I Raised You Up On Eagles' Wings and I Brought You to Me with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the would say mid but we are still in war mode and we are in the um the era b midash as guests thank God and um I want to W welcome everybody with a warm a very warm welcome home to Torah and as you know that we use the clear as the basis for the discussion uh fundamentals we absolutely deal with major fundamental concepts within Judaism even though we're only going to deal with perhaps one main verse and then discuss everything about it tonight we are in parro chapter 19 verse4 when I say we're going to deal with fundamentals we're going to deal with the fear of God free will um redeeming captives so stay tuned okay another idea is that in below in the uh in the description box you can find a link to the sore sheets again I just hope that you do use the sore sheets because learning the Hebrew is so important and many of the nuances that you actually you know when you're learning the paraa you won't ever pick up no matter how many times you try to read it over and over and over again in English unless you have a Mastery on even the basic level of Hebrew it will it will really help you a lot so let's take for example our verse I'm going to read it in English first and then I'm going to emphasize the Hebrew parts that we're going to need to concentrate so as we're leading up to mattin Torah the Revelation and Mount Si of the giving of the Torah God tells us well really we're talking at the beginning of chapter 19 uh but we're going to deal with verse four that's going to be our main our main um not even the right page here we are the main um pusk the main verse that we're going to deal with I will just read to you in English I don't see why not in the in the third month starting with verse one in the third month from The Exodus the children of Israel the land of Egypt on this day they arrived at the Wilderness of seni they journeyed from ridim and arrived at the Wilderness of seni and encamped in the wilderness and Israel encamped there opposite the mountain now here is well this is still three Moses ascended to God and hasem called to him from the mountain saying so shall you say to the house of Jacob and relate to the children of Israel now our verse you have seen what I have did to Egypt and what I have borne that I have borne you on the wings of eagles and brought you to me now the Hebrew is just so much more beautiful as we'll say you have seen what I have done to Egypt now this is the part about the bringing you up the I raised you up on the wings or upon the wings or even above the wings of eagles a lie and this is so beautiful God says I brought you to me okay now there is part of Rashi I'd like to explain what is it about an eagle specifically so an eagle is not afraid of any other bird they are attack Birds okay they're not afraid of any other birds they fly quite high and they put put their young over their backs above their wings and the only thing they're afraid of is man because man can shoot arrows at them so they're protecting their own young with their own bodies very interesting idea that's pretty much what Rashi says over there okay that's about eagles so the clear Begins by telling us and I I want to give a little bit of an introduction there's a famous medish that he will explain that describ Des cries the Jewish people as daughters then as sisters and then as a mother now the way everyone May read it is as if there are these levels of intensity of a relationship a daughter you may think you have a certain love and then you would think you would have a greater love for a sister and then a greater even a greater love for a mother the cleart disproves that that's the concept rather he will Pro prove this has to do with drum roll please that this has to do with levels of dominion levels of authority as a parent may have well let's talk about okay let's you know what let's just start so the clear begins sh Mala Mizu there's a mentioning here of three levels in our verse right I will raise you up on the wings of eagles and I will bring you to me the clear is explaining there's actually three levels here one higher than the next because it begins it begins with the idea I will raise you up that is 194 that's our verse he says this is the same idea that's brought down in Numbers Chapter 11:2 which you'll see number two on the sore sheet English sore sheet when Moses is having a conversation with god did I conceive this entire people did I give birth to them that you say to me God you're telling me that I should carry them in my bosom just like a nurse or maybe it's a wet nurse or mother is nursing carrying the suckling okay so there's Concept in Hebrew of carrying Kare ye saw just as a a wet nurse carries the suckling so thear says this is the first level it's as if God is a parent carrying his child the is M that's the relationship father to son mother to daughter or parent child now in the rest of verse four it says right and I brought you to me what's that that INF that actually and this I want to tell you this is so counterintuitive you would never have thought of it that God is actually saying to the Jewish people yes I I you're like a daughter that means I have a total authority over you but then you're like an equal you're like an equal I'm going to bring you to me you're almost your sibling I'm going to bring you you're going to be like a sibling like we said as a sister and only afterwards meaning two verses later in verse 6 Chapter 19 Verse 6 so you can see that on um number three on the sore sheet you shall be as a kingdom of priests now interesting the Hebrew is V to youim the clear leaves out the word kohanim for the for I think a certain purpose cuz he's going to describe later what that means but you will be to me as a kingdom I know this is going to sound extremely strange God is actually saying what you will be king over me you will have H the rights the dominion over me and I know