Episode 3 BEYOND THE 7 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day everyone welcome back to our third installment in this new exciting series beyond the seven live from Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron David Poston who I'm learning so much from I am so thankful that he takes the time out of his busy schedule stays up very late it's late in Jerusalem right now but he's still willing to share Torah with us and I just am overjoyed so I'm not gonna hold him up any more I'm gonna turn it right over to Rabbi Poston rabbi how you doing tonight I'm enjoying this class I'm getting great feedback everybody's enjoying it we hope you're well and safe and Israel and everybody's doing well how are you tonight I'm well thank you Dan I see I see you have a big smile on your face as always I'm so glad to be here part of what you're doing part of the no hide world Center and everything that they're trying to accomplish in the world and I'm also just I think I'm not just humbled I I really feel privileged that you reached out to me and they were able to come together and share during this time well its first we should go and talk to all those people here in Israel good morning to the people far as Far East right whether then Australia China I don't know all the different names of the countries over there yeah and for those people in America I hope that at least the Jews anyway will be watching after Shabbat and for Noack I think this is a perfect opportunity to to reach out and to learn Torah during this holy day yeah and it is after Shabbat there and it's getting late and you know the sheer fact that that you're just willing to you know bend your schedule take away from sleep even to share and shine the light of Torah we are just grateful thankful and I must say the last two lessons have just kind of had some people's jaws open and so we're hoping you got some more Beauty to share with it because these are things that we of the 70 nations generally have not heard our parents haven't heard this we haven't heard it from you know religions we've come out of its unique it's it's the Hebrew roots that that has been taught all the way back to Moshe and I can't share it because we don't know it I mean I could get them in study books and and but a lot of it doesn't make sense unless we're told by a rabbi who's heard it all the way back in the chain so rabbi the floor is yours sir appreciate thank you so I do want to do a little bit of review least certain concepts and address certain questions that came up even during last week's class that I forgot to address and that have come up since one was a question somebody asked if they had a Gomorrah can they sit and learn the Gemara so Who am I to tell them no however my suggestion is that listen to other classes right listen or you know you pick up a book that is no but we're going to be learning for example the path of the just okay here's just one copy here's another copy and I've no idea if it's forward or backwards but when you're learning a safer you're learning and it quotes a Gomorrah so my suggestion is then use the Gomorrah that you have as a reference go deep see the language learn the language even the commentaries on that piece of Gomorrah I would not suggest take the Gomorrah and learn it from cover to cover it's more of a reference book because not all that is applicable and so part of the review to show you that that my answer I think is not just palpable palatable but to the correct answer we saw a list this isn't Gomorrah 92 a of a Hulan that had mentioned that the bene North had accepted upon themselves 30 mixes and the question is what does that mean they accepted upon themselves 30 mixes so I just want to go back to the idea we have seven misses that they're obligated and the question is are they just misses or are they general category so when we look when a Jew looks at a piece of truth right we consider what says in the Gemara what it says in the Torah the truth we only see a perspective right we can only see a limited vision let's say I have two people three people five people doesn't matter we're all sitting around a table we're discussing what we think is called absolute truth so only Hashem knows of the absolute truth there is such a thing called absolute truth but from my perspective if I had let's use this cup this coffee cup Vantage so as I turned it around you can see that it's nobody has a 360-degree view each of these five people have I'm gonna say twenty or thirty they have a little bit maybe even 180 degrees whatever it is they only have a certain perspective and the person on the other table has a different perspective and the person to my left of tomorrow night has also a different perspective so the five of us discussing this we have a chance when I hear what he has to say and and to like enter his mind so to speak I will get an additional perspective then I have my own so there's a possibility as a chance that the five of us together will actually be able to see something beyond ourselves because we're sharing with the other person and we're accepting what the other person is saying now the person could be making a mistake his vision may be blurred and we have the right to challenge them and that's what I mentioned about the Caruso system and when you're dealing with someone else in your it's like iron against iron is going to become sharpen right so this is this is the way we have to number one realize we cannot ourselves see absolute truth we have to go into the Torah we have to go into and a higher and this is one of the things I want to lead into respect for the Torah itself think about our Bernardino IRA did not have the writ okay but he had a lot of information that came down through shame and Ava and he had an inquiring mind and I think on a certain level there was a lot of logic okay so one of the other ideas why is it might be there 30 minutes as we mentioned many of them many of what we call the the basis of the seven Noahide laws are things that are logical things that you can come to your own truth because it's inside of you right every soul is creative universe everyone has it and so when you do introspection and you can find the truth because it's really there and I'm also this is part of the introduction to the facility shrine which we're going to be learning that the information is actually on the hard drive it's actually there so we talked about the thirty misses that they accepted their logical now something I mentioned in was last week that what what's the difference between a wise non Jew right we call him make Huck make uma so Allah from the wise of the nation as opposed to make Hasidic uma Sola from the pious of the nation's so one of the biggest differences first of all in terms of the status and I don't mean to put anybody down this is the way the Rambam seems to express it that the one who's wise came to it on his own similar to the way I just described and he is lacking or he's not yet accepted that the Torah was from heaven and this is gonna make all the difference in the world when it comes to what we call eternity all of haba the rambam implies he is not included in the occult reward or the expansion of this world right this rule is just a entrance way of proof right it's an an alleyway in order to get to the larger room so he's missing something but I think that that's part of growth because if somebody is able to come to that point where the living a moral life they decided came to this on their own that is a stepping stone at least in my opinion in the right direction and he should not be faulted he shouldn't be mocked and he shouldn't be belittled I think that if you had eight million people in the planet who were all holding there we'd be in a lot better shape than we are okay so let's just say I used the term he's on a lower level I don't mean it is when I he's a lowlife god forbid I think that that guy it should be that person should be praised but that's not where I think a person who wants to be listed and have the status of a si de uma Sola so the remember him says that the person is in the status of Casa de una sola again the word seething needs pious righteous you sure right all these words will describe he has accepted and he doesn't say this I'm adding this he's accepted the mission of the Jewish people why because the ground Bob says that he accepts the tourists from heaven so we're talking something