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Parshas Korach & Gimmel Tammuz thoughts about the Model of Leadership · The Frum Health Club Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Gimultamas the Hayem for Gimultamas talks about a sigh that a Jew has for a difficult spiritual situation.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: And now in retrospect, the entire Bene Stral sighed collectively about our loss on Gimultamas.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Thirty-two years ago, thirty-two is Lev, heart.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: But the Rebbe doesn't want us to sigh.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Rather, we need to carry out his work.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: And even if you don't know much Terah and only know a letter Aleph, the Rebbe wants you to teach that Aleph to someone else.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: In our Pasha we see the model of Jewish leadership is being in service to others, not power as Khairach wanted.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Rabbi Sak says that Mesha and Arin were servant leaders, guiding the flock and raising them up.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: The Terra refers to Mesha as an Evaneman, a trusted servant, and Kabbalah refers to him as Raya Mahemna, the faithful shepherd, and they had influence, and that carries on even after they pass away, as opposed to power from a dictator, for example, that stops the moment they die or get killed.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: So after Karach was swallowed up in the ground, and after the fire that incinerated 250 of his men, and then the plague that further killed close to 15,000, the Bene Israel still needed a sign that Arin was to be the Khan Gadl.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: All of those deaths should have been enough to tell them know that Arin was to be the high priest.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: But Hashem wanted to show that the Bene Israel need to know what a leader is.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: So he had the twelve leaders of the tribes and Arin take their staffs, which had their names on it, and place them in the Oomide, and told them, The one I choose for the leader, his staff will sprout almond blossoms in the morning, and then you will see who is the leader.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because a leader can make a dead stick or a person with no direction blossom and reach their potential, and that was Arun Akrain and Mesha Rabinu.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: They led through influence.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: And in our generation, the Rebbe did as well.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: I love this Rebbe story.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Mrs.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Lipshis, the wife of a famous sculpture, came to meet the Rebbe after her husband passed away suddenly.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: She mentioned to the Rebbe that her husband was finishing a massive sculpture of a phoenix for the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, and she wanted to finish the work since she was a sculptor as well.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: But the rabbis there advised against this, since it was not a Jewish symbol.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: The Rebbe then pulled out the book of Eof, Job, from his bookshelf, and showed her chapter 29, verse 18, that says, I shall multiply my days like the Chil.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And the Rebbe explained to her that the Medras describes Chil as a phoenix, a bird that lives for thousands of years and then dies, and is later resurrected from its ashes.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Clearly, the Rebbe said to her, It's a Jewish symbol.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Mrs.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: Lipshis was delighted and went forward with her husband's last project.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: The Rebbe found a positive when others saw a negative.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: How fitting of a metaphor of life returning from the ashes.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: The Rebbe, in his inspired way, brought new hope to this broken widow.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: And this same theme he did for the entire Jewish people, raising the spirit of our nation from the Holocaust to a new invigorating life for our people and bringing us closer to Hashem.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: And his influence is even greater when his physical presence is not with us anymore.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: Rebbe stands for Raish Bine Israel, the head and leader of the Jewish people.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: And the Rebbe did not just have followers, he created leaders in all of us, and he continues to guide us and elevate us through his teachings and spiritual influence.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: And so, on Gimel Thomas, try to add one good deed and learn extra in his merit, in his chus, to give him nachas, which will lead to a liyah for the Rebbe and elevation to you as well, leading us to greet Mashiach, the greatest wish of the Rebbe.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.