Beha'aloscha: The Fire of Desire that was Preserved for All Time - Secret of Pirkei D'Rebbi Eliezer

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

complainers in the ears of God and God listened and he got angry and the fire of the Lord burnt and consumed on the edge of the camp and the people cried out and what happened to the fire says the medishk That fire that came down from heaven sunk in the ground never returned. Came down from heaven but it never returned. says, "It entered the and all the sacrifices that the Jewish people burnt in the desert and that fire consumed them. It went forth. It doesn't say went down. withm. So it's a very interesting concept that this fire which you would assume was the wrath of God, the anger of God, the peronius of so it was used to punish uh the Jewish people. Why would it then go and become such a holy source of the Jewish people that it would be the vehicle with which created the the process of carbonos and the acceptance of carbonos? Why would that very same fire that was used to punish the people for their tya, for their desire, for their passion, for their gluttony, why would that fire be used to consume the carbon? Yeah. There was no nothing left over. We are not on air anymore. Let's see what that means consumed everything that was on there completely. Um there was no reason for all that. I don't know you. It doesn't say it didn't produce ashes, but what it seems like is the medish is saying that the fire came down and that uh fire never returned to its place but continued to uh it served to Eid carbon. Let's examine some of these. And the nation was like complainers. So Miller would um explain they didn't actually complain to complain. Complaining we don't complain. But it was as if they were complaining on their high level. It

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1. 0:34complainers in the ears of God and God listened and he got angry and the fire…
2. 3:52No. doesn't say Hashem doesn't doesn't punish for he does. No is not but could be…
3. 7:39yet we're all in the world. We hope nevertheless what the Tana means it could be…
4. 11:17they they haven't they don't have a treatment for that yet, right? So, you know, when…
5. 14:27and he expanded the business um because this was his parents' business and grand's parents' business.…
6. 18:14life and everything will be wonderful. I'm gonna be like an oyer. I'm gonna be uh…
7. 21:35pursuit, it will destroy you. It will literally kill you. It will bring a person to…
8. 24:48why it says tava. That's why it says but the thing is that people by nature…
9. 28:35They didn't harness it. But it could have. It had the potential. Yeah. Doesn't the word…
10. 31:48to do there he's going to bother you here you know he's going to do in…

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