Behaaloscha-Shlach - Correcting Complaints

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with a Show's never running assistance in Roma Israel 5783 2023 this week in hutzler it's you'll be reading projectile will be reading and a theme that repeats itself is the theme of the Jewish people complaining complaining to Hashem not believing not believing that what they have or what they're supposed to get is going to be good enough for them and usually we read from a draws from this this week I'd like to actually just read from the silkim from the verses themselves and see what is the lesson of these how does it apply to us both in regards to the missing the Jews who complained that they wanted bus or they wanted meat and also in regards to the persius of the parsh the complaints of the Jewish people about Earth's straw the claim that they could not go into Arts Israel that they wouldn't have the ability that the fear Thou shalt not be with them let's start off 11 verse 1. the people of the nation was like Miss einem exactly how to translate this they they were complaining Hashem they did evil in the ears of God right Hashem heard their complaints and it was God hears about this and he gets angry Hashem the first tells us there was a fire they raged as a result of their complaints on the edge of the Mahana what does it mean exactly according to one opinion there was actually they lost some of their important leaders some of their great leaders died that's going to be why there's going to be a necessity to replace those leaders says I have no one to to lead the Jewish people together with me but there's a complaint and the causes a fire [Music] there's a prayer the fire subsides my questions Hashem so that seems to be the end of that story but it's not because this is really all one story it's the fire stopped but there was something more going on there was still a complaint Israel the Assassin for the air of RAV they had a complaint that there wasn't any meat and this had a negative impact on the children of Israel so in this story it's going to be the era of RAV who has a negative impact and causes the Jews to cry and in the story impartial as well it's the 12. interestingly leaders of the Jewish people 10 out of 12 who have a negative report about Arts Israel and that leads the Jewish people to cry so what is this crying about they're crying that we don't have we don't have meat we want meat we remember the fish that we could eat in Egypt it was free there's so much fish there was there were gourds there were watermelons all different kinds of foods uh but sell them the the uh onions and the garlic so we had delicious spices to spice spice our food now we're dried out we have nothing builty element in the only thing that we have is the month is this mon what was the what was the food that they were complaining about it was this amazing miraculous food that Hashem provided in the end for 40 years in the Midwife for their entire Journey Through the Wilderness at this point it could it could have been it should have been for a short amount of time but they complained plus success I'm skipping a few seconds the nation Masha heard them crying it was very bad Hashem got angry everybody so Moshe complains and he says why why do I have to carry them by myself Hashem ends up offering him a point for himself 70 70 news the km 70 new Elders who would help him his his divine inspiration that Moshe had extends now onto the 70s of Canaan and and he has people to help him well my sashem brings the the bus so he brings the meat comes with the slav comes with these birds that that arrive on the scene at the at the exact moment Hashem proves that he can do anything he can even bring the meat but sadly at the end of the story many of the Jews die whoever had this time it's called the end of the places me Keepers had taiva it's called kiver sativo the place where they buried the people who were Miss Adam they just wanted meat it's a very sad story what is the lesson of the story it's it's pretty straightforward and obvious but I'd like to before we get back to this story I'd like to go to come and speak about and in impartial schlock so we have a different type of complaints but really a parallel type of complaint Hashem says the mushroom and to send spies to send 12 individuals who go to Israel and they would seek out the land a a trip that should have taken them 80 Days took them only 40 days and they came back with a report [Music] they came back with a reporter I'd like to read this to you inside they they went through the entire land Etc they shoot me to our arts in case after 40 days they returned this is a Chapter 13 Verse 26 now interestingly these 12 individuals came first emotion arm but really to the entire Congregation of the people of Israel if she was they showed them they they had something to say and they said they brought an amazing spectacular fruits land of Israel which were miraculously quite large they said to him exactly who him is but they said we came to the land that you sent us to regardless of it is truly a land flowing with milk and honey see how luscious his fruits are amazing FS but they said however he has um the nation is strong at Yoshi but the people who live there are very strong their cities are fortified and they're incredible Giants who live there Malik they're very strong okay so it's something that we can't really do but yes hello says no we can go up we we have the ability the other 10 spies they said we cannot do it they're too strong for us and they said negative things about the land of Israel areas the land that we went through to to check out to land that consumes its inhabitants all the people who lived there were too tall they were very tall sure okay they said it's not possible foreign excuse me so they all excuse me they all cried all that take they all cried on that day [Music] now they can make the most got angry that said they're not going to be brought in until this this generation dies the 40 days that they spent in the land it will be 40 years for this great sin 40 years the Jews will have to suffer in the wilderness and then only their children will Merit to see and enter into the holy land and of course this is a terrible tragedy as