Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Shelach

good evening today we are learning we are using our school homage we are on page 799 and um the Parsha before last week finished with Miriam being quarantined and after the Jewish people traveled from khatirao to Mid barbaran which is close to the land of Israel and now this week's partial Moshe foreign speaks to Hashem and says Hashem the Jewish people are worried they don't have enough Trust they would like to go in and check out the land that you promised and Moshe says you know I think we should agree hoping that if Moshe allows the Jewish people to spy out the land the Jewish people will say oh if Moshe is so sure and if God Hashem allowed us to go and check it out must be it's really good this is the trick that uh salesman use if a buyer asks can this gadget do this they'll say yeah for sure you want to try it and whether it can or not doesn't matter they will Bluff it hoping that the the buyer will not tested but that's the psychology of it that if you allow people to test it it means you're sure of it so Hashem agrees and in verse 1 chapter 13 Hashem spoke to Moshe saying send forth men if you please and let them spy out the land of Canaan that I give to the children of Israel but the trick didn't work the Jewish people were really worried and it wasn't enough that Hashem allowed them to go and spy out the land they actually wanted to do it to see it for themselves not enough that God tells us go and I will help you I want to go in and I want to make sure for myself that I know how to conquer it if I will see that I can I will go if I see that it's too hard I'm not gonna go but that was their mistake because Hashem is telling them you will enter the land you will chase away all the inhabitants and it will become your Homeland they just like recently they accepted the Torah why did the Jewish people accept the Torah because they said if God is giving us something must be it's good all the good things come from God they didn't even ask what's in it Hashem gave it to us and here Hashem is giving us the land we should have said yes sure when can we go in instead they said let's pause let's send in the spies check it out if we like the land that God is giving us we'll go if not not what do you mean the land of God is giving for sure it's the best land on the whole planet and Russia will will quote the midrash later that the worst land in the land of Israel is seven times better than the best land you can ever find elsewhere so that just shows you that if God is giving you something take it with both hands because it must be the best possible thing in the world but there their trust was not so strong you know it's easy for us to talk because we're not in that test and actually we are and whenever we think should we go into the land of Israel right away the same concerns surface oh how will I make parnasa the people that live there are not so uh friendly what will be with my children it's better for us here in America not so fast where we're gonna move and uh for them especially they had to fight there were 31 kings in the land of Israel at that time we have to fight 31 battles who knows if we're gonna win all of them and if we lose even one what's gonna be so it was a big test for them so they decided to rely on their own strength so Hashem said one man each from his father's tribe shall you sin 12 people one from each tribe Moshe sent them forth from the Wilderness of Paran at hashem's command they were all distinguished men heads of the children of Israel were they they were all sadiqi at that moment they were all righteous however the pressure of the mission and the pressure of the the Jewish people put on them make sure you see for yourself the truth make sure you bring us an honest report uh there was something they they couldn't handle and it constantly put pressure on them and they said no we don't think that it's possible to conquer this land and uh a list is given over the 12 people and the most famous among them are khalev and Joshua khalev at that time was 40 years old and you were sure at that time was 58 years old now in verse 16 Moshe called Hosea son of noon yehoshua originally his name was Jose and the Moshe added a youth to his name this is a a already not the first time that we see in the Torah names are changed we know avraham's name is changed by adding uh a hate to him Sarai is changed to Sarah we take out the youth and we add the hay and here again Hosea is uh changed to yehoshua a youth is added at the beginning so we have now three examples avraham Outlet is added in the middle Sarai alet is exchanged at the end and you sure a letter is added at the beginning so all kinds of additions are possible why do we change someone's name when he's um Destiny changes until now he had this mission now he is taking on a different job so he needs a different soul a different name that really is designing his role his position in society avraham was only a leader of a small um area of Aram avraham became became the father of the entire world Sarai she was Sarai means my princess my leader she became Sarah the leader of the entire world the same thing the a youth was added to his name at the beginning you'd represents spirituality represents Hashem to show that Hashem will save you means Hashem will save why because now you're sure from being someone unknown is going to become the leader he is the one that is going to try to save the Jews it didn't work but he tried and later Joshua is going to become the leader after motion so motion's prayer and the change of name for Yeshua worked and Yeshua was saved from the council the conspiracy of the spies and khalev was strong enough Moshe saw that he doesn't need any help he will be able to