sounds appic courses it sounds so strange but he adds the words kav as if okay as if as if you are actually in dominion over me now it says in 2 Samuel 23:3 and we're going to discuss this even more it says over there the god of Israel said concerning me spoke the rock of Israel a ruler over men shall be the righteous man he that rules in the fear of God now I don't really like that translation but let's just hear the last words were who's thead who's the righteous person the righteous person is the one who rules over God that's one way to look at it or rules in the fear of God I have a better translation because we're going to see later on in number 12 moed Cen uh the translation over here from safaria was he that rules over men must be righteous ruling in the fear of God that would be how to read um that however I you know maybe we'll read Mo cuton right now this is in MO cuton 16b How is it that someone can rule over God a righteous person we spoke last week about how a righteous person can command the blessing Moses could have or should have said to the Rock give forth water or he could say son stand still that's called ruling over God because then God has to do what the sadic says but the theor doesn't say that M cutton it says that a righteous person yes they rule over God the last four three lines in number 12 it is a righteous person how is it possible to say that a righteous person rules over God as it were as I God issue a decree right God makes decrees all the time what can a righteous person do nullify an evil decree or n nullify a decree so see the power that a righteous person has this is the gamorra the gorah says that a righteous person can nullify a decree so that is what it means over here and um that's the verse so now the clear is going to explain everything he already said but much deeper and clearer based on a famous medish that I alluded to inim ran that the ran also brought down in this is the language of the medim elazar barosi so Rish shim asked rosi it's possible that you heard from your father the following statement like what it means it says in Song of Songs chapter 3 find where it is on the souret uh verse 11 it says over there and I'll read the whole verse go out oh Daughters of Zion and gaze upon King Solomon upon the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his nuptials and on the day of the joy of his heart there's no question that the verse itself is somehow relating to the idea that Beva went to bat for her son you know when she reminded King David that Solomon would be the king so there's a lot of Merit to Beva for King Solomon being the king but what it's referring too that it's like a mother the actual mother is being used in this context in terms of remember Mount Si is the the CTIC experience when we received the Torah so there's a crown we were also crowned as if we were crowned with our own mother the Torah being the mother or the relationship of God being the mother now let's go back into the actual medish because he asked what does it mean I'm are low and this is where he answers him and he says what exactly does it mean mother emo what is the whole Crux of the matter behind this this statement it's compared or analogous to a King who has a single daughter just one daughter and he loved that daughter very much and in the beginning of that relationship right he calls her my daughter and that love grew grew to the point where then he calls this young girl who's growing up his own sister and then maybe she grows up more but the idea is that the love continues to grow until he calls this daughter of his his mother so too this is analogous to the love relationship that God has with the Jewish people that God calls the Jewish people my daughter now I'm going to give you a few verses that go through these stages in Psalms 4511 so that's number seven on the sore sheet hearken daughter and see right so that's the first idea and incline your ear and forget your people in your father's house then we go to Song of Songs 5:2 where now the Jewish people are called my sister I sleep but my heart is awake hark my beloved is knocking open for me my sister my beloved P my beloved my sister and then isaah 51:4 it says hearken to me my people which is with an i in me but then it says so there's a difference between a nation with an alive which is really like Ami like e like my mother going back to this idea of a stage from daughter to sister to mother so let's go back in the clear and he says like this so it started off with the B and you see how it developed into this relationship of sister and we saw the verse in shim and then to the mother em um and then Isaiah we read that Isaiah says a Li amii and it's actually written without the e so okay now we're about to hit where the clear C now describes what I said to you in the beginning it's not about a development of a relationship we we that's how we seem to have read it all along and that's maybe how most people would understand it it's about dominion and we're about to see how he describes it okay that this Bish is not saying over a a order of levels of Love remember the first level or the lowest level is B and then you would have thought the second level sister let me ask you all question who does the father love more his own daughter or his sister so if you want to say like like we've been saying all along it's about a deeper love well it doesn't make sense because the truth is a parent loves his own child more than his sibling so HOSA gunu this what we thought was an addition is actually a retraction is actually worse or diminished right the do the sister is not loved more so this whole order is now in Jeopardy okay there is no doubt that a person loves his daughter more than his sister ready but rather the CLE concludes that this medish is talking about levels of meah which would be Authority or Dominion right control okay so for all those feminists out there hold your belts right that the the father has more Authority right has