it says you know it's happened on tissue above it happened on the length of ah which for all generations would be a day of sadness ah until 3 300 some odd years later we will return we have returned still celebrating Tisha but we don't have a basement but the the incredible sadness here I think parallel is very much the sadness of the first story and what is the sadness to me and this I say as a muster to myself and to all of us there's two things here one is I'm not happy with what I have I'm not happy with what I have Hashem gives me so much and I'm not happy with what I have so that's one type of that's one type of complaint that's one type of failing not happy with what I have I want more I remember at one time I was when I was younger things were better or I see my friend he had something more than I have what I have is not good enough for me that's one type of failing and it's interesting to notice that Maisha says I can't I can't do any help with this how does it help him exactly it's not so clear it's not so clear right and in the end all the people who complain they die and here as well there's a different kind of complaint and in this complaint they also end up dying slow a slower deaths a different type of complaint it's not an immediate death like the first complaint so to understand the differences but in the second complaint so the complaint is maybe Hashem is not going to be with me maybe Hashem will not protect me maybe Hashem will not help me get into artsy thrill maybe we won't be able to overcome these people maybe the dangers are just too great maybe the challenges are just too much for us and you know I'm a I'm an inhabitant of the land of Israel as you as you know I live here in arts Israel and one of the things that we think about a lot here is I think about a lot I shouldn't say we I think about a lot is this this story of the of the Morocco doesn't seem to be an old story seems to be a very contemporary story it seems to be very contemporary story and honestly the first story is also a contemporary story but I think that they're related you know when when we ask when somebody when you when you ask a person why do you not live in Earth Israel so there's lots of reasons very valid reasons family but one of the main things that people say is parnasso how will I how will I make it an artist Israel how will I make it it's it's difficult in RC strong that's what people say which is we can we can debate whether that's true or not whether it's more difficult than our sister than anywhere else but it seems to me you know as I read these silken and as I hear the complaints of Claud Israel I think that uh these are not old complaints these are new complaints these are the same complaints and I see them as something which is avoidable right cloudy still could have avoided these complaints Clydesdale could have avoided these situations claiso did not have to be in the wilderness for 40 years but I think it's I think it's important to note that here we are at Israel has been given back to us 75 years we've had a country which is a Jewish country run by Jews has gotten firmer and firmer over the years more and more religious it's a place that's become more and more inhabitable more and more beautiful more and more possible to make a partner so and yet people keep saying the same the same claim um the Israelis are too tough their Arabs are all around we can't we're not strong enough maybe we are maybe we have nuclear bombs maybe we're strong but it's the same claim we can't we can't come in your kids won't succeed in the system maybe we won't have money we want a parnasso it's too strong for us and so an entire generation remains in the wilderness for 40 years and maybe their children will Merit to come in maybe their children will Merit to come in but isn't it sad isn't it sad don't we recognize that this story is our story and when we look back and passions about light Scott the first story of the Parsha of the missing do we recognize ourselves in this story as well if I would live in earth as well what would it look like might have less might not be able to I mean there are Teslas driving around here but probably less than in New York or in California so what will it look like I want to have that meat might not have that meat I might have a smaller house I might not live in a in a massive house might live in an apartment you know might have to fit a few kids into the same room each kid might not have their own room might have to live a little tighter might not you know but it's El amaneous right when a person lives in artsy throttle when you live here so here's the sharing the eyes of hashimer on the land of Israel throughout the entire year so there's more practice here but what I'd like to say and this is really the the essence of what's going on and it's true in the sukum as well it's true lipsukum as well that you know people say well how will I make it there I have to have a plan this is true that's that's kind of important but I would also add that that Eric's Israel is is a holy place it's a place where there's more kadusha there's a place where there's more revelation of Hashem and wherever there's more revelation of Hashem the fire burns on the edge of the camp right like we saw in the first story the fire burns on the edge of the camp Hashem is revealing himself Hashem is giving us the mun we have to live on a higher level as Israel's nickname the land of Israel is acquired through challenges what does that mean while I have to acquire it to throw through challenges why can't I just sit back and relax and let the money flow in it is a good question what about Partners it is a good question but it's not a good question because if you're living an artsy thrill you're you're in a higher place of caducea and you're expected to be on a higher level yes we're expected to live in Arkansas to Mitzvah so Mitzvah where it's Israel it's a Mitzvah to intuitively look at the situation and see hey where are we headed how far into the mashiach process are we how far into it you know we've been trained to believe that mashiach is some golden moment some miraculous moment that occurs sometime in the future but what if it's not and I've been saying this what if they build