unchangeable it's written with every single letter right in its order I want to share a good more with you at some point tonight and we'll get to it it's I have quite a few quite a few I don't want to go too much out of order it's Ingham or Shabbos 31 a it's about two people to come to convert I'm sorry someone who comes to convert and they approach sham I and they approach Hillel and they get very different answers we discussed in previous classes about the there has to be an oral torah so the question is I'm not trying to convince any non Jew who listen who's listening that there is an altar ax let me let me go to this Gomorrah right now so you'll have an idea some of the things I want to share with you guys so in Gomorrah Shabbat 31 a the rabbi's thought it happened that a Gentile came before Shamai and asked how many tourists do you have so she my said two we have two tourists a written Torah and an oral torah so the Gentile said you know I trust you regarding the written tar but I don't trust you regarding the oral torah convert me on condition that you teach me the written Torah and we already know who Shama is a little bit short-tempered and he admonished him and he angrily removed him the same Gentile came to Hillel and he asked convert me the same the good more doesn't say what he said but we know that he must have said the same words Hillel was a little bit more let's say forgiving but the commentators explained that Hillel felt this person was sincere and that's gonna make all the difference okay even the Rambam says that a-goin should not be learning Torah we're not talking about someone who's sincere okay and again it's not all parts of Torah but anybody who's sincere why not there's no loss and he converted him so the question is did he actually convert him or he started the process so according to most opinions he only started the process so the first day Hillel taught him alef-bet gimel dalet he started to teach him what we call the alphabet so let me just ask you I mean we all grew up we learned this famous song I don't know how to sing another but ABCD EFG right so it was like a good way to remember the alphabet so even if you didn't recognize the letter as a child you you it began to enter your mind so you got to get the idea so he started teaching him the the alphabet and how did he teach and he actually started teaching him I'll just use the term from right to left because in in in Hebrew it starts from the right to the left which is going to be significant in a second you'll see why the next day he reversed the order but it doesn't mean he reverse the order started teaching him Beth Alif he started from the other end right tough shin race cough okay so he started teaching him from left to right but again that's not yet significant so the convert then said to him right the second day but rabbi right you didn't say that yesterday you don't you talking the alphabet ABC I will pick him and now you're teaching me from Z backwards you know from the tough backwards so he says he'll oh recently response didn't you rely on me rely on me regarding the oral law as well because remember the original question how many toes do you have oh we have to but I don't I don't really trust that there's an orator how in the world when your mother taught you or your gun in it or whoever is your kindergarten teacher started teaching you a CBE you believe them right son and then you actually could put words together comprehension and onward as you grew up but it all started with the basics the building blocks the the assaut the foundation of of knowledge started with the most simplest understanding how do you know what I'm telling you is even true if I tell you this is an A and then this is a B and then there's a C or I will take mo and then the next thing you come to me and I tell you the opposite like the tuff is really the a and the shin is really the bean I'm you have to rely it's called oral I mean you were talking speech right I don't want to go off on tangents I talked about this a lot but why do you think just then maybe we'll leave this for food-for-thought we'll talk about another time why does it have to say that God spoke when he created you you know I mean he doesn't have eyes but he could have blinked his eyes right he doesn't have fingers but he could have snapped his fingers there's so many things that the Turk could have described right that he could have done to create the universe but it was through speech so we'll leave that for thought but so one of the ideas here is that as a non Jew coming to learn Torah there's a vast amount of hush kapha of worldview that you have to enter and just to teach him that when we think about right-to-left meaning the alphabet in Hebrew anyway to the right is mercy and to left is dim judgment so he's teaching him okay so God is merciful very nice anybody would want to convert it that way right well I would like to join a kadai religion that the God is all merciful and then the next day he tells him from the other end which is from left to right so now he's teaching him you thought God is your limited you think that this is God but God is much bigger than what you can even imagine well Ruth Diana met when God forbid bad things are we hear bad tidings we all say Barack died on and met God is a truthful judge when someone passes away or someone lost everything in the in the stock market or a car crash god forbid law loses a total of you know a car that it could be a hundred thousand dollars or whatever I don't kind of car is that much money but imagine there are cars I mean forty thousand dollars it up right it's a lot of money not to use junker right the kid you know you can buy the new paycheck yes we say Brookline MA because ultimately ultimately we know that everything is done for our good even then and this God that we believe in is not a duality it's not a God of good and then there's a different kind of bad everything everything emanates from God even what we call evil doesn't mean that he actually emanates from him but he created it he created it and then when he restricts himself he allows the evil to exist yes I don't know if I wanted to talk about this was a little bit controversial because some people are asking me some of my students are asking me a lot about the different conspiracy theories and perhaps you know certain rabbis are talking about 5g and vaccines and all kinds of things that are happening now with the with this virus it all emanates from Michelle we have to trust only in a Kurdish Buraku the Holy One blessed be he he knows more than anything and all everything from the right or from the left meaning from mercy or judgment it's all emanating from him so yes we have to take precautions and if we have the ability to stop whatever that means for 5g from coming into our neighborhood went to our country so you can petition or whatever it is but ultimately we have to trust in a sham just like we cannot live with fear we have to live this simply if the service you enjoy nevertheless put on the mask okay no big deal why are we putting on the mask maybe not because of our immune system right is compromised but perhaps someone else's okay and we have to really care for our elders if nobody asked me but only like I'm not anybody called Monday night quarterback where they call this you know Monday morning care armchair quarterback it seems like the best situation would have been and could have been where we only put a lockdown on the elderly and on the people who are you know compromised with their immune system and then all of us could have been building up our immune system which involves light meaning not have been to be put away in quarantine but we don't know we'll never know who ever no but it leads into one other idea that it says in the Zohar that the this wills armored the SheiKra this is a world of illusion a world of lies and when we know that and there's a perky alice's don't you should hate the government you should not buddy up with the government maybe we'll talk about that another time but be weary you're right they have an agenda okay so let's put that aside what do we just discussed in Chaves 31 a that there is an altar you have to at least I mean I don't say you have to someone who is wants to relationship with God at so do the investigation and the only way to investigate I should say the only way the the way has I'll tell us if you like it Abra Medina you're