How Open Minded Should Our Children Be? | Parsha Yisro

[Music] good evening they tell the story about a rabbi who once came outside of his synagogue to search for a tenth man for the minion he had only nine people in shul and he needed a tenth to complement the minion so he's waiting for somebody to pass by somebody passes by the rabbi stops him and says excuse me sir are you Jewish yes I am would you mind to join us please in the shul we're really looking for the tenth we want to have a minion we only have nine people and the man says rabbi no I will not join you I'm sorry why not the rabbi asks and the man says I don't believe in organized religion the rabbi says so what I also don't believe in organized religion you rabbi you don't believe in organized religion absolutely not the rabbi says if I would believe in organized religion that you think I would be standing outside here looking for the tenth person for a minion now this anecdote I think is a suitable introduction to the figure the fascinating figure in the Hebrew Bible in the himesh we want to discuss this evening and this is the figure of Easter Oh Jethro the father-in-law of Moses of Moshe Rabbeinu who was discussed in the portion of Easter I named after him Jethro in the book of Exodus so the Torah begins the portion of Easter I how he took his daughter to pyrrha Moses his wife together with her two sons and traveled with them to the desert to meet Moshe and the Jewish people and the Torah describes and you can open your curriculums right under the video you can open the curriculum you can print it out and look inside the Torah says in the beginning of Easter that he took both of his grandchildren Sapporo's two sons where's Nathan ah ha ha shame ha ha Shane Keough Margaery see barren snow Korea the name of what the one is garam because Moses said I was a stranger in a strange foreign land Mishima Akkad Eliezer and the name of the one is Eliezer Kia lakea VB zuri his name Eliezer is because the god of my father was helping me Eliezer means kala-azar my god helped me Ghirahim is gay um I was a stranger over there the commentators always sensitive to nuance to detail focus on what seems like a very small detail but as we will see really opens a portal to a much broader and discussion about the interesting personality of this man Easter a Jethro there seems like to be a this seems like there is a grammatical flaw in these two verses we would expect the Torah to say Shaima Asad garam the name of one child the first child was Gary shine with shame Husseini Eliezer the name of the second child was a letter instead the terms used are vishay my allegation the name of the first child is Gershon shame Ahmed Eliezer and the name of the first file the one child is Alireza he was the second child not the first child both are defined as her echoed as the first child what is the meaning in this there is a strange Midrash med Rishabha parshas hookahs which you can see inside a Midrash extremely enigmatic and difficult to understand Reb Aqaba shame written in armor Rebecca said in the name of rabbi Hanina ma'sha'allah ma'sha'allah Miriam saw Micaela Shakalaka Desborough who shall Shiva I said papyrus para Duma when Moses went up to heaven he heard the voice of God sitting and learning the portion of the red heifer in the Book of Numbers in the portion of hookahs we have the command that the Jewish people ought to offer a red heifer a para Duma burn it and then mix its ashes with spring water and sprinkle the mixture on the body of a person who has been defiled eye contact with a corpse and this process cleanses the person from spiritual impurity Moses sees that God is sitting and learning the laws of the red heifer Vollmer halakha became Amira and Hashem God is repeating a law in the name of the sage who said that the law rabbi eliezer omer a globish naso Oh para Bastian rabbi eliezer says what is the age of a cow how do we know that the cow is now no more a calf an egg ler in Hebrew and has graduated to the status of a para the Torah says you have to use a para Duma a red cow not a calf not a baby cow but what is the age so rabbi eliezer rabbi eliezer believes the ages 2 till the calf is 2 years old she's still a calf once she becomes 2 now she is considered a para account essentially it's an argument the argument is in Matthias in tractate para in the beginning of the first chapter the argument is you can see inside rabbi Eleazar a murder by Eliezer says a globus not so poor about style a calf is one years old a cow is when she is 2 years old waha come in my room the sages disagree they say egg la bestia more para about solar shade by Saba a calf is two years old a cow is either 3 or 4 so according to the rabbi's the sages arguing this with Rabbi Eliezer if you take a red heifer who's only 2 years old you use its ashes to sprinkle it on somebody who has been defiled it's futile you accomplished nothing because you did not use a cow you used a calf according to Rabbi Eliezer age 2 is fine if she's 2 years old she is already a calf back to the Midrash Moses is in heaven he hears God's voice repeating this law of Rabbi Eliezer that the cow the red heifer needs to be two years old in order to be deemed a cow a Marla fond of Moshe seta God reborn no alum and master of the universe hehe Rutzen Shia hey mija lotsa may it be your will that this rabbi eliezer be one of my descendants a Marley God told Moses Herschel Michelet Safa I swear to you that this wish would be granted this rabbi eliezer would be one of your descendants hada who deceived this is the meaning of the verse in the portion of history for shame ha Akkad Eliezer the name of the one is Eliezer shame you say Hama you heard the name of that special one of that unique one that is why it says Shaima a said Eliezer the name of the one is Eliezer although he was the second child of Moses and Zipporah he was not number one number one was garam Eliezer was number two but heard in Hebrew means not only the one but the unique one the singular one this special one the