ACKNOWLEDGE THE MIRACLES - The Lord Gave You The Land of Israel as an Inheritance with Rabbi Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim everybody welcome back to the mid within the mid welcome home to Torah a very warm welcome home to Torah we are in par now as I mentioned the beginning of every class we encourage people to use the original Hebrew sheets to help you learn the Hebrew and also in order to grasp the message it's worthwhile looking at the Hebrew if you're not ready yet I get it but at some point that Down Below in the description box is a link where you could pick up on our website the sheets for that particular class for any particular class uh you just have to check the dates and the title and match them up and you'll get the right link for the Sheets if you want to have the English sheet sent to you then you must send me an email and I'll send you the English sheets the English Source sheets are just an additional sheet to help you uh so you don't have to ruffle through all the different books that we're going to be using um another thing is that we use the cakar we deal with Essentials absolute Essentials in makava and hashkafa so it's uh we rarely touch upon but at sometime at points we do so be prepared for some deep thought and um how can I say it indoctrination of Jewish principles and that's what we're here to Garner so par kavo begins well we're going to start anyway in the beginning of chapter 26 of Deuteronomy verse 1 now in the English sour sheet I gave like four verses we're going to deal with the other three as we go so let's just start with the first it will be when you come into the land which land okay it's the land that God is giving you now I in the Hebrew you notice I enlarge in the word Nal for reason because nalah is going to be the main reason he gave it to you and then there are these other words which means not only does the mean as an inheritance we're going to describe or detail out what exactly is Define what is a what exactly is an inheritance and then the verse says and you're going to come and you're going to possess it and you're going to settle in it we're going to discuss those words by the way so we're going to be talking about the first fruits we're not necessarily going to read those verses at the moment but the verse continues to say that you will end up taking the first fruits of the seven species of the land of Israel bringing them to the cohain um putting him next to the m and we'll get into all that as we go along and making a confession making a declaration which is what we call confession and by the way those few sentences are one of the main points I don't if the word point is one of the main themes of pesak KN in the um seder night in reading the ha as the de the Declaration is he is the root is the expression of I have made a declaration okay so let's begin with the clear the first thing he says is right away we don't find this language of actually the word doesn't appear in the next place we're going to show you but that you're going to come possess it and you're going to settle in it those three words you will find exactly in um Deuteronomy 17:14 as the cleard begins to say not only do you find these words here but there's only one other place in the where the laws are detailed out in chapter 17 of Deuteronomy about appointing a king what happens is as a result and it's not just Israel it really unfortunately happens to most human beings because we are Flesh and Blood are we not that after we find ourselves settled and acquiring a lot of things I'm going to use that word things we become wealthy we wax and fat okay nothing wrong with being wealthy but as it says you might forget the Lord your God it's an easy Pitfall to fall in when you wax and fat and you will Rebel okay and as a result of comfort and luxuries let's say overdoing it with the wealth that we would request for ourselves some type of authority but this is in parenthe like all the rest of the nation and that's why God places according to the clear God places this concept you're going to come into land you're going to possess it you're going to settle it it settle in it but I want you to know the first of everything I mean the truth is it's only the seven uh special fruits the seven species nevertheless you must give the first to the coim you must give the first to God so to speak these are the Servants of God so the clear continues the claim here and he backs it up with the r and the the the the reason for this Mitzvah of borim is in order to subdue your Hess like the results God warns us many times and I have it here I'm sorry it's not on the page but it's in chapter 8 of Deuteronomy uh vers 17 and 18 over there it says well let's say let's start with okay let's start with 17 you might say in your heart it's my strength and the might of my hand that made me all this wealth so this is these are these are very famous verses and famous expression right God forbid you're going to but you're going to do it most people do it they say in their hearts it was my strength my might that W that created all this success by the way just so you should know Israel is not taking credit for the latest development everyone can use their own brain and figure out who really was behind it however the more I think about it how many moving pieces were involved how much planning how much Manpower how much secrecy and yet in my mind it was absolute Miracle to pull something like this off in other words it was beyond nature it's so many things could have gone wrong along the way by the way just we should talk about this while we're at it because we're going to talk about this idea of the first fruits is acknowledging Hashem acknowledging our wealth and our successes come from Hashem so I can work backwards or I can work forward from October 7th but I'll work backwards one of the latest things that happen aside from the pager dilemma whatever you want to call it