quite a certain amount of authority over his daughter and similar let's just say what he let's just read the words and similar with his wife his mother not his mother the mother of the daughter but when it comes to siblings whether it's brother and sister they're considered equals that's why the first thing that God calls the Jewish people is B because his love it is true even though dominion and control is being talked about that's how the relationship began it began with love however just like it's about love it starts it says here nevertheless to God is the kingship look at Psalms 22:29 number 10 in the sore sheet for the kingship is the Lords that's where the king ship ultimately lies Li so he is has dominion over the Jewish people Al very similar to the way that a father would have dominion over his daughter now that was with Abraham we're going to go through Abraham Yakov in all three of these levels Abraham like the PK says in Psalms 4511 where is 45 number seven that was the verse we said hearken daughter and C so that was the first step in the relationship that's n alah in mid it speaks about this referring to Abraham that's referring to the first level in our paraa like when God says I will raise you up upon the uh wings of eagles that is the first step in the relationship when you see zi and this relationship begins this this bringing up just as the nurse puts into her bosom the suckling baby just as a nurse carries a suckling that's the beginning of the relationship and the next step God would bring us to even in a higher level he calls us his sister we're God's sister remember we said that means you're equal I told you this is going to be be count very counterintuitive how are we God's equal we're actually equal with God obviously not in every way but in a certain pattern a certain way that God's basically equating the Jewish people with his own honor and his own fear to them to give them honor now I want to just stop for a second to explain about free will it says we are created in the image of God and the likeness of God well God has no physical likeness so in what way are we similar to God he's the ultimate and Free Will we are just a shadow of that like a a fleeting Glimpse in fact there are those that say it's only a mirage it's a illusion that we have free will that mean God gave us that illusion but nevertheless it says everything is in the hands of Heaven except for the fear of heaven so and I also want to discuss if you look on page five I think this is a good place to talk about it the very last page cuz I want to talk about free will a little bit this is Raba in CH in pero chapter 3 it's mission of 14 and 15 although I think this is just 15 so R said beloved is man man is so beloved that we're created in the image of God but there was like an extra special gesture of love that God let us know just think about a second I ask you you have have someone who's a Mis gain someone who is down and out financially and he's living from garbage can to garbage can and you put $1 million in the bottom of his rack sack now you don't not tell him but you put that million dollar there did you change his life you would think oh I put a million dollars in his Rock sack of course I changed his life you know when you changed his life when you told him so it's a huge gesture to give him the million dollars but it's even a greater gesture to tell him so God created us in His image but the Torah itself tells us it so the Torah is a very precious gift it's the instruction manual to know right my Rosa nor Weinberg said you know 99% of the world is out there they're sleeping they don't even realize they have free will or what the power of that that Free Will is I just want to read the rest of this this per for in the image of God he made man that's what it says beloved is Israel because they're called children of God it's a sign of even greater love that he made it known to them that they called the children of God so we have this that's how it all started beloved are Israel for they were given a precious article this is the Torah we're talking about matin Torah this is the greatest gift of the entire universe the receiving of the Torah and in it's made note to them that they were given this precious article as it says I've given you a good purchase my Torah do not forsake it right okay let's go back into oh I just want to read the last parts of this this this is actually the beginning of the next mission Perot All Is foreen and freedom of choice is granted so this idea that the image of God is the Free Will I mean a lot of people you know obviously are entangled with this question how are we created in the image of God there's no question that the image of God that we're created in he's the ultimate Free Will and we're just a slight image of that we have a certain limited amount of Free Will so the next piece the the cleart tells us what k say so the next level was the equal to God and the are compared as if they are partners with God now this is to Y we spoke about AB being like a OK here right about now we're talking about yits is the next level that's like being a partner what did God say to him in Genesis 26:3 where do we find that we'll find that and it's number 11 so when God speaks to yach he says so join in this land G and then he says I will be with you I will be with you now we do notice he says the same words to yob he doesn't say that to Abraham so we said abrah was not on the same level now you have y was on a higher level and now we're soon going to get to to Yakov but when God says to Y I will be with you that's going to be snonymous with I will bring you to me remember in our original verse chapter verse4 it's going to be synonymous one second let's continue with the clear he says what does it mean When God says to that so join in the land and I will be with you that I'm basically you're now my equal I will be equal with you you have these two merits you have the Merit of ABR and and you never found those