Rabbi Reuven Lauffer - Chumash Insights: Parshat Haazinu - Part 3

yeah okay you know what here let's go from verse number we'll go fromi let's uh let's uh see what we can get done um so again we P we've got very very poetic language over here very uh it's very difficult to to do justice to the words that have being being said over here but where are we that make him R the heights of the land with it everything is going to be fantastic there's going to be honey from the stones and there'll be oil from the flinty rocks in a minute we'll see what the what the big deal is over here which means what do we got we've got we've got lots of lots of you know good things over here there's butter there's milk there's fat there's there's Rams that that are born in Basham which is a very the very healthy kind of rams they're very very strong uh wheat as fat as kidneys right and drinking the blood of grapes like delicious wine I mean it would just be dripping out and everything will be fantastic right yeah it says I mean the the uh the cattle gives Al cows give milk milk also why is it butter and then milk from the from the Sheep what's TR I don't know it it's possible that um what kind of sheep give milk oh all sheep give milk sheep's milk is uh is something which you know you could you can buy today you can buy them every B everywhere actually sheep's milk but it could be that cow's milk is creamier richer maybe than sheep's milk which is why it talks about it you know um butter is a little bit of a luxury and milk is something that you need but butter is something that you take the milk and you Churn it up and then you can turn it into something even richer than what came out originally I I don't know possibly yeah can get the milk of any mam or is that like no says something that comes out of something which is impure is impure and something which comes out of something pure is pure which means that if you want to drink milk it's got to come out of a kosher animal that soap can be kosher is that way like detergent can be kosher can be kosher or needs to be koser I have no idea which it is no I mean I mean what's the CH in the olden days all kinds of weird things went into things like soap and detergent right so you wanted to make sure that you weren't washing your dishes with something that had some kind of animal you know some kind of animal fat inside of it um but now nowadays I think people are normally only very careful on pesak to get a hold of you know washing liquid that uh that has some kind of a supervision on it uh aside from that though I don't I don't know if people are careful about this during the rest of the year over here in Israel it's difficult not to be careful because you know all stuff that's being sold all I don't know but as far as I'm aware you know 85 90% of the stuff that's being sold has got some kind of a heure on it um but yeah I maybe maybe that's the idea that I think I think maybe you can't make cream uh maybe you can't make butter out of uh out of sheep's milk um so maybe maybe that's I don't know maybe that's what it is there's talking we're talking about a certain a certain sort of luxury over here certain certain luxury ious lifestyle over here where there's a lot of everything everything is very fat everything is very you know abundance oh an abundance of everything right but what what's the problem so here verse number 15 is very telling what happened which is a name for the Jewish Nation they became fat what does it mean became fat that they materialistically they became very successful and they kick right so they kick against who hem against Hashem right a theme that we've spoken about on many occasions in the past but the better it's a paradox but the better things are the less attached we are to our right I mean it's just it's human nature unfortunately that the the better things are the more we imagine that we can manage without Hashem and as things start getting worse so then we start finding our relationship again again so shanto you became thick you became what's it say here you became fat you became thick you became corpulent somebody's been looking up the thesaurus over here right because what's the the problem is that shamanta Avita Casita is different words it's very difficult to do them Justice by translating them into English different dimensions of fatness different different facets of fatness but we're talking about again everything is very Good Very we're talking about a lot of everything right and what happens if then we let go of things are great what do you need Hashem for if you can have anything that you want and you can buy anything you want so what do you need a for you could just take care of everything right and it's going to provoke a is going to be provoked into action right there's no there's no other alternative because the minute we start turning away from a so what's going to be we'll end up having is going to have to return us back to him in some way which is normally going to be done in a very a very a very difficult very painful way they tell there's a medish that says like this there was once a poor person who worshiped a with the most tremendous tremendous connection and uh one day he met elaan Novi elawa noi he didn't know that it was Elijah he thought it was just somebody and he so Al gave him a golden coin to invest for him and he started making tremendous amounts of money most a tremendous blessing was placed on this person and he's making the most enormous amounts of money and as he starts making all of this money slowly but surely surprise surprise his connection with Hashem starts lessening