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broadcasting live from Cambria Heights. Want to wish Maztov to our dear friends the cones who are here from Pittsburgh. Their daughter S is getting tonight. Okay. And uh you want to go where it's like the last one you did there right on Albany. if you want to say maztov to them tonight. Um to and her schlommo hen and uh they should have from all the kids many many were just talking before we went live that they knew my mother shalom. So uh you know there are different types of occasions in life. There's loss and then there's simos. It's nice to have a sim. You'll send me an invitation to the and not saying I'll come in for it, but just send me an invitation. [laughter] The last time you made a I came to it, but um I'm not technically supposed to go to Simus right now. Okay. At any rate, we are on paras. Oh, by the way, look at this gift that I got as I walked in here. This is like 3D. And um anyone who comes to this year, we're going to have like a box of these. So if you think this is cool, you'll be able to have one of these. This is the log bare parade. Okay. Um and you see the subtitle is so paras and the yard site of the and that's why you see like we start on page 127. Yeah. And um yeah it's long. Anyone has to leave >> please. Yeah, I'm saying the whole section because it goes into yudvat. So it's quite long. We don't leave we don't cut the live stream till we're finished. But yeah, it goes until page 139. But um you know anyone here in in the live audience, what was that buzzing on the washing machine? Yeah. If you come here to the Swards house, you're going to see sparkling white tablecloths. You throw Did you bring in the bleach, by the way? Did you bring in the hot cups you saw? Okay, very good. All right, I got two boxes of hot cups. And if you come to the SWAT's house, we have coffee, we have tea, and we even have cocoa. >> We have honey. >> Single serving size. >> Can you bring the single serving size honey so we could see it? Sponsored by whom? >> Oh, you brought the honey. >> Okay. >> All right. All right. Product placement. In this week's part, it says, "Shem commanded that on the 10th day of Nissan, you should take a sheep and hold him in the house for a few days and then on the 14th day of Nissan, shak slaughter and then bring as a sacrificial offering this uh this sheep. It's called the pesos. Why did you have to bring it the 10th day? So our sages tell us. So the mitzvah are going to see and they're going to say, "What are you doing with that sheep? Why are you keeping it in your house? The Jews should not be intimidated. Flip the Oh, you did it faster than I could even tell you to. Should not be intimidated. They should They should answer. We We're keeping this house. They're keeping the sheep in the house to bring them as a sacrifice. You understand how audacious that was? You understand how not politically correct that was in Egypt in 2448? That was the most offensive thing you could say. You're going to put keep a sheep in your house and slaughter it. I'm going to explain to the worship the sheep. This was their idol. That's why Misha said, "We're going to shack sheep and they're not going to stone us for that." Nevertheless, commanded the keep that sheep in your house four days. And if anyone asks you questions, what should you answer? And yeah, we're going to slaughter it. We're going to bring it as an offering. We don't care. And this this strength, this confidence, pride that the yen had that brought the redemption. We did like the sages say that at the time that the redemption came the Jewish people were spiritually naked. They were naked from mitzvah. They didn't have mitzvah like we say in the and you were naked and bare and these the serve idols and these the also serve idols. What's the difference between them? They were all steeped in idolatry. So, Hashem gave the Eden the mitzvah and therefore the merit of the Corbin and in the merit of this mitzvah that they were given, they were redeemed from Egypt. Not just the mitzvah that never says specifically the the mitzvah and the midnafish because it could have been any mitzvah but it was a mitzvah that inherently entailed midnafish because talking disrespectfully about sheep and mit could get you killed literally and yet they did it. Okay. Base bottom of 1 k 128 it says just like as in your days of going out of Egypt I will show you wonders meaning in the time of the redemption through Msiah is in other words is a mshel call maybe a paradigm a template for the future redemption. Ah. So if you examine and you see what brought what precipitated the gula from Egypt, we can learn about the coming redemption as in asho. And as is known in a marshall, every detail of the analog fits the of the analogy fits the analog. And the the the the the footnote here says um 118. And if you remember, we discussed this back in paras. Remember the context? Who remembers the context when we spoke about Michalim? Um yeah, we speaking about what was the Oh, right. the donkeys hiring the donkey driver to go 11 para because their normal thing was the flat rate to go for 10 para right and I think I mentioned to you then it was two weeks ago but I think I mentioned that there's a letter in the egress to glitzenstein where the abba speaks about this about malamra especially inidis are not literary devices where you're merely comparing one thing to another but actually to the contrary It's talking about one thing as it exists on different levels of sedal different plains of reality. And that's why the malam are precise because it's not comparing two different things. It's actually talking about how one thing manifests on uh different levels. Okay. So in other words, we're going to learn from Mitraim, not just as a way of comparison. You know, like historians will be like, well, you know what this current event is like? It's very much like this historical event that once happened. And they're comparing it. And maybe there are some similarities. Maybe there's a lot of similarities, but it's still a comparison. But when we say we can learn from about the coming redemption through Msiah, it's not just a comparison. It's not just an interesting historical analysis. It's literally one comes from the other. Okay. Um, [cough and clears throat] yeah. Yeah. So, we're on the top of the second comma 128. So, just like going out of Egypt was precipitated by Jewish strength. So too, the redemption through Mashiah will come through Jewish strength. The strength meaning to be able to be confident and do your mitzvah even though it was considered um offensive even though people were uh they call it fighting words. It's a legal concept by the way, fighting words, not just a colloquialism. Something that if you say it to someone it's expected that they will respond violently. It's called fighting words. You can Google it. Um, so saying in in Egypt in 2448, that's 2448 from creation, JFYI. Um, if you say in Egypt in 2448, I'm going to slaughter a sheep. That's called fighting words. And we did it anyway. Not to be pugnacious, not cuz we were being trolls, not cuz we were trying to see how inflammatory can we get, you know, like what they call rage bait on uh on social media. No, we didn't do it for fun. It was a mitzvah. Hashem said she the sheep. And uh instead of like doing it fertively, you know, like nervous and koi, we just we're like, "Okay, this is what we got to do." Okay? And it's gonna upset people, but sorry, we're not doing it to upset you. We're doing it because this is what we got to do. Now says the rabbis is a classic. If every mitzvah you should do with a with strength. So how much more so which is considered where where is called where do we get that from? Famous story right? Perspective convert came to hill tell me the whole taro while standing on one foot. Okay. So every mitzvah should be done with a to bring so much more so which is a fundamental mitzvah. What does it mean? It means you speak to a Jew about mitzvah. Why should you keep a good thing to yourself? Don't speak to him again. And even if he kicks, meaning he, you know, bristles. You don't don't take it to heart. Don't get intimidated. as the fact that he kicks shows that [snorts] it it's affecting him and [clears throat] therefore you should speak to him again and again until he receives it. So don't go running off and crying and say I tried to start speaking to this guy about Yiddishai and he yelled at me. He snapped at me. He said, "Get away from me, you crazy person." Okay, you touched a nerve. What do you think's going to happen? You touched a nerve. It's okay. So, talk to him again. It's all right. You have to go with strength and at the same time with gentleness so that it should be received. You don't scream at people. And like the said, you don't have to or not, you don't have to, you have to not um rip off his nose, but you you have to you have to do it strong. And if you do it with strength, you will be successful. Flip the page. You did it. And this that for now in the in the meantime you have not yet been successful as the SH is knit in Yanim. You have to know the guilt, the blame is the fault. That's that's what we call fault. It's not that guy's fault. It's your fault. It's your fault you're not reaching him. Is good. He's a good guy. It's just that you haven't been speaking. Therefore, you don't have the second half. We know that words that exit the heart they enter the heart. So if you're speaking to him and he's not receiving it, maybe your words are not exiting from the heart. So what should you do? You should say and pray that your words will be sincere that they'll be words from the heart and then they will enter the heart. It's a short about to finish this first. Fore and just like when we went out from through the strength of the yeden that were not intimidated by the mitim. They came out of Mitim and they brought with them the silver and the gold of