Episode 6 BEYOND THE 7 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day folks welcome back to our sixth installment or six lesson beyond the seven live from Jerusalem with rabbi Aaron David Poston I'm so enjoying his series folks this is something that we're getting a little more depth especially for us but I know it's a depth of teaching that is sound but gives us a logical understanding of many many many more things that are beyond the seven but are universal when you just understand the way rabbis sharing them so I'm just gonna turn it right over to Rabbi because without the teachings and the guidance in Torah from a learner rabbi we're lost we're lost we need to hear it from them so a rabbi how are you doing today it's always a joy to spend time with you thank you so much for staying up so late in in Jerusalem to share with us once again how are you doing good thank you Dan and welcome to all the people that are joining us listening Shavua Tov again to all those people far east of where we are and for those people in Europe and wherever else you are in America Canada South America maybe you'll hear this now live maybe you'll hear it a few hours but welcome we have that quite an interesting class tonight that let me say some of it will be a little bit controversial we'll leave it at that until we get started but thank you definitely that's again beautiful okay so should we start I want to mention the topics that I'm going to discuss and we will eventually reach and I hope to put a good amount of time into chapter 18 of Mississippi Shireen of the path of the just but before we get to that so I want to mention a part of parsha snow so now partisan also was read this Shabbat in Israel and because of the two-day yontiff in outside of the land it will be read at the following Shabbat so it's still this week's barcia for those outside of Israel and I want to mention a very I think it's a very important topic to discuss especially to know Heights it's in parsha snow so okay the other idea I want to talk about is I was sent questions for Hashem how many are there maybe four maybe five it's hard something that's hard to read but I'll do the best I can to read the questions and to answer them and I want to talk about the concept of rebuke I know that I am Coughlin's Rabbi Kaufman touched upon it and there are unfortunately some really crazy things going on in the internet and so I want to touch upon how to give rebuke properly also hopefully I don't think we're gonna reach it today but this will be like a we will an introduction to maybe next week already there's a good more brought 17 a we're rebuking on discusses what he would say when he finishes the book of Job so who is job the famous character in the Bible probably not Jewish far as our tradition tells us so that would be also very appropriate to discuss again we might get to it tonight I doubt it hopefully we'll spend most of the time towards the end on chapter 18 in Mesilla shrine okay so I think I think I want to start with this nutso part yeah in the parsha and how it relates to the north heights and we just turn this off because okay so in Chapter 7 and partial also you have this idea of the twelve princes of the tribes 12 liters of each one of the tribes are bringing gifts to I'm gonna say to the tabernacle but it's not necessarily the tabernacle itself it is more like a gift for the dedication of the altar so in Hebrew Han knew got hummus baya I want to help you like get the words down and Lucas hummus back so we have a holiday called Hanukkah our tradition tells us okay some of its clearer in the Torah some of it's through the tradition through the oral torah but it was only the day of yom kippur the day after Yom Kippur Moses had come down with the tablets on Yom Kippur the second set and commanded the Israelites to donate items money silver for the construction of the tabernacle now that took place like I said the command took place immediately after Yom Kippur after the giving of the second set of tablets and we understand that it was quite rapidly that the donation started to come in that would be always a nice case right where a fund raiser would say okay enough my speak enough apparently that's what happened many member we came out of Egypt with a lot of I'll use the word slaw or ludes so it wasn't like anybody really he needed to hoard anything what else are they gonna do with it none of the local market none of the local stores were open they were in the desert they had food coming down from heaven right you had bread called man-mana you had water coming out of a rock you didn't have to buy new clothes the clothes they left grew on them they didn't sweat they didn't have to go to the bathroom the food that they Abel's angel food it just became absorbed into their body so they didn't sweat so the clothes didn't wear out and the clothes even grew on them their feet didn't stink out but their shoes grew with them they didn't have yeah you wanted to say something rabbi you know I thought there was a verse where they were taught to carry a paddle so that if they had to go to the washroom in the desert they covered it over so that you know when I forgive me yeah this is a command for when they come into the Land of Israel and they go to war so there is I would call the paddle call the shovel call it whatever you want but it's a necessary and there's a leather lesson besides that that when you come in and you actually have to defecate or go to the bathroom not to do it within the camp but the words you shouldn't have anything evil so obviously when you talk about feces not evil per se but it is it is what we call ray after ah a bad smell basically it's also a command again speaking Russian Hara this is a very deep lesson I don't want to go off on a tangent but basically the only way to win a war is not to have division within the camp you have to have a unified camp so lush and Hara evil speech is one of those things that divided the camp and ruin the morale and could be one of the worst things for an army and the only way we can win a war is to first this sounds crazy is to fight the inner battle first they're to be successful in creating show'em within the city within the community and only then can you go forth and be victorious against the external enemy so I'll use the word I know it sounds crazy but I'll use the word jihad right you have to fight the inner internal jihad first and that is to overcome you eat Sahara and your envy and whatever else causes one to speak loshon hora and only through that and that was the lesson there because in the in the desert they didn't have data they were not defecating there was no such thing the the it was like I mentioned it's when you come into the land this is what you're gonna have to do when you go out and fight the battles ok so we went off of the tangi oh where where was I I was talking about the day after Yom Kippur so we were told to collect to give to donate and Moses said enough fine so the truth is wasn't that long before everything was really ready you know but Salah was in charge and he had an assistant and they basically made everything and everything was ready and you know what it was ready the day that it was ready was the 25th not of December keep that in mind it was the 25th of Tishrei ok it was a very outside of Kislev kislev and what was that Hashem said I have a Moses we're gonna wait till the 1st of Nisan that's a very special day we're gonna wait for the 1st of Nisan but the meantime I'm gonna put aside like on the shelf this day called the 21 kids a kiss lab it'll be a special day in the future and that day was when we call Hanukkah so again we call this the haouka Santa's Bay off let me explain again sorry these twelve Prince's brought from the 1st of Nisan even though the tabernacle was now complete there were seven prior previous days where Moses erected and then disassembled the tabernacle which was it and the supernatural feat because one person couldn't do it we understand that Hashem was involved in supernatural but on the eighth day which was the first of Nisan that he left standing so that was the first day that you're cut kahani and the Priestly Blessing the fire came down from heaven there ten interesting there were ten crowns or ten unique events that took place the first time that took place on that day but from that day the following 12 days each one of these princes brought gifts and they brought these gifts in six wagons there were twelve oxen this is very important to keep your listen to the language here and they all brought the same thing the be reading and we read today and we'll read the outside of the land is coming Shabbat different names of the different tribes of the princes yet exactly the same items were brought so that why does the Torah need to waste its time and ink and energy and we have to sit there and listen to it you can fall asleep right no no so that's where we're at in Chapter seven it was on the day that Moses finished finished erecting the tabernacle okay that he anointed word the in shock like the word Messiah and mashach means anointed okay so he anointed it and sanctified it and all to tencel's and the altar and all the two tencel's now from verse 2 onwards these are these princes are bringing right they brought them before the tabernacle each of the six covered wagon twelve oxen there were two princes for each ox fine and it's going to be for the Lukas on his back the look at verse 10 and the princess brought offerings for the inauguration in Hebrew can look at amis Barak the young hashimoto the day was anointed so the word Mashiach means to be anointed right to Annoying something okay I just want to keep this in mind that there's a close relationship now between the word Messiah okay for the newborn and this 25th of Kislev which obviously I think it's obvious I hope that people watching and listening will understand that there is a idol-worshipping Day called Christmas right and that's what's called exes okay and there there's a lot of confusion on the parts of the non-jews and brush M many of the people watching have already left Christianity but this would be very insightful for them okay to understand what's really going on here what is the altar the altar according to the Rambam is the very place and I say the place of the altar not the altar itself the place where the altars to be which we know is there's just behind me like a thousand meters right is the place where man was created man ah Dom that's every human being here was created there was one man Adam and Eve one being created on this place the very place