circumstances we we had a houti supersonic rocket obviously they don't have supersonic Rockets right well perhaps it was perhaps it wasn't Israel themselves at this point still doesn't know how it reached from Yemen to Israel in less than 12 minutes and we our alarms didn't even go off till the last minute and a half and we used everything at our disposable to knock it out of the air and apparently nothing worked and nevertheless it disintegrated in thin air there's just pieces and we didn't blow it up so again the hand of God we have to recognize the hand of God going back every single day here in Israel we hear about thank God that the uh Secret Service or the mosad or whoever they are right the secret the different um uh intelligent groups find a bomb that's about to go off or even when they go off prematurely and it happened a lot it happen way too often where no Israeli or Jew is is harmed so I think we have to recognize that I can keep going on and on and on and someone who's very skeptical and say oh you're talking about all the Miracles they only happen you know what what about October 7th what happened on o where were the Miracles so if you really have an eye to see and ear to ear you would be aware you would hear would come to you all of the Miracles I mean as they approached the idea that there weren't just a th000 or 2,000 even 3,000 now the claim is there actually 6,000 terrorists that came over yeah a tremendous amount of planning on their part and it could be and I'm not the one saying that this this party in the middle of the desert they didn't plan for that it could be if they didn't plan for that their being there actually saved so many of us to a certain extent we have lot of gratitude I know it's very sad and it's not in our you know God is the greatest judge however what happened happened but what created what Unity was created from that that is almost miraculous the situation that Israel was in as a people the disunity that existed it was a miraculous event that brought about I would say a miraculous consequence and bem we will continue to uh to explore how we can uh not just continue to create but continue to keep the unity that we have okay going back into the clear where we left off the idea of Bim as we will see in delate uh the different words that are used or the different reasons for doing it for bringing the Borum and making this declaration is to acknowledge Hashem but there's also another condition which we'll see shortly what happens as a result after you conquer and you settle the land their hearts would be risen lar saying the land belongs to us and not only does it belong to us it was through our Weaponry it was through our you know our resources it was through weapons of war that we uh ended up capturing and possessing the land and what is the result of that God forbid the result would be you know the ego would be so big the idea that it was you there's no room for God that you would forget the Lord your God and that's exactly why the verse tells you I couldn't stress it more that the reason you're coming into the land because God's giving it to you as a now a nakala is like a family treasury wealth we call it old money perhaps I'm not sure but basically it's money that is handed down through generations okay keep right it's really through God's gift that he promised our forefathers and it's not within the torat yusha meaning within the laws of conquering that you came to the land and his proof is from Proverbs 19:14 which you will find on and number three on the sore sheet the translation of the translation of house houses and wealth are an inheritance or inheritage of your forefathers remember Hashem swore to our forefathers to give us this land and the reason we have it is because of that original oath that Hashem would never break the Clear goes on after he quotes the verse but it was from Hashem that the Earth the land the ER Israel the land of Israel was given to you it's a gift what do they call it a Birthright there was there's a famous uh a well-known uh philanthropic organization that helps bring Jewish kids from all over the world for I'm going to we going to call it a free trip it's basically a free trip unless they change the rules but you basically get 10 days in Israel to discover to discover your um your Birthright and it's a really a big Discovery for many and just being here in the land awakens the spark it could be those people if they're watching and you never took the trip take it it's like uh what do they call that in the Matrix you know here I put in front of you a red pill and a blue pill right look it could really change your life and give more meaning to your life not only as a human being but especially as a Jew but wait till you hear what the clear says it's but it's from Hashem that the the land erra was given to you but he says al man not on condition and now I I'm going to take this into two different categories you can read it as one concept or two separate Concepts let's see both on condition that you return the goodness meaning what does it mean to I'm going to say it means to recognize the goodness that God gave you but not only that if you want to read it as tied into the second thing the second thing says and that you're going to keep the Mitzvah you're going to guard you're going to observe you're going to be observant of his mitzvah so one second the lands given to you on condition number one that you recognize it all comes from hasem and a separate thing that you have to keep the mitzah I I kind of want to put them together and that we we talked about them as two separate things but what if they one thing in other words if you recognize everything comes from God then automatically you will I would hope keep his Mitzvah in other words it's tied in but let's leave it as two separate things because I do know people that are very spiritually oriented and they say yeah I thank God about everything but they