copyright 2016 For subscription & comments Email: M [email protected] עימוד שווארץ: [email protected] Torah Wellsprings 111 TorahWellsprings Parshas --- Pinchas Emunah ––– everything isisis from can have a problem in his head, and that affects the Hashem TorahWellsprings- Pi nch as limbs of his body. Feet t states in this week's represent parnassah . As I parashah, úãò ìë ùàø úà åàù Chazal (Pesachim 119.) say ìàøùé éðá , "Raise the heads of that money is åéìâø ìò åãéîòî , all of Bnei Yisrael…" (26:2). sets the person on his feet. The Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni ) Therefore, the Midrash is associates this passuk with a teaching that if one finds that passuk in Tehillim : éúøîà íà éìâø äèî , that his parnassah is éðãòñé 'ä êãñç éìâø äèî , "If I faltering, he must know that thought that my feet have the problem may be in the faltered, Your kindness, head. He may choose to fix Hashem, supports me" (94:18). the feet – which means, he This Midrash is a äàéìô ùøãî , may want to seek ways to wondrous and difficult to increase his income – but the understand, because our problem might be coming parashah talks about counting from an entirely different the heads of the nation, how place. ùàø úà åàù , raise the does this relate to the passuk head, study Torah, and matters that talks about the feet? will work out and you will, The Divrei Yisrael of Modzitz be’ezras Hashem have zt'l answers with a mashal : parnassah . There was a person who lost his ability to walk. He went to We can also explain that if a a doctor to heal his feet. The person has a problem with his wise doctor told him, "Your feet, which means, he doesn’t problem isn't in your feet. The have parnassah , he should fix problem is in the head." his head. This means, he Because sometimes, a person should remember that 222 Torah Wellsprings --- Pinchas everything is from Heaven. brachos was the same night, This realization alone is and he couldn’t come too mesugal for parnassah . late. The families agreed to that condition. As Rebbe Moshe of Kobrin taught that when one does But there was traffic that business, he must keep in night, Reb Grossman came mind that everything is from late to the wedding, and the Hashem. The merchandise he chuppah took place at 8:20. decides to buy or to sell, the After the chuppah, one of the price that was agreed upon, his grandmothers said to Reb losses and the profits, were all Grossman, with tears in her part of Hashem's decision and eyes, "I am so happy that the plan. With such emunah , chuppah was at 8:20, after Rebbe Moshe of Kobrin nightfall and not earlier. I was guarantees, he will be davening all day long that the successful in his business chuppah should be after dealings. 111 nightfall, since the Sefer Chasidim HaChadosh teaches Reb Yitzchak Dovid that one shouldn’t get married Grossman Shlita, Rav of on the seventh of Tamuz. (Not Migdal Emek, was once everyone keeps this invited to be mesader recommendation, but it was kiddushin . He accepted the important for her to follow it.) honor, with the condition that the chuppah not be later than This story shows us the power eight o'clock. He explained of tefillah , and it is also that his grandson's sheva related to our subject, because 1. Rebbe Moshe of Kobrin zt'l taught that if you remember that everything is from Hashem, all problems disappear. He explains that When .א are almost the same word. The difference is the גאולה and גולה exile/suffering) becomes) גולה who is Hashem, the ,א you remember the .redemption, and you are saved from your problems , גאולה Torah Wellsprings --- Pinchas 333 feet that’s connected to the wasn't placated. He went to head implies that wherever the gadol hador , Reb one goes (with his feet) he Yehoshua Leib Diskin zt'l . must know (in his head) that it Unlike the others, Reb was Hashem's plan. He Yehoshua Leib said, "Find the shouldn’t question, "Why did I head and open it up." The man go there?" It was Hashem's did that, and they saw that the plan. Reb Grossman came late, head was rotting inside, he didn’t know why, but there rendering the chicken treif . was a reason. It was bashert . Reb Yehoshua Leib explained, Similarly, wherever we are, "All chickens have lice, only and wherever we go, there's a they shake them off. I realized reason for it. that this chicken wasn't able to shake off the lice. That's why In Yerushalayim, one hundred I suspected there was a and fifty years ago, a simple problem in the head." person brought his chicken to a shochet . After it was The lesson for us is that all slaughtered he