designated one this special one Rabbi Eliezer whom you wished noses that he will be one of your descendants I swear to you that this wish will be granted your child is Eliezer at first glance this Midrash seems extremely difficult to understand number one why was Moses so consumed what inspired him so much of this opinion of Rabbi Eliezer that the cow could be two years old according to the sages it has to be three or four years old if it's two years old it's not a cow yet it's still a calf according to the rabbi eliezer two years old suffices why did that inspire why did that move my sharavino so deeply for him to say God please let that rabbi be one of my descendants question number two how can the rabbi's in the Midwest say this is the meaning in the verse and the pasta for Shaima a catalyzer the name of the one is Eliezer this Rabbi Eliezer in the mission and in the Madras lived a long time later this rabbi eliezer was one of the ten Oleum one of the Talmudic say live at after the destruction of the Second Temple years and years millennia after Moses how can we say that the name of Eliezer in the portion of Easter one of the sons of Moses and his wife Sapphira this is the Rabbi Eliezer of the Mishnah what's the connection just because they share the same name in order to understand this let us explore this evening another Midrash also a very difficult meteors to digest about a central event that occurred between the father-in-law and the son-in-law between Jethro and Moses Easter and Moshe this midriffs you have here also in your curriculum you can look inside it's from the mistletoe mistletoe to Rabbi Shmuel Matilda is a holwick commentary a halacha Midrash to the book of Exodus to the book of SHM ice it's called miss Hilton there is the mistletoe that was taught by rabbi Shimon bar Yochai he called miss Hilton Dheeraj be there is miss the mistletoe taught by rabbi ishmael both Talmudic sages after the destruction of the second temple Rabia Schmalz mistletoe in the parish of easter i tells the following story Bashar Shama mostly Easter attended SEP IRA particular issue a Marla yes sir a carbonyl a cadavers a shyamalavani nice non-local aisha when Moses told Jethro please allow me to marry your daughter supera yes sir I told him except one thing that I am asking of you and then I will give my daughter to you as a wife on Marlowe ma who Moshe asked history what is this thing you're asking of me a merlot yes sir I told him been shaggy ilaha illa-allah Vedas ora mechana a little a shame shame I am the first child your wife will give birth to I want that this child should be dedicated to avoid Ozora to idolatry from this from this child and further and on the children can be dedicated to heaven Vicky Bela love moshe accepted this stipulation on marla he shall golly Easter I told them swear to me ye shoveling and moisture swore to him he took an oath ssin mr as the passage says in the parish boys vile moshe ain't Allah washing schewe it says by yo-yo misha vile from the word allah which means an oath moysha gave an oath to his father-in-law what was the oath the oath we now know according to the mistletoe was that the first child born to the couple will be dedicated to our Vedas are a toy dollar tree Lathika victim Amala cleric is moisture and therefore the mistletoe explains there is a story in SH mice where an angel wanted to kill Maya because he did not circumcise his child why that he did not circumcise his oldest child garam he could not circumcise him because circumcision belong to the Abrahamic tradition of monotheism but since he accepted that the first child would be dedicated for idolatry for a deserter he had no authority to circumcise to give this child a bris and therefore according to this Midrash the first child garam was never circumcised and thus the events in Paris noise were an angel wanted to kill Moses and Zipporah saved the day or the night by circumcising her child this is an astonishing tradition how is it possible to understand that from all people my Sharabi know Moses our teacher the first leader and Redeemer of Israel the one who would give the Jewish people in the world the Torah the divine blueprint for life he would agree to dedicate his first child to avoid Asura to idolatry which was not only a mitzvah given later to the Jewish people at Sinai it is one of the seven Noahide laws one of the myths was given to Noah an astrologer something that every person is obligated in Jew and non-jew and yet here Moses agrees to dedicate his child to idolatry astounding and for what it wasn't like yeast Roy was threatening to kill him it was for marriage he said you want my daughter this is the condition we would expect that a person like moisture Avenue would say if this is the condition I'm sorry I can't fulfill the stipulation I'll go find I'll look for another part share it I'll search for another soul mate the question really is even stronger yesterday himself we find in Madras a tradition sacrificed himself to disengage himself from the pagan world of idolatry in fact there is a tradition that his daughters were being oppressed and Moshe came to save them as the Torah says in Paris - why were they being harassed because their father was excommunicated because he was a pagan priest and he abandoned idolatry for monotheism and yet he himself makes this condition with his future son-in-law even if you want to say that according to the mistletoe at this stage in the game yes Roy was still a pagan student of idolatry nonetheless how is it that my Shura Boehner would accept a stipulation precisely the person who would give the Jews the Taira and would warn them again and again Adam honors them caution them teach them guide them and one of his greatest guidances throughout the whole terror is do not engage in idolatry remember there is one God a transcendental God a moral God moisturi Bane who tells this to the Jews again and again in the book of the varam of Deuteronomy it's this person that when it comes to his own personal life his own personal family