ENTIRELY YOUR CHOICE A Life and Blessing or Curse and Death with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody welcome back to torah welcome home to torah welcome back to the event of beit midrash we're glad to see so many people online and in the bait in the rush as well we're parties for those who are not aware of what we do number one we try to learn hebrew there are source sheets hebrew source sheets you can find the link to down below i want to first thank everybody who has been viewing not just me but all of the ibanez videos with all of our fantastic teachers and we're approaching one million four hundred thousand almost you know almost a million and a half but we're approaching one million four hundred thousand views and uh i think that's um hashem we're getting the word out there apparently that's a big deal because never in history i'm not talking about me i'm just talking about the fact that we have internet never before in history has the torah been able to reach so many people but because of the internet and proper use of it this rat hashem it's just amazing that 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acceptable and accessible if we have an english translation available that's really all the english does um but i i do quote the verses so you can look them up yourself i quote the gamoras you can look them up yourself different madrashim you can always look them up yourself okay so we're in parshas re-a in chapter 11 of deuteronomy and we're in verse 26. so one of the first things and you would not see this in the english is that the word is singular as if hashem is speaking to each individual through moshe si an nochi no te lefnechem i am placing before you again you would not notice this in the english but you lift him is plural which is going to be a significant concept that we're going to be dealing with and then the next word is haiyom so see i'm placing before you haiyom today what is the word today we're gonna have to discuss that because it's talking about the bracha and the koala the blessing and the curse not in our parsha but it's referring to what's later in described in chapter 27 of deuteronomy and kisavo where moses is again explaining to them what you're going to do when you come into the land you're going to go to these mountains mount grizzy mount avail and mention these blessings and curses and say our name keep in mind that in our portion moshe is explaining what's going to happen and important in verse 20 chapter 27 again what's going to happen and it's only in joshua chapter 8 where it's actually happened or happening okay so what is the word hyung i'm placing before you today brock and the claw okay so the clear car begins by dissecting the anomalies the strange sequence of the verse he begins on the top line r a is commit the word is obviously singular it's as if you're talking to an individual the word life necessary of people so right away the clear car brings in a very interesting gemara from kodushin page 40b and i'll describe it first what the governor is talking about and then we'll see the words we're not looking at the gemara we're looking at the summary of the gemara based on nuclear car he says that always a person should imagine himself to himself as if the entire world was standing in a balance as if you have a like a um scales of justice and on the scales of justice you have half of merits mitzvahs kind acts doing what god wants and on the other side of the scale you have unfortunately sins mistakes things that go against god's will but one should imagine as if it is in balance and all you need to do is one mitzvah one individual do does one mitzvah and what happens he's going to then determine the scales are going to be pushed down bent over right for himself and the entire world for the merit and the clear car explains and that is exactly why it begins by saying re as an individual and then what you imagine is when you are then to the majority of merits you're somehow affecting the entire world and not only are you affected and balancing out towards the merits but you're doing it for the whole world now let's see the hebrew and then we'll discuss this further lessons that a person should imagine to himself as if the entire world was 50 50 between positive acts mitzes verses on the other hand sins and all he's doing is i say mitzvah is performing just one mitzvah i just want to stop here just for a second the word mitzvah in the atmash you have love hey is the last two letters which is the last two letters of god's name the mem sadiq in the athbash means aleph equals tough and bet equals shin in other words like in the american alphabet the english alphabet you have a equals z b would be y and it that has to do with gamatrias and replacements of letters but the memsatik in the hebrew alphabet is replaced with the yud and the hay what it really means besides the actual root of the word is to connect that you're connecting to hashem and you're bringing a unity of hashem through that positive act it's a very deep concept so i don't like to even translate the word mitzvah as a commandment but rather as an opportunity to bring hashem into the world an opportunity for you to actually connect with the almighty as we call that a positive act okay so doing that all you're doing is performing one of these acts and i'm going to just say you're