The Special Merit of Self-Sacrifice - Rabbi Eli Mansour

[Music] Maroubra bowtie yesterday we read in the torah of two and a half tribes the tribe of Rio ven the tribe of God half of the tribe of manasseh and they came to motion Abay know and they said we'd like to live on the Transjordan side we'd like to live on the other side of the bridge we'd rather not go into edit it's not in well should I bear no at first was taken aback don't you remember what happened with the spies don't you remember the punishment we got to those that spoke derogatorily about the Land of Israel and now you choose to live on the other side and forsake the land after that rebuked the two-and-a-half tribes explained themselves and said it's not that we love edit Asturian as a matter of fact we're willing to fight as Vanguard's we're willing to stand at the front lines to help the entire nation conquer the land no matter how long it takes not only that but we're willing to stay in the land until everybody gets their division until the land is divided to all the tribes it's not that we don't love the Land of Israel we love the land but the other side is more suitable for our lives what should have been who accepts and the story ends but we don't know what happened with been a garden beneath it within the Torah doesn't tell us what happened for that you need to study the 22nd chapter in the book of Yahshua in that chapter the Torah tells us that B'nai Israel fought for seven years you've heard of the six-day war this was the seven-year war in that war been al al stood seven nations as well as 31 different embassies of the that set up their their embassies throughout the land and they were ousted as well and been a garden beneath it'll been with the front in the center after that it took an additional seven years to divide the land and been a God was there for the division fourteen years later we pick up the story in the Navi and the pursuit rights as you cry eschew Allah even evil I got Eve and I had seen Matty - che it was only then after fourteen years yoshua balloon calls the two and a half tribes for your Marella ham attention martim at college Chelsea became more share ever the shame you have been obedient you have listened and you have kept the end of the deal but the schmao bakkali law as ultimate ahem you did not abandon your brothers not at the time of war and not at the time of the halacha of the division and now yoshua says pannu Cunha came lejana came I give you permission to go home ELISA who's that came to the land of your inheritance she'll not endure him MA chère ever the shame bear ever a year then it's time for you to go to the other side of the Jordan and at this point your schewe turns to them and says the following rock rock means except only Shem room a oddly assert that a mitzvah Shem room means to keep my odd means very be very diligent in order to keep to keep what to keep the Mitzvah it's a Torah about the shame in our game love of God let me hug the rock up to walk in his ways the Shmuel myths were tapped observers mitzvoth Oh dope kobato attaches of table of mm I became of grown-up shake him and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul he tells been a garden banana oven it's not enough for you to be sure man yes we're told to be sure Mel tormé it's thought to be observant but for me regarding been a tail then shim roommate odd it's not enough to you to be a straw man you have to be Astra marry me odd you have to be very very observant and why are they singled out for this extra measure of shim broom a odd I think the answer is simple the Mishna says infer care but there was a rabbi he his name was the B or sibling kiss ma he was walking once in the street it says he met a fellow and they exchanged greetings after that the fellow tells the rabbi may SMI come at our where do you come from he said I come from a city of scholars ears shall Hakka mean be softly so the fellow says it's from kosheh to do a Baloo the commando why not come and live with us we have a start-up community and we'll pay you all the money in the world I've been interval man gallery art they were offering this rabbi yosef Pinkus ma a job and he looks at the fellow and he says even if you give me all the money in the world any dad illa bima come to LA I will only live with my family in a place of Torah all the money in the world cannot pay for the macomb Torah that I have you're asking me to live in a desert to live in a place where there's no yeshiva where there's no mcveigh where there's no infrastructure where there's no Khalil with his notable eeeem I cannot take that risk although I will be financially established and settled for the rest of my life but there is even something more important than monetary gain and that is to living in macomb Torah and for that there is no price you could pay me to leave a city of scholars and I think that Mishnah sheds light on what happened to you been a garden banana vendors to leave the community the majority of the Jewish people were living in Israel at that time Israel was all Jews it was a McComb Torah that's where the temple was that's where the majority of the I mean that's where the achieve Ottawa that's where all the infrastructure of Torah and for whatever reason been a god that banheiro been decided to go to the other side Transjordan on that side there was still going on that side there were still