don't keep the Mitzvah and I I don't really know anybody like this but let's assume there are people that keep the Mitzvah and they somehow are distant from God they're not really recognizing him I'd like to put them together because I think that's what God wants God wants us to do both okay whether they're tied in and it's one long idea or it's two separate ideas one should keep both number one recognize everything is from Hashem before going forward I do want to tell you a short story about my own life and that was when I first became religious I was in Yeshiva in Miami Beach and I used to visit Philadelphia from time to time and this by this time I was already already wearing a a jacket I think I had bought my first black hat and I was walking down Philadelphia streets and C in the city center and there was a man with a bow tie a red bow tie standing at the subway entrance and he was handing out flyers for LS farak Yakima and the letter was addressed to me okay listen you can walk around and think God's talking to you well at that moment I knew that God was talking to me okay so through this letter it was addressed dear rabbi Federation uh member Layman okay I was the Layman okay at the time and the letter said hey Jew God revealed himself to you special people at Mount Si 3,300 years ago but it was cond and he gave you the land of Israel but I'm going to tell you now Jew that was conditional you get the land if you keep the Mitzvah since you didn't keep the mitzvah is you've relinquished the land and you might as well give it up to the Muslim brotherhoods right that's basically was the the group you know the the enemy anyway so I thought to myself as a new B Chua God's talking to me I mean I really know this is to some extent to some extent true however what they missed was God made this unconditional we're going to get it whether you as an individual will be part of it that would be different in other words as the Jewish Nation there will always be people who keep the Torah and mites happened to be that I hadn't been but now I am so now I feel like I can be part of this eternal promise but the Eternal promise was and is and will always be forever for the nation as a nation but there's no guarantee for each each individual so I'm looking at you on the on on the uh YouTube channel but everyone here everyone here I assume right we're all here we're learning Torah we're doing Mitzvah but this is something a message for everybody who's sitting and watching think about it you want to come and live in the land of Israel you want to stay in other words you want to make it what we call sustainable you come here you might as well join the group everybody's going to have some strength in one Mitzvah over another first start off with what you're attracted to what you really like okay and slowly learn Torah and you'll you'll other Mitzvah on the way now what the clear is actually going to do now is set up like a straw man and in your heart it would be difficult to imagine okay so if it's difficult to imagine he's setting up a straw man meaning something that perhaps you shouldn't be doing Ella this idea like we said in the verse and you will possess it you'll physically possess it with your armaments through your own power meaning you actually took hold of it as a conqueror he it's almost like no don't bring it out like yusha remember the word nakala is really the main thing you're going to you're going to take the hold of the land like a gift not like a yusha meaning yusha not in the sense of inheritance but in the sense that like the ramban ramban says we have an obligation to take the land by force yish yusha here yisha means to come and take it by force but no you should rather understand that it is a inheritance from your your forefathers and what about the that's also a straw man you will end up taking it like a permanent residence kosov the cleard is going to show you no right don't come in like K it actually says inra 2523 look at number four in this number four on the sore sheet the land is not allowed to be during shita okay and during YoVille you have this 50-year cycle that when you sell Land by the 49th 50th year it's going to go back to the original owner so you can lease the Land Based on the amount of years that are left until the next y do not sell the land permanently meaning forever as you see Rashi says you can't sell it in a irreversible fashion because number one it's not yours to s sell it's going to go back to the original owner so but what does the rest of the verse say the lamb belongs to me God is telling us so the lamb belongs to me God it does say you are gim you are like strangers you're wers you're not permanent res residents in fact but you are temporary residents with me that's what it means the gim is somehow being thrown onto the word toim so you're like a GE you're like a temporary resident an alien resident like and that's what we are in this world and Rashi says like I said permanently meaning irreversibly um don't make it a permanent sale because it's not it's an IR reverse right don't make an irreversible sound the land belongs to me God says do not be selfish about the land meaning hes don't hesitate to return it to its rightful owner at the time of the Jubilee because the land doesn't belong to you it was a gift true I just want to stop here for one second to talk about our our our BR there's a verse that says the whole world belongs to God there's another verse in the Torah it says God gave the world to mankind well which one is it does a belong to God or does it belong to mankind the rabbis explained to us that before a br before you acknowledge and recognize that belongs to God it's God's and it's stealing you're not allowed to eat without making a braa it's actually fevery doesn't belong to you but once you make the Braha and you bring God's name into this world by saying God's name and bringing the the Heavenly or let's say spiritual