Parshas Matos: Keeping the Ikar the Ikar

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How do we keep the ikar the ikar? A commentary points out that counting the captives of Midyan was, for Moshe Rabbeinu, no different from giving the Aseres HaDibros, since both were the will of Hashem. Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven put their animals before their children, and we see how a means like parnassah can quietly become an end. In Parshas Masei, the journeys of Klal Yisrael are taught to be places they came to fix, and each stage of a person's life is one such journey.

Key points

• Chiddushei HaLev explains that what fills most of the day can quietly outweigh what it serves.
• The Sfas Emes says Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven did not interrupt, to gain from a great person's rebuke.
• A sefer brought down teaches that every person passes through all 42 masaos in life.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Moshe Rabbeinu counting the captives
2. 1:51Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuven's priorities
3. 4:42Sfas Emes on hearing rebuke
4. 6:08The journeys of Parshas Masei
5. 8:06Every person's 42 masaos
6. 10:16Shabbosim of the Three Weeks

Topics

• Parshas Matos
• Parshas Masei
• Priorities
• Three Weeks