saving the world you're saving yourself you're bringing yourself towards the side of merit and through that as if as if the whole world was 50 50 between righteous people and non-righteous people or according to the rambam we're not talking about the people we're talking about the amount of actions right because one particular positive action can outweigh maybe a lot of negative actions or vice versa okay so there's different ways to look at it we're looking at fifty percent of the world population is righteous and fifty percent is not righteous and by you doing that one act you're now righteous and then you're creating a positive outcome for the entire world it's amazing and i'll tell you this is one of the reasons that i spoke this week to my students those who are in the process of converting i hope you can appreciate why we are i'm not gonna use the word hesitant we delay we we take our time with the candidates who want to convert because as you will see through this process through the today's learning that each jew has a tremendous amount of responsibility for every other jew and so as an outsider wanting to come in that if you are not taking it seriously and you're a sinner or you plan to sin a lot uh we're going to have some hesitations right so at least you want to be righteous right only god knows what goes on in your heart and your mind but it's up to the based in to try to figure the you know figure it out as best they can so you're based on the track record based on your behavior and you're a decent bloke yeah nice woman nice man you know so you got a chance to be accepted by the basement right okay but the main idea here is why is all this taking place why is it all being talked about right here wait to hear this so he says again the word is shigeru being sick what one should imagine in their own mind's eye and i'm going to use a spirit your spirit within your spirit within your intellect whatever sikh law means the word means intelligence according to the maharao the word means spirit so i like to take both definitions and just mash them together so it means your intellectual spirit okay that's your seiko it just makes sense one should imagine in their own mind's eye that all of your actions are going to yak zaru lefnechem they're going to bounce back they're going to revert they're going to go back in front of everybody that doesn't mean everyone's going to see me it's going to affect everybody le cooler that's what's going to happen whether you like it or not that is the reality another example many people have given and i hope you can relate to this meaning in your mind's eye you're on a canoe or a boat and someone has a seat and he starts drilling or she starts drilling a hole under their seat and of course they're going to say to you what do you care what do i do everyone's going to give you up in arms please stop don't do this you know that it's going to affect all of us it's what are you talking about it's just the one little hole under my seat what how why what are you bothering me for of course a person is totally insane right well that's really you know that's really what's happening here in our world that everybody's actions in reality affect everyone else and then he begins to save the history indian zebra partial zoo that's exactly why this concept is mentioned in our parsha that is mida barrett that is speaking about what's going to happen in a matter of i'm going to just guess time wise two months why do i say two months so we saw that the whole book of deuteronomy is in the last 30 days begins the last let's say a month and a week a month and a week before moses dies so beginning of shabbat so he dies on the seventh of adar so that's 30 days plus a week and then he dies on the seventh of adar and we enter the land of israel on the tenth of nisan which is 33 days later and believe it or not even though i mentioned this is all taking place in joshua chapter eight the torah is not in order okay so that's a whole nother story we'll have to talk about that another time for those who are already aware the torah is not in order so joshua's not in order either in other words the very day that we crossed into the land we didn't go direct to eureka we didn't go to jericho and go around it for a week and the walls came tumbling down on the seventh day that happened after we first went to these mountains and we entered into and i would ask for drum roll please because this may be shocking to some people but this is what we call the brit kadasha what is a new covenant it's the same torah but it's a deeper level of responsibility and that's what we entered into a more how do i say it it was a whole nother level of responsibility because before that we weren't responsible for each other in this matter manner i'm to a certain level we were there's explanations that we stood at har sinai and we said na seven ishma plural we will not say we will do then nishma and we will listen so collectively we all sign the contract meaning that if one person didn't keep the contract it would affect us it's true but there was a level of being forced okay but later on and this is why it says today which we will see the clear card says why is god telling us today something that's going to happen in another i basically explained that's going to we don't know exactly when during the last 30 days in a week of