off says to elov he said what did you do so he went back the El goes back to his fellow and takes his original coin back that was an investment right so he wants it back the minute he took it back so the you know what's it called The Wheel of Fortune turns around and he ends up losing all of his money and going back to how things were and he starts rebuilding his relationship with and then at that point Eli comes back and he says look he says I'm prepared to give you back the wealth that you had but you need to always remember where it came from it's a very it's a very basic lesson it really is but it's a lesson that we don't really pay very much attention to we just don't true you know we think that we're doing great if we're doing great then I can you know I can manage right right that we're talking about they're going to start what are you going to be doing you're going to be worshiping Idols right gods that aren't aren't uh gods that we have any connection to with the gods that have just been made up now nobody's familiar with them it doesn't matter we'll worship anything right right you ignored the rock that's that gave you everything and you're going to forget the God who brought you into being right you hear you hear what's the point I tell you like this I I don't know I'm I'm going to say something which Maybe it's a little bit radical but if a person wants to not believe in anything don't believe in God at all maybe that's easier in the eyes of God here you've got somebody over here who was attached to a and then what happens he becomes become he becomes materially very successful and then what happens he starts losing his Direction and he starts worshiping Idols so we can perhaps we can begin to appreciate now the extent of a kish's anger when something like that happens right because what what what do we want you know if you want to get up with I don't believe in anybody at all so you're not transferring that belief to something that doesn't have any basis to it right but if you get up and you say I don't believe in God anymore but I'm going to believe in this tree or I'm going to believe in this this St this statue or I'm going to believe in this thing over here so what what are you doing you're saying that well that's not good enough for me I want this one instead that's already a different kind of a level of betrayal and IST has more of a less of a chance being punished by God there that's what you're saying no I'm you know what the say like this I'm talking about a very specific case of a person who believed in God and then stops believing so if he stops believing in any kind of a any kind of a god alog together I think he's in better shape than somebody who leaves God and starts worshipping an idol an atheist in general it's the other way around right so somebody who hasn't had a connection with God and you know who chooses not to believe in God is further removed than somebody who believes in Idols because at least somebody believes in Idols understands there's some kind of a god there they just don't know who it is right it's a little bit subtle because it they they switch with each other here verse number 19 God's going to get angry and he's going to right what's he doing he's going to get angry with who with us surprise surprise yeah verse number 20 I'm going to I'm going to hide my face from them and then we'll see then we'll see what's going to be with them which me like this you don't you don't want to recognize me that's fine but if you don't recognize me let's see what's going to be with you how do you think you're going to survive for one second without the recognition that I'm God and you need to have that relationship right a generational reversals that that children aren't going to be brought up properly which means they're going to be there's going to be a general a general disintegration of everything that we believe in that they they're angering Me by worshiping something which is not it's not Divine there's no God over here you're talking about worshiping Idols it's not that's no good and they angered me with their vanities the gumar says like this when you when you not you when one worship idols you're really worshiping yourself right why because what do you do when you worship idols what are you doing you're worshiping whatever you need at that moment so if you need rain you worship the god of rain you need sun you worship the god of sun if you need you know a harvest you worship the god of harvest whatever it is that's why in Pagan cultures there are masses and masses of different gods go back into ancient Greece and ancient Rome and they there were gods and semi goods and demigods and who knows what right and and uh where where does all of that come from it comes from being having the necessity to worship whatever you need in order to get what you want what will happen in the end the Jewish people will find themselves without they won't have their own Nation anymore right which means they they'll be they'll be subjugated by other nations saying right you don't want to be you he what God's saying God's saying something very fundamental over here he's saying like this the Jewish people have to be ruled it's as simple as that we we have to be we have to there has to be subjugation of the Jewish people is saying like this you can do it your way or you can do it my way if you want to subjugate yourselves to me that's fine then we can all live happily ever after and everything's going to be great right but if you don't want to do that then you'll be subjugated by a foreign King you'll be subjugated by somebody who's going