overcome the test and he did now mosha tells despise what to look out for in verse 18 see the land how is it and the people that dwell in it is it strong or weak is it few or numerous and how is the land in which it dwells now we turn to page 801 and Moshe continues with the um the mission is it a good land or is it bad and how are the cities in which it dwells are in Open Cities or in fortified cities and how is the land out for the third time Moshe is telling them to check out the land but the different aspect of the land is it fertile or is it lean are there trees in it or not so Russia says the first time when he mentions how is the land it means check out the point in the land that is the least protected where can we start the attack the second time it says uh how's the land it explains is it good or bad is it does it have good water sources and the third time it's it says house the land it refers to the ability of land to grow healthy uh fruit and grain foreign you shall strengthen yourself and take from the fruit of the land and it was a season of the first ripe grapes now we know that the spies came back on on the 9th of and they were traveling around the land for 40 days that means they left the camp on the the 40 days before um it was not the 17th of tamus because 17th of tamus is three weeks before the ninth of so it was one week it was uh uh nine days before 17th of tamus so let's say approximately the the the the eighth of tamus they left and that was in the middle of the summer so the Torah says it was the beginning of the first ripe grapes or it could be that already when they were on their way back a couple weeks later towards the the second half of the summer that is the season that they picked the The Ripe fruits so now the mission is described verse 21 page 801. they ascended they went up and spied out the land and the way it describes is that they first went across the land from the east to west then they went along the the shore of um Mediterranean Sea north and then they came back down so they went through the land uh width wise and lengthwise twice and uh um Khalif was able to go to Chevron by himself and he prayed there that he should the the the Merit of the forefathers should help him to overcome The Challenge and be able to say the truth about the land okay so they took some grapes they took pomegranates and they took figs and our sages described that this these fruits were huge and we learned it from the the verse that says they took one cluster of grapes in verse 23 and carried it on a double pole with two people on each side or some commentators say two people on each side of each Pole which will make it either for people at least were needed to carry one cluster of grapes or work onto some commentators you needed eight people to carry one cluster of grapes how heavy this cluster was each grape was like a watermelon and the cluster was like a huge huge cow um and uh you needed one person to carry one fig and one person to carry another fig and one person to carry one pomegranate huge pomegranate and another person to carry a huge pomegranate so that makes uh that all of them were occupied According to some Calvin Yoshua did not want to carry anything so eight people were for the grapes one person for pomegranate and one person for figs and Calibur said we know why they're bringing it because they want to scare people when people see such huge fruit they will be shocked and say what it's a land of giants if the fruit are so huge imagine what people are like and animals alike we cannot conquer that land we're not touching this fruit this fruit is being carried with a bad intention now we're in verse 25 they return from spying out the land at the end of 40 days and verse 27 the spies bring the bad report they reported to Moshe and said we arrived at the land to which you sent us and indeed it flows with milk and honey and this is its fruit and uh that was the introduction yes it's a land that is very fertile it flows with milk and honey and look at the fruit and whenever there is something good there are many who want to get it there are many who are fighting for it and that's how they continued verse 28 on page 803 but the people that dwells in the land is powerful the most powerful in the whole world that's why they live there survival of the fittest the cities are fortified and very great and we also saw some children of giant and plus amalek dwells in the area of the south side and Amorite dwell on the mountain and Kanani dwells by the Sea on the bank of the Jordan they mentioned all these names in order to scare the Jewish people but khalev tried to reassure the people in verse 30. caliph silenced the people toward Moshe and said we shall surely Ascend and Conquer it for we can surely do it don't worry but it was too late Khalif is shouted down verse 31 but the man who had ascended with him said we cannot ascend to that people for it is too strong for us they brought forth to the children of Israel and evil report on the land that they had spied out saying the land through which we have passed to spite out is a land that eats its inhabitants it devours its inhabitants why what do you mean it has such beautiful fruit the people who live there are giants what do you mean it devours its inhabitants so that was an obvious lie but in reality it was their interpretation of what they saw they saw that there were a lot of funerals and they said yeah the people I are very robust but they probably die young they're huge but they probably don't live long from eating such dangerous fruit the fruit grows them and blows them up until they burst and they die whatever their their fear was they saw a lot of funerals but Hashem said what do you mean you're scared of funerals you should be celebrating