moses life this took place but it took place within that time so you're talking about at least a month and a half whatever a month before we have plenty of time to think about it and we're going to see that any time that the bait did okay is going to make someone swear take an oath right you're talking about taking the torah into your right arm holding it and you're going to swear using god's name they're not going to just spring it on you and say hey say it do it now they're going to say you know we're going to do we're going to make you remember why are they asking the person to take an oath because they don't believe the person or they want to make sure the person is really telling the truth so if there's any suspicion that they're really going to lie they're going to figure out a way not to make the guy take an oath if they really believe the guy they probably won't take make him take a note so somewhere in between where he's believable but we're gonna like it's almost like a it's like a threat right we don't exactly believe you we're gonna put this torah in your arm and you're going to swear in god's name and everyone knows if you're going to do that you better be telling the truth so the person if he was lying he'll regret it and he said no no i'm not taking the oath i'll tell you the truth without right okay so what's going to happen here god is giving us time he's springing on springing it on us today he's placing it before us today so that we cannot say later on a new si maina we were forced we we weren't given a chance if we would have known right if you would have put the pressure on us we you know we would we would never have done it but you had pressured us like for example if someone is forced i mean there's a lot of um blackmail situations or you're in in a courtwhere or in a situation where they say you put a gun to your head so to speak and say sign this uh last rule tell us test last will testament right you know what it says usually like i have sound my mind and body no pressure i am making this declaration right so imagine someone says sign this property over to me with a gun to your head so you go ahead and you sign it you'll be able to get out of it quite easily by going to the court write to the judge and say listen the only reason i signed because there was a gun to my head and they'll say okay so you're you're not bound by it so this is the same reason god gave us time how much time at least a month perhaps even two months and a few days so he says like this what is happening at this mountain that's going to happen in a month or two months you know what happened there we became guarantors one for another that's exactly what happened the word to be an array means to be a guarantor and mitsada arvoos from the aspect of this guaranteed ship the the act of taking responsibility the rabim nitpassim bhavon yahid that the masses that the group of we're here we're talking about all of the israelites are grabbing seizing taking hold of the sin of the individual we are all responsible all of us responsible for one another on the english sour sheet i think i brought it down in joshua chapter 7 verse 11 it says israel israel sins now we all know from reading joshua israel didn't sin but one person named akhon sinned and how they figured it out he didn't confess it first right there was a whole lottery where they narrowed it down from which tribe and which father's house until they found the the one who transgressed but it says israel has sinned for they have also transgressed my covenant which i commanded them and they have also taken of the consecrated thing with and have also stolen and also disassembled and they have also put in into their vessels keep in mind chapter eight that's dealing with the standing up and doing the blessings and cursing at the mount took place way before chapter seven okay it happens to be in chapter eight you can see that chapter eight verse thirty where it mentions that joshua built the altar on the mount and that's when the blessings and the curses took place you can find that um chapter 8 30 through 35 okay um by the way when it says in chapter 8 verse 30 dealing with the whole uh curse it rashi says over there this section is written in the manner of what we call earlier and later meaning there is no order to the torah for in fact this happened on the day they crossed the jordan okay so in other words before they went to jericho before achan took the consecrated items from jericho and what ends up happening when we go to fight i and there's a 36 soldiers are killed in war it's obvious that israel did something wrong okay so just to keep an idea of how the uh the chronic chronology of events took place but this is the most amazing statement that it was there on these mountains when we entered this oath because just imagine what are we i guess when we were at mount sinai there's no question we became a nation but that nation didn't have a land yet it was a promise and we were about to enter and once we entered it's necessary there was an obvious necessity to enter this deeper level of commitment to solidify the reality that we are a nation that we are all responsible for one another and therefore we're nitpas simba abu take on grab a hold of the sin of the individual the age the moose remains there's actually some type of a hint or an image of the likeness of this