Korach-Chukas - Flowering Staff

you're listening to the weekly project podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Roma Beach Israel 5783 2023. this expiration Israel parcels next week and we will be reading Bullock so we will catch up we will be on the same page in the meantime I'd like to share with you something which connects the two parshyas of korach and that has to do with something that we find in both parches uh in the midrashram of both partios in korach so we have the story of the rebellion of korach against moshrabino against arunachoyan the chosen one of Hashem to be the high priest to be the kohanan the priests and the korach is swallowed up he and his followers are swallowed up into the ground those who brought the the 250 individuals who brought the fire offering the fire incense offering they are swallowed up by the fire and afterwards the Jewish people challenge the challenge motion they say you kill these people you knew what the result was going to be and you caused their deaths and Hashem is upset and moshe's upset and Aaron Aaron mahuki salino I love like Moshe says iron it's interesting doesn't really get involved in the in the upset part but it's a challenge to Aaron and so Moshe Rabino sets up a particular way of proving who is the chosen one of Hashem and that it is Aaron and seeking to quiet down this this uh false accusation against iron that there was nepotism Etc so what does he do he has a Mata each of the tribes each other each of the the princes of each tribe give their Mater they give their staff and we're going to talk about the staff we're going to try to understand what is the concept of the staff but each of them gives their staff arnica in Aaron the priest places his staff they all put their stabs inside of the Michigan inside of the Tabernacle and then in the morning they see that the staff of iron the staff that is etched into it the tribe of Levy that staff has sprouted let's remember it's a piece of wood but all of a sudden it's alive and makes it to porak there's flowers on it there's there's a flowering of life and this represented the fact that Aaron was chosen by Hashem not by Moshe by Moshe with the instruction of Hashem and he is the chosen one to serve inside of the Michigan to serve on behalf of the Jewish people now it's really interesting and really cool it's an amazing test but whenever we have Concepts like this the Turner teaches us something through this concept why did he specifically choose why did Moshe choose or why was he instructed by Hashem perhaps to choose to use a Mata use their stabs in order to prove the specialness of of arunakun what is the concept of the staff now in Paris there is also a reference to the staff and I'm going to read it inside shortly after we read the message that it's to do with purchase korach but there's a reference to a staff at the end of practice kukas so we know that the air the the Waters of Miriam so they were when Miriam passed away so the air was taken away it had to be reinstitute reinstituted reinstated and and after it does return after the water is returned the Jewish people sing a song Shira saber and the before she explained that this is not a new song because the bear was not a nuba air this is really an expression as the majors talks about it we're not going to get so into this but the the the air was there for all 40 years so it was an expression really of a joyous Moment In Time perhaps of the return of it but really an expression of thanks for the entire 40 years and we're gonna see but we'll read this inside again as I said we're going to see that the way that the waters reached each of the tribes how did the water get from the air how did it get from the the well which was a which was a which was a source of water coming from a particular location how did it reach the entire Camp of the Jewish people and one of the ways that it got there was the measure says that the Nasi of each tribe the prince of each tribe would take his staff and you'd pull the water towards their tribe and in that way it would get to their tribe okay so we see in both parties the concept of the staff in one context it's to prove that iron is special and in the other context it's in order to draw the water the life-giving waters to each of the tribes through their Nasim so we need to understand what is the idea of the staff what is the idea of this stick so first I'd like to read to a magician Patrick's Korra could say like this interestingly major says that this staff that Aaron had was an old staff an ancient staff and really we need to understand I don't know how much we'll get into it but we need to understand what does this mean exactly that this staff was the very same staff that we find that Yehuda had when he came into a relationship with Tamar who ended up being the mother of his children the parrots in zarach who ultimately would be the great great grandfather of double Hamill and ultimately the great great grandfather of mashiach David he had a staff in his hand that she took from him and that she returned to him that same staff that same staff which represents maluka represents the kingship which is yehuda's kilo you also shave it right the the shave it the staff does not leave the hands of Yehuda we need to understand the concept of a staff in regards to maluka in regards to King's kingship but that same staff was given to Arana that same staff was the one that came to life in our story in our Parsha um says the magic it was the same exact Mata that was in