Inside Shechem Lay the Soul of Reb Akiva

good morning everybody thank you so much for coming I want to make a special welcome for a very special young woman who's joining us today Hindi Markowitz thank you very much for coming and her entire fan club who accompanied here this who accompanied her here this morning so welcome and may we all learn from you what it means to have vision real vision [Music] Helene Keller Helen Keller once said the only thing that's worse than not having eyesight is lacking vision so thank you for teaching so many people how to cultivate vision [Music] today's class is dedicated by dvora zieger in honor of Amy Israel okay that's a beautiful dedication [Music] what yes thank you very very much thank you also dedicated in honor of the Bas Mitzvah of Aliyah shattenstein this week by her parents David and Eda Schottenstein and the Schottenstein family thank you very very much and may you continue to grow with much similar health happiness prosperity and enrich yourself your family and the world with your special light mazel tov [Music] also dedicated in the Merit of henya basbracha for a complete and speedy recovery amen so there's one source sheet I think they're on the bema you left them on the Bima are there more okay if anybody didn't get this one page so please take it from the bema [Music] we mentioned quite a few times that when people grow up and we learn hummus and then we learn the madrish on the Hamish or the Rashi on the hamesh or other commentary taters quoting Madras and Hamish which is very common in in most Jewish schools people often have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the medrish functions we once gave for example a whole class about how you know Basia the daughter of pirate comes to bathe the denial Delta and of course she sees a little box in the river and she sends out she sends out either her maid servant or her stretches out her arm and retrieves the basket and suddenly the madrush the gemari the Madrid says it's much more complicated her hand her arm extended many amaz maybe 20 feet 30 feet 40 feet until it reached the basket and of course she uncovered it and there was little baby Maisha and as I asked the question you know if you went to a river and you want saw a basket and you wanted to take it and suddenly your hand extended 60 feet what do you think you would do you would run pretty fast you'd run pretty fast call 9-1-1 whoever it is right like it's a beautiful story without it like what what okay it's another story The Measure is just here to like add like just make it more dramatic the story itself is so powerful when you read Madrid people often have these questions because of a basic misunderstanding that the medrish somehow imposes some interesting sometimes far-fetched interpretations on the text it's really the opposite and the best example for this was given by somebody it's like music I think I mentioned it last week as well you know you could sit down by the piano and your your fingers can hit the right keys and technically play the right song but it lacks the full resonance and Beauty so you sit down by the piano as many children do and you're like you remember that one or today it's the um the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the uh wow Moishy that was amazing amazing what talent in the Jewish world the tune is accurate the notes were accurate the keys were accurate but then there was the harmony you know somebody else sits down at the same piano it's a whole different it's a different resonance the text of Hamish are like the keys of the song The madrish is the harmony the function of Harmony is not to change the song not to manipulate the song not to superimpose itself on the song but actually bring out the harmony the depth the full flavor the resonance the iMac that may be embedded there in order for the learner for the student to be able to experience it an example with that story we discussed this once in a share of balance is if you were the daughter of parai and you would consult somebody what are the chances of this Mission succeeding rescuing a Jewish child from the Nile and raising him in the Palace of para right ludicrous is not the word imagine a daughter of Hitler or Stalin Stalin had a daughter Svetlana rescuing a Jewish child in 1943 and raising him in the Burghoff it's it's beyond ludicrous you'll die the child will die it's not within reach so when she stretched out her arm you would tell her Batya you're a good girl you mean well but it's not within your Reach This is not something you do this hat or my hand could reach till here it can't reach 100 miles down some things are Beyond reach I can't touch the moon I just can't I maybe want to touch the moon but I can't bringing a Jewish child into Paris Palace is far crazier and more difficult than going to the Moon because you could go to the Moon today everybody could go to the Moon you just need a couple of dollars join Elon Musk but if you are planning this it's something that that your hand your hand can't reach it and what the measures bringing out the truth of what happened you should understand what she was doing and yet what happens indeed is she stretches out her arm but God Hashem has an invisible arm and his invisible arm attaches itself to your visible arm and then your arm extends far beyond what you can imagine and sure enough Maisha saved and he grows up in Paris Palace and we're all here today because of that every medrish is that way it's the harmony of the song so today I want to study with you another medwich on parishes by islach and at the surface again it seems you know it's interesting it's but it seems like that people have this conversation is this literal is this conceptual is it metaphoric what is even the need for it and so forth it's in your First Source sheet but just in order to appreciate it let's have the background of the story the background of the story is yakovino after 20 years living in Mesopotamia in a place called harun today it's known as haran in southern turkey they actually know where the place is living by his father-in-law love on building the first Jewish Family ultimately returns to after 20 years starts the journey back to Erich Israel back to his father's home it's hooks Home yaakov settles with his family at the outskirts of a city and it's a very famous city known as a Shem or as known as Arabic today as nabalus and it's ruled by a man named is the overlord the the the commander the Lord oh excuse me he is the governor of the mayor of the ruler the the king of the city Dina yaakov's daughter vatake said Dina goes out to see the town to meet the young women to meet the girls that says to see the daughters of the land and Shem who was the son of hamar he is the son of of the governor of the ruler sees Dina takes a liking to her he abducts her and as the terrorist says he violates her and then he falls in love with her and he wants to marry her he begs his father hamar who is the man who owns this place and everyone is subservient to him please get me this girl as a wife I want to marry Dina the Torah says Yakov heard the story he keeps quiet he doesn't say a word his children are Furious about what happened all this time Dina is trapped in the home of Shem he didn't release her once he took her he abducted her he kept her in the home of of his father hamar people often read the story they don't realize this detail that she was never returned to her family because at the end it says they took dinner they liberated Dina so Dina was actually she remained literally abducted by Shem and by his father so they realized they have to rescue their their sister [Music] and Shem who abducted her should be punished [Music] and The Story Goes On how Hamer and his son come to visit the family of yakovino and they asked them to give their consent to the marriage between Dina and Shem Yak of sons pretend to take their offer seriously and they say we will intermarry with you in other words we will allow Dina to marry Shem and all of our families can mingle and do business together and settle together and live together and marry each other but there's a condition and the conditions that the males have to undergo a bris a circumcision bring the proposal to the people of the town and they all agree which is fascinating you're talking about adults you're talking about an age before there was anesthesia and you have a whole town of people males adults agreeing to go through a priest Miller because of the pressure of it's pretty powerful whether it was a real dictatorship or he managed to persuade them and convince them is not so clear but they all agree now it would seem from this