Pesach Sheini: Responsibility and Opportunity - Rabbi Ephy Greene

is one of those days in the jewish calendar where we sometimes scratch our heads and we wonder how am i supposed to connect to this day what is the exact avodah yom that was supposed to relate to i think we can get a lesson just from reading the story in the torah parishes to bring carbon pesach in the second year of their sojourn in the desert the haiyan show how you tamil there were people who were tummy and they come to motion and they say why should we be worse off than our brothers who are able to bring the carbon we also want to bring the carbon massabenia says i'm not sure let's uh hold on over here let me go ask akash barucho and see exactly what is going to be the din rashi tells us that not only does [Music] the dinner of carbon pesach but he specifically could have commanded it earlier but waited instead of giving it to moshe being waited until these people asked for it what's happening over here tells us who are the people who were uh so the kumara gives three options it might have been michelle elsa and the cousins of nadav and view who are taking care of the bodies of none of the view it might have been no serious shall you'll save those people who are carrying yosef's coffin upstairs as well it might have been smith's about people who were taking care of burying a dead body that didn't have any other relatives or anyone to bury it these are three options of individuals who stood up and took responsibility for their fellow jew for cover hames these were people who took an initiative in order to show a dignity and an integrity for what it means to to take care of a jewish body that sense of responsibility carried so much weight to kardashian says these people had a zac coast they had a certain zachus a certain a certain purity even though they were tummy a purity and intent a purity and desire to give to grow to make sure that the situation in their community and their world was better off was was respectful was dignified such individuals says wow a carbon an opportunity to come closer to karsh baruch an opportunity to make up for lost chances comes from people like this who come back to kardashian why is it that one opportunity of getting close to hashem should have struck me for another opportunity to get close to hashem my whole life is getting close to kurdish my whole life is looking for opportunities to grow and to connect with akash baruch who if that's the case such people deserve a mitzvah of peace to come through them you're asking why can't i have more opportunities to get close hashem hashem will give it to you how shall i provide those opportunities to get close to karashvaruh what is that opportunity pesachini another opportunity to recognize the incredible hashikaka practice the symbol of the symbol of of uh to eat the morrow to recognize how bad it was but the two of them come together showing us again how kurdish barcode takes us out of the tower and brings us some more opportunity and when does it fall out i was like you dialed er what happened what else happened in the mid bar you dialed er just the next day after the the rations from you trying to run out the jewish people asked how are we going to survive in the midbar and that night what falls for them the man the man and therefore the balaturin points out that pisashini coincides with the beginning of the month because pesachini teaches us that when a jew is looking for more closeness than sakuras showers upon him opportunities of closeness to be close with roughness to be close with the goddess to continue striving and growing closer to hashem and to get more and more opportunities as well you