Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - Moshe & The Rock

and i think it's a very difficult it's a very difficult story to understand and to understand why this seems to be the reason that moshe romano can't go to the land of israel the reality is there are when you look through the richoning and the function there are so many different explanations for it to what the actual sin was and it's it's difficult to to exactly understand what it is but they all seem to have a common theme and they all seem to kind of build around a common area so i think it's worthwhile to look look at the story inside and to to try to read the words and from there we'll see we could start exploring you know a little bit what the meforshim say what are some possible explanations for why this is the this is the this crime is one of the reasons most of them cannot go into land you know which is you know that's pretty pretty intense because that's his life's passion is to to go to the land of israel and to you know and then hashem stops them for something which seems to be so such a minor infraction you speak to a rock you talk to iraq in in both scenarios a miraculous event occurred and water came forth but why one is so one was so um you know not to to just to have hit and not to speak seems to have some such uh an impact and and you know that hashem has to say that moshe you cannot go into the land and you know said to say you know by the way had he gone to the land had moshe accompanied us there there would never it says amazing statement that we would have been on such a high level that we would never have committed the sins that caused the destruction of the first temple and remember that would have been over a thousand years in the future just most revenues presence in our midst will transform the jewish nation and yet he doesn't he's not allowed to come in for what seems to be a um such a small as a small sin so i think we need to to jump in and um if you have a homish it'd be best to open up with me and if not i'll read and translate and see we can just pull out just from the words right now you know really just right now we're looking for words in rashi and see how there's some indicators some some hints that might direct us to discovering different approaches and and maybe hopefully find an approach which uh we're comfortable with the other we can say well i like that approach that makes sense to me and um there are there are a number and there's one in particular that i i'm probably gonna lean towards just because it touches me personally but i won't give that one away just yes okay so we're on um this is in purchase which is this week's parsha and this is we'll begin it really begins in chapter um let's see here yeah i guess in chapter 20 realism in chapter 20 verse one okay so this is in bamidbach school class chapter 20 verse one if it says like this it begins it says so it says the children of israel they came they traveled and the entire community came to the desert of sin the first month of the of the year and the and it says in the nation to wealth in a place called kadesh but thomas shaw miriam and that's where miriam dies and she's buried there now and then the next verse says and the community didn't have water and they gather against motion or on boson so first thing we see that there's a direct connection between miriam and the water that they had in the in the mid-bar up to now where are we in the desert we're now in the 39th year so i've been in the desert for 39 years how has water been provided it's been provided in the merit of miriam and it's it's apparently that stone or ice or an oasis that would travel with them which was a you know sometimes in our mind's eye we see a little stone you know we have millions of of people and also livestock so this always the stone always turned into sort of an oasis of water where everybody could could drink and life's like a drink and they could you know i guess they could be they provided waters for a mikvah so it was a very large type of of a body of water to provide for so many millions of people and it was this it was the merit of miriam apparently miriam's merit was the water and i guess why why did miriam met merit to have water it says because that well we know that where do we first encounter biryan and the first time we really meet her really encounter miriam when she goes to her father who is amba and there's decree against all the baby boys that are going to be the boy they're going to be killed apparently abnormal separates from his wife and miriam who is then a girl a young girl she confronts her father who is the guttural adored leading gravity generation and really says to him that you know what you're doing is is not right pharaoh decreed the boys father decreed against the boys but you're decreeing against the girls also how do you know you know maybe baby baby babies born with girls so she encouraged his her father to remarry her mother they finally had divorce or suffering i think it was actually divorced and they produce motion and then we see her standing by motion watching what's going to be with motion putting him in this little cradle not knowing exactly how he's going to be saved but knowing that a miracle some way hashem will intervene and of course that miracle occurs when boss paro the daughter of parole finds her and finds him and rescues rescue's motion so we see miriam just from the beginning connected to water and second thing we see about miriam is she's connected to water with tremendous and trust in other words the amount that says that i don't know what's going to be i have no idea how much rebellion is going to be saved you know we've not that we know the end of the story so we know that it turns out bastia is going to come and rescue him but she doesn't know that so at this juncture what do we we first learned about miriam connected with water and connection with her enormous ammonia to to to create to a that perhaps resulted in the miracle occurring may i say something yes for a moment your name is mayam plus regis right name what's that water isn't your name right your name is water yes so right so mario can be two things it could mean mariam which can mean the um the raising up of the waters the hebrew means to raise up the arm of the sea or mark and mean bitter the bitterness of water the marijuana [Music] directly associated with water and as soon as she dies what happens we have we have a water crisis as you guys all of a sudden the water stops so that's a 100 a direct connection so let's just go a little further and it says like this what happens the people gather against moshiach the word viequal means literally to you know we see it by blush also it's not a good word when you see and they started quarreling with moshe for yeoman they said laymar for luke ivanovich what does that mean if only lou gavano if if only we had we had expired if we had perished um you know with our brothers i guess in egypt leave the hashem before hashem in other words i guess the thirst they were experiencing was so severe that that you know the the the the staples we wish we could die let me just read the rashi for a second rasheed says it over here that um dies christopher says the parish is a question why is this idea of of the death of miriam put right after the the red cow which is the first part of this parachute we're skipping it over now just the corbin of the paradoma atones for sin says so to one of the great sonic dies that also has the power to undo sin of the jewish nation it says dies it says misa it says she died with like a kiss apparently grape something can die in a way that it's like extracting a a hair from from a glass of milk like a kiss just very sweetly says and there wasn't water anymore for the community in the 40 years with the desert the merit of having the well was in the merit of miriam i guess the merit of her in intense fate but luca vanu halawa they said listen you know if only we had died before we came into the desert gets to suffer to anticipate anticipate uh thirst you know not to say thirsty yet but they're anticipating