Mitim and and the the Mitim were drowned in the sea. And even the one that remained which was par he went on and he [clears throat] became um he ca he he came to Ninve the story in UA and there he also had problems. So too now, if you're going to go with strength and with a spirit of sacrifice, not to be intimidated by anybody and all the opposition will disappear and there's going to be the redemption. That's a from summary. When Eden went out of it was a very purposeful thing that not only they had to be pes but they had to prep it in their house for days which was a big scandal. It made everyone upset but the point was that the yen should have to do something that would require midusnish. They were risking their lives and they did it with strength, with confidence, unwavering um commitment and we have to be the same way. And what ways should we be that way? Specifically, the Reb tells us in the area of a because that's the of all the mitzvah. And that means that when you know in my day it was expected that would you would say excuse me sir you Jewish you'd like to put on fill in there was a 50% chance you would get cursed out that was part of it and now these young kids they're like oh I got yelled at the guy screamed at me you said what are you doing that's part of the fun guys you get yelled at. Don't worry. Don't take it to heart and just keep coming back gently and eventually you'll and if it doesn't work. Yeah. Then you have to come with more sincere words. Okay. That's the first one second. Ah, you guys got to get a private plane and you can come out here every Sunday. What? >> Snow tires. >> Oh, you have snow tires. Okay. Yeah, but still it's six and a half hours. Get a private plane. You just come out here every Sunday morning, have a bagel. >> Yeah. You came once to the Tanya. Once or more than once? Just once. Okay. also for a sim, right? Okay. >> Okay. Should be many many many simas for you and yours. Okay. All right. Let's do the next bottom of page 129. [snorts] Hey, in Pares. Okay, everyone knows what paraesh is. Paresh is one of the four parisitis. Um it's actually the first of the four. There's uh >> okay so there's an extra four paris that are not weekly sedras they basically are in in kesh. So we start actually is not the first one I'm so sorry first is the first one is right before and then you have um um zer before pumm and then you have right after that and then you have so I was actually said the exact opposite I said is the first one it's actually the last one and you see that this if you flip to the end of this on page 132 is from shabas parasyak tough base. So, um, I don't know. Is that really No, I don't think that's not sure. I have to look it up. At any rate, paraesh is a section from that's speaking about the mitzvah of this month, meaning the month that it was when the yen left mit that should become the first month of the calendar. It's the whole mitzvah of the lunar calendar. Okay. So, ines we're on the second ines. We also have the mitzvah of eating matzah. Seven days you should eat matzah. in the midst of eating matzah is a biblical commandment until this day. You know in Pes there are in general three main components of PES is PES is Pit Nitv I'm sorry is PES now in this in the times of Goss P is only a verbal remembrance meaning the pes the actual sacrifice eating the bitter herbs is that's a rabbitic commandment and eating matzah however is the only one of those that not only we still have it but it remains a biblical commandment um in is in what's the difference between matzah and matzah there's two differences alf With the dough rises and with matzah it doesn't. So is ego and matzah is the lack thereof. That's why the main thing of matzah is that it's bread of affliction or bread of of impoverishment. Matzah is B cuz matzah represents B is ink. That's why matzah is a poor bread. Regarding kash pes kautash you can eat what's called rich matzah which means it was made with like eggs instead of water that's not poor matzah that's rich matzah so kautious wise although ask your local orthodox rabbi but um or read the side of the box of the egg matas but at any rate cautious wise technically it it you could eat it under certain conditions but [snorts] you can never fulfill the mitzvah the positive commandment of eating matzah on the night of the seder with it only with poor bread which means flat plain bread that is just water and flour and that represents the bit of the matzah is given and by the way historically the Eden ate when they came coming out of there was also poor man's bread okay so that's one difference the flatness the plainness the bit of matzah as opposed to The puffiness and fanciness of regular leavened bread base normat is m. They are spelled exactly the same with one tiny little difference. Is with a and matzah with a he. You got to do you have to be a scrabble thinker. You have to know how to do anagrams. you have to slide around the tiles, but it it's the exact same three letters except um is like a h just where the foot goes all the way to the roof. So, it's a tiny difference, a microscopic little difference are both three lines and open on the bottom. is the is completely closed all around on those three sides and the hey has a tiny little window opening at the top in now what's the bottom opening because they're both open and completely open on the bottom. So what's the opening on the bottom? What is it? What does it symbolize uses? You know about that? Sin is crouching at the door. Hashem said that to K. said, "Watch out, buddy. Sin is crouching at the door." So the bottom is like the bad stuff. Like the bottom is the the is going to come get you. That's why you should not dangle your feet off the edge of the bed because the monsters under the bed. So the open, by the way, there's no monsters under the bed. I'm sorry if I implanted that fear in anyone's mind, but it's just a pneumonic. It's just a way of remembering it that the hay and the bottom on open on the bottom like the scary monsters under your bed which don't exist. Okay. Now what does it mean that in all the sides are closed? I mean other than that open bottom of a race theas can get in but it can't get out. There's nowhere for it to go once it gets in. It's trapped in there with you. You ever think about that? You close the door so the mouths just can't get in. But you think, "What if they're already in now? They can't get out." These are the things I think about. But the little opening in the hay means that Yeah. Yeah. There is bad stuff that can get in from the bottom, but there's a little opening on the top. Little release valve. You can get away. You can do cha. Hooray. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's like the the bad stuff goes out from the top window or you can get out. I think maybe you can escape. You have a little escape window. You know, like um when you want to make a basement so you can live in it. Technically, you have to have egress in your in your in your basement. You know what I'm talking about? You dig out a little well next to the window and you have to be able to get out of it. So, that's like a little egress window. What was the thing one of the girls said? Yes, we we're talking about the egress window in our basement and one of the girls thought it was an egress window. Do you remember that egress? It was like Esther or something said, "Oh, it's so interesting. There's a term called an egress window. Why is it called egress?" Cuz she thought I was saying egress like egress kaidesh. You don't remember it? Okay. And even though it's a tiny little opening like our sages say, open for me a tiny little opening like the eye of a needle and I will open for you like the breadth of the ulam vor dur dur. Just one little thought of chuva can turn a complete wicked person into a complete righteous person says see kadush base you know it says over there famous gumor in kadushian man is mikades woman almanas that he is gur even though we I know these guys are rashag was sitting a second ago. It's a suffk mukadash because maybe he did chuva or chuva. It was a second ago he was doing a vas. It only takes a second to do chuva. I didn't see him do anything. Well, you don't have to do anything. Just a hearer. Maybe he thought chuva in his mind. That's it. Okay. One of these depends on the other. These two differences. Remember, one difference is matzah is flat. We don't want it fat, fat, fat. Right? Make that matzah flat flat flat. Do not make it fat, fat, fat. Is that correct? Am I making that up? And then the other difference is that and matzah the difference between the and the h they both have katas ravitz at the bottom but there's the egress window the egress window and the hay. So these differences actually are um mutually dependent on each other. If a person has humility then even if God forbid he does sin he'll think about doing chuva but if a person has big ego doesn't even think to do chuva it's not a coincidence >> not a coincidence one goes with the other so person who has yes which is the problem is he doesn't have the humility or the self-awareness to admit his mistakes and therefore he'll never change them. [snorts] Matzah person who's like matzah he's humble so even if he messes up he's not protected from messing up he could still mess up but he'll at least he'll own it and he'll change it >> yeah yeah it's also yeah it's uh represents the whole the whole concept of redeemability When a person has humility, that's how we're going to translate here. He doesn't look for excuses. He doesn't look to be right. Therefore, he's able to make an accurate assessment if he sees his behavior is not proper is not uh beneficial to so he changes it. Dagenad a person who sees himself as big has delusions of grandeur. He figures out ways to rationalize all of his behavior. He's a smarty pants. He has smart answers for everything. You can't argue with him. Everything. Well, you don't understand. Okay. It's