the base I make this year and and will that bring everybody home if let's say there's a base in English you know they didn't all come back from Buffalo this is a very famous taina they didn't all come back from Babylonia even though there was a base of English built so I wonder are we not at a stage where people should have already realized that it's time to come back to Arts Israel are we not at the stage where the shrina is the revealing itself more and more each day now what happens when the Shekinah reveals itself more and more each day it's a little harder it is a little harder or maybe a lot harder you know it's not easy to eat the same food all the time the same taste the same one only sadikim could taste any taste they wanted in a month only the righteous so it's not easy to eat the same food every single day I happen to eat the same food every day eggs bread salad for breakfast that's my that's my breakfast I eat it every single day it's possible maybe it's because I live in hertz Israel I don't know it's possible maybe it's a little harder maybe it's a little hard to live in the space where I could work who is protecting us with his clouds of his Divine Glory maybe it's a little bit harder to to see how it's possible to get in here and that's indeed you know why why did the spies come back with this negative report because it was true it was a true report but what was untrue about the report was was the fact that they said we can't it's too hard for us we can't get into our partners it's too hard for us that's a lie that's a bold-faced lie it's not too hard our family this that it's not too hard it's a lie as Khalid said we can go up we can inherit it's possible and the answer of Khalif has to do with Joshua as well adds the letter U to his name Khalif himself goes and he dive and he prays a kavaraba is at the at the cave of the Patriarchs there's a recognition that in order to be to be Allah it's only with the letter U it's only with Hashem it's only with the prayer of Khalif at the cover of us at the cave of the Patriarchs the key to success in arts Israel is a deep sense of connection to our College to God it's a deep sense of mission idealism recognition that this is the place we belong it's he spells a place where we belong the man is the food that we should be eating I remember the I remember the fish and the watermelons in mitzrayim even though I was a slave but I had good food being being in a relationship with who looks different than what it means to be a Slave to mix rhyme and it's rhyme today is is the Western culture and the wealth and the big houses and and all the things all the entrapments that we find ourselves in kutzlar it's outside the land of Israel and so I I think it's important I'm reading project Israel we are reading is being read but I think that it's good to hear what's coming up because the the root of the messianism of the complaint about the mon is the same as the belief the false belief that it's too hard and energy swirls too hard to get in there and both of these have different results we can we lose our leaders new leaders come in doesn't help us they still end up dying the people still end up dying from their taifa we send leaders inside of Israel to check things out but they don't come back with the right report but it's really us that's what the sukims say s whether it's we're being impacted by by the era of RAV by the by the forces of the culture around us or whether it's a negative impact from leaders who are just wrong about their assessment of whether we can come up to Earth Israel whether it makes sense to make Aliyah we're listening to the wrong people if we're listening to those people who say don't come and we're the ones who are responsible we're the ones who have to pay the price we're the ones who end up in the wilderness for an extra 40 years and only our children end up coming to Earth Israel and that's a sad thing that we're still paying the price for on tissue above additional we should be crying now we're still in hutzlars we're giving I'm sorry to say lip service to the fact that we want to make some English do we really would we really come if there wasn't based on English oh yeah we would she uh Miracles what if what if what if we're on our way and it gets built in a natural way what happens if a base of English is built doesn't seem to be mashiach even though the ramam says if a base of English is built you can be assured that that's been done by mashiach but what if it doesn't look exactly the way we think it should look don't you wonder like in the times of Ezra when they built the base of English what did they think what did the people think why didn't they come to Arts Israel I'll be willing to bet that they had the same excuses that we do because it's too hard there it's too hard we have our family here in Buffalo Babylonia but the root of it is we saw ourselves as locusts we just saw ourselves as small and we thought that that's how we look to them as well we see ourselves as unable to have the be talking we see ourselves as unable to be satisfied with what we have with the with the month and I will say that we are able I will I will say what khalib said and Yeshua said we can't go up we cannot be talking we cannot pronounce we can't succeed with our children inert Israel we can suffice ourselves with the month we don't have to have so many cars in such big houses and such big lawns we don't have to how we can't live a different way we don't have to have so much meat it's not to say that you can't have internet as well you can but it doesn't have to be such a high standard that we fooled ourselves to believe but it's really just the Egyptian culture around us that has us enslaved and we don't even realize that we're slaves so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to see our own mistakes we should be able to identify ourselves in these stories Hashem should help us to be able to identify the mistakes that we are making and correct those mistakes now so that we don't end up [Music] like the generation of the Wilderness but rather we end up like the generation that enters Earth Israel thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit 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