the thirst it's very it's a very difficult place to be so you know they really come to mind they really come to moshe and they they have a complaint against motion and the complaint is we're thirsty and we feel like dying let me ask you this question on that by the way you know if they're complaining against moshe at this juncture would you say it's a legitimate complaint or you say it's a very harsh a harsh complaint what would we say we have it well all of a sudden miriam dies and there's no water you have a few million people stranded in the desert without water and in terms of motion they say luke [Music] you know we if only we had died earlier because we're going to die now you know we're we're thirsty is is is that a legitimate complaint could we say to have well i don't think it's very legitimate i think it's easy to say this because i'm not experiencing it but i'm wondering is that the actual words of banay israel or is what the torah is doing is it's kind of doing the same thing it did for moshe ravine where it's kind of um making their sins much larger so that we can understand them maybe it was more of a sin of their hearts and then it's making it much more of a close depth of the kind of betrayal yeah that's that's actually the point right there i mean there's always a combination right the toe always you know but the tourists right what the term is always saying is true but it will take we will take small sins and exaggerate them and that exaggeration will focus in on them in a way larger than the the sin is a sin but the torah will express in a way which is so sometimes talks the truth in in the harshest sort of like the classic example right when mixes the beds of villa but after after leia dies so what actually would have to recognize so we know that what is roommate to the son of leia he takes his mother's bed and he replaces he replaces bill's bed with his mother's bed billow was the main service of russell and apparently when russell died yaakov apparently wanted to stay connected to the ruffle side over there and wanted to be connected with billa primarily and ruben felt that was unjust his mother leia so he moved the beds around so that that leia's bed should be in yaku's tent as opposed to bilas and the way the torah describes that is is in a way almost like he committed a sin with uh with you know with bill you know like you know almost like an immoral sin like an adulterous sin which is not what it was at all just moving the beds but somehow being you know involved in one's father's intimate life in that way interfering with the relationship of marriage and the relationship of husband and wife in that scenario the torah says like that that has you know that's that's like an adulterous type of interaction adultery is the aspect of interfering with the marriage so that's our phrases like that and and the untrained ear or the you know you know might be oh look at that you know people say look what ruvain did you know reuben committed a terrible sin with bill i moved the bed but so it does take sort of the how would we describe it the um the essential aspect of what's going on and express it in very direct terms and therefore we need a tradition always to know well when you know when when is this supposed to taken literally or is is obviously supposed to be taken understood on a deeper level that's a good point now again we see we saw it last week too remember we were discussing this when the accused kara when when following the clients were accused of mushroom right of of of moshobano everyone accused moshe regarding their wives remember last week that amazing concept everyone accused mushroom of asia's ish regarding their wives and we're like what then that like how could that be impossible and so we looked at the morales over there and i'll explain it so beautifully i remember one of the explanations was that miles said one of his meant of one of his like five explanations one of the explanations was that we're all married to coach brown that we all have relationship with coach parker and the relationship with the with the college program with hashem sham is like the husband and we're like the wife and therefore motion to be this sort of intermediary this this this prophet that super prophet kind of that brings god's word down to us and we need moshe to get god's word to us it's almost like he's interfering with the marriage between every every person and his chef it's like you you're you're you're bothering our marriage what are you in our marriage that that the language for that is called asia's ish is like an adulterous affair so the khazal used that that very exaggeratory word but really talking about something very spiritual so you know part of what learning is always you know it's always learning learning always has to be with the misara the surrounding tradition as to how to understand the text i understand the way you're supposed to see things because you're right hashem will express things in in very large terms and again you know i think when you look for for proofs of torah sometimes people look for proof of the divinity of the document one of the proofs of the video document is the fearlessness with which hashem will will will seem to exaggerate small sins and make marxism you know if we do a big order right why would they want to exaggerate the sins of our of our founding fathers everyone should be perfect george washington never tells a lie right that sort of thing and yet what do we see here our founding fathers seem to do seem to do it in our sins and so when we we whittle it down and said no it was a small sin but expressed in a in a deep spiritual position like that understand yeah it's a source there of a spiritual sin that's like something else but it's really something very small so it's really one of the the proofs of the divinity of the document right because in comparison you know how many negative things are said about uh about jesus in the new testament how many negative things i mean no none right how many negative things are said about muhammad in uh you know in the quran zero but when it comes to the torah you know we're going to see in a moment that moshe doesn't believe and it can't go the landfill okay so in any case i i hear your question maya i think though however we're supposed to take it somewhat literally honestly can i say something yeah please they complained to moshe and aron even though they know that they didn't do their by their choice they do whatever god said instead of complaining to god like they they were once they their uh before splitting of the sea they said if god is among us and this instead of complaining to straight to god they complain to moshe like they do whatever they want instead of god this is a mistake if you need something you should let's say reported and asked ask god to do this it will be proper like i hear not complain the person because what god does it's right because yeah true right right yeah i guess it's yeah we always want to find the excuse you know if i will moshe you took us out of egypt and now you bring us 39 years all of a sudden the water you know i i guess the complaint in some ways is a little unjust against moshe i mean 39 years they've had this miraculous well you know it's it's clearly associated with the death of miriam that that dissolves or goes away you know and the fact that that now you know there should have been some level of of trust to say okay we don't know what it's going to be but for the last 39 years it's been all right so i'm sure sham will will come find another way to provide water i think what they what they try to do they they want all the time to take away god from the picture every complain i see one goal to take what god you must say you the person this is the idea of golden cough to replace god with somebody right right this is take away god you did mistake your problem this is my taken about god this is all our life this is okay what people try to do yeah different way of understanding nature rabbi could it be that right now we understand nature so we have to do our history relating to nature and then