brought it people have different times in home, and as he was cleaning their lives. As long as the head the chicken, he saw that the is healthy and understands that chicken was covered with lice. everything is from Hashem he He feared that this might make can shake off all notions of the chicken not kosher, so he difficulties, but if the head of returned to the shochet , and a person is not healthy and showed him the chicken. The doesn’t have the basic Emunah shochet said, "It isn't written in that all is from Hashem then Shulchan Aruch that a chicken he will find himself in difficult with lice is treif ." predicaments. One of the most Nevertheless, the simple Yid undesirable thoughts is the was still worried. He went to notion that things happen by a rav. The rav also told him nature. Let's shake this notion that it was kosher, but he still out of our heads and believe 444 Torah Wellsprings --- Pinchas that everything that occurs is out that their great teacher was destined from Above. formulating the words ùéà éøùà êá õîàúé íãà ïáå êçëùé àìù , Hashem said to Moshe and "fortunate is the person who Elazar HaCohen, ìë ùàø úà åàù doesn’t forget You…" (from ìàøùé éðá úãò , "Count the heads the Shemonah Esrei of Rosh of the entire Jewish nation" HaShanah). In this fabulous (Bamidbar 26:2). ùàø úà åàù way, Reb Mordechai Binet can also be translated, "Raise was able to remember Hashem their heads." Moshe and Yisbarach, even as he was Elazar HaCohen were told to deep in his studies. raise and elevate the nation's awareness and to help them Later in the parashah it states recognize that everything áàéìà àåìô éðáå (26:8). The Magid comes from Hashem. of Zolazitz zt'l (Bris Avram ) The Chofetz Chaim zy’a said taught that àåìô means that when Reb Mordechai concealed (see Onkelus on Binet zy’a (the Rav of Devarim 17:8). When a person Nickelsburg) would teach is going through a hard time, Torah to his students, and and Hashem’s kindness is sometimes also while he concealed from him, and he would study by himself, he doesn’t understand how this would move his hand around circumstance can be for the in the air, or upon his table, as good, he should know that though he was writing áà-éìà , that everything is from something. The students were Hashem, our Father. intrigued by this, and they Everything is good, although watched his hand movements we don’t yet know why or carefully, until they figured how. 222 2. The Or HaChaim writes, "There isn't a moment that Hashem isn't doing something for a person…" (Shmos 22:6).There is never a Torah Wellsprings --- Pinchas 555 On the passuk ãòå íìåòì êåìîé 'ã , more descendants than "Hashem will be King forever" Binyamin, as the tribe of Onkelus translates it 'éúåëìî 'ä Binyamin numbered 45,600. àéîìò éîìòìå íìòì íà÷ , "Hashem The Chofetz Chaim notes Dan is King, forever." The had only one son, ïã ïá íéùåç , Kozhnitzer Magid zt'l asks, who was deaf. Binyamin had why did Onkelus change the ten children. It seems that Dan translation from the future had a reason to be upset that tense to present tense? he had so few children compared to Binyamin and the The Kozhnitzer Magid others. That is the reason answers that sometimes, it Yaakov Avinu prayed for Dan seems to a person that, 'ä éúéå÷ êúòåùéì , "I await your Hashem will do kindness with salvation, Hashem." But when him in the future . But now, his we look into the future, we see portion is bitter. Therefore, that there was no reason to be Onkelus clarifies that even upset. Dan’s family grew to be now íà÷ 'éúåëìî , Hashem is one of the biggest tribes. This King, because beneath the is a reminder that when concealment, is Hashem's matters seem bad at the compassion, and He is present, with time, it will be bestowing blessings and revealed how everything is for goodness, already now. the good. When counting the tribes, the Hate thethethe Midyanim Torah tells that Dan's family Hashem commanded us to øåøö numbered 46,400. Dan had íéøøåö éë íúåà íúéëäå íéðéãîä úà moment when we are detached from Hashem, from His care and from His surveillance. אין לך שעה ורגע שאין :The following are the exact words of the Or HaChaim . השי"ת עושה פעולהעם האדם ביןבבחינת גופו ביןבבחינת צרכיו 666 Torah Wellsprings --- Pinchas éáæë øáã ìòå øåòô øáã ìò ...íëì íä , with Hashem's good "Hate the Midianites and counsel… [Therefore] Hashem smite them because they advised øåøö , first you must caused you trouble… with the hate those who caused you to avodah zorah of Peor and sin, and also, be disgusted with what happened to from the sweetness and the Kozbi" (25:17-18).