The New Torah of Messiah & Why This World Was Never Meant to Last

Our Torah, [music] that was given with the letter bet, is coming from a position of darkness [music] and brokenness. Which means that our Torah itself is not the same level [music] of Torah that existed in the Garden of Eden before the sin. It's a lower level of Torah. The Torah of the Garden of Eden starts with an aleph. And the Torah of Mashiach will start with an aleph. And that will represent oneness and unity [music] and perfection and goodness and light and love and foreverness. The Torah of bet is the opposite. We see [music] light and darkness, good, evil, pure, impure, permissible, forbidden. We see this idea of packages of two which are opposites. That's the That's the multiplicity and the polarity of the life we live in and the world we live in. And so we find ourselves somewhere in the middle having to navigate through good and evil. Once upon a time good and evil were extremely separate. And we were able to observe them separately. Today although they're opposites in thought, in reality good and evil are mixed in everything we touch. Everything I touch and everything I do is a combination of some part good and some part bad. And And that is why ultimately the real secret to why the Torah forbids things. Because again, it's counterintuitive. Why would God make something sick then come and forbid it? And that's a rationale that that that people use to license everything they can ever think of and and do. They're walking self-appointed gods saying, "If I thought of this sick thing, it must be fine because I thought of it. So I can do it." They'll define everything as aren't when it's really their perverse sickness. End of the day, we have a perverted world that's that's stubborn in its course of destruction. So the bet of separation is the idea of a world that's suffering in brokenness, that has been splintered up into multiple pieces and that represents this this these opposites of good and evil, permissible and forbidden, darkness and light, evil and good, pure and impure. And so now, through navigating through this Torah of bed with its rules and regulations, this is the battlefield. This is how we transform we we we we reconstruct from the broken pieces and the scatteredness of this world, we re recreate it into the Aleph Bet. And that is the real secret of the Aleph Bet. We're here to go from the the level of two and bringing it back to a oneness that is even greater than the original oneness because ultimately, when God put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and they failed and fell, and and added a level of brokenness to the world, there was a brokenness that preceded even their mistake. Cuz one can ask, how can they sin? Why did they sin? Why isn't their story this perfect story of success? We all want to be a success. And so the real truth is, many explain that there was a divine scheme, a divine design divinely designed scheme, so to speak, working not against Adam and Eve, but working towards um towards the idea of creating a greater challenge. And so the brokenness that preceded even Adam and Eve's existence and even the the existence of Adam and Eve was a world of the shattering of vessels from Kabbalah. It's hinted to in the words, "And the world was Tohu and Bohu, void and bewilderment, and darkness covered the surface of the earth." That on that verse in the Torah, that is referring to the worlds before our world, which God destroyed. And it's our job in this new world of rectification, of tikkun, to fix those worlds. And so ultimately, Adam and Eve were given a job. Their job was in the Garden of Eden to fix the most subtle level of brokenness that existed even in their Garden of Eden. And through that fixing of the brokenness, they would have taken that level of Garden of Eden and elevated it to this perfect unity and oneness that is the world to come, the future forever world. In sinning, they instead of moving forward and fixing, they broke even more. But again, that was sort of speak with a push. We know that that God brought a very strong temptation on Adam and Eve with the God with the with the with the snake, the serpent, cunning, seductive, trickery. They were sort of speak on some level a little bit pushed into the sin. And so, part of the story that we live in at least right now, we can we can ask and and and great thinkers have asked, what would be if the the the they never sinned? So, if they never sinned, so theoretically, we would have entered into the world to come in a matter of hours and lived forever in this perfection. But through the fall, ultimately, has to have a purpose. God doesn't do anything for for nothing. And so, if instead of getting to the finish line the quick way, within a few hours, we're taking 6,000 years to reach the finish line. So, obviously, there's much more work involved. It's much more complicated. It's much more difficult. And for all of that, would the great good God not reward us and pay us for all that extra work? Any boss knows that you get time and a half the more you have to work, and then of course, all the bonuses for the the hard work you do. So, certainly, we're going to be we're going to be rewarded for all of the extra work. So, even the sin itself facilitates rising to a higher level. This is a discussion in the sages that the the baal teshuvah who sins and then rises from the fall of sin and and the brokenness of sin and and and rises to an even higher level, reaches a level that the tzaddik that