that's what we think so back then every obviously that he struggled it would have been much more spiritual than nature so they know okay hashem will provide for us with the well in miriam's honor but if miriam's not there then maybe we don't get this spiritual um of having this well so according to nature since we don't have the spiritual um kind of suit of miriam to allow to have this well we're not gonna have this well we're gonna you know they they've lost that faith in hashem not in hashem but they're just in than their team and they see that this leader of theirs it wasn't in his mind that they had the well so what is he gonna do about it because yeah hashem's in church but i guess they still have this i guess with mushroom it was hard to connect to hashem only because they had this intermediary hashem wasn't immediately speaking to all of them so they're used to complaining to moshe rather maybe to hashem so they're like moshe what did you do like this is a really big thing yeah right right motions yeah everything's coming through moshe right i mean 100 you know you know he can always hear like he's the leader he speaks to hashem he took them out of egypt you know he's uh you know where'd he go but i i guess the question i'm asking here is is you know thirst is a very thirst is an enormously painful plate the normally painful um suffering point of suffering to be thirsty and even the fear of thirst is very very scary so the fact that they saying like you know we're really scared of this thirst you know granted you know it doesn't there should have been some more moon i hear that but it's not it's not it's not so it's not really so unrealistic that there show you that type of complaint that to what extent that it looks like the the nation was really panicky they were afraid maybe they should have been on a level right now with the show said it's going to be okay but i just want to contrast it for a moment you know there was another point where there was a water where there was a water crisis when was that water crisis what's that with the better water like a couple months before or at least a couple plus years ago well it was actually early on in the first in the first few months or in the first maybe sure the first month in fact of coming out of egypt so right after all the great miracles the parachute you know in the first few months of coming out of egypt after they witnessed all of the different miracles you know the spirit of the red sea and you know this is this right the beginning what happened it says i'm going back to parashat bishallah i'm just looking up you know this in chapter tennis which is chapter 15 verse 23. so a verse it says that the travels of moshe is israel he went for the amsoff and splitting the red sea vietnam shore and they came to desert shore and they went three days in the desert below matsumai they couldn't find water so this is right out of going out of egypt in the first week of going out of egypt and he couldn't find water via marasa and the kidney came to a place called mara meanwhile and they couldn't drink the water there because the water was bitter as to what happened and it says that the people complained against motion and they said the motion managed to manage them what shall we drink you know banish that it says what happened so in this case [Music] was able to find a way to sweep the water so we saw over there okay you know another it was beginning of a of a of a water of a water crisis early on i guess it wasn't as severe most of those sweet water but is there another water crisis that takes place let me find where it is this is another water crisis oh here we go then at the end of partisan i'm looking in chapter 17 verse 8 um apparently chapter seventeen verse verse uh one chapter seventeen verse one it says the issue called us from the same they traveled from the the wilderness of sin to their destinations their journeys ap hashem to the word of freedom being mine and in a place called refugee we feed him there's no water to drink the yolk emotion you get the quarrel with motion beyond when he said the motion to do give us water and let us drink for your emotion why do you why are you testing hashem but and the people were yitzma means they were thirsty for water but and they complained on moshe for yoma have these psalmist motion why did you bring us out of egypt just to kill me the espionage and my children yes mikknight and my cattle put some in thirst but it's like moshe hashem that moshe cries to hashem what can i what should i do for this nation another moment they're going to stone me interesting for your shovel motion moshe says to hashem tsunami says to moshe for the nation israel take with you the elders um and the staff in which you struck the your which you struck the the which you struck the river take it with you and go and heal you made them so i want you to stand on a sewer against the rock in the desert i want you to strike the rock and water will go forth from it be sure so am and the people will drink emotionally and they call them so just going back 39 years before there were two water crisises one was sold very easily by making it sweet the second one wasn't so simple second one was as the the traveled into the desert even further i guess that then the next month so to speak they reached a place where we also didn't have what to drink a place called refuge and they gathered against moshe and him and they were very strong against motion and they said why did you bring us a desert to kill us you know we want to go back to egypt and moshe's response to us he appeals to hashem he says what should i do with this nation the ring stone me so what do we see from this 39 years ago there was a water crisis moshe was told to take his staff to hit a rock and the rock did bring forth water now 39 years later we're at a new state miriam dies the people complain against moshe but listen to the quality of the complaint and again this is in in chapter 20 verse three and the midbar what we just read for you the yom layman he says he said luke of this nation what's the complaint if only we had expired before hisham like we're so thirsty we feel like we're gonna die that's a different tone there's a different quality in that than the quality we heard 39 years before there they were you know you know you took us out of we took us out of egypt just to kill us we and our children our flock and moshe is sort of panicking moshe comes to the show and said just a little more they're going to store me in a minute it sounds like a much more gentler complaint 39 years later does it sound like it's you sin and second complain amid sin what the translation of this names yeah yeah i mean over here the bible said i don't know i'm not sure i don't know sin i don't know see middleburg scene i don't know sorry i find this is good for me because i'm going against what my natural inclination is for my natural inflammation is the annoyed within israel but um i i think i learned this from reading the let my nation series um good series i recommend i didn't finish the book on it because it doesn't get to matantora in a time right but i thought that like it sounds like a really really horrible thing that that beneath earl is doing but i think first time if i remember correctly like hashem thought it was a legitimate complaint because you need water to survive so the fact that you're angry maybe the extent of the anger was a problem but the actual complaint was fine and the second time i think if i remember correctly it was moshe was saying like they're going to kill me hashem help me and the jim got mad at moshe for saying like they're going gonna kill him because he's like no they won't kill you they still believe in you so one part of me is annoyed for the israel for for having me seen well if hashem is saying that these are legitimate complaints to have and even getting moshe for not believing in beneath earl maybe the same thing will happen now that hashem really has such compassion and rahman is for his people that he'll just think you know it has been a couple decades and this is a legitimate complaint