forces associated with God onto that food you're Rec recognizing this is God's and not mine then God flips it around and gives it to you then you have permission to eat it it's a metaphysical concept so we're going to see the same thing in this world if we can recognize that it's really God who gave it to us then in a certain sense then he gives it to you okay it's an amazing thing we're going to see later the idea of bringing the first fruits and then the land be belongs to you we're going to see in the verse itself so after having read the verse in Leviticus 25:23 that you shouldn't sell the land forever because it belongs to God and you are G so the clear says if you actually think that you are the owner of the land that brings you to a certain level of Hess and arrogance and we say as a result of that God forbid you would forget the Lord your God Alain therefore this is the whole purpose or reason for the that's why God is giving you giving us the Mitzvah of bringing the first fruits and we're going to read the r he says so too the r actually explains the prime reason behind this Mitzvah is now these are two separate words we saw that in the first word on this page is submission to subject but it's really the next word is subjugate is to be to servitude so to become submissive and a proper servant to hasem and proof for this he brings a textual proof here it says in verse three so if you want to let's stop and read the ramban a second look at number five and number six and we'll go to number seven as well this is very important to see that the rambam in theim chapter 3 paragraph 39 and we will see the MIT number 9 9991 in the meantime this is a a summary that the r agrees on a common reason for all these mitv meaning the offering of the first that thing that everyone has because it's not just the first fruits then you have the first shearings of the right you have the um the firstborn of different animals okay so in terms of the Bim the idea that we offer the first and we talk about the land of Israel you're talking about the seven special species and I can't EMP emphasis emphasize this even more it represents one's recognition of the fact that God is the master of all our possessions and he is the source of all our Bounty now that is a summary but let's see the more Nim itself the reciting of a certain portion of the law which we read not just on PES like I said in the but we're reading the confession of what's taking place here in the Bor we're reading a certain portion of the Torah when the first fruits first fruits are brought to the temple it tends also to create humility for he who brings the first fruits they take the basket on their shoulders they proclaim the goodness the kindness and goodness of God this ceremony teaches man that it is essential in the service of God to remember the times of troubles and the history of past distress now while we're in a a state of comfort by the way we have the curses so and one of the worst curses is that when you had everything you weren't happy you weren't grateful okay I want to mention now that that Shear is a link to that Shear is listed below many people talk about it this week the Lord stresses on this Duty in several places here's a bunch of verses that speak about the idea that we should Proclaim kindness and goodness of God especially in uh times of distress for example in um Deuteronomy if I'm correct uh chter 5:1 15 God says you shall remember that you were slaves in Egypt okay it's it's um it is to be feared meaning hasem has a concern that's usually what those words mean it is to be feared God has no fear God has concern about us that those who become great in riches and comfort might as is generally the case fall into the vices of insolence and hotess and Abandon All Good principles right we've seen it I mean I don't know why many people who win the lottery end up becoming poor listen it's either because they they let their vices fly or you know they have a lot of uh what's the word a lot of very greedy relatives and good friends but either way we hope and pray whoever wins the lottery does the right thing with it and gives a lot of it to Saka and keep in mind Y when you have that list uh another verse in um Deuteronomy 8: 12 through r 14 uh God is concerned unless you're going to eat a lot and you're going to become So Satisfied and then you're going to build all these very uh strong houses in fact I just want to mention the kakar was the rav of Prague and he was very critical of the very wealthy people in Prague at that time we're talking about the turn of the century in the early 1600s H for a oful who's has the most prominently wealthy people he told them I cannot believe you how dare you build these homes that will last hundreds of years you should build simple homes because where you belong is in erra um so I don't know whoever is listening and picks up those ideas sell now while the prices are good if they are good we have some real estate agents here um but the the the the homes that we built in karts are really not forever uh Rabbi btz tells a a story about Rabbi uh Rabbi wine when he was building a sh in if I'm not mistaken it was in New York uh Muny and he was offered a special type of wood from Sweden that would last 300 years and he turned it down so why should we spend that extra money I mean we all have the we all know right every Jew knows right that the houses of worship that the B kot and the B mid are actually going to be uplifted and transplanted here in Israel so maybe that is a reason it's okay but can't rely on Miracles uh the last verse I wanted to mention you'll find in Deuteronomy 32:15 and yuin waxed fat and kicked well kick really needs to Rebel the yman yesun which is a problem the the um the rambam continues on account of this fear let's just use the word concern the Torah commanded us to read each year when we came up to you with our first fruits this portion a certain portion before