Parsha in 2

As Moshe is walking towards the tent of Korach and his people to inform everybody standing around to move away as Hashem is about to wipe out Korach. It says that when Moshe walked towards Korach he made sure to carry himself with royalty causing the elders who saw him to all follow along creating a big entourage, he did it in order that maybe this would awaken an awe and humility within Korach and his people that they would do Teshuva, although it was already past the last moment, and he tried many times before to make peace with Korach. This teaches us how much we must go out of our way as much as possible to help out someone else.

לקו״ש כח-א

What is the real meaning of the very powerful saying “it’s never too late“ . It is not only all of the things we feel that were missed opportunities that we can make up for them and do it now. It is also those opportunities that maybe we feel are not so important to us, like to help somebody that at that moment, we’re not really in the mood to help. We should recognize and realize maybe that’s the reason why our Nashama was sent down to this world to help that individual, and the lesson is that it’s not late to do those opportunities, like the holy Bal Shemtov says that the Nashama comes down for 70-80 years just to help out another Jew.

לקו״ש י״ח-ד

One of the major accomplishments of Shavuot was Hashem called us a kingdom of priests. What does it mean to be a king? That you are aloof from the rest of the nation and you don’t have to work, and that you are provided with everything. So too, Hashem gave us the Torah and he lifted us above all the other nations, and beyond the whole system of nature, and therefore when a Jew does Torah and Mitzvahs, he has no worries, and Hashem provides him with everything he needs, and the leader of every generation who has characteristics of a King helps us reveal the king within us. Moshie, David, and the Bal Shem Tov who are all connected to Shavuot where able to reveal that in their generation.

לקו״ש י״ח-ב

We need you. When Hashem counts Jewish people, it’s to show his love for us and that deep down we’re all the same, special and holy. However in this weeks, Parsha, we counted the Jews separately according to their Shevet focusing more on the individual and unique service to Hashem, how each Shevet was unique in their way of serving Hashem. If we are focusing on the unique service that everyone has to Hashem, why is everybody counted equally ? One who serves hashem on a much higher level should be counted as more. The answer is because each individual way of serving Hashem is equally important as the other one, as far as creating the Jewish people,because to create the Jewish people as a whole, we need all the different parts, large or small that make up the entity called the Jewish people just as a healthy body needs all the different parts to make up a healthy body. לקו״ש כג-א

We must train ourselves that everything we have, any success we have is all from Hashem. That is the reason why we are not allowed to eat the new harvest until we bring the first of the harvest as a Karbon to Hashem. It’s actually a two stage process, the first being prohibited from eating the new harvest until we bring the first as a Karbon training ourselves to recognize that everything is from Hashem, and the second is to actually bring the first of the harvest to hashem which is working on ourselves to give our first and best to Hashem.

לקו״ש יז-ב