because you don't have the wall anymore maybe their complaint is is maybe too strong but legitimate introducing yeah you know i agree with you know water water not that water is a very it's legitimate complaints maybe you know the shovel provided says good chef promises to take care of us you need water you need water you know it it so it again it's legitimate complaint question is how is it expressed you know it seems that there should have been more you know a higher level of it's going to be okay so you know i guess what's bothering me is this though the fact that moshe whether or not he would have stolen whether it's upset for him that that he even used those words or mahatus way back when 39 years ago the fact that moksha even said those words in the case the people were putting an enormous amount of pressure on there was some that there was a different type of equality to that complaint the complaint here sounds it feels like a softer complaint and maybe it is because remember who are the people now 39 years later because there was a decree after the miraculous after the spies that every man over 20 that that every man who came into the midbar over 20 was going to die in the mid bar and now we're in the 40th year so what does that mean it means that most of the men at least the women weren't part of that decree by the way women could have lived a larger long life it kind of landed israel most of the men who were over 20 when they came out of egypt probably had already by this juncture passed away because nobody would you know who were already into the 40th year now getting ready to come to land so who is left now at least of the men it really means it's a new generation it's a generation that were under 20 when they left egypt or they were born in the midbar so there's something different here it's a different generation going on right now and that's going to be very important part of the story it's a new generation there's a generation that came out of egypt and this generation now sort of born in the desert this new a new a new uh new people so to speak and we see that the language used by the previous generation 39 years ago was a language of enormous enormous distress which evokes motivator's response that look hashem you know just another moment they're gonna stone me you know like that's like a strong statement whether or not they would avoid it but i think the motions utters those words so that that generation somehow was had a greater degree of of of of panic maybe almost a great degree of insecurity in some ways a greater degree of of more intense emotion and now this is this generation in the 40th year again born in the desert or under 20 when they left miss ryan is now a new type of people and yes they're upset by now what's going on they've witnessed 39 years of miracles of admit of a well that seems to naturally supernaturally flow with them and now they're running out of water and they're complaining this isn't so much we're going to kill motion or anything like that the complaint is yeah we're thirsty not a bad complaint for a foreign nation that just ran out of water but the point that i'm trying to make is it's what's crucial to see in this in in the tone of the complaints is we're talking about a different generation okay because that's probably the creep the greater barack of the spies was that any man over 20 will die in the desert so anyone who came out of each other 20 has probably died by now as we get into the 40th year so it's a new it's a new door and this new this aspect of it being a new generation is going to be a very important clue and quite the meaning of photoshop seems to be very very important in understanding why there's going to be a difference between the way motion is put to communicate to iraq is he supposed to hit a rock or speak to iraq because we will see there's a majority hitting and speaking and hearing and speaking might depend on who you're who you know to whom you are speaking who you're talking to us we'll see in a few minutes okay so let's just look for more clues of what might direct the story in a certain a certain way i think this is clue number one okay with me we hear that one buddy they remember that god promised that they would enter israel this is like a child who complains to to parents and he definitely the child definitely knows that parents didn't just kick him out because of the promise this is why the generation of uh of da is different from this generation they they know right okay right this generation right they mean they've had more familiarity with miracles um they're a younger generation they grew up in a place where they've been more protected and they haven't many of them maybe they've never experienced by the way the harshness of the triumph either never of this new generation they never experienced slavery you know generations come and generations ago every generation has a different quality to it like we're talking like in america the generation of europe you know sometimes we have we have people who you know they saw europe they saw america there were bridges between both worlds of what it was like in europe the intensity of jewish life and then america and then we have those who are children when they came out of europe let's say after the holocaust have holocaust and then many people born in america and there's a different quality to each group and each group just communicates the message differently and you can speak differently to each group you know for you know for example you know europe was just a harsher place and it wasn't unusual to um parents to to to smack children like that soldiers seem to be able to handle that but america is not that type of place america is a softer place and children who grew up in america just that type of of of education as you call that or even if it's used educationally is almost on the level of abuse a child is too weak emotionally so the change of generation from place to place really demands a different structure and a different style so but we're kind of established right now is just number one that we're talking about two different generations okay and i think that we see that a little bit in the way they complained and emotionally better's response get back in part the complaint is very strong you brought us to a desert to kill us emotional response is like hashem they're going to stone me and here the people say we're thirsty we're thirsty we should have died we're thirsty but we have died we're thirsty that's a very difficult place and the reason why it's difficult playing we're talking about a completely different generation okay a generation that was exposed more to miraculous miracles in the desert a generation which isn't didn't grow up in slavery and therefore perhaps has a more expansive look at the world and therefore you you have to treat that type of generation in a different way than the old generation okay that's point number one they're trying to establish for us right now that's a new generation listed and again i feel that's gonna be very helpful in understanding why hashem is asking moshe to talk to iraq rather than hit a rock forget what that means talking versus hitting talking you're saying okay zero go over this a little bit now let's just take a few more clues over here what's going on so again what does the puzzle say back in the chapter 20 in our parasite so um he said in motion is like the whole promise of where we're supposed to go hasn't been fulfilled it's not a place we can see it's not a place at the end of of of uh of dates of things the guests and our vines were remodeled and pomegranates oh my manly stores had no water to drink you know discouragement seems to be like where have you landed us the whole thing is trying to you know we're kind of nice to him you know we're we're trying to get there it's as well like this we're not there yet and now we run out of water we haven't we're not in the place we're supposed to be it says now carlos they came before the congregation el paso annoyed to the open of the tent it said for you blew up it says they fell on their faces and god's