story that Dina's Brothers we're planning to attack the palace and liberate their sister and the Brilliance here was that by ensuring that all of the town's people went through the painful surgery of circumcision they would be able to overpower the people at the palace and liberate emails that this was quite a brilliant strategy because the males would be weak so therefore the possibility of all the townspeople coming to the aid of their Chief and killing them and keeping Dina there would be challenged because because of this circumcision they would be weak so they would have easier access into the palace and liberate Dina who was at this point still kidnapped anyway as we know the story continues the people agreed with the proposition and uh in their demonstration of loyalty or fear or love to their prince they allow themselves to go through this Bliss everything seems to be working according to the plan sundina will be freed and the family of yaakov would be reunited however the events turn and that is two brothers decide to take a different route and basically shiman and Levy decide independently and yaakov was not consulted upon this and later they would have an argument about it that this would not be enough so on the day [Music] um on the third day after the circumcision the people are in pain they go and they kill all the male adults inhabitants of Shem they then kill the abductor Shem they kill his father and they liberate Dina yaakov is upset at their behavior fields that the family is now in Mortal Danger they justify it they say no this can't happen this was a Justified act and there's a debate between Jacob and his children and later even on his deathbed yaakov would bring it up again many many decades later the commentators debate what their justification to do this was I understand you're going to get Dino but what's the justification to kill the other people some say that the townspeople all came to the defense of their leader and they wouldn't let Dina go in other words this was an act of self-defense because everybody came to help and that's why Shimon and Levy killed them others argue that chairman and Levy saw them as sharing in responsibility for the abduction and the rape they were all accomplices they were bystanders they didn't say a word whatever the discussions in the mafarsham at length what their shipment and Levy felt that they had a right to do this and Dina was liberated now yaakov did not accept the offer of he did not want Dina to marry her now here there's a fascinating thing and that is that [Music] when the trader describes very uncharacteristically it uses a very very acute an intense language to describe schlem's feelings towards Dina and this is not characteristic because even oh thank you thank you so much because even in in in regular legal marriages and relationships that are completely sanctioned the terror is very scarce with its emotional vocabulary concerning the relationship and a noted exception is shem's feelings towards Dina and one wonders why the Torah is so expressive just to quote a few of the expressions and we'll soon see the significance of this it starts off and it says when Shem sees his soul cleaved back from the word vacas is so connected to Dina if that's not enough he loved the young girl spoke to her heart so you would think okay we get the message when hamar comes to Yakov to ask him if his daughter could marry his son he says and now there is the word means deep yearning pining desire like Eva so you have all these Expressions you have the expression of ahava that he really cherished her but yeah have a scenario of the expression of the Vegas you have the expression of and then later you have the expression of if this is not enough he had this from the word desire his heart desires so you have Vegas I have a woman in this story of Mandina usually when somebody just fulfills their uh hedonistic desires and physical Cravings I'm done you have a story in Tanakh with amnan and Tamar if you remember that story and after amnon did what he did which was extremely immoral and promiscuous with his half-sister Tamar says he hated her he fulfilled his desire and he hated her well it wasn't that way on the contrary afterwards he wants to get closer he wants to keep her he wants to marry her now the fact that the terrorist says this it means that there was something there was something profound there yet Yakov would refuse yaakov would not hear about it now in those days there was not yet a Jewish people versus another people everyone who joined everybody who got married went through some form of conversion whatever conversion meant before Martin Taylor was a different type of conversion would yaakov have considered this offer why did yaakov completely reject offer he doesn't say clearly on one level you could say it's very simple they could not condone how it happened this girl was abducted this girl was violated there was no way you can Overlook it it's not like he came to yakubavino and I saw Dina I was walking can I marry her the terrorist says so almost clearly you know that they came home from the field it says they came home from the field they were very very furiated they were very upset they were very hurt they were very angry yes you don't do this thing it says yaakov was quiet but everybody was very Furious and therefore it wasn't even a question they said they would do it just to get everybody circumcised but which was part of the strategy as we saw but essentially they would never agree they would never agree to this because of what happened that's what you would think is the explanation in other words maybe if it would have happened on the different circumstances and it could work out on a moral level you know could behave according to the Chevrolet whatever the moral code of yaakov was at the time the faith of monotheism of the of removingus family fought but not under these circumstances but the madrish now comes and reports a whole conversation that happened between them of why yaakov would not think of Dina actually marrying and this is your first Source sheet it records an oral tradition and presents a profoundly strange dialogue between the fathers of the two people involved the father of Dina's Yakov and the father of Shem who is hammer what was the dialogue let's see begs his father please get me this girl I want to marry her um says and he told yaakov I'll give any money in the world as much nothing you want for dinner you know I'll set them up for life it's going to be incredible a house near shalayan a house in Switzerland a house in Florida even a house in Muncie wherever you want Heather and besheva whatever you guys want I will take care of you and hear the message this is the story in the text but here the Madrid says hamar gives an enticing explanation and he says Dina had a grandfather his name was avramovino Dino's father was Jacob Jacob's father was father was of ram so Dina's great grandfathers avram and he was a Nasi he was a prince he was a lord he was a leader when he buys the plot for sir in the beginning of Hayes the family of Jesus you're a prince of God Among Us he's a Nazi he's a leader vanilla and I am also a Nasi hamar was the Nasi the leader the Lord the governor of the city of sheb isn't that an amazing you know call it in Vegas aristocracy with aristocracy royalty with royalty you know the king of Spain would make sure to make a sugar with the king of Portugal that's how history developed lots of alliances and marriages and diplomatically and politically happened in marriages were kings and queens brought their families together so he says her say there was a Nasi and shem's father is a Nasi both Lords both respected leaders in other words we both have Royal Blood so to speak flowing through our sinews this is a perfect match it's good for the pictures it's good for the WhatsApp status it's good for the name it's good for the family it's good for the culture it's good for us of my life so yaakov responds to his if he would have him his way who wants to be and he says now was not called a Nasi Ella show he was called an ax the terrorist says in the beginning of bakar avram ran to the ax with the three Bedouin guests come to visit of ram avino after he circumcised himself and he invites them to the tent and he offers them water and he offers them to take some respite and shade and rest and he's going to bring them food says he ran to the buckar he ran to the show he ran to the ox and prepared it for his three guests because there was a lot of grain comes from the might of the ox remember in ancient times before the Industrial Revolution all the plowing or most of the plowing of the fields