the hands of munch that much she used when you performed miracles for the Jewish people in Egypt that was the same one is there are those who say that Moshe took one piece of wood and he cut it into 12 different pieces of wood 12 beams and he said to them you are all from one piece of wood all 12 tribes are from one piece of wood take your staffs okay and that those stabs were the ones that he used to perform this test and the staff of labia as we said so it was a according to this understanding it was a new staff it wasn't an ancient staff well man also coveredly is why would he do this he didn't want them to claim that that uh that Aaron's staff was any different than their staffs they're all from the same exact piece of wood he didn't want them to say hey the iron staff was was uh it was really alive from before this Marco this staff of ironic Hashem was Geiser which the word geyser means to decree but it can also mean to cut Hashem inscribed onto the Mata onto the staff of Aaron his name is Holy Name the name which was also on its hits or there are those who say there was the name of the 72 letters or the name there's differences of opinion what was exactly written upon the staff but nonetheless it's some name of Hashem which we also need to understand what is that why is there a name of Hashem on a staff what's what's the concept s how do we know because it says seats so it refers to the staff using using the word sits and just like on the tits which was the the head plate on the forehead of the crying's name so so to the staff said hashem's name is okay the message finishes off and says that same staff was in the hands of every single King until the base of English was destroyed and then the staff was put into hiding it was hidden away from here and that very step is going to be in the hands of the Messiah may he come speedily in our days the staff will be sent the staff will be given over two to the Future leader of the Jewish people will have that same staff what is the staff there's a lot of hints here to what the staff is we can go through them we should go through them and and understand what the staff is but before we do we have more hints really from the second measures which I'd like to read inside um talks about the air the well the well which was dug by the by the mighty princes it doesn't say my by princes it was it was dug out by the by the important people of the nation now what's what's going on so in the push-up shot it means that my sharabeno and iron and Miriam they were important people and they as Rashi says as the uncle says they were the ones who threw their skills through their merits the the air came about notice by the way interesting notice by the way that how does major albino get the water out of the bear out of the well he uses his staff he strikes the he strikes the rock with his staff in order to bring forth the water it was a mistake he should have spoken which is also interesting what's the difference between speaking versus striking with a staff right we find that a staff shave it and a Mata can be used in order to guide our children for Success if a person spares the rod he spoils a child right famous famous concept which is ignored unfortunately in in the modern day but there is an obligation for a parent to make sure that the child does what's right and sometimes that involves Corporal uh corporal punishment and if a person doesn't give proper punishments to their child that child can end up as a wayward child but this very stick the stick seems to be on the surface level something that's used to bring out the water cause cause um cause an effect that we would like the water we have to understand what's the concept of the water and how it relates to the sticks but we want to bring water we want to bring sustenance to the Jewish people you gotta cajole you gotta cause the water to come out so use the stick now Sean the message points out what's going on here is was there any kind of actual digging that was done we found that avram and Yitzhak were involved in digging Wells but were Maisha and Aaron and and Miriam literally involved in digging a well Ella and she said it's not it's not the case rather says two different uh references to people who who dug this this well one is dug by the important ones of the nation laughs excuse me so says the magic that what was it that caused what was the merits that allowed for the Jewish people to have this water so the First Merit was this it was the Merit of avram because they were referred to as Princess and every person in Psalm chapter 105 verses 41 and 42 it refers to the water it refers to the the water that came out in the mid bar and what was the root of it it mentions it mentions Abraham the servant of Hashem so there was a merit that came as a result of avram and suganyakov Abraham Isaac and Jacob but what was who were the ones that that at the time at the time in the wilderness actually dug the pit whose Merit was it at that time I mean something that causes an impression means with their that which they leaned upon refers to something they leaned on then I see him who were the important people of the nation who at the time their merits or maybe their physical action caused the Jewish people to have the water that they needed it was the Nasim it was the twelve princes of the tribes they would stand over the the water and they would take their staff their mission machinists that which they leaned upon they would stand take their staff and they would draw the water with their