is forever perfect can never reach. The world is a story of the person and the idea of of reality that that we fall. We're coming from a broken perspective and when we rise to greatness, it's a self-made, self-accomplished greatness, obviously with Hashem's help, and that is the more perfect greatness that God ultimately decided he wants for us. The potential of being perfect is rejected in reality because we're beyond that. And so the new perfection is the reproduced is the putting the pieces back. The beauty of a of a unbelievable work of art that is from the broken pieces that you can make something even more beautiful. That is the world we're in the process of creating the me and the you that we're in the process of making. It's the more beautiful, stronger, more perfect self-made perfection that you reach through the brokenness, through the darkness, through the difficulties, and that is the goal right now. And now let's jump to the moment of reality, the moment of creation that is probably the greatest moment of all moments. It is the day that God gave us the Torah on Mount Sinai, and let's understand now the real depth and the real beauty of what he gave us. So we're told that there was an argument, a debate between all of the letters of the Aleph-Bet, which one would be the first letter that starts our Torah, and which one would be the first letter that God would use in in creating the world. For some reason, all of the letters of the Aleph-Bet came and presented themselves before God in backwards order from the Tav all the way to the Bet. And they all had an argument why they should be the letter that God chooses to be the letter of creation, and of course would mean the first letter in the Torah. And God rejected all of the letters. When Bet came forward, he accepted Bet and said, "You, the letter Bet, which of course is number two, which is also the the first letter of the word blessing, he said, "I choose you to start my Torah with a blessing." And then aleph, which is the first letter, never had its chance to come forward. It remained silent in this whole debate. At the end of this the whole debate, after God chooses bet to be the first letter of the Torah, God, so to speak, turns to the aleph and says, "Aleph, I see that you sat there silently. You will be rewarded for accepting the decision without even uttering a word, so to speak. I'm paraphrasing. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to start when I give the Torah to Bene Israel in on Mount Sinai, I am going to start only with you. And the very first letter of the Ten Commandments is the letter aleph in the word Anochi. I am the Lord your God, the first commandment, is the first letter aleph is what starts the Ten Commandments. And Hashem says that Ten Commandments, when I give my Torah, will start with you. So, the big question here is this. What kind of consolation is that? In the end of the day, God passed up the letter aleph for the letter bet. So, how is he consoling the aleph by saying, "I'm going to start the giving of the Torah with you. The Torah itself won't start with you, but the giving of my Torah will start with you." So, how does that help? So, I think here's a beautiful answer that we're going to give is this. The Torah is not the end of the story. Torah is the beginning of our story. Because the world existed in a level of brokenness, tohu and bohu, darkness and brokenness for 2,000 years. And it's only after the 2,000 years of darkness does the beginning of the years of Torah start with Abraham. And Abraham starts laying the seeds, the seeds of Torah, but the official power of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai is really when we give we're given the strength and the tools and the direction of how to fix this world. And so, the whole message of the aleph of the giving of the Torah is this. Right now world, right now Jewish people, right now all the souls that exist, you're on the level of bet. Bet is separation. Bet is darkness and light, good evil, holy unholy, pure impure. You're on the level of bet, you're in a broken world. It's taken you 2,000 years to reach where you are right now thanks to Abraham and the descendants of Abraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov and Moshe, you're standing at Har Sinai. And here's your new divine mission. This is the real purpose of life and the real divine mission that is yours. Yours for you first, the Jewish nation, and for the to be a light unto the nations and for the world, is to to take my Torah, to take the power and light of Torah and fix fix the world and bring the world back from the letter bet which is two, which is separation, which is enemies, which is hate, which is destruction, which is selfishness, darkness, evil. Take the bet of your world right now and use my light of Torah and use it to turn this world into the world of aleph, a world of light. Aleph is the first letter of the word light, of light, of love, of oneness, of goodness. The job is yours and here's your strength and I'm giving myself in my Torah with you. I am with you every step of the way. We're in this together and together we will transform this bet of negativity the ultimate aleph of goodness and positivity. And that is the job of the Jewish people. That is the job of this world to be lights, little mini lights of God, representatives of God in the world spreading the light, making the connections and healing healing this broken sick world and of course ultimately our broken and and and and sick souls.