glory appeared before them be thou shall emotionally down in verse seven and hashem speaks to moshe saying take the staff what staff this was the staff that motivated used to which was used to to turn the the nile into blood it's the staffing motion used 40 years ago or 39 years before when he um he struck the rock and water flowed forth gather the nation you and your brother are on but the bartender and i want you to speak to the seller the enemy before their eyes but no name of and let its waters come forth and you shall bring forth water from the water from the south from iraq and you will give to drink the entire nation and their their cattle well let's just hear a few interesting do you come here asham speaks to moshe and aaron saying debarted melissa to the seller so the article translates that as rock however it's interesting if we go back to parish bishop in schmos in exodus again that was chapter 17 when they ran out of water over there so what happens over there there this one this is what god says to moshe there god sent the motion verse five viewers of moshe over and water will come out of it two different names for rocks we have a rock called sewer and we have a rock called a cell that's interesting 40 years ago the rock was called a sword and here the rock is called a cellar why different description in the names of rocks two different words from the names of rocks and both both are used by the way you know we just for example whether we said and here the rock is called a cellar why the difference in in in in rocks oh interesting clue do we get everybody interesting so what do we see about it that's that's that's that's one one thing to think about also listen carefully to the words over here moshe says god says to moshe mama it will bring forth its waters it will bring forth its waters let's contrast that if you go back to the water crisis in particular 40 years earlier moshe hits the rock over there listen to what god commands take your staff this is verse 6 chapter 17 in exodus and water will come from it water will come from it water will come from it but here in our weeks this one's parachute what does it say hit the cellar not the sore excuse me speak to the seller not the sword of the seller the nasa name of it will give of its waters what's the difference of it will give of its waters as opposed to water will come out from it what's the difference go ahead who can tell me did we hear that very important uh diocese a precise reading of the pasta called duke so what what's what what what did other duke what's the difference between if you hit the rock hit the sewer and it will bring forth you know and water will come forth as opposed to speak to the cella and its waters will come forth sounds like willingly looks like it's like a person almost someone and they'll bring you this not like it doesn't sound like it's an inanimate object anymore interesting there are different structures of stones some stone like sponge can contain water yes it means their water like sponge so it's like the uh the first one that he said uh hit the tour tsur is like slave slave doesn't have anything if you are talking stock to a seller stella this is stone that has water it's like free man he has water and he can give it out this is difference between slave and free person this is why this generation is different generation that's good you're you're 100 on the right path irena hundreds of right now this is as far as he hears very clearly the words so you're right there's going to be a major difference between a sewer and a seller and that that difference is going to be expressed in how they bring forth the water back 40 years ago when the sewer was hit it says the yachts water came out work a miraculous thing happened you had water hit a rock water comes out yet now 40 years later you speak to a cellar you're supposed to speak to the seller and it will bring forth of its waters indicative of what there's water already inside of it as david i think you plugged into just a moment ago you're convincing it to bring forth that what that which it contains so that's miraculous also right that that you could you could speak to an inanimate object if i smooth out an object it will bring forth of its waters but the difference is in the sewer there is no water in the sword you hit it and okay water will come out miraculously here it will bring forth of its waters implying the water is already inside of it and in fact that's the mob does say that that's just between a sewer and a cell different compositions of rock as irena you're having so that sore is a very strong type of rock it's a rock it's a um it's a rock that is rock through and through that's so to speak excel is a type of rock that's porous and apparently in the porous nature it contains water inside of itself there is water there that is called a cellar i'll show you a beautiful beautiful um just the way this is expressed in lush and kodish for those who love the lush kurdish like like like i do actually we all do right let me show you just just how beautiful that is just that we can see that i just need a um piece of paper here so look at this look at the word for cella i'm gonna write this out for us to see okay so if i were to write out then i'll hold it up so we can see on the other zone i'm going to write out seven okay if i spell cellar i'm gonna spoke rabbi this is an explanation while the name of the knit bar is seen or seen it starts with sama and second starts with uh sadiq yeah okay okay hold on a second hold that thought one month so this if i write seva i spelled like this okay can i see that does that look on your screen does that look backwards or correct backwards are correct and that's correct that's correct okay so start lamin iron but let me let me write out that one i'm going to write out each letter okay i would write out some i would write i would write sami and then cough love and i would write vomit ma'am okay what i did there is i just wrote out the letters i spelled it if i would have spelled i would spell it out and i spell iron i would both now let's look at this word and together sama lamid iron spells serra when we write it out it's called the middleweight immediately means the fulfillment so to speak of the of the letters by writing expressing it out notice that the middle letter of the psalmist is a man the middle letter of a lamin is a man and the middle letter of the iron is a yud yeah do you see that the middle letter of each letter mine the middle note of each letter is the middle letter of islamic as a mayan the middle letter of allah is a man with a little bit of sonic's a man the middle letter of allah is a meme and the middle letter of an iron is a good that's interesting [Music] somebody plays scrabble with those words those letters form a word with mehmed someone play scrabble with me what word can you form with a meme is a type of rock that contains water on the inside and how beautiful is the lashina kodish when you write out a speech to express it fully what do we discover the middle letter of each word happens to spell mayan the inside so to speak of these three letters is the word water because water is what's on the inside of cellar you heard that one everybody i've been upon admiring that one yeah i know this can you do it nope you know it you know that yes it's really cool that's cool that's cool give me a little credit on that one that was that's a good one that happens to be very fascinating but but that that's really what um what is seller is right so sela is totally different from a sewer a sewer is a rock that is just a rock through and through a cellar is a type of rock like that you see linguistically and it's the linguistic really the the word itself is describing the essence of it which is what the lush of the coach does that cellular means rock that contains water on the inside so this is a different type of rock and how beautiful it is right that the middle letters when we write out each letter is the word as david pointed out it's mine is water so just a very important uh important insight into so just it's just so beautiful i