to be far far more you know far far vicious and evil and wicked and you'll have to live with the repercussions of what you're doing right why is the par being again you know we had other before about what happens yeah you sin I mean it keeps in you know it's repeating the same thing over and over again and again I I don't think the answer has changed very much I really don't we're in the last day of M B's life and this is the last the last time the last 5 hours let's say I'm giving you yeah he he repeats you know yeah so here when we when we get to next week and we start the so then you'll see that you'll see the blessings beginning to be poured over the Jewish people but this is the really it's the last moment that he's got to be able to tell the Jewish people that they have to be careful you what he's doing last week about being a good leader sorry about being the good leader I think so right instead of going out on some kind of a fluffy cloud of you know you people are great and I really enjoyed being your leader and uh you know I hope I hope you uh liked me as much as I liked you right yeah he he's he's telling them that thatth you have to understand how the system works he must probably had a n what was going to happen he's not under any Illusions over here for sure for sure for sure right what will happen that the the is the low the lowest levels of all which means if you make God angry if you make him really angry then we're we're going to sink as low as we can get everything everything is going to go wrong there'll be nothing nothing will be left the right all all of this see just read it through in the English and you'll see it's like it's it's a again it's going to be terrible things are going to go from bad to worse my my parents used to have a sign up in their downstairs toilet it was rather sweet actually it used to say like this there I sat alone and Melancholy when all of a sudden out of the heavens there came a voice and it said cheer up things could be worse so I cheered up and sure enough things got worse and that's really what's going on over here you know if if you don't recognize what you're supposed to do if you don't attach yourselves to God if you don't live the life that God's want you to leave you see it's just going to go from bad to worse Jewish people must have been so motivated at this moment in time unmotivated you know why because he keeps saying these things no because he's like saying oh you're all you know you're all horrible people basically the EM is like this he's not he's not telling them they're horrible people what he's telling them is though that they have the potential to be horrible everybody everybody has which means that really everybody needs to everybody needs to know I I think I think what MO is doing is he's being very very honest with them right everybody needs to know what the repercussions of their actions are and mosha is not dressing this up in anything he's just telling them exactly how it is right so maybe maybe if anything you could you can maybe you can complain that there's an overdose of Truth over here you know does he have to be so truthful couldn't couldn't he have you know said this in a a less direct way so we would get the idea and I think the answer is very simple that if it would have been in a less direct way we wouldn't have got the idea we we have enough trouble you know believing what he's saying when he spells it out right the Jewish people didn't they didn't hold on very long before they started spiraling out of control God says I'll scatter them around and I'll cause their memory to cease from man the truth of the matter is that that that would according to many Jews that would be great right that we that cause their me decease from man right that the the non-jews should leave us alone they should forget about the Jews let them worry about something else right I read I read a little article which ab absolutely absolutely amazed me I I don't know you know if anybody here aware there there's like a little war going on in the Ukraine right it's not anything very serious it's just between it's between Russia and the Ukraine it's not it's really it's a you know it's playing games with each other in the mean time 3,000 people have been killed over 3,000 people have been killed since the onset of this this little this little non-war that no one's talking about right over 3,000 people nobody cares because they're not Jewish or because it's not Jews that are doing it to be more exact Israel cares no in the world they don't care either the whole world Goes Bananas when when you know when the Israelis by mistake kill four kids on a beach right in Gaza because one of one of the missiles didn't get to where it was supposed to be going to the whole world goes the whole world Goes Bananas right but when 3,000 people die in the UK in the Ukraine which I'm sure contains many kids as well many children as well never mind no doesn't matter never mind Ukraine Syria Syria many 200 200,000 people so far in counting it's not bad right but because it's not the Jews that are doing it it really doesn't matter it really doesn't thinks them to us it don't happy either unfortunately yeah sad right yeah very there concerns now on the Golan on the Golan for sure because what the Golan the Golan is on the on the border with Syria the border of Syria is in a state of complete disarray right now because you've got Syrian rebels that are fighting against the Syrian Army and uh is coming out you know whatever the I hear that there's a little bit of a help to theah the what yeah okay because of the you know not the Isis