his loss. Not only this guy, this guy when he sins, he's going to always make excuses so that he can just not have to be wrong because that's like the most painful thing for him. He just doesn't want to be wrong. But not only that, He'll also even find excuses not to do good things which is much more of a and it's you know a bigger dysfunction I think like the fact that when he sins he finds excuses to make himself like blameless in his own That's one thing. But here is even worse than that. He'll have an opportunity to do something good and he won't do it. Why? Why should I do it? Saddaka is the like archetypical mitzvah. You ever heard that concept? It's the in Tanya that is the archetypical mitzvah. >> Yeah. Which paddock of Tanya? >> It's a good guess. No. Well, starts with the wrestlers. Yeah. So, it's No, it's not in the It's in the lammed. >> Lad. Yeah. So, Saddaka is considered the ultimate mitzvah. Mitzvah are physical. They refine the world. Sodaka, you're dealing with money that is physical. You work, put in physical effort to earn it. You can buy physical stuff with it and you turn into a mitzvah. So it's very transformative. That's why is considered like the archetypical mitzvah. Okay. So is clawless is in alamit. So we're going to understand this. We're going to run through that this concept of matzah the psychology of the guy who convinces himself he doesn't have to do mitzvah. We're going to run through what that looks like in specifically in the mitzvah. But because then you'll be able to elab extrapolate across the board how it looks in all mitzvah. Okay. Basha says that it was punish by Rebean. When he sees a poor person, he says the same complaint or argument that Tis Rufus said to Raba. If your God cares about the poor people, why doesn't he feed them? because he has this like arrogance. So he thinks anything he has he deserves it. In fact, he deserves even more is so how should he have to give it away? I have it because God wants me to have it >> and go that guy doesn't have it because God doesn't want him to have it. the money itself because of his talents, his hard work, >> right? Sure. It's mine. I deserve it. >> It comes to me. And that guy, listen, maybe he just needs to try harder. >> Yeah. Get a job. >> Homeless, buy a house. >> Yeah. If you're homeless, buy a house. You know the Honey Youngman joke? The guy, the Honey Youngman, he says, um, walking down the street, a bum came over to me, said, "I haven't eaten in three days." I said so force yourself. [laughter] Yeah. Yes. Arrogance basically means you can't tolerate someone else's existence as M is M. as is an iss. So it's very very like he's very comfortable with the idea that if a guy and someone else doesn't have something it's because he doesn't deserve it. as if Hashem decided this guy should be poor, I should I should get in Hashem's way and I should give to the guy. Clearly, that's the way it's supposed to be. Page 131. Okay. So, that was the the Kmet's attitude towards saddaka, which we could extrapolate to the attitude toward every mitzvah. the keen van. But now let's talk about the matzah attitude, the matzah psychology. [clears throat] He doesn't deserve it. You see, she doesn't want to give him. Now, if he makes a judgment, makes a judgment on himself. Is he any better than this other guy? And that judgment brings him to give. He says, "Listen, I'm not any more intrinsically worthy than that guy. I'm just blessed. I I I'm I'm so grateful that I'm the position to be the giver, not the recipient. It's not that I'm inherently better than that guy. Well, my blood's not better than his yet. that when you make a judgment of of yourself, it brings you to okay baseman this attitude. I think we're talking about the guy again that even Even if the other person is poor because he's god forbid being punished is ne what this is still the matzah guy you're right so the matzah guy looks at the poor guy and he says even if you're going to say that the poor guy it's a punishment that's why he doesn't have money but nevertheless is the fact that I do have money Cooking dicken gut mat thinker is there. Yes. is Rabbi's chova. Yeah, this is exactly Raba's answer. He says, listen, he told the Toris Rufus, he said, listen, let's say that the king was mad at one of his kids and he kicked him out of the house and then some guy came along and he took care of the king's son. Is the king going to punish that guy and say, "I kicked him out of the house for a reason. Why are you helping him?" No. the king's going to be is so grateful somebody took care of my son. The king did whatever he had to do or whatever he felt he had to do. But the fact is you looked after the king's son, you didn't you're not going to get punished for that. You're going to be thanked for that. So the point is that even if he says, you know what, this guy is poor because Hashem made him poor. Hashem purposely made him poor. But you know what? He's still Hashem's child and Hashem is not going to be mad at me for being nice to his kid. Even if even if it's true, which I have no way of knowing if it's true, but even if I were to know it's true that Hashem is punishing this guy with poverty, Hashem is going to be happy that I helped his child out of poverty, even if the poverty were somehow um determined to have been a uh divine punishment. Maybe that's poor. >> H >> maybe that's why he was made for you to help. >> Maybe he's only in need. There is such a concept by the way that Hashem creates poor and rich only to give opportunities for giving is in all mitzvah. So we can extrapolate how this applies to everything. Okay. foreign is okay. And aside from this that a person who is arrogant, he looks he makes calculations regarding everything. um to uh vindicate his own behavior is but even more even when he cannot possibly excuse his own behavior. meaning he can't even come up with an answer for himself to them, [clears throat] but he still explains like a very good defense attorney. You don't understand why my situation is different. See, first he tries to just tell you what he did wasn't even wrong. But if he can't come up with that, then he'll say, "Okay, it was wrong, but here's why it was okay that I did it." And again, comes back to that same conclusion. He's always right. He's always right. He can never be wrong. This is the guy. He'll make different arguments. Sometimes he'll say, "The devil made me do it. Oh, I'm a fiery. [snorts] Now, top of the next column, the Gomorrah itself says that um Hashem regrets creating the So, Hashem can't come now and say to him, "Why didn't you defeat the Well, Hashem, you yourself regret making it. It's your fault. [laughter] You want to be upset, Hashem, be upset at yourself." Okay. His place caused him to sin, meaning bad influences. You don't understand the situation. You don't understand the pressure. You don't understand the uh whatever and all of these which are mentioned in it. It says these are the excuses you're supposed to make for someone else. when you see someone else and it's out of humility. You're supposed to figure out how that person actually is better than you because it's that's how to be humble. So all these things you're supposed to say about the OTHER GUY SAYS it for himself. That's not that's not the point of it. He completely misappropriates it. You're supposed to say this about the other guy, but he says it about himself. is and he says, "You know what? Provided the circumstances, it's completely fine." Yeah, it's totally fine. And someone else in my situation, who's to know? He'd be way worse. Okay. [clears throat] So now A, he admits that he did a bad thing, which usually he doesn't even admit he did a bad thing, but okay, he admits he did a bad thing. Then B, he'll come up with reasons why he did a bad thing, but really it's okay. But let's say he can't even come up with that. Okay, so now what is he going to do? He'll finally admit that he has to do no love covers all sin. In this case, we're talking about self love [snorts] is what does it mean? There's a lot of words for sin. Is a specific meaning. Um is rebellious sin, willful, deliberate. He has no answer. He knows that he is a rebel. The love covers it up. he comes even with false arguments. Um, no, even if he can't use, how do we read this? Uh yeah, I think they're saying even if he can't come up with a tiny shak, nevertheless, he makes it okay with with yeah with his own self-love. So somehow it makes it okay whatever you know I can live with myself. That's what he says. The this narcissist or whatever you're going to call him. Okay. He's called that's what he's called. He's called a humid guy. He's called a guy who Nebach has no top window. He has no egress window. And [clears throat] you have to learn egress every day. And you'll have an egress window. Okay. 131 at the very bottom. Did you flip it already? Don't. Okay. Just get ready. Get ready. Okay. This is called eBay sniping. You know about eBay sniping? When you're Yeah, you know about eBay sniping. And you're trying to auction on something and a guy comes in the last second boop and does one penny more than you. He snipes it away. You don't know about that? I don't know if it still exists, but >> yeah, it does. >> The whole eBay. That's all it is. That's all it is. That's why you have to have a lightning fast internet connection. >> What do you do? Oh, you time it. You >> pre >> for the last second. >> There you go. Now, you learned something over there. Okay. Comes down to the millisecond. All right. 