mentioned in the it's mentioned in the medrash that's really dealing with our parsha and um i believe that let's see where on the sewer sheet it's number seven in the yokotshimoni um no we're not going to read the whole i the whole thing but uh he brings down just a few lines it's mashallah it's analogous to one particular person he's sitting at the crossroads or let's say there's a fork in the road of schneischveiling there were two pads in front of the person and obviously the rest of it said there were people coming and going and people wanted to know which was the easier path which was the harder path the truth is one path began very wide and easy to traverse it had either no stones or no weeds it was just easy but after you walked into that path it got thinner and thinner and more difficult to traverse the other path started in the opposite seaming direction right it started very small and uh thin and there were a lot of either rocks or thorns and weeds and as you went into the path it got wider and wider and easier to traverse so the how the how does he express it here he brings down the rest of the uh madrish the same besv so one of them began very wide meaning many people had traversed in the beginning but at the end towards the end i'm sure you've all been on paths like this before where it's quite wide but i guess as you progress people must have going off the sides and it gets thinner and thinner because if if it was well traversed in the beginning like what happened what people turned around went back but whatever it is and i'm sure you've seen pads like this before in a certain sense this our own verse began god speaking to the individual and in the end he's speaking to everybody well as we discuss what it's really telling you is that each individual should see see with his mind their own mind's eye how the responsibility how the yoke of the torah i'm not going to call it a burden right because it's not a burden but it's a it's it's a responsibility of the torahs on each and every one of us individually and yet we're placing or it's being placed in front of everybody whatever we do as an individual is laying on the shoulders and the consciousness of everyone else so he just ends this paragraph by saying this right that this proposal this idea of this analogy uh regarding our verse that began our verse began with the word re which was written in a singular fashion and it ends meaning four words later lift to the masses for the time for the reason we are about to explain so now we're going to continue on the next page there are three explanations of the word hayong so he says like this the reason that the word hyom the language hayom is used and mentioned even though that the actual time that was established for us to accept upon ourselves this oath this shabua that again like i'm going to call a brit hadashah a deeper level of commitment than we had previously is only once we enter the land of israel like in verse 29 in our parsha verse 29 where do we have that [Applause] on the sword sheet somewhere i'm sure it is um number nine and it will be when the lord your god will bring you to the land which you will become we come to possess it that shall you place those blessings upon mount greezem and the curse cursing upon mount evel okay ki of the echa is that right hashem it's only once you come into the land just to show you so again what does it mean today so the clear car is saying even though later on it's going to happen me call my but nevertheless the reason hayyom is used to use now to tell you lomar to teach you to tell you [Music] that god is saying through moses that from this day onward until that day which could be like a month or up to two months yes i'm giving you enough time to think this over and make a final decision or change your mind could they shallow yomru so people would not say because this is an easy excuse we can always say like why can't i say listen i wasn't in mount sinai my great great great parents made this oath for me why should i be obligated to keep their word the truth is that one could take an oath for someone else not in their presence if it's to their benefit but that's not discussion today the discussion is that these same people they're having a period of time to really think it through well because it's a huge responsibility i think i already you know i might as well just talk about what i said i was going to talk about is that the whole idea that our great great great grandparents took this oath it was to my benefit so therefore i am bound to it but okay we're not going to get into that right now going back to god gave them enough time so they don't say they shallow yamaru anusimayinu anusi means that we were forced or compelled in some way like i said if a guy held a gun to your head and said sign this sign away all your belongings you can later say i was forced and it becomes null and void now i mentioned also that the basin also does this and he mentions that kader kosher vuitton noise like the general way whenever a beijing would would enforce some kind of an oath on a person they give the person enough time lest they change or regret right the person has a change of heart limbs that's exactly why god is telling us today in our parsha just think about this a second how many days away from rosh hashanah are we this is a big deal because this is the day