your uh your enemy is my right is my friend is that how it works which means what what's going on again that were it not for the anger of the enemy was pent out's to me to Mis say our hands were raised in Triumph is taking care of all of this right but we imagine that you know that they they won their War so they say we were victorious gamor says that it wasn't possible to destroy the temple the physical Temple until the spiritual dimensions of the temple have been Destro destroyed already takes away the spiritual dimensions of something and then there's nothing left it's just a building right and that's what you know that that's that that's something that we need to understand the destruction of the physical entity of the temple was just the end of the process that's all it was but Lisa practically the spiritual Dimensions have be taken away already which there was there really wasn't anything left that's what you said before I should my face yeah and then see what they do on their own which yeah let's see let's see how you manage right right verse number 20 29 if they look listen to this right this is a verse for you exactly what you were saying a moment ago if only we would understand this right and then we would understand why things are the way they are but we don't we just go on our merry way we don't pay any attention to what's going on we imagine we imagine that we know right what does mean means I don't know where where it so how how is it so so when you read that literally translate to how is it so I mean that really the underlying theme of is how is it possible that whatever happened how how is that possible right and again you know it's exactly the same thing we read through and we don't we just we don't even listen to what we're what we're hearing what we're read this isit in a certain way yeah right everything everything revolves around God if God wants something to happen it will happen if he doesn't want it to happen it's not going to happen it's as simple as that here our rock is not like their Rock right what are we saying God is not an idol God is not some kind of you know thing that people pray to but rather God is God and yet our our enemies judge us right everything everything is awful absolutely awful serpents venies their wine the poison of cruel vipers and what are we saying that mine is vengeance is going to we're going to have to pay for whatever we do because the day the catastrophe is again why can't why can't we listen to it why why can't we understand what God is saying right you hear we all hear the problem do we do we want to hear this we don't want to hear it right the whole thing last week when it says conceal the world tce say again the what says the word conceal twice each other yeah 100% right that's it you know I'm I'm going to I'm going to disappear from the picture and you're and you're going to disappear from the picture yeah because you can't you get what what's the what the lesson you you can't function on your own you right you can't continue to exist without me it's I read something last night last night relates before you say rash before you start rash you read basically I can't remember it's like the something of repentance I can't remember the PA of repent or something at the end of it it says something God is my companion which is amazing because if you think of the way that you relate to a companion you think of someone that you love and they love you back Etc that whole idea and a companion of course is somebody who takes you helps you to reach places that you wouldn't be able to reach otherwise right it's a function which means that with with everything with everything that God does and with everything that God is threatening us with he's only doing it out of his great love for us because if we don't do what we're supposed to do then we can't become who we need to become you know I I read years ago I read a part of a biography from somebody called Mark Spitz Mark Spitz was a Jewish kid from California who was the uh he he he won in the 1974 Olympics he won seven gold medals for swimming which was a a record that was only beaten just now in this Olympics now I think somebody picked up eight seven was the most anybody ever got in one Olympics and in his biography says you know he he was a regular he was a regular Californian teenage kid right at the beginning of the 1970s Jewish I mean not not from right um You you can imagine what was going on what kind of life was going on in California right in the beginning of the 70s it was pretty it was best it was pretty it was pretty upbeat right and uh he said there were many times he couldn't do anything that his friends were doing because he had to go to train right and he couldn't eat what they were eating because he had a special diet and he couldn't uh you know he couldn't stay out late because he had a curfew and he couldn't couldn't wake up late in the morning cuz he had to go train early right and he had to all you know he said his life was pretty miserable and he said there were many times that he wanted to give up just throw in the tow relation good huh it's like a relationship with good yeah it's interesting right but he had a coach he said who was so cruel that he wouldn't he wouldn't let him go his coach would not let him he wouldn't let him leave and he kept he kept you know badgering him and he got to keep training and he said he reached a point there were in occasions where he he he he really did not like his coach at all and he never understood why he had to go through all of this until he stood on the podium for the first time to get his first gold