he agrees to give away his first son to idolatry why because he wants separa many of the commentators throughout the generations throughout the long history of Jewish literature and Jewish tradition discussed this Michelle - this Midrash attempting to make sense of it attempting to explain to us how such a thing could happen how are we to digest this story this tradition this evening we will discuss one possible approach on one possible perspective and me just say at the onset the discussion certainly will not be completed and round at the end of our class this evening this you should see as a beginning as an interest entrance into a particular mindset into a particular thought process and then we can all further elaborate develop and continue the conversation let us for a moment shift to another book in the Hebrew Bible the book of shift in the book of Judges there we have a story in Chapter 17 and 18 the story known in Jewish literacy as pestle mica the statue of metha very briefly there was a man mica who by instruction of his mother took an enormous amount of silver and it was molded into a statue a pestle this man mica who lived in the mountain of Ephraim not far from Jerusalem hired a Levite a Lavy to serve as a minister as a priest to this statue people would come they would say prayers they would offer sacrifices they would engage in meditation and this Levite was the person responsible for it he was the priest he was the minister and mica in his home this statue stood supported this Lavy at some point in the story there are Jews from the tribe of Dunn who are searching for a new plot in the Land of Israel they need a place to live and they end up staying in Micah's home and they meet this Levite this young man or this this person this Levite who is ministering who was a priest for this statue of me huh and as you see here in the curriculum we have the verses from judges 18 so from your tests they recognize hey Maha Kira : our Haleiwa they recognized the voice of this Levite lad they know his voice by a sewer tion and they come there they come to the home via a ruler they ask him me IV alcohol I'm who brought you here oh ma Theresa buzzer what are you doing in this home who Melissa fight what do you have here three questions who brought you here what are you doing here and what do you have here seems redundant they're saying the same thief same thing three times but Yuri Morelia me tells them cuz ever cuz he tells them the whole story Mika hired me he rented me he supports me I am a chi and I work for him they asked this young man this lad this Levite lad to find out from God whether they should go and conquer a piece of land so they did they are to settle it and he tells them to go forth they're successful they come back they steal the statue of mija and they take this young lad this Levite with them to their new territory they erected a statue in their new territory and they hire him once again to be the minister that Cohen the priest near this statue and at the conclusion of the story we suddenly discover who is this person who is this Levite whose voice they recognized there was something unique about him in verse 30 pasa glommit Viet you could see it inside via Kamala M Binet Donais a pestle the children of Don erected the statue via heinessen Ben Gershwin Ben Menasha who one of our Ukiah name will shave it hard on e ed young Allosaurus your highness son the son of Gera the son of Menasha he and his children served as priests for the tribe of done until the day they were exiled from the land referring according to most commentators to the time when a son Harry of the Assyrian Emperor came and exiled the ten tribes from the land of Israel their location on no until today with 150 years they disappeared from the arena of the Jewish world so who is this Levite yah heinessen the son of garam the son of Menasha now the noon in the word Menasha is suspended above the other letters it's in small and it's unknown to lujah which means it's an owner that hangs above it's not right there in middle of the word so you can read the word without the known you can read the word motion at Menasha so the talmud the Gemara in tractate Baba Batra page 109 be tough cooked estimate base and you could see inside the Gemara says with he been Menasha who was he the son of Manasseh Valley Ben Moshe Garin was the son of moisture of Moses elemetary I saw my salmon Asha Thalia Kosova Menasha but rather because this boy this unison followed in the ways of Menasha who was a king in Judea who served idolatry so the Torah compares the Torah connects him to Menasha not ameesha protecting the honor of moisture and instead using the word Menasha since he was a child of Manasseh not biologically but so to speak ideologically although he lived before Menasha so suddenly garish I'm the son of Masha the son he dedicated to idolatry in the mistletoe reappears in the book of Judges in a fascinating event he becomes a priest ministering for this statue of mycav me huh who is he he's unison the son of garam the son of moisha mauritius grandson his son son is a priest for a statue of me and that's why the noon is suspended the Torah wants to protect the honor of my sharavino and therefore doesn't say clearly Moshe it says nasha but that nun in the middle of the word is suspended it hangs above and small and now the Gomorrah continues explaining the three questions the members of the tribe of Don asked this youngster unison via su sham they came there by M relay they told in Miyavi alcohol I'm who brought you here Matt I suppose that what are you doing here Malakoff I what do you have here I'm rule a the Talmud says this is what they told love me myisha Casas dixie VLT curved alloy isn't it true that you're a descendant of Misha whom God said Altea of Hollow I don't come close here to the burning bush hallo hallo I'm here they tell me a vehicle I'm who brought you here God told Moses don't approach hallo I'm here their question according to the Talmud is who brought you here aren't you a student aren't