the band was created the brown mob says is the place where man will find his atonement so the altar is important to all mankind right I can't stress this enough but we'll hear through if you believe in the Torah and the Bible and so this altar is used we're talking about inauguration now let me just use I don't I'm not an expert language okay but in terms of the modern usage and it's going back probably to Latin which again goes back to the original Hebrew so let's say you bought a new yacht like Dan when was the last time you bought a new yacht okay I don't remember when I bought a new yacht but I know that if someone did buy a new yacht what would they do they would probably buy a nice bottle of champagne maybe they would spend I don't know a few hundred bucks on earn yo and they would knock it or crack it I'm not sure if that's a good idea and it's with the yachts magnetic they would knock it or crack it against the hole right and it would be a celebration yeah so what did they call it when you come from they call it christening if I'm not mistaken well it's that new person or yeah inaugural launch for they would Christian word so really the word michalke here right mushiya anointing is inaugurating dedicating and it's real that's why this word christening is used because that's what you're doing isn't that what I guess that's what the word Christ means right mushiya for okay grace in Greek for anointed one yeah okay so this is what we're doing to the altar each one of these twelve princes are bringing now I grew up in a judeo-christian society I was not brought up religious and any time you hear the word judeo-christian it's nothing Jewish trust me as soon as you add the word Christian to the idea in a Jewish okay so we had a song it's probably written by a Jew by the way most of the Christmas songs are written by Jews it's called I'm not sure what it's called but it's the 12 days of Christmas now I think everybody knows you don't have 12 days of Christmas there's only one day Christmas right where did they come up with this idea of twelve days of Christmas so this story and I'm about to tell you chapter seven of numbers twelve days twelve Prince's brought gifts for the newcomers mayor the inauguration of the mid of the Misbah off the altar which they were sure they were I don't know I don't like the word christening blade I brought that up for the purpose of get on this foot it was Honoka and liver Hashem said when everything was ready I got it to 25th of Kislev everything was ready but we're gonna wait and that day came many 800 severes later during the Second Temple and we call that Hanukkah interesting that it comes out on the 25th it's not an accident right this was our holiday came before their holiday many Jews growing up in a judeo-christian society they're very confused and they don't understand you know what you know they have get all these gifts so we started giving gifts okay so we've eight days but you don't know what that song is all about twelve days of Christmas my true love gave to me I really don't get it but it's stuck in my head that there's twelve days of Christmas whatever that means here you have the original twelve days of Lucas hummons beya now why I'm bringing this out first of all in this week's partial but what Rashi tells us here is absolutely mind-boggling so I heard this from rabbi Yochanan swagg miami beach florida and the yeshiva there when i was a student and he discussed this idea and i want you to look at some of the rosh ease if you have a Rashi in front of you otherwise you just listen so it starts in I believe verse 11 chapter 7 of numbers let me just see where I don't have Rashi but I do have an English Hebrew in front of me this thing because he's bringing down reppin has been year etana he's the one who is the med the Mishnah or the browser that the mozilla assuring the book of the path of the just is based on he mentions that Nathanial been to are gave the princes this idea to bring the following offerings now let me before i start reading it understand that one of about to tell you is that the altar which I mentioned to you that's where Adam was created that's the place where man will find his atonement ok mankind and everything that Raj is gonna tell us about the gifts themselves tells a story about the history of man the unification that we're all brothers yes it's true that the Jewish people are a mom let Kohanim of a guy kadosh we are the priests okay we are the leaders we are I don't know what you the jet-setters in terms of how to conduct your lives but this is for all mankind listen to the trying to just tune your ear to the words that are being said now Rashi is way out of his norm what Rashi usually does is just give you the simple understanding but the text supposed to mean now he does bring me Joshy he brings earlier sources so he brings an earlier source which obviously comes from a much much earlier service so it starts like this that they brought a silver ball the silver ball if you look at the Gama tria which we all know hamachi means the sum value of the letters is nine hundred and thirty if I tell if I ask you well if what is the number nine hundred and thirty represents in history hopefully you would tell me that that was how long Adam lived Adam the first man so within the gifts there's hints or understanding like I said of Universal world history which if you think about it what the Christians tried to do is tell you that the 25th of December is somehow a message for the unity and the Brotherhood of all mankind but where did they get that message from wait till you hear what Rashi has to say so the 930 of the value of the silver bulk erotic Esav is the Komachi of 9:30 and he says the number of the years of Adam the first man and how much did it weigh slow she will maiya mich kala it was a hundred and thirty what is a hundred and thirty if I go back to Genesis go back to the beginning right this is how old Seth and this how old Adam was when he gave birth to Seth okay because we know the Cain and Abel basically out right so now we have the generations are coming from meaning the generation which will call Noah right eventually comes from Seth so we have one hundred and thirty shekels because when Adam established offspring the perpetuation of the world which is everyone here he was one hundred and thirty years old as we know the verse says in Genesis 5 3 when Adam had lived 130 years he begot in his likeness okay and then one basin of silver miz rocked Akkad kesef that Komachi there's a little bit confusing because he says the Gamache is 520 which it is but he says because Nowak who established offspring when he was 500 years old and because of the 20 years that the flood had been decreed before the birth of his offspring as I have explained on a different verse that verse would be found in Genesis 6:3 and you can look at Rosh Iver we're not going to do it his in his his days were 120 shall be 120 years we know that a few things that it took him a hundred 20 years to build the ark okay so this is where it's coming from this is why the one base in the silver the word ephod precedes the word kesa and it doesn't say one silver basin meaning that the word cacif with kesav proceeding at huh doesn't do that in the matter stated with the ball I mean in other places okay so let's just leave it at that then how much did it weigh it weighed 70 shekels now why did it have to weigh 70 shekels and this is Rashi it's not me corresponding to the 70 nations which emerge from no ox descendants this is telling you a whole story of the world's history among the more that are given for the Chanukah Sameach which is for all mankind right even though we are the priests when a non Jew wants to bring an offering right such as a Ola a burnt offering wheats accepted from him and we bring it for him and one ladle what's one calf a hot Rashi says can- Torah can parallel to the tour that was given miedo show Kaddish Marku from the hand of God because the word calf even though it means ladle a spoon cough is a palm cough is what you do with your hand like this it's like if you can see it but so how much it weighed of gold 10 shekel what's the tension go Horace bonding to the 10 commandments now we're we talking about the revelation of those luca's of the tap of the tablet but I've said over and over again I want to drill this into the head of everyone listening that the first set of tablets had 620 letters kept there we talk about the word catcher means a crown Keter me is no machi of 620 what was the message that God gave the world 613 connecting points abilities for Jews to connect to a Shem and seven right 613 plus 7 627 overall reaching Commandments for the non-jewish world and it was filled with incense male uh Qataris so those that that's the incense was still within sense that gematria is 613 in in akbash okay odd bosch means it's a way of doing hamachi with the a is the Z or Aleph is the Tet and the bet and I'm sorry tuff and the bet is the okay we've done we've done this before okay I'm just reading Rashi and when about the young bull with the one ram and the one sheep so he goes through how each one of these represent Abraham Isaac and Jacob and you can look at the Russian and first how and what kind of offerings and they brought the he-goat in verse 22 it refers to the atonement for the selling of Yosef because they slaughtered the goat and put the blood dip the blood and okay what about the sacrifice of the peace offering was to cattle this corresponds to both Moshe and to our own who made peace between Israel and the father in heaven and then he says about the Rams and the he goats and the sheep and there are three varieties I called this the Holy Trinity of Judaism okay you have the Kohanim the Levites and the Israelites which then correspond to what we call the Torah prophets and the writings and there are they to the three sets of five corresponding to the five books of the Torah and the five commandments which were written on each of the tablets okay anyway he ends by saying up to this point is all from Rebbe Moshe had darshan so that we began and we end this is the and I think it's just absolutely amazing when you think that this is all of world history packed into these gifts that are given to remind the world to remind the people that this Torah that we're discussing here well let's start let's just say within this bath that's better because we're gonna talk about the tour in a second that the MS Bay off belongs to the world and we were told that when the Romans came and destroyed the temple and destroyed the altar that if they only