medal in the Olympics he said it was and then he suddenly realized why it was that he had to suffer the way that he had to suffer in order to be able to reach where he reached was a difference huh a difference between that and what's the difference you see your reward you see your reward our our our standing on the podium and getting up getting a gold medal on the podium is something which we're not going to witness down here in this physical world right but it's something it's a goal that's been it's a goal that we're trying to reach and the same way he never he never knew he was going to get a gold medal in the Olympics he just knew that he was good enough to be able to to be in the Olympics right and you don't know that you're going to be chosen to be on the Olympic team until you go through all the tests and you don't know and you don't know but the end you get there yeah but isn't it also different in the sense that we're we're training to become servants we're we're training in the end you just shut off everything until you're like yeah a little a little bit like he was I I don't think that's very different to Tool actually he he was completely and absolutely subservient to his coach completely then after his reward but he could have walked away oh he could here he tried and his coach seeing the potential that he had wouldn't let him go kep right just like mus keep kept a hold of it after you get the gold medal you can walk away that's that's where that's where the that's where the musall comes to an end you're right right after you've picked up your gold medal or your seven gold medals and you've written your you've written your book and you've made your millions of dollars you can then go and become a drag addict and uh and you know become obese and uh uh do what you want but we're not we're not focusing on the post post gold medal moment we're just focusing on the fact that very often we have to do things that we don't want to do in order to reach where we need to reach surely then you're just living life for that reason you're not living life because you want that relationship you're just living life because you want to be rewarded well and the thing about the reward is you're training yourself to like the reward because isn't oo just closeness to God yes yes incredibly spiritual good right so what are we doing we are exposing ourselves to as much spirituality as we can over here to recognize that that's something that we want that's a good point right because otherwise what are you doing right you know somebody somebody who doesn't like swimming for example is not going to be able to understand why Mark spits bothered to carry on doing it right so fine so don't win the gold medals and have a good have a good you know have a good life you know enjoy enjoy yourself I think it's the same you know I tell you it's interesting when I was growing up to be to be a uh a football a soccer player I mean these guys they had the most incredible Lifestyles they went pottying every night they got drunk every night and they had to they had to come and they had to you know then they had to train a little bit and if they were lucky they could run around for 90 minutes on the pitch and didn't get winded because they had drunk too much beer right and they were the good players to today it's not like that today today they have very very strict regimens they really do you got to you got to you know you've got to get up at 6:00 so you got to be in training you can't go out you can't you can't be out you can't be seen drinking you can't be out clubbing you can't be out it's all kinds of all kinds of rules and regulations over there you are sports unfortunately becoming a drug oh for for for for years and years already right but here what's good okay I mean I'm I'm just throwing it out the the analogy only fits up to a certain point right we read all of this right like we we're we're rushing you know what in a certain way we're like we're like Lemmings you know what Lemmings are Lemmings are these bizarre little animals that they just they follow the leader and the leader Lemmings have this thing that they run the leader runs off a cliff and the Lemmings run off the cliff as well they'll just plunge down to their deaths because that's what the leader did we we're a little bit like Lemmings you know we we don't think about what we're doing we just follow the trends we follow Society and it's really it's not good right wow he's going to judge us there's no there no over here we can't pretend that we don't know so weird that this is this is It's fascinating right isn't it fascinating that it falls out Punk this this this Pas is is nine times out of 10 it comes it's a shabas next to rashash either be I me you know what 10 times out of 10 either before or or after so weird just depends the rabbis have a ball with this for shabas oh for sure shabas shua right when they're going to get out what are they going to talk about we're supposed to do CH where they where they going to get the the material from there's plenty of material over here right for sure here next page 1108 nothing's going to hip chot listen nothing's going to help you that's really POS message yeah what's he saying he's saying like this you know you want to place you want to place all your trust in in you know the stock market you want to place all your trust in in uh in in Commodities you want to place all your trust in the nuclear deterrent of the United States of America nothing's going to help that in the sense that you if yeah know what the underlying theme of schmitter is what that you don't don't rely