love it when when linguistically it you know the russian come together so beautifully but it says sellers water on the inside how do you know well you know it's there in the world so it's a very important aspect of it that there's a difference between a sewer and a cell and the difference is expressed in what moshe's has to do 40 years ago he's told to take his staff and she king some and strike the tour and it will bring water and it will bring and water will come out so there's no water there so where's the water coming from it's a miracle but when moshe is told to speak to the rock in this week's parachute the rack is called the cello and it says and it will give forth of its water because the water is already there it's already on the inside now that's interesting this concept that something contains something on the inside and i want you to bring out what's already there versus having to strike something so to speak and theref you know when and and strike something and maybe it will bring forth water but the implication is that it's not already there it's not already on the inside again irene i think you expressed this before this is indicative now this is indicating a change in the generations a generation that came out of egypt first generation that's been nurtured and born in the desert one demands hitting one demand speaking and speaking is a whole different aspect because speaking is asking of somebody or something to decide to choose to bring out from within themselves something that they possess that's a different form of chris different form of education to speak and say i'm going to inspire and encourage you to bring out something that you have let's see if we could just take this a little further see if we can get there a little bit so again god says to moshe gather the nation you and our own your brother but the thoughts in our cellar and i want you to speak to the cells speak to this rock this rock that contains water on the inside the ain't nahin before their eyes but no sun let its waters come forth the waters that it contains already allow it to to go forth and water will will bring forth the water from the server and that will be what will require to quench the thirst of the community and the flock so what happens it says takes the staff from before hashem meaning kept the staff apparently was kept in the the olympics and as he showed commands and they gather the nation on the face of the rock listen please i'm learning you rebellious ones that's interesting the word luring rebellious ones what's going on in that word that's a very strong word that he's saying to them some want to say that there's an anger in motion that that that that that he was angry that they were lacking such such faith and he says is it from this stone that water will come forth the yellow motion is the cellar and moshe took his staff took his hand the yak and he hit the cellar but mata with the staff palm mayan twice and water burst forth the taste of iran and the people and the flock their cattle drank i think it's interesting number one that he calls the lauren lauren rebellious ones it spells miriam which also spells miriam right that's 100 hours which also spelled miriam shimonda which almost sounds like shimona miriam right interesting same versus miriam we'll talk about that a little bit what that might indicate and he says you know is it really from the stone that water comes forth you know obviously this is we're you know we're going to achieve some sort of miracle even if water even stone contains water but the fact that it will bring forth water in this quantity that will have uh an oasis again you know he's really tested the chat saying that you know what you do lacks of faith and then since he lifts up his hand he hits the stone and he hits the stone in the seller papa mayan twice why twice why not just once why does he have to hit it twice that's an important detail too so hit once you don't did it twice of my rob invitational viewer and the people and the produce water in the drink but yo my shovel motion and moshe says and hashem says devotion on therefore you will not bring this nation into the land and the south island which i'm going to give them have made the river and the place was called the waters of strife i should bravo venezuela because the people crawled with hashem the kaddish bomb and hashem was sanctified through them through this miracle so very ambiguous very very hard to understand moshe for some reason he doesn't do the command of hashem he hits instead of speaking he has to hit twice that's interesting why twice hit the rock white twice water comes forth and it shows response and says yeah no i'm on to be because you didn't have a mourner in me he said you didn't trust me because you lacked that faith of trust in me to sanctify me before the people of israel you've lost the right down to coming to land up to now it seems that motion would have been able to come to land but something changed in hashem's mind that moshe can no longer come in question is it sounds like a very harsh punishment for what seems to be a small error judgment so i think we have to understand that a little bit what's going on there let's just read the rashes and see if we could just remember we'll send with the rogers for now maybe tomorrow's class we're going to put it together in a few different uh a few different perspectives just rashi says like this crystal rashi says um [Music] so i mean he says apparently the stone used to move around and he ran so we said i mean ourselves is that not it is it the right stone because the cell moved krsna's styling and it kind of the stone kind of got mixed up with the other stones when the wells dried up after marion died but you saw him and the people of israel started saying which is the right stone the heart is it going to be this stone which would have commanded upon shouldn't it bring forth the water there was a confusion in the stones over there something interesting motion strikes it two two times palm by aim the fish should be shown aloha see ella because he hit it once only a few drops of water came out we the reason why is because shem never commanded to hit it and departed but to speak the heinous and apparently he was speaking to us to uh to a different stone therefore it didn't produce the water apparently try speaking of one stone it didn't work it was the wrong stone motion then revisited it and thought to himself maybe what hashem wants me to do now is to hit it like i did 40 years ago now mars says we kissed sora as we read and he struck the sword with this diamond in the ham also celebrity and what happened but this dominant role so seven and then it all then it happened that the correct stone came forth and he struck it hashem says to me i'm no i'm not to be he says you didn't trust me says the pasik reveals to us if not for the city would have come to the land apparently that they would have come into the end in order that people shouldn't say about them and showing midbar that they're all they're they're guilty of the there's the reason why the generation have to die in the mid bar was because they were guilty of believing the spies but that didn't apply to motion iran so therefore they have the decree was never decreed on them but they should die in the desert so really hashem up to now but plan intended they should go into them i'll show you it says they didn't say like this it says or oh here we go then it says to moshe says because you didn't trust me what does that mean in other words you missed an opportunity to make a kiddish hashem either the bottom of the hotel had you spoke to the rock and the rock brought forth water i would have been sanctified before the entire nation for you and people you would have said a stone that doesn't speak and doesn't listen and doesn't require any livelihood it fills the deborah fulfills the word of god how much more so we apparently there would have been an enormous capital homer a means like something you could learn from you know carbohydrate classically means calvary light and heavy if i could afford a lexus how much moisture could