you with the Cendant of my son I mean who heard the words alte crevalle wine don't come here and yet you're here love me myisha Costas deceived a Mazda by Yoko aren't you a descendant of Moses whom God told and pirates mice what is this in your hand it was a stick it becomes a serpent and this is what they mean when they tell him motto ISA buzzer what are you doing here love me Masha cos is the sieve Bay the a topoi a mighty muddy aren't you a grandchild of Moses to whom God said you stand here with me PASOK I in love a deserter you should become a priest for idolatry and a nickel your Zeta was my cherub a no yours grandson your becoming a priest this is what they told this is why they recognized his voice some commentators say he was the grandson of my cherub I know this is why Mita was so excited to have this Levite he says in the story I have this Levite I'm sure God is happy with the statue this wasn't just a regular Levite this is Moshe Arab a news grandson and the children of done were so excited with him Oh Marla Henny responded to them Kumiko blonde amoeba saavy Abba this is what I have learned from the house of my grandfather my father's father Illamasqua Rodham at smile avodah Zarah valued stylish LaBrie's a person should rent himself out to work for an idol but he should not need other people in other words if this is the only source of income let him even rent his service let him rent himself out to work for an I Dow an idol but he should not need people for money to support it this is what I learned for my grandfather for my father's father and the Gomora says who who saw our la vie de Zara mamas he understood what did his grandfather mean you should rent yourself out for real idolatry for LA he that's not true elevators are avoid ashes or alloy what he meant was rent yourself out to Nevada Zara which means work which is alien to you our Vedas are literally means work which is alien we use it usually in the context of idolatry but what he meant was work that is alien for you Kodama layer of con as ralph told Rebecca Hannah Natasha novel sabisu cuzco laguna will attain McGavin Abhinav is Allah bimal's if you have no other choice then Flay carcasses in the marketplace to make a living and don't say I'm a distinguished person it's too cheap from me in other words it is very valuable to earn your own living and not rely on other people to support you even if that means that you will be doing engaging in labor which is unbefitting for your esteemed and prestigious character rent yourself out for work which is alien to your esteemed identity as long as you don't need other people to support you this is what he heard from his grandfather he thought that the messages rent yourself out for avoid Ozora for idolatry and then the goat on wood concludes the story when David saw that this person really likes money he needs money he hired him to be his treasurer and that's why it says in the book of Chronicles who shavoo Gershom and manoj and naga dollar idris shavoo l the son of garish from the son of Menasha was in charge on the Treasury of david vahish who else my valet innocence my was his name who l his name was jonasson american and should shovel a Kaleb Akali boy shavoo L is two words shove Lacaille he returned to God with all of his heart this child join us and the grandson of Moses came back he repented this is the story in the Talmud it opens up for us a whole new portal into the personality of garam his son unison first of all let's understand what does it mean that I heard from my father's father I have a tradition from the home of my father's father Moisture Rubino we did my Shravan who say such a thing we did mention about how every say you should rent yourself out for a void Ozora and the main thing is not to rely on others for your income second why would my you use the word avoid Azara which can then be misconstrued by his grandson why couldn't he use another term there was a fascinating cabbalistic work known as a surah memores authored by Rabbi Menachem Azaria of Fanu from Italy and there he gives us the following explanation Nacirema morris ties he's the one who makes the link between the mistletoe we discussed earlier and the Talmud intractable abbas sir he says moisture Boehner took an oath to his father-in-law that he would give his first son to avoid Azura what he meant was not that he would dedicate his first son to literally idolatry that Marcia would never do and you straight never asked him for that what at what he meant was he's dedicating his child to avoid this as orally to engage in labor which may be strange and alien to him in other words Moshe made a condition I will support my wife I will support my family under all circumstances even if that means that the first child has to work and engage in labor that is unbefitting for him I will make sure that we earn an income to be able to support the family this is what you Sara wanted yesterday wanted that moisture should be ready for himself and for his first child to engage in labour which may be unbeli unsuitable for them but that his daughter Zipporah should be provided for financially yonis son the grandson didn't understand he thought what the Easter II meant was literally of a desire you have to support yourself under all circumstances even if that means working for an idol he didn't understand that what history and my cement was avoid Isha's our ally engaging in labour that's maybe below your dignity standing in the marketplace and stripping carcasses as the town would bring us an example is not something was passed that is befitting for you do that anyway he thought it means rent yourself out to work for an idol and from this the story evolved that he actually becomes a priest for an idol yet this also begs for more clarification for more understanding how can the grandchild make such a dramatic and drastic mistake I mean this is not just a little error this is a major error his grandfather is talking about engaging in labor that may be alien to your character in your pattern and your upbringing and your aristocratic demeanor and he understands it as working for pagan idolatry how do you get from one place to another place just because you're using the word I Vedas are one of the possible explanations in this based on what's discussed in various works requests demands of us to go a little deeper into who yes Troy was and to who Jethro was in Paris yes right yes Troy tells his son-in-law and the Jewish people he says after you die T now I know as you can see inside key God LR shameeka like him that God is greater than all the other gods so the rabbi's say and Rashi bring it brings it this teaches us that there was not one pagan religion philosophy ideology which jethro did not study and experiment with he experimented with every pagan tradition and religion and idolatry and therefore he was qualified to make the statement I know that God is greater than all the gods how do you know all the gods history said I know this means that yes Roy had a perspective on Judaism that was unique it was a perspective gained by stunning by familiarizing himself by worshipping and by experimenting with all spiritual traditions that existed in a time with all religions with all philosophies that existed at the time as primitive as they were yes ray studied them and experimented them and only because he knew all of them and he tried them all out can he then come and say I tell you die T now I discovered K God Allah Shama call Ella Kim there is a truth in the God of Israel there's a truth in monotheism there's a truth in Hashem that resonates greater than all the other gods this is what yeast Roy wanted to give his grandson garam of course he did not demand from his son-in-law to dedicate his first son to idolatry yes Roy did not mean it nor would of moysha accepted such a condition under any causes what he wanted was that garam should follow his curriculum he should study the various religions and traditions he should experiment with them he should truly understand them and then he will be able to say just like his grandfather Attiyah da Tiki God Elijah Michael alikoum history was a person who came to the truth through trial and error through experimentation he was a searcher he was a seeker he got lost he went astray he tried out so many other alternatives first he tried out all the religions in the world until he concluded that they did not capture the truth of existence from them he came to discover the truth of yiddish kite so his philosophy was I found the truth through my own search my own Schreyer my own error I feel this is the best way to raise children I feel the best thing for children is to see it for themselves to make their own mistakes and then to come to the proper conclusion on their own this is Easter is philosophy in education you see the argument between him and Moses is not just an ancient argument that existed then it is a very contemporary argument yes Roy believes the best way of raising children is expose them to what I have been exposed I now know the truth through my own experience through my own mistakes let the garam have that experience too let's understand what you Suri is saying there is a pus akin partial especially in the book of Exodus in the song after they crossed the Red Sea Zac hailey Vaughn vo Lak Aviv are MMN oh this is my god and I will beautify him the god of my father and I will exalt him this shallow rabbi is Shia Horowitz Robbie Isaiah Horowitz in his monumental work Schnee lucas a breeze explains this pasta kin a very original fashion you could see inside he explains there are two types of relationships a person can have with God there is Eck Haley my god and there's Alec a avi the god of my father the God of my father means how do I know about God because my father my mother my grandparents told me about God Zek Haley this is my God is the God that I the through my own search and my own life's experiences Zog dushala Zach Haley when I can point to God and say you're my god you're my own individualistic god oz van Ave who me Lucien and Eva who then van Aveo and value as a combination of two words Annie I whoo-hoo and he together in one word when God is my god then him and I are integrated we become seamlessly one key IUD Annette fesses believed because this personal awareness is internalized in my heart but when I don't have an experience of God for myself it is only the tradition God is the God of my father I trust my father then viremia Manuel a kov if he's the God of my father of our mmm oh I will exalt them he remains above me an email hook may eat a bit Matt SPO in Hawaii I am distant from him in the intimacy of my heart this is what yeasterday wanted he wanted that his grandson garam should learn what he learned and then he on his own would discover the truth of yiddish kite the truth of Torah the truth of monotheism not only relying on the faith of his father but also on his own understanding and experience if not the history says he will never internalize his faith God will always remain alakay of e the god of my father God will always be God because he's my father's God he's not my god I want your son to experience call Alek him all the gods and then he'll be able to say in the clear God arlesheim me call Eric him then he will be able to say this at Kaylee this is my God my sure did not agree Moses our teacher disagreed with histroy why there are many reasons let's state two possible reasons number one moisture of a new said it sounds very beautiful and romantic history but you are you and some children if I we expose them to everything you have been exposed they may get lost they may stumble on the road they may never find their way back remember you story not everybody is an intellectual par excellence not everybody is absolutely objective in life people are subjective they have cravings they have habits they have instincts they have an urge for gratification that is not always moral and ethical and not everybody always has that intellectual openness and honesty to challenge themselves with pure truth even