Parashat Chukat - What's so bad in hitting a rock? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Alon Anava’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] we are in a barber shop who cut and in this week's polish aah even though the theme is about the red heifer there is another serious story going on a very dramatic story at in this photo shot and this of course is talking about the time when Moshe Rabbeinu hit the rock for the water Hebrews called maim Oliva the water of affliction the water of the arguments and like I said the theme of the polish eyes about the red heifer but nevertheless a few other serious things happened there and this is a pretty big thing in the Torah because mashallah be no our leader the receiver and the giver of the Torah our master he makes a wrong decision he makes a wrong decision and he hits the rock instead of talking to the rock and this is the time when the Kadosh Majo tells him you have brought on yourself your own decree and the decree is that he's not going into Israel that was the punishment now first of all just in regards to Moshe Hibino comes of course a very big question what did he do he hit the rock it's not that he did some something so bad what did he do so I didn't talk to it you heat it such a punishment not to go into realities well he dedicatedly took the Jews out of Egypt led them in the desert and suffered their complaints for forty years and did an amazing job and that's it one little smack to the rock and he gets punished not to go into a little soil that's a that's a pretty harsh punishment but in regards to us what are

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