knew what they were destroying because it was for their benefit as we know in the prophets right that if you don't come and send your leaders or your representatives that you won't see receive rain you won't receive the bounty and goodness and blessings of God there has to be a recognition so this all comes to like full circle here that if the Romans had known they wouldn't have not only would they not have destroyed it they would have sent armies to defend it so how do I when we should come to this alibi means if only would be hopefully soon that the rule would come to this recognition and the wrath of Shem will see the temple rebuilding its full glory and that's another way of returning the crown to its glory okay so I thought that was apropos because so I hope you I don't know about the song of the twelfth day of days of Christmas but I never really understood it because I knew they only had one day and we had eight like we were even though like they had all this much bigger parties than we did and we had this you know we felt bad but at least we had like the eight days and then they had this song about twelve days so like I never really understood that so but this helped me I think I think I think this is where they got this idea if anybody wants to come write a comment below too back to me or to give me some insight of where this nonsense of 12 days I mean from Onision I'd be happy to to hear about it rabbi other never heard anybody Baggins the six wagons of twelve oxen could relate to this idea of reindeer I mean I don't know how many reindeer they claim to have had but hey remember all the names but it kind of remained it reminds me if you have these things the twelve also there was wood that was brought right to the maraca there's a thing called a maraca where on the altar replace wood so they also have this idea maybe it's Christmas tree I don't know exactly what it is little you think they had everything they have I should I'm making a very broad statement so people have to forgive me almost everything that they have is basically pagan oriented but for anything not true schecky to have some existence in this world there has to be some hint and so why would they continue to believe these lies why would that continue to spread these these false because there is some aspect of truth yes the 25th of Kislev is a very important day it just happens to come out always around the same you know December basically then it is really truly the day for all mankind to feel a brotherhood and we pray that this would combat one day on the 25th of Kislev okay okay so now let's go to maybe I should do the idea of rebuke now we've had a report okay so if you go to Leviticus chapter 19 I would say sixteen seventeen and eighteen Burt in other words chapter 19 verses 16 17 and 18 you shall not be a gossip monger among your people you should not stand aside while your fellows blood is shed I am a chef so I think you know I don't want to stand aside long enough I think that anybody watching these people go after certain rabbis and call them erev rav or heretics I think you can see straight through it doesn't really catch you know if you're like a refined person and and you have a lot of backing behind you so and you have a lot of people behind you so maybe group even proof you know as opposed to like a one-minute clip I get a 30-second clip or a few words from a lecture that are usually probably taken out of context so no you don't want to be a gossip monger right there is a myth so trust me there's a mitzvah to call out people when they're wrong but we're gonna talk about how to do that you shall not hate your brother in your heart now you hate the evil but you don't hate the person now that's it's very strange but listen to the rest you shall reprove your fellow you actually have to give him rebuke why would anybody give anybody rebuke first of all screw the Torah says so it's like this we understand at least Israel were all responsible each other we took an oath and helped at Mount Sinai and what you do affects me okay so if I am affected by what you do then it's in my interest to give you review because I want to reproof I want you to correct your way I don't want to just call you out and make fun of you my goal is to get you back on the right path so now we have to think how is that done by sending out videos with half a minute clip of what this person said is certainly not effective I don't see it being effective at all I think with the goal some of these people is to get to Pete other people not to listen to them that's it not to actually review so whilst one second let's continue and you do not bear sin because of him me if you can do rebuke effectively right you will not bear the sin now if you're not effective the truth is you did your part so you won't carry his sin you do what you can but the next part is more interesting you shall not take revenge you should not bear a grudge against members of your people and now drum roll please you shall love your fellow as you thank you for the drum row rebuke has to be done out of love if it's not that out of it's not performed with a loving heart first of all you know how someone ever gonna listen to you right you have to approach them with concern for them that I feel that you're doing something that's damaging to yourself and it's also going to damage other people so you have to come from a point out how effective so I find myself the most effective way in rebuking many of the people that I come across that I want to rebuke is find someone else who they trust who they already have a loving relationship with who they know cares about them that they trust and tell that person so my suggestion to these people is to approach the person's rabbi or a group of Rabbis that they would listen to now if you can convince them first that the person is doing wrong so maybe they'll take the responsibility to speak to the person gently and kindly and prove to them to change their ways now if you can't convince them then most likely you're not right that's as simple as that you go to Pete in other words how am I gonna be most effective I'm not the one right I don't know them and I tried to call them they hang up on me so find someone who can be effective and if I speak to them and they turn around and say no you have it wrong which I will actually tell you interestingly enough some of what they're speaking about I found offensive because there is a true value in in some of the things these people are saying in other words they're there they're in we're talking about classy dude and tonight in our thing which I mentioned we're going to talk about Bravo 17a but what what Rob yoculan said at the end of job it's going to also have some insight into what we call I see dudes classic dude is gonna see is and I found these words very strange because what there's these people who want to rebuke these rabbis they're less 17a that but my brochure Seaver of North Weinberg where he says what can you do for a chené chené doesn't need you and yet this they're claiming these rabbis are saying God needs you but guess what in the chapter we're gonna read on classic dude from our perspective we are to a certain extent saying I want to please God which is it's absolutely mind-boggling but that doesn't make someone a heretic right we're talking about the wrong cow in miss Celia sorry in chapter 18 this is the whole reason I thought about it because Hashem gave me this gift of preparing for this class chapter 18 and I see dudes and these particular rabbis are being picked on are amongst the perceiving and within their thought process they think what can I do to please God and God needs me it's not they're not they're not arguing the fact that God doesn't mean anything just we're just talking in the language of man and I think that when you read the here the whole Shh class the whole context they're not a heretics they're not a P Curson it's just a different flavor a different approach and I think that if they these rabbis are attacking them talk to their rabbis who have taught them though they will come to the conclusion that you're right it is a different approach and perhaps these people themselves could make a slight correction if they're misleading people if that's true I don't think they are but if they are they can make a slight correction but to call them evil and I mean the words that I hear them say it's just incredible so that was my rant for tonight I hope it's clear I hope you know come go to my rabbis and tell them you know I've discussed this with them so I don't have any problems saying it's a troll trolls appear nasty they may have a point but yeah if they're if they're like you said if their aim is to just get people to stop listening to rather than to understand the context and come together yeah I think you're right on the money so we will discuss this a very point I was surprised the ROM cow who is not a hussy I mean in in the sense of what these people are Hassidim and and yet he will use these terminology of what a huset is in relationship like a son to a father I mean we will see it ok so I I beg you anybody disagreed with me about what I said stay tunes from what the rum kyle has to say about classic dude real true cuz he dudes ok so now I want to go to the questions that were opposed and and I have to say not all of them were easy to read because of language I'm not sure they're all English as a mother tongue so that's related the first one it's a development of character traits this is not me this is I'm reading development of character traits is one of the main aspects of Judaism I will say correct and they didn't ask you this question is more a statement that's absolutely true that's what I've been telling you all along it's not about rituals every single ritual that we do is in order to bring you a sensitivity in your relationship to the spirit okay in how you can relate to a Shem and to other people in a more productive manner so the person asks how can a non Jew a Noahide improve his character according to Torah and oral law without practice the same liturgy I think what they mean is since they have 7 and we have 613 they're obviously not the same so I will just stress I think this is the answer that you have 7 overall reaching principles in them let me just also stress that you also have every logical Mitzvah so within those seven they're not really just seven right let's talk about deeming for example you know when you have theft so theft is not just stealing something doesn't belong to you in the most simplest sense there are there are many details that I