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June 25, 2022; Sivan 26, 5782

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Parsha The Meraglim, the spies, were exceptional people. Rashi (Bamidbar 3:3) explains that the word “Anashim” which the Torah used to describe the Meraglim – indicates that, at the time, they were highly moral people. So what went wrong? How could they have attempted to undermine the entire purpose of coming to Eretz Yisroel and have made such a cataclysmic error by speaking negatively against Eretz Yisrael?

We can perhaps gain insight from one of the descriptions that the Meraglim had given of the land that they were sent to spy out....


June 18, 2022; Sivan 19, 5782

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Parsha And the wrath of Hashem flared against them and He departed.” (BaMidbar 12:9)



This pasuk describes how Hashem was ‘angry’ so to speak with Miriam and Aharon because they spoke negatively about Moshe Rabbeiniu. Yet the previous pasukim describe how Hashem had taken them to task for what they had said. It seems a bit out of order. Hashem should have become angry first, and then taken Miriam and Aharon to task...


June 11, 2022; Sivan 12, 5782

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Parsha “Take a census of the Bnei Gershon, also them, by their ancestral houses and by their families... (BaMidbar 4:22)”

The Midrash Rabbah (Nasoh, 6) asks the question as to why the extra words “gam haim” - also them, appear in the pasuk. The Midrash answers that in last week’s parsha, Hashem instructed that Bnei Kehas be counted prior to the counting of the Bnei Gershon – even though Gershon was the firstborn and not Kehas. We might have erroneously thought that just as the firstborn of Klal Yisroel had “fallen spiritually” on account of the sin of the Golden Calf, so too did the firstborn of the tribe of Levi fall spiritually...


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