Chukas Excerpt: Mei Merivah and Speaking About Moshe Rabbeinu’s Chet with Reverence

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. This week's parsha, we have the incident of Mei Meriva. Mei Meriva, Chazal call it a chet, even though, pshatach, understandably, when we talk about Moshe Rabbeinu, the level of chet is something which to us might not even be a chet. As the first, when we speak out, that when we talk about, so to speak, chata'im of Moshe and Aharon, Moshe Rabbeinu, it has to be spoken of delicately, because it's not something which is within comprehension of our chata'im. It's not something which would be comparable to what we would call a chet, but nevertheless it's called a chet. The Torah says it's a chet. The Ribono Shel Olam tells Moshe, You chota, and therefore, lo teviu es hakahal hazeh el ha'aretz. You can't go into Eretz Yisrael. This is the incident that causes Moshe Rabbeinu, heilige Moshe Rabbeinu, to not have a completion to his shlichus. And even though, be'ezras Hashem, later on we're going to learn in the parsha of... You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.