foreign nations and they risked a risk that the Jews in Israel did not have it's much easier to remain loyal to the religion in a community when you're with like-minded people but to go on the other side where you're exposed to all the nations and other cultures that are foreign to ours there you're sure I said you take a risk and therefore it's not enough for you two tribes to be show men you have to be show men me odd you have to be extra vigilant because you are leaving amacom Torah and you're going to live in a very very dangerous place that changes for yourself and your children you've made that decision but what that decision comes a great responsibility the responsibility of Shem room a old ladies and gentlemen we must give great a kurata Toves to our friends at huzzah we are those Jews that are living on the other side of the Jordan those of us that are in exile we're exposed on a daily basis to all the culture and all the degeneracy and all the lowliness that surround us society today has veered very far from the center of moral values and we were exposed to it enough children of them also were born into it and comes these greats that they came at as AG and they've created a macomb Torah they have provided for us life they have supplied for us a buoy in the most turbulent waters of all time and as a result they allow us to be sure ma'am although we have to be sure made me odd because the tide is against us although we have a lot of numbers here tonight thousands I'm looking in front of me thousands not only in front but those that are watching it and hearing it but we're still a minority amongst the myriads that don't think like us without Haziq providing for us these infrastructure a big there the issue vertically lien plucking these kids out of public school they're allowing us to be sure merit Torah and mitzvot bear every day of them but I'd like to continue the pursuit says so they got blessed by your shoe are they understood their responsibility and they went on the other side 500l ghillie lot earlier then they got to the Jordan and the first thing they did they have new binary event of their God body Shiva thomna session MS baya lar then they built an altar Torah tells us what type of altar was it miss Vega gaedola it was actually a big one it was a monstrosity was huge structure they built the miss Vega now they know good and well that they're not allowed to bring sacrifices on that side sacrifices can only be brought in a deceased al in the Mishkan so what in the world are they building a Miss Vega why so big so they thought I right away tells us let mater air it was only for show what are they trying to show and the Navi goes on to tell us they were well intended they wanted to tell their children as well as the people in edit Isla el where one community they built this big miss by up to say that there's a connection between us that even though we've opted to live on the other side but our traditions and our values follow the values of Eris's la l and therefore this was mayor serves as a bridge as a link between the two sides so the future generations shouldn't think and make a mistake that there's two separate communities that was their purpose and if that was their purpose it's a great purpose ladies and gentlemen you know what happens when people do things with one intention and they do it for show sometimes their intentions are misunderstood the Jews on the other side see this big miss Vega and they say what they're living on the other side of the Jordan for one day and already they're starting to build altars to foreign gods we knew that it's not easy to live on the other side of the Jordan but we didn't realize they would deteriorate as fast as this and one day already they build not a miss mayor but miss Baerga doll they thought that the Jewish people had veered so right away they went to the chief rabbi at the time his name was Pina Hass being a Hurst the famous Pina asked that we read a few a few weeks ago and they told them you must go on to the other side and verify what they're doing so penny Hartz right away with a group of emissaries makes the trip to the other side of the Jordan to find out what this Messiah is and if indeed it's about that salad they were prepared to go to war the Jewish people felt that if those Jews on the other side of the Jordan are worshipping upon us that I were all in danger all living on the same ship somebody in their cabin decides to bore a hole buddy on the ship sinks he cannot claim that it's his cabin if Claudius sail on the other side is going to abandon ship then all clays sailors in peril subpoena house goes and he makes the analysis and then to his happiness he finds out they were mistaken been a God explained themselves no it's only a monument it's only a symbol we're not bringing any sacrifices we're trying to commit ourselves to one community as a matter of fact at the end of the chapter the pursuit says when Pina has heard the intent but your Medina husband at Masada Cohan and been a God v-l venom in a share hi Yaya doll ooh Kabuto hello Adonai we know that God is with us I said love Meryl timber Dona you have not rebelled Pina house comes back and gives the report by eat table ha da barber in Ebony Israel and the Jewish people were satisfied the question that I come to ask you tonight is a simple question you wanted to show been a god a Bonetti event that it's one