Pesach: Avoiding Redemption of the "Dark Side"

This Torah class is brought to you by tora anytime.com. Okay, welcome everyone. Want to welcome all of our listeners on Jroot Radio. We want to welcome all our Torah Anytime viewers and of course the exceptional audience that we have over here in Young Israel of Qarn Hills, New York. Okay, so we're already holding Arab Shabas Shabas aesh. So we're going to speak a little bit about we're going to say in the the I will pass over. You get it? Passover. Okay. I will pass over the land of Egypt on this night. I will smite every firstborn in and all the gods of Egypt. I will perform judgment. And of course, quoting from well, the first thing that it's worthwhile to point out is that there's a very interesting ancient text of the Hagada that as an introduction to this section, of the hagada brings the medish. Now I don't think any of you use such a hagada but in province in France which I'm not sure that I recommend visiting right now um they would say this version of the hagada they would say a medish that says like this um you have it in number two it's in the vitri he brings down When God descended 90,000 myriads of Malim. Now what's 90,000* 10,000? 90 million. Million 90 million. Right. 10,000 * 10,000 is 10 million. 90,000 * 10,000. Oh, it's a lot, right? She had some angels of fire. He had angels of hail, angels of destruction. Trembling and trepidation would grip anyone who would see them. Basically, let us do our job. Let us go down and destroy the Egyptians. So they requested from God to be able to destroy. Oh, God said not so fast. Let me alone so I can do the will of my children. They said before God, but a king of flesh and blood you create in your world. When he goes to war, his officers, his servants surround him and pro protect him so that he's not physically harmed. So likewise, we want to go down so you God will not be harmed. We are your servants and they are the Jewish people. Let's do the job. God said I will not be appeased until I do the job myself. So this is a perfect introduction to this section on the that one. Right now what's the problem? Why do we not say this ga in our hagada? So the master vitri who by the way was a student of rashi the master says this is not part of the regular order of the it's not written it's not written in the along with the regular text of the however says the vitri it's more problematic than that there is a line in it which is somewhat troubling and that is The malim say to God, God just like when a king of flesh and blood goes to war, his servants surround him so that he's not physically harmed. So to we well how is that relevant to God? God cannot be physically harmed. So the argument they try to use to be able to go down themselves does not apply to to God we know it says. So therefore says a master vitri this medish is not really correct would not say it. Um and besides that it also interrupts in the and it sort of interrupts until we get around to these. Therefore it's a rev and you should not you should not say it. Now um the mafichi says in they made a not to say this part of the hagoda but in proance the minogu was to say it. Okay that's just by way of introduction but what I really want to speak about this morning is this idea where not only does God say I'm the one who passed over your land. I'm the one who smoked the firstborn. I'm the one who killed the Egyptian gods. I and not anyone else. So first of all, why him and not anybody else? Why couldn't God send malim? You know, every boss knows that the most important delegation is the key to success. You have to be able to entrust other people to do jobs. Otherwise, you see that's the key to success. You have other people do the hard work and you you you cash in, right? You take the credit. You take the credit. So, and why doesn't have Malim do the jobs? He has malam. He does send them on jobs. There's someone called Mik Gabriel Rafel. So why couldn't he send them to take them out of Mitsim? So and besides that Rabai, besides the fact that obviously God wanted to do it himself, what's this emphasis? Why why emphasizing so much? And what does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean? And who's the in other words not a malaf not a not a who's this mysterious that didn't take us out of well why doesn't he just say and whoever it was just say who he is and freedman you know like who's this are redundant you know you just no more who's the other Hi. So, if you remember one time we discussed uh one idea that we're going to mention very quickly. This really could be developed uh much further and that is the taking the Jewish people out of was akin to the birth of Kalis. It was the lea of Kali Israel. And we have a concept that there are three keys that God maintains sole possession of. And that is the key of the resurrection of the dead. the key to rain. Only God brings the rain. Nobody else brings the rain. Nobody else knows when it's going to rain. So even though you hear on a report that tomorrow is going to be a terrible storm, it's like 40 60 if you even need an umbrella, right? They or if let's say they say it's going to be 2 ft of snow. I in the five towns was 3 in that. So I don't know. So the answer is they have no clue. They could guess. They could they I mean they need to make money and they need to scare people or to hide but they really don't know. So but the third key the third key is the key of childbirth and since these are three keys that God maintains sole possession of and one of them is child birth says and to his says that was the birth of the Jewish people. So therefore, God is emphasizing I did it. You know why I did it? Cuz this was your lea. This was your birth. This was your creation. And that's why by the way the first maka was dam because the first symptom of birth is blood. And that's why the mitzim screamed so loud the night of cuz who screams louder than anybody else? A woman giving birth. And that's if she giving birth to one