happened Through The Oxen they would plow because of their strengths the grain that grows is because this is and you're a donkey and here he doesn't have to find a possic to prove that hamari was a donkey because it happened to be his name and from Aveeno he finds a posse that he ran to the ax so he says my grandfather was an ox he wasn't a Nazi you're a Hummer you're a donkey VF shalaj there's no plowing with a box and a donkey together do not plow with an ox and a donkey together when people would plow with animals so often you can attach to the Yoke an ox and a donkey near each other and they plow together that's forbidden in the Toyota just like it's a form of one of the the hybrids that are forbidden even though they're not being synthesized in any significant way they're just working together but the title says it's a fascinating mitzvah so this the Madrid says is what Yakov told them you want we should do this because avram was a leader and you're a leader and I'm telling you might say there was an ox you're a donkey and oxes and donkeys don't plow together now when you read this it's like the medrish seems completely incomprehensible first of all why is avraham called an ax just because he ran to prepare a cow or a bull for his guests of RAM why is he called a sure instead of a Nasi I mean if I run to pick up a pie of pizza for for a guest or for my family so suddenly my name is pizza what's what's the what's the understanding of this that's number one now the word means a donkey okay people have a lot of names so that means a rum is an ax and now suddenly he is a donkey and you can this is his name and this is what abramovino did does that mean that he's actually a donkey because of his name what's those finally what's the connection between not plowing with an ox and a donkey as an explanation why Dina and Shem don't belong together so here's a classic metric it records a conversation between them conversation seems very strange and enigmatic to say the least does this add to the story what is this explaining here too we will see the Chicago no worries it's fine he okay [Music] here we will see again you have the song and you have the full Harmony of it the message is not trying to impose a new story it's trying to explain what the issue here was it explains it in a very sophisticated way which gets you thinking [Music] one of the greatest leaders of 19th century Hungarian jury was a man known as the South Cipher because our sofa's name was rabbin Cipher he was born in 1815. he passed away in 1872 and he was the famous Rabbi of prashburg at the time pressure book was under the austria-hungarian Empire of course with the first World War four Empires disintegrated including the austro-hungarian empire in 1914 and today pressure is known as bratislav he succeeded his father his father was known as the Hassam Cipher rep Moshe Cipher many of the ciphers or schreibers are this so if it means a Schreiber are descendants of the samsify and the South Cipher the Sam Cipher both LED the community in pressure we had a big Yeshiva in Frenchburg and with the Sam sofa passed away in 1839 his son Rabb small Bingham insight for the South Cipher succeeded him as the leader of the community and he has a commentary on hummus known as xav Cipher his father's commentaries his father's name was so he quotes this madrish and he gives a stunning interpretation to how we should understand it and he says it begins with apostle kanyashaya and we read this Isaiah speaks to the Jewish people and he says and I Quotev an ax knows his owner and a donkey knows the trough of his master avos in Hebrew is a truff a trough is of course a container where you place the water or the food for the animal and the animal comes over and eats or drinks from the trough so he says yada sure the ax nose craneo craneo is its owner the one who bought it the one who acquired it like China or Kenya and a hamara donkey knows the trough of its master and your child laments and says but Ami my nation doesn't know not its master and not the trough of the master so basically ishaya is be crying he's lamenting the fact that the Jewish people sometimes behave in a way that can be inferior even to the ox and to the donkey because they know their owner or at least they know they recognize where their sustenance lay the donkey knows the trough it knows the trough and sometimes people can be so open-minded that their brains fall out and they don't know any of this but notice a subtle distinction between the ox and the donkey when it comes to the ax he says the ax knows its owner when it comes to the donkey he says that donkey knows the trough of its owner Ava's baloff so you would say What's the difference you know your owner you know the trough it's a big big difference why does ishaiah use one expression when it comes to the bull or the cow the ox and another expression when it comes to the Donkey basically because knew how the animals function he was here describing the difference between an ox and a donkey I don't know if there's anybody here who has grown up on a farm with donkeys and on a farm with accent the old Muncie had quite a few of them [Music] the ox recognizes its owner it knows who its owners is and obeys his master the donkey doesn't but the donkey knows the Master's truff that it knows it knows Abe was but I love the container with the food or the water of the donkey is stored since the donkey like the all animals like all living organisms craves food and it knows where to get it so it naturally knows its Master's trough because that's where the donkey has its food available so he may not recognize his master he may not obey his master but he knows where his food comes from he knows Ava's baalov now why is this so important the ax is described by the Gomorrah as Melech Shabba behemus the king of domesticated animals if you see in the next source it says I will sing to Hashem who is exalted above the exalted the um the king of the highest the king of the undomesticated jungle animals as the lion Malik Bahamas the king of the domesticated animals of the behemisms show The Acts malikas the king of the birds is Nasher is the eagle and the person manages to rule over them Hashem is above that meaning we have a different types of Kings there's the king of the birds is the eagle does the king of the highest undomesticated the wild beast is the lion the lion is known as the king the king of the jungle and the king of the domesticated behemoths is the show the ax the bull this means that the ax is the king why is the ax called the king of the behemoths the answer is first of all the ox is one of the strongest animals on our planet simply in sheer brute power the acts are stronger even than a tiger it's true that if a tiger engages in a battle with an ox the ox might be defeated because the Tiger has a skill as a natural killer it grows up that way and it hones its skills and also it's it's agility it's it's swiftness but in sheer brute power the ax is stronger even than the tiger that is why throughout history oxen were chosen to pull very very heavy loads like plows across Fields wagons across Nations across countries because their strength is incredibly powerful so that's why the gemara says it's not just another domesticated animal it's the king but despite its power more than a tiger it's not an undomesticated Rebel the ox knows its owner it can be domesticated in fact it's considered one of the most domesticated animals the ax is aware of its owner who takes care of him who nourishes him who shelters him who who protects him and therefore the ox surrenders to the owner the ox has a a subservience to the owner he dedicates his extraordinary strength to serve his master to plow his fields to carry his Yokes and all the burdens placed upon him so the very powerful brute strength of the ax is used not to rebel against his own on the contrary and that's why even though he's the Melech he's a king he's considered a bahaman which is a domesticated animal that's why the South sofa says avram avinu is called a show an ax it's not just we found the name fav Rama Vino it's representative of a very profound quality of ram avino was an extremely powerful human being he was brilliant he was talented he was charismatic he was vigorous he was passionate he was a great great leader he was an extremely powerful human being his wisdom and his Charisma and his charm and his Vigor and his passion and his courage were singular you read the stories about each one of them depicts another feature of this incredible colorful and really gigantic personality both in terms of of learning and understanding in terms of emotion and conviction and faith