believe you should be learning now the question is whether you're obligated in all the finest details perhaps not but the principle of what you're going to learn you can apply because it's logical and probably should apply when it's logical right when it makes sense so even though you have the word is you're not you don't have the same liturgy I'm not sure what liturgy means but you can practice what you learn and we're gonna see sure they're gonna go back over the home it's love learning Torah is order in order to fulfill a non-jew should be learning the Torah whatever parts of Torah in order to fulfill so there are I don't know that the percentage but I'm gonna say like 85 95 percent of the Torah applies to non-jews in this in this regard in terms of how to how to behave even though you may not be obligated in all the finest details with to go through them but the principles you are and you should be deriving the principles in in each area of your life okay the second question is my impression is the many many members of the Noahide movement were christians it's probably true i don't know but this point so they came from the religion but now don't have one so now their religion list so i would degree there basically but i mentioned in a previous class about being jew ish in other words you still feel connected to a larger community right well whether this have been a north movement which is connected to Judaism right it's a non Jew practicing Judaism but I think that everybody means and I think we roll all came to this conclusion in the in the corona isolation units that we all have in our own homes how important it is to have a community so you have to find like let me just read the press the question for an adult that have the experience with former religions take a new path is hard but we have the fundamentals for the decision fine but for a child is harder yeah how can we teach them not to be an idol worshiper at the same time not belonging to a Jewish community so I think it's about community you have to find I believe you have to whether it's online or physically in your community you can start a local Facebook page and maybe there's other ways you can take out an ad in a newspaper and maybe this classifieds some of them are free and you just every week pump it out looking for other like-minded people who are in to the Seminole had laws who want to help I'm not use were create a community because I don't mean creatives in a religion but created communities in terms of fellowship where you can do Bible study together where you can spend meals together I mean however is that you're going to create the community the the the Northside world center is putting out a prayer book I have no idea what that means in terms of group prayer you'll have to take instruction from the book but won't be the problem if you live in a Jewish community to even go sometimes to synagogue or to classes with Jews in person right in my year Barnett we have people all the time coming and exploring I know there's other outreach groups that you can certainly go to their classes and if you have a relationship with rabbis and communities they'll probably allow you to go to their their classes as well but online look when it comes to child teaching him it's very difficult I agree and again the judeo-christian society where so these ideas are just so rampant to teach them that that if there's a lot of fake news there's a lot of fake news and find other children who are being raised for them to play with in the same like-minded community it really comes down to create and began creating your own community I don't be creating a religion but creating community so that you have um support so you have people to share this core thing so that's the that's the answer I can't best answer I can give at the moment the third question this person asks should have know how to use a key part to protect his head while studying or praying okay so my answer is going to be it's just my answer I believe that since it's not an obligation but it's still prefer okay it's not an obligation maybe it is I don't know but it's definitely preferred even in Yiddish the word for a keeper is yarmulke what does yarmulke mean it's really based on the word yarmulke yarr is to fear the mauka to fear the king so just by placing something on your head you're showing that you have respect for something above you so take it as you want doesn't mean you have to wear something knitted or know that you can wear a baseball cap you can wear cowboy hat you can buy wear whatever you want right I'm not even telling you have to but if you want to I think it's preferable because it brings this idea of yarn because your Malka of having or for something above you and that's Mike so maybe there's a more professional well thought answer right or wrong I don't know but I don't think you can go wrong knowing that at least if you're not commanded to do it anyway because it's the its it brings you to a higher consciousness God cut everything is about God consciousness okay so if you think of it it's gonna bring you towards God consciousness now the idea that if you look like a Jew you're wearing a kippah just like Jews do and you walk down the streets like Jews do so that could be a problem and I'll discuss that hopefully shortly we'll hopefully get to that okay let's talk about the next question is by someone else yeah shaumbra please pardon my lack of Halawa how should one put a fence a around the torah and i think this is what they're asking if i share like sharing her lectures on facebook in public don't I transgress the words of the sages so I think I know where they're going with this or by voluntarily should this be done just like in the time of Moshe Rabbeinu then it has to be shared as a chance for the nations to learn the Torah and they add the words before she vote okay so one of the major issues that are brought up about and Jew or and I'm sorry non Jew learning Torah is what we call a putting a stumbling block before the blind in other words if if if it's true if it's resistant let me tell you it's not true if it was true that it's forbidden for a non Jew to study Torah so then if you put tour in front of the non Jew it's like putting a stumbling block in front of the blind now when I say a non Jew I wouldn't refer to the Rambam and the Rambam is referring to the Gemara that we discussed before that and someone who worships idols should not be learning Torah but ain't been no Ock is is permitted not permitted but they have to learn at least a basic they're obligated to actually learn about the seven laws not so I guess what we're really shuffling around is what about all the other part of the turret because any lecture you can hear from rabbi is probably going to be mixed most of it will probably be applicable to a non Jew right but there's some of its not so this idea of what we call mix shall lift naive err putting a stumbling block before a blind person is pretty much mixed meaning it's really not applicable and I'll explain why and I'm gonna try to do it what was what was the real source that it not that an idol worshiper should not be learning Torah so in stop one 4720 that's the source and it's one forty seven twenty in Psalms he did not do so for any other nation such judgments they know them not hallelujah Louis R came the whole Mishpatim value do they know them not so this is something we're not supposed to do for their other nations they're not supposed to know them so if you teach a non Jew again I'm gonna say an idol worshiper that's gonna be lifting you for putting a stumbling block before the blind however however there's a lot to say why it's really not putting so what did what I heard rabbi moshe sherman speak about this and i'll just elaborate a little bit if you have a Nazir and Nazir someone who vowed not to drink wine right not to benefit from great products and he's in your house and you put right in front of him a cup of wine so then that's called putting a stumbling block before the blind what if he's on the other side of the river and you were Messiah you were assisting in by sending over whether on a string a boat I don't know throwing it somehow she's on the other right but what if he's in a city I mean he can get it anywhere he wants so there's gonna be the site if you're not really putting a stumbling block before the blind if it's readily available okay note might be so complicated but no that's that's clear okay so I want to go through some of these ideas here I just don't know where to begin and okay so toast loss is the one that says that we're talking but she Madhu bar she is going I hear she wrote Salomon haven't at non Julie once the lantern aim is Sir Sheldon a eevr if he wants to learn so you're not you're not transgressing the Jew is not transgressing or in this case the non Jew is by passing on Torah he's also not transgressing and he brings the whole idea of this Nazir she other rosa la Seco CI inland is here on midday VI Shana Shawn are we just discuss this about the guy on the other side of the river so if you if you if he's not able to get what you're giving them and you assist it then you transgress putting a stumbling block before the blinds evolve but MEA and only both subside but if both people are standing on the same side of the river and he is anyway able to get a cup of wine from somewhere else without any assistance from you so if you end up in assisting him you're not transgressing putting the stumbling block before the blind it's his effort reaching out right yeah the marsh ah he explains like this income Onizuka marshy shamless or LUMO Mishka theatre abetemarco that there's no forbidden nature of teaching the the the simple laws of the Torah to a going Sheen cane because if that's true so we have a question we're speaking about the seven mitzvahs they're allowed to learn now if we're going to talk about the other mitzvahs so hurray also gamla aku Ozma then he himself is forbidden to learn them Erica vanish ain't moisten them Tom Tamim we asados a Torah the real truth is you not know how to give them the deepest Kabbalistic concepts that's it even if we're even with the seven laws so the deepest deepest even stuff you're not gonna give that and that's based on the verse out psalms 147 20 that's all it's talking about it's not talking about simple shot and that's why you're allowed to teach them what we call to render the image soothing because it's not called Isaac Isaac means deep digging deep deep deep so anyway just learning is called looking it's not it's learning something that's written there in Torah it's