kid. Imagine giving birth to 600,000 kids. You can imagine how loud she's going to scream. Okay, that's one emphasis that's one shot in the emphasis on an because this is one of the three keys that they say is in the name of the keys that's designated forem. Okay. But let's embark on the following idea and that is there's a say for the Perka written by Alikov the Ben Saskar who not to be confused with the safer Ben Saskar or the safer Agra Deala which is another safer the Ben Saskar not to be confused with the group in the other we don't talk about it over here but this is the safer this is the safer deer It says don't stay home says it's not a good idea. You can't eat breakfast anymore in your father's house. So that you do not. So it's not considered a cleaning up of the house of your father. Meaning what does this mean? Unclear. What says the what we learn from here is from here we should learn to be careful it's not a good idea to get from someone who's not proper somebody who tries to get money from people who are evil and corrupt. They will acquire for themselves bad characters. In other words, sometimes, you know, institutions need money. You got to be very careful because whoever you're getting money from, whoever's supporting you, you will take on the character traits of the one providing you with the sustenance. Why? meaning basically like this. If you're a yeshiva or you're an individual and you take money from someone who has unethical business behavior or he cheats on his uh taxes. Thank you. So then you should know that he's a ganv and whatever geneva all his money is money of geneva and whoever he gives that money to that money will corrupt the person who's na from that money and it will turn the person sour and even if the person is a sadic and a yashar and aid the person will become corrupt from the unethical money of the one benefiting him and therefore kazal tell us you're not even allowed to exchange money from the tax collectors the tax collectors were notorious of him. So if you have a dollar, you can't take four quarters on the tax cuz that money will poison you. Okay. Elsewhere, the perka writes, we'll see what this has to do with anything. He says there's there's a you know and this is a very frightening thing everybody knows today there's a very terrible phenomenon of kids who go off. Well you should know as much as people think it's a new phenomenon it's as old as the hills. There were always people for like hundreds of years already. This was an ancient phenomenon going back 200 years. And the question is the question is why you have children when they're young. They go to the yeshiva and they're very studious and they're very uh they have good work ethic. And they have good and then they grow up and they just they go off with how could such a thing happen? What about the Torah they learned when they were younger? that should have sustained them and given them strength. It's the girls. In other words, how do you explain the phenomenon of children who go off and says it's the parents' fault. And how is that? Cuz the parents were got of him and the parents went to work and they cut corners and they took money from the boss that didn't belong to them, which is worse than feeding them pig. So would you have any wonder if you fed a kid pig and he went off why he went off? So, same thing. You fed the kid food with trafe money. So, the food is now tra and whatever you feed them is going to poison them. It was unethical business. They became fat in a prohibited manner and all the food they ate became part of their personality and therefore they were born with bad ta and mid and the proof is are you allowed to bring the crop of a bird on the no because it eats right the birds they fly into people's rashu and they steal food that doesn't belong to them and it's not lashem I but Hashem never told the bird not to steal So let's make a if a bird who's allowed to steal can't be brought as a carbon and God doesn't approve of them and who is on gaza if he brings home such money and he supports his family with such money he will turn them bad and the proof is Abrau who is born from And as soon as he started pursuing Hashem, Hashem said, "The first thing you got to do is get out of the house because you're gonna be eating frosted flakes that bought with non-coosher money." Okay. Bottom line, what do we see from here? We see from here that one should not be na from money which was gained unethically. But I didn't gain it unethically. He gave it to me as a gift. Even so it's not good to benefit from improper sources. Okay. So get a load of this comes the moon catcher the safer and he quotes his in and that we just read that um a person should not try to be n from unethical money and that's that explains the phenomenon that says a of children who go off because they they grew up with um unethical money. Well, the uh the about four lines from the end of number seven. The only reason the Jews were enslaved by is because they started to eat their bread. But if they would have eaten their own bread, they would have remained above being subjugated. Meaning they ate the bread of mitim and it was kosher bread. But that acquire they acquired the the character traits of mitzim and the m ro and that is ultimately what did them in. So what does this got to do with the price of tea in China? Huh? Let's take this a little further. The Jews had problems. So they sent various to try to help them out and speak to the governor and to no avail. And one day they the rabbis met someone on the street. His name was Ben Tamilon, not Maximillion. What's Ben Tamilon? Anybody know who Ben Tamillion is? What's been a million? Tillion. Tamilon. He He was a shed. He was a shame. He was a shed. He was a demon. And would you like me to help you cried if a maid servant in my father's house three angels visited her said not one angel visited me? What's talking about? Well, who's the maid servant that three angels appear to? She didn't deal with any