Parsha Illuminated - Chukas: The Pursuit of Peace

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

Okay. So, para illuminated for paras. Hookas is another jam-packed para where uh every every few sukim every few verses something else significant and major is happening and we have the beginning talks about the paraduma the red hepher we have Miriam's death we have the people complaining for lack of water and then the event of the Mayariva where Moshe and Aaron apparently where Moshe and Aaron apparently error they sin and they're punished that they can't enter the land of Israel. And uh and we should I should note even before all those events we have the really it's a fast forward where uh the Torah doesn't really record other than the travels what happened between really the rebellion of Korak and then 38 years later or so um where we pick up again in this week's para um other than again in this week's para um other than the the travels that the Jewish people did it's doesn't seem like anything majorly significant happened that needed to be recorded in the Torah and uh and then we pick up again here in this week's para and we have the death of Miriam the lack of water the Mayariva and then what I want to start with today is the death of Aaron and uh the death of Aaron takes place in chapter 20 of Aaron takes place in chapter 20 towards the verse sorry chapter yeah chapter 20 verse verse 29 the says so after dies it says that the entire congregation saw that had died and they and the entire house of Israel mourned for Aaron for 30 days so the first question is how did they see that

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1. 0:02Okay. So, para illuminated for paras. Hookas is another jam-packed para where uh every every few…
2. 4:15to the death of iron, it says uh Israel that the entire congregation the entire house…
3. 8:59saying the Hill has hill the elder is saying that we're not that much we won't…
4. 13:49when they would meet each other they would they would embrace and they would kiss each…
5. 18:30it was it was buried beneath uh anger and feelings of of of of grievance and…
6. 23:07week's para para's balok happened unbeknownst to the Jewish people they didn't know that this attempt…
7. 27:55keeping inside what you know all the all the treasure all the and and developing one…
8. 32:36with what we're saying with hers. These these miracles, these gifts were a reward in the…
9. 37:15at Jordan because the on the on the right side is the east of the Yamamel…
10. 41:57weeks para. So, so we never would have been able to conquer that land had it…

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