131 the very bottom. Okay, get ready. And this is the difference between matzah. Please turn over the tape to the other side. 132 at the top is self-rising is often has an opening in the bottom where the bad stuff gets in and it's closed up on all sides. There's no opening for because of its arrogance as as Gorgot. He makes excuses for himself. of he always even if he can't say that what he did was good he'll find an excuse for it and even if he can't find an excuse for it at the end of the day it's like he loves himself so he moves on but either any way you slice it the bottom line is he doesn't do matzah in contrast matzah is bit selflessness matzah is matzah's is spelled with a hey. It's open on the top. First of all, he doesn't say that everything he did was okay. He owns his mistakes base. He doesn't make excuses. Even when he admits that he did bad, he doesn't make excuses. And if he sees that he's in a bad way, he doesn't cover it up with self- loveve like the guy, he feels bad about it. He's subraen kite [cough] brokenness is the marash the fourth said is chah a Jewish sigh is the highest form of chv that is a hayyang by the From what day? between which two things? >> I mean, that's what it comes down to is the ego. So, and then there's different symptoms that come out of that and basically has to do with how the person deals with their own mistakes. So, everyone makes mistakes. That's why there's opening on the bottom for both of them. They all have a theor can get into to either of them. The only difference is what do you do when you mess up? So Kmetz has no release valve. He's stuck with it. He's just doubles down on it and doesn't more. He can never change. Matzah has the release valve. He has the egress window and therefore you can change it. So yeah, that's that's what the difference between uh it coming down to the ego. The ego means you're stuck doubling down on your mistakes which is pathetic. Okay. So the rebar said that is in so therefore with one see there's a pun here you could shaw could mean an hour meaning a short amount of time or could also mean turning with one turn with one movement. Basically, it's a pun. You can become a little lumpus here. Now, we can understand why in Shabas it's we learn the you know the 39 forms of forbidden creative labor. We we learn it from the word. Is 39, right? Olive is 1. Lammed is 30. That's 31. A is 5. That's 36. What? That's not 39. That's 36. He says, "Ah, but you count it like the hay is." Okay, let's do it again. Olive is one, lammed is 30 up to 31 is 8. 31 + 8 is 39. Ah, so if you read the hey as a then you get the gamatria we make it work is yes it's true there is such a concept that letters or phone names from the same compartment of speech you know about the my mother Allah shalom was very into this my mother was a speech pathologist she was very into this aspect I mean she learned a lot of and she loved this but especially the concepts to speak to speak about speech she was very into this concept the five compartments the five uh parts of the mouth where the air um vibrates causes friction causes different sounds so you have the back is the throat and then you have um the um you have throat and then you have the pallet and you have the teeth, the lips, the tongue. Those are the five mats. Um somebody just donated $5 and said, "Let's do a beer run." Okay, a beer run. They donated $5 and let's go buy beer with it. Yeah, that's what it means. >> Beerus comes. Yeah, but it's not PES right now. Okay. >> Oh, it's Sunday. >> Oh, is it playoffs right now? What time of year is it right now? It's the winter. Isn't Isn't the Super Bowl coming up soon in four weeks? So, it's already the playoffs. Uh-huh. Okay. Steelers are out. Okay, I'm I'm not attached to the Steelers. My team was the the Bears. >> Still in. >> Are the Bears still in? >> I want to tell you about the 85 Bears. Okay. The only game they lost was to the Dolphins, but they were Yes. They were like the perfect team. Bears. Walter Payeyton. Dan Marino was from the Dolphins. He was on the >> Oh, right. Oh, versus the Dolphins. Yeah. No, Dick Buttcus was from the 60s. That was way before my time. I'm not a baby B. I'm Gen X. I remember refrigerator Perry, Super Bowl Shuffle. We'll have a whole class on that some other time about the 85 Bears. Okay. Ditka. Okay. Yeah. Um so uh the shalomi says we learn the lament from the word a but only if you count the h as now tak it's true that letters from the same part of the mouth can be switched. So the hay and the are both from the goro the throat come from here. Olaf and hay and are all from back here. Okay. Um so that's true that they you can exchange them. Where are we up to t? Yeah. But where do you get switching the hey for if it's gumatria like if the vort was based on the pronunciation? I get it. So they're they're coming from the same part of the body. But in gamatria with numbers like where are you getting to switch for but here's the concept the 39 forms of labor in the The way they were created, they are an in. They are a concept of But remember, we learn all the 39 forms of prohibited labor on Shabas from the 39 forms of labor that were used to build the Mishkan, the sanctuary. So you take in a bad way, meaning their sins, if you do them on Shabas, which is, and you turn them into building a Mishkan, building a home for Hashem, which is why when it says says a when it's talking about how it was done originally with the Mishkan. You're building a home for Hashem. It says with A because it's all holy a because you can take the and you turn them into a you can turn the into a hey. You can turn the sin into a home for Hashem. But you have to do chuva. And in order to do chuva, you have to admit you were wrong. Okay, that was the end of the second Sikha. I'm going to take another breather. All right. How's everyone everybody doing out there? All right. Third, I'm just Yeah. >> Transformation. Absolutely. Okay. Um on page 132. This is the third. Oh, you want a summary of the second? I'll summarize it for you. Difference between matzah is the narcissist who can never admit he did wrong. So therefore he can never do better. Matzah is the humble guy who is able to um see a better way of doing things. And uh remember kids you can turn a into a hey there's always hope. Boom. Okay. relationship. >> Um the so you know the we said that the mitzvah of matzah is from paras. Mitzvah of matzah is paras. Yeah boy has a lot of mitzvah. One of them is matzah. Okay. Third page 132 shortl says theb in general all of the rebas are one thing one thing and they all Did they each did all things in what what's this term we use mockim which means the successor but it literally means he filled his space. So when you have a debit who is the successor, it's not just the guy who came after. No, no, no. It means that he literally fills. Fills. Fills means full without any gaps, without any empty spaces. Nevertheless, every had a special passion project. Call it something that he cucked in that he was literally means he cooked in. It means he got excited about it and then through that all the other things were elevated. like it explains in the in Shabas. Your father, what mitzvah was he most careful about? You ready? that although he did all the mitzvah, there was one mitzvah that was the sh was the gate for his mitzvah and through that gate all of his other mitzvah were elevated. This accords to that which the said about the and the different sphero as the wereb was and so on and so forth. is now we know about the spir each one of them contains all the other ones you know like when you do like it's called his kalos in kipa everything is sort of arrogant and competing against each other so they repel each other but in in kadusha where there's bal so there's his kalus everything includes everything else even the opposite of itself it includes so all the spheres include each other [gasps] But nevertheless, even though they're coal each other, each has its path through which all the other spheres go. Nevertheless, each in his generation had a special thing that he was specially passionate about, which is in accordance with the sphere that he represents. Is And through that thing he also um what incorporated great word all the other concepts in is remember this is for the yard site of the so the says the in that was the special inion of the fir not to say he didn't have all the other inanim but saying this was the Indian that he specialized in and then everything else sort of went through that asper did you know that now you do that's signature was that everything should be it should be actual not conceptual not theoretical not abstract and it should be in the biggest expansive scale. I was just speaking to a friend of mine last night and I told him, "Go big or go home." Okay. The Reb, the Reb says about his father-in-law, the Reb did not was not intimidated by anyone's spiritual standing, whether they were god-fearing or they were sort of middle or they were someone who the uh spirit of folly was completely covering over the truth. Even someone who's such a on such a low level, he doesn't even know that he's doing anything wrong. He doesn't know there's anything to do about. is so the the did not really concern himself with with the person's spiritual level as far as just doing the person a favor um material [clears throat] favor which also is automatically a spiritual favor because it's a mitzvah you're helping that person so meaning to say the vidaba did not really do triage he didn't say well this guy is, you know, we can deal with this guy. That guy, he's too far gone. This guy, he's going to take a lot of resources to get through to him. Maybe it's not worth it. No, no. Just everybody take him on and treat them the same and show them love. Now why is doing a material favor also a spiritual favor? Because when you do somebody a material favor, the Gumar says a person will not be brazenfaced in front of their creditor. It's a concept in Dina Minus in in in financial law. But basically, if somebody's standing in front of their creditor, there's a certain decency a person certain shame a person has. I don't mean toxic shame. I mean like there's certain humility. Like you're not going to tell the guy never heard of you. You you you you feel indebted to him. Okay. So if you do somebody a favor, [cough] it will [clears