community you wanted to show that you're not a separatist you wanted to show that I'm Israel and the other side is committed to the values of Eilat Israel no problem so why do you build them as mayor if it was me I would have built a bridge anyway that's what you're trying to accomplish that it's one community why would they build them as mayor after all you're not bringing any sacrifices on it the pursue clearly says it's only limited air it's only for show so why build them as mayor and the people misunderstand what you're doing you created almost a civil war P now I said to come and verify build the rainbow a sign of peace build something to connect the communities but to build them as mayor ladies and gentlemen I'd like to say if a douche produced that I read from the great said they came to me it's one of the most important lessons and it answers the question we are clearly living in the times of mushiya some have predicted after the the great victory of the current president they said that already all the gamut areas and all this in my name imply that already were in the messianic era we didn't need that we knew it already before it only confirms it and the great said he came all are talking about that there were at the end of time we don't need them to tell that either we know we're at the end of time we can feel it we could sense it everything is moving very quickly and the Gabara and citta tells us actually some telltale signs what its gonna look like at the end of time and I'm not gonna go through the list but if you want to dazzle to yourself go look at the end of citta and look at the list of the tell-tale signs of what its gonna look like before Messiah comes and you'll think you're reading this morning's newspaper that's how current that Mishnah is at the end of sorta everything that it says is going to happen either happened or is happening you read that Mishnah and you don't even need commentary that's how obvious it is and then at the end of the mission ad says that at that time and lalala he shot an ela a la vie new sheba shaman that at that time we are going to have nobody to rely on but our Father in Heaven Avenue Shama Shama in well I always understood that it's gonna be such a hopeless time we're not gonna be able to put our trust not in government government is gonna fail us they're not gonna be trusted not into military not into economy we're not gonna be able to trust anybody to solve our problems and get us out of our mess except for the people gonna come to realize only God can save us and latterly Shayan in a libido service shaman but said he came asked the following question question that I never thought but it's a good question why is God called in this text avinu Shabazz shamayim our Father in Heaven isn't he our Father in Heaven and is he on earth he's everywhere God we could only rely and IV knew our Father and why is he called avinu it should say in Lando the he shine and I like Kadosh Baruch who that said he came say the following it's a novel of a douche the Gemara says in shabbat have the copy here it's too small for me to read I'll paraphrase it it says at the end of time but Allah is going to be upset with the Jewish people and it's gonna go table Hama be new and it's gonna ask of robbery no what should we do with the people by NECA jato the Jewish people are in contempt and Avram Ebina was the man of Hesed is gonna see that the situation of Christ cell has become so bad even Abraham is gonna say your motto god you're right there's no choice you must destroy them so God then turns to Yacouba be new and he goes to Yaakov and he says knock up might have more mercy he had 12 kids himself he knows what it means for kids to be a little disobedient rowdy yeah cover who says what's the problem God look at the Jewish people - AHA - oh the Jewish people have sinned yeah I mean who says you're absolutely right they're hopeless whatever you decide to do even if it means you're Maheu to destroy them there is no choice Avraham Avinu cannot protect Claudius I am nor can you protect client so then it says all of a sudden its Huckabee knew the father that you think is least capable in saving us after all yard gets hot I mean a represents strict judgment but it's hot I mean who comes to God and says they've sinned I'd like in accounting how much sins are we talking about over here I'd like to see a spreadsheet God says what do you mean sorry it's hard I mean who says well the average lifespan is 70 years he says well the first 20 years God you don't punish people for their sins so you Jews are not sinning for 70 years they're only sinning for at most 50 years and then God Almighty you know you have to also factor in that 25 of those years they're sleeping you know half the time they're in bed so you can't punish them for when they're sleeping so you're down to 25 years and you have to factor in you know they have to eat over the bathroom they do their bodily needs you know they're not making sense at that time and they pray more or less few hours a day and therefore you have to not go for another 12 and a half years so what are you talking god you're making such a big deal for twelve and a half years of sin and then you talk of in who tells God listen if you want pal you got Alicia who pal got a lie we'll split the bill you pick up six and a half years of sin I'll pick up the other six and a half years imma call