on yourself yeah right here we spoke about shmm is the most extraordinary thing right the food is not being controlled by you yeah the sages talk about these Farmers as being Heroes down tools that's it finished it's not it's not me and shmita is like a glorified chabas right it's two years really isn't it it's two like a year and a half whatever because the Harvest has to be planted and then it has to grow but but shmita is like a glorified chabas so one of the definitions of shabas very very interesting idea one of the definitions of shabas is that I keep shabas and I am convinced that I'm not losing anything in the material world by keeping shabas right that's a big thing no see you got a store and your store earns you $1,000 a day when you close on chabas are you losing $1,000 a day no no what we're saying is that Kish is going to give me $6,000 this week and that I'm closing my store and I'm not losing a thing from all of this you got to have a lot of a lot of right you got to have a lot of and a lot of trust in to be able to do that you really do it's hard it's very hard people got to realize that got already says okay this year you're going to make so much and so much don't you know people are going to be making more yeah but again you know it's hard it's hard to reach that mindset one second so you're saying that somebody walks into the job but already knows how much going to yeah it says like this it says that thear says that your your income is been predestined from rash to rashash right mad what what is not included in the equation is the money that you spend on shabas and yontan education but under normal circumstances you know you think you're going to earn you want to earn a 100,000 but in the end what happens want to have a certain amount of money throughout that year and if needs be things happen in your home that will cause you expenses that you weren't expecting you know the boiler will blow right and now you've got to go and spend thousands of pounds to get the boiler fixed because no that it's like you know this is what you're having not more and not less now that that doesn't stop you you have to do your his you got to do you got to make your effort so you've got to go for the job interviews and you've got to go to work and you've got to try to work your way up the ladder and you've got to do whatever you can in order to be able to bring that income into your home that's for sure but never to imagine that it's you that's defining what the income is going to be K is defining it they once they they say that that once bichev once saw one of his was busy running in a direction he says to him where you know where are you going so he says RAB says I'm running after my Panos I'm running after my livelihood so Le talk he says well how how do you know that your livelihood is not in that direction right you think you're getting it from over there but's got it all lined up over here instead you know you transpires the person's running away from it not towards it whatever very good mus that's who was that the yeah what's going to happened you placed all your you placed all of your trust and your Bel into things which are not real into Idols of certain kind doesn't matter what they are right and you're going to look and say where are What's happen where are these Idols where are they now you know you place all of your belief you you place all your trust into the stock market and you invest everything in the stock market and the stock market tanks so what's happened now right what's happened to this thing that you believed in and then says verse number 39 what does he use to say that I am he what word do you use yeah it repeats the words an but he doesn't use the words Hashem is that not an issue no because hasem it's Hashem speaking he says I oh no listen listen to what he's saying listen no no no in a minute we'll see why yeah hold on a second right what does he say now that I am he you can use that to describe two ways you can use it to describe someone looking for life without for sure hold on a second hold on a second hold on let me explain right I am he the a there's no there's no Gods there's nothing else there's only me I will cause death and I will bring life so what's the problem with what you're saying you want to say like this why isn't God saying I I am God yeah because you I God right but you can look at it saying okay fine this is my life and you've got nothing to do with me I I will cause my own death and I will cause my own life and I will you know I will St you know there is no rescue from my hand I can't be I can't I I can't believe I I don't it doesn't really fit in with the words over here in Hebrew though it is God speaking right so he's saying now see I am he there is nothing else there are no other gods it's a pretty definitive statement it really is some people may think that God has another God or some oh so I was thinking that before right that if he says you know IEM so you could say oh yeah so he's Hashem so who's Elohim but whatever whatever word he's going to choose to describe who he is right now right I just feel there's suddenly a change a change like this in conversation because before it was when he when he when he when he when he and out saying see now that it's ey I feel that it's now finally hashem's talking not but he says no he stays with a he says he says like who I am he who means he right that's what he's saying I I am the one you hear what he's saying yeah and I I I think of mosha was saying that if you if you whatever whatever name he would give to himself over here in this context it's still me it's it's