Parshat Behaalotcha

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A Depression That Impresses

June 9, 2012 19 Sivan, 5772

Rabbi Frand on Parshat Behaalotcha

We have spoken numerous times in the past about this Rashi and The beginning of analyzed how exactly the Parshas lighting of the Menorah Beha'aloscha, which served as a "consolation deals with the prize" for not having kindling of the participated in the Menorah, inauguration. Rather than immediately follows repeating our prior the lengthy section discussions, I will make at the end of Parshas another observation about Nasso, which deals Rashi's comment. with the gifts of the Nesseyim [Tribal Rashi says that Aharon Princes] to the was "weakened" or Mishkan. Rashi depressed by the fact that explains this he and his tribe did not juxtaposition: Aharon participate with the was chalsha da'ato Nesseyim. Aharon was [depressed] that depressed because he neither he nor his could not participate in a tribe (Shayvet Levi) mitzvah. This is an participated in the admirable quality. It is a inauguration measure of a person as to ceremony of the what upsets him and gets Tabernacle. him dispirited. Some Therefore, the people get depressed over Almighty told him, the stock-market. Some "By your life, your lot people get depressed is greater than their when their sports team lot for you (and loses. What gets Aharon your descendants) depressed? When does he will kindle and feel deprived? "I could not prepare the lamps of participate in a mitzvah." the Menorah." That depressed him. We find another example of this in our parsha as well: "We are impure as a result of human corpse impurity why should we be left out, unable to sacrifice the offering to Hashem in the midst of the Children of Israel?" [Bamidbar 9:7]. The setting is the offering of the first Paschal sacrifice in the Wilderness, one year after the exodus. A group of people were unable to participate because they were Tameh Mes. They protested before Moshe Lamah Nigarah (why should we be deprived)? Again, it is praiseworthy to feel deprived because you could not do a mitzvah, because you could not offer the Korban Pessach. Usually what do we think of when someone says, for example, "I had a deprived childhood"? Typically, it

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means he did not get a bike; he could not go to camp, etc. Usually "I am deprived" refers to materialistic deprivation I cannot go on vacation, I cannot afford this, I cannot afford that. People who are depressed because they could not do a mitzvah or who feel deprived because they could not bring a Korban Pessach are very special people. Such emotions say a lot about who they are. This is in stark contrast to another group of people in this parsha: "And the rabble that were in their midst cultivated a craving, and the Children of Israel, also turned, and they wept, and said, 'Who will feed us meat? We remember the fish that we would eat in Egypt free of charge; the cucumbers, and the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic...'" [Bamidbar 11:4-5]. What were they crying about? They felt deprived because they did not have meat! These are two opposite ends of the spectrum. Aharon is depressed because he cannot bring a Korban. The carriers of Yosef's coffin felt deprived because they could not bring a Korban Pessach. And then there is the other end of the spectrum: "Who will feed us meat?" That which makes one depressed is a measure of the man.

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WITHIN OUR FAMILY Mazal Tov to Sharona & Benjamin Ohebshalom on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Joshua. Mazal Tov to Randi & Michael Barenholtz on the upcoming wedding of their daughter Julie to Dov Gross, son of Aviva & Paul Gross of Woodmere. Mazal Tov to Shellie & Steven Zuckerman on the engagement of their son TJ to Erica Kestenbaum daughter of Ruth & Jerry Kestenbaum. Mazal Tov to Charlotte & Perry Schneider on the upcoming marriage of their daughter Lauren to Sam Flaks son of Susan & Michael Flaks. Mazal Tov to Martin Sokol on his upcoming marriage to Shoshana Agus. Mazal Tov to Linda & Bob Glaser on the birth of a grandson, born to their children Debra & Michael Oralevich.

Sandy Gold would like to thank Rabbi Polakoff, Rabbi Lichter and the entire community for their support and comfort during the difficult times following the loss of her father Moe Barak.

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Wydra and Reiss families would like to thank Rabbi Polakoff, Rabbi Lichter, Cantor Kron and the entire community for their outpouring of sympathy and support during this difficult period. May we all be blessed with an abundance of smachot for many years to come.
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