that your enemies are burying their Warriors why are you crying oh we were afraid so that shows you that whatever is on the person's mind that's how he interprets all events they wanted to prove that Hashem is against them that the land cannot be conquered so everything they saw that's how they interpret it oh the fruits are big must be it's dangerous or the people are tall must be we will not be able to conquer them or we see people are dying instead of celebrating oh must be if if we come in that's what's going to happen to us everything in the negative in reality a person has to realize that everything that is happening is designed by Hashem for you no reason to be upset why did he say to me why did they cancel on me they were not reliable They delayed this and that in reality everything is for your benefit if somebody was not reliable say thank you Hashem didn't want me to deal with him if the delivery came late say thank you earlier wasn't good now it's perfect time I remember so many times in multiple places that I worked in very often they were not able to pay us the salary and at the beginning I thought you know why can't I work and get paid on time but then I was surprised that uh at at a later point a few months later when I really needed the money all of a sudden the money came in and I said wow now I understand why Hashem delayed the payment because if I would get the money earlier I would spend it and when I really needed the money the money wouldn't be there and so Hashem said my dear child please be patient you don't need the money now let me keep it when you need it I will send it so the same thing here Calvin Yeshua saw the land and they said yeah it looks suspicious but Hashem said it's going to be good so we have to interpret it God big fruit means our families will have a lot to eat Giants means it's going to be easier to conquer them instead of catching a lot of small people we'll just catch one big person kill him that's it we're done for today and uh the fact that they're bearing people it's good for us means that uh Hashem sent them a virus and and slowly their getting weak and when we come they'll just uh give up and the fact that their cities are fortified it's good for us we're going to conquer them and we're going to live in those cities and we we don't have to build anything they already built it for us which will surely Ascend and Conquer it for we can surely do it that's the attitude every person should have we can surely do it why because Hashem said that we should but calibers shouted down and and they they said we cannot Ascend the people are too strong for us the land and they're saying contradictory things they're saying the land that we saw devours its inhabitants and the next thing they say all the people we that we saw in it were huge what do you mean the land is not good people are dying there and at the same time they're very healthy doesn't make sense but that's what happens when people are in denial they deny all truth and they interpret everything according to the reality that is playing in their head and they continue There we saw the Nephilim who were the sons of the Giant and we were like grasshoppers in our eyes so we were in their eyes as well so this shows us this point that whatever you think about yourself that's what you think others are thinking about you the spies looked at the huge giants they looked at themselves they say we're so tiny we're not going to be able to must be where we're like like tiny grasshoppers and must be they see us the same way instead of saying yeah they're big we're small but Hashem will make the day should be scared of us when they see us they'll see the Jewish people they'll run for their life they're going to jump into the Atlantic Ocean and swim to America when I have low view of myself I think that the other person has the same view if I don't love myself then I think that other people don't love me if everyone would learn from Calvin Yeshua and say we shall surely Ascend and Conquer it for we can surely do it why not because we're haughty but because Hashem is with us yeah the giant is big but Hashem is bigger our enemies are numerous but Hashem can kill them all at once chapter 14 on page 803 people panic and complain against motionado the entire assembly raised up and issued its voice the people wept that night all the children of Israel murmured against motion Aaron and they said we should have died in Egypt or we should have died in the wilderness before we came to this land why are we going into the land of Israel to Die By The Sword in a war and our wives and our children should be taken captives it's probably better to go back to Egypt and they said to one another let us appoint a leader and let us return to Egypt and this is very dangerous what's happening just like by the golden calf they said we don't have a leader let's appoint a new leader and then made an idol and they were almost annihilated now almost the same thing is happening they're so confused and scared they want to make a new leader and potentially new Idol if that happens that's it no no more no more Jewish people has to shalom so motion Aaron fell on their faces in prayer return to page 805. and uh verse 6 Yeshua son of noon and Caleb son of euphune tore their garments in mourning and they tried one more time to speak to the people they spoke to the entire assembly of the children of Israel saying the land that we passed through to spite out the land is very very good if Hashem desires us he will bring us to this land and give it to us a land that flows with milk and honey but do not rebel against Hashem you should not fear the people of the land for they are like our bread we're gonna eat them up their protection has departed from them Hashem is with