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Parshat Chukat 10 Tammuz 5776 16 July 2016
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speaking to it, his punishment was never
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to enter the land of Israel. When we con-
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Take A Step Back When Moshe lost his temper with Bnai
selves. Anger is not an excuse, and it is
Yisrael and struck the rock instead of
not excusable.
sider how devastating this penalty was,
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Thought For The Week
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it is hard to understand the severity of his crime. After all, Moshe was provoked, constantly and repeatedly, by the complaints and the faithlessness of the Jewish
The Gemara (Shabbat 105b) compares a person who becomes so angry that he loses control of himself to someone who worships idols. This is because he has forgotten that Hashem runs the world, not he, and that anything that happens, however infuriating, happens for a rea-
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hardships of the desert with the luxuries
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miracles. Surely Moshe could be forgiven
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for losing control of his temper once in a
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In most secular legal systems, provoca-
and broke his connection with Hashem
tion would be accepted as an excuse for
irreparably, so that he could not continue
Muriel Mond
Mother
a violent response, and loss of control
to lead Bnai Yisrael into the Promised
would mitigate most crimes. But Hashem
Land.
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people, who constantly compared the of Egypt, and ignored Hashem’s daily
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son. Our ‘godliness’ – our resemblance to Hashem – depends on our remembering that we are not G-d. Moshe, as Hashem’s mouthpiece, was supposed to enact His miracle and produce water by speaking to the rock. Instead, his anger got in the way
held Moshe to a higher standard of behav-
Rabbi Joel Portnoy
iour, and he also expects more from us. We are expected to always control our-
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