mother can come from the from the family of jethro and the father could be coming from the family of joseph now how do we arrive at that conclusion number one from the word benote from the daughters it didn't have to say it could just say bene putiel but it uses the word benos plural daughters also the word putiel also is very strange as we're going to see because it's a yud it's just it could have just said poutel what's putil with the yud it actually means also plural that there's two putiels that he that he um that elazar married from the daughters of putiel meaning from each one from both um uh joseph and yesterow anyway the gamora ends and just says on the next page shimamina that we hear is how the gamora ends the gamora actually says that he married this girl which we don't even know her name she came from both because of the gamora we just read okay now i want to go into some of the commentary what we read um yeah i have there's quite a lot of commentary and i want to choose them i want to try to choose them wisely so if you go back to the middle page number two um we're looking at um i think love starting from above onward is i mean there's so much before that but we have to kind of skip through it [Music] and let's start at dalit okay doubt everything's on the far left okay now is at the top of the of the comments we're not dealing here with vengeance for what for actually what occurred with his grandparent whoever that was israel or joseph because that's already forgotten that happened so long ago ella but what did midian stand for midian was hethach yosevatsarik it stood for the opposite of the character of yosef right so he was extremely guarded when it came to sexual um guardings but midian on the other hand they were proud seeing admohd they were extremely perverse shift kiribati liz news i can't even translate this they allowed their daughters to be prostitutes they mastered them they made them ownerless go they push them mess up the jews right billams cursed couldn't curse them didn't work wouldn't come out but if we can get them to sin we'll overcome them so they they gave up their wives and their daughters to this scheme i mean billion convinced them but they did it you hear we're talking about the opposite traits it's the opposite of control therefore shout to beyosa lomokuro when joseph was sold he was extremely controlled he ran away from potiphar's wife and yosef and it's because of this that we had such a valuable child called pinchus that comes from the seed of the yosef that he's the one who can take vengeance because he's holding right so to speak he was he pincus was very guarding this that's why he was able to take this vengeance because of the sexual improprieties and he was able to kill zimri therefore therefore that's why he was able to go out to war also and to control them to kill them raw man shahid allah okay we're going to see another comment so this bryce that we talked about in inso in in sota is um the the previous bryce dealt with uh pedras being the mishua of milkhamma and it's uh also uh understood in rashi and that that brings several different reasons um okay and toast he says like this ptosis brings a different reason he started the mitzvah pinchas started the mitzvah he killed the midyanis he killed zimri and he killed cosby so god wants him to go and finish the job by putting him into the milkhamma okay that's brought down by the beer sheva however the ben yohoyada which is the banishka he writes that even though he was mushu of milkhamma he had the special job he wasn't needed for the job because the people who were the ancient muhammad the the people were supposed to go out and fight they were already chosen by god to fight them and take vengeance for the midianites and god even promised they were going to return in peace so they wasn't even needed to go out to warn anybody to send anybody home as that's what the job of the of this special appointed cohen you know if you're in the first year marriage you haven't lived here that wasn't happening there was a thousand from each tribe and they were going no matter what because god chose them so there's no turning them back and they don't need any uh they already have as much music as you want because god says every one of you is returning and they did therefore we see that the gemura is going out of his way explain why he went he went to take nakama there was no other reason remember it says he didn't go out for no reason he went out for a reason the reason was from the comma uh the reef explain asked the question since he went to take vengeance for his grandfather whoever that is as we see in verse um it's numbers 31 3 that it actually says that he went to take vengeance for hashem against midian so what do you mean he didn't take ah we're saying he took vengeance for his grandfather but the pussic says he took vengeance for god how can you have both he took vengeance for god that's what the verse says so who the who were they these rabbis to say to vengeance for the sake of his grandfather so the answer is they dartioned it out because of the very fact that it says he's related to eleazar remember it says he's the son of eleazar you didn't have to tell me that either you already told me that before that he's the son of a lazar son of aaron and then you say it again there's no reason first of all there's no reason for him to go out to war you know eleazar could have gone out to war allah it comes to teach us very for the very fact that he was the son of al-azhar who took a wife from the daughters of poteel we didn't need to