Ha'azinu - 4th Portion

Join me as we learn kumish for Wednesday parasu chapter 32:e 19 continuing the rebuke poem that Moshe talks to the Jewish people about the confident that they have with God. Verse 19. God saw this and he was disgusted by it because of his sons and daughters had angered him. Verse 20. And God said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be. What will be at their end? For they are a generation that transforms. There are children. They are children who are acting uneducated. What does it mean? They are transformed generation. They're changing my desire and causing me to get angry. I don't see their maturity. I don't see that they were educated. Anything that I taught them, I don't see it in them. I taught them. I educated them to do the good things and now they've gone astray. They're not following it. The word like it says that Morai was that he educated her. He brought her up comes from the word amuna belief meaning these are children that they don't believe in me anymore said by sign and only a few moments later less than 40 days later they already reneged on that commitment and served the golden calf. Verse 21. They made me jealous with a non-God. I will they um they've angered me with their vanities. I will make them jealous by making them a subject to a non- people meaning a disreputable nation. And I will anger them with a debased nation, meaning an atheistic nation. Let's see. They got me angry with something which is not a god. With a with a nation that's not known as it says, like it says in Isaiah, this land of was a nation of nobody knew about it. They were like a foolish nation. Nobody even gave them recognition. of Buyat sold to by Asov Zadia says that this is that they were embarrassed the very fact that these things happened. We know by the first temple by the Kazden [snorts] by the Babylonians and by the second temple by the Romans who are from Asaf. What does it mean with a nation with a disgusted deprived nation? I will get them angry. These are heretics that don't believe in the God atheists as it says to him in his heart. God doesn't exist. Verse 22, why will God do such a thing? For my wrath has been kindled with fire and I will be ablazed to the very foundations and it will consume the land and its produce and it will set fire a set upon the mountains. What is it referring to? Let's see. It's burning within me. It will destroy you. say it's going to ruin everything until the foundation and all its produce that's in it and it will burn when but it's going to destroy you which is built on mountains like it says is surrounded by mountains verse 23 I will heap evil upon evil upon evil upon I will set up my arrows on them. I will bring one bad thing over another bad thing. like to bring more and more like we also find the terminology we used previously that the person adds one in over another we find in Jeremiah your peace offerings on your your scent offerings on your peace offerings or another explanation to the word means I'll get rid of them and maybe you might get destroyed as we find by the book of by the story of Saddam all my arrows I will finish by on them. This curse goes that even though such a terrible thing that would happen considering the terrible punishments that he mentions, this is considered as a blessing because God said that my arrows will be finished on them but they will not be finished. So at the same time while it sounds like a rebuke and a terrible thing but there's also a blessing in disguise here as well. 24 of Harry from hunger and demons will will as their bodies try to keep them warm demons will attack and bodies and demons will attack them. The destruction caused by the de demon I will set their teeth of c I will set even the teeth of cattle on them. That means even though it's a domesticated animal that usually doesn't attack people but will attack them as well along with the venom of serpents that crawl in the dust. Rashi people that are starving they will be exhausted. They will be they're starving from hunger. I don't have another verse that I can explain what this means and where I can get the translation from. And I heard in the name of from I heard as follows that what is the word comes from the word comes from the word here a person who's weak that he doesn't have any food he grows a lot of here on his skin more than a usual healthy person comes from the Aramaic called which is here that a person that was combing is here is a terminology ology that's find the Talmud explains that they'll be hungry that here will be growing on them because since they will be hungry they won't have anything to eat that they're going to be affected from the shad from the demons that fly and because of that they're going to wage war against them as he talks about soon miri as we see the word inov he talks about the rash that the children of Rashef fly. This refers to the demons. The cat of this is referring to a demon whose name the destruction will be caused by a demon by the name of KV. The word be destroyed and the very fact that domesticated animals will bite them because even though it's not usually their nature to bite, when did this happen? This was in the time when the Jewish people were not following what God said. that even the sheep were biting and killing them. This is the poison from the snakes and the scorpions that go on their bellies in the earth. It's like water that trickles along the earth. The word as we know in Hebrew as well from water that drips continues to to flow along that flows means water that's flowing on the earth. Anything that's running along the earth anything that you see that's flowing or running along the earth we would call that it's coming that it's flowing on the earth verse 25 outside their cities the sword will destroy them and the dread in their hearts will kill them while they're sitting in their homes the sword of the will destroy them as the the young man and the young girl, the nursing baby and the old. That means that the enemies will kill indiscriminately. It doesn't make a difference who the people are. That means they will die. They will be killed by the sword. by the very fact that they're waging war outside the city. When a person runs away that he's about to be killed, he's still scared. He doesn't know what's going to happen because of the fear that's upon him. And sometimes he can just die with the dread and fear that's upon him even though the actual sword didn't kill him. Another explanation is what does it mean from the rooms they're killed? Because in the actual home they will be petrified of being killed of pestilence that death has come into our um into our windows. So to the explains another explanation is because of what they've done outside meaning the very fact that in the in the in the roads and the walkways and in the marketplaces they were serving they had altars to idolatry for what they did in their own private time owns that the talks about this that the elders of the Jewish people would do in the darkness of their own home that they would do these terrible things as well and he's saying you think God doesn't see what you're doing inside your own home. So therefore he says because of both of these things for what they did on the outside and what they did on the inside. verse um 25 I'm sorry verse 26 verse 26 I said I would have said I will abandon them from the as I will erase their memory from humanity I said in my I will destroy them to the I will I will abandon them to the corners. That word I will make them like the corners of the fears. I will throw them away from me like we find similarly in the Ezra and in that he made them as gave them over to the nations and to the other kingdoms and he separated them and he spread them out like the corners of the field meaning that he made them that anybody can go and get them that belongs to anybody. This is what explains it. There are others that explain like that it will put my anger upon them. However, he says, "How does that fit with the actual words?" Because the word anger is. So, it should have been a double al two olives. want to tell say what he's doing. I want to translate the actual word one for the actual foundation and then so therefore this center alf doesn't seem that it has its right place at all of here explains he says that the words you can split it up into this word can be split up into three different words that the word I said that the people will say upon them I will bandom them that people will say upon them where are them so therefore the first olive is from the word af and the second one the second olive the middle one is from the word I so he's taking the actual word and word and splitting it up into three verse 27 lass o where not for the anger of the enemy. The way it was built up against them, lest their adversaries ascribe mean ascribe the victory of their own for to say that they did it that our hand is supreme and God and it is not God who has done all this. What does he mean by this? Meaning this is going back before why didn't God abandon them? Why didn't actually God do it is because the enemy who would would got angry? Meaning they had this whole built up inside of them to be able to destroy them. But if I would allow the enemy to kill them, they would say ah look how powerful we are that we're able to destroy the Jewish people. That's why it says later on in the next verse, that's why he continues to say they'll be able to say the word comes from strange. They're going to put and depend and show that who's the one that was powerful was their strange god which it's not the power is not to them. Maybe they may say that we are the ones they are strong. And now as he continues into the next verse into the next verse 28 as we soon see because that nation is bewildered and they possess no understanding. They have no understanding because if they were smart they would recognize and they would say how do we even have the power to be able to change them to chase them. Verse 28 because the enemies are bewildered. They're a bewildered people. They are bewildered nation and they have no understanding and therefore they don't recognize where it's all coming from. This concludes the fourth Torah reading of Pares Hazenu.