us do not fear them yes it's true that until now they were the most powerful man on Earth they were the Giants they came to the best land and occupied it and no one could kick them out but if Hashem desires us and he showed us that he does desires by taking us out of Egypt making Miracles and bringing us to this land and giving us the Torah all we have to do is go in and they're going to be our bread but it doesn't help verse 10 the entire assembly said to Pelt them with stones they picked up rocks and said let's go get them imagine they wanted to throw stones at motion Aaron and in order to protect Moshe and iron From the Mob the glory of Hashem appeared in a tent of meeting to all the children of Israel and now Hashem is angry Hashem sent to Moshe how long will these people provoke me and how long will they not have faith in me despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst I will Smite them with the plague and annihilate them and I shall make you Moshe a greater and more powerful Nation than them very similar to the aftermath of the golden calf and again motion defends the Jews Moshe said to Hashem then if you kill them Egypt will will hear and they will say we go to page um 16 what will Egyptians say because verse 16 page 807 because Hashem lacked the ability to bring these people to the land that he had sworn to give them he slaughtered them in the wilderness imagine that's what Egyptians are going to say after destroying Egypt and after performing so many miracles and splitting the sea and after giving them toron on Mount Sinai and the entire year they were sustained by the month this is already in the summer of the second year so many miracles and they died Egyptians will make a mistake that God is not so powerful shalom he was able to take them from Egypt but when he encountered the powerful idols of the land of Canaan he couldn't do it and in order to save his face he killed the people that no one should should remember them anymore and now May the strength of my Lord be magnified as you have spoken saying and now Moshe invokes the the attributes of mercy of Hashem Hashem slow to anger abundant in kindness forgiver of iniquity and willful sin and who cleanses but does not cleanse completely recalling the iniquity of parents upon children to the third and fourth Generations forgive the iniquity now the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your kindness and as you had have forgiven these people from Egypt until now this is not the first time you're forgiving them so please forgive them one more time besides your compassion your mercy your kindness and for for your name that your name shouldn't be desecrated yes the Jewish people don't deserve it but don't desecrate your name and what Moshe said made sense yes after making himself dependent on the Jewish people Hashem cannot eliminate the Jews anymore the whole world will laugh and say what you took them out promising them to bring them to the land of Israel and you killed them yes it's their fault but they don't know it so they're gonna think that you didn't keep your promise and in verse 20 Hashem said I have forgiven because of your words but as I live and the glory of Hashem shall fill the entire world that all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that are performing in Egypt and in the wilderness and they have tested me these 10 times and have not listened to my voice they will not see the land that I have sworn to give to their forefathers and all who anger me shall not see it only my servant Khalif I shall bring him to the land to which he visited and his offspring shall possess it now here Hashem decreed death upon the spies but in addition Hashem is hinting to the death of all who anger me foreign will be made that all Jewish males between 20 and 60. who were supposed to go into the land of Israel and supposed to conquer it and they were scared so they lost their chance they're not going to go into the land anymore tomorrow in verse 25 turn and journey toward the bewilderness in the direction of the Sea of reeds where you came from go back to the C that I split for you over a year ago to remind yourself of the Miracles that I did for you now we turn to page 809 the decree 28. verse 28 say to them as I live the word of Hashem I shall not do to you as oh if I shall not do to you as you have spoken in my ears which means Hashem says what you said what you were afraid of that's what's gonna happen to you we say the fear of man will come upon him whatever person is scared of he wishes upon himself because if we don't trust Hashem and say oh probably these bad thing is going to happen so Hashem says oh you don't trust me you think that's gonna happen okay if that's what you think is going to happen that's what's gonna happen so as you have spoken in my ears in this Wilderness shall your carcasses drop you said it would be better for us to die in the wilderness I'll be and bring you back to the Wilderness to let you die there all of you who were counted in any of your numberings from 20 years of age and above whom you provoked against me except for caliph son of euphune and Joshua bin noon and also your young children you said oh our young children will be taking captives they're not going to go into the land of Israel I'll show you that they yes they will be able to go into the land but you're not going to be bringing them I shall bring them they shall know the land that you have despised but your carcasses shall drop in the wilderness now when will that happen verse 33 your children will roam in the wilderness for 40 years and bear your guilt until the last of your carcasses in the wilderness like the number of days that you spied out the land 40 days a day for a year a day for a year shall you bear your