not going I say it's not going deep into the tory headed answers that you see okay this is interesting this is very interesting so when it says turrets evil on of moshe mirage achilles yaku then that the torah was commanded to us by moses as a mirage ah we spoke about this before mirages ah means an inheritance but massa could mean a betrothed woman so basically if it's an inheritance it was given to the Jews and not to anybody else so it's called stealing the problem is that it's not really stealing if certain conditions exist okay let me just say outside if for example it belongs to me and I give it to you nobody can call that stealing so if the Jews are putting it onto the Internet they're giving it to the Jews it's true but they already know that non-jews might pick it up so the basically what they say they didn't put a disclaimer non-jews can't pick it up they know it's gonna be out there in the world and there may be may be your non Jew listen it's not a problem so they're already giving permission so you can't call it stealing if a Jew is teaching it it's just not stealing now there's a problem with that because I mean if something collectively belongs to a group of people what right do I have to say I'm giving permission wouldn't it wouldn't I need the the the agreement of the collective that I'm giving it to you for not to be stealing cuz its collective so that only works by money that would be missing in other words if there's it let's just say a hundred thousand dollars and it's owned by you know a group of people that one person can't say I'm gonna give it to I'm giving permission right because it belongs collectively everybody but it's only when something is actually missing when I teach Torah is Torah missing is like a xeric a hole in this Torah No so so that so that would not apply I like to read the words just to get this so beautiful so he says this is all part of the Tauri Abin that we say to you rouscher fine it was like inheritance so it comes out that the aku was Isaac and it would be like Gaza he was like stealing from us the Torah but according to this if an Israel teaches a non Jew Torah there's no forbidden nature of Gaza all stealing because the one who teaches is like he's given permission to teach raised given from he's giving permission to for the guy to learn the Torah even money even if it was actual money there wouldn't be a forbidden nature for him to give it to him one second he's really the fuel of a Montgomery low it's early Thomas on in the law it wouldn't be forbidden for the non Jew to take it looking mainly it's a little motor a locker like pursue the only reason will be permitted because of the verse we saw on psalms 147 20 even though the torah is sure yet and the closer even though the turret is really relating to the whole Jewish people it's c'mon Ash routine it's like a group ownership of money Shana hi Mannie jalapeno Mona shoots throws really one of them should not be able to give permission for someone else to take it because it belongs to everybody how but he says that staska in a way it's specific in a way where the money that is belonged to everybody would end up being a loss by giving it away a lock on and other museum it's hacer but here in this case no Jew is lacking from what you're teaching to non Jew datura aim sorry Lizzy huh scum is closer to him you don't need the read read everyone else because there's nothing lacking there's nothing missing now that me Erie so he says like this when the question is if the non Jew who's learning the Torah has in mind to fulfill the Torah I mean fulfill whatever he's learning or to convert there's for surely no problem at all so the whole problem would be if you're faking it or you're gonna use it against the Jews to bring them down or to argue with them so this is what he says in yes sir Lagoon limit Ora there's no problem with a non Jew learning Torah alien Cain who Isaac bath shinola qivana the Cayenne became its fatale it's only if his intent was to involve himself not to fulfill the main points of the Torah LSU liebe hopelessly you're a Lydia Satara sainted Tom Odell his intent his desire of his heart is only to bring down the Torah the reason that there would be forbidden cuz sure I said bow Ethan's a so even been a other because other people will then look at him like he's a Jew because he's practicing all these things not to bring the Torah up but to bring the turret down the people will see him and they're gonna think that he's some kind of expert in Torah they're gonna follow him and they're gonna not be following the tour at all because he's taking them away so this if you are intending attack yeah - and that's why I say to non-jews as long as you're learning from a junior you're pretty much you're good you're good to go now again when it comes to nodules they have to be very special people like you know rod Bryant I'll mention him that as an example there's quite a few other there's there's Dan Barr well well and Ray Peterson I mean I'm sure there's a lot I just don't know them so I respect them all if they're learning true true Torah from rabbis see how clear it is so the person asked can I send these verses these these you know clips around the cyber world no problem he goes on to know it's really good stuff I'll read the rest of the miry the closure cane how much more so in lean mudo who al das Lavo odd Catholics LaMotta Torah Kadesh India Senna's Leymah yahshua via sky air aim is that is er yo team you Sigma Chi in increments the South Mishnah which means like this this whole purpose of learning is in order to come to a prey the goal of perfecting himself through the Torah in order that he should find himself a way to do Trueba to return now the next thing says retire and to convert I think he means were to convert okay because the next thing says how much more so if he just wants to fulfill his own mitzvahs right so if he's gonna do a complete return or convert there's no sir there's no forbidden nature would be yo turn even more so in aiesec of Makai game Iker mitzvah sellers ma he's doing it all for the sake of his relationship with God no problem whatsoever and really there's so much here but I want to read I want to skip I don't skip anything but I know the time is of the essence I think that the Hussam sofa is very important to know and this is what the North had will Center they hold by the custom so fair and the Brit Shalom the safer that came out the book that came out they say in the introduction this is where they're holding so this reiterates what I already said before about when the Rambam says that a I'll just use word non-jew for now learns Torah it's a big problem is high Missa that's not the text the text should read idol worshiper for an idol worshiper to learn Torah that's problematic but when it says that a again is going to learn Torah or Sigma Torah and become like a cog uttal have the status of this great person that's talking about a bend Allah okay so try to get that I think it's Chris pretty pretty crystal clear crystal about here I read the custom so for anyway and he's speaking about the words of the Rambam his large machine Suresh Vita even after keeping or ice I like to say observing Shabbat the hey missile in motor and so to the forbidden nature of learning Torah Olek I aim sharp mitzvahs or to fulfill any of the other midstance loan and Mariela big boy shoe egg day voters are the only forbidden nature is regarding someone who worships idols I've Alban n then Noah when it comes to someone who's already given away by the worship given up by the worship and accepted the Torah shado Isaiah of al-azhar he doesn't he no longer worships strange worship Rashied leash vote the limo Torah or Luke I'm sure mitzvahs me mitzvah Satara he's permitted rush I he's permitted to whatever that means keep Shabbat observer celebrate to learn Torah or to fulfill any of the other mixes in the tar the cottage leaves heaven or i'ma do a lot of Easter sheets of is servomotor Klaus he says this answers up why learning Torah or keeping Shabbos is not included in the seven laws of north because it's only an issue for someone who worships idols not for Benoit Shana Kaman Shana asourian Le Loi Deborah Zara the Lola binocs only forbidden for a Idol worshipper but not Rabanne no I no longer worships idols I mean there's really a lot more stuff here I don't know where I should begin where I should end grandma can I ask a question yeah yeah because I noticed a friend of mine who occasionally pops in a lady she had asked the question that had to do is the end of and purpose for Noah hi to convert and you brought up a point that you know it says you know should convert but you you read it may convert or can convert I think your understanding is such that just hey Hashem only wants those to approach him that that want to approach him not somebody who wants to just you know take a look for their gain and try to utilize I think that Hashem was clear but the the the the flaming sword in the garden you know that less people put forth their hand and take right from the get-go in early Genesis but can you elaborate on conversion I was a potential not a necessity I'll say with absolute certainty it is not God's will it's not in the cards for the entire world to convert to Judaism it never was never is never will be however to be a righteous Gentile in this is my description okay my description who I think with righteousness and that's why we're learning beyond the seven he's accepted the revelation at Mount Sinai he's accepted the Torah as the basis he's exempt there he or she has accepted the Jewish people as the means of transmission as the um Kadosh you know as the Kadosh as the mulleted Kalani as the teachers of the Torah once you're there you we're not even I don't know where conversion even comes into play it's when someone has a Jewish soul whether it was through reincarnation or they have this yearning to be 100% part of the Jewish people that's that's their decision never should we imply I hope maybe there's a one or two call fake rabbis under they are who are out there saying that the whole world should convert to Judaism that's never been part of the Jewish message for the last three thousand three hundred years so where did that message come from I have no idea maybe through misunderstanding maybe two rabbis talking too fast like maybe sometimes I do and I apologize whether you brought the question up absolutely not I mean to the prophets themselves they discuss the idea that there will be these people who will realize they rely to and they want to join or let's say be the entourage