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The Zohar defines humans as " מדבר ", one who speaks. This puts humans above all nature and closer to G-d.

The parasha starts with the laws of vows. If a man makes a vow or swears an oath, he shall not break his word and must act according to the words that came out of his mouth.

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

The Ari Hakadosh reveals us that Moses\’s root soul came from the good side of " הבל " (Abel, the son of Adam) , which is the letter " ה " and Balaam came from the bad side, which is the letters " בל ". They were both connected to the sefira of "דעת ", Moshe was connected to the side of holiness and Balaam to the negativity and impurity. They were both prophets.

A man has the power to annul his daughter\’s or wife\’s vows but not his vows.

The reason for that is that a female is a vessel and a man is a channel for the Light. They are connected to his Light and If he hears his daughter or wife making a vow, it makes him part of the process. He can then deny channeling the Light from coming to the vessel.

G-d in (numbers 25:4) instructed Moshe on how to remedy the situation. Moshe follows the instruction and tell his judges to kill all the people that have joined with the "Baal Peor", the negativity. As I explained in commentary to Balak, the cause of negativity was that the sexual connection is at the level of the Sefirah of Yesod. It is the channel of the Light to this world. This negative join drained the Light of the Yisraelite toward the Malchut of the other side.

In order to understand this article deeply, please read last year’s article http://rabbishimon.com/index.cfm/feature/23_4 . (Its not old stuff or a daily news article, it is good until Mashiach is here.) and the commentary for Balak http://rabbishimon.com/index.cfm/feature/147_4

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

The title of this article is "What is the wrath of G-d?". It is a serious question that most believers and non-believers in G-d thought about more than one time.

G-d is described as merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. In other places G-d shows "Anger" and wishes to kill or destroy the nation.

The parasha tells us the famous story of the twelve spies that Moshe sent to spy on the Promised Land. Those twelve were heads of the tribes, not regular people.
The question that comes to mind is why send spies to check the land?

This article may be somewhat cryptic to many people. I pray that you will understand some of it but in any case, the fact that you read this article will connect your soul to that place which I am revealing here.
Zohar Beha\’alotcha talks about two Messiahs, Mashiach ben David and Mashiach ben Efraim. The first is the right column and the sefirot of Chokmah, Chessed and Netzach, The second is Left column and sefirot of Binah, Gevurah and Hod.