And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle.
תורה תמימה במדבר פרק לא פסוק יד
ל פקודי החיל - מגיד שאין הסרחון תלוי אלא בגדוליםטז) [ספרי]:
רש"י פרשת מטות
(יד) ויקצף משה על פקודי החיל - ממונים על החיל, ללמדך שכל סרחון הדור תלוי בגדולים שיש כח בידם למחות:
[רבינו] בחיי במדבר פרק לא פסוק יד
(יד) ויקצוף משה על פקודי החיל. באור "פקודי" מלשון: (ישעיה כד, כא) "יפקוד ה'":
שרי האלפים ושרי המאות. הם קל"ב. ולמדנו שכל סרחון הדור תלוי בגדולים שיש כח בידם למחות ואינם מוחים.
רש"ר הירש במדבר פרק לא פסוק יד
(יד) פקודי החיל הם המנהיגים שכוח הצבא הופקד בידיהם, הוה אומר: אלה שהיה עליהם להנהיג את פעולות הצבא והם היו אחראים לכך.
משך חכמה במדבר פרק לא פסוק יד
(יד) ויקצף משה על פקודי החיל, שרי האלפים ושרי המאות וכו'. הא דלא קצף על פנחס! נראה דסרחון הדור תלוי בגדולים, שיש כוח בידם למחות.
If the Gedolim do not protest sinning than the sins are attributed to them
If Rav Kaminetsky Feinstein and Greenblatt and others do not protest adultery than they are to be blamed for it
“And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle.”
ReplyDeleteMy interpretation is that Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds and not so much with the ordinary soldiers who were surely just following orders. This was a military operation.
I agree “If the Gedolim do not protest sinning then the sins are attributed to them. If Rav Kaminetsky Feinstein and Greenblatt and others do not protest adultery than they are to be blamed for it.”
Saperstein Chumash p. 384: “The verse could have said only “Moses was angry with the officers of the thousands and the officers of the hundreds” (cf. vv. 52 and 54). “The commanders of the legion” seems superfluous. It is written to teach us that leaders are responsible for the wrong doing of their subordinates.”
Wow, what a horrible wrong doing of the K-G garbage heter! I ask: why do leaders of Orthodox Jews in America support the K-G garbage heter? Because the bullets of ORA and Agunah International weren’t doing enough:
See https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2012-05-05-fl-postelnik-divorce-20120504-story.html
"But Susan Aranoff, director of Agunah International, which supports Jewish women seeking divorces, said social media has little effect because many husbands still are resistant after "all the bullets have been fired.”
Yes, I thank Irwin Haut how he conducted his court attack on me starting in 1991. Susan was following Irwin Haut’s advice solidly throughout, ב"ה. Are ORA and Agunah International moribund?
Moribund = at the point of death. synonyms: dying, expiring, on one's deathbed, near death, near the end, at death's door, breathing one's last, fading/sinking fast, not long for this world, failing rapidly, on one's last legs, in extremis;
Are they also held responsible each generation that the beit hamikdash isn't built?
ReplyDeleteAnd whats with possible Momzerim? who is to blame ? ......Each and everyone of us !
ReplyDelete= Eress davoy, Shchiv mera. ~dead meat, toast, barminan, stiff, artilay, bekaf hakela
ReplyDeleteORA vechol hanilvim eileihem, yimach shemam vezichrom.
We had on this blog a letter, I think from HaRav Shternbuch, that we didn't protest enough and need to protest *more*, at the height of the Garbage hetter fiasco. The Prod Rabbi, the one with his 30 Gallon oversized Hamburger aka epstein ( so that he will know ) sry hat that is responsible for the momzerim. Most bloggers here did protest except for some like hishomer lecho pee umashtin baKir that is still in hiding somewhere in a closet, is into medrashim of pigs, pshitat tlafayim veraglayim lechol noshe, like a kosher chazir fissel. Tassim et haraglayim al haktafayim vetauf mikaan, veyafeh shaa achas kodem.