iniquities 40 years and you shall comprehend strength for me you will see how bad it is not to trust Hashem and how and and to go away from him so Hashem decreed one year for every day they spent there however he was uh merciful and he counted the time that they spent in the wilderness since coming out of Egypt in the time that they served in the wilderness already so they only had another um 38 and a half years to go not 40 years now verse 37 says what happened to the ten bad spies the people who spread the evil report about the land died in a plague before Hashem they died right then and there other people died over the course of 40 years and the way it happened was that since only people from 20 to 60 had to die so whoever reached the age of 60 would die and like this slowly slowly everyone over the 40-year period of time everyone uh perished now we turn through page 811. motion informs the people of the decree verse 39 Moshe spoke these words to all of the children of Israel and the people mourned exceedingly but instead of doing to shuva what did they do a group of Jewish people wanted to force their entry into the edits Israel they woke early in the morning and they ascended toward the Mountaintop saying we're ready we shall Ascend to the place to which Hashem has spoken for we have sinned say yes yes we're doing Toshiba but really didn't have nothing to lose they know they're going to die anyway so they say okay okay fine give us another chance we're gonna go if we're gonna die anyway might as well go Hashem says it's too late verse 41. motion said to them why do you transgress the word of Hashem one Hashem tells you go you say we cannot go now Hashem tells you go back don't go and you say yes yes we're gonna go why do transgress the word of Hashem it will not succeed whenever we transgress the word of Hashem it's not going to succeed do not ascend for Hashem is not in your midst and if you do you're gonna be smitten before your enemies and you will fall by the sword because you have turned away from Hashem Hashem will not be with you but they still go they don't listen verse 44 but they defiantly ascended the Mountaintop while the Ark of hashem's Covenant and Moshe did not move from the midst of the camp and they lost the amalekite and the Canaanite who dwelt on the mountain descended and they struck them and pounded them until hormone now we the story of the spies concludes the Jewish people go back and they spend another 38 years in the desert now in chapter 15 we have laws of minha which is flower offerings and Libations which are necessary Libations in English means when you pour wine on the altar so in addition to bringing a core ban let's say you bring a an ola a lamb or a goat or a Ram or a cow hola all of them have to be males um in addition to burning the entire animal on the autonomous bear you also have to bring flower offering and wine and the Torah lists how much flour and how much um oil to be mixed with flour and how much wine to bring so we'll do it just the summary of it the whole paragraph chapter 15. um describes this so if a person brings a sheep as an offering he has to bring one tenth of AFA of flour one fourth of hin of oil and one fourth of kin wine if he brings a ram ram is bigger than a sheep he has to bring two tenths of flour instead of one tenth one third of hint of oil instead of one quarter and one third of a hint of wine instead of one quarter and if he brings a bowl a much larger animal he has to bring three tenths of a far of flour of flour and a half a hint of oil and a half a hint of wine and uh for for us to know what these measurements are and a Phi is about 10 gallons so when we say one tenth of A5 it's it's one gallon of flour let's say like a five a five pound bag of flour just approximately so for a sheep you would bring a five pound bag of flour for a ram you would bring two five pound bags of flour and for a bowl you would bring three five pound bags of flour approximately and for oil one hin is about one and a half liters foreign that's about six to eight cups let's say eight cups so four sheep you would bring two cups of oil for uh one bag of uh flour and two cups of wine to pour on an altar for the ram you would bring approximately three cups of uh oil and three cups of wine for the two bags of flour and for the bowl you would bring four cups of oil for the three bags of flour and four cups of wine to pour on the altar that's the summary now we turn to page 813. um in verse 14 through 16 we learned the law for converts and the Tortoise says the same law as it is for the Jews applies for the conference specifically for bringing corbanod offerings but it applies to all total laws we have the same set of rules for natives for Citizens and for converts when the proselyte sojourns with you proselyte means a convert verse 15 continues this same decrease shall be for you and for the price alike verse 16 one teaching and one judgment shall be for you and for The proselyte Who so joins among you no discrimination whoever joins the Jewish people they're treated the same way now we have the Mitzvah of khala Hashem spoke to Moshe saying in verse 18 speak to the children of Israel say to them when you come to the land to which I bring you and you want to eat from the bread of the land you have to set aside the portion for Hashem verse 20 as the first of your needing you shall set aside a loaf for as a portion now the word khala means a loaf bulka a role and that's what we do if a woman makes dough According to some approximately three pounds that they're going to some five pounds when the dough is ready before baking it she separates a row and bakes it separately and gives it to Cohen or she can give raw dough to kohen and the Cohen will bake it for himself nowadays we