{"id":1588,"date":"2015-08-25T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1588"},"modified":"2017-06-21T21:11:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:11:03","slug":"cukkatbalak-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1588","title":{"rendered":"Chukkat\/Balak (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Chukkat\/Balak (5760)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An action filled parsha: \u00a0the Red heifer, Miriam dies, Moses hits the rock instead of speaking to it, Edom is attacked, Aaron dies, Arad, Amon, Basham are all defeated, Balak, Bilaam and the talking ass, Pinchas slays the Israelite who lays with the Moabite woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Today I want to talk about the paradox of \u00a0hitting the rock; Ch 20, v 7-12. \u00a0God is omniscient and all powerful. Why does God let this happen?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Answer: God knows that Moses is not the right person to lead the Israelites into the promised land.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reason 1: To avoid Moses worship &#8212; even 1000 years later when the Hagaddah was set, this was a concern and so Moses is not in the Hagaddah<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reason 2: There have already been challenges to Moses&#8217;s leadership (Korach)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reason 3: Back to Slach Lecha, Ch 14, v 5-7: Moses&#8217;s time is waning, Joshua&#8217;s is waxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Churchill is a modern example. \u00a0He was essential for the leadership of Britain during WWII and immediately afterwards but not so into the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Leadership must match the time and place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Chukkat\/Balak (5760) by Marc Mangel \u2022 An action filled parsha: \u00a0the Red heifer, Miriam dies, Moses hits the rock instead of speaking to it, Edom is attacked, Aaron dies, Arad, Amon, Basham are all defeated, Balak, Bilaam and the talking ass, Pinchas slays the Israelite who lays with the Moabite woman. \u2022 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1588","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1588\/revisions\/2681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}