if that equals pain if you allow every child to be exposed to experiment everything you have experimented he or she may become lost and not only will they not find their way back and their open-mindedness will not elicit from them a greater depth in life but on the contrary they may become completely fragmented and broken in the process remain confused and uncertain for the remainder of their life but my schrab a new says something else yes Roy my dear yes ray it's true this is your life story this is your journey and your journey caused you to reach great heights yes Roy means advantage superiority you remember the verse in Ecclesiastes in clay hellas ye stir in her army tara kayfa there is the light that generated from the darkness this was personified by the person yes Roy yes Troy was a person who struggled his whole life he was confused he experimented with everything and from that from the darkness from the confusion from the dilemmas he came to appreciate the message of Tara the truth of yiddish kite in a new way in a new fashion but is this what i am supposed to give to my child my charity is a Jewish child parents ought to give the taste and the beauty of Tara the depth of Tara loft of Tara here assume I am a fear of heaven moral integrity moral ethics and values a love of God a love of Terror a love of humanity a love of Israel why do I need my son to experiment and become entangled with pagan idolatry let me give him God let me give him the gun javea let me give him godliness ah you're telling me you want that my son should not just be following my tradition it should become his own that you have a good point my she says that's why you have to make sure that you teach your child Terra not only in a way that he feels it's imposed upon him because this is his father's tradition his grandfather's tradition it's the god of his father you must allow your child to feel Zeke hailey this is my god how by challenging and helping your child your student and disciple to discover the God within him Zek hailey this is my God to help him discover his soul his relationship with Hashem his internal spirituality his internal truth and purity and idealism his spark no yeast or emotion of a no says it's not because I'm scared of the world it's not because I feel insecure with my faith it's not because I'm threatened by pagan traditions that I do not want my child to learn and experiment with everything you experimented it's not that I feel that the moment he will open his eyes and be exposed he will immediately reject everything that he learned in his home everything that he learned in the yeshiva and he will throw it he will throw it away that's not the issue in moisture Robinho's world terror is not afraid from the world his argument with his father-in-law is not coming from insecurity it's not coming from a complex from the perspective of terror the whole world is a continuum of terror there are no two entities the universe of terror and then the universe outside of terror the world is the divine world the world is a blueprint the tire is a blueprint by which God created the world in other words the world essentially is a continuum of terror it's a reflection of terror a real Judaism is never based on insecurity that you never ought to fear the world would be threatened by the world because the world in its true sense is essentially an arena a place where the truths of terror and not only could be implemented but really reflect of Tyria because it was built based on the blueprint of Terra knowing that the toy is the truth of the human being and the truth of the world why must I have my son entangled with the experimentation of idolatry it reminds me of the story it's a story about the alter rebbe rabbi schneider's Armand of Lee Adi the author of the Tanya he had a son rabbi Dave Baer who would succeed him later as the second lebara chair ever the mythili rebel and when he was a child his father the outter ever called in a young man and said listen you have a mitzvah I have a mitzvah you have a mitzvah to support your wife and children I have a mitzvah to educate my child let us exchange mitzvahs I will fulfill your mitzvah I will support your wife and children and you educate my child the man agreed and he left when he came home he realized he was a clever guy he realized that he still has something to ask he comes back to the Rebbe and he says Arriba there was something on fear you tell me you're going to fulfill my mitzvot you're going to support my wife and children instead of me you'll pay a salary to me that I understand it's very clear and it's very clear to you what you have to do you have to give them money but you ask of me to fulfill your mitzvot to educate your child this is a very unclear stipulation how do I educate your child what do I teach them how do I teach the altar ever responded to him and said we begin educating a Jewish child by teaching him or her the olive base the Hebrew alphabet the first letter is Aleph buses on Aleph what is an Aleph imagine that letter Aleph or you can look at the letter Aleph what is an Aleph the altar ever used to speak with a special melody so he answered the question what is an Aleph with his melody eyepin telephone urban eyepin telephone Hunton daus is an Aleph a point on the top a point on the bottom a line on top a line on top on the bottom that is an Aleph I used for urban I used for none turn I carve for near Shama in bihar daus is an Aleph what it represents is there is a little you'd on the top this represents God there is a little you on the bottom it represents the soul the human soul which comes down below and then there's the line in the middle which connects the two and that's the line the link of eurasia maíam or of heaven fear of God this is an olive this thought Arriba says this is what I want you to teach my child this is the beginning this is the beginning of what a Jew a human being a child has to know in order for them to fulfill their life goal our pin telephone eben there's a point above there's a