they want to yeah from Jewish right but maybe Jewish as we discussed before they hatch themselves to the Jewish people you have this idea of the priesthood and then you have the people who are the congregation now what's gonna happen towards the end the days bro Hashem will have the remnants of Edom whoever you know from these definitions that decide they want to to join and survive Armageddon right survive the whatever they call it in different languages the end days though they'll survive right but we don't look we don't know when that will happen you have right now to be the best person best human being you can be in whatever situation you are there's no reason that's discouraging it there's no reason to convert unless you have this calling you know and my wife my wife is a cop and she says it ain't for everybody it's only for those that have this like she says that the best decision she ever made in her entire life was to convert for her for her because she had this Jewish soul that was lost now she could be that she came from the lost ten tribes because she actually comes from Persia ended up in India but they all have Jewish names and they have a tradition that they came from the city called Shushan 2500 years ago so like and she looks Jewish but she was born in a Hindu family and then converted to Christianity and then whatever 20-some years ago fell in love with Israel and she just knew when she landed here in Israel took her for six years to make a decision to convert but she felt like Joseph you know like I recognized them they just don't recognize me and it took her six years to realize that for her to be Jewish she had to go all the way cash always felt she was Jewish so anybody that feels they're Jewish perhaps they're the ones that we would say okay we'll try to make it a little easier for you by putting you in the right direction you know but if you're if you're not in that they're not motivated in that direction and you're not because they satisfied be all you can be should never be satisfied you should always try to go one level and that's we're gonna talk about how see dude it's all about trying to go to the next level but the goal is not conversion okay the goal is to be the perfect they're the best you that you can be cuz that's who's God God's gonna judge you he's not gonna ask me why I wasn't like mushroom a no he's not gonna ask you dan why you weren't like joke is unless you want you wearing like Dan why I wasn't like me okay that's the goal we have to be true to ourselves keep you real holy brother okay I think we're gonna now start did I cover everything so far second yeah yeah okay now we're gonna go into Marshall chapter 18 in the Mesilla you showering so this is the trait of Cassie due to piety so this is going to be you know a little bit of painstaking because we're gonna read the Hebrew the English maybe I'll just read the English I don't know but we're gonna discuss it so we're gonna get bogged down a little bit as we read a less restricted English then the trait of Hussey dude truly requires a thorough clarification because he's going to explain there's so much misunderstanding now I do want to tell you my own personal view even though I came earlier on the defense of Cassie dude right that these people are being called heritage because they had this strange way of expressing things I had my own view of classy dudes right I'll tell you I would just make a suggestion though there's a few people that put out really good really good history on this already a rabbi by the name of Henry Abramson he I think he's a historian maybe he's a he doesn't think of himself like that I have no idea but look up the you the YouTube videos on Henry Abramson and I'm gonna suggest look especially at the Rock Hall or the Bell shem tov even shop at Ike's fee if you want because we're going to talk about this problem a little happen like within a hundred years of each other and to get a better idea so whatever I'm not a professional historian I would suggest to do that there's some other good grab my barrel wine I'm sure there's a few others rabbi Michael Scott back also speaks a lot about the history of this time period the Roncalli mentioned that he gives a great introduction to the rom-com and and then okay so that without that's my brief but basically what is my problem in in Jewish history around this time I'll tell you the time period we're talking about you know the late 1600 the early 1700s there was you know you had extreme poverty okay and you also had the beginning of this enlightenment period right and the Polian and whatnot so you had how do I say this casitas hussy dude was a great answer for saving the Jewish people from people leaving Judaism there's no doubt about it right so I wonder I'm one I'm walking on [Music] hot coals here I want to make sure that I am NOT misquoted so while at the same time because of the extreme poverty and the lack of knowledge and because if you have no money you're very very very hard to get a good education it wasn't just a poverty was the persecution was very bad as well and for the society to open up Jews were flocking Jews were leaving Judaism so on one hand it was probably the greatest invention of the time I say invention revelation perhaps is what they like to use on the other hand because of probably from the mid nineteen probably from the the ones who were against this new sect called casitas the problem the is that sometimes these are gonna call the cult I don't mean in terms of Hasidic was a cult but many cults are surrounding personalities okay so you had these really well charismatic well learn it extremely well learning and they did a fine job of trying to bring the message to keep the masses of Jews Jewish color kavod there's nothing negative one can say although that some obviously some people did find some negative things to say I think it was based on the fear of the occult and because within a hundred years fifty years earlier you had Chabot Ike's me who was a cult figure he was a false messiah and he brought he was very charismatic and he brought a lot of people with him and he and then he ended up converting to Islam I mean it was it was a it was a bad ending it was a tragic ending and this also probably led to a lot of people leaving Judaism and around this time you had the baal shem tov meaning fifty years later and you also had the rum how around the same time so the rum how here's talking about kasi dude not necessarily against them but he discusses that many people think has he dude is about the external it's about doing things which will describe here like cracking and a hole in the ice and putting yourself through torture that's how you're gonna be pious no remember of the whole thing is about working on your character but the one thing he really stresses is it's about wisdom you need to be a Hotham and this really brings us back to our original in on a number of those in part 1 and part 2 the difference between the wives of the nation's versus the pipes of the nation's i said when you look at the Rambam or any of the everyone discusses that there's a he root there's this there's a warning and a dedication to keeping the missus in the beginning but at some point you can't be stagnant you have to move one you have to go from one level to another and that's why we brought up the idea of pizza trip if this been your ear I don't want to go off on so many tension a little stick this this book is based on growth growth through character development which you know we saw from the very beginning with Cain and God says you know if you work on your character you could be successful against your evil inclination which is that energy hog which was we're all here to do right to be victorious so he's the first thing he wants mentioned is you need actual clarification a lot of clarification because many practices and many approaches pass among the people under the name of kasi doot and he gives a little note here because this is important to understand that people make the mistake in their approach to serving a Shem they think it's genuine classy dude the word classy dude is not a new word the word how's he do to peers in are obviously in the Torah but in terms of like a movement was already in the time of the talmud it says that early receiving the first cassini they would come to Shu they would come to synagogue one hour before they would be involved in meditation one hour before prayer they would spend one hour in prayer they would spend another hour after prayer coming down from these spiritual Heights and they did this three times a day they could be good Moorhead when did they have time to work I think we talked about this ready so because you have a question or a statement ya rabbi do you think do you think that takers of heart if they saw somebody who was you know at the time wait way back when if they saw people going an hour early before prayer to be a part of something do you think that takers of heart would distort that into some twisted religious view because let's face it Judaism is not as much a religion as it is a nation and an identity of a people of what Hashem has has called them to be and I think that the rest of the world started to distort some of this and try to form religions even though we know religious practices go all the way back past the time of ur like the ur of Chaldees during the time of Abraham I mean they had the ziggurat and they had you know you know food was passed out in a certain fashion that became a religious order if people wanted to eat back then but I mean the times that you're talking about do you think when people had a false sense of haci Deut right they would want to look more pious incorrectly and this was always a distractor this was always a trap to the ate Sahara right I mean like everybody will be judged by God individually and everyone goes through different stages in their life so like for a father to let's say Carriger forced his son to come with him to show now earlier the kids playing on his you know his iPad ensure or they'll eat the table while the father's trying to get into a state of ecstasy listen everybody it's going to be judged differently but you could end up by doing things by rote and stuck in in a rut and I don't know if who would form another religion or form a cult but let's just say I mentioned by my rebbe reb north told us if you were born in you know Lebanon you'd follow anise Rolla you know if you were born in Ramallah you'd fire Arafat if you were born in Iran you'd follow Khomeini if you're born of measuring you'd filed this Rebbe you have to wake