know now we know all this and now it all comes together we have a full picture because of elazar who's married not our own our own was not related but al-azhar was therefore nikhnas that's the reason the very reason he went into the war and even the torah um actually it's a safer taurus it's a safer he writes hashem if the sole reason would have been to go out for vengeance against god so then certainly it would have been fitting if it was for god then it would have been fitting for lsr to go but we see rock mushroom nicholas yosef hyatt's ark but rather only on account of the the um the uh the vengeance for joseph he would have needed to go pimples would have needed to go and not eliezer who's not of the children of yosef but we already established that pinchas was from both category c he's from both okay now there's a number of regarding what it says in the medrash lobo we're not allowed to give over the gnus and yet the midger says they made fun of him because his grandfather fattened the cavs for idol worship that's clearly it is so you're not allowed to do that you're not allowed to do that shiraishi ninu in bubba mitsia we learn that it's also loma laguerre if absolutely forbidden to tell a a convert um you remember how you used to act you used to go to church you used to celebrate easter sunday used to go running around looking for eggs on the springtime whatever it is you can't remind somebody like that ella adaraba but the opposite misappear that the pussac is coming for what to give us praise to praise him even though even though yisra was so much fervent he was a kumar he was a priest he was number one man even though he was zakhalif rosh mimenu he merited to divorce himself from the church from idaho worship this is a great thing he he reached the point that he was so beloved by the jewish people he was like the apple of their eye right we have all partial trust on israel and that he ended up having great children grandchildren like pinchas now like that he also had people in the sanhedrin by the way right the saint hedron but this is this most unbelievable so many of the rabbis that are listed in the books that are behind me many of them either were conversed themselves or children of converts right rabbi akiva he was a child of the convert rebbe mayer was a child of convert and the list goes on right so many so many then so that's from the bani shkai next and it's interesting rashi wants to explain what does it mean that he was um pittspit beyitzro that he was able to overcome his yates or hara so the last few words of the rashi shahatris what are tracing threesome are these things that cover your window they're storm shutters tracing it means to close off that's what it means totally become invisible it was like it was nothing his yate sahara it was like a piece of dust nothing that's how he overcame it um i want to skip down to your i think you'd is good this is an interesting idea uh yes lincoln media why did pinchus why was he the one chosen to go out and take the vengeance from midian against midian kevin shabbat uh miyusiro jayako and midian remember he did come he did come from pinterest i'm sorry pimples did come from israel who was a priest previous lifetime of midian so there's a gamer in sanhedrin that if you want to chop down i mean this is a little bit mystical and metaphysical you want to chop down a forest take a tree from the forest as the handle for the ox for the axe now is use the use the forest itself to decimate itself so this is an a deeper reason why pinchas was chosen to be the one to overcome medium because he himself came from midian okay another idea that benj brings down is because pinterest was a mixture he was a mixture mizu niyosa of the isro he was the perfect combination the gia lia de kinozu and he reached this ability to take vengeance shimizad aviv from the aspect of his father now whose father was aaron a cohen the ko in midas right a cohen is going to give a lot of hassan and he wouldn't have this i'm not i don't know how to train a strongness of heart but let's say fierceness a certain right the konim don't go to war they're not allowed to kill anybody if they kill somebody they can't serve in the temple so they shouldn't be like akzar they shouldn't be cruel they're full of quesad even though yes they're they're chopping up animals all day long in the temple right but they're doing such kindness for the jewish people noble it's good uh la vie wrote lave abeer means strength right nephesh right they can't kill anybody so from the aspect of his father who's iron a cohen he couldn't really do it ah israel but from the aspect of israel who was able to right slaughter he that's actually what the pussic says about who potiphar was i want you to look real quick on the english sheets uh look in genesis 37 36 and the minion knight sold him to egypt to who potiphar pharaoh's chamberlain chief of the slaughterers by the way who does the slaughtering the khawaneem right so too he's the co wait till you hear this he's cohen own we're going to see shortly right who's cohen own that's the name potiphar was given he was the chief let's say cohen the servant or kumar a priest of own but here was the chief slaughterer so we were in the middle of ut aleph and it said that that um from the side of his father which is full of cassidy couldn't have done this but from the side of israel and again israel we're gonna we just read this verse he somehow perhaps even potiphar who did potiphar who did joseph marry potiphar's daughter daughter wait so going back into yura right here but meet sad