the Lord and His glory when we offer the first fruits you know how much the law insists that we should always remember the plagues that have befallen the Egypts right Egyptians we speak about all the time these are the Miracles that happen when we left um it's in Deuteronomy chapter 16 verse three it says and we say this several times a day you must remember the day when the Lord came when you came out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life we have to always remember we were slaves that we were on the bottom maybe it's not just for what empathy towards the other people but in order for us to really be cognizant and in a constant state of thankfulness towards Hashem and not only that we have an obligation to tell this to our children it's not just on the night of pesak I met with my daughter yesterday she graduated college and we spoke exactly about this point and the verse says in Exodus 10:2 that you may tell in the ears of your son or daughters what things I have wrought now that's not a good translation I actually want to make make it clear what this word is in Hebrew right in order that you tell over into your children and children's uh ears what the word is mock Hashem mocked the Egyptians and if you I I've been saying this since October 7th of last year we are going to be talking about this war for generations to come Hashem has mocked whether what you just take a look at what Goda looks like uh the stubbornness I think the latest offer was free passage out just return all the hostages and we know they are just so I don't know if I shouldn't say they seem to be making the same mistakes over and over again and uh not taking a good a good chance they were offered half the land of Israel at one point and none of this would have happened well we don't know what would have happened but it wouldn't have happened this way most likely so it's mocking I I I don't know how many memes I never I don't even know what the word meme like what's the atmology of meme um I always thought it some may be related to mine but whatever if anybody wants to write in the in the comments what the epy of meme is but I've never seen so many memes maybe because they're mean memes about what exactly happened with by the waya means something to do with God but I think it has to I'm sure it's party of God they think they're religious they they break every rule in of Islam or humanity and I'm saying this without any busha I hope that any um no Law buying Muslim right would get a hold of this idea and and and preach the truth to your to your brethren that uh this is not the way to go right we know the Torah says and you guys believe I mean in theory that the Torah was given question is which Torah they think that we uh what's the word we um corrupted they know that the Jewish people stood at Mount Si they know the Jewish people came into Israel they know that the Jewish people are chosen but they also know that or think that it's conditional and on an individual level Perhaps it is but the mocking you're going to tell in the ears of your children and your children children what how Hashem mocked Egypt well it's not very much different than what's happening now since a law was necessary in order to perpetuate the memory of the departure from Egypt because such events verify prophecy and the doctrine of reward and Punishment continue on the benefit of every Commandment that serves to keep certain miracles in remembrance and to perpetuate the true faith is therefore obvious now just really quickly I want to get back into the clear car but we'll just read the paragraph on the from the which is really identical to a certain extent uh with the ram it's from the roots of the Commandment meaning theah within the the basic essence of the command of first fruits it is in order to put the word of God may he be blessed at the top of our joy which is a real if you expl if I explain like this it's a real antidote to that worst curse that all these things are going to happen to you because you had everything and you were not happy so out of all the list of the curses it sounds like that's not only the worst cursed it's the summation of all the curses God forbid so this is like the antidote against the curses so that we uh put the word of God at the top of of our joy and then we remember and that we remember and we know that it is from him blessed be he that all the blessings of the world come to us therefore we were commanded to bring the first fruits that ripens in the trees to those who who are those who serve him the coim the Zar you hear that the coim and through the remembering of and the acceptance of his kingdom kotu and our thanking in front of him that the fruits and the rest of all the good comes from him we will be fit for blessing and our fruits will be blessed it's through the recognition remember what I said about the BR you make the BR and then it's permissible to you because you're acknowledging that it is and then he in turn allows you or gives you the broa of of eating it okay so quickly let's go back into the CLE car we left off right after the words that said and he says as proof to this proof to the idea that this is going to um you know create this submissive servitude of subjugation of us towards hem the proof is from verse three it says now I know the English is misleading because here if you take uh a look it is in um number nine on the sore sheet right verse three you shall come to the Cohen who will be serving in those days and this is what you say to him so the command is this is what you have to say he got anybody knows Hebrew it's past tense it's past tense I have declared they translated make it sound normal I I declare this late this day to the Lord your God that I have come which obviously past tense to the land to which the Lord swore to our forefathers to give us so I declared I declared the clear has a problem with this because lash AAR isn't that the very first words