Israel lives Forever and Never Dies with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome home to toro welcome to the event of eight midrash we are in parashat shmot we're beginning a whole new book and we're going to talk about something i think could be it could be controversial but i don't think so i hope not um i just want to make a plug because i know that a lot of things going on in the world and my advice is what's tonight's show is going to be about is having faith stop listening to all the those radio waves and tv waves and all the gossip that's going on there's only one truth and that's here in the torah in the big midrash and in this week's parsha that's the news the news is shmai israel there's only one god one not two not three okay so those who are of the other persuasions stay tuned and you'll hear what's written in the torah about one god so we are um going to be in shamos and we're starting with the very first word the first very first letter what is the first letter of parshat shmot it's above didn't your mother ever tell you didn't your teacher ever tell you never start a sentence with a love with with the word and it's very important right apparently it was important for them to teach it over to us and it's very odd to say the least that the whole book of schmos begins with the word and what does and usually imply in any given sentence that it's a continuation of a thought but that's not how you begin a sentence there's certain rules and one of the rules are never begin a sentence with above with the word and so that's one of the first things we're going to deal with as the clea car who we use as the outline for this class because he's an expert in hebrew and the messora the traditions the transmission that was given to us and he begins by saying hosts that's all he says as if it's a problem and he'll explain why it's there in the meantime then he goes on to say also now let's look at the whole verse to understand what he's trying to say and these are the names of the sons of israel the most israel fine is they plural present present tense hello we're talking about 210 years later they're coming no they came and the end of the verse who came to egypt that's the first part with yaakov each man and his household came they came okay again haboi mitsuraima they came coming sorry the first part is coming to egypt at yaakov we'll have to discuss what the word at is translatable can you translate it in this case he will translate it as with with yaakov each man with his household they came so another rule in grammar is you do not have within a sentence two different tenses you don't go from right present to future or present to past or past the future it doesn't go like that and yet this verse so far we mentioned three problems three issues we need to deal with besides the context of the verse itself look at rashi right away it's a very interesting rashi and these are the names of the sons of israel although god counted them in their lifetime meaning we were counted there were 12 there were 70 they were right he counted them again after the death again the 12 were counted after the death to know how precious to let us know how precious they are to him because they're likened to the stars which he takes out from beyond the horizon and brings them brings in by number and by name as it is said it's in isaiah chapter 40 verse 26 talking about who takes out their hosts by number that's what hashem does we're talking about the stars and all of them he calls by name something that is precious you write things that are precious to you you count over and over again we're not going to deal with this tonight we're going to deal with so far what we spoke about in the beginning and i mentioned here the radar who is the haradap it's a very famous rabbi here in baca i'm kidding he's not that famous but in this room he's famous right the haradap mentions it's my own note that the cleo car asks why were you why are we using or including this conjunctive conjunctive valve this connecting valve in the word andes the ela in the beginning of the very first sentence he also makes notice of the variant use of the word coming versus the word come present present tense verses past tense in the sentence the difference between the word and the word okay that's how we're going to begin and he already begins to answer on the third line luffy's name are lamala the whole answer is all tied up wrapped up in the previous verse the previous verse is the very last verse of last of the whole safer brace sheath of the whole book of brace sheep which was in parashat okay so partially he was the last parsha princess and joseph died at the age of 110 years it says they embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in egypt and they placed him in the aron in egypt now that's how we ended say for bray sheet joseph is what dead and he was placed into a um a coffin yosef lo haiyu paneham it's reem now this is the great thing we're going to not deal with tonight is right a new king a rose we're not going to deal with this we talked about this during the week people can look at the other videos people can study it on their own whether or not it was actually a new king who didn't know joseph or if it was the same old king that had a different attitude because that's how you would explain these words that lo you pineapple they didn't have the same countenance towards them they didn't have the same attitude towards them they didn't recognize them the same way they had 210 years previously something changed well when actually we're not even talking about 2010 after the jewish people came in uh to egypt because that's how old joseph well i mean joseph was 110 but that's how old that's how long they had been there about 80 years by the time this came about meaning oz habili remember we discussed the word is coming in present tense and past tense so the the verse is telling me that what that they felt then which then today 80 years later after right joseph had already died 80 years after the jews were already there as if the jews israel had only arrived that very day and how do you treat people who derive that very day right we know you have to treat strangers nicely well they looked at them as a threat they forgot right that's what it means when the melhados there was a new king in egypt he forgot he didn't have a car as a tove he had no and not just him the midstream right well we'll talk about the difference between between pharaoh and the people i mean he was truly evil this guy pharaoh right the people maybe maybe maybe not so evil as he was they were still um idol worshippers and perverse in their sexual behaviors nevertheless they didn't have he didn't realize or but he didn't want to recognize sorry he didