Parashat Chukat For The Heretics

the infamous monest frean idea that God needs you which for some reason uh is rocking the Jewish world I'm not sure why this is 100% a a this is heresy is actually a very very logical [Music] idea we have is full of insights that are very critical to our lives especially at times like this as the uh sages say in page 49b that at the end of days there's going to be certain things that are going to be the opposite of what the tradition has been the opposite of what we have known to be true where in fact the truth will be hated and heresy will be rampant and that's actually unfortunately one of the things that we are seeing many people pretending to be leaders pretending to be rabbis are misleading the public with many different things and just just today somebody sent me a video where uh this uh uh uh partner to uh Manis fredman this guy y Yoni cats uh goes to uh the 770 kabad Center the headquarters of kabad and asks a bunch of different people uh if they believe you he's he's asking rabbis he's not asking uh just regular people uh that are unlearned apparently these are learned people at least they should be uh and he's asking these different rabbis from kabad that are praying uh at the 770 if they believe that God needs you does God need your mitzvas yes I'll say yes cuz I know who you [Music] are does hasem need your mitz 100% 100% in his Essence does God need yes of course mitz what he definitely wants my mitzah he wants them but does he need them though but seem so Rabbi right here in book does God need your mistress of course what kind of question is that you does God meet your mistress of course it's a Hot Topic in is suain by our sacrifices that's right of course and uh to our dismay uh at least based on his video the majority of them agree that God needs you he doesn't need he wants it wants it God wants it but doesn't need it does God need your mits have no idea he wants them me he doesn't need does he want them he wants them he doesn't need them you became religious like in the 70s am0 60s you were hi no some of them were normal and said that they uh know that God wants us to do mitv doesn't need us to do mitv but unfortunately many of them and I would say a rough guess would be uh 70% or more of the people at least in that video uh agreed with Yoni and Manis fredman that God needs you and of course this is a this is 100% AOS according to all opinions of the sages you will never find a source in a Tora that says such a statement so to have so many people say such a thing of course this can create even more confusion but of course we always have our beautiful tat to uh to delve into and delve into because everything is in it and of course always puts us at the right place and at the right time when he wants us to learn something has one of the most critical statements that you will ever find pertaining to this particular issue as it says this is the decree of the Torah which hasem has commanded saying speak to the children of isra and they shall take to you a completely Red Cow which is without blemish upon which a yoke has not come so here the sages have a field day of different commentaries about the first part of the statement we understand that there's a red cow there's the laws of how to use the red cow but schl himself says he doesn't understand it SCH that was given Divine wisdom that was given wisdom Beyond any other man aside from mosenu and some say even Abu but aside from that every human being that ever existed over the last several thousand years has not even come close to the wisdom that schl had and yet schl is baffled when he gets to this par because in this Paras on Chapter 19 Verse number 7 it says that the very same Coen that is purifying Everybody by using the instructions of the of the alas of the red cow where they're taking the red cow they're after they're slaughtering it they burn everything including the waste then they turn it into uh it all turns into ashes and then they use it to purify people along with some uh water the um the the water that's being sprinkled now each time somebody touches a uh something that's impure and the page 14 has a whole from the r the the leader of theim at the time and it talks about a the whole concept of T and Purity and in impurity and purity and uh over there there you obviously thear is in one of many places discusses T but this one particular Source in is the source for many of the other relating to t uh so for anyone that wants to understand the subject this is the foundation and uh when it comes to Purity and impurity there are different things that if a person touches them they will become impure if it's one of uh uh uh uh several different types of crawling creatures if they touch a uh a an animal that uh died without you know that was died on its own some some type of accident uh or or some other animal ate it and it died and somebody touches it or another example is tumit the tum of somebody that died which in that particular particular case the highest level of Tuma comes from a dead person so much so that a person doesn't even have to touch it in order to become T everything else you have to touch everything else you have to touch with the exception of the uh the T of a of a woman that just gave birth T of uh of nid T of the the different types of tumas but generally speaking every one of the tumas are something that you would have to touch you have to connect to except t t of a dead person where the tum of the is the highest level so much so that anyone that's under the same roof as a dead person I.E in a cemetery or next to a dead body if there was a war somebody died next to them they don't have to touch them they're under the same roof they uh will become impure and the only way to remove that impurity is with the the impure Waters hence the reason why everyone today is impure because the once a person becomes impure he touches another person he shakes their hand gives them a hug uh and he makes them impure he touches something he makes it impure this is called aat Tuma the father of Tuma which makes other things Tuma more or less what ends up happening is that anyone that went to a a hospital anyone that has gone to a cemetery anyone that has pretty much touched anyone uh is impure and the only way we will ever get rid of this impurity is once the bet mikdash is built the third bet mdash that's permanent is built and part of it is going to be the ceremony of the par where they take the red heer and they uh pretty much purify everyone but interestingly enough the tat tells us that the kohen that is purifying everyone in essence he himself is pure he is taking the pure water of the red heer and purifying everyone that is T East T because of this East T because of that a whole line of people millions of people following waiting for this little sprinkle of water to become pure once he completes his job he is nowl says I don't understand this is even beyond my understanding of everything to show me that it's not something that we can possibly understand and in fact the fact that something pure itself becomes impure in such a fashion is not something logical and the Tor says this is the decree of the Torah this is the decree of the Torah usually calls statute anytime it pertains to any of theim any of the things that are pertaining to a uh uh MIT he says these are statues these are the different details of the mitvah but when it comes to this particular verse he doesn't translate H like he usually does but rather this is the not the statue but this is the this is the decree this is the decree of the Torah in order to teach us that when a t refers to the details of a mitvah such as the specific laws of the par taught in this passage uses the term decree since the mitvah intricate alic details are beyond our comprehension and must all be observed as Divine decrees see here ulos clarifies it for us when it talks about the mitv in general this is a hook this is something this is the detail Da One Two Three this is what you do you go right you go left you pick up you pick down you go sit down you uh do all of the different things but when it comes to the details of why this Mitzvah is the way it is that's already a decree meaning because God said so because God said so that's the reason Rashi on the other hand is even more stringent where he says is always referring to the entire mitv that cannot be grasped by by a human mind meaning none of the mitv not just the not just the red heer but all of the mitv cannot be grasped by human mind so here we see Unos translate this particular decree as a foundation for all of us to understand what to believe and what to run away from because the philosophers or the rabbis that pretend to be philosophers or the rabbis that are given philosophical explanations without a sage giving them a foundation without a source that you will ever find in any place where they're giving you all of their philosophical explanations of how if he created us he must need us he definitely wants he wants a does he need that though if would seems so it would seems so right seem so everyone's praying here exactly God's perfect how can he need anything if we're doing it then he must need it and all of these different uh uh uh word uh uh types of debates where they're simply focusing on the semantics instead of what the tradition has always been for the last several thousand years here the Torah itself comes and stand ups on his it own and says to [Music] you this is the decree of the T meaning all of the are not needed by God all of the MIT are things you will never understand while you are alive why because that's how God created you that's how God created you you will not be able to understand you don't have the tools to understand you can understand what to do you could understand different benefits of doing as the uh uh the from 800 years ago or 700 years ago writes in the beginning of his huge huge commentary on every single mitvah he says these are just Tam these are just like little tastes little flavorings of different reasons of why we do the but the truth is the reason why we do the is because God said so that's the reason behind all of the MIT so here we have a verse in the Torah that simply addresses the longstanding battle against the Heretics that unfortunately are infecting more and more people that are connected to kabad that are connected to their teachers that are trying to reinterpret the tah that are trying to reinvent the tah without having any sources without having any foundation whatsoever by simply word playing by simply saying listen it makes sense that since he told us to do it he must need it why because I won't do anything unless I need to do it and in so many words they're minimizing God and humanizing him where they're trying to say we're in the same field I only do things because I need to do them I only tell somebody to do something because I need them to do it therefore God must be the same as me he only says to us to do the mitv because he uh he needs it why would he create the world if he doesn't need the world this is 100% a a this is heresy can ask you a question I'm just recording for does Hashem need your MIT for he doesn't but he's perfect what kind of question is that does God need your mes of course [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey I'm going