staff towards each and every shave it and every family okay there's much more interesting things here in the magic I'm not yet going to get into it there there is a really important point in that in the continuation of the measures which we'll get to but I'd like to just step back for a moment and say okay so what what's this water what is the water that we're speaking about what is the mate what's the purpose it's a machinist it's something they lean upon right what do Nissim lean on what are they needed for what they're all old men and and they couldn't walk anymore so they needed something to lean upon what is the idea of a matter what is the idea that they draw the water out from the matter what is the idea that the proof of who is the chosen one of Hashem is the is through the matter is it's through these these walking sticks and it seems clear it seems clear from the the way that the measure speaks and the concept of a Mata that was going on here is very straightforward and very beautiful very powerful and that is that the air that we're speaking about right and the Really the contest about who is the one who's going to be the Korean who's going to be the priests cork wants to be that guy what is it about it's really about who will draw the water which is the sustenance which represents really the spiritual sustenance of Hashem who will be the one to draw that spiritual sustenance down to the Jewish people who will be the conduit who will be the Klee The Vessel that brings down to the Jewish people their physical and spiritual sustenance now why is that represented with a stick with a walking stick with a machinist and the answer is that a stick what is a stick it's a piece of wood and what is a piece of wood it's a branch of a tree and a tree is connected to the ground and the tree draws the sustenance to its branches right think about the think about the the tribes of the Jewish people what are they they're really a Chevette is a tribe which is a branch yaakov avinu is the core is the is the trunk of the tree and there are 12 branches that reach out of that trunk 12 sons of yankov so who is the one that attaches you to the trunk how do you get your sustenance whether it's from Jacob from Jacob or whether it's from Hashem himself that's what we're really speaking about we're speaking about this the the water of the bear is is that which Hashem gives so that we can have physical sustenance but it represents the spiritual sustenance and that's really in the Hampshire of the message which talks about the bay air in terms of Torah Tori's nimshila tamim we know that the Torah is analogous to water right so so the Torah the Torah itself the teachings of the Torah are that which we use to connect to Hashem we try to understand his will now what's so special why is karak so uh adamant about trying to be the kind of what is it what does he care it's honor is it about honor or is there something more so the answer is that there's something much more than that because if you are a conduit if you are the vessel at Hashem uses to bring spirituality life sustenance physical spiritual sustenance into the world if you are that conduit excuse me then you you experience it as well you're the one who gets that unbelievable spiritual experience of Hashem pouring his goodness through you what an opportunity we spoke about previous weeks with the kohaniment and the blessings that they brought but there was not about them it was about them passing it on to the Jewish people but still when you bless somebody when you teach somebody Torah when you connect someone else to Hashem you become connected automatically right we find this a concept for example column is now when you pray for somebody else and you need the same thing you're praying for somebody else that they should let's say someone who's not married yet you're praying for your friend that they should have a should of they should get married and you need that thing else also so Nana trila the person who's praying gets answered first why because it's coming through them the shepher the the influx the goodness the spiritual influx that Hashem wants to to give is coming through the person who's praying on behalf of their friends so they get it first right so that's that's what we're talking about that's what was at stake that's what korak understood that's what he wanted and when when Moshe rabenu when Moshe Rabino does this test says let's look at let's look at these stabs what he's really saying is let's see who is the one who's truly and most intimately connected to our kurdishborough who through whom the blessings are going to come let's look at the stavs which are branches and all of these branches are of the same piece of wood right according to one understanding he took one piece of wood and he and he cut it into 12 12 pieces representing this very idea all 12 tribes are rooted in a single a single unit called cloudy soil the Jewish people but who is the who through whom does the the influx come it comes through aranakaim and that was represented by the matesitsu parach it came to life it came to life because Hashem is the source of life Hashem is the source of Life Hashem is we're talking about getting the spiritual sustenance which is what Hashem gives who does he give it through it's through aranakinas through those who are the closest to him and and that's why it says it has hashem's name on it just like this means that iron is is special iron is unique that he's somebody who has the deepest connection to our kurdishburg