Clothes of the MaShiach

In chapter 49 verse number 10 and 11, one who exercises dominion shall not depart from the house of Yehuda, nor a Torah scholar from among his descendants forever until Messiah to whom kingship belongs shall arrive. Meaning no one will be a king other than the tribe of Yeuda until the Mashiach comes from them. And to him nations will comply. He will bring Israel to encircle its city and the people will build his sanctuary meaning build the beta mikdash. The righteous will be all around him and those who fulfill the Torah will engage in study with him. His garments will be of fine purple cloth. His clothing of finest cloth dyed in red and all types of colors. So here we see that the Messiah will actually wear purple. But also have some other colors. Now what can we possibly learn from this? In the Hebrew language, the verse says is that in the uh the uh color of the blood of grapes is what his garment is going to be meaning purple. The nepheagel, the Nephagel comments on it and says this also comes from the root of the word as which is enticement. where colored garments are called this because a woman who wears them thereby entices men to look at her. Meaning a woman that wears colorful clothes entices men to look at her. So from there we learn colorful clothes are which is enticement and then what happens to a woman that's married that wears these colorful clothes says she becomes a sat all same root colorful clothes cause enticement and thereby eventually make the woman into a wayward woman a s here we see if you are the msiach or even if you're just simply a Jew but you're a man you want to wear purple no problem but if you're a and you want to start putting on all types of colors, you have to make sure that those colors are not enticing people to look at you. It's not just one color like some people think, oh, it's just red. Because sometimes the red itself may even be more modest than the other things that you're wearing because of either the shapes and the sizes and the different things that are on the dress. The most clear instructions as far as modesty that we have from the sages is make sure they're not enticing anybody else to look at you like you're a traffic light. You're allowed to be attractive but not attracting. Why? If you're attracting, you're enticing. Don't be surprised if you also become a sutah. Now, of course, they're gonna say, "Yeah, but this is your interpretation." Not really. This is the This is But let's of course add one more little tidbit from the if you're wearing something or you want to buy something that is enticing, that is attracting, then usually you're very very interested to know what everyone thinks of it. your girlfriends, your other friends, everyone. What does it say to say about that? Page 26B says displaying a garment in front of guests is as if he burns it. How so? because he either he exposes the garment to an evil eye of the guests or because he brings the attention of the thieves who might be among the guests. [sighs] In so many words, they're talking about here a man say if you have a brand new suit, a brand new something and you show it off to all your friends. Hey, look at this suit that I got. Isn't it cool? It's cost me $5,000. It cost me $3,000. say, "Oh, this is a really bad idea." Why? Either you're putting yourself at risk where someone's going to steal it from you, or they're simply going to destroy your life even worse. Why? They're going to put on you. Why? What's evil eye? Evil eye is a mystical phenomenon where the in page 84A talks about extensively and also and several other places where someone looks at something that you have with envy and thereby increases the likelihood that tragedy will come, harm will come from that thing. So by you showing off your new suit, you're actually either jeopardizing losing it or even worse jeopardizing losing even more than that. Now, if this applies to a man where modesty is not as stringent as it is for women, then of course it's common sense that a woman that shows off her dress, her whatever outfit that she has is not only bringing a possibility of losing it, where all of a sudden she can't find this brand new $3,000 dress right after our friends left from the party, the dress left with it, but or the jewelry or whatever it is she's showing off, but you bring upon yourself. You bring upon yourself. So much so that the sages say showing off your stuff, being enticing is like burning the stuff that you're showing people. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. [music] We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless. It's ail disrespect to the Torah.