of judgment so i don't think there's any coincidence that this parsha is falling out mamash at the beginning of rosh chodesh just before roshana just to really get us to think about this as you'll see through the other examples but nevertheless shalom yomru so they don't say because this would be a normal excuse some normal statement that people who are pushed forced and compelled to do things that we were in shock and confused because of the rush but because we didn't have enough time to think about it the illu and that if they were given enough time that's the excuse oh if we were only given enough time lawyer osu we never would have signed the contract we never would have taken the oath we never would have entered this responsibility right live and let live isn't that what people say well it doesn't work like that in judaism i'm sorry i'm not i'm not apologizing i'm just saying wake up and smell the coffee it doesn't work like that okay so that is the first of three chanting um explanations simple explanations let's go to the other two and now the second explanation of the clear car we're on the page two one paragraph down that the word hayyom the mila taiyom so the word haiyom and i think we do talk we use this kind of language vernacularly during the daytime the daytime meaning when the sun is shining when it says gage el hayao me it's referring to the disc the round thing the orb called or the sphere called the sun so it's the sun the word day is synonymous with the word s-u-n shemish sun and i want to reiterate the word s-u-n for a very good reason and i hope i don't have to say it over and again like that but you'll get my drift if you notice the verse it says i'm putting before you today so meaning the sun s-u-n the shemesh is in close proximity to the words blessing and curses why is that to tell you to teach you something very fundamental and important just as the sun in the sky is just one single unit it's i don't know what color let's just say it's yellow it's bright it's hot and it's in the sky it's poe it acts meaning the actions that permeate from it could be in extreme differences what do i mean this is the famous example he gives so you may have heard these examples before mati kashava makpi habitsa panet koives malbim habegen so that one sun in the sky it could take something hard like wax and will melt the way it could cause it to become soft and on the other hand uh the the egg and i'm not talking about the shell okay but the egg itself is a soft uh quality uh thing and it could and would depends where you are um you know in in august in israel in jerusalem or even in tiberias or in eilat it would uh harden the egg harden the egg okay so that one sun could cause now the buzz with the sun is one thing acting and it's we'll call it parv for those who are familiar with the word parv meaning it's like neutral it doesn't always make things that are hard soft it doesn't always make things that are soft hard it depends on the macabre it depends on the the molecular structure of that which is receiving the heat or the radiation okay and it also can darken the face of the launderer right remember we used to go down to the river remember those days we used to go down to the river and do the laundry and you would hang up the laundry and the more sun would bleach or fade the dye right the colors would eventually fade because of the sun so it's interesting it's acting it's one sun that's neutral seemingly yet depends on the molecular structure of the thing receiving that radiation or heat it's going to make one's face darker through a tan a suntan but that's okay and it's going to cause i don't know exactly how it works but the molecular structure of the dye to fade now the statement is the kohlhen halalu all of these changes that are taking place enon boeing mitsadashemesh it's not that the sun is obviously the sun is causing it but it's not that the sun is directing that that has to happen but rather keem inside of a cabling the reason the changes are taking place are because of the the molecular structure of the receiving end so he concludes by saying like this that what we're going to call blessings and curses it's actually coming from hashem but nevertheless it's not he's not causing the change you caused the change you caused the barakah or the klala the blessing or the curse to occur just like the molecular structure of the material or the item that is either coming soft to hard or hard to soft or something dark to light or like to dark so we know that the change is not coming from hashem as it says in malachi that's the very end of the prophets and we're going to actually use a few verses from malachi for explanation 3. but it says in malachi niti i am the lord i am god i do not change right so where are the changes coming from ellis that the changes are are coming from within the item that is receiving the radiation or the heat of the sun and here's a very another very fundamental concept that as we spoke about the sun s-u-n is parv so too believe it or not hashem what emanates from hashem is also if i can use the word parv because it says in echa which is lamentations three verse thirty eight mi pi el yon lo tait say hara o is okay it means that it is not from the mouth of the most high that evil and good emanates okay um of what shall an a living man complain what what should you complain