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Insider Tip!

This coming week is Rav Yeruchem's yahrtzeit. 

Do you want to grow? Learn a LOT of his Torah!! 

Complainers Vs. Thankers

There is a LOT of complaining in Bamidbar. Why? Like Rashi says - a תואנה. They looked for pretexts to complain. That is a rule of complainers. Most complaints are saying the same thing - I am not happy. It is not about the particular thing they are complaining about. It doesn't even say in the psukim what the מתאוננים were complaining about. They were just complaining. Happy, healthy people look for every reason to feel and express ... gratitude.

If you want to be happy - invest in relationships, in your deeper spiritual life, eat, exercise and sleep well, focus on increasing self awareness and always be kind and loving. And like I just wrote - constantly always look for reasons to feel gratitude and Baruch Hashem there are endless things for which to be thankful.     

The President And Deviant Movements

The President of the State of Israel is supposed to represent the State [even though he lacks political power].

Recently, the President spoke [via zoom] at the graduation of JTS and sang the praises of the Conservative movement. Ammiel Hirsch, a Reform cleric, related that the President called him and asked how he could help advance the goals of that movement. 

So who exactly does he represent? Most Israelis are either religious or less religious to varying degrees but very few are Reform or Conservative, those errant movements with whom the President flirts.   

How sad and unfortunate that a צדיק יסוד עולם like Rav Yitzchak Herzog has a grandson and namesake who has such distorted beliefs and in such a public way. 

לשון הרע

 אולי התורה נמנעה לפרש את הלשון הרע של מרים כדי לא לדבר לשון הרע על מרים.... 

מתאוננים

 דְּתַנְיָא רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר עֲתִידָה פָּרָשָׁה זוֹ שֶׁתֵּיעָקֵר מִכָּאן וְתִכָּתֵב בִּמְקוֹמָהּ וְלָמָּה כְּתָבָהּ כָּאן כְּדֵי לְהַפְסִיק בֵּין פּוּרְעָנוּת רִאשׁוֹנָה לְפוּרְעָנוּת שְׁנִיָּיה פּוּרְעָנוּת שְׁנִיָּיה מַאי הִיא {במדבר י״א:א׳} וַיְהִי הָעָם כְּמִתְאוֹנְנִים פּוּרְעָנוּת רִאשׁוֹנָה {במדבר י׳:ל״ג} וַיִּסְעוּ מֵהַר ה׳ וְאָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בְּרַבִּי חֲנִינָא שֶׁסָּרוּ מֵאַחֲרֵי ה׳. 

מאחרי ה׳ – בתוך ג׳ ימים למסעם התאוו האספסוף תאוה להתרעם על הבשר כדי למרוד בהקב״ה. [רש"י] 

ודברי רש"י הק' תמוהים לכל מעיין ומצוה גדולה ליישב.