it a day why such a why such an excitement why such a why are we getting so alarmed don't be it's a small bill and then he tells us a Kadosh Baruch who and if you don't want to pick up half the bill they imp them Selim are cool ah a lie if you're gonna tell me to pick up the whole build for Clio sale I am willing I could afford it why can I afford it how can he vite nap sheikh ahmad because I sacrificed myself under miss Vega I have money in the bank that I cannot get STAC can pay for the old bill of Israel and I carry vitka by Kamat I sacrificed myself at that point God said you have a deal Kleier sale will be saved in the merit of your track and the pursuit comes along and says that the Jewish people will come along at that moment that break out into a chance Kia Televi new they can attend to it I can say you are our Father what of Laham couldn't do and the deal that Yaakov couldn't make it's Huckabee no you saved us in the merit of what and the merit of your miss Edith nephesh you see the power of what sacrifice can do when Jews live with sacrifice sacrifice is to do something that's against your nature to overcome the tendencies to overcome the knee-jerk reactions to live a little differently than everybody else nobody said it's easy but look at the value of sacrifice that's able to atone for the sins of the entire claudius I am and it gets God to overturn his judgment of yamaja and the Jewish people say he attire veenu and that's what that said he came say that at the end of time and lilulu he shall end we have nobody but to rely on Emma Alvie new Shabbat shamayim that's its haka veno-venous a mastermind represents his hog he's in heaven and he's called a venal Shabazz shaman because to Zorica - writes that on that day that of Laham sacrificed them all though at the last minute God said take them off but God placed ashes on them is baya those were the ashes none of the animal those are called the ashes of your talk of Ron gets credit and it's hot gets credit as if he burnt himself for God and it says those ashes are placed under the key circuit board and God looks at every single day and therefore Yitzhak Amina was called avinu Shiva Shama him he is in heaven those ashes are in front of God and that's what protects car you say anytime you see Jews sacrificing and he will we say more 7 F fish then already it arouses the redemption that's a lovely shine at the end of time we're gonna rely on one salute mr. fish let me steal their fish abuse happy no now I am sure everybody in their own right has Macedo clear fish recently I saw an interview of a Jew that survived the Holocaust but it's a different type of story there were many Jews that lived in Poland it seems and they had choices either to stay in Poland or to run to Russia escape so they chose to go over the border to Russia I said this story on Shabbat and somebody in the she rude we have a doctor's an Ashkenazi I said my father was this guy my father you're telling the story of my father so they went to Russia but when you got to Russia you might have got saved from the Nazis but you had to deal with Stalin when you come over the border in Russia the Russians tell you your body can stay but leave your religion behind there's no religion if this is a godless country leave eautifully leave your couch nude leave all your divineness behind the Jews had to make this this decision so they'll get into Russia and they mean that they put them on a train and the train goes for three weeks and they don't know where they're going and finally they go all the way to the border of Russia to a place that's on the border of a place called Irkutsk we know it better as Siberia and the guy says when I got off the train it was 65 degrees below zero and now we have to live here with it they didn't give us fur coats were living with regular coats and he goes along and says had I lived in Siberia he says we knew he was Jewish and we weren't gonna let the Russians take away our yeah dude and he says you know my father used to wet the feel in every day now you say what's so difficult you know what is to lift up your sleeve in 65 degrees he says his end was blue but he didn't miss a day intervene that's mr. loopner fish he says and then my father eventually this man's father froze to death in Siberia and they buried him Siberian some remote place of the world but he says he told his son it's sue court he made a calendar for the Jewish people he made a calendar he said it's so cold the opposite of no tsukai is power where exempted 65 below zero you have to sit the sukkah is they were sitting in the sukkah he says my father said I just have to eat the COS I the bread and he went into the souk on after he finishes his bread he tells her son bring me the mine mojado name just like went into the barracks that I found somewhere by the time I brought it out it was frozen the water that's mr. loopner fish he says we kept all the mitzvoth under the worst conditions and then the war was over we left Siberia most of them froze to death but a lot of them got out alive and they still remained Jewish and religious the Mishna says a burqa vote call nama kmut autonomy only so far they care mommy or said anybody that keeps the Torah in poverty eventually will keep the Torah in wealth my dear friends we have gone through that Mishnah of keeping the Torah through poverty that was the Holocaust after the Holocaust we came