about your own sins that's what you should complain what you did it's not that your punishment is emanating the evil whatever we want to call is evil negative consequences you created it we created it and therefore it's coming from us that we created it so that's the second explanation that the word hayom is synonymous with the word sun s-u-n and to teach us this very important lesson just just as the sun is parv and the radiation of the heat that's coming and affecting the world is affecting many different ways but it's because of the molecular make up what you make because you can create your own blessings and curses based on your actions and your thoughts and the third and final explanation of the word hayyom the cleocar explains through a gemur in nadarim page eight b now at first glance you're going to say what aim genium lossy lovo there is no such thing as hell of course what does that mean aim gehenum there is no burning of sulfur and ash and all that you know hellfire in the future or it could mean in that place called lossy lovo but what is god going to do now what i'm going to describe is obviously gehenna so it couldn't mean there's not a place called gehennam but there is a status called gehenna let's see how we understand this so engage there is no gehenna in the future ella what is god going to do god will take out the sun from its sheath there's some kind of guard that's keeping the full blast i always think of these sun flares like you know they talk about the sun flares are going to ruin the electrical system and it has an effect on the gps system and planes will crash i don't know let's just keep it simple for some reason there will be a shield that is around the sun that will be removed and then the sun will lash out all of its radiation and heat that's hell well is it really wait to hear what the gamora has to say it says no in malachi the last of the prophets in chapter three the very end we're going to read verse 19 and 20. so 19 certainly sounds like hell okay where is it on the sword she do i have it malachi yeah so number eighteen of the sour sheet malachi 3 19. now the hebrew and the english don't always match up so well because i have here says for lo the sun comes the word sun does not appear in verse 19 it does appear in verse 20 and we know retroactively after you read 20 we're for sure talking about the sun but in hebrew it says behold the day is coming okay that the day is coming glowing like a furnace and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be stubble and the sun that comes it does say it doesn't say son it says again hayong and this and the day comes and it's that day that's going to burn them up so weird that the word sun is we're translating as the word sun but it means the day and the sun that comes shall burn them up so that we'll leave them with neither root nor branch says the lord of hosts rashi says right there on the spot that the word yom is an expression for son for so did the sages state there will be no gehenna in the future but the holy one blessed be he will take the son out of its case the wicked will be punished thereby let's just call that gehenum but it's not ghana i mean it's a status of ghana it's like it's not the place it's what's happening and it's happening because they're evil now wait to hear verse 20. so right away he mentions in the clear car that the word in chapter 3 verse 19 the word haiyom is for sure talking about the sun the shemesh and what is that shemesh what is the sun going to do to the righteous look at verse 20 now it does say in verse 20 and they're translating it as son so in other words 19 meaning malachi chapter 3 verse 20 19 on the sorcery and the son of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings [Music] right it will shine for those who fear god's name a shemesh sadaka a righteous son a son of mercy s-u-n you remember i mentioned it's s-u-n and i don't have to repeat over and over again it should be clear that it's s-u-n sun shamish in its wings for those who fear my name and then they will go forth and be fatted as fat as fatted calves in other words what wonderful blessings are awaiting them in the world to come so it's the same day the same day the same sun the which day we talk about the day after we die right the great and terrible awesome uh day of judgment so the clear car continues and says hayong again why was there a proximity of the word hayom to the blessing and curse referring to what it's referring to in in malachi in verses 19 and 20. it's the same son but it's what you do all deeds matter for those of my students years ago we said we should make bumper stickers all deeds matter mingage hayomi which means synonymous with sun next to in proximity to the blessing and curse because it's from the s-u-n that's going to extend and draw forth what we call the brooklyn klala but it's not coming from the sun itself it's coming from you what you do and there's a gemara in conduction 39 b it says in this world there's no reward for your mitzvahs now that's a very vague uh general statement the prime reward is waiting for us in the world to come there are ways in fact there are a list of 26 the gemachi of god's name in which one could enjoy the fruits ah the crumbs the some of the pleasures of the rewards even in this world i'm not saying that you want to take away from your world to come