and both and even as a simply as a war as a warrior even as a military commander he fights Kings and he fights Wars and he fights tribes he was a true leader and he was unstoppable that's why impartius says he takes on four of the most powerful Kings of the time and those kings and he prevails he takes on the world and he prevails the rambam writes of a desire chapter one that of Ramadan who traveled literally from City to City holding press conferences what we would call today press conferences in every city or or mass meetings you know in the where the whole town would come and abramovina would lecture the maidiri writes in his introduction to this influenced more than half of civilization imagine more than half of humanity has redef has been redefined by avrah mavino so you're talking about a person not just with the gift of communication and depth and conviction and Faith but really an extremely what you would say in simple English incredibly talented creative and and brilliant man and yet like the ox he saw himself as a servant he tells Hashem I am but dust and Ashes all the strength and all his power he harnessed he utilized in order to plow the fields of the Republic the world is called hashem's Garden hashem's field hashem's Orchard hashem's Paradis says in him I came back to my garden that's called this world and avram avinu becomes the person who's going to plow it who's going to make it fertile he wants to make the Earth the world a fertile place for growth for for production for fragrance foreign this person uses his incredible power harnesses it to bring recognition of his master fight he made Hashem no one in the world he also planted like an ax produces he also planted an Asia a tree or an orchard named Hashem and he called out in the name of Hashem as the god of the world where do you see this quality most says the medrus well when he runs to the ox to feed the three Bedouin guests think about it usually a man of such stature he's called the ceiling came a prince of God he was a man of wealth he was a man of power he was respected he was people were in awe of ramadino the silica usually you don't run to the ax yourself in order to feed three guests three Bedouin guests to our strangers you have servants and you delegate you're a nice person so you delegate you ask them to serve the guests not only does go himself you would think it's below his dignity but it's not in other words never becomes a person with ears about him not only was it not below his dignity to go serve them or be with them but he runs to the ax himself like the inner with the innocence and the Vigor and the zest of a child without the self-consciousness without the self-inflation without the ego he was a towering Powerhouse this person but he had the wholesomeness the humility the simplicity of a child saying sure I'm happy to do it I don't have to send other people even though I can afford it and there's people who want to do it and he has many many servants there was no vanity in this person why because he was like a sure it wasn't me he was like a show all of his extraordinary power was channeled to serve his master he saw himself as an ambassador of Hashem in this world as a manifestation of hashem's light in this world so all of his power and talent and Charisma could just run to the ax to be there for these three guests aristocracy and your aristocracy so he says let me explain to you the difference my grandfather was an ox you're a donkey he's not trying to insult him he's actually the manager is bringing out the nature of the Jacob is trying to convey to him the donkey doesn't know about the master the donkey knows one thing the donkey knows about the truth sure you're a leader hamar you're a big leader all of Shem is under your governance sure you're a powerful man and your son shrem is also a powerful person but how do you and Shem your son see their power how does Shem see the meaning of nobility of dignity what does he do with his power how does he use it he sees it as an opportunity to run to an ax to feed guests or he sees it as an opportunity to control manipulate abduct violate put his hands on whatever he craves without any distinction without any humility without any sensitivity without any moral dignity without any moral boundaries what do you do with your power that's the question is my power and invitation to be able to humbly serve God with all my power and Charisma or is it an invitation to be able to manipulate and exploit so yaakovino says don't confuse your aristocracy your power your dignity your nobility with my grandfathers taking the day of nobility yes both princes both of you both of you men of power and strength of determination and prowess but your world's apart foreign different ethos and how to work what did Lincoln say nearly all men can withstand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power give him power what do people do with power for my grandfather of ramadino power was a tool it was a tool it was an incredible tool to serve Hashem to serve Humanity to bring the world to a more dignified place the ox knows its Master Yoda Sharknado saw all of his natural Charisma and all of his blessings and his depth and his personality and his successful leadership skills as a calling as a vocation as a destiny to lift up to change the world he viewed his power as a responsibility not as a privilege as a calling to accomplish what others may not be able to in other words he used his power to reveal in each person their own power he used this power to show each person how they are powerful and they have power within themselves you're a donkey you think of the trough only of the trough not of the master there's a difference the trough is what's in it for me the trough is how am I gonna use my master how am I going to utilize my master for my benefits you look at your power and you say wow this is not about my master this is not about a gift it's not about a privilege it's what opportunity is here for me to be able to eat whatever I want to be able to enjoy whoever I want to be able to do whatever I want without anybody having the ability to stop me you see Power as a tool to loot to steal to abduct to violate to control and to get away with murder or violation literally so he says the donkey and the the ox can't plow together you know why because they have different natures it's cruel to put an ax near a donkey in fact the ox is much more powerful than the donkey the ax has a different level of power than a hammer it's unfair to act acts ask Ox sorry it's unfair to ask the donkey to keep up with the work ethos of the cow and the plow the terror demands sensitivity even to a cow and a donkey on the plowfield the donkey is going to feel left out the thunk is going to feel like a loser there's an amazing guitar in your xiaomi it says my Neville one of the the Hallelujah the naval what's a navel a naval is a a l-y-r-e no a liar a liar that's how you pronounce it so why is it called novel you know the word novel in Hebrew means like Novella something that's degenerate a novel version why would you call a liar novel you know what it is says it's so beautiful it makes all the other instruments feel ugly so that's why it's called ugly it's so beautiful they all feel left out so it becomes that because there's two types of people with power there's a person with power who makes everybody feel powerful it's a person with Charisma who brings out the Charisma and people the light in people and then there's people with power who basically know how to control how to manipulate it's a whole different experience the donkey is weaker than the ax so you don't plow the donkey and Ox together because Kuni says even more and it's so interesting than ax choose its cut because it's kosher the donkey is of course not Kosher which is also one of the differences between avram and Hammer of Rama is powerful it's kosher khama is a different type of animal but it doesn't chew its cut a kosher animal has four stomachs so when an ax or a sheep or a goat or a giraffe or an antelope kosher animals when they eat you'll see they don't stop chewing if you go to a farm and you watch a sheep it looks like lunch continues for many hours it doesn't it gets digested by us it often by people sometimes it continues for many hours if there's access to a pantry I'm not talking about you I'm talking about me but especially in this show but when you're chewing an animal chews it's called it brings the food down into one stomach it spits it out it regurgitates the food goes into a second stomach spits it up again regurgitates it it's called My alligator a donkey doesn't do that so the maharsham say the owner