Hagar money. Hagar, the maid servant, the maid servant of Abraham. Three Mal appeared to her. And says, "But no mal appeared to me, only this shed." But he says, "Okay, but what can I do? I have no choice. So you bring the miracle." says in matcher he quotes this mah that what do we see from this gamarra that if you need a miracle then come as it may if you need the shed to bring the miracle let the shed be bring the miracle you know when you're in trouble you need help well says the the monk this contradicts the agra says don't take money from unethical sources because it will affect you cuz you might think well he gave it to fair and square. So if I buy a slice of pizza, it's my slice means no. The slice of pizza is going to poison you cuz the person who gave you the money is unethical. So if the pay says you should be not from an including that is not even to exchange money with the tax collector and yet says let the miracle happen from whoever brings it. So how do you reconcile that says the monk catcher? I guess the only way to reconcile that is under normal circumstances you should try not to be naive from unethical people. But you know when the Jewish people are in major trouble and they're in hot water and we have no alternative. So then you know it's not like we we dive into the demon but if we have no choice and there's a demon who's willing to help us you know by hook or by crook cried he said come to me we know is very accustomed to to miracles that's why they sent him in the first place but when he had no alternative he said because he saw that nobody no other avenue was available. So I guess we need to be saved through a shade. Okay. We find in the US that other were saved through shadim but says the moonatcher not so fast. Wait a second. I'm going to show you a case where even though the Jewish people's back was up against the wall, they still didn't want to be saved through shadim. When is that? Poor poor him cuz everybody knows that you know when Esther was taken by Akash there is an idea and it's mentioned in many sources that Esther did not actually live with Akash in the beginning but rather what she did was she made a shade who was an identical uh image of herself and when when Akasher said Esther. She said coming and she sent in the shade. So now the question is so why did she ever say that now that I'm going to live with on my own I'm going to be to you. Why would she be of she never lived with it was a shed. In fact, there's an opinion that Daraveesh may not have been the son of Esther. Dyesh may have come from the shed. Hopefully, next year we're going to give a whole major topic on this shady shady shady business. Yeah. And so if Esther sent in the shade, why was she ever user to so listen to this interpretation to right? So listen to these sent to to respond to right it's still sent to respond to do not conjure up in your mind to escape the house of the king from all the Jews. If you're gonna be quiet now, so then the Jews will be saved. From a different place. From a different place. What's the different place? If you remain silent, the Jews will be saved from another place and you and your family will go lost. But me, who knows? and for a time like this he got you reached. So today we're we're quoting from all the agenda you know because they say this year is on Jroo and people in Brooklyn are listening. So we'll we'll we'll we'll make believe we always learn therefore all the people in Brooklyn who are listening they'll start listening every week. Maybe they'll like this year. You never know what we're not tricking them. You know, they'll they'll listen next week. Anyway, the shar is always unpredictable. You never know where we're going. But what does it mean? Says we have a cl. Sometimes God performs miracles. like we find by Rebi where the Caesar commanded Rebi that he should come at Shabas and he he didn't have time to show up so he sent the shed of the bath house to go for him that's called so when Mori told Esther you need to go to the king he didn't mean that you should send the so therefore says What was telling Esther is look let me tell you something. This miracle is happening either through you or through but you need to do what you need to do and we should do it through you. Why? Because if you're going to be silent at a time that we need you to bring the gul and the miracle is going to come through it ain't going to be good for you. doesn't really elaborate what this means. So I want to share with you one of the most incredible perushim that I ever heard in my entire life that the monker quotes from Navali of Rabchetsz the zerak. Okay, you ready? Unbelievable. Everybody knows that Esther had the shed. So listen to this. So bottom line, we're trying to deal with the following question. The gar says who had no alternative said okay let the miracle come through we have no alternative on the other hand we have the rule of of um the de that a person should not be n from unethical sources and here rabbi it seems like morai is telling don't do it through a shed because If you allow this miracle to come to a shade, you're going to be destroyed. So let's just set it up. We had a because we have the ruler of the you're not supposed to be n from unethical sources. On the other hand, the says is willing to accept a miracle from a shed. And the answer we gave was look, it's always better not to be nanned from unethical source, but when your back is up against the wall, so you'll take the miracle from the shed. But the question is here Claus's back was up against the wall. So why is Morai telling us they're not to do the miracle through the shed? But listen to this interpretation. He says from the rupt. You ready? Why was Esther scared to go to the king? She says, "I haven't been called in 30 days." So what? Send the shed UPS federal express. Desire says that's what she did every night. So why couldn't she do it this time? Says the Rabcher Morai was afraid like this. If you do it now, you ready