point below and our challenge in life is to link the two points that's what a Jewish child has to know this was the debate between history and Moshe Easter I had one perspective on education Moshe and another perspective on education moysha says I don't feel I must send my child in your path for you it was great it was awesome there's something you contribute to our people that nobody can contribute there's something you bring to the table a richness an appreciation that only you have let's take it and give a psychological example there are people who go through psychological turmoil throughout their life they experiment with many different alternatives with many different relationships they stumble and they fall they often end up in the abyss and then from the abyss from hitting rock bottom they come to discover certain truths about life and thought those discoveries are very deep does this mean that every person what to be subjected to such turmoil and anguish no yes right I will respect you like nobody else for what you bring to the table the tiger could not be given according to the tsar till history came to the Jewish people and said I know because his knowledge is unique but that is somebody who doesn't know somebody who's searching somebody who's lost but he want me to take my son and instead of giving him Alec who's giving him godliness giving him terror giving him mitzvahs giving him the most precious gems of life of his own soul and making it his I should subject him to your trial and error path I disagree not because I'm insecure not because I'm scared of the world not because I think that if he's going to be exposed the Taira will lose its validity and legitimacy that's not the real perspective of Tyria real Claire is one with the world the world is a reflection of terror the world is God's world the world is created by the tire and tire is a blueprint for the world which because the terror is authentic it's meaningful why do I have to send my child to you Surrey school and have him follow yesterday's curriculum history disagreed and Moshe can and the first child is going to follow eustress curriculum now we will understand that little seemingly irrelevant detail Shaima Akkad Garin Mishima Asad Eleazar the name of the first son was garam the name of the first son of eliezer they were both first children garam was the first child biologically Eleazar was also the first child because he was the first child who would be educated according to my sure Bao's approach according to this we can come to understand that Madras about the red heifer one of the differences one of the ramifications between these two approaches is how do you try to teach Judaism to your child from usurious perspective you always try to understand everything so that you should be able to identify with it and find yourself there even if it's a super rational Mitzvah as much as possible you try to bring it down and make sense out of it according to my Sheena binos perspective it's the other way around the Jew has a gash mock the Jew has a feeling to fulfill all the mitzvahs because they are God's will if he understands the Mitzvah that's great if the Mitzvah lends itself to be comprehended intellectually that's awesome but the essence of the experience of the Mitzvah is a relationship with God that transcends the human intellect and the human ego it is based on the pure relationship between the soul and God and therefore he is not looking to justify it to rationalize that he's not apologetic about it he has a sense he has a gash mark in the pure godliness of a mitzvah if I understand it great but real godliness pure godliness you can't always understand you stroy in other word searches to find the rationale the justification moysha is looking for the godliness of the Mitzvah not because he is fearful of intellects my show was the intellectual of history not because he's insecure of using his rationale but because he comes to appreciate that the relationship between the Jew and God doesn't only operate on an intellectual level it operates ohso on an intellectual level but there's a place to where the intellect takes you and then there's a door which you can pass not through intellect but only with your soul the door of faith through which the soul actually experiences the living presence of God when it comes to the law of the red heifer para Duma it's defined as the hike it's defined as a super rational Mitzvah but there is a ration now that's given by the rabbis and it's brought in rashly and parishes hookahs why are the Jews commanded to take a red heifer slaughter it mix it's ashes with water cleanse people from defilement through it and one of the answers given there is tava a mattock an ax a husband ah the Jewish people created a golden calf it was the first Idol in Jewish history after they became a nation let the mother come and clean up the fertilizer generated by her child they created a golden calf so to atone to cleanse for the dirt created by the calf the mother the cow the mother of the calf comes and cleans up the mess your child makes a mess we say ma let the mother let the father come and clean up the mess let the mother let the cow clean up the mess created by the calf now how old does a cow have to be in order to give birth three years old so according to the sages that a cow a para due master be three or four years old then the ration now makes sense let the mother cow come and clean up the mess of her trial the calf because the cow is three years old she can have a child already she's a mother but according to Rabbi Eleazar who says that a cow a para Dumas two years old one cow is too she can't give birth so she can give birth there's no explanation that the mother is cleaning up the mess of her child so when moisture a Bain who hears God repeating the halacha rabbi eliezer that a cow is two years old moysha says he hear ups and let it be there will see Asma a lot say that this rabbi eliezer should be one of my descendants what my Strabane was saying is I won I pray that my