3MN DE TORAH POUR COMMENCER LA JOURNÉE - C'EST LE SERPENT 🐍

Today is the 5th of the month of Tammus, and we have a very beautiful message about the serpent in the Torah portion. On both sides, there were complaints, and unfortunately, some stories. We are in the period just before the entry into Israel, so we are at the end of 40 years in the desert, and some serpents came and bit some people. There was a lot of noise, and they quickly went to see Moses.

Moses said, "Medicine, heal us!" Moses went to ask God, and God said, " Take the Kadhi (they call it today), take a serpent, put it on a copper pole, and everyone who has been bitten by the serpent should look at the Kadhi on top and be healed." You know that these are the signs in all pharmacies today, but the Gemara, in Tractate Rana, page 29, asks, it says that since when someone has a health problem, they go to the pharmacy, look at the Kadhi, and are healed. What is this story, ah Lamara? God doesn't answer at all. He wanted them to understand that the one who decides whether they will be healed or not is God.

So he raises his eyes to God, the ADM of Gur, and asks a beautiful question. He says, "Well, in this case, why choose the serpent? God could have just told everyone, 'Tell them that each one has a problem, that they were bitten by the serpent, that they raised their eyes upward, that they cried out, and I will heal them.'" The answer is very beautiful. Why did he have to use just a serpent to signify to all the people at the time, and to us today, that it is not only God who heals and who decides who and how?

There are many Talmuds, Gmarabazar, page 55, which doctor, which medicine, which treatment. It is from there that we learn that we must make an effort and seek several opinions, and so on. Even the serpent that was sent for the problem, for the bites, even this serpent comes from God. It is not a serpent; everything comes from above.

It goes back to the serpent, Deadam and Ve, which means... For us, dear friends, it's that if sometimes we meet someone during the day, and they bite us, it's not them, I say it's not them. God sent... ah, but they made me forget the other one.

Why is it them? I don't know, it's not my problem, but they hurt me again. That's between them and God. But who sent that snake?

Who sent that sting I got during the day? That too is God, dear friends. When you understand that, healing, like the problem, comes from God. That's why they put the snake, the same snake that bit me.

It comes from God. I don't know the end. Time to finish with this well- known story. There was a very poor Coleman.

He went to pray at the temple. You know this story. For a few days, he met a donor, I don't know, American. He listened and cried.

He listened to his story. He gave him the keys to a royal apartment and... When he came to the Collel, all the Collel members and his friends listened to the story, and so on. They organized a bus the next day to go to the Collel.

They all went to the Collel and prayed, and so on. They came back with the keys to their own cars and nothing at all. They asked the Rabbi, "How did he leave? He went out with his car, and we got nothing." He said, "It's simple.

He went specifically to pray to God. You went looking for the Giver, that's why you don't seek God. You stop. Where is the Giver?" So, in everything in our lives, dear friends, we too must consider whether we address God and understand that all solutions, like the problems we have had, come from God, or that when things go wrong, the serpent— that's the case of the one who doesn't heal, God heals.

Good health to all and have an excellent day, Abbot Lazar