gives lunch to the ox and to the donkey together then they go out to plow the donkey is playing the donkey takes a look at its partner what does it see the ox is chewing the donkey never learned about malagada the donkey never learned how Castro's works so the donkey thinks that the ax is getting better treatment it got a second lunch it got a third launch it got a fourth lunch and the donkey feels jealous and infuriated says you're not going to do that you have to respect the boundaries and the identity of the ax and you have to respect the boundaries and the identity of the donkey so the point that DACA levino is making here is the two don't work on the same level therefore they can't plow so spiritually speaking don't belong together they're not soul mates this marriage is not going to succeed One belongs to the tradition of avram avinu the tradition of Allah the tradition of aksen and the other one belongs to the tradition of donkeys and therefore this marriage is going going to fail and here it goes to the next step and that is Dina ultimately the measures are fascinating measures married in Egypt a girl named asnas who was asnas she was raised by tifera but it says in madrish very very fascinating story that Dina gave birth to a child after her connection with Shem and this child was asnas and asanas was having a very hard time being raised in Jacob avino's family with his mother who was Dina and his father who was not Jewish his father was Shem and yaakov sent us to Egypt and ultimately there's a whole story how yaakov put a note on her jewelry that she is from the family of yaakov and when Joseph hassadik was appointed prime minister of Egypt it was like a thicker day prayed says that he went through the whole Egypt and everybody was throwing jewelry at him and gifts at him everybody was an oar of Joseph and he saw this note I'm from the family of Jacob avino and this was asnas and ultimately Joseph married asnas who was the daughter of Dina and who was the daughter of Shem so basically Joseph and Dina of course Dina was the son of Leia was a son of Rahul but they had the same the same man the same father so asnas was Joseph's I don't know if there's a word half NIS but someone of his knees because she was Dina's daughter how is Yosef described so when my sharabana speaks about the Joseph when when uh when yaakovino and moshrabeen to speak about the ocean how is Yosef described foreign [Music] that's so interesting the Joseph marries usnas who is the daughter of Dina Dina comes from avram avinu and he says he's a show she's from the tradition of a show notification now Joseph was also a symbol of strength and power Yosef was a tremendous leader he endured tremendous Agony and humiliation in life but he rises to become the prime minister of the superpower of the time and saved the whole world from Hunger what does pirate tell him nobody should lift up their hand or leg their arm their feet or hands and their instruments only the throne will be greater than you this is what pirate tells Yosef so he is the ultimate Ox the ultimate man of power but what does Joseph do with all of his power because what does he do with all of his power he saves the world from Hunger he forgives his brothers who hurt him so badly he creates a future for his family and his people he introduces monotheism Divine awareness into the Egyptian culture and Society so he is fitting for the progeny of avram and of course of Dina so therefore [Music] excuse me what do we see from here what do we see from here what's what's really the medrus telling us yakovino is not saying of Rama is not a leader he's saying he's a Nasi but a different type of Nasi there's a and there's a hammer every person has tremendous power within them every person some people are powerful in different ways you know you'll say about somebody strong as an ox whether it's physical or emotional or psychological or spiritual or financial okay some people were blessed and each person in their own way was blessed but some people have a unique skills unique talents unique creativity unique Charisma unique opportunities unique wisdom leadership skills administrative skills people skills social skills emotional intelligence EQ IQ intuition vision uh Iron Will Etc in some versions of religion people feel that they have to curtail their power they have to suppress power power is dangerous you have to suppress Vigor you have to stifle strength because power could be the source of evil evil and abuse and and Corruption what the medicine is teaching us here is that there's a very different approach the question is how you see Power you know very often people think that their deepest fear is that they're inadequate people's deepest fear is if you would really know me what would you think of me I feel guilty I feel shame I feel like a nobody I'm insecure that is certainly a fear of people you know what happens if you're going to see my skeletons and my ghosts and my demons and I'll protect myself and make sure nobody ever sees them and hopefully even I won't see them at least consciously I'll tell myself I don't see them and people invest a lot of power a lot of mental energy in that but there may be a deeper fear in people the deeper fear is not that I'm inadequate a deeper fear in many people is that we are too powerful that we're powerful beyond measure it's our light not our darkness that sometimes frightens us we ask ourselves who am I to be such a luminary who am I to be fabulous talented successful gorgeous brilliant influential who I might have an amazing marriage who I might have an amazing relationship with myself with my loved ones who am I to really make a difference I sometimes fear not my darkness I sometimes fear my light often people are afraid that their light is too powerful you're going to shine too much you're going to be too happy especially in some cultures you're going to get an eye in horror people are going to get jealous a woman came over to me once after a class and she says bad things are happening I said what she says I'm in such a good mood this week I said why is that bad she says because I'm in a good mood this week it means that next week oh eBay am I gonna fall if I'm being feeling so good this week it must be that tremendous curses are coming my way I'm like why why do you have to think that way but sometimes people are so afraid of of their light unconsciously I may undermine myself and go back into a restrictive mitraim into a restrict of Egypt because somehow it's more familiar if I could stay high in hiding if I could stay in my closet if I could stay suppressed somehow it gives a comfort but the truth is the truth is we don't help anybody by suppressing our own light on the contrary the more you shine your light the more other people have permission and are empowered to shine their light so of ram avino yaakov was saying was an ax is a king he's Malik behemus in other words how does yaakov choose to Define abramovine to his grandfather you would think it's somewhat of an insulting definition but he wants to bring out a point aframovina was a king he was powerful he wasn't a pushover he didn't find God because he was meek because he was downtrodden because he was a secure insecure because he was afraid because he was frail so he needed a king in heaven to protect him Mark said religion is opium for the masses it's an opium a person needs opiums to to silence them so they have a religion that wasn't avramovine on the contrary he was one of the most powerful people alive he didn't seek it because he was weak you know there was there were great people who loved to make fun of religion and they would say it's good for weak people they're miserable in this world so you promised them it's a way of of priests and kings and religious people to control the masses promise them the next world and everything is good but was the opposite he was an extremely successful person it's his power that motivated him to seek truth that motivated him to understand what's the truth of reality [Music] the greatest of our spiritual Giants were people who were extremely powerful people their intelligence was fully developed their emotions were fully developed they weren't crushed and then they understood that the truth of life is that you're a conduit you're a conduit for Divinity you're a conduit for Infinity you're an ambassador of Love Light and Hope there was a dictator who once wrote he said what do they say power corrupts absolute power is kind of neat who somebody say they said that you know absolute power corrupts absolutely does that mean that absolute powerlessness makes you pure but the truth is that's not the Jewish approach