descendants should follow the path of Eliezer should follow the path of Rabbi Eliezer my prayer is that my descendants should have an appreciation of the schmock and the godliness of a mitzvah they shouldn't desperately try to feel the need to be apologetic to always justify to always make sense out of it to always make sure that they have to experiment with everything else to make sure that this is true they should be able to experience the sazon Aleph not because they're insecure and not in a way of dogma being imposed by Zek Hayley by the father it should become by the Gaelic a avi by the father it should be Zek Hayley it should become their personal God it should be their understanding their experience but what they should have is the point of view of Rabbi Eliezer who appreciates the relationship between a Jew and God not only in terms of finding my but also celebrating an absolute commitment that often transcends the ego and transcends the intellect the relationship between the soul and God between the you'd above and the you'd below where you Sarah emphasized much more of a different angle go through different patterns and different methods and then come to appreciate it from your own trial and error from your own previous experiences and our son promises much yes this will be your descendant and that's why it says shame ha hecho de Lisa this was a Lisa who's Eliezer alakay avi Basri the god of my father is helping me there is Zek Haley my god which yeast ray accentuates the God that I come to through my personal experience there is Alec a of a there's the God I come to from my father because my father taught me about God that is Alireza and yet my challenges to take la kov and make that into Zak alien to my own God by discovering my own individual relationship my own Souls relationship with God according to this we'll be able to understand the Talmud and Baba Basara there is a void Azara avoid ashes or alloy a service of God which is serving God but it's alien to Moshe I read Snorri it's alien represented by Gershon Easter I wanted that moisture should educate Garin with the curriculum of Israel his way of serving God but from my sure this is alien it's a path it's just not his path so moisture table a new says sometimes a person needs it Lila ASCII Rodimus at smile avoider she's our alloy above Italian style a breeze if this is your source of income if this is how you're going to support yourself whether it's financially or this is your particular source of spiritual income in the world then this is your path the path of yeast ROI rent yourself out for our voices are a lawyer for an alien service to go into the world and to study the various disciplines and various patterns and from there come to a deeper appreciation of the unity of Hashem that star Vader the work the perspective of Easter avoid the Xi's are alike and moisture agreed garam will follow this path is it moistures own path no is it eleazar's path no it's yeast-raised path and it became Garren's path and Moshe sphere actually played itself out he was scared that Gershon will become confused in the process he became confused in the process and his son unison became a priest for idolatry Moshe sphere which he told the Israel or he explained or he intimated the history the child may not come back the child may be confused the child became confused and yet at the end he is called su l he did do trover he did return to God just like his great-grandfather yesterday he also returned to God and he returned to God with his whole heart and with his all soul and not only that one can perhaps add something even deeper Dheeraj Baum the commentator on Baba Basra d'arco feud brings from the Jerusalem comment from comedy Raja me that even while he was a priest at the statue of mija he did not believe in the idol in fact when people would come with a big sheep or goat too sour animal to sacrifice he would say you're sacrificing it to this statue the statute doesn't need doesn't drink and help you can do you any favors so they told him what should we do he said you there's a girl don't waste your money go back bring back bring back flower will sacrifice flower the next day they would come with flower they would bring it to the statue and then they would leave and he himself would eat it and the town would credits him with that that actually he helped people leave the Idol the idol he helped people disengage himself from idolatry we have to understand that in those days pagan idolatry was a none norm it was not prevailing culture in most societies and this drew unison the grandson of much to help them disengage themselves from it which means history experiments and then discovers the truth of Judaism garam is educated in the same way his son Unison feels perhaps that his role is not only to study idolatry to examine it to visit it but actually to become a silent ambassador for Judaism in the Idol world in the world of idolatry he is a spy who was working for the statue and yet undercover he's distancing people and this is the story of Gershom and his son unison reflected in the philosophy and unique life story of yeast Roy who caused his son-in-law to take upon himself this oath this thus my dear friends remains our challenge a question we have to ask ourselves how do we educate our students our pupils ourselves and our children in a fashion that is not only to allocate of e giving them the God of their fathers or their grandfathers or their great-great-grandfather's but székely giving them their own God a child a young man a young woman should be able to feel that this is my god it is my experience not only because they were confused and lost but rather because they are given the tools and resources the courage and dignity the wisdom and the inspiration to be able to experience within themselves in the words of the altar Abba ARP in telephone eibon's ARP in telephone tonton daus's on olive good night [Music] [Applause] therefore [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey [Applause] [Music] you [Music]