don't do it because we are impure the challah becomes impure and kohen is impure so he cannot eat it anyway so we wrap it and put it in trash or some people burn it so set aside a loaf as a portion verse 21 from the first of your kneading shall you give a portion to Hashem for your Generations now in verse 22 we switch the topic and we speak about unintentional idol worship if you make a mistake and you do not perform all of these Commandments which Hashem has spoken to mosh now on page 8 15. so there are different kinds of unintentional uh idol worship first we speak about public unintentional idol worship verse 24 if because of the eyes of the assembly which refers to Sanhedrin the Supreme Court is called the eyes of the congregation because they see where to go and they instruct us it was done unintentionally which means if they made the wrong decision they thought that a certain action is not idol worship and later they found out that it is so it was done unintentionally the entire assembly shall prepare one young bull as an elevation offering and the meal offering and the libation and one he got as a sin offering since the entire assembly send following the the ruling of the Supreme Court they have to bring one offering a bull for Ola and a goat for now in verse 27 we speak about individual unintentional idol worship if a person if one person sins unintentionally he shall offer a female goat within its first year as a sin offering that's it now the law for intentional Idol worshiper what if someone serves Idols does Abu dazara intentionally verse 30 a person who shall act high-handedly high-handedly means proudly Without Shame in front of people that person shall be cut off from among his people correct spiritual Excision now turn to page 8 17. a sad story about Shabbat desecration in the wilderness the children of Israel were in the wilderness and they found a man a Jewish man Gathering wood on the Shabbat day why was he Gathering wood it was warm in the desert didn't need it for warmth he didn't even need it to make fire to cook food because they had man which was edible Raw if they wanted to Plus Hashem said if you want to eat man cooked cook it on Friday why was he Gathering wood on Shabbat those who found him Gathering wood brought him to motion Aaron and to the entire sampling they placed him into in custody for it had not been clarified what should be done to him but since his sin was intentional as we said he didn't forget because he didn't really need the wood why was he doing it for fun no the reason he was doing it because he wanted to desecrate Shabbat how do we know the midrash says that this man was thinking to himself you know the Jewish people have Shabbat but they don't know how serious it is and they might treat it lightly and in the future they might slowly start not keeping it I would like to sacrifice myself to teach them a lesson I will desecrate Shabbat on purpose but not because I want to go against Hashem because I want to sanctify Hashem I want to do a sin and be punished for it to teach everyone a lesson how severe desecrating Shabbat is so I'm gonna go and do what I don't eat I don't need this wood I'm gonna gather anyway in front of everyone so that they punish me but hopefully the Jewish people will will learn from that to be careful Hashem said to motion The man shall be put to death the entire assembly shall Pelt him with stones outside the camp now did this man do the right thing no even if you want to do Ascend for the sake of Hashem it's still his sin Hashem said don't do it and I say Hashem but I want to do it for you says don't do it for me just don't do it I'm telling you don't do it and the person says but Hashem I have a reason why I want to do it let me do it for you this is similar to someone who you you come to a person and you say oh you're probably hungry let me give you food and the person says no I'm not hungry don't give me food I don't know what I don't want and you tell him no no you're probably hungry here eat he says no no I don't want and you say no no eat I know better eat and it gives you food I told you I'm not hungry no no eat I'm gonna hold your nose you can open your mouth I'm gonna stuff you but I am saying I don't want no no I know better than you how can you say I know better than Hashem this was the same sin that Adam did he said Hashem you're telling me not to eat from the forbidden fruit but Hashem that's too easy give me something bigger let me transgress and let me prove to you that even though I'm gonna I'm gonna go on a very low level and I'm gonna have to now enter the world dangerous world with yet and I'm gonna fight for the next six thousand years I want to prove to you that I can do it Hashem said don't do it I don't need your proofs I'm just telling you listen to me once if you if you listen to me that's gonna be good listen to me once and it's enough don't have to show me that you can listen to me six thousand years and Adam thought that no that's better I want to listen to Hashem and my children forever will listen to Hashem for the next six thousand years we're going to do so many myths Hashem said no no please don't just don't eat from the fruit so the same thing here he said let me desecrate let me be the first one to desecrate Shabbat and Hashem said no that's not the right logic and verse 36 says the entire assembly removed him to the outside of the camp and they pelted him with stones and he died as Hashem had command motion very sad story something that could have been avoided and it says that if the Jewish people would keep that Shabbat they would they would they would be redeemed even though the decree was made that they should spend 30 next 38 years in the desert which we could say corresponds to the 39 Milah code 38 and