absolute powerlessness makes you pure the truth is the more power a person has the more good a person can do the more you recognize the light the more you become a source of light and inspiration to yourself to your house to your loved ones to your children to to family members to community members and and and and and across the world if Hashem gives a person a talent a skill a power it wasn't there in order to stifle it on the contrary it was there in order like of ramadino the CLA Kim there's an amazing story in gamara and your next sources was one of the greatest leaders of the Jewish people during the second base during the second base according to the gemari was also the teacher of Yeshua of of ice says in Sanhedrin and inside but still in the beginning whoever told me alela I want you to assume leadership and Noise I would have bound up and put in front of a lion somebody who tells me I should become a leader he basically wants to kill me Atta now once I'm a leader color Emily later with somebody who tells me to let go of it and the imaginal I pour a pitcher of hot water a hot kettle on him and look at Shoal he fled royalty he said no okay once he became a leader now any suspicion he wanted to kill David because he thought David wants to usurp the leadership it's a very interesting quote what is he saying he's describing a very powerful idea before I became a leader if you would tell me go become a leader I want to put you in front of a lion in other words I see you as my brutal as my my brutal enemy you want to curse me make me a leader as they say you want to destroy somebody's life give them a leadership position in the community don't worry they won't have days they won't have nights you don't have to put them away make them a leader Rashi says Yeshua told my shadow claim Surah she says make them a leader of the community and don't worry they'll be dead you don't have to kill them they'll kill themselves everybody else will kill them it's fine so he says somebody who tells me become a leader I want to put him in front of Allah once I took the leadership position now I'm going to pour hot kettle on water somebody who tells me to go down what what is he trying to say you would think once you taste once you taste it it like becomes a becomes addicted it's like eating you know uh one piece of potato chip you know you ever tried I mean I try always but doesn't work like one tiny cookie one little piece of chocolate I envy the people who cut chocolate into eight pieces one thing and eat one piece usually it goes one piece to another piece mitsville guerreris Mitzvah right and the opposite so you would think that what he's saying is once you taste it you can't say goodbye to it that's not what he's saying why can't you say goodbye to it what he's saying is something else leadership arouses a very deep core than the human psyche it's called malchus there's a quality of nobility in a person if a person ever tasted it they never tasted it they do it creates a certain identity shift somebody in the position of malchus something changes genuinely in their personality it's a certain a fuse of the human soul is ignited and when you're elevated to that position leaving it is almost like a betrayal of a very deep place of your soul it's not Petty arrogance you have people that it's Petty arrogance I have to remain a leader at the cost of everybody and everything but that's not what we're showing it's not addictive because of vanity but also due to spirituality because in the ultimate scheme of things every person has malchus every person has incredible aristocracy and when that fuse that note comes out in your soul it has tremendous power the person becomes a conduit of hashem's and become a conduit of hashems it's hard to leave go because it's like a very deep shift in the personality Hashem wants of rum to be strong as an ax and then to harness it as a conduit for the divine but here it goes One Step deeper and this is where it comes full circle and here we come to a teaching of republic was one of the greatest capitalists of Poland he was killed in Xavier's 1648-49s and he has a safer called liquite shashanam and over there says something very heavy and he says whenever you see someone Desiring something very very deeply and it's holy they're Desiring holiness it's never just negative there's something very deep inside of them that wants it so he says Shem had a very deep craving for Dina this was not just vanity Dina was a beautiful girl got excited about her it was just external it was superficial there was nothing real about it huh Dina so Paula says that Shem had with inside his soul he had you know souls are connected in very mystical ways because everyone comes from other mauritians so Shem had within his soul the soul of rabi Akiva and it'll be Akiva felt Dina's Purity and holiness so the desire of shemtadina was on a dual level on the conscious level as just a young man who has this deep desire and longing to a young woman on a spiritual level it was maybe akiva's Soul inside trapped inside of Shem craving this connection with Dina that's what Apollo writes and he says that's why right after the story the story of Shem goes through the whole chapter 30 what is it 30 chapter 34 of ayesh it's 31. and at the end of the story chapter 35 starts Yakov whom Allah [Music] come up and go to Bethel and sit there dwell they live there and build them as bayach for Hashem who appeared to you when you ran away from asaph subscription says why is this the first commandment that Hashem gives yaakov right after the story so he says take a look at the words you see the Russia Tavis of these words as Akiva yaakov begins with ayud crum begins with a cuff Ally begins with an iron base kale so you have iron vase aleph Hashem said now you have a Kiva now you can go kumale we you finish doing what had to be done here because when Shem was killed and the Soul was released Ruby akiva's Soul was also liberated so now you have Rabbi Akiva you can go you can move on it's good kumale you're done you didn't end up in here this didn't happen with Dina just by mistake it was just a horrible tragedy something had to be achieved you never know how things work in the world so now Rebecca's Soul came out of its captivity Dina went into captivity not for his own sake she went in to bring rabi Akiva out from captivity there's no way you could bring somebody out of prison if you yourself don't go in there I can't sit in an ivory Tower and say hey come out you go in I go in so Dino went into that place but Tate sedina and she brings out to be Akiva so to speak so now kumale basil now you have to be Akiva you can go and the prescription says that when Shem speaks to shiman and Levy with his father hamar he says take a look at the next sources he says charge me whatever you want but give me this girl as a wife foreign he says you know he saw the title in this way he says take a look at the words of tenulesha take a look at the end of each word the last letter of utnu is the last letter of Lee is yud the last letter of hanara is hey the last letter of La Isha is hey that's yud and hey and hey that's hashem's name yud and hay and woven hey why because he's not just looking for Dina as a girl here there's a Divinity here there's a godliness here at the end of the word which means hidden at the end of the word my subconscious I'm actually looking for havaiah but there's one word that separates it s s says the Gomorrah says there will be Akiva dedicated his life he taught the meaning of every s in Torah in fact there was a man named shimanam Sunni who explained every s because s in Hebrew looks like it's superfluous it's like an extra word is he could have done without the S so he explained every s and then he came to the words and he didn't know what to say and it'll be Akiva said who's completely one with Hashem and dedicated you fear darshan all the s's he fixed the s because the S separated hashem's name is hey hey and Shem has the s that separates the two because what was the issue in there was a dissonance there was a separation he wasn't in touch with the flow of utke in him that's the difference between the donkey and the ax the other shirt who was part of that Saul he darshaned all the Essen he fixed the Essen and he revealed what is the real meaning of the S showing that the S is never a separation the S is a connection [Music] says take this a step further it says the next Source Tanya um said when I was in amaret when I was ignorant I used to say give me the time and I will bite them like a donkey um why wouldn't you bite him like a dog why like a donkey said because they don't bite the same way a donkey breaks