Leadership ( Parashas Beha'aloscha)

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Leadership ( Parashas Beha'aloscha) (100) , d [mp3 download]

Quotable Quotes and Main Points

Quotable Quotes ( click the line to hear the quote! )

01:01 If one experiences friendship with someone else , he should not analyze it (the friendship )

10:12 we have to study humesh like we study gemora conceptualize, analyze…

11:15 the torah never tells half a story , they is always development…

17:06 we suddenly are confronted with a parasha consisting of two pasukim … inverted nun…

21:49 whatever I tell you… is completely new… no one plagiarized me yet

22:15 as if we were jumping like a bee… accumulating the sweet nectar

25:57 Torah teaches man how to worship God… there is no neutral moment…

36:30 Kiddush Levim ( why it is in Bamidbar and not Shemos )

42:00 torah … one must understand the emotional mood created by the torah

48:33 any human was offered… to join the march to the Messianic era -Moses would have been the Melech HaMosiah (Messiah)

50:20 our torah has enough goodness to be shared by others…

50:58 there is something touching … I want to cry …the great Moshe -father of all prophets.. uses the first person… he was certain he would enter the promised land….

59:51 Moshe is not the defense attorney , it has interrupted the great march …

01:02:00 There is a difference between avodah zora (idol worship ) and the pagan way of life… It is possible to live like a pagan and not worship idols. Paganism is a certain way of life…. What is the pagan way of life? The pagan way cries for variety , for boundlessness, for unlimited desire… Judaism requires the ability to retreat.

01:09:09 I remember my own experience during the illness of the wife…I lived with hope… but I remember the last Yom Kippur before she died…the sefer torah slipped and fell … that time I knew … nothing would help…

01:16:10 the purpose of yesiat mitsraiyim is not political freedom … but to make a goy kodesh (holy nation)

01:17:11 the mother is the most important teacher in the life of the baby… the nursing mother carries the baby… it means more then the literal meaning…when the mother teaches the baby , the baby becomes a part of her. The mother’s purpose is to protect the baby. The mother does not belong to herself… the mother has no life of her own. She belongs to the infant…

01:19:26 Moshe discovered that teaching is not enough for a Jewish leader … the job is nursing… feeling pain when the baby cries … feeling joy with the baby…

01:23:36 Why is Moshe’s name referred to as Menahse and not Moshe ? because Moshe had no children. 01:28:11 We should not only be teachers … but nursing mothers too…

01:28:26 the covenantal community is a teaching community…it is a children’s community with the mother-teacher in the center…he did not say to expel the misavim ( the lusters ) …we must carry the burden …

01:32:33 three qualifications for the nursing mother, a strong total commitment, readiness to give up .. to sacrifice…. The ability to present our message to our opponents with dignity and pride.

01:34:20 Daas means common sense.

01:34:50 the purpose of the RCA (Rabbinical Council of America ) to help the individual rabbi…

01:36:00 Ada means community with a common past… that bears witness to certain truth…Mahaneh is associated with defense and struggle…

Main Points

2:35 The problem of Leadership

3:02 Behalosecha is puzzling

11:50 let us review Baholestecha…

The Answer (23:07):

23:07 the parasha is one story … that changed Jewish history… nunim represent inverted history

37:22 the great march was supposed to start

58:56 What Happened?

01:26:45 that is how the parasha … concludes… it is one story … a great march that could of led us into the messianic era…

01:32:12 a few words about Rabbi Kalven

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