that come out of the person's mouth I have declared what have you declared I was just silent up until this point I have declared is past tense I know maybe because we saw too many movies you know I have declared you know somewhere from the south and that's like for them that's present tense right but I have declared so the clear says not only is it is it lar it's past tense hello up until now you haven't even said anything the very first words is he got I have already declared so the clear wants us to understand when he says El lar what's the message here okay I would say drum roll please at this point guys drum roll all together that's it this process the word means the movement the walking but it means the process from the very beginning when I put a little ribbon on on the first fruit on the tree and I watched it grow and I watered it or whatever I did I pruned the tree till I took it off the tree and I put it into a basket and I filled up my car with gas or I fed my camel or I made sure my donkey had enough B you know uh bales of hay to take along the road so he had what to eat and I traveled all the way to Jerusalem and I parked in the my Dunkey in Mya mall parking lot and and I start going up the the the ramp to the Temple Mount all of that is the Declaration all of my efforts everything I did without saying a word that's what the clear is saying because it's DK Vio ver Vio in fact interestingly enough Vio means confession what it really means is admission and it's the same roote as h h acknowledge right it's an acknowledgement here voo is acknowledgement of my sin but the word Vio is not meaning acknowledgement of my sin necessarily but it's a d v it's a declaration it's the admission that everything belongs to hasem and it all started from the beginning of the growth of this particular fruit so the verse says arts for I've come to the land and what does the clear want to say I came to the land because it was a gift not because I conquered it not through conquering it was only because Hashem promised he promised our forefathers to give it to us who made and the person is basically testifying on himself by bringing these first fruits it was from Hashem that the land ends up being for me a Mana which is a portion and a Matana a gift it's only because it's from Hashem and then he continues the next paragraph and this is what it means in verse three I'm actually verse two sorry right it says in verse two that you took right actually it's future tense and you shall take see in in Biblical Hebrew you have would be past tense the V turns it into um future tense so as we see the translation here is and you shall take so is that appropriate to say you shall take or you shall give isn't it a gift why does it say you shall take and the clear says and you shall give it doesn't say but rather so why does it say you shall take L the reason it says you shall take is to teach you just like the r said from these first fruits which you will bring to the house of the Lord you're giving acknowledgement you're giving thanks and honor to Hashem me knew from it from the first fruits TI at PR interesting I'm going to say it outside and then we'll see it inside by giving you are able to take similar to what we said about the BR it's by giving you're able to take he says by you taking then you're able you will Merit you will be gifted okay it's only after you've already acknowledge by bringing the first things from your ground from your land that Hashem is giving to you it's only then the erit is called Art it's only by bringing and actually bringing that the land is actually called yours and the verse itself you can see it um we said it in verse two if you look in verse two look down in the second line it's page three you see number eight it says bring from your land in the Hebrew which you'll see on the next side so the fact you're bringing could have said the other way from your land you shall bring is you shall bring from your land by bringing that remember we said it's not your land now it's called Your Land by bringing and acknowledging it's AEM it's now yours just like we said by the BR before you make the BR on the food it's not yours it's stealing it's his once you make the BR there's a metaphysical shift and it becomes yours and it's not stealing so so too here becomes yours and you will even get more from it clear says that through this taking you right taking for yourself all these different fruits this bringing is basically a proclamation it's the bringing it's the whole process from the beginning to the end of bringing that is a proclamation and he's going to show you an amazing idea idea how do you make a proclamation or a uh a statement without opening your mouth but that's what it is when we say he got I have already declared the last paragraph I made small one of those paragraphs we're going to skip that he so you're going to respond by saying I hearby declare already this bringing we said the bringing you didn't say anything there are no words from the time you got on a ladder and put a little ribbon on your fruit till we talked about the whole process you didn't have to say a word there's no obligation to alar now this is an amazing verse in Psalms verse chapter 19 2 3 and 4 four and we are actually learning the laws of Kes in the morning the gor rashash we're discussing the ideas of the cycles of the moon and the stars and the Zodiac and the Sun and the Earth and all the orbits wait till you hear these verses I'm going to read them all together but we're going to have to break them up the Heavens recite the glory of God maybe I'll say the Hebrew in between the word is to tell over reite the what do you mean the Stars talk the heavens talk obviously night not and yet there's a whole story being told in heaven as we watch as we open our eyes and see all the the cycles and the orbits and the rotations and the sky tells the word tells the guy doesn't talk it tells the work