your bones a dog doesn't say when I was in amaret I hated so much I said I'll bite them like a donkey says when he says when I was in a Moritz it doesn't only mean because maybe Akiva didn't learn until 40. when I was in Amara it means when I was one of the nations of the world and am I was part of the nation of it I was part of I was part of Shem who was the son of Khmer so when I would say of course I would bite him like a donkey I was the donkey I was the son of Hamer when I was still my soul was embedded in the heart of Shem the son of hamar I would say in a that was the clip of hamar foreign but now something happens to be Akiva what happens to Rabbi Akiva and here it's very interesting the gemara says in service is your next Source Ruby Akiva was a shepherd He was a Shepherd like Jacob was a Shepherd in fact Akiva is to say has the letters of Yakov in it and it says Akiva rubikiva was connected to Yakov his wife was Rocco like Ruby akiva's wife like Jacob's wife was was a shepherd and he was completely illiterate he was completely unlearned he didn't even know I love base and his boss was kalba savua a satiated dog why would you call anybody a satiated dog says whoever went into his house Hungry Like the dog came out say it's not easy to satiate a dog in other words he fed people tremendously he had unbelievable amounts of money and the Gamora says it was a simple Shepherd but his daughter calbus of his daughter saw he was modest um he was a good person so she said to him if I marry you will you go learn everybody Akiva said yeah so they made a private wedding and cowboys daughter married Rabbi Akiva and she sent them to learn when kalba savour heard about it he excommunicated his daughter and his son-in-law and he banned them from enjoying even one penny of his of his wealth all of his assets he was one of the richest Jews at the time because his daughter married this this Shepherd his daughter was supposed to marry creme de La Creme de La Creme there what does it mean he was modest and so kind when he told his students I would have bit like a donkey that's not so modest and that's not so kind you bite people like I wanted to bite them like donkeys what does that mean sorts answers you have it in your sources it's not because we're arrogant people hated the simpletons what was bothering Rabbi Akiva was he was his able character was a refined person that was it not that he hated them personally he hated what they did to people he couldn't stand he felt that there was this hordiness and this arrogance in them and they were dismissive and as Toshiba says they wouldn't touch them they wouldn't get close to them they felt they were tame and this bothered to me Akiva he felt this ear of of of of of of of narcissism of self-centeredness of egotism using the terror as a tool for arrogance it drove Rebecca crazy so toaster says he was actually very modest he was a very kind person and this feeling that was so negative came because he felt that they were abusive they were dismissive story excuse me now something else happens maybe Akiva becomes one of the greatest of the generation because of his wife she marries him she sends him to learn he's there 12 years another 12 years he comes back with 24 000 students the students meet his wife and they're like who's this woman coming out to greet him and she says he says everything I have everything you have really belongs to her what happens is ultimately it'll be Akiva would be captured by the Romans and the gamara says in brachis they executed him and he was saying Krishna and as he was saying krishma yatsun his soul went out when he said the word so the the prescription says something very very powerful he says when you look at shem's love to Dina you have incredibly powerful Expressions you have the word he loved her you have the word he desired her you have the word and you have the word Vegas so he says took all of this and he redefined it in his Hashem there's an acronym of three words Vegas all the Expressions that are used only by shamandini you don't have it anywhere else yaakov loves Rahul you talk loves Rifka of ram loved Sarah but you don't have these expressions [Music] externally it was just a boy scientina internally there was a soul of Rabbi Akiva there and he harnessed all this lifted it up he sublimated it and he connected it with the Republic Hashem and the gemara says a bicycle came out and said your his whole soul went out in ekhat and what does it mean his whole soul went out in lifted up all this passion and he revealed that really the passion of Shem on a deeper level was the passion of Rabbi Akiva to newly Asia to utke because the soul is essentially Divine and spiritual it's one with Hashem but often it becomes camouflaged or or eclipsed with layers and layers and of different passions that become like protectors or shells or husks that don't allow me to really align my passion with my truest Passions foreign the first Netflix went out by schem was killed and now was the second time all these three things were now completely aligned with their source in fact there were 24 000 people in Shem they all went through a bris 24 000 people and it says in Kabbalah these 24 000 people were reincarnated in the 24 000 people of David shiman who were killed in a plague when zimmery and Cosby had relations so it says in Kabbalah that zimri was a guil of Shem and Cosby was a gilgal of Dina that's why they also desired each other but then still there wasn't the ultimate ticket and then Rabia Kiva had 24 000 students the 24 000 students were Reincarnation of the 24 000 people of the tribe of shemen from the 24 000 people of Shem who led these 24 000 students [Music] and these 24 000 students was that reincarnation and it says that ultimately Dina and Rabbi Akiva Rabbi Akiva married excuse me at the end of his life Rebecca married a woman known as the wife of trueness Rufus the whole story in the dharim she was Turner service was a Roman general and his wife ultimately converted and Rebecca's wife passed away by Kevin marry Turner surface so it says in Kabbalah that this was the gilgal of Dinan shrem coming back together because connected to Shem it happened in a few times there was something deep but it wasn't ready wasn't ready for a marriage you first have to do a lot of work zimbrian Cosby was the next stage but it wasn't ready yet and there would be a Kiva and his wife was they they were ready for it and the 24 000 students what was their challenge loina covered zabazar they were great Scholars but there was a sense of arrogance there was a sense of vanity you couldn't respect other people the terror becomes a tool for arrogance what's the difference between the ox and the Donkey the ox is he knows his master the donkey is just looking for the trough yes hamar you're a leader you're powerful but there's vanity in your power power corrupts there's no humility in your power so the 24 000 people of Shem ultimately are sublimated in the 24 000 students of Rabbi Akiva Rabbi Akiva himself though we see what makes him upset about why does he want to bite them like a donkey because he feels arrogance his wife Rocco then what did she see in rabi Akiva she saw on him the future of Torah because he was modest he was kind but he didn't know how to learn if he would now go to learn so here you would have the ultimate teacher of Torah with tremendous humility and that's indeed what happens becomes the Paradigm of humility he's also the greatest leader of his day he's not looking for the trough he's looking for the master his whole life he tells a student I just wanted to say and fulfill it and on his death by his death he said now I do I'm doing it do you want me not to do it his whole life was kabbalah's oil that's the sense of the Show versus the hammer so his wife says you're the one who has to go learn you're the tanua you're the modest one you're the kind one you're going to be able to create this Paradigm of Terror leadership that is filled with love and filled with sensitivity and filled with humility understanding that power is a privilege it's not mine everyone is one with infinity I'm an ambassador your power the more powerful you are the better it is because it's hashem's power the more glorified you are great it's God's glory the more talented you are great if there's a dissonance now the question is who Am I who am I not should I be embarrassed and not be embarrassed but when the person realizes that I'm a conduit so then is the deepest form of human expression the deepest love the deepest connectivity the deepest attachment that's exactly what will be Akiva wants to manifest and express that type of leadership that hamari