a very special unique person you could come to it on your own through watching nature okay so Abram was able to use that inner truth and all of his you know enquiries and he investigated greatly and he came to a conclusion it came to relationship but that's not that's not true that every time they can Harry okay so we have the Torah the Torah itself is God's Word and that by going deep deep you realize I should say you should really you will realize most likely you'll come to realize that this is the an unbelievable work okay it's in the language of my rabbi Rev doc Weinberg said it's an instruction manual right God put us on this planet and he gave us instructions the word Torah is from the word hora aa which are instructions and the whole Torah is as cuz I'll say it it is a it's to fix our character traits okay it's there to can negati etcetera it's a truth serum it's a drug of truth it's a it's the treats the it's the best drug okay is that word remedy work remedy thank you against the AIDS around which we all have Jew and non-jew everyone has it we started the first session talking about Cain and Abel and the conversation that God had with King and he said if you work on yourself if you prove your character you got nothing to worry about nothing to fear okay so this is my message regarding all those conspiracy theories that the y8 Sahara yes it's strong and it's strong because God created it that way okay and there's a remedy and that's the Torah that is our belief in Hashem again for that nor hide and I call my know hi who is amongst the Hufnagel missoula he's is very intelligent very inquisitive and he came to the conclusion on his own that okay so there are these universal laws great but guess what I hate to break it to you that's cold you will not you will not receive the world to come so I pray that you continue your search and you continue your journey because I think you're on the right path not that the best path but the right path and eventually the Ratish M through investigation learning Torah you'll come to a different conclusion and which leads me into the idea that Abraham it says that he made souls and I'm discussing this because later we're gonna see there's so much here that we share with you in the path of the in the introduction the introduction will end the introduction which we will discuss tonight I don't think we're gonna get through the whole thing but in the introduction it ends with a Bryce that's a tonight source in the Gemara of repinned class Rebbe Pincus vignette here and he goes through different ten of them all together which is going to be significant someone also asked me about ten earlier tonight and I will discuss that ten there's tensity wrote there's ten specific ways does Shem manifests himself so Ruby pin cuts Ben Yair explains these are the character traits that one should go like in stages a journey just like the wives of the nation's are on a journey so to the truth be told so too are the hasib AO missoula it's also part of the journey the very last part is we call truth of Kadesh we'll bring one to recess at resurrection of the Dead what is it and I just want it I I want to just discuss this for one minute cuz I really want to go back to the beginning but this is the very last this is how it ends he's going to be able to do what to actually resuscitate others to resuscitate others and it's very interesting what does that mean so I think this is what it means that Avram made souls those souls existed those people lived yet he made them look in Genesis 12 5 it says the souls they made in quran how can a human being make a soul so Rashi says the souls they made refer to the convert they made now these converts were not converting to Judaism they were converting to the Abrahamic faith let's call it okay Avram himself kept what what did he keep so there's different opinions that he kept all 613 commandments meaning his soul was so sensitive even before the term was given that he kept all 613 that's one opinion even the rabbinic opinion even the rabbinic injunctions that even that hadn't yet even come into being that he kept going to another opinion but what's more likely what's more realistic I think is that there's the people that he kept just A+ mitzvahs and some say just kept the seven Noahide laws this is a little bit more realistic but it doesn't matter in my imagination I can understand Iver on being on such a high level that he was actually able to in tune be in tune spiritually with any one of these opinions okay that puts our I'm on a very high level for us we need the Torah okay we're not on that level we can actually in the so in tune with all 613 like would we have known not to put shot nasaan we have would we have known not to put wool and linen their garment that it's not right I don't know I doubt it I got I'm when that level would have been on that level but the tar least is able to explain to me what I need to know and okay so I thought that would be very interesting to share and yeah you're talking about Abraham what didn't in Genesis 25 Mary she's 25 I think it's 25 might have been 26 where Hashem was dealing with Isaac and he spoke of Abraham there was four specific words that he used because Abraham followed his his Mitzvahs because Abraham followed his his laws his statutes his ordinances these four specific words have great detail in the Hebrew language from my understanding he do they branch to that full 613 do you think like I said there are opinions that said he kept not only the 613 but even the rabbinic injunctions now the rabbinic injunctions are based on Torah concepts and everybody has within them the full makeup of the depth of the truth right when her soul was in our mother's room which the word for room is reckon wreck em is another I guess it's the root word of rock Amim Rock maynooth mercy we were in another dimension that our souls were in in truth like an enveloped in truth and therefore that's part of why we have the certain instincts everybody has it this is another thing I want to actually be to today I wanted to speak about from last week if it's true that a dead not one of the righteous who not righteous one of the wise can just you know based on a thought the not just one logic alone that he could be an atheist or agnostic so the more I thought about it again it's part of a journey perhaps in the beginning I don't think that he could stay that way I don't believe because because even if you just got a glance of the Torah in its true depth with at least a good teacher you would come to believe that this could not have been written by man okay at least to realize that so again if you realize this as such has such depth and was not written by man then the logical conclusion is then then who wrote it okay so I think that somebody even just logically if a bronc come to it logically it's just much more difficult it's not impossible it's for the very few individuals okay I don't know if that is addressing what you're asking I do want to address the word hope because one of the enigmas Terry anyway but a few people asked me also if because I mentioned it last week the word Hulk seems to imply from the nature of the word is those misses that don't have logic so basically if we're going to say that the oh I want to be frank get into that there is one more thing I wanted to share about the seven laws or not seven laws but the seven overall arching vein has old and so I wonder if you go to Exodus chapter 24 twelve and the Lord said to Moses come up to me to the mountain and remain there and I will give you the stone tablets the law and the commandments they have written to instruct him the Oh Masha Allah Masha Allah a lie Ihara the Yesha then Allah saw at Lucas ahead invitar of Amit sadh I should to talk to you little Tom so there's a lot to be said about this but Rashi says there that and I mentioned this before how many letters are there in the tablets there are six hundred and twenty letters in the first set of tablets Rashi says all 66 thirteen mixes are included in the Ten Commandments what does that mean it means that there are ten categories just like I can say with confidence that the seven midslope the seven Noahide laws are not laws but they're categories here Y of all 613 mitzvahs are included and the roofs are gone he actually divided them up into how all 613 that are divided into ten categories now knowing that this is Rashi look at Rashi on that on that verse and he's bringing it from a Midrash robbing that the seven are exactly the same way and what's my proof that the 20 letters represent the 613 commandments for the Jews and the Seven Commandments for the dungeons 613 and 7 and you have right there 620 is Keter cat air cough the storming tough 400 race 200 620 what is ketta I mean Corona it means crown that's what cat term means catcher is usually referred to as catcher Torah the crown of Torah the crown of Turin needs to be put back in its rightful place okay we're freaking out about Corona the answer is this is the solution and I hope we don't get mixed from from Facebook or from YouTube the spiritual answer okay the spiritual answer is to put the crown back in its right place and it's back to the idea of seven overall overarching concepts okay and therefore we can easily explain the Gomorrah when it said thirty they either accepted another twenty would even say another twenty twenty-three or they're actually subcategories of existing myths a lot of talk about the word cloak because I gave a few shirin that explained the word Hulk in a little bit different fashion it doesn't mean that it doesn't it doesn't mean that it doesn't mean those mitzvahs that don't make logical sense and therefore that's what the Jews like in other words you have anything is logical it's gonna fit under the seven categories and all those who came all those other misses are statutes that don't make logical sense are that's for the Jews to do that's going to be true oh by the way just while we're on the subject somebody asked and last week our but other what mixes our Jew and non-jew is not allowed to do okay so I discussed to fill in it's it's let's just say discouraged for good reason Shabbos which we discussed in terms of as long as the mekinese would observe as long as they celebrate it in a optional way that they show that they're not obligated this is a os-- this is a sign between me and the Jewish people and the Jewish people have a higher level of observance but a non Jew certainly can and probably should celebrate Shabbat in some way Pesach offering the Passover offering explicitly says this is not for this is for non Jew should not do it okay they're not included okay also in terms of what the Jewish people are made up of three different classes I'll used to work classes so I don't have a better language you have Navy of Cohen lately in Israel there are misses that a regular your al cannot do and should not do so I don't understand how a non Jew can be like upset okay there are rules dog mitzvahs that don't apply to me as a regular yes rayul okay they're just beyond so I don't have to go into all those if they don't apply to me as he regularly struggle they only plan to Cohen so then for sure all those who do not apply to a a non Jew either clear also their armed route there are laws that only apply to men we're only applied to women okay so there's there's so many things that are I am often mentioned earlier in the previous class so that all Israel is responsible for one another when we stood at Mount Sinai we said nah seven ish ma we said in plural for now we will do and we will listen so that meant that as a as a whole so if one Jew doesn't keep a mitzvah it's gonna affect me because we entered the contract as a group right under how it works in contractual but if a group of people went into a contract and one of them failed that contends what's in the contract basically they're all failing right unless it's specified right right if they're all I shouldn't review something that I read off to you last week about the difference between a June and on June and this is from nefesh I am in the chapter 4 and the first it's actually the the first gate but it's chapter 4 the first gate where he discusses in the notes what is the difference in of June Adagio so he says the relationship of a Jew to a non Jew is like that of a priest to a member of the congregation serves as per the scriptural description of the Jewish people who are mom left at colony the guy kadosh the Jewish people are called a kingdom of priests and a holy nation that you can find in Exodus chapter 19 6 both positions of priests and congregant have significance and corresponding obligations meaning they're not the same they're gonna have obligations but they're not exactly parallel a priest is not a priest if he has no congregation and the congregation requires a priest to provide assistance the Jew is obligated to observe 613 and the non-jews simply has the obligation to observe seven Noahide laws both Jew and non-jew had the ability and free choice to generate at acuña rectification or god forbid the opposite Ikuko or damage through their actions or these matter old deeds matter however the Jews obligation and responsibility is to rectify both himself and the worlds around him whereas the non-jews obligations rectify himself therefore the impact of the Jews actions reach further now if any non Jew would wish to take on a greater level of obligation he has free choice and he can even convert to Judaism Judaism he wants however non-jews able to reach meaning spiritual heights of perfection in serving God even without conversion okay what I want to say give me a second what we're going to talk about in terms of the path of the just is a subdued classy dudes is gonna be one of the main chapters I think I'm gonna be making a mistake if we just skip to it so we're going to want to go to the introduction and it could be that we'll do some other parts before we get to chapter 18 to 19 the concept of a subdued means to go beyond the letter of the law to take on obligations that you're not obligated I don't know where this idea came on that if you are not Jew and you want to take on an additional Mitzvah it's like you're creating a new religion I don't know I don't know where it came from I think that if you take it on saying you're obligated so then you're creating a new religion go ahead yeah I guess from my understanding and in my last couple years specifically it's a question of I know you have a word for strange worship okay although the additional religion problems do is they do it in a strange or unfamiliar or unknown what makes it an addition to something that God never required of you and and when it's made up that's what makes it wrong is when it's it's like this is the way we're going to do it and wait a second what do you base it on nobody gave you direction to go down that path there's nowhere no precedents in Torah there's no precedents you know what makes a false religion of false religion is they're going down their own path in their own ideas and that's where vanity lies is when it's imaginative and built upon imagination without any actual foundation now I think the Hebrews are teaching clearly what makes a new religion is that strange ordinance that that you've made into a rule and calling it a mitzvah when it has no real what but I think where you're you're clarifying to us as Benet noah is that these are established honest legitimate torah mitzvahs and doing it when the opportunity arises right because you see it before you you understand what it's about and you see the need and you meet the need I love how you brought out earlier about remedy about the cure like an injection that that meets the need and if you're walking down the street and you see something and you know a mitzvah will solve an issue and a problem why wouldn't you step forward and do it whether you're you're you're a Jew and you know you should then you're obliged to or if you're a non Jew and you see the need and you're like don't just shirk from that it becomes responsible sorry I think you yeah no I think you're right when somebody says without guidance I'm obligated that's I guess we call that creating a new religion I don't know if that's the term I would use but I can understand that you just created your own religion right I don't know if new a the Torres gives guidelines what is typically for Jews as an obligation what is specifically for non-jews as an obligation again all things that are logical okay so if it's not so logical you're doing what we call kasi dude you burped on Gumby on the letter the law and going beyond the letter of law means I know where the law ends and I'm going beyond it I'm not saying I'm doing because it's an obligation and that takes knowledge we said that a in ignoramus a bore cannot be a hussy so that requires learning this is another reason for involving yourself in learning Torah going back to the list there were a few a few of the there was actually two lists and I actually wanted to read from both of them certain mixes last to find where the other list is here it is okay we have two lists of 30 one surprisingly said the singularity of God to know there's one God and to pray okay so that was on the list from Aaron lifting steam rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein in the arts role it mentioned the positive command to engage in the study of Torah let me go back and the positive command to honor the Torah apparently one of the thirty commandments that the north hides accepted was to honor the Torah which makes sense and number 22 the positive commandment to engage in the study of those parts of the Torah that are relevant to the null Heights and another midst that's against studying the parts of the tour that are exclusive to the Jewish people so keeping that in mind there's so much that a non Jew can learn and should be learning and again part of the introduction that we're going to learn the path of the just is I think I don't agree disagree with me again everyone has he ain't Sahara everyone is commanded to stay away from the zsr so why would anybody not try to find the solution to how to put in check how to guard against and the 8th Sahara so the path of the just is a perfect a perfect system a perfect safer which hopefully we'll talk about I had so much to do unbelievable oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I didn't want to begin so let's start let's let's continue where I mentioned that I gave a few classes in the past about the word coke coke again we said the definition seems to be those mid slopes that are not logical but keep in mind there are other definitions or other understandings of the word hope that we should understand so let's just keep with the original idea Hulk according to Rashi says the things that are only to decree of the king out apparent rational and with which the evil inclination finds forth and this is least virtue see the the question that the yet Sahara the sottano ask what's the sense of doing these things why are they prohibited who cares what's the problem with wearing chaton is a mixture of wool linen or eating pork or who cares about the red cow anything that is cooked okay so with this line of thinking I would say that cooking are generally beyond reason and therefore the banana are not obligated fine and but there's no reason that they can't optionally not optionally is in preferably but optionally is in having free will to choose if they want to do it or not as long as they are doing it knowingly that it's optional okay now in the heart in in parsha the hukou tie interesting Italy enough if the word is if you walk in my statutes right in Baku coat Itay lately so everybody explains the word buckle tied does not mean the statutes it doesn't mean statutes there it means relate we're learning the Torah if you dedicate yourself to learning Torah so therefore as we just saw in the list that even a non Jew is obligated to learn the parts of the tur that relates to him so what's the problem the word hulk means not what we thought it meant all in all cases but in that case it means that one should dedicate themselves to learning the torah that they need to learn also in parsha cooking again this is a GU code so again that the nate the name of the chapter is also Hoke so this deals with the red cow but over there the the klique are explained suddenly I used a clearer card as an example he explains that a Hulk is you specifically that one should keep the Mishpatim the Mishpatim are the laws that are like civil laws that makes sense and he does it like because it makes sense he does it with a lot of Z he root a lot of carefulness he's really careful but guess what there's a comparison to the houki and therefore he should keep the hoe keen we're talking at a regular a Jew he keeps the hukum like he keeps the mesh bottom even though they don't make sense but because of the decree of the king you should keep them and then vice versa vice versa meaning that if the hukum don't make sense that i have to keep them i should even keep the mesh bottom which do make sense because of the decree of the king and this is what leads me into the idea of it's a general concept it's the Hulk does not mean always just the misses that don't make sense but that even if they don't make sense I know this is a decree of the king and if I decide as a non Jew I want to keep them I'm allowed to even the Mossad team again what's there enough sweetness I see they almost all odd because I'm him I'm keeping them because God said so that already brings me to such a higher level why am i doing the Misha pot team yes they make sense but guess what they're like a Hulk they're like a hub they like the decree of the king and that brings me already to a higher level so this lesson of what a Hulk means is a general lesson for everybody and that's what really what I want to talk about that what the Torah has to say our principals for all mankind knows we will see in Massena sharing the details may be different how you actually perform them are going to be maybe even significantly different but there's a lesson you learn the Torah to learn how to live your life through it's an instruction manual we mentioned that it's all based on Cassatt the whole Torah is really about how to deal with other people we said that in the very beginning God clothed the naked right Adam and Eve had no clothes he clothed the naked that's a meter to counter trait with kindness and concern and care and at the very end of the Torah God buries Moses right that's what we call Hesed show Evans you don't even get a thank you who's gonna thank you right this is it the person's dead but you're doing such offensive who's gonna bury him so that's like the two bookends the beginning of the Torah and the end of the Torah so what do you think's all the middle stuff it's all the same it's all the details of how to do tests it had to be kind and this is what the miss Alicia Sharma is going to bring us to an understanding about so what I'm hopefully well cannot go into this Mishnah the price of sorry at the end when we said Ruby Pincus bending your ear he said like this so let's go through it even though this is how it ends Torah study brings one to vigilance Kurama V Maithili Daisy he routes Z he route and that is the word that the Rambam uses when he described when he describes a Ben no he actually uses that word here cool this is in that chapter 811 in the laws of kings and their worst call him macabre Abraham it's thought anyone who accepts the seven mitzvot then is har lasso table and is village'll int to do them so he's already using that word in vigilance then in turn the heroes M'Vila days result so this idea of vigilance is going to bring someone to alacrity quickness Reese's brings one tunic use which is cleanliness and then cleanliness is going to bring one to pre-shoot which is abstinence and then that's gonna bring one to Tahara which is purity and then Tahara brings one to kasi dude that's gonna be the chapter we're gonna deal with mostly but again the introduction because not to share next next week we'll talk about in the introduction how kasi do plays an important part and everything we're trying to accomplish which has a lot to do with fear of God awesome knowing knowing God and how awesome he is so then tt piety would bring one to another humility and that would bring one to the fear of sin which is your state and that would bring someone to kedusha which is holiness and then that one that brings once to Ruach Hakodesh divine inspiration and it ends off that brings one to the resurrection of the Dead what in the heck does that mean resurrection is bad it means that you will be able to share such truth and holiness to resurrect and I don't mean convert in terms of Judaism but to convert in terms of Abraham was able to bring these souls to life from the dark side from from being asleep right his sleep in the dust so to speak this is what life's about sharing the joy sharing the truth and Baruch Hashem there's so many not I don't know what term to use them to use for them Noah hides is an okay term for some reason a lot of people have trashed the name and but I was maybe but I'm about to say is even worse non-jews practicing the Jewish religion and we're practicing Judaism because that's really what it is do let me give you another example just to get when more expresses when the Romans they destroyed the temple they burnt the temple down they they they they ransacked Jerusalem in the future there's going to be a great judgement and they're all gonna say all the different nations are gonna say why they were anti-semantic I we weren't really anti-semitic you know we did it everything we did with the Jews we built the theaters we built the roads we built the bridges everything was really for the Jews God's gonna say you're liars would be talking about you didn't collect taxes you better figure out enjoyment right do you realize that the Romans understood if they actually understood what the temple stood for they never would have destroyed it they sent there always to guard it right as we know in the future all the different kings and representatives of the different nations are going to come to you shall I am on circus and if they don't bring you know their offerings are or acknowledge Hashem they won't see rain right so what benefit did it give Rome what benefit was it for Rome to destroy they were lacking this information so any non Jew that really understands the mission as I mentioned the mission of the Jewish people again we are the priests so we have a lot more obligations but the principles are basically the same every one of them and I'll reiterate this the word Mitzvah does not mean command yes it can be translated but it comes from the word savoir like in Hebrew fret seventh is a group of people working in harmony okay it's a kabura it's look up there it means to connect every one of the Mitzvah is an opportunity to connect some are obligated the Jews in all 613 and the non Jew is not obligated in a majority of them but those when I say this classical beyond the seven because it's more than just seven I'm not asking anybody to take on things like who King okay but at least understand and the depth of the mission of the Jewish people that you helping us do our mission in other words you mean a Jew in the street you ask them why did you believe in God no you keep Shabbos no you keep kosher no why are you in denial do you realize you're the chosen people get with the program you know you're holding up the Messiah you're holding up utopia right you're you're come on I'm willing to take upon my seven and the subcategories thereof right why don't we learn turn together why do in other words you have eight billion people in the planet yes the Jew has been persecuted but someone can comes to convert you know they're asking that they Dan is an why do you want to be Jewish do you realize that we are a persecuted people why would you want to join its interesting because in the Mishnah in Sanhedrin it says that every Jew is a place in the world to come and we already discussed bilham is listed later on and Bill was not Jewish and we went through this already that non-jews also get a place in the world to come Prince huh the pious do sorry thank you so non Jews were pious of course so what's the difference so a Jew has to work hard to get rid of his Olam haba he has to go out of his way and break Shabbos he's to go out of his way and eat pork right he's to go out of this way be a nasty person right he is to go out of his way okay but guess what then as a result of him is not keeping it he will experience suffering he will she will experience the tycoon the purgatory of the word but there's a refining through what first of all he isn't up to the truth but if he doesn't to chuhwa there's gonna be refining and that unfortunately is the state of too many Jews alibi they shoulder Trueba and not have to go through the suffering the non Jew on the other hand to get into all about he actually has to do he has to make a major effort so what did I just say did not the Jew to get out of all of my bar and without the suffering is to make okay start again the Jew has to work very hard to get out of all of ABBA right in other words he's always guaranteed a spot he has to be a real under criminal under a lot right and the non Jew on the other hand has to make the effort to get in and I just make that clear that you're lighting right you're invited and it's it's an amazing opportunity and we want you we don't want to be there alone we wouldn't feel we're doing our job as priests Randy we read in the nefesh a high and what's a priest without a congregation yeah I just I gotta say especially as somebody who's come out of the nation's rabbi you know the yetzer Hara especially for those within the nations of the world that have not had any foundation you know it's very very hard to change the nature as it comes across or the way they've been brought up they know not any better and a lot of times they say to themselves you know only this makes sense they don't in the senses and only that makes sense and in its it's like sadly some of them like wolves only go back when they've had a meal you know and and and they live in the same rut over and over and over and over for generations and millennia and you know Hashem is a patient and long-suffering and I just I just listening to you say how hard it is for a Jewish person to lose the Olam haba I want you to please understand that unless you've shined the light unless you shine the light it's so hard for those that are stuck in there yet sir how are their animalistic tendencies to even catch a glimpse you know I'm gonna share quickly so we've got plenty of time if we need to rub away unless you unless you you got to go but you know the other day my wife and I were cooking dinner and we bought this new house about 18 months ago and we've got a short lawn and on the one side and we got a lot of dog walkers that walk here and you know what it's like in in in North America a lot of people walk their dogs and they love to go on our lawn and you know so we you know I see this leash and somebody's pulling this black haired animal on a leash and and my wife's like Darrin get out there and deal with it right so you know I go I don't like okay and I go there cuz you know chase him off the lawn and I open the door and wouldn't you know it it's on and harness a tusk wearing swine right somebody walk in a swine and the sun's coming from the west and they're trying to drag this poor swing that had to be a couple hundred pounds with short little legs they're like walking it like a dog and I said honey you got to come out and see this alright and they're trying to drag this swine into the into the sunlight and they you know there was one adult who had had leash on the thing and two children there the first time they're saying trying to explain they just walk in this animal and I could tell what was wrong immediately by the the swine did not want to walk towards the sunlight it could not see its natural aversion was to goat for the shadowing even when they were pulling it was going to the other side of the street into the shadows of the fences across the street from me and I told them I said he's the only walking in the shadows so the two young ones walked right in front of the swine and slowly walked backwards and the point of the matter is that the swine followed in the shadow and followed because the Sun was shining behind them and it made all the difference and so what's my analogy and all this this factually happened but the analogy is those are the 70 nations some of us are just so lost in darkness we don't know any better and especially if we're stuck in certain religions that you know pound a drumbeat like you think we're still somewhere in primitive sub-saharan you know and I hate to say it some of us are like chimps in trees but if the light shines and it's so bright there are ways to buffer it and you're doing a wonderful job and I want to face it thank you so the word Torah means light by the way but not only instruction but aura all right hora our instructions instructions are you know of guiding path so it works out perfectly and in Yiddish I say yes it really mean sitting there in our Mac dual right that Tory is called do right now which means the light okay so let's let's right now spend the next I guess 15-20 minutes on this piece of Torah we call light and the Gomorrah basically is bringing a verse a verse from Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse 10 this is the introduction to the brighter of Rebbe pimples been a year and it's based on 23 10:23 