of his handiwork right what about it's tell over daytoday utter speech what's the wordi like to flow to utter from your lips the the day that a day to day utter speech and night to night tells knowledge it's the Clarity of knowledge by night there's neither speech nor words that's the words that the clear originally quoted that there are no words there's neither speech nor words there voice is not heard so what does it mean all these I don't know what you want to call them adjectives verbs adverbs recite tell utter speech tells neither speech nor words the voice isn't heard this is unbelievable Rashi to describe this the heavens recite the glory of God obviously they're not they don't have mouths they don't what do you mean they reciting it it's through observing right zarak observing it's unbelievable it's all the hand of God the psalmist himself King David explains the matter there's neither speech nor words they do not speak with people since their line goes forth throughout the Earth and they give light to the people and thereby the creatures recite the glory of God and give thanks and bless him for The Luminaries right imagine I mean I first became religious and I'm seeing Kish Lana for the first time I'm wondering you know where they got this from they must be the Jews got it from watching werewolf movies it's the other way around maybe the people watching you know made werewolf movies basically there's some very interesting curious things we Jews do but everything that God created in the universe we observe serve and we we thank him and we should actually learn about them and you'll be amazed right what we're doing in the gorah in rashash is like we are learning absolutely fundamental workings of astronomy just how how the heavens work uh the last Point here is um and and the sky tells of the work of his hands that means the stars and the planets which are the work of the hands of the Holy One Blessed Be he and which there are as it says in Genesis 1:17 God placed them in the firmament of the heavens when they Proclaim his glory what does it mean dayto day utter speech the creation is renewed from day to day in the evening the sun sets in the morning it rises thereby the people utter sayings of Praise throughout the days and nights for they teach the people to praise and give thanks let's just continue we're almost finished here um the last thing we read was 192 verse4 and the says the very fact that I'm bringing the bringing the whole process of bringing is the Declaration is the act of giving testimony for myself that is why I came into the land not because I am so righteous who am I we were either worshippers in Egypt we deserved no it was because Hashem promised our forefathers keep this in mind we should try to be righteous okay there's no question but the fact that we are here let's not think that we are here because we are so specially righteous we are here because God promised our forefathers and this is a gift as he says the reason we're here is because God guarded his vow which he swore to our forefathers kapara and therefore it is true there is an actual confession we are making a personal confession and a national confession and it's acting as an atonement why else is it being placed to the m the itself which is the last two lines is basically saying that the Cohen is going to take the basket from your hands that's number 11 on the sore sheet and he's going to place it right in front of right next to the altar just imagine what in the world the altar is the place where we find our atonement Okay so so it's being placed next to as like an offering okay and the clear Ends by saying he that through this process will be removed because it's kapara it's an atonment our sins will be atoned for and now I just want you to know the CLE car runs through the entire dialogue it's only like four five verses the entire dialogue and the depth but we're going to end here I encourage you to learn on your own unfortunately there is no real English translation of Deuteronomy uh in English but you have the Hebrew sheets or you can go onto the uh safaria and find the the he the original Hebrew and so we'll end there but I we will be here next week it'll be the last class for a while I think but what I want to say is number one shash this is like the last week of the Year's coming up every day of the last week could that comes up can be an atonement service is an atonement for uh the that let's say that Sunday or that Monday of the entire year so every Sunday right we may have any Sunday that we may have failed we may have made mistakes the Sunday of the last week coming up it's actually the following but whatever that you can make an atonement for the entire week so to every single day also the last shabas which would be next shabas will be the last shabas of the week uh of the year and so let's just think about that keep learning Hashem shall bless you all with not like they say like nucle New Year's resolutions come from us because we're the ones that are approaching a y had a y I have no idea what they call their new year on January 1st but ours is a y had and so we should really think what we can do to improve our lives our relationships with other people our relationships with God and our relationship with ourselves so that's going to be through which I shared with all you guys during the week right I hope you all got that uh information that download um being honest with ourselves learning Torah attending Faith Services right prayer services and um and just doing anything you can to improve not only your own relationship but you know what you ask for you really want you should pray for others to get first because the secret is that you'll be answered if you pray for others so we really we really want peace we want peace in the world and each and every one of us will experience true peace internally as well and with that shabbat shalom and we'll see you next week it [Music]