and Shem desperately need and will be Akiva inside of them will ultimately one day bring it out you'll see in the second to the last Source there's a medrish there'll be Akiva quotes apostle if you become this what is what allowed you to become a maneuver you became arrogant through it when a person uses Torah or religion as a tool of of of Oppression of haughtiness of holier than thou of I'm the only one who knows everyone else is inferior he says I become degenerate from it I become navalta I become spiritually grotesque you're using you're using diamonds you're using you divine energy as a source of of of manipulation of exploitation says in kindness in the last source that rebeliezer went to Daven there was no rain and he said the 24 blessings there was no rain maybe Akiva stood up and be Akiva said that one famous line that he composed and we say it till today a vino malkano and a so the gamara says the rabbi started to say what's with Rabbi Elias it was the rebel of Rabbi Akiva and he said all these 24 blessings and nothing happened and then even gets up boom it's raining so the Gamora says yatsu sabaska labaskal came out and said it doesn't mean that be Akiva is greater than was a person where there was no ego there was no vanity there were no grudges there was no negativity it was a person who was filled with love with with generosity with kindness so therefore maybe Akiva got up and said it had a completely completely completely completely different impact so therefore so now at last the the the story comes together excuse me the story comes together in fact we see the Gamora says wanted to learn he went to a malama tinakis he was 40 years old imagine a four year imagine you have a 40 year old husband who's a brilliant brilliant person but simply never so he goes in he doesn't hire a tutor yeah it doesn't hire a tutor or sit with earphones on the internet he basically goes into a Haider and sits down the Metro says he sits down in Bays pre 1A with his child yeah a two-year a five-year-old boy he sat down and then he skipped classes because he was doing well but it shows you it shows you the character of rabi Akiva just like avramovino runs to the ax with that innocence with that passion without the without the without any ears about him Akiva possesses the same exact quality because [Music] because again his tremendous Charisma and strength he really understood it was a manifestation of hashem's light through him and therefore it becomes it becomes a privilege it becomes an opportunity to be able to help to be able to to illuminate to be able to to uplift people and that's why avinu malkano are the words of Rabbi Akiva that's yada kaneo I know my master of Vino volcano in fact which we say in the beginning of the volcano is the gematry of Rabbi Akiva because it's the numerical value because he's the one who composed that prayer when he said of Vino volcano that's what's brought in the name so the Akiva becomes that has to be liberated at that moment and Hashem says he is the one who fixes all the s's what does the word s mean the word s we don't have in English in the beginning God created heaven and earth respect your father and your mother how do you say we don't have it in English because it doesn't make sense in English respect the your father respect the your mother is everything that came with Earth it says when a person goes to a mix with I should bathe my whole flesh s what's s so it says even the here because the here is not part of My Flesh essentially I could cut it off but even the hair has to be in the Mikvah because there's s so s always represents in Hebrew something that's not part of the thing itself it's like subservient it's secondary like here to the body like my brother my sister it's not my father and mother it's called tuffel foreign [Music] so when I have power when I have Charisma when I have talent when I have skill I have personality every person in their own way essentially its greatest power is when it becomes an S when it becomes a conduit when it becomes a conduit to express Infinity that's where it reaches its ultimate power its ultimate strength on the contrary when you detach it you weaken it because then it becomes its own selfish arrogant thing and it always needs to be fed more and more and more and more because it's like a bottomless pit of vanity rather when it's aligned with its source darshaned every s and he showed that a real means someone who has no ego if somebody has no ego then you can have year like you have here is Hashem Simon I'm saying he didn't want to say that you have to face it's too dangerous it's not good to say to fear people fear Hashem Ruby Akiva said somebody who doesn't have an ego if you don't have an ego so then who is a real Tamil somebody who's a complete servant of Hashem so I'm not fearing the person I'm fearing Hashem because if a person sees themselves truly as just a conduit for Hashem so then my fear my awe of this person is not deification of arrogance where suddenly a person becomes a deity that's very very dangerous in Judaism brother the person is called the talmouth means I'm a student of wisdom always a student a student means that I see myself simply as a humble servant says you're a big powerful guy but we're not ready yet you have an ax and we have her a donkey and the ox knows the master the donkey knows the trough one day Rabbi Akiva will come out of this and Dina will go through her Journeys and then ultimately you'll be able to have the tick on the synthesis of the two and that's why the beginning of the Parsha when yaakov sends a message to asaph his words are and he tells Ace of a message and he says something strange right in the beginning of ayushlach his words to a Savar his message to Ace of is I lived by Love on vahili that's how it starts I had an ax and a donkey and now she says really for 20 years you just got one ox and one donkey right she says it doesn't mean the singular it's a it means many it's just said it's an expression so you look in the Madras he says now has to know how much is going to come on a donkey but this is really it's going to come out later in the parisha [Music] ultimately the healing is the synthesis just like rabi Akiva was hidden in Hammer because really there's no separation means material says the physical on its own doesn't recognize the Oneness of the world doesn't recognize why is Michelle going to come on a donkey what's wrong with a BMW no big Rabbi I know today is going to go on a donkey it's a passionate at least a comfortable car of possible leather seats nobody can afford anything from a Shia you want to come on an animal fine come on a horse you know come on a horse come on a camel a hamar is the better ones go on camera go to the Middle East you'll see but that's really first of all there's an element of humility and come out on another level but the truth is the material is going to bespeak the truth of Hashem so once the hammer becomes elevated now you have the synthesis of who married Dina's daughter is going to come on so you have the synthesis of the two that Jacob was telling Aesop after all these years we're ready for the sublimation and the synthesis between the two that every aspect of existence both the ox and the donkey should ultimately be able to be United in the recognition of Oneness and as it plays itself out though in history ultimately rabi Akiva embedded in the heart and the soul of Shem the son of hamar would bring out to reveal the ultimate Oneness in the world everybody have a wonderful week just an important announcement and important enough just two things first of all for the next few weeks I'm Mary I'm going to church is strong so for three weeks ah yes in Hindi we have a rain check for four weeks okay you have a break for me for three weeks next week take the fan club to uh I don't want to say a better place but another place is good I'm speaking here I'm going Sunday night so for so please just tell your friends or relatives who come for the next three Tuesdays we want to have a class that includes Hanukkah and then next week There's No and the week after is Hanukkah and there's no class that week and the week after is the day after Hanukkah there's no class I'm actually coming back that day I don't think I'll make it back from the airport the second thing I wanted to say is a distance in honor of yatkes live which is the 250th yard set of the magnet of Ms rich and the khaga goal of the balatonya there'll be a big here for men and women with everybody is invited or you can watch the live stream if you wish on the yeshiva.net that did some Shabba 7 30 please tell 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