Parashat Chukat - What's so bad with hitting a rock...? - Rabbi Alon Anava
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[Music] we are in parish at regrets and we're and still in the midst of the power short that I mentioned so many times that I want to take from the time of the class to repeat but we have a back-to-back fella short about what was going on in the desert and unfortunately the main theme in the desert is all a shonova and this week's Power Shot Miriam is talking with jean-robert Moshe Rabbeinu she gets punished last week called spoke loshon hora he got punished before that the spice takla Shannara they got punished though we see constantly what was going on in the desert is just a Shannara but nevertheless the two main parts of this parasha of course is the red heifer that's the main theme of the power shot the next part of the Parishad that is the main theme is the death of medium and the fact that they ran out of water supply but nevertheless there's an another detail in this power shower that is not less important which we're going to talk about today and address it is the fact that Moshe Rubino got punished for hitting the rock instead of talking to the rock and the result was that he's not going into a lotta soil and we're gonna focus on the fact that not in this week's parasha but in the near future we're gonna read about up our shackles with Hernan and vitae not means that I have begged Moshe Rabbeinu begged and ashamed to be more exact he prayed 515 prayers for shame to let him go into ever to sail the gematria the numerical value of the word via canon is 515 because why does notion he too big he could have said I have prayed I've asked I've requested like
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