10 and I'll use 11 just to give an example 22 it goes like this when it camp goes against goes out against your enemies you shall guard against anything evil in the classes that I've taught I explain like that huh here it means your enemies your plural enemies you're more than one you're the physical animate and you have an internal enemy okay so when you're going out against your intern internal enemy as well okay guard yourself against anything evil so this is talking about your evil inclination guard yourself against your evil inclination and then it says in verse 11 if there will be among you a man who will not be clean because of the nocturnal occurrence this is talking about this like path of the Justice so important what you see with your eyes during the day is going to affect you at night and in the possibility of having a nocturnal emission so he should not go outside the camp he shall not enter the midst of the camp now just get some spirituality and so spooky stuff the the the commentators on this Gomorrah and this piece this is why he's explaining this is um actually it's what do we say the night we're talking at the end of life so you talk about stages of life you talking about stages during the day or you talk about you know at night meaning the end what you do in this world is going to affect you at night what you do in this moment is going to affect the next moment okay so guard yourself now against evil that's gonna be the verse but interestingly enough it mentioned I'll just read the the words of the actual Gomorrah tunner of a nun so this is how the bracelet uses our verse when the camp goes out to war against your enemies nish Marta guard yourself me called davara against anything evil shallow you hear her ah dumb beyond a man should not have these called illicit thoughts he shouldn't think certain forbidden thoughts during the day we avoid a cough lead a to miss Lyla that's going to bring this negative the negative forces at night which is the not nocturnal occurrence we all know what that means well adults okay and then Robbie Pincus been year goes through this whole list so I'm going to share a piece from the Ben Yoda and I hope to get through it we started oh okay okay so taurah brings one to ze route ze route is being vigilant which is the word that Rambam used at least if someone wants to follow the Rambam and be an or hide who is amongst the pious he's going to be in this category of the he wrote of this vigilant and then the vigilant yes ah you're sure you carry the diversion Maithili they uh Vera what does that mean he should be careful not to come close to something that will bring him to sin make sense Dinah Sheila Yale is a modern Russia he shouldn't be friend someone who's evil he shouldn't become friendly with someone who's evil as in perky I vote perky a vote in Chapter one I think it's number seven Nitai are Bailey would say distance yourself from a bad neighbor do not cleave to a wicked person and do not abandon belief in retribution meaning those reward and Punishment so that's how it begins also low a lake our Petaquilla zona Pena Rena gift a no nutria don't go to the door of a woman who is let's say beyond immodest lest you see her and become enticed your your your evil inclination entices you zona means a prostitute but it could mean any woman who is let's say loose and it says in Miculek chapter five verse eight distance your way from her do not draw near to the entrance of her house it's deep but that's just the beginning the Saint Quixote busy Bashar Pavano so - or other sins right there are let's just at least seven right there seven sins by a so distance yourself what about Shri Zeus Shri Zeus is alacrity she Murphy - ma Niklas lebay zona if innocently innocently you went into a house of ill-repute Olomouc emotional lazy or people playing poker meaning a place where what are they called late singh late samara jesters what do you call people who don't take anything serious or their appeal to any place that people are sinning right yes Ariza Lavrov be sure be alack be quick to run out from there you broke me now I read like you're running away from a lion commotion otoño like it says in querque a vote this is in the fourth chapter the second Mishnah then as I would say run to pursue a minor mitzvah which i think is really going to relate to what we're talking about as well in terms of the additional or seven-plus beyond the seven run to pursue a minor mitzvah and flee from a transgression a mitzvah brings another Mitzvah and a transgression brings another transgression the reward for mitzvot is a mitzvah the reward for a transgression is a transgression sorry flizzy sir is she my handler routes elude ever mitzvah the bruckman are there so what you need to do is be quick to run to do a mitzvah and to run away from a sin okay what about an acute this is called cleanliness meaning to say Leo tanake men are Chicago's loop reshoots I'm sorry that's go goes that you should be cleaned from Chicago's are not intentional but even unintentional sins right acts is not acts not acts of accidents but negligence let's say you should have known better okay be clean pre-shoot which we said was absent should Kurdish mana Dabra don't Melissa separate yourself separate yourself or abstinence separate yourself from something that's similar to a sin now this gets into this week's parsha kadosh kadosh into usually holy Kadosh literally means separate separate yourself and the before she mister should the Rambam explain that one should separate themselves from even that which is permissible in other words I have in front of me a cake I made a cake I can eat the whole thing because it's kosher right it's got all kosher ingredients but I shouldn't eat the whole thing I should abstain from eating 80% of this cake right now I can only try it so even that which is permissible a example is a man and a woman just because it's permissible you can imagine - so they're married it's very nice but they spend all day in the bedroom with no break whatsoever this is not a healthy situation in most cases ok so back to the point here so Prius means to separate yourself Peter Schmidt at Dover had diamond list or something that's similar to what's forbidden alpha P Shaina us from Amish even if it's not forbidden Shh folks thought they had to there's some aspect of what's permissible there like it's written that one should distance themselves from something disgusting or anything similar to it Tahoe or which is purity so this is the purity of mind and the purity of heart and fear of sin Sahara samay Chava the hero lay the earth scale meaning yes I read I read means like - like the word her ad is is used for the ultra-orthodox what it really means like the Quakers it means to shake into quake so meaning you should be her aid because 8 at all times does used Isaiah and be shaken or shocked lest you come to sin so you should be aware I hope you ain't roller hey look but even if you don't see the sin in front of you like a person who walks all alone night where his heart is pounding that he's afraid he's gonna run into listing which are robbers or a llevar an enemy could Ducie Chicago shots mobile mucho low this is where the partial condition to you this is really much applicable there the kedusha is you should either sanctify yourself or let's say separate yourself from that which is actually permissible and therefore the cake example really belongs here another humility she starred there laggy at the cat soccer on shelling out one should try their best to reach the extreme in terms of humility shift on medium new safe another I'll another shovel he should constantly try to add more and more humility to what he already it reaches kasi dudes now this is where beyond the seven hi new said over no sir I love you Chekov o shahi Votto Tyra I'll translate what is this classy dude which is PT he does something additional to what he's obligated or what the Torah obligates him in doing he is not obligated and he does it anyway that's called hussy do and this is why I chose beyond seven because I want people not to be afraid learn Torah don't take on anything that you're not prepared or have any knowledge of keep them seven find out what the subcategory subcategories are stick to that become extremely righteous in that sense and then don't be afraid to go beyond provided you know that it's optional and as opposed to thinking that you're obligated and