up make a decision it's just because you're brought up going to synagogue or you know brought up keeping these 613 laws I'm by rote doesn't mean you have to stay there okay Judaism hopefully you know we had the Prophet now we have the rabbi's we have hopefully good parents who are able to teach us this is real stuff this is about communing with a sham about having a relationship with the Almighty so you know every community will have their there people who do things by rote then every community will have those people charismatic and enthusiastic and passionate and hopefully that one wins over the other there's always this tension right you're just cuz you're born Jewish doesn't mean you know you got it you know you got a weight awaken it so this is really the the gift that I see this gave to those poor ignorant ignorant psa's right obviously not all of them but a lot of Jews were leaving Judaism listen there were a lot of very wise educated Jewish men that joined with Cassie dude I probably would have right it was you had really learned and righteous leaders so it was very attractive though he's a national fashionable right on the other hand you still fall into the option for anybody born into it to get lost in it and just follow things by Rhodes again you'll have good teachers good good good mentors and hopefully that won't happen so keep this in mind right that because many practices and approaches pass among many people on the name of kasi dues so the round how reiterates and elaborates here what he D cries in his introduction the prevalence of mistaken notions of kasi boots as mentioned there he mentions in no five rah roundhouse terminology the terms kasi duty and Hassid denote an elevated and devoted service of a Shem and one who engages in it they should not be confused with the term kasi Dutra Hassid associated with the Hasidic movement that standard by the baal shem tov one didn't does not necessarily can note the other nor is one mutually exclusive with the other so they do serve casitas serves as a avenue for jews to find meaning and burrow hashem they exist it's like that's all i want to say i don't want to good you know but i'll tell you my my pet peeve my issue when I hear certain I'm not gonna call the big drain but I think it's stated at I think Darren's but I could be wrong when they talk about like a revelation came like until the bow Shem told these things were unknown and he revealed the you know what these things were always none every time I realized I spent a lot of time reading the Hasidic masters it's well based in Tom mood it's well based in earlier writings there's nothing new the only thing new if I can say it is the way they told it over and that's what the alter has always been about but Moses heard he didn't say word for word to the next guy to Joshua he had a say in the way that the next generation understand and Joshua told over to the next generation like today how the father's supposed to tell his son so he'll use examples like like an iPad or Netflix will use examples right that big kid can relate to but that wasn't what he heard from they called a generation gap right you have to be able to speak it in the language they can understand so these geniuses these Hasidic masters were absolute geniuses they took what we know is ancient wisdom the tur that they always had we always had but unfortunately there was gaps of knowledge missing in the masses because like I said poverty and ignorance and persecution and so when they brought it down I like that word but they use it therefore some of them use it differently like as if it was something a new revelation so that there's nothing new Under the Sun this is my pet peeve I don't want to hurt or make anybody confused about class II do it it's amazing i people ask me all the time what extreme I'm part of I guess it very simply I'm part of the efficient world but I do accept upon myself a lot of what they call the Sephardic customs and a lot of caseta customs but not that they contradict their addition like in other words they add to my service how's God the ad nothing I do will contradict what a I'll give you an example I wear a garter belt but it says in the show Kannagi should wear a belt so they put an additional felt why do they put on additional belt I don't know but there is a statement in the shotgun arc that says you should wear the belt a belt and everyone wears most people wear it belt is to prepare to meet your Lord from prepare yourself do some kind of preparation so since I wear a belt all day I really don't need to put on an additional belt but I feel I need to do is tighten it up because this gird yourself so I can tighten it up I can't tighten it up because then I wouldn't be able to breathe I carry this belt around with me and I wear I wear it when prayer time comes like all the Hasidim so everyone thinks I'm the fussing I'm not a cousin says in the show canard to wear a belt so ok I'm already wearing about but I don't feel that I'm that newness of tightening and girding my loins getting ready for battle unless I add this additional belt ok so it's not a prompt for me to put in additional belt and the seceding the discarding for example at Havdalah when Shabbat is over when they make the first blessing of the new week which is very Goffin and then the rest of Havdalah they laugh and I don't care I've been to many many places and they don't get it I'm talking about the straight ashkenaz and I laugh and if one looks at me like I'm I fell out of the sky I said you ever been to a aspartic Abdallah yeah you ever see them laugh you know I never went to this party home dollar or or they said yeah I never realized what are they doing so this is an old smart accustomed that when the new week comes in to bring it in with joy now I'm gonna give this year now but there's a whole shirt on they have medical clowns they say that causing someone to have joy is more helpful in the recovery into whether it's the enzymes or whatever it is this could be psychological that could be metaphysis logical but it works I believe I believe it so I want to bring in my new week with joy like when you compare let's say for example what we we Jews claim is when the when the witty code when we were exiled from the land when we say because of the Second Temple is destroyed because of baseless hatred baseless agent well what's worse hating someone for a reason or hating someone for no reason so we say obviously hitting someone for no reason is worse that's why the temple was destroyed so when it comes to laughing laughing for a reason or laughing for no reason which is better for your health so believe it or not they've done studies and laughing for no reason is actually even more helpful to the recovery process so I've accepted upon myself when I say the braja or I hear the bra choreographing I laugh man I don't controllably but quite it's quite a scene it changes my whole outlook on life I mean not changing enhances my o alikum right and so anyway there's many other anything that doesn't contradict right so I basically am of the yeshiva stream the Litvak Ashkenazi but again there's so many smart ik ideas that I have incorporated I told you every piece of good more than I learned I read the Hasidic masters and I read the the aspartic masters it's not to be not to be passed upon and I recommend it for everyone okay so here so what is he what is the romp how very upset he says when they are in fact nothing but crude forms of kasi dude meaning the word he uses is and golem may aina Mela gal Maha siddhis it's foolish and unstable and he gives examples they lack in Wurm shape or refinement they're not authentic casi doot so here he brings down that is these practices are unappealing lacking the beauty one would expect from true piety these approaches are without shape or structure they lacked clear guidelines born of deep contemplation and planning and they are not applied individually to accompany a common date the person's spiritual level his circumstances possible conflict of values or Consequences that's why like as a group they all do and I appreciate that the long past right the idea that it only says in the turn don't cut them meaning don't shave them down to the to the end right so if you cut them with a small whatever let's just say a quarter of an inch or a couple of millimeters that's fine as long as you don't shave them and destroy them the corners of your beard or your head that's fine so what do they do they go out of the way they make them beautiful and then I think it's absolutely stunning I think it means a lot to take a mitzvah and beautify the Mitzvah but again you have people that are just born into it and they don't think twice so hopefully not just discuss this is what I do it has to teach the world that put your heart into it right the the lid fart puts their head and the hussy puts their heart we have to meet somewhere in the middle right you need both and I think that really comes down to this idea we spoke about the very beginning that a non-jews only into the head knowledge so he's right he's not really going to get the uma bomb it's the one who puts the heart and the faith into it so they're gonna get the olam about but the point of this whole beyond the seven is that you cannot be a huset unless you're Thomas Holcomb unless you're well learned because it's going beyond the letter of the law if you don't know where the letter law begins or ends there's no way you can go beyond so that's gonna be what I'm throughout that's huge rabbi I just hope people grab that message this Ratish em okay so now he says why there is such profound misunderstanding of kasi do this mister Stanly results from the lack of examination and real insight on the part of those who adopt these practices I'll tell you is about truth as someone who was religious I ask and you should train yourself to ask questions about everything you're sitting at the table and you say why did he put salt on the bread or why did he do it or why did he you know dip it three times why did he cut the bottom left on Friday night and why did he cut the top love on Shabbos lunch why did he cover it with a napkin or a lever a cover every why do you wash your hands why do you do your right hand why do you pick it up and your right hand put two the left hand and then cover like everything nothing nothing and I challenge all my students anything that you see in Judaism that you think is just a meaningless ritual ask me what is the deeper meaning behind it it's all about being God conscious trying to figure out a way to make yourself more sensitive to others or to