throat] affect them and um it'll affect them spiritually. Not that you're doing it tit for tat and you're going to call in the favor. Hey, I helped you out. Now I want you to do this. It's more like it's an automatic psychological effect. Just the way the human works is so you know you help somebody out and it sort of automatically triggers in them a certain humility where they naturally want to do good things. Now aside from this which the alter says in that if you help aid and you try to be mad of him and it doesn't work you still have the mitzvah of loving your fellow Jew even if it doesn't work so to speak but you know But it actually does work. So even if in theory it wouldn't work, it's still worthwhile. But the reality is it does work. Now this way that the feda had of being actually you see it first modeled by the first Jewish leader who was meenu these are the words this is the beginning of par's the beginning of safer these are the words that Misha said these were words of rebuke Then after when did this happen? When was the rebuke? In the 40th year. At the end of the 40th year when they had already defeated. After you've already helped somebody material, then you can give them and then the Mer actually will be received and will accomplish what it needs to accomplish. In other words, Mishenu didn't tell them Muser any earlier because uh you know people can't listen to you when they're still worried about their their needs. But after everything else was set up, the last battle was fought. It was all cleared, ready to go. Everything was ready for moving into the promised land. Even though Misha himself would not enter the promised land, now you can give muser. So you take care of this. I mean, we're going to going to elaborate on this, but this is a lesson for life. Don't give somebody muser who's still nervous about their other needs. Take care of their needs and then you can give them and then they'll actually listen. This is an instruction to everyike figure in every generation. The first thing the first the Reb is revealing by the way stuff that we have no right to know. It's really quite astounding. This is reba stuff right hereb saying this is a not for everyone. This is for a reb. Now I have a special little pet theory that the kabad will probably roast me for which is that the rebba gaveb training to the entire generation. I've said that many times. The Reb said that every has the every has the power of the title rabbit. >> Yeah. >> Sure. >> Right. That was said about the about Hakil that was very into Hakil. Right. The Hakill has to have the Malik. There's a king of Hakail. Who's the king at Hakill? you you be the king of your hakill whether that means in your home or at your workplace or maybe uh you're a community leader but wherever it it is you be this is the whole idea of who will be the zades if not we you are him mamish so the lesson here the lesson Lesson for all aspiring rabbis is your first task is you have to give people kindness and blessing and success and then criticize. is of an Indian ael and you have to follow this procedure even if the moser is for a golden calf which means the worst sin the opposite of belief in Hashem so don't tell me well if it would be a minor thing I could hold myself back and first be nice to him but this guy did the worst sin I got to just lay into him first and we say No, even this guy who worshiped the golden calf, sit him down, have some chicken soup with him first. Say, sing a song. And if you see he's warm and he's ready and he's receptive, then he can tell him what he did wrong. That's right. Someone once asked the rabbit, "Why is he nice to all Jews, even those who are in the opposite category?" See how careful the deb is with his language? the opposite of the category of you bring them out of the pit and you don't put them in the pit. What the Reb is saying is people who are hically, this is a real concept. They're considered such pests. A pest is actually too light of a word. It makes it sound trivial. people who are a threat to the community and halically not that we can do this because there are other laws of the land that prevent it but hakically there are people that are considered such a danger to the community that hically you're allowed to remove them not saying that you should do that you shouldn't do that but anyways yeah I don't want to give anyone an idea page 134 you flip the page okay so someone said to the to the fab it. Basically, look, there is such a concept in hala of people in a category where they're c they're like they went so far that you're supposed to get rid of them. Now, maybe you can't get >> not to other people. >> So, if you have this if you have the ability to get rid of this guy, in theory at least, you're supposed to do that. So they said to defa like basically okay fine I understand you're not allowed to go around killing people but you don't have to be nice to him you don't have to you don't have to show this guy friendship you understand the argument they were making itself says that these people we're talking about we're talking about >> is it a punishment to them or so they don't have a on the community >> whatever the the the argument is is it a punishment to them is it a deterrent is it preventative the point is there's a category of such people and the federal government was being nice to these people. So somebody came and said these are people that Toyota has written off >> and and you're and you're befriending these people. Okay. And I hear this >> being >> being mart of them. Yeah. >> Tatus says this person's in a situation where you have to I mean should I say it bluntly? It's so grim and gruesome, but says if you have the opportunity to lead this guy into a pit and take away the ladder so that he's basically, you don't directly kill the guy, but basically put him in a situation where he's going to die. This guy's such a menace. That's the word. He's such a menace that obviously if there wouldn't be other laws preventing him from doing it, would say that's the category this guy is in. Okay. So, thank you so much. So somebody came and said to the fab Toyota itself says about these guys that they're bad guys and you're supposed to if you could get rid of them and you're being nice to them. All right. So the answered I'm going to grab the I know we have a but we also have we should if we don't we're going to have to get one. We have we have a kit of we don't have the in the library. Oh, somebody should donate one. Okay. Um, we have to go to uh Z Berman pick up. Are you sure we don't have a >> Okay, we got to get >> Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. All right. Um in you have four sections. And the last section is called is in. Now the laws about people who are considered a menace and therefore you're allowed to lead them into a pit and not take them out. That is in the last chapters of the last volume of you understand >> what >> last volume last chapter of Yes. So the order is first you go through and then and then most of almost all of it until you get to the very end. And when you're at the very end, then you learn about which people you're supposed to take out of the pit and which people, God forbid, the opposite. In other words, he said to them, after you do every single other thing, then we can talk about which people go in the pit. The inner deeper concept behind this >> [sighs] >> When you do a favor for a Jew, there's no question you're doing a mitzvah. But when you do the opposite of a favor, you hurt them. God forbid. says, "I'll al" BUT YOU SAY, "BUT I I'M DOING IT BECAUSE TA DEMANDS this is a bad guy. You got to you got to make him feel the pain." Is Ashton's kenzine as mentos in Indian. [clears throat] First of all, are you 100% sure? You could be making a mistake. Another point is uh is it possible you're doing this because of a personal grudge? You're 100% sure you're 100% objective here. Could be you're beating them up. Not because says to beat him up, but rather because you like beating people up. Some people like to be uh punishers, so they're looking for an excuse. That's what they said about Pinlus, by the way. They said he was just a bloodthirsty guy that liked to beat people up, and he finally found a a kosher outlet for it. That's why the tests that he was Ben Arin is so if you do someone a favor for sure that was good but if you hurt them even if you say well told me I should hurt him okay first of all are you 100% sure that you got it right second are you 100% sure that you're not swayed here by any personal motive and third of all maybe just a a sadist. [laughter] You found a a for your for your sadism. As And tonight is very well I should say leas base shamiat [gasps] isolon is leas base hill and that's how we pass what I'm saying basically is that the sar raam is in two weeks happens to be the cambom for three pim and one perk a day are both at the same time this year happens every three years and uh we're making a no there no because there's one pedic doesn't have a sem every year so only only once in every three years does the three proim and perh finish at the same time. I don't know what you mean by that. Anyways, everyone's got a CM. Everyone learning Rambam has a CM coming up in two weeks. And I just want to mention that I was very excited when I learned this ha because I remember learning it recently in Sanhan [clears throat] base was a couple weeks ago. Yeah, I think it was a couple weeks ago when we started say forim. Um so it says that a dion has to be an ishassid. You don't want a tough guy, a mean guy, a cruel guy to be a dian. He has to be a liberal who finds mitigating arguments for everybody. Now, it doesn't mean that he finds it impossible to punish. Sometimes he has to punish, but that shouldn't be his goto response. His go-to response should be that he's always trying to be soft. That's what he heirs on the side of kindness. Doesn't mean it's impossible for him to to lay down