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<font size=3>Parshas Bahaloscha: Rav Shamshom Rephael Hirsch - Rioting
Over Food?<br><br>
After travelling a few days in the midbar, certain elements of Bnei
Yisroel got a craving for meat and complained to Moshe. Moshe spoke to
Hashem and Hashem sends them an abundance of meat with which they stuff
themselves with and die. However right in middle of this narrative Hashem
tells Moshe to gather seventy men on whom Hashem will grace them with the
spirit of Moshe. Why do these pasukim interrupt right in middle of this
seemingly non related story?<br><br>
Rav Shamshom Rephael Hirsch answers that Bnei Yisroel were complaining
about there physical conditions and their hunger for materialism. To this
Hashem told Moshe that it is not meat that they lack that is causing them
to revolt, it is their lack of spirituality. They feel empty but don't
understand the true cause. Gather seventy representatives and feed their
starving souls with Torah and Mitzvos. Then their appetites will be
satiated with the true pleasure of dveykus in Hashem and they will no
longer riot over food. <br>
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