i afford a chevrolet so people would have said a stone that doesn't require anything from hashem it doesn't need paranasal it doesn't require health it doesn't need um you know shidduchim for its children and yet it does the will of god we speak to it and does the will how much more so should we respond to god's word when he speaks to us or when it's communicated to us what's god's word how much more so we obligated to to to allow what's naturally connected to god inside of ourselves to come forth a rock that doesn't need hashem naturally wants to do god's will i need hashem how much more so should i say that my desire in life is to do god's will that's what i wanted to be as well apparently that would have been enormous sanctification in god's name and that opportunity was an opportunity lost when motion hit and didn't speak that's what god means when he said that you didn't sanctify me in front of the nation and again god used the language that your elohim not to be you didn't trust me there was a lack of a muna here or you didn't trust you know not they don't believe in me of course you believe in me you speak to me you know i exist but trust in god means you trust me where you don't understand you don't understand me it seems like moshe like you know reinvents the wheel here god gives a command to speak emotion decides no i have to hit speaking is not going to work i need to hit and apparently that that black trust because the command was to speak not to hit it seems like much of every reason to want to hit and not to speak about it because who know what rock it was they weren't sure which rocket was there's confusion that confusion created sort of a intensity in the crisis because people don't know where the water coming from he's speaking it's not working and so motion kind of has to sort of take you know take charge and take initiative and take him to his own hands and says the must mean that god wants me to do is go back to the original plan i'm hitting and he hits and he produces water and apparently that demonstrated on moshe's end a lack of trust in god's plan a lack of trust in god and again i think we have to think about that for another why did a demonstrator lack of trust if it means that it demonstrated lack of trust because but god said speak and not hit but moshe wasn't so sure where the rock was so maybe i could speak to the correct rock but it's not the correct rock that i need to hit or does it mean something else or does it mean that you didn't trust me to understand that the quality of the jewish nation has changed in a way that they no longer require hitting that they require speaking to something has changed and motivated you didn't trust me enough to understand that this nation has gone through a transformation maybe the generation that came out of this ryan a generation that was born in slavery and a nation that that still very much was locked into its past in a way that nation required a much bolder or harsher a more direct approach in order to kind of break the bondage great break the slavery but this new generation that's born in the relative comfort and freedom of the midbar and the spiritual elevation of the desert this now is a nation which you can no longer hit it doesn't need to be hit to hit it means you want to force it to do its will your will but to speak to it means to bring out something which already existed inside and maybe that's what's going on here maybe this is the setup in other words 40 years ago it's okay to hit and the reason why it's okay to hit is because in essence you know hitting means i want you to respond to me i want you to do my will that's what a hit is i want you to do my will i want to compel you to force you to do it speaking means i have to convince you i have to inspire you to bring out something that you possess inside of yourself that's speaking and now that's what moshe god is commanding moshe it's a new generation this generation you don't hit you speak where are we where we want to see this to want to see it in a stone okay they need water moshe i want you to speak to the stone and show that when you speak to an inanimate object that doesn't need god yet still it does the will of god because that's essentially the essence of everything in creation the message you'll communicate is when i speak to you you also want to do the will of god you'll find it inside of yourself to say yeah that's what i want to respond to because i'm part of this big creative i'm also part of the creation i want to do what god wants me to do speaking it would inspire they should understand that they possess something inside of themselves that so naturally wants to connect to god and by words of encouragement it can be brought out and that's going to be that's that's a lesson for the nation understand about themselves and god is communicating into motion that now must be the methodology of a leader the methodology of a leader must be someone who no longer forces but inspires and the test for emotional value may be are you a leader for the desert are you a leader for the new generation that's going to become the land of israel this is a transitional moment this is the 40th year because new generation you can't force you have to inspire encouragement and that's there's some hitting and talking now you know it's interesting that the whole experience in the desert in many ways was like hashem hitting the jewish people when you see open miracles daily one is compelled to be a person who follows god because god's making himself abundantly clear the land of israel is going to be a place where god's going to conceal himself open miracles are going to stop there's going to be a natural flow you've got to have to plant your seed and dive into god but the seed's going to come up the va to produce a stalk of wheat god can no longer hit so to speak the nation into following submission this could require leadership that can encourage and inspire and speak that's what's going to have to happen right now the question to moshe bano is which leader are you are you a leader for the desert maybe the for the new nation are you going to hit are you going to speak it seems that moshe in his moment of frustration where he you know he doesn't know what to do over here he resorts to the old methodology and maybe that's why he says he hits mine it's twice you know when you want to force someone to do something you can't just hit once you have to twice you want to force somebody to do something you have to yell not to make it to the kids right you have to yell not once you deal twice because no one responds to a yell it's it's a shock you have to yell again you want to hit you want to get it again but if you speak and you you you inspire that's a different mode of communication that's a continuous process that's a that's that's it there's a flow of you to the other it's not a question of doing something and doing it again that's a hit that's a different type of of educational modality the new mode has to be speech it has to be communication it has to be the inspiration of letting someone know that you contain something inside of yourself and it is so holy and i want to help you bring it out that's that's what moshe was supposed to have done apparently this is one approach let me look at another approach tomorrow see if we could take a different direction a little bit but this difference between hitting and speaking i think is a fundamental aspect of the story and it has to do with the different generations and the new modality of education which is necessary for this new generation that grew up in an environment of freedom you don't have to break them to to to to to conform you have to inspire them and that's really we are right now you know that's our generation you know if we think about changes in generations throughout history were for sure in a generation now where you can't force you can't hit you can't scream you know you can't you have to inspire to help someone discover what they contain inside of themselves and help them to bring it out and that's the guy says well she missed that opportunity lucky cheney