Parshas Pinchas July 10, 2020

A Taste of Stories for the Soul Good Hospitality by Rabbi Chaim Yeshia Feeman Shining Through The parsha discusses the different if he is part of the family. A guest will During the 1920s, Rabbi Boruch korbanos (offerings) that were brought often feel like a burden to the host, Ber Leibowitz (1862-1939), Rosh during the different festivals. The as the host goes out of his way to (Dean) of the Kaminetz korbanos brought on Sukkos are provide for him. By slowly decreasing Yeshiva in , came to the unique, as one of the animals offered, what the guest is offered, eventually United States to raise badly- the bulls, decline steadily from one providing him what other members needed funds for his yeshiva. day to the next. Thirteen bulls are of the household receive, the guest Rabbi Leibowitz stayed in New brought on the first day, twelve on is made to feel like a member of the York during his time in America, the second, eleven on the third and family. and his saintly ways made a great so on, ending with seven bulls on What does this have to do with the impression on all who met him. the seventh day of Sukkos. There are korbanos of Sukkos? Perhaps this can At one point, Rabbi Leibowitz met various explanations provided for be explained with two insights from with Jimmy Walker, the mayor this decline. Rashi (Bamidbar 29:36) the Vilna Gaon. The Vilna Gaon, of New York City. The mayor cites a Medrash Tanchuma that this commenting on the teaching of the presented Rabbi Leibowitz with the teaches us the proper conduct one (Sukkah 11a) that the Sukkah key to the city, and commented, should have toward a guest who is commemorates Hashem’s Clouds “Rabbi Leibowitz disproves staying for some time. On the first of Glory that protected the Jewish Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. day, one serves fattened poultry. People in the desert, explains that Only G-d could have created such On day two, the guest is served fish, the Sukkah is not a commemoration a person!” on day three, meat, then beans, of the Clouds of Glory that On another occasion, Rabbi and finally vegetables. One should accompanied the Jewish People Leibowitz visited was at a pharmacy decrease one’s level of generosity, as upon their departure from Egypt. to make a purchase. The person manifested by the korbanos (offerings) Rather, the Sukkah commemorates accompanying him handed the of Sukkos that decreased daily. the Clouds of Glory that returned money to the pharmacist, but This Medrash is puzzling: One would to the Jewish People after Hashem the man refused to take it. the expect that one’s hospitality would forgave them on Yom Kippur for the pharmacist said, “Take money increase, not decrease, over time. sin of the Golden Calf. These clouds from him? He looks like an angel, Furthermore, what is the comparison had departed following the disaster not a man – I wouldn’t take a between the korbanos and how we of the Golden Calf, and their return penny from him!” treat our guests. marked the renewal of Hashem’s In this week’s parsha, Yehoshua is Rabbi Dovid Goldberg, presence among the Jewish People. appointed to succeed Moshe as the of the in , The second insight from the Vilna leader of the Jewish People. Our OH, explains that a host can approach Gaon is regarding a phrase we recite in Sages teach that Moshe’s face shone the aforementioned method of the Shemone Esrei recited on holidays. like the sun, and Yehoshua’s face hospitality in one of two ways. The In the holiday Shemone Esrei, we say shone like the moon. Throughout first approach is that by whittling that Hashem chose the Jewish People, history, and even in our times, the away at what the guest is offered, the loved us, and found us pleasing. Jewish People have merited leaders host displays a lack of interest toward “Found us pleasing,” explains the whose spiritual greatness is visible the guest. This, of course, is not Vilna Gaon, refers to the holiday of upon their faces and through their what the Torah wishes to teach us. Sukkos. This comment dovetails with conduct. However, there is another way to view the first insight of the Vilna Gaon; this approach toward treating a guest; Sukkos is the celebration of the the host should make the guest feel as renewal of the relationship between continued on back

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