this is in addition to this is like the dessert the the the whipped cream and the cherries on top right and i'll give you just a few examples the more effort you make the when you run to do a mitzvah the joy when you have joy doing a mitzvah hashem will pay you back in this world and it will not be taken away from the world to come um money spending a little bit more money when you have a choice in front of you i can get this let's just say you know a twenty-five dollar uh mezuzah or a thirty dollar mezuzah or even more right the more you spend the more reward you could taste and experience in this world and that's just a short list obviously there's a lot longer list so he says a lot now so since it's not going to happen in this world that you're going to receive the primary world it's going to happen in the next world look at verse 30 if we go to deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 30 which is like in our parsha here we're talking about this whole thing of i'm placing before you the blessing and the curse just i'm going back to the page we're looking at verse 30. so i just want to read it to you in english see i present before you today a blessing and a curse the blessing that you hearken to the commandments of hashem your god that i command you today and verse 28 and the curse if you do not hearken to the commandments of hashem your god do you stray from the path that i command you today to follow god as of others that you did not know verse 29 it will be that when hashem your god brings you to the land in which you come so we're talking about going into the land where the two mountains are and um to possess it then you will deliver the blessing on this mountain malgresim and the curse on the other mountain mount abell and ready for verse 30 it doesn't make any sense what is this verse doing here are they not on the other side of the jordan remember we are standing on the avery yard thing we're standing on the jordan the side of the jordan that make any sense we're standing on the jordan side of the jordan for those who have any you know um intellect of geography they know what i'm talking about in the direction of the sunset you're talking about the west it could have just said west what do you mean the direction of the sunset in the land of the canine that dwells in the plain far from gilgal near the plains of moret now it is a question and maybe a rhetorical question i don't understand what this verse is doing here so what does um raj explained yeah he says moshe gave geographical landmarks and whatnot um but i want to read what the clear car has to say about it he says like this we know that the words ah after the way of the sunset meaning in the direction of the sunset ready for this that this verse is giving like details signs and borders much more than someone who's selling a field i mean usually today now they have um you know you go to the government printing office and just print out a blueprint of you know the measurements of the lot that you're going to buy but back then you would say you know that tree all the way to that mountain all the way to that well and that's how you would describe a field so what's going on here talking about over the other side just say to the west what is the purpose of using these exact words ah derek mavo hashemish in the way of the direction of the sunset so the clear car wants to he asked the question derek hashem islamily why is that language being used so in vernacular i don't know every country probably says something different but the person went west means they died person went south they died at the end of the day they died i mean there's different languages that people use to express that someone passed to the next world um so that's the expression of passing on to the next world their son has set okay el shabol lyrimo saskar this hints to the idea of the prime time to receive the reward or punishment for whatever we're doing this is it's going to come at the end of our life well we're in we're in elo right we're at the footsteps right rosh chodesh is this shabbos sunday today rosh kodesh and we're entering elo when the king is in the field and he's accessible hashem is accessible and we were on the first of elo forgiven hashem said i forgive you for the sin of the golden calf and now come up moses 40 days later you will be receiving right that's the tenth of tishrei yom kippur so the whole montevello you know what the um what's the word the icon for the um constellation of el is the virgo virgo is representative of a virgin meaning not just a renewal of a relationship that went sour but a brand new start i forgive you god says i love you with an everlasting love and you're coming to me like a virgin like a a first time i understand there was an adulterous idolatrous relationship i get it but i forgive you and therefore we should really take advantage the best we can to do our own true our own we'll call heshman and nephesh a introspection and hopefully understand reading this parsha hayyom i'm placing before you the brooklyn klaula it's not really today but it's in a few weeks time but get ready get ready to receive i guess a reality check right get ready um so all grow up so i'm going to wish everyone a rosh kodeshtov a good shabbos shabbat shalom and always we say have a good life and we hope to see you next week [Music] is [Music]