but you're going to lose some of the power of what's being said right oh you mean it's Hashem but it's not Elohim oh or you mean it's Elohim but it's not Hashem is deliberately not defining one dimension of who he is he's saying an who that's that's me I'm him whichever way you look at it it's me right gonna live forever right what what will happen in the end will take Vengeance on all the people that have done terrible things to the Jews I want to tell you something very important over here the is that a person if you own a slave right if you if you've got a servant or a slave you've got to look after that person very well right and if anybody attacks your slave you have to protect them and if anybody if you you only got one pillow you've got to give it to him and if you eat white bread he's got to eat white all those kinds of things right we are AEM if we behave like the Servants of God then God will take care of us that's part that's part of the it it's part of the conditions that come down with having aadim with having slaves yeah got a really quick question for you you know when it says K isra every all of the people of Israel will be transgressed or whatever like did Moshe consider himself to be part of the people very much so so then whenever we for example the red and all that lot did he get also the same consequences as the rest of the Jewish people m raenu is a an integral part of the Jewish people which means that when there is something which happens to the Jewish Nation as a whole yeah that's what I mean mosha is included inside side of that the golden calf is is one of the only things that Moser is exempt from because he wasn't there right he was up in Hari at the time and he was receiving the first set of the of the Ten Commandments and he wasn't there right but uh but the you know aside from that whenever something happens to the Jewish Nation so mosha is going to be included inside of that for sure here let's go to page 1110 we're back to now we're back to regular regular uh Pros over here we're moving out of poetic out of the poetic out of the Shir coming to the end of the interesting hos bin who is that yahushua why is he not called yahushua over why is he called H that was his original name do you remember how yosua became yua anybody remember this stuff right when he sent him off to be one of the Morag to be one of the spies into the land of Israel mosha gave a yud to yahushua he changed from being HOSA to yahushua why to give him the protection against the other spies he shouldn't be influenced by them right so over here why is he called hos B why the the difference over here so Rashi says right that he want that that the Torah is emphasizing the fact that yahushua remained HOSA the young the young man that he was before he was elevated into this incredible position of leadership he never lost sight of who he was and he remained a humble person right what does it say what does it say over here what does it mention speaking the words into ears no it doesn't say into ears but it says Moses came to SP all the words of the S of the song the ears of the people then it says Moses concluded speaking all the words to all of Israel why does it say that okay hold on just hold on a second okay I saw I saw a cute a cute answer this yua business and then we'll come back and we'll try to work out what it is that what what the answer is right but it say says like this the the yud from yahushua came from where it's a famous story that Sarai Abraham's wife her name was changed from Sarai to Sarah so a hey was added to her name and a was taken away from her name and that yud was a yud which was given to yahushua sarai's name was changed when she was 80 she was n she was 90 years old 89 years old she was called Sarai and she lived to be 127 which is how many years right the the uh how long were they wandering around in the desert for from the time that the meraglim went in until now now is 38 years that's right it says that the yud of yushua it's almost like it's it's you know it's used up it's used up at s by date right it's good for 38 years and now he goes back reverts back to being H it's a cute vot don't base too much on it because of course afterwards yosua is always called yosua the yud comes back again we've got safer yosua where all the way through he's referred to as yosua whatever it's a cute idea but y he comes and tells it over into the ears and he comes to tell it over to the whole of is one second right so we've got here a emphasis slightly more than usual when it says what have we learn together right remember a little while ago that when it says that he spokes into the ears of the people what's he saying gener right the each one though yeah into their ear everyone's got their own ear everyone's got to understand it their own way here so here when it says into their ear that's good and then when he starts speaking he's going to speak to everybody together but what's he telling them listen very carefully it's very beautiful you have to take very take to heart what it is that God's telling you and you have to do what huh be careful perform of the words of the Torah no no no the most important words over here are what per you have to teach your children you have to transfer to your children how to keep these Mitzvah the whole of the whole of Dev seems massive emphasis on teaching children for sure 100% why because the children are the future it's weird the shamar's in it everything's yeah is not it's not weird at all up until now up until Saar what have we got we've got information being passed over from God to the Jewish people you know this