therefore would be fitted for foot under the category of creating your own religion and then what does that bring you to kiss amazing as we explained earlier what does that mean to be able to revive others listen to his words she used Killam a dragon Eliana when his guevara hope that you reach this high soup level it's so exalted she'll know you holla / la Flavio likley poet laho simi shaman if I chose a shoe came a Knick shava shava mason what you're then able to do is to send souls to recover them to bring them out from being oppressed and they're considered like dead you'll be able to revive other people but you yourself have to go on through these steps first the whom Messiah Oh Tom Kish MOT me shop you revive them you give them life as you bring them out from there and that's how it ends okay so what is it I wanted to share it to that in my preparation for this introduction anyway to the path of the just which we didn't even really get into I kind of highlighted that Brice at the end where he claims this is where he got the ideas from oh I do want to mention there are going to be five major I don't call the mrs. strategies there's a verse in maybe that's a good word Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 where it says I tell you throughout Martian look fi on me at mosque now o Israel what does god hashem your god demand from anything that applied to the jews is basically applying to the priests of your congregation okay and you're following them in the principles okay you're not gonna follow them in the details but you're following them in the principles so what does God say o Israel what is your what is Hashem your God demand of you demand came the year especially haha other than to theory a shame your God the lessee pickled the Rahab to walk in all his ways Leah voto to love him will avoid at the Shemin of half of a full of avocado chica and to service him your God with all your heart and all your soul wish more at missus agenda at Foucault table to observe the commandments of a Shen and his decrees the ROM cow who's the author of this with this book is going to say from this one verse we come up with five principles and here in this verse Moshe included all the components of the complete and perfect service that is pleasing to a Shem and they are one fearing God fearing a Shem number two walking in his ways loving God completeness of the heart shall a missile a and the last thing is schmear scholar Mitsu's observing all the commandments will I mean all the commands are applicable to you again not every commandment is optical to every single person a Cohen he has certain misses a regular Jew has some misses so to annul hide and non Jew observing Judaism so whatever Commandments you have you do with ze Ruth with vigilance and hopefully it brings you to this point in the Messiah shrine where you can come to a high the highest level you can possibly come to because that's what we want from our congregants our congregants should help uplift us what kind of rabbi or I don't know whatever you want to call leader tries to keep his his congregants down that that's the opposite of everything we know a pastor's a leader he's guiding you if he himself is growing he wants to see his Congress grow with him and maybe even surpass him why not they'll be the best honor that any teacher could ever have is that wow this my student won the the global prize or my student why you know became the leader of you know thousands of people whatever it is the CEO of their organization anyway so that's where I want to leave it I hope this was inspirational I hope this is just again laying the groundwork we only like touched on certain parts of the introduction to Mozilla to shari and i'm just my notes if I covered everything probably not but oh I do want to mention the word Gomorrah I don't know I had to spout for the first class of second class maybe I'll just share it now the word Gomorrah means to learn okay the word Gomorrah is made up of four letters gimel mem Rach olive we're taught that when you're learning the more which we call the Torres the light God's angels are not just involved first so they're all around you all the time but the word Gomorrah actually stands for the the the acronym the the first letter of each of the four major angels Gavriel mkhaya Raphael and Oreo when you are involved in Torah learning you are surrounded by God's screen about God's presence and he sends his angels to assist you and so my blessing is that you should find refer you everyone should find a healthy way to it's the word to guard their immune system on a spiritual level against the gate Sahara and at the same time build up our immune system against the negative Corona and put the crown of Torah back to where it really belongs and that's the 613 and the seven major categories as we saw in the verse that Rashi says that the Ten Commandments are not Ten Commandments they are ten general principles that involve all 613 so to the seven our seven general categories that involve many many details and continue to learn Wow Wow that last last statement was just profound and it's clear it's it's it's insightful it's impactful let's face it I hope that the B'nai knowing this series and that they learn and grow and that the light continues to shine and I want to thank you personally yeah a poster for for taking the time to review we obviously use you you pen the notes I've sat in some of these classes like miss ELISA you sure I'm I've sat in classes with other rabbis in the past I've just I've had the honor and and just in depth at how much time they spend explaining each and of the points that you touched on there's so much that can unfurl from there that is is just fruitful for living that you're condensing so much for us that just invites us beyond the seven and I love how you talked about this world just it's a four yeah it's just an entry place but you really gave me some guidance personally today I want you to know that and but I like we talked earlier before the class began I do have an exam I got to take a test I got to take next week and so those listening I won't be able available to do this broadcast next Saturday next same time next week but rabbi posted you know a sham willing if if you're also willing in a couple of weeks perhaps we could we could continue with part four if you're up to it you know because I think I want to thank you personally too because you know the world know Heights Noi world center the YouTube channel the English Channel now bear in mind they have a Russian and they have other languages as well our English Channel I've been trying to work with them and help them grow you've actually helped us go well over fifty thousand plus minutes a month by doing this series and I remember when we first met I told you where we were at generally you've you know you've helped us go in extra you know taking it up a good chunk and you know it means a lot great work whatever I can do to help because you have some fantastic teachers you have great information and I think you have probably you know if you have thousands of followers III appreciate all them and I commend all them I think it's a it's an amazing thing to not have been born in this to be living in a world of Shecky in a world of illusion and come out of it it takes a lot of character to start with and if they came through it only through logic that's also great and if they came beyond that si we've been talking about I just said that's even better and everyone's on the journey wherever they're at is where they're at and that's where they need to be so I think that you're doing a tremendous service to them to get them to the next in the next level a rabbi like I says I could never do it without without you know the great writings of the sages and and more than that Hashem you know the rules at all in the sense that you know I know what it's like to have my life just beaten down it seems at times and just almost feel completely utterly crushed but you'll learn the the fear of heaven and just just you know the shims got it all under control and I I yeah I just leave it at that so um rabbi thank you again for today's lesson so folks we will not be here next week tentatively we're gonna aim for two weeks to be back with part four and I want to thank you all for joining with us so until then dan signing out with Rabbi Aaron David Poston from Jerusalem have a wonderful wonderful day [Music]