Parshat Chukat with Reb Meir Elkabas - The Snake Test

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Shalom everybody and welcome back with insights in the par of the week parhat which is pretty um heavy. There's a lot of like heartbreaking uh parts but there's also uplifting happy parts. There's the death of Miriam, the death of Aon, the punishment of Moshe and Aon not entering the Holy Land. And we're going to focus today on the snake, the biting of the snakes on the Jewish people and the healing through the copper snake that Mosherenu made. Let's take a look at this para. Okay, it's in chapter 21 verses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Okay, let's and then nine. Let's take a look. says here verse four after a passed away on the mountain called the mountain of a mountain because it was like Rashi says two apples one big apple and another smaller apple on top of it like it was a double mountain that's why it's called which is located basically today east of Israel east of the Jordan River in Jordan in the area which is called today Petra the famous like historical archaeological ical site Petra on the mountain top there. So the Jews traveled from Hahar after after Haron passed away and then right before this para this before this section talks about the war with Amalecch. So because of that war so the Jews went backwards in direction. So the Jews traveled from the mountain Har where Awan passed away on the pathway leading back to the to the Red Sea which is down south going around you know you go maybe upwards and left go into Israel and now they're going down back because of the war and to go around it. Okay? Because Edom

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1. 0:01Shalom everybody and welcome back with insights in the par of the week parhat which is…
2. 1:32So because of that war so the Jews went backwards in direction. So the Jews traveled…
3. 3:37because they're going down away from Israel going towards the Red Sea. So they complained, why…
4. 5:41there was a p a panic to see these fruits. So the younger Jews who were…
5. 7:44against you for us to and he should remove the snakes and and Moshe dove. Quickly…
6. 9:50so these Jews were punished for speaking slander and the punishment is fitting that the snake…
7. 11:54needs to make it through the challenges. However, like we mentioned many times, the way the…
8. 13:57wanted to do is to get to bring the Jews back to reconnect to Hashem because…
9. 16:01level. You're supposed to be silent. You spoke. You weren't supposed to speak them. This happened…
10. 18:05What's so points out hidden in is an additional yud from Hashem's name. Yud the he…

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