Parasha Matot-Masei 5782
"The creator spoke to Moses saying:
'will avenge the children of Israel, about the Midianitas and then you will meet with your people'
And I speak Moses to the people saying: 'Armor men for the army, and march against Midián to enforce the revenge of the creator against Midián' ... "
(Bamidbar-Numers 31, 1-3)
"For whoever gets up for evil against Israel, is as if he had done it against the blessed creator"
The war against Midián was a war against free hatred and discord. The creator orders us to fight this permanent war so that hate, discord and resentment are replaced by love, harmony and goodness.
In addition to the obvious benefits of this struggle for us as people and as a society, the blessed creator also "benefits" with herself. As the great wise Rabi Akiva said: "Fraternal love is the basis of all the Torah"
The creator assures us that our constant war against hate, as happened in the original war against Midián, we will end up without suffering of any kind, whether physical, spiritual or financial.
The Midianitas had no reasons to attack the people of Israel, however they did so moved only by free hatred.
Our wise say that the root of meaningless hate is the ego.
That is why the egocentric person feels threatened by others, because the mere existence of these threatens their irritated feeling.
Therefore, even if you do not seek to harm others actively, you will experience a certain secret pleasure to see them suffer, or at least, their suffering will not move it at all. It will even be mild to other people's positive qualities.
How are he sincere in his relationship with the creator and the world around him, he cannot believe that others are.
On the other hand, the person who is not self -centered focuses only on the positive qualities of others, he will feel genuine concern about his suffering, since he will judge them from a favorable light and will not find justification for their pain.
You, from which side you want to be ?
I know of those who seek to do good to others and them After the battle against the Medianitas, the Jews brought as War Botín Women Midianitas, their children, cattle and the utensils. Moses bothered, because he supposed that another immoral act were being carried out due to the women's captive women.
"And said the priest Eleazar to the men of the army who had gone to war:" This is the Statute of the Torah that the creator has sent to Moses "(Bamidbar-Números 31,21)
Since he lost patience, believing that it would be very difficult to carry out the necessary purification for more immorality, he forgot the laws of immersion of utensils.
But it was Eleazar, the Cohen Gadol who explained the laws, since Cohen Gadol is the symbol of purity and atonement.
"Certainly gold and silver and copper and iron and tin and lead" (32,22)
(Metal utensils require the immersion of a mikvé, but not ceramic utensils)
The forces of evil try to cling everything they can. Well, the bigger the object, the more they will try to catch it in its field. The metal, which has great value, is under constant attack of the force of evil. Therefore, metal utensils must be submerged in a mikvé before they can enter the scope of holiness. If metal utensils have been contaminated with foods that are not kosher, they should also be heated to red - white and purified in fire, although the forces of evil continuously attack what is valuable, there is always a way to purify it and to make it return to the scope of holiness.
This is similar in our life.
(La Mikvé or Ritual Bath is a special place for water purification)
By contrast, a ceramic utensil has very little value, it can be brought with great ease to the point of not requiring the immersion in a Mikve. But if the ceramic utensil is used for foods that are not kosher, then not even purification may be helpful. Such utensil must be broken and destroyed, because something of very little value does not need to reach a state of holiness.
"Everything that goes to the fire will make it pass through the fire and so it will be pure, as long as it is purified with the waters for impurity, but everything that does not go the fire, will make it pass through water" (31,23)
One should always look for the creator to purify his heart!
If the creator has already begun to serve, it will be necessary to increase devotions with a renewed passion. But if until now it has been burned with the passion for the things of this world, then that desire must be transformed into a passion for the service to the creator. Thus, "Everything that goes to the fire" -The fire of material passion- "will make it pass through the fire" must transform it into a passionate devotion to the Creator!
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