the law when he needs to, but his his default setting should be on on the side of kindness. [snorts] Malchus even when he sentences somebody to corporal punishment. Remember Michael Fay? All my Gen X colleagues should remember Bill Clinton couldn't get him out of that. You know what I'm talking about? This this American kid did graffiti in Singapore. Don't do graffiti in Singapore. You know what they get for caning? I mean for I gave it away. You know what they get for uh uh graffiti in Singapore? Caning. Malcus. They had they have a martial arts master with a cane with a bamboo stick and he gives pitch. >> Oh, he got sick. Oh, you just Googled it. >> What year was it? 91 923 >> 93. [snorts] >> Yeah. Yeah. Don't do crimes in Singapore. Don't do crimes just in general. Don't do crimes, but don't do it in Singapore. Yeah. Um, anyways, yeah. Michael F 1993. Bill Clinton tried to get him off the hook. Couldn't get it. Got six malus. Okay. [laughter] [gasps] So, even when the dian has to pass in that the guy has to get malos has to get whipped. By the way, the malcus is not a cane. It's a leather strap. The Reb won't even say it. The says, "And sometimes even a harsher punishment." What's harsher than corporal punishment? Capital punishment. The Reb doesn't even want to say it. Even though we all know that capital punishment exists. Can So sometimes he will give the death penalty. He will if he has to. But he cannot do he can't carry it out. This is this is according to according to he can't be the kind of guy who is like I'll do it. Yeah, I'll I'll can him. I I'll do I'll I'll I'll I'll kill him. He has to be squeamish. The kind of guy we want giving out these punishments is a kind of guy who can't stand human suffering even though says this IS WHAT HE HAS TO GET and the dian is pasing and saying he's going to get punishment but I personally I can't look at it can't tolerate other people's paind and that's why an emissary of the court carries it out you know was very very righteous person. So he was the exception he had no ex existence for himself. His only [snorts] existence was just to do God's will. Harit Agen, he was the one he was able to kill the king of Amalik. He carried it out when Shaw failed to do so. And uh but Schmool Anavi is the exception that proves the rule. Anyone else who is in a position to carry out punishment um should be the kind of person who says even in a case where I know to requires it, I personally can't bear seeing someone in pain. Okay. Reb's ways. So you have to know. Even though it's true, you have to be careful that this guy who's below you doesn't pull you down. It is true. There is such a thing about being careful about other people's bad influence. But you don't have to beim. You don't have to push him away. You have to lift him up. So be careful the guy below you doesn't pull you down to his level. But don't leave him down there. Pull him up to your level and do him a favor even materially. And through that you'll be in a position to help him spiritually. But first help him materially. And then it'll be like what the sages say and the PK from uh from uh Mish that Hashem enlightens both of their eyes the giver and the recipient has been held. Why? How does the the the giver have his eyes enlightened? Because Hashem helps the giver. If the giver helps the recipient, Hashem helps the giver. Helps him to go in the straight path. And Hashem from his broad hand gives that person the giver everything that he needs. So to him, to him and his family. this guy who did for the other guy. So he receives then Hashem's infinite and Hashem gives the person a vessel with within which to contain the blessings. That's what it means, you know, from uh part of means he sustains you, you know, like Allah, but also it's Hashem gives you the vessel within which to receive the the the blessing. Gives you also the vessel within which to contain the the flow of blessing. That's from okay. What is that? Our third I think that was the third one. So this was about um the Fed's special sh through which all the other mitzvah were was to get everything done in actuality and to do it on the largest scale and uh not to be intimidated by someone who's on a low spiritual level to do them a material favor so that you'll be in a position to spiritually uplift them and uh not to be the kind of guy who likes to deliver punishment but rather to be nice to everyone so that you can actually help them. Okay, that was the third sika. [sighs] Catch a breath. Some seltzer. No, I have my coffee. I'm good. Just want to look at the comments here. There's comments coming in. Somebody gave $10. That's cool. Do you do weekly sharim where thank you to foolish limit to my father Mayor Ben Terz um do I do weekly shar I'm doing a weekly share right now >> it's weekly yes every weekday >> Sundays 10:30 a.m. Eastern time. Okay. [sighs and gasps] Shall we continue? What are you playing there in the background? Okay. Next. What are you playing in the background? What is that? You're playing it out loud. Oh, no. I could hear it. >> [snorts] >> Okay. Okay. Um 134 at the bottom. [cough] This is the third. All right. [snorts] flip the page. One of the enactments that the fida set up was to learn the kish every day with uh the commentary of Rashi and uh yeah the weekly para to learn. Did you flip the page? Taba 135. and the said about learning the every day that's called um that that is what the was saying when he said you have to live with the time that means that from In the para you learn every day you have to learn out instructions for the day. You get it? When you're learning the para it's not just because you know we got to learn the wholeish every year and so you just divide it up into daily portions and in a year you get through it. No, it's it's the news. It's the news. If you want to know what the order of the day is, you want to know what needs to be done today, look in today's that's going to teach you. [sighs] I want to I'm making this up. Doesn't say it here, but I want to suggest to everybody, don't check the news. Well, really, you want to make your life way better, never check the news. Like, literally never. But if you do have to check it, don't check it until you at least read the real news, which is the kitas. After you finish the day, then you can go find out all the misinformation and propaganda that the uh powers of the bee want you to be programmed with. Okay. Tess is So the ofat meaning now the first year took place on Shabas but um this year of the it was a uh Tuesday. So the of itself, the itself is speaking about right before splitting of the sea is one of the greatest miracles. That's why our sages even say difficult like the splitting of the sea. and and the splitting of the sea was a preparation for the for and also preparation for the redemption through Msiah. How did we come to Morgan? So we learn in tomorrow's that I was speaking. Yeah. When was this? Um Z. Oh, so it's probably the night. It was early maybe. So people can look up when the hanas uh you can look up the hanakas and see when this was said. So in the we read tomorrow um um no I'm sorry. you know that makes sense that I was speaking the in general by the way were the the night coming out of the special day. So it was the night coming out of so that was saying tomorrow tomorrow's which is yeah okay and he threw himself he was throw himself in the sea jumped into the sea. He then affected everyone else to be to be that way and he made the miracle of come down. The fact that jumped into the sea at that time in that situation that was not [snorts] conventional wisdom. That was not something that everyone agreed. That was not the consensus. That was not considered normal. Noak it's known before mountaino the yeden were considered to be bak noyak was a survivor of the flood he and his children all humanity are from so the term for humanity is ben noyak and then you have ben isol who are a different category with different obligations meaning all humanity have to follow the seven mitzvah that Noah followed Israel the Jewish people were given at Sinai 613 commandments. Okay. So the question is before Sinai before the revelation of the Torah at Sinai what was the hikic category to which the future Jewish people belonged? They were not yet the Jews in the way that we know them because Mata had not yet occurred. So there's a discussion were they um were they considered like protojews so to speak or were they just they were ben like the rest of the world and they were not yet Jews yet at all and it we're going to explain to you why that makes a difference. Um so Now, there's a debate among the Torah authorities, the classic authorities, whether a Ben Noyak is obligated in Misnish. I want to explain this. Miserus nephesh means sacrifice. Now we use misus nefish figuratively to mean anything that forces you to completely set aside personal interests but in its most literal sense it means sacrificing one's life the ultimate sacrifice paying with one's life there's a discussion is a non-Jew required to give up his life for a mitzvah any mitzvah we know it's prohibited to end one's own life suicide is prohibited there has to be something sufficient to override that prohibition now for instance like the classic cases of um you know the three cardinal sins that one should rather be killed not that one wants to be killed we don't seek martyrdom but a Jew should rather be killed than to transgress murder, uh, sexual immorality, and idol worship. Those three. So, you're not allowed to get yourself killed. But in this case, um, there's the overriding concept of what we call keshm. Keshashem figuratively, we use it loosely to mean, you know, making a good impression, making people like Hashem and like Torah. But really keshashem means sanctifying God's name through making the ultimate sacrifice, giving one's life. So there's a whole discussion. We know that Jews under certain circumstances are required