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Sep 13, 2026
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Even though I've been warning them and nothing has happened, now it's gonna happen much faster." There may be another deeper meaning to this Makel Shaked.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
If you recall in Chumash, in the story of Korach, in chapter seventeen, in the book of Bamidbar, in Parakat Zain, there there was a rebellion by Korach against Moshe Rabbeinu, against the leadership, and God wants to put an end to those complaints.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
He tells all the tribal leaders to take their makel, the staff of each tribe, and they put it into Ohel Moed, and the winner of that contest will be known by which of these staffs are going to blossom like a shaked.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Turned out that the staff of Aaron was the one that won that contest, and what happened was it turned into like a shkediyah.
Richard HidaryHOST
One time, Kontorokos, some Roman official, asked Rabbi Yohanan Ben-Zakai, This is actually a very good question.
Richard HidaryHOST
In the census at the beginning of Bemidbar, when it counts all the Leviim, when it gives the details of each of the families of the Leviim, Gershon, Kehat, Merari, if you add them all up, you'll find 22,300.
Richard HidaryHOST
However, right after that, when it gives the total, the total is 22,000.
Richard HidaryHOST
Where did the other 300 Levim go? The details don't add up to the total.
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Richard HidaryHOST
But if it looks completely different, it's not liable.
Richard HidaryHOST
Where? What's the source? Let's look at the whole pasuk inside.
Richard HidaryHOST
Here it says in Bemidbar 1817, Here it says in Bemidbar 1817, These kosher species of an ox or sheep or goats, if it's a firstborn, you're not allowed to redeem it because it itself is kodesh.
Richard HidaryHOST
You have to give it to the Kohen.
Avraham ZajacHOST
So that's five.
Avraham ZajacHOST
Then you have, until the end of Bamidbar, that's six.
Avraham ZajacHOST
And the bottom is seven.
Avraham ZajacHOST
So since there is a Shita that holds that an entire Sefer is comprised out of, it has 85 letters.
Effie KleinbergHOST
That's the idea of Teruah.
Effie KleinbergHOST
That's what it says in Bamidbar.
Effie KleinbergHOST
We will blow the trumpets.
Effie KleinbergHOST
What were the trumpets for? very good when the Jewish people traveled okay when they traveled anytime they were traveling they would blow the trumpets and it was served as a way to what is Hashem knows we're here but we're doing it to go to the motions to say we're reminding Hashem that you know we're with you so how do we do it on Rosh Hashanah we don't use trumpets we use When the Shofar is a way of creating awareness in Shamayim that Hashem should remember us for the good.
Reuven WolfHOST
Here, it's fine gold, adnei paz.
Reuven WolfHOST
So why- what's so special about this verse? There is a, a, uh, Midrash in, um, Bamidbar and Acharei Mot on this place, which becomes the cornerstone of all of the Chabad philosophy.
Reuven WolfHOST
All of Judaism evolves around this Midrash, according to the Chabad approach.
Reuven WolfHOST
The Alter Rebbe, Reb Schneur Zalman of Liadi, puts this Midrash as the nucleus of all of Judaism, where everything evolves around.
Richard HidaryHOST
In the desert, the Leviyim were able to exempt the Yisrael, meaning the human beings, the human Leviyim, were able to exempt the humans and the animals of the Israelites.
Richard HidaryHOST
We learned in the beginning of Sefer Bemidbar that there was a census, and they found that the number of firstborn from Yisrael was about the same as the number of Leviyim more than 30 days old, 22,000, and they did an exchange.
Richard HidaryHOST
There were still left over 273 more firstborn of Israelites, and there was no Leviyim to, uh, correspond to them.
Richard HidaryHOST
So they had to exch- exchange themselves, redeem themselves for five coins, and that's the origin of the five coins.
Reuven BrandHOST
Where is it from? What does it say? Where is the source of that phrase, samid pasil, into English? It's a very unusual place.