words I will be with you referring to ABR only to and now we understand in our verse when it says I will be with you just as I will be with you you will be with me okay I'm going to bring you to me so that's the second level what about y being the third level when Yakov entered into his portion of his inheritance he was called the hamash the third like there's a three uh winding cable or three winding thread a triple thread which is very hard to break that meant that yakob was raised to even a higher level to be called a mother licra aim he is now on the level of AIM now we're we're talking about Dominion so the father has complete dominion over the daughter that's Abram and then Yak this level of equal so there is this equality so to speak if we can say such a thing but wait you know you have to have your seat belt on that we're talking about Yakov actually the sadic has dominion over God what what is this the the using of the Free Will it's the use of the free will just like the parent the mother has control over the daughter drum R please through remember I said that everything is in the hands of Heaven except for the fear of God so that Sadi controls God through his own fear of God or let's say Awe k inut which we read cut 18b I think we did read that at 16b we read that this is where it explains that a s can nullify right through prayer through actions through fasting through kindness through learning through a whole list of things through Mitzvah you can nullify atad can nullify the negative or let's say decrees of Hashem okay so that's what it means over there and guess what when yako fought with the angel in Genesis 30-28 that's actually 30-29 it's number 13 on the sore sheet I have an excellent translation here I never looked at it like this I always looked at it it does mean when when Yakov fought with God but this is from kabad they translate it because you have Comm in power over God that's an amazing translation because the word SAR is like administrative it's a very high official right that's why we called yel We're SEL we are the ambassadors of God that what that's what it means commanding power because you have commanding power with God it's unbelievable it's a great translation at least according to the way we're learning this clear therefore and you overcame the to so the clear says even though yes even according Yakov It also says in chapter 31:3 I will be with you God does tell him that but that would make him is equal it's true yov did reach that level but he even reached Beyond to where he is even called God I know that's pup shot we don't read it like that but Rashi says you can and we do have commentators L I want to take you um it says in Genesis 3320 right when he erected a pillar he named it God is the god of Israel theik he was called depends how you read it Yakov himself is called Al God him yakob is called God so in Rashi the last three lines our rabbis in Milla 18b interpreted to mean that the Holy One Blessed Be he called Yakov God rendering and the god of Israel called him God so there's many other ways to read it but that is a legitimate understanding and it goes it's consistent here because that would mean that the sadic has dominion over God but again it's only it's like a um how would I I I translate it understanding it's like this idea a limited control stake in other words the sadic is not greater than God in every way he's just greater in God in the aspect that it's spoke about in terms of overturning certain decrees of God so if you were like the CEO that's like whatever the the chief officer that's God so this person is like a uh the sadic is like a high he holds a lot of stock but it's a limited controlling stake right that's how I'll try to explain it okay so let's go back into the clear if you go back to the beginning of yro it says in the beginning chapter 18 that the car says okay so Isel heard everything that who that Elohim the attribute Elohim did to Moses and Israel but in chap in verse eight when Moses Tells over everything that happened can ask I I I I'm going to put it below a link to that class because I describ it better there I'm just going to go through quickly but in verse eight it says that's five sorry the MOs Moses told over to his father-in-law that's the attribute of Mercy to whom to pharaoh and to Egypt this is again counterintuitive you have the name or character trait of Elohim which is judgment and den acting upon or manifesting itself which we would say is in a good way to the Jewish people in toosha and then you have the yud V which is the representing the manifestation of mercy and yet it's acting upon in I don't know let's say in a bad way uh to these ran to to pharaoh and Egypt so it's very complicated but basically the the clear explains that what does a righteous person do he's over a able to transform or overturn m then to and what do the do the opposite they bring into okay so basically getting back into our subject how is it that the can actually with kav overturn and have dominion okay so let's go back into the clear where we left off we just mentioned about Yakov is on this third level and that's what it means M 18a God actually calls jakov a god meaning to say he's Mo that he actually has control over God and that's what it means here to you will be to me a kingdom God okay I understand the verse says but we're going to just stop without the word kohanim you will be to me God saying a king with authority and Dominion as the clear says as if you have dominion over meaz I can make a decree but what is theik able to do can overturn NE gate nullify and we're only able to reach that level because the fact that we're Jews just like it says in verse three which we read in the very beginning you are actually being called the Jewish people okay the next two paragraphs are quite small but it's important to know thear says you're actually able to explain the verse that we just read you Lee you will be to me we're going to read this as a kingdom of priests