to America this is keeping the Torah through wealth but you still lead the same machine repair fish it might not be mr. nefesh to live under Stalin or to sit in sub-zero temperatures or to risk your life to put on tefillin or to dress modestly it's a different machine nephesh today our challenges are different it's to overcome all the yesterday line the desires today's desires the desire de jour the desire of the day whatever it may be it's still machine interface but it's me or share today we don't have anybody putting a gun to our head or marching us onto cattle car trains it's a different missile nefesh it's the Miss Universe of luxury living a life of freedom this is the challenge of our time the kmut autonomy or shell and that's why when what should have been I went up to get the Torah the angels were protesting and the angels told God what is this what does he want what is this earthling one my lily Doody Shaban nu and God said he came to pick up the Torah so the angel said no way nothing doing we don't want to give him the Torah Torah belongs in heaven so God says the machete well answer them answer them why you deserve the Torah so much kisses I'm afraid the angel spit fire so God says answer them but before you answer them hold on to the cachaca board and give him an answer why can't he just answer them without holding on to the key sack of wood and the explanation is because God was giving more share the answer tell the Angels look at the key sack about what's under the cachaca board the ashes of I kidnapped its hackers they're angels you are religious but you don't have to sacrifice for your religion the reason why Torah belongs on earth is because it's given to people that can overcome their tendencies for a lady in our generation to dress modestly god bless you ladies like one of you here tonight that should him but Sharon Kim that takes great sacrifice God says it is for the stuff that's under the key sack aboard those ashes I cannot it's hard and is that reason why the Jewish people deserve the Torah it's all about the MS baya of the Akkad ah and that can be beaten up shy yes Huck says I sacrificed my life and as long as crisis follows that they can rely on avinu shivoham' I am their father in heaven you talk and today we're seeing it and that's my opinion what happened when they been a garden beneath it with anyone on the other side of the Jordan and they remembered what Yahshua said it's not enough for you to be Shifu Shem Rumi old it's gonna take a lot of sacrifice to be religion on this side this side of it poses a lot of challenges you're living in a sea around you that is against you you're gonna have to overcome so they wanted to build a symbol they wanted to build a symbol for themselves and their children so they built them as pea not any miss baya miss Bianca dog there was only limited air it was for a show to tell their children This Is It this is what God wants the miss Beatriz ents sacrifice self-sacrifice and it's not going to be easy on this side but we have to be willing to overcome the challenges the Miss baya is not a bridge and it's not a pile of stones the mists beta represents the miss bay of the Atacama solute nephesh now I understand why Pina Haas was the one that came to verify the Zorica door says if you take the numerical value of Pina hostas 208 which is the exact numerical value of Yitzhak being a has gamma 3 attack being a Haas went to verify and he said Ye TAV it's good been housing its hoc are related they come from the same cut once already they saw that they're living with that concept they said everything will be fine and that is my message that is my message tonight not to the Jews in Siberia and not to the Jews on the other side of the Jordan but the Jews here in Queens and the surrounding areas you're on the right path you're living with the principles that rests under the key sack aboard the chair of glory of God we have to hold on a little more we're almost at the end the Messiah has near we must cling on to the principles of evolution shamayim but this we understand and I conclude a custom that took place every year in Jerusalem and the last day of Sukkot the Jews would go to the temple and they would take these very long at a vote and they would circle them as they are and then they would sing a song and they would sing a song and it went like this your feed last miss Vega your feed last miss Vega they would turn to the miss van they'd say how beautiful you are how beautiful you are Claudia sale when they come after the high holiday season after great motivation and inspiration they come to them is rare and they say how beautiful it is to sacrifice for God instead of the sacrifice for nonsense and for the pleasures of man that has no value and no future your feed lack of Israel and that must be our attitude as well those that live with the principle of them is veil abuse rock your Fela and I say that to the congregation tonight your Fela your Fela how beautiful how wonderful it is to see it is indeed a breath of fresh air and I have no doubt that bears not ashamed Pina Haas who is in our Navy we'll be at the ship command Redeemers been--has gamut really shocked and is a hood of attractive in okay at Avenue Avenue Shiva Shama him and at that time claw Israel will stand in front of mashiach at can new and we were able to say Kazak Kazakh when it has a thank you [Music] [Applause]