to give up their lives in order to sanctify God's name. But there's a big discussion about whether non-Jews are required. Maybe they're not required to do so. Meaning to say maybe it's more lenient. Well, everything's relative whether you call that more lenient or more stringent. But the point is that there it's not so clear that a non-Jew should allow himself to die in order to sanctify God's name. Maybe he should survive and then later, you know, clean up whatever, you know, moral fallout there was. Um, it's not so clear. So here's here's the upshot. If you say that as as many authorities do that a non-Jew is not required to give up his life is not required for self-sacrifice. They're not allowed to sacrifice their own life because they have a standing prohibition against suicide. Like it says, I will seek out your blood retribution for spilling your own blood. If so, then what emerges from that is that Nakshin was not allowed to kill himself. When he marched into the sea, I just want to remember remind everybody when he marched into the sea, they didn't know it was going to split and it didn't split indeed until it reached the water reached his nostrils. It was covering his mouth and then it split. So as far as he knew, he could be marching to his death. Hindsight is 2020, but I'm saying at the time it seemed like it was Mrs. Nafish that was sacrificing his life. Well, if the Jews before mountain Toyo, remember this is right when they came out of Egypt or 7 days after they came out of Egypt. It's Pesak and Mato was 7 weeks after they came out of Egypt. those six weeks after this event they had not received the title yet and they did not yet have the hikic status of Jews yet they you know that's why one of the reasons why we read the story of of Ruth onis is the anniversary of the giving of the Torah and the entire Jewish people became converts so to speak and Ruth was one of the great converts so uh this is like pre-conversion so to speak so they had the halikic status of non-Jews and a non-Jew is not supposed to get himself killed even for a to make a keshm and even according to those opinions that before mountain Jews also had to conduct themselves as Jews and not as Ben that was only to impose stringencies not to allow leniencies. You understand what I'm saying? That before some people say before mountain there was no concept of Jews yet. Everyone just even the future Jews behaved exactly were obligated to behave exactly like non-Jews. Um then there's another opinion. No, they did have to act as Jews, but only when that imposed a stringency upon them. It couldn't that principle could not be used to make a dispensation to act more leniently. And in this case, permitting suicide would be a leniency and what emerges is then one would not be allowed to risk one's life in such a way. Okay, so we're just explaining that when Nakshin marched into the sea, it was not necessarily or was necessarily not considered the right move. knew when Hashem took the he said I'm taking them out of Egypt in order they should serve me here at Hari that means from the Exodus you go to Mount Si to receive the Torah is in vag. So therefore, he didn't care what was in the middle of the way. He knew we got to go to Mount Si. If there's a C in the middle, it's not my problem. You throw yourself in the sea. Just go move. matter until you get to Mount Toro. Do you understand? Nakshin didn't make a calculation and say, "Well, are we yidden yet? Are we in still? Are we allowed to risk our lives?" Everybody else was. Nakshan said, "We were taken out of Mit to go to Mount Si and receive the Torah." They knew that already. Hashem told me that at the burning bush that way is haridi. That's the way I'm going. But there's a sea in the middle. That's not my problem. I need to go that direction. That's the direction I'm going. Okay. of their part of now there's a from this [clears throat] on the on this week's para or actually on this day's para as a zing flip the page demo by yed and gave and firkites. There were four groups among the Jews at that time. There were four groups among the Jews at that time. One said, "Let's appoint ahead and return to Egypt. The second group said, "Let's fight the Egyptians." Midbar. A third group said, "Let's just scatter and run into the wilderness. Flee. Gton only one group said we're allowed and we must go into the sea. Uh now we have a concept called majority rule in Tory. Seemingly it was doubtful whether they should go into the sea because that wasn't what the majority were saying. Said not interested in a debate over here. He knew Hashem said, "Go to and receive the he knew like this." I know elimination. I can't go back to that's backwards. That's not where we're headed. And I know fighting is also not part of the job. Like it's a distraction. also running into the midmar that's also the wrong way. So there's really only one direction we can go into the sea and you have to jump into the sea and then you'll be one step closer to sorry for opposite be one step away from it one step closer to hari You understand? Nashin was not part of the debate. He was not part of the debate. He said, "All I know is we have a goal. I know where we're supposed to get to. Anything that brings me away from that goal or is a distraction from that goal is is cannot be what I'm called upon to do." Now, you're going to tell me it's crazy to walk into a sea. Maybe it is, but I don't have time to figure out all of those details. All I know is the direction that I need to move, and I need to keep moving. in Zagen. The situation the Ed Yeden were in right before the splitting of the sea is a teaching for all generations. And uh we see this also with the with the Fidic's uh way that he served Hashem. that he served Hashem with self-sacrifice and he gave over this ability for self-sacrifice to all those who follow in his ways. by from the very beginning of his leadership he exhibited self-sacrifice as Dan in Bush. This is the time of the Jewish division of the KGB who were especially hostile to uh Jewish interests. And in this climate, the took on this job of spreading out and this was completely against the what you know the government allowed. And therefore it was self-sacrifice of the soul and of the body and the required this kind of self-sacrifice from those who went with him who worked with him. Now you don't find anywhere in that you can demand other people to be mer of Yes. There's a concept of rebuke that you can correct somebody who's doing things that are not according to Torah. But you don't find anywhere where you should instruct someone else to be. But when do we say that that you can't tell somebody they should be when you don't have a directive from above from from heaven says is al is however when you're talking about someone who's on the level like it says about that the spoke through his throat so then he was able to require neafes from others it's a it's not something to take for granted to require others to do things that require self-sacrifice. Only a rabbi can require that. So the spoke about the difference between in terms of their is actually looking for an opportunity. He he wanted to be he said when will I get the opportunity when will it come to my hands that I'll be able to do it but was not an unto itself don't say he called out we got to flip the page he called out in the name of Hashem Don't say he called out. Got to flip the page. We got to flip the page. Don't say he called out, but he caused others to call out. Thank you. He made the other person scream. Not scream, but call out. and not [clears throat] that they should call out which would mean the God of the world meaning God and the world are connected but two separate things norm that God and the world are one thing because there is nothing but God. So a mavino that was what he was interested in. He wanted to get the whole world to believe in a milad if that would entail mass nefish. So he was ready for midus nevish but he wasn't fixated on it. It wasn't even really on his to-do list. Rabaka he definitely had an aspiration of when will I get to be my nephew wasn't really even thinking about midnafish. He was ready to do it if he had to do it, but it wasn't really an interest of his. Great. He wasn't looking for it. just ready to do it if it was necessary. If they threw him in the fiery furnace didn't didn't hold him back. He just wanted to continue his job of teaching people about God. That was it. That was his only fixation. is given says the not only spoke about this difference between but he exemplified this attitude of he didn't look for he wasn't chasing after it that wasn't his concept shame What was he chasing after? The opportunity to get other people to recognize God. To spread out and all of its customs and its ways. That's what he was into. And he didn't let anything stop him from that. Even he was ready to to die if he had to. Even though that wasn't he didn't want to. He wasn't looking for it. But if that's what had to happen, then wouldn't stop him. It wasn't a deal breakaker, [laughter] so to speak. Is That's why sort of like he didn't get into discussions about whether or not was permissible in his situation. He wasn't thinking about Mr. She was thinking about expanding Torah and he wasn't thinking about anything else and nothing would stop him. Nothing would nothing would deter him. That's why he also wasn't disturbed by all the different groups around him. You understand what's happening now? We had this medish that right before the splitting of the sea, there were four ktosis. A kito sometimes you call a class as a kito or in Jewish law a group of witnesses called a kat the same word kito. But here I would call it factions. I would translate it as as a faction or party even. [sighs] The Reb is describing the landscape, the Jewish landscape during the leadership of his father-in-law that the Jewish world is full of different factions of groups who have their