who all of his thoughts the tits is on his forehead representing that all of the coincidence thoughts revolve around service of Hashem and that's who we need to go to when we want to know how to access Hashem we want to know how to get spiritual sustenance we need to go to people to learn from them we need to go to people to get blessings from them who are the most connected who are most focused all of their focus their machinists what are they leaning upon they lean upon Hashem he leans Upon A a walking stick that means that everywhere he goes every step that he takes Hashem is guiding him his mission is his walking stick is the it's it's imbued with the name of Hashem to it is hashem's name everywhere I go I'm thinking about Hashem every step I take I'm walking with Hashem that's what these matters represent all of the Nissim have walking sticks yes they do they do have walking sticks what are these walking sticks about because when they're walking they're walking with Hashem just like iron is of course yes what was the have I'm you know any of those in the same should be special it's because they were all people who go with Hashem the king Yehuda yahudas why was it that his Mata was the same Mata why was it that this was the matter that was used by Maisha to perform the Miracles is because this is the manifestation of Hashem a king is somebody who his whole purpose is to make sure that the Jewish people are doing the rasan Hashem doing the will of Hashem the that's the purpose of of this individual that's gonna be the purpose of mashiach what is the purpose of the Messiah why do we need a king we need somebody who will guide us and show us how to serve Hashem properly and these very same Nasim these very same walking sticks which are used to make sure we're walking with Hashem that every step that we make is Guided by hashem's will we are depending on Hashem we're leaning on Hashem those same walking sticks are the ones that pull so to speak that draw the water the life-giving water both the literal physical life-giving water which provides them with with physical sustenance and the spiritual sustenance which is is represented by the water which is the torah's teachings now I want to read you one more section here from the measures which is the end of the magic which just like we saw at the end of the magician parshus korak it ends off with mashiach so too over here there's there's something else that's connected to yamisa mashiach which really it's already it's already started now in the song of the of the air and the song of the of the waters it says it says that from Matana is referring to different locations but there's also a drasha that the water which represents the Torah which represents the teaching of Hashem which represents doing hashem's will so it went from Matana they went or the water accompanied them from this place called Matana to nakliel and then to Bama's three places says something which seems unconnected there are three places here and they correspond to three courts that were in Jerusalem which would teach Torah to the entire Jewish people um so the first one is we had the highest court of the Jewish people which was on the Temple mount the kimizetair right the verse says that from Zion which is a reference to harabayas which reserves the Temple mount comes forth the Torah so there was the highest most educated well-educated so to speak uh Jewish Court I mean there was another Court next to in Azara next to the museum next to the next to the altar um there was a third location also on the heart all three the three sources of where does the tire come from it says the magic where's the source of our water where's the source of our spiritual sustenance it's rooted in the place of the miktash in the place of the temple why and this is the connection between Aaron and the bear and and the Torah this is all about who and where do we go to get our spiritual sustenance where do we get that relationship with Hashem it's mikdash it's in the base of English in the Holy Temple it's harabayas it's the Temple Mount it's the Creator where Arana of course enters and inside of there is the box and the box contains the Torah the cherubs are sitting on the crew of them are sitting on a box which hasn't in it the tie around the tire is about our relationship with Hashem and the root where does our water come from where does the water come from it comes from our relationship with Hashem it comes from the base hamikta she comes from Earth is alive and so when we want to know where do we go in order to get our connection to Hashem we go to the leaders of the Jewish people and who are those leaders they are drawing the water for us from where are they drawing the water from that bear from that well where does that well come from it comes from your shalim it comes to make though she comes from relationship with Hashem so I want to bless you and ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to connect ourselves we should be able to attach ourselves like branches to the roots branches to the trunk the Torah of the Jewish people are are Jewish leaders those who teach us those who are dedicated and focused completely and completely depending upon Hashem is to be able to attach ourselves and to be able to seek and receive the amazing Waters the amazing The Amazing flowering and blessings that come as a result of that connection thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shamus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag foreign thank you