a sham in your relationship with God and so maybe I'm a real hustler I don't know well I would like to think so so then he says regarding this idea that misunderstanding results from a lack of examination and real insight on the part of those who adopt these practices for they have not made the effort and her toil to know the way of God to know the way of a Shem meaning the path that Hashem wants us to follow with a clear and sound understanding this is what you have to start from this premise instead they aimlessly acted piously according to whatever occurred to them at first thought and they did not plumb the death depth of these matters nor did they weigh them on the scales of wisdom so the commentaries casitas requires great scholarship and insight for the as the Rob how indicates below it requires one to be thoroughly knowledgeable in the Midlands of the Torah and to discern their underlying message it must also be weighed on the scales of wisdom since one must assess the priority the propriety of pious conduct in situations where there is tension between conflicting values okay the next part not only have these people distorted the practice of kasi do remember he is around the same time the cassini are starting and I don't think he's talking about them okay but we've always had people who tried to be pious without really being pious so it fits in well not only have these people distorted the practice of cassadines for themselves but they cause other people to reject it so he calls them pseudo Hassidim these these pseudo Hasina not Sully the image of considered in the eyes of the masses including even some intelligent people as those who observe them actually are led to think that casitas is based on empty ideas or even worse on matters that contradict intellect and common sense they believe that the entirety of Hesse booth is predicated solely on the recitation of many supplications and lengthly confessions upon extravagant bounce of weeping and frustrations and upon bizarre acts of self affliction through which one almost kills himself so there's a figure of speech the loading extreme nature the extreme nature of their self-mortification you know as I mentioned before of going in cracking the ice and going in to this freezing water thinking that this is going to absorb your sins right you have this in all the religions right so you can have this unfortunately in Judaism and he ends by this such as immersions in ice water and snow and other such things so I'll just read the comment he writes many if not all of the practices described by the round table here no longer enjoy prominence and there's little danger of anyone in our time confusing them with true classy dudes the rob house message though is as timely today as ever some may tend to confuse the superficial externally impressive actions with truly religiosity which you mention this idea you can fall into this even today as rajbhog goes on to explain genuine PT must be based on deep contemplation deliberate planning and as we will soon learn they sincere desire drumroll please this is where we get into thick water sincere desire to please Hashem how can you please Hashem my brushes even said anything there's nothing you could do so that's where we're gonna get into some hot water I want people to be a little bit open-minded within huh see toots there is this remember all the Torah is written in the word in the language of man so we can relate because it's very hard to relate to a chef it doesn't mean that God is lacking anything it doesn't mean that God needs anything it's going he's going to describe it and the relationship that we have we have with our Father in heaven where he will talk about this next week your father says oh the African it's too cold can you turn on the heat so what do you do you cook you can turn to your father to say you turn it on or you can that's one option or you could not only turn it on you can you can bring them a blanket and you can ask them if you like a cup of tea you just think about I mean we're not talking about an earthly father we're talk about Hashem who doesn't need anything but we have the midst of honoring our parents to teach us how to honor Hashem so if your father would say to you it's cold can you turn up the heat and you turn around and say not only will I turn up the heat but I'm gonna grab a few blankets and I'm gonna I'm gonna go out into the cold and bring them bringing some wood to throw in the fire and I'm gonna offer you whatever tea you want you on mint you want cinnamon you want you know Holly and you you bring it to him with a smile right because this is the idea it's you your father says can you bring me a cup of tea and you're all like you're huffing and puffing like why are you bothering me is that called keeping out of the aim is that is that honoring your parents so when I read this idea where somehow we're thinking about how to please Hashem I thought about this discussion about these particular rabbis who were being lambasted because they talk about God like he wants something from us he needs something from this and I thought well here we go it's because it's based in the hasi dude it's based in going beyond the letter of the law and I don't know why these rabbis don't understand it maybe they never talk to their own rabbis about it maybe I'm gonna get flack right I'm gonna get people writing comments I ignore anything I have no right to say anything but I'm reading it right here that this is about a sincere desire to please Hashem now there's a verse in the Torah that actually speaks about giving a sadist satisfactory aroma to a sham who in our korbanot so we're going to talk about this next week so anybody that think this is controversial we'll just have to battle it out in a respectful way next week I think there's our time up I have a lot of time we've we've been about an hour and 40 minutes we're definitely more than 90 so I think I think a lot of people we oh we have so over an hour and a half so I think a lot of people have time watching more than an hour and a half at the time I think I got to agree with you rabbi I mean unless you want to keep going but I think this allowed me to let it sink in it's important that these lessons or these words like kind of like you digest them and if you have any comments you don't agree at least and send me an email I'm happy to try to address that or clarify okay when you give rebuke the best thing to say to somebody is is this correct is this what I'm hearing you say because you may not have heard them correctly right and it gives them a time to also what's the word clarify their point so you talk about respect you don't give rebuke without love and respect it just doesn't exist your your transgressing the Torah when you give rebuke out of anger and I told you so where I'm better than you or any of those things that we've discussed it has to be out of a mutual sense of responsibility we're in this together because if we work I really shouldn't I should let let live live and let live is me if I'm not something I'm responsible for what you do why should I even rebuke you how I want to see you improve I don't want to see you continue on this way so whenever I say shouldn't go head to head it should be mutual respect trying to clarify and have a to a yeah come to better terms okay any rep rabbi you know just to wine this down one one rabbi had learned from you know shared about that when the transmission of the Torah how it was passed from Joshua you know or Moses to Joshua Joshua of the elders and down and so on so forth you've touched on something today that is a real key trigger and he used the phrase the way it was transmitted was he used two words bilateral affinity and I know these are not something that everybody uses the term bilateral affinity but this is where it was passed on where where bilateral meaning it had or related to two sides there's by you know it was affecting both of them an affinity affinity meaning there's a natural liking or attraction to you know or like a marriage or by ties affinity is something that binds you know and the the rabbi had used that phrase that bilateral affinity was passed on and and you touched on tonight that it doesn't mean that the entire boom was handed over but here what you're trying to get across to us that Haas a dude goes that extra mile to have that legitimate and honest connection with someone else in another and there's no misunderstanding and I think there's a beauty in it and more than a beauty and a true fools labor against that and let's be clear when they're pointing the finger they're not going after any bilateral affinis any connection with that opposing person and I think you brought up some beautiful beautiful points today that yeah but I know I need to digest they need to decipher they need to integrate and begin to walk in and I sure hope you have some more beautiful stuff to share with us okay so I'm looking forward to that continuation I guess we'll call it the part 7 is that right part 7 next week it'll be less than seven but you can call it 6b you can call it anything you want sir you're the rabbi don't be late yeah we're just here to listen and learn and let the tour begin to affect us and you know for me these are personal lessons and I've just honored that we're still getting people from Germany people from all around the globe that do check into them I hear the Melissa it just you know it binds communities in the rest of the world in this is what Torah was designed for yes okay yeah for sure now were there any comments cuz I couldn't see any comments was any anything of interest you know there was plenty of questions and a few things you know even when you're started to talk about Sephardic traditions and a few things and some questions I'd rather not repeat it this time but there was lots of interaction on on YouTube you know like we've had new visitors I mean somebody asked we'll do no Heights have their own scholars clergy or do they have the same rabbis or Jewish people that Jewish people do he says I'm not a Noah height and I'm confused and sorry so we and I tried to throw some questions back at them while we were we're still picking up your lesson you know you you can check the chat box later if you'd like rabbi but I don't think there's anything that was a curveball or a deliberate question there was a few in there but I don't want to yeah go through it at this time so you know let's call it a day and Hashem willing we'll continue next next Saturday rabbi looking forward yes all right so folks till then have a wonderful wonderful week [Music]