The Enigmatic The Waters of Strife and the Power of Joy in Teaching Torah

This episode stands as a powerful testament to the force of joy and passion in learning and teaching the Torah. We reflect on the critical teaching that learning and teaching Torah must be executed with pleasure (besimcha) and the potential catastrophe that can ensue when it's not. This episode is an incredible voyage into the heart of our sacred traditions and teachings.

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You can imagine the euphoria when millions of individuals who were deathly thirsty now see a rock gushing forth with billions of gallons of water enough to quench the thirst of an entire nation.

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Yet the tyrant tells us that these were tricky waters, they were waters of strife, the main Mareeva, and they ultimately locked Maishir Abaynu out of Ereti Israel.

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What's worse is that Khazal tells us that if Maishir Abaynu would have entered into the Holy Land of Ereti Israel and reconnected with that level of Kedusha, we never would have left.

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It would have been an eternal perfection.

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Moshe Abaynu, bessam Magdush, ereti Israel.

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We wouldn't be here today In America, in Gullis, the diaspora, if not for the main Mareeva, the tragic episode, what was the sin?

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And now we must proceed with the utmost caution because we are dealing with the holiest individual to ever live.

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And this year I found an unbelievable medrish that helps us out a bit.

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It's brought in the back of the Savor Basah, leviah Latairah, and the great Rabbi Khilmichol Feinstein helps us out, citing this medrish from Yalkut Shemayni and Parshash Chukas.

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Moshe Abaynu was told go speak to the rock.

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What was he supposed to say, says the medrish Shana alov, perik echad humootsi, mayim minhasela.

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Teach taira to the rock.

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Teach it.

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A perik mishnay is a perik mishnay is mizech da brachis and water will start flowing forth.

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And the hei-gerebi-khilmichol.

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He talks about how this is not a miracle.

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This is the basic Kedusha Shem, for the world is built on the coding, the motherboard of the world, this taira.

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And now you have Yeshiva Bukhram listening into a sheer, a sheer being taught to the rock.

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And now everyone's thirsty.

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Well, of course, there's going to be water, and a rock will start flowing with water.

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Taira is the blueprint of the world.

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So then Itsev is trying to piece together all the pieces here, the Heinege Volozhenarashashiva is trying to move together the medrishim and the psukim and the rachis It seems maybe he spoke to one rock.

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Why did water not start flowing immediately?

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If he did teach taira, did he not teach the right perik?

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What's going on here?

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Why did things still go awry?

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And says then Itsev and we should remember this, it's unbelievable Because there's one word here, moshe Rabbeinu.

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He turned to the Jewish people as he was describing them You want water?

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He said shimunahamorim, listen, o rebels.

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And of Moshe Rabbeinu's level, there was the slightest bit of anger on his level, whatever that means, the slightest chut, little hair's breath of kas Calling the Jewish people rebels And therefore the taira.

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The teaching of the Mishnias was not entirely besimcha, so not enough water started coming immediately.

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A disaster.

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It wasn't besimcha.

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The water didn't come out in the right way, it was fault in the kittish Hashem, because the taira wasn't besimcha.

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Unbelievable.

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We learn so much taira, or hopefully we learn so much taira, but you gotta love it, you gotta be happy about it, you gotta feed.

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Let it feed your soul, let the rashi, let the taishvists make you sing and make you dance.

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For if do Hashem besimcha, and you know what I've seen some of the great ones do it when they see a pshah in taishvists, they're bowl of fun of Birnana.

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They literally get up and start dancing, perhaps on Moshe's level, according to the nitsiv.

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We see here that the ultimate catastrophe happened because the taira was being learned and the taira was being taught, but it wasn't entirely Taura Besimcha.

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