is what need you know this now mosa is saying like this right how's this going to work this system you have to keep everything in order to be able to give it over to your children that's what it comes down to right think I mentioned once they made they made a study that the CH children you children of doctors very often go into medicine right why is that I think it's perfectly obvious isn't it the children see their father living the life of a doctor comes home he talks about his day he rushes out because he's got you know he's got to he's got to run to an emergency whatever it is they see their father living the life of a doctor so they also want to live the life of a doctor it's no different in the religious world right there's no way to be able to transfer this stuff your children the children don't see you doing it yourself right children children are very very intuitive even if they don't know what the word intuition means right but they're very intuitive and if you've got a parent telling a kid that he's got to learn this and he's got to do that and he's got to be like that and he's not doing it himself what what is this kid going to think for goodness sakes jumbled up kids come home you know parents send their kids off to to some kind of Jewish educational system whether it whether it's some kind of Sunday school whether it's school you know lessons after school whether it's a Jewish school the kid comes home and he's donear all kinds of things about Judaism and they're not being done at home so he says to the father he says to the mother Mommy why don't you light candles right or why don't you make kid or why don't we keep shabas and what is a kid told no we don't do that what what kind of lesson exactly is this kid picking up over here they they tell over a story about a little girl who gets sent off to Sunday school they teach her a little bit about shabas they teach her about lighting candles she comes home she tells her her mother that she wants she wants her mother to light shabas candles her mother says no you know I we don't do that I don't know it's anyway gets to Friday afternoon and the kid is at home and the mother hasn't come back from work yet and she really wants to light shabas candles so she goes and she looks for some and of course the parents aren't for so they don't have any shabas candles in the house but they have yard site candles right candles the candle that big fat candle that's lit to as a commemoration for the anniversary of the death of somebody so she takes two of those and she lights them for sharers what does she know she's a kid right anyway mother comes home she sees his yard Tite candle sitting on the sideboard what are they she says mommy she saids look I lit them one is for you and one is for Daddy CU that's what they told right when when you one of the reasons that we like two candles one of the things that kids are told is one is for Mommy and one's for Daddy right for the shers C candles so she said I one for you and one for daddy that was the last week that that family they didn't like shab's candles how's that for little wake up call right you know time they didn't right that next week the mother was lighting shabas candles believe me she was lighting shabas candles that's what it comes around cand you can light the candles when you're alive or you can light the candles when you're dead but the candles have to be lit right we we what we're being taught over here is that if we want our children to be Jewish we have to be Jewish ourselves if we want our children to hold on to their to the traditions and to be a part of the Jewish Nation how are they going to do that if they don't see that at home saying this is your life this is what it's all about saying if you want to stay there you want to stay in the land of Israel you got to do it my way right keep the Mitzvah you can stand in the land of Israel that's how it works is now telling this is mish the last moments of of M's life he's telling him go up and you'll see the whole of the land of Israel you'll see it in a way that even yua never saw it like that M sees more of the land of Israel than yosua did and you're going to die over there and you're going to be gathered up to your people in the same way that that Aon died what's that got to do with anything so the medish explains that when Mo saw the way that Aaron died it's called that that his was drawn out of the body by himself not by the angel of death when Moshe saw how Aaron died he said to I want to die like that too so here is promising M that that's the way that he's going to die that you're going to have to die you can't go into the land of is because of what happened with The Rock but you're not going to be able to go into that land you're going to stay over here I've mentioned a few times in the past kazal the sages explain mosenu was buried in the section that is going to become retroactively the land of Israel when the Messiah comes right she come very soon amen right where manasha and half of masas and God and ruven are that's where he's buried in the portion that was given over to God and uh and when MH comes retroactively the burial place of mosenu will be included inside of the greater land of Israel okay we're going to stop over here it's everyone should have should be a good year it should be a sweet year we should continue growing together inem we should enjoy continue enjoying learning Torah together in MIT hasem you should all have an uplifting and an inspiring rashash and we will meet back here on Sunday as always BL eyed and hung over wish you to be anywhere else but here right for sure