After our davening, Rav Males spoke about why it is important that specific roles are assigned to specific people. He spoke about situations where we ask “someone” to do a task, and the task doesn’t get done – or is significantly delayed – because we think someone else is going to do it. Maybe this is why sometimes we don’t make minyans! Everyone thinks someone else will come. Larry commented that the opposite situation can happen, in which everyone wants to do something, and this can be overwhelming. In this case as well, it helps if specific people are assigned specific roles.
Norm shared some of the Haftorah at our kiddush. The Haftorah speaks to the miracle and significance of Jerusalem specifically, and Israel in general. Norm commented about the amazing progress Israel has made, from being a vast, barren desert to the green and much more prosperous land it is today. Norm commented that this perhaps indicates that we are getting closer to when Moshiach will come.
Yaki spoke about how Hashem created an imperfect world, to give man the purpose of perfecting the world. Yaki commented that each of us has a unique role. One of our challenges is to figure out what our role is to play in the world. David has spoken in the past how we all have positions on a team. Hashem could tell us directly what our role is, but then we would be more like robots. As we discussed last week, Hashem wanted Human beings, and not robots or automatic train sets.
Yaki spoke about the rebellion by Korach. Yaki commented that Korach had a huge challenge, to convince at least 50% of us to abandon support of Moshe and support Korach and his side. Yaki commented that Korach had on his side, men who were astrologers.
Yaki shared some commentary, that just like astrologers are not told specifically what the outcome of their work will be, Moshe was not told specifically what the outcome of his search for people to fill specific roles would be. Yaki shared his thoughts, that this was Korach’s point in including astrologers as part of his rebellious group. Korach’s point was not that Moshe had chosen someone to have a specific leadership role, but that Moshe choose Aaron, who is someone in his family, rather than the best person for the job. Nevertheless, Hashem later in the Parsha, does make clear that Moshe's choice was correct, when Korach and his supporters are put to death.
Rob spoke about how Moshe assigned different people to different roles in order to avoid conflict. Rob commented that more than one role could be assigned to a person, as long as there was not a conflict in time.
Howard commented that sometimes we see some of us lose faith, or not have it to begin with. Howard pointed out, that we should remember and tell others that even if we believe there is only a 1 in 100 percent chance of spiritual activities such as davening providing benefits, the benefits are so huge that shouldn’t we do it? This reminds me of the article David’s father wrote on how we bet our life on our decision whether or not to believe and connect with Hashem. Once we believe there is the tiniest of probabilities that this is beneficial to us, we should be motivated to daven and follow the Torah, because we are betting our life on this decision.
This is a summary of what we discussed. No halachic rulings are intended or should be inferred.
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