yosef from the aspect of yosef should pitpat be yitzro that word is spelled wrong that he was able to overcome his yetzer hara lokara lokharavla aisha's potiphar hanakris he did not come to close to the wife of potiphar who was not jewish nitar yotter and meshar israel he himself we're talking about joseph that's why he's called joseph sadiq he he controlled himself so much he aroused with the the righteousness within him more than any other jew and he's able to lycnos kinos hashem he would be the one to take vengeance because of this inter-marriage that took i shouldn't say intermarriage because of the interrelationships that took place between the jewish men and these non-jewish women and that's how it's hinted at in this word okay then rashi now this is an amazing rashbom he writes another way he he says that it says and i explain this outside is lush it's plural it's mashma means to controlling your desire he came from within yoseph who was able to overcome the desire that's in the dna so to speak the hindu yosef and also minos poom which is the israel which was the fattening of the cavs meaning he also overcame idol worship and shimami now we hear from both world members that would be page 3 i believe i want to go to yud i think it's your gimmo so we see here after bogami yosef bizeal ishvatin he also comes from yosef and the um the swat team made fun of him because he comes from joseph because of this nehemiah basically what he's saying is like this that we see the reason for their shaming him was for both reasons and he comes from both yeah even though he comes from joseph should be israel that's why it mentions both pagameen both blemishes because he comes from both now a way i want to finish this piece off because there's an amazing piece that i believe i have here that's going to be on page 4. just the names themselves is it was it not yisro we said in the gamora that fattened the calves for idol worship so the ramban writes on that verse on chapter six in exodus verse 23 he's going to claim that it's not even a person it's a concept here shame adam because what would it help to make a name we don't even know it is first of all she doesn't have a name and what would be the difference so it's a concept the mahasho writes means shimakevan shiba kama makomas in several places we find that the torah the with the the rabbis and the the torah's piercing tom bashem there's always a reason behind the name itself therefore game darshan as mashmu khan that's why the rabbis are able to darshen out the names because that's what they're there for so now we're going to ask was yistro really potiphara was he really potiphara so the rambam who's potiphar by the way that is the man that joseph was sold to whose wife ran you know after him after joseph so basically if you go to chapter 41 verse 50 in genesis you can help me find that real quick it's okay it's all on page seven so it said over there that he was in english says the governor of own but in hebrew us not both potiphara cohen own that this person potiphar he was a priest of own idols that's what it's referring to okay that's who he was sold to ship arusha who called there that he was a priest so the question is well how can you tell me it's isro it's not talking about israel it's talk about potiphara the answer is according to what's in the zohar the zoar says yisro is potiphara unbelievable so in pay valve we'll have to examine it because that's a very long comment and i hope you all have time for this i want to refer to that but i want to go down this page before we go to paiva and the explanation of the statement that um how can the gomorrah even tell us it wasn't easter it was it was yosef so the ena yahoo explains this statement is according to what it says in the midrash the midrash says that man was created with two yet saharas schneids from barakaris god created two inclinations in the world ye which one we're talking about the negative side one is for idol worship and the other one is for illicit sexual relations yetzer voters for these two things that we're actually making this whole claim that pindras's mother came from the descendants of one that was turned around for mighty worship and the other one overcame so these are like the two great saharas that were created with now we all know for those who don't know that around the time the prophets knew they were ending the prophets um from the very beginning of the second temple the sages prayed the ancient canescale prayed that they would know there would no longer be a taiva a desire for idol worshipping and that's when prophecy the whole thing ended everyone right there has to be a 50 it always has to be attention and since there was already a losing there was a losing a prophecy there had to be also a losing of idol worship but the tithe for sexual relations never ended so now we understand how we come on to the need to talk about joseph otherwise we can just pin it all up to to israel but wait to hear what he has to say he says like this that right god created the world with two inclinations the inclination for idol worship the inclination for illicit sexual relations the the inclination for idol worship has already been removed but the inclination for zanus still exists so kareshbar who said anyone who is not able to stand against news if you have an issue and you're having a hard hard time standing against news i'm sorry call me shu yahoo anyone who is able to muster up all the energy and stand against noose because that's all that is god is going to put on you as if you stood against both of them even