a half years almost 39. if they would just keep Shabbat properly Hashem would say okay fine you know you you show me that you are devoted you follow me I'm not going to kill you you don't have to wait 40 years just go in and because he wanted to do better but he still went against Hashem look how much damage he did we're still here and that's what a person has to realize says that every person has to view himself as if the whole world is on a balance if he does foreign the whole world will tilt too good you're saving the whole world with one act and if he does a sin the whole world will tilt to negative to sin to death and that's what happened if this one person did not desecrate Shabbat the entire Jewish people would be redeemed now someone is asking a question why do the Jews have to carry out the death penalty why can't Hashem just take the soul it makes us more judgmental so that's a very good question you know we live in a society where teachers and parents are discouraged from giving punishment and we live in a society where they let prisoners out of prison and they go and they kill and they rape and they rob and they punch people in the eye so if we want to be soft with criminals we are really cruel to innocent people and that's what the Torah says if you withhold physical punishment from your child at the time when he needs it you are being cruel to him because you are teaching him to be irresponsible you're teaching him that everything goes he can do whatever he wants and there is no punishment and later it will cause him death because it will progress until without self-control he will go too far and either someone will kill him or he will cause his own death so it's better to administer a smaller punishment as a prevention for larger problem so too Hashem said you have to administer the punishment to criminals because that will serve as a a warning as a precaution to other people if I take his soul nobody's going to know why he died but if the entire assembly gets gathers together and they participate in it and they will see yes this person did something wrong he raped a woman he did avidazara he murdered someone he did this and that the evil evil big big big transgressions and this way we will stop it at the root and it's not going to continue into what's happening in the world right now that the evil is prospering why because those who have power to stop it are too soft on evil doers as harsh as it may sound those that are harsh towards criminals they are kind towards innocent and those that are kind towards criminals are cruel towards innocent so that's the simple answer why we personally need to show that we are against this Behavior we have to participate in the punishment okay and now we are by the final topic for this week's Parsha and that is the third paragraph of Shema the portion about Sid Sid verse 37 on page 8 17. Hashem said to Moshe speak to the children of Israel and they shall make for themselves which means strings coming out from the Garment on the corners of their garments throughout their Generations and they shall Place upon the seat of each Corner a thread of turquoise of blue wool and you will see it and remember all the Commandments of Hashem and perform them and how does it help us to remember first of all when you see that your garments are not the same as the garments of a non-jew that will remind you oh I'm Different the way we dress is different the way we behave we talk everything is different about us so those strings that come out from our garments remind us that we're different same thing by the way is with peyote one of the reasons why Jewish people many communities have payout strings extra things side locks coming out of their head is to show that we are different the don't have it they don't have these things coming out funny things and we do means we're different in fact in Yemen the yemeni Jews instead of calling these sidelax pay out they call them means signs they are the signs of a Jew because in Arab countries Muslim countries everyone wears head covering everyone wears a long robe so how do you know the difference between a Jew and a guy if when you see the side locks or you know that's a siman that's a sign that he is a Jew so that's number one number two is is symbolically the word sitsit Sadiq Sadiq um you'd tough is the Gematria 600 and on each string of seed um Each corner we have five knots because we have four sections with nuts in between and on top on the bottom so five knots plus there are four strings that we double so they come out with eight strings eight strings five knots that's thirteen and the the matter of the word sits it is 600 so you have 613 and that's what a Jew is supposed to remember when you are looking at that sit it reminds me I'm different than a Jew than a guy and gamatria plus the nuts plus the strings is 613 we have 613 meters vote now the the Torah continues on the last line of 8 17 and do not explore after your heart and after your eyes after which you stray and this is the reason why this Torah portion is in this partial because the Jewish people sinned with the spies who went after their eyes and after their hearts whatever desire they wanted that's what they saw and they went after it so the Torah tells us don't go after your hearts and after your eyes which we you normally do go after which means don't go out don't follow sinful thoughts and desires that's what you want bad things then your eyes will find it for you Shalom and now we turn to page 819. so that you may remember and perform all my Commandments and be holy to your God I am Hashem your God who has removed you from the land of Egypt to be a god unto you I am Hashem your God and with this we conclude parashat shalach thank you for listening shabbat shalom um