ready for this you will be to me a kingdom over the priests like we said M dominion over the priests even within the Jewish people we have like this seemingly cast system you have the tribe of Ley within Ley you have Kim soim and is it's like a cast system because we do give tithes and different gifts to the and the they call priests but what does that mean we have dominion over them so that it was through the receiving of the Torah that we actually have an advantage those who learn Torah those who learn Torah have an advantage over the even gets precedence than even the who is an Amit who's ignoramus so there's a Gora here I wanted to show you it's um actually it's in Horas it's number 19 and I think it's relevant today more than ever before there are these laws when you find something or if you need to save somebody from a river saving their lives which takes precedence so there again women libers just hold your belts the man proceedes the woman when there's uncertainty with regard to which of them to rescue or to return a lost item to who comes first but the women precedes the man when it comes to a found garment because of the humiliation that might be involved that she doesn't have the Garment or to release from cap captivity now that's due to the fact that there's a concern that she might be raped however when both are subject to the possibility of rape then the the man does come first but that's not the part I wanted to show you the part I wanted to show you is the in the the gamor and the next mishna um that a Torah scholar precedes the king okay um the next mission a priest precedes the levite the pre the levite precedes the Israelite an Israelite precedes the son born of an incestual adulterate relationship we call that a momzer and the momzer precedes the gibon the gibon precedes a convert and the convert precedes an emancipated slave but when do all these take effect that's when they're all equal in wisdom you always save the one who is the smartest the one who is more uh full of Torah as the last statement says but if there was a Mamer who's a Tom scholar and a high priest who's ignoramus the mser who's a Torah scholar precedes the high priest who is ignoramus because Torah wisdom surpasses all this is a very important thing then we come to the Torah wisdom it's the ultimate now the clear continued on and uh it mentioned like I said that a Torah scholar takes even if he's a mamzer takes precedence over a high priest who's an ignoramus now there's two more Y and the Y says meaning there's another opinion when it's said in our in our verse actually it's our verse right you have seen what I have done to Egypt what is that referring to the makos the plagues because when those particular Moos emanated from the ground like d blood Kim the liot anything similar then what did God do he raised us up upon the Eagle's Wings meaning that we should not be injured by the ground Arts as if I lifted you up from the ground so you wouldn't be become damaged or hurt sh so then when the plagues came from above from the heavens like as which really it's the same you know the fire in the hell came down so as then God says I'm going to bring you to me now where's God he's above the constellations when God say I'm going to bring you to me I'm going to take you out from underneath I don't know what you call Fai constellations the natural world I'm going to bring you even though it's coming from heaven I'm going to bring you above that so you will not be affected so that's another insight into the verse then the clear card ends with these last three lines some say that God raised us even above the angels from above from the Angels shik what are angels angels are they have wings and they're called the wing creatures as we see I think I have one of the last verses here um it's in number 20 Ecclesiastes chapter 10:20 it's referring to the wing creatures will tell of the matter by the way there's a famous expression in English that the walls have ears right you think okay I have to be careful I'm in a city and I can tell secrets of my neighbor someone's going to hear me guess what doesn't matter where you are I mean there is a truth to it that walls do have ears but even when you're out no matter where you are the Angels certainly have ears and they could relay the message so you always have to be careful it's not just in a city environment although Kaz do tell us that in a city environment especially if you want to tell a secret try to go outside of 5G 4G outside of the walls having ears anyway so here it is that the Angels themselves are wind creatures so God took us above the Angels Above the wind creatures so to speak regarding that it says When God says I will raise you up above the wind the the E the wing Eagles the wings of eagles what does he mean that I'm actually bringing you up high above the wing creatures the the Angels themselves okay so what I want to do is just wish everyone M A shabbat shalom but before we get to that point to end this video that we really should take advantage of the fact that we have free will that we can become sikim it's not just for those few who we're only going to be judged by who we are not by who you know do we ever reach the level of the next guy every one of us should make an effort bem right we could change the outcome of this war right if we put more kavana and we say right who releases the Bound in the morning that we could actually be releasing our hostages that are that are kept by uh the enemy anyway B I wish everyone a shabbat shalom a great life and more intense relationship with God and with your neighbor and we have to keep the unity there's a new uh goal of the war apparently it's always been my goal of the war and it's always been most people I know but apparently there's a new goal right so the goal is not only to crush Hamas and not only to get our soldiers back but to figure a way to keep the unity going long after this war is over soem have a great life [Music] kavas [Music] here