the indie combination to sanctify me and russia made that amazing you know statement of a cavalcon a rock that doesn't need god it does god's will you need god that's why you should do god's will or it's the more you get in touch with who you're on the inside and who you are and how much you what we want to do god's will because of who we are get in touch with our relationship in ourselves that's the greatest form of inspiration you know i was reading about um the alchemist the blood group was dustin street finkel and died 1927 i believe but he was one of the founders of some of the next generation what we call the movement of muscle muscle movement and he had sort of a a transitional moment in his life in 1905 when the there was after the russia russian japanese war there was a surge of like socialist fever in um in russia and they were they were in the way in the is part of russia at the time era close to close enough but the whole fervor of socialism is just early communism and this idea of building a recreating new world order of of of cooperation which is the impressive work communism was the idea it's supposed to be the ideological father that was the idolatry of the other kindness but really 1905 and he saw poisoning shiva leaving the yeshiva to follow the socialist utopian model dream and one of those boys was his own son i didn't know that and he apparently was very quiet about everything and didn't say much and people like criticize him for his passivity why isn't he speaking out against him he said he emerged from that silence with a completely different approach to the study of muslim and started speaking almost fully or you know almost entirely about the greatness of a human being here we call galluta regardless of how great the human being is what other should look like before the hate what it means to be created with someone who we are the inside how great we can be apparently that traumatic experience of sort of changed his vision to understand the generation needs to understand they contain a greatness from within and you have to inspire the greatness to come out the father of this is the story moshe was supposed to inspire from the inside let the rock bring forth that which it contains that's the message you have to communicate the clients from and it was a missed opportunity lost opportunity so it could be that maybe this was expressed by advice by far some episodic says it that it could be that moshe's inability to come to the land isn't necessarily a punishment but a consequence meaning it's not a punishment it's not a miracle either you hit a rock because of the land it's a consequence meaning moshe you're the teacher for the desert but you're not the teacher for the land of israel the land of israel requires discussion it requires inspiration the desert is a place where you you control the environment you force it to happen you succeeded in the desert you had to bring a nation to this level of absolute recognition of the prime minister the centrality of the we succeeded but we need a different type of teacher for the land of israel that's a teacher who could bring forth water from iraq not just iraq okay we'll continue to discuss you tomorrow i'm sorry just one question in regards to uh mosh uh moshe failing the test could it like i feel like it was um a kind of an unfair test as well because all he's been trying to do for the last 40 years has tried to convince the jewish nation and every time even like the the last partial there's always uproars there's people always rebelling not believing um so could have he have done like is there a chance for him to um to have passed this test i feel like it was like i think it's a good question no it just to me it looks like he got exhausted by now like for 40 years all he was trying to do is to convince people to believe in god and for some reason everyone has been so stubborn in their ways and like even though they saw the the miracles but they still never hear what you're saying yeah right you know i think you're on my team over here like you know like leave much ravino alone right like come on you know he's just trying so hard you know i think we have to say that hashem wouldn't have given him the test if he if he didn't have the ability to pass it you know or hashem wanted to see you know has he also gone through a transformation you know where where is he really and and hashem does test them you know this rolling stone the fact that something starts rolling gets mixed up and you know is it it's a major test promotion what am i going to do over here you know what am i going to do what does god want from me to do we'll talk a little more tomorrow about it what does hashem want for me to do right now but i think fundamentally you know if we're going to look at it from the perspective of this was almost like a like a test of who are you where do you belong right now do you go into the desert or you belong to the new nation of israel you know i i think we have to say there was a potentiality in motion to pass the test otherwise hashem wouldn't give him the test you know we'll be very cruel to give a test that we know you're going to fail and that's that's a the doesn't do that okay i think he had i think he had the potential to pass it but it didn't come out it was it was a it was a failed test and by failing it it indicates it indicated really where he belongs and um it you know maybe it's not a bad a bad way for moshe to to end his career in a sense to say that i believe it was i really was for the desert and and not to try to be the leader in a land where he doesn't really have what's necessary to inspire the nation in that new environment perhaps thank you very much this this episode reminds me of jakov talking to his sons before death when he took harshly his uh children and saying it knowing that he is dying moshe knew that he would not enter israel he knew it from the very beginning from the very beginning when his career started and it was confirmed with this uh prophets in among israel this is his best it might be his choice like like yankov i just want to point this one it's like yakov who wanted to say to demonstrate them that they're not ready to this 11 that he expected and he did it purposefully you see parallel parallel to yakov is and this is what marseille did he did he demonstrated that who they are he talked openly this is different approach to the same same idea but i think it was his choice right right um i hear it i hear yeah i hear that's interesting the interesting point is like it could be you know again you know i think the content of the story is a song a little to go with and that's why i think you know there's so many attempt at foreign to the russians to try to put it together and say you know what happened here so we're given a glimpse of things we're given a hints to things that are happening and there could be truth that lies on all sides maybe you know they weren't supposed to go to the land altogether and this was sort of brings out a lesson for client's role or or it's a lesson learned or maybe we could have gone to the land had he not done this is but again george trying to sort of grasp on to a little bit of of what are the themes and the six seven lines that all we have the story and the lesson five lines what was god trying to teach us in this very pivotal moment in most revenant's life and again i i feel the the the key is the difference between hitting and speaking and how that affects and and what type of generation needs to be hit what transitions to be spoken to and what it means sort of fundamentally enforcing compelling versus inspiring from with him okay we'll continue the discussion tomorrow with a little different look at it okay everybody wish you wishing everybody thank you very much for your classes because of this whatever i say because i listen to you and this is ideas i i was not ready to talk about this listening to you producing me these thoughts i appreciate very much your classes thank you very much that's what i'm trying to do thank you thank you that's the whole purpose thank you everybody thank you very much bye