If you ever looked closely to the heading of this blog, you would notice that I call my blog ..."Rare View."
Why???
The truth is that it is not "rare" at all. it's what you guys are really thinking ....
but it's "rare" that someone should actually say it ....
Why??
Because we are frightened that if we should voice these opinions, you would be bombarded by the "tzaddikim" the "daas Torah" guys, who have an agenda and if you in anyway disagree .. you will have difficulties getting married or getting your children married or even your grandchildren married ... or even worse they will throw out your children from the Yeshivos...
We are all trying to figure out when this will end,
and what the Ribono Shel Oilim wants from us ....
I see that everyone one has an opinion, and some actually make a lot of sense ...
So If I may, I would want to put forth a reason that may really be a "rare view."
There is a fascinating Rashi in Bamidbar in Parshas Be'Haloischa (ch 9 v1).. I'm sure that those of you who hung around the halls of the Yeshivos will remember it well...
The parsha speaks about the commandment of making Pesach
So the pasuk states:
וידבר ה' אל-משה במדבר סיני בשנה השנית לצאתם מארץ מצרים בחודש הראשון לאמר
"Hashem spoke to Moshe in the desert Sinai, in the second year from the exodus from Egypt, in the first month, saying"
The Torah commands us to make Pesach on time, on the 14th day of Nissan ....
Rashi seems to be confused ........
This verse says that the commandment of Pesach was said in the second year from the exodus in the first month in Nissan..
Yet way way earlier in Parshas Bamidbar
the very first verse starts with the SECOND month... and states:
וידבר ה' אל משה במדבר סיני באהל מועד באחד לחודש השני בשנה השנית לצאתם מארץ מצרים לאמר
"Hashem spoke to Moshe , in the desert of Sinai on the first of the second month, in the second year after the exodus from the land of Egypt, saying"
This story about Pesach and Pesach Sheni in Bahaloischa happened in Nissan, one full month before the story of Parshas Bamidbar?
Why didn't the Torah tell us first about Pesach the very first Parsha in Bamidbar ... since that happened first?
It is out of sequence ....out of chronological order...
So Rashi tells us that it is indeed out of sequence and the Torah did that on purpose .....
Why?
The Torah didn't want to start Sefer Bamidbar with the commandment of making Pesach ....
the Torah chose to bury it two Parshas later in Parshas Behaloischa..
Why?
Because if Sefer Bamidbar would have started with the commandment of making Pesach ....
people would have focused on something that would put a bad light on the Jewish people....
they would learn that in the entire 40 years that the Jewish people were wandering in the desert, they only made this one Pesach!
They only made one Pesach in the entire 40 years!
Now...we only know what happened to the Jewish people for the first two years they left Egypt and the last year, the year before they entered Eretz Yisrael...
We don't know a thing that happened in between those 37 years..
We do know that during those years no Jewish child born, was circumcised.....
Hashem basically said ....
I don't need your Karbonois ... your sacrifices ...
I don't need you .....making any Yomim Toivim
I don't need your brissim ....
I'll give you food...the Manna... and leave me alone..
Why? What Happened????
Sounds familiar??
So let's see what happened then and maybe we have an inkling what's happening now....
What happened was ....
No ... not the worshipping of the Eigal ....No!
It was the episode of the Meraglim, that changed everything...
Hashem says ....
"oh you don't want my gift"
"Oh ... you act so piously bringing all kinds of Gemmaras, Midrashim and pesakin from Tanach to justify you sitting in Galut ..."
"oh ... you found an aggaddeteh, about the Shalosh Shevuot.( not mentioned once in the entire Shulchan Aruch,) to justify staying in chutz leaaretz?'
"Oh ... your leaders make halachos .. that one shouldn't go to Eretz Yisrael ....and let's instead wait for Moshiach"
"oh you don't want to see Chillul Shabbos in the Holy Land"
"OH... the Zionists built it so we want no part of this "
Oh ok ...
Then I don't want your "tefillah be'zibbur"
I don't need your learning in Yeshivas, Mesivtois, and Kollilim"...
You can have your food...I'll leave open the supermarkets ..but leave me alone ..
Guys ...So when the Shechinah came back, it came back just when the Jews were ready to cross the Jordan River into Eretz Yisrael...
When all those who didn't want to enter Eretz Yisrael died out ....
We had a new generation that were excited about entering Eretz Yisrael, a generation that looked forward to receive Hashem's gift .. a generation that was ready to join the army and fight for what is ours .... a generation that wasn't looking for excuses ...
And so what was the very first thing they did when they entered the Holy Land even before they went to war??
They got circumcised and immediately made their first Pesach!!...
Think about this ...
I don't have the answers but I may have tripped on this for a reason.
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