agenda. They have their mission statement. They have their way of assessing what the Jewish world needs to do right now and not all that different from our situation today. I guess this has been this way since Yamsuf. So there are different factions. Okay. Talking about the Fredba's leadership which like the said clearly a few uh paragraphs earlier he took leadership. He he began leadership. He took over from his father who had passed away during the height of Stalinist oppression uh in Russia itself. Then he had to leave Russia. Then there's World War II and the Holocaust and everything that that entailed and then coming to America with rampant assimilation. So that's the landscape and how do you respond to that? So there were different ktoise, different groups who decided this is what we should do. No, this is what we should do. Just like at the at the Yamsuf there were people said, "Let's go back to Mitim. Let's fight the Egyptians. Let's run into the wilderness." Okay. So, the Reb says that his father-in-law, he didn't really concern himself with all these different um groups. He didn't really care about any of their arguments. He knew one thing. We got to go closer to Hari. Just like he said, is that the direction of Hari? Then I'm walking in that direction. There's a yam in the way. I don't care. That's the direction I'm going. I see in I there's a sea in the way. So you jump into the sea. What's going to be later? You know, you're going to jump in the sea. You're going to have some problems. That's Hashem's business. It's not my problem. He has to do his job. Meaning the was saying he has to do his job to go one step closer to this is the teaching that the gave everyone who has to prepare themselves for messiah. Our job is to fulfill the concept of I was created to serve my maker. Our job is loving the creations and bringing them closer to that's our job. That's our job. And everything else is irrelevant. this that you have different groups with different and sometimes weird arguments. This group is saying let's go back to Egypt. Another group is screaming. Let's fight. Another group is screaming. Let's run and disperse into the wilderness. is getting us a step closer to hari. That is not our way. Not our way. Unarin [snorts] is gained to kabala. Something just did the live stream cut out. Something happened. Maybe it was just on my laptop. Okay, now it looks like it's okay. Okay. Our job is to go closer to receive the Hashem. Like we say in the not just he who gave the but he who gives the in present tense. We do this without making any calculations. There is a sea in the way. Say okay. We're going to have to apparently we're going to have to go into the sea. There's a mountain in the way. Okay. We're gonna have to go through this the the the mountain. But one one thing we know, we're going to har to unite with Hashem. And if you do that, then it's going to be just like it was by Hashem will fight your battles and you will be silent. So just like it was the first time that merited to be the one you know the different he was the head of the tribe of of Yehuda and the different princes were you know the heads then see The different tribes had different days that they inaugurated the Mishkan. So Yehuda was the first tribe. So was the first one to inaugurate the Mishkan that Hashem's presence should come down. So every year should think of himself that he is the probably should say vet even though it's written ven should say vet I think is And then it's going to be like it says in the when there's one who is the way he's supposed to be in the language that the says is one and the reminds us of the is that one will bring and you're going to learn the way Mashiach is going to teach it meaning with and then just like by the afterwards it was led the Jewish people in singing a song. So two it's going to be which what is we learn why does it say will sing yoshir is future tense because it's a hint to me's future song that rabu will come back in the resurrection and lead a song when mashiah comes as vetin There will be that those who dwell in the dust will arise and sing and he the among them that the will lead us to Mashiach with kindness and mercy. That's from Zion. Okay, that was what that was our fourth sika. Okay, so the fourth sika was about the four different groups at the Yamsu and how Nshin didn't enter into any of the calculations. He just knew the general direction we got to go and you keep moving. You don't look for a citizen nefish but if that's what's required that's what you do. Okay. And now the fifth and final um Yeah. [sighs] Yeah. [sighs] Why does this look completely? I'm looking at the ma and it looks completely different. Okay, you ready? Here we go. Fifth and final ice. Bottom of the first column of page 138. Viger is by Kinder. when the fir was a baby and he was he had his bris which is what kids generally do at a bris babies um his grandfather his father's father Marash [clears throat] said to him why are you crying when you grow up you're going to B A dot dot dot which we know is a rabbi. You're going to be a rabbi and you're going to say meaning teachings with a clear language is why do we say dot dot dot blank? because that's how the Fitika wrote it. He wrote it in his journal about his imprisonment and there he left that word blank. So the deba says I heard from that maybe people meaning maybe either people who were there at the bris and heard the marash or heard from people who were at the bris and heard the rabb but at any rate in his own journal did not write the word but the word was a rabbit says you're going to be a rabbit is in the in the form. That's why it's left blank. When the was a little kid in the year, meaning when he was four years old, he lived with his in his with his father and his father had a two- room house. There was one room which was a bedroom. So the Reb was sitting and learning with this who was a great genius in the one room and the Fredba was a little boy sleeping in the other room. his crib. He was sleeping in his crib. He was a very beautiful child. He had a luminescent face. It was late at night. They were learning. The reban is call it and the saw how the is sleeping. Maybe it's shine shine. He said that this child's appearance and the the the shining of his face shows purity of thought. In other words, the rebab's I don't want to call it friend because the rebashab was a reb but the person he was learning with who himself was a was a great rabbi uh was observing the sleeping child the saying how holy he looked had this very strong desire to give his son a kiss is Adosman thought to himself how in the in addition to bringing sacrifices there was such a thing as donating silver and gold to the upkeep fund. ofidis. So he thought to himself, I'm going to switch the the kiss foridis meaning I'm going to take this intense feeling of love that I have for my son and I want to translate it into a kiss. That's the natural expression of it. And I'm going to channel that into He wrote a how great are your works, [snorts] oh Hashem. You understand? He took that love that he had for his son and he channeled it into writing a new mimemer. In the year when the was 12 gave him the manuscript of the mimemer and he said to him this is aidic kiss and in good time I will explain it to you. follow that gave the mimemer that he wrote that night. He gave it years later to his son and he said this is aidic kiss but he didn't explain them what that means [snorts] when was 16 told him the whole story just just like we heard it. Uh, flip the page. in your Zion. When the FB was 17 on his Mos Highland, the uh Reb was very not healthy. He went to Moscow for healing. The professors meaning the medical experts told him he had a few months to live. As the moen when the heard this he made a decision he's going to go to he only has a few months to live he's going to go make aliyah he told his wife about this plan visa sada. By the way, her yard site's coming up. Yudgimlvat and she is laid to rest here at the aisle. You can visit her. People don't realize this because she was the last in the actual town of Labavich, but she left Russia with her son, the Federba, and then she made it to America with him as well. And uh you can visit her resting place. So the rabb told his rabbits and rabbits this okay it's very nice you want to go to but what I mean only a rabbitson can speak this way to a no one else could speak this way she said it's very nice you're going to but what are you going to do with your and what are you going to do with there's a whole here to run and it's here and you're going to go to He says, "I'm leaving it to him." When the Reb is done was 17 years old. Exclamation point. That's the end. There's no explanation. That's it. That's the end of the That's end of all the sikhas. [sighs] And that's from yudatin yud. No, it can't be from um it's really saying to test in a funny way. Yeah, that's what it's saying. Okay. Um and those areas five. Wow. Tonight is so um we have 10 days till now we have these to learn and to relearn to get ourselves ready. Also obviously people will to the best of their ability learn bosilani. I would start with tough shiny the the basilani that Fred Kaba released on the day of his passing. And then um the year this year corresponds to the years and mev um my from the which are explanations of chapter 16 of the 20 chapters of the series of mym from the and if you don't follow what I'm talking about um ask your mashia H. Okay. Thank you. How long was this? We we started a little bit late. Uh 2 hours and 31 minutes. Wow. Okay. Two and a half hours. But here's the thing. When we started this shabas paracious this year, we said we're going to learn every from every week of it doesn't matter how long it's going to take us. We're going to learn till we finish. So, I hope you appreciate that we learned until we finished. Okay? Have a great week and have a great month and happy Earth trees.