Parashat Mattot-Massei 5781: “2000 Years of Persecutions and Exile”

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

shalom this coming shabbat we will be reading parashat as well as parashat maasai of course concludes the book of bhamirbar numbers and with that we close the book of amirbar and next week we will begin the book of devarim deuteronomy so let us say just a few words a few messages that we can extract from these two parashit from the supershit we can understand several things besides of course the laws that the torah literally tells us moses spoke to the heads of the tribes living in israel the tribes of the children of israel saying this is what the matter that hashem has commanded what is the the matter is anyone who takes a vow to hashem or swears an oath to prohibit any kind of prohibition he shall not profane his word according to whatever comes out from his mouth shall he do that's first teaching of this parasha the second story of this parasha has to do with the hashem is asking moshe and the jewish people to go again and fight against the median to practically destroy all of them it's called nik matashem the revenge of god of course because of the midian the jewish people has sinned with the daughters of minion of midian in accordance with the council of bilaam that he gave to the king of balak and he said to him if we cannot curse them so at least the minimum that we can do is to hurt them the only way to hurt the jewish people is to cause them to bring them to commit a sin and therefore the best is

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1. 0:02shalom this coming shabbat we will be reading parashat as well as parashat maasai of course…
2. 3:16pinhos was able to stop it with whatever he did with the keturit and so forth…
3. 6:59jewish people made at the mountain of sinai when they were about to receive the torah…
4. 10:14it took them 40 years before they entered the land of israel rather than if they…
5. 13:54those three weeks the three weeks before tisha b'av are known as three weeks where middata…
6. 17:44when you open your mouth to evil things then it could bring only tears and sadness…
7. 20:57god because wherever they go they went to exile imam the divine presence went with them…
8. 24:39partition of the land of israel among the 12 tribes and finally the jewish people are…
9. 27:51babylon because we have the the public the babylonian talmud because of this which is the…
10. 31:33says hashem you know they would stay one day in one place in the wilderness of…

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