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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
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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
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today's class is dedicated by dvora
zieger in honor of Amy Israel okay
that's a beautiful dedication
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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
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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
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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
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and Shem who abducted her should be
punished
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 your husbands or
boys and have a beautiful week and a
wonderful day and Afraid
and everything