though you're not getting credit ah i don't feel like going and worshiping an idol ever in my life so how am i going to get credit for that when i hold myself back against my inclination for illness to sexual relations i'm getting credit for both therefore when they the the the tribes were making fun of him and shaming him israel right that they're claiming you came from yusro who worshipped the idols so they would answer back he could answer back the shabbat yosef guess what i also come from joseph shapit pain bitsro he was the one who made his yat's heart like nothing and he stood against the utsahara for his noose therefore kareshbar who put upon him as if he stood against both his yetzahara against the worship and it comes out like this that this virtue is established for him shibamiko yosef it's coming from the power that joseph has which is actually greater than israel because the idol worship taiva the idol worship desire doesn't really exist anymore so there's a strength to joseph's abilities over israel's abilities and that's where that ends now the last paragraph says what is it what is the word pit pat mean so the rashbom explained i think we already did this he explains that it's like a tree seem like there's matrices negative this is what we have to do we have to close off as if it's nothing and fight against our yates or even rubino gershom uh however rabbino gershem and rashi they explained it the zildzil the kaveh sistro the shivu it's a different a little bit different but basically you should shame your own yatsara and conquer your yetzara and don't give it any any any credibility yeah yeah a shield yeah okay i want to go to the the comment pav okay have a good shot list read the paper on your own shambha zohar this is the zohar shim it's that guess what joseph's own father-in-law was called the kohen own as we read in genesis 41 15. meaning after the chuva when israel did shiva when he became moses father-in-law moses would never have had such a relationship with with zipporah with um with musro if yesterday was still a night of worshipper he became new title cohen midian cohen midian is not the same as koinon own is idols minion is a place raw baha goes with the rashbom fine nearer it seems shitsark ligross cohen median is there impossible is definitely speaking about israel and isro is because that's the only other person in the whole torah it's called cohen from you know some of the five books of moses it's the same person cohen own cohen minion one is before one is after chuva you know i mentioned i i left my notes at home um but basically i just want to end there and sum it up because it is absolutely totally fascinating that if we come out and understand i'm going to just sum it up because i wrote a little paragraph number 19. according to the raj bomb jethro was potiphar who bought joseph and it was potiphar's own daughter who married joseph which which we saw in 4150 now jethro himself was an idol worshiper and therefore he was called cohen own however once he repented he was then called cohen midian now it could be that the woman joseph actually married was not a biological daughter of israel because we do have a tradition that dina was pregnant from the rape and she gave her daughter up for adoption or let's say yaakov did and was adopted by potiphar now could potiphar have been the adopted daughter adopted parent of dina's daughter who ends up marrying joseph he had to don chuva there's no way that yaakov would allow a i don't know what to call a scum of the earth as pot as we know potiphar was he was you know now if it was israel before he did chuva it's hard to believe but if it was just stroke after he did chuva it's very easy to believe okay so even going with that that it was a family member now who is dina in respect to joseph he's like a sister because every one of the tribes the 12 tribes seem to have been born with a sister who they married or they intermarried with you know but joseph there's a whole i'm not going to go into it now but that leia was pregnant and she knew or she thought she had a boy and she prayed that there was a switch of these embryos i don't know if you ever heard such a thing it's called and today's transgender right she prayed while the male was in her womb that she should have a female and simultaneously her sister rachel was pregnant and she gave birth to joseph so in a very weird and awkward sense whoever joseph married you know if we're talking about in this sense she was a biological sister so to speak but she since she was brought up in the house of potiphar we could se and potiphar's isro so the adopted parents also give a lot of characteristics not the dna not what we call natural but we call nurturing and that also has an effect and therefore we can conclude that potiphar if it was isro had a a nurturing effect on joseph's wife and therefore even if you look at this little map that i put out as according to the second version that the mother came from the family of jethro it could have been from the family of jethro i.e but not the biological family of jethro okay so we'll end there there's a lot to say a lot to learn and again i just pray that we can all just continue to learn when we we should enjoy the learning right and not be frustrated with the language so find yourself a rabbi find yourself a system where you can learn slowly but surely maybe even review some of the tapes or some of the lessons that's the best way anyway so i wish everyone a chavo told a great week a great shabbos a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] here