Reuven BrandHOST
Bamidbar, Bamidbar Yutes.
Reuven BrandHOST
What is going on in Bamidbar Yutes? The laws of purity and impurity having to do with earthenware jugs [slaps] of all things.
Reuven BrandHOST
There is a rule when it comes to food items, let's say.
Reuven BrandHOST
Let's start with food items.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Does Schneur go anywhere with you? [laughs]
Reuven BrandHOST
We have plans.
Reuven BrandHOST
We have to know, like-- So this, this whole story with its samid pasil is from that section in Bamidbar that deals with all the rules about what becomes tamei and para adumah and all this kind of stuff.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
And we'll see them towards the end of this year.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
So the first couple of sources we have to see again, but then there's a lot of sources we saw in Shemot and Vayikra and in Bamidbar that we saw last week.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
But remember that Avraham is told from the get-go that his children will be ger, beretzolahem, which gives us a couple things.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
First of all, it gives us a definition.
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Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
I want to zip ahead, because you can look through all of these, and you'll see it's fairly consistent, and in Bahar, we're talking about social, ordinances and taking care of the poor, it's just the ger.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Because it's the ger, or the toshav, the guy who needs help.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
when we move ahead to parashat nesachim in Bamidbar it is if a ger wants to bring a korban this is what he does I should have highlighted that word which means that the laws are the same as far as the nesachim or the korban he can bring a korban of course and now look at this This comes to the parasha that we understand, based on Torah Shavual Peh, that this is the parasha of Chattat Avodah Zarah.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
When the Beit Din issued a ruling, errantly, this is parasha Masachet HaRayot, about Avodah Zarah, and Bnei Yisrael sinned and violated it, they have to bring a korban.
Avi HaviviHOST
Now, let me tell you about the bowing thing.
Avi HaviviHOST
A couple years ago, I had occasion, maybe I was in a class about the Ma Tovu.[clears throat] The prayer that you say when you're entering shul, it's five lines, right? [speaking in foreign language] How goodly are your tents, oh Jacob, your dwelling places are Israel, [clears throat] which of course is from Bemidbar, the Book of Numbers, originally in its peshat or or-original setting said by Bil'am, right, the sorcerer when he looks at Bnei Yisrael encamped down below.
Avi HaviviHOST
[clears throat] The peshat meaning has nothing to do with synagogues, okay? It's, uh, he's looking at their tents.
Avi HaviviHOST
But taken out of context, the way we say it, the-- it's Mishkan, our tents, right? Um, [speaking in foreign language] Uh, I'm, I'm sorry, I'm not looking at a...
David MilstonHOST
I will say that when looking at Bamidba, I think that Sefer Bamidba is the authentication of Torah.
David MilstonHOST
Really, the authentication of Torah, when you look at Sefer Bamidbar, essentially, there's almost no halacha in Sefer Bamidbar.
David MilstonHOST
So you can talk about Bereshit, it's Avot HaUma, Imahot HaUma, you can talk about Shemot, it's Yitziat, Mitzrayim, and Vayikra is the core of the Torah, but Bamidbar is simply a narrative about specific things that really don't concern us, because they happen to a generation that came and went.
David MilstonHOST
It's not a generation that will enter Israel.
David MilstonHOST
It's not a generation of, it's a generation that came out of Egypt and failed.
David MilstonHOST
And so the narrative is interesting, but why is it eternal? Why is it eternal? Why do I need to know it forever? And once you take out the little halacha I have in Sefer Bamidbar, you ask yourself the question, so what is Sefer Bamidbar for? And why do I think it's the authentication? I'll tell you why I think it's the authentication, because I know you're about to say, well, why do you think it's the authentication? So I will anticipate your question.
David MilstonHOST
I think it's the authentication because in general, my experience in life, and I think it's your experience in life as well so far, is that when people present something to you, they don't present its failings.
David MilstonHOST
They present what's good.
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