for this? The word tadami could also mean to make a demon, a copy of your soul. Do not replicate your soul. Meaning, don't make a shed. That's how he's interpreting interpreting the world. The words in order to save yourself. Why? in Gummorra language is incantations. If you're going to do mumbo jumbo now, if you're going to whisper some incantations at this time, no, no, no, no, no. If you w if you if you if you um um wait, if you whisper at this time, if you whisper at this time, then Then benefit is going to come from another place. What's is the dark side? The mak is is the is the in other words like this says the Do not do not replicate your soul to escape the king from all the Jews. If you're going to use at this time, the Jews will be saved from the dark side. Now, what does it mean? Let me tell you something. It says in the yeah you want to go to cababalus with kameos and all kinds of other things. You should know says even if they help you your family will be destroyed. People think ah he must be a big person cuz he could bring you shu ice. Davka Yakav writes many people are able to bring Yeshua but they could bring it from the dark side there different forces in this world it's not always coming from the right place that is what says the is what tells Esther if then you're going to be safe from the dark side and you're going to destroy your whole family. So now we have a contradiction because of Shimai was willing to accept a miracle from a Morai says none of this monkey business with with dark side miracle no here to save you from extinction. Well the way the moonacher addresses this is like this. He says, "Why was Esther allowed to send this shed all the other all the other times? Why did Morai have a problem every other time that Esther sending the shade?" The answer is whenever it's maybe you could do it and we say however if if understand that there are alter alternatives and you could be saved then you're not to use the and therefore tells Esther do not send the shade cuz he saw that the Yeshua was going to come da through her and therefore he's warning her that if you don't utilize if you do not utilize your ability to save and instead come out to the dark side then you will be destroyed in the case of cried and he saw that there's no alternative and the only way to be saved is to use the shed so he had no alternative okay so so we come to an amazing thing what does this have to do with says who's the who's the who's the Malik and who's the there are four people here who are these four individuals so recently I got a set of amunas of Mosha Wolfston Mash of Tarvadas and he quotes the Arizal that why couldn't Hashem send a Malik to take us out of Mitsim the Mitsim was so filthy and impure that if a heavenly angel would have come down to Egypt he would have morphed from a spiritual entity into a physical entity And therefore, God did not want to completely destroy the makeup of the Malik. And therefore, Hashem had to do it himself. So I asked Mosha Wolfson, okay? So he didn't send an angel. So why couldn't he send, you know, someone from the sitra like the Satan? And well, what is God afraid of? Then the Satan would take a physical reality. So you know, hey, let him take a physical. He deserves it. Well, says Mosha Wson, he heard from holy people. I don't know who the holy people that he heard it from was but he says he heard from holy people and that the meaning of the in the of is the dark side we've already documented that some of these holy people are and oft do not make efforts to save Israel even through the sitra Why? He says like this then you should know the is going to help you just like he helped shim through and but it's better that it comes through you. So says Wolfson this is the meaning of the Malik I and not an angel. Why not an angel? Because of the tum and then the malik would physicalize I. So don't do it through a malach. Do it through anem. Well, it's very interesting. We know that there are forces of good and forces of evil. The good side are obviously come from God and come from the two names of Hashem. What are the two names of Hashem? Yud Alfaly is what numerical value and 65 26 and 65 is 91. Who's 91? Malik. Malik is 91. On the other hand, if the angel if the forces come from the dark side, the well the has two bad names. Sam, which is 100, right? Cuz 101 beats it. Sam a. The other one is leelus. Um, leelas is what? 480. So what's sme and 480? 580. 580. What's 580? Soraf. So the good guy is the Malik. The bad guy is the Saraf. Sor is a combination of and that's the meaning. Who's the good guy? Who's the bad guy? Only Who's the is the situ the dark side did not want our Yeshua to come through the dark side after all whenever you take something from the dark side it always comes back to haunt you. Now obviously this comes this we explained it more on a cabalistic way and that is you are affected spiritually from the money that you take or from the help that you get but even on a very practical level whenever somebody helps you you're subject to them and you they have a certain degree of authority and control over you and said well you know I you I can't have you be misha to anybody because at the end of the day God took us out of so that we should be subject to him. But it comes with its benefits because the same way if somebody takes money from something evil, they're affected by it. When we have our Yeshua directly from Hashem, it elevated us to such a high level of elevated out of the and it literally put us on a different upward trajectory and the writes that 30 days before PES every day takes us out of another level of. So he basically we were on the mesh every day in the 30 days. He takes us out one level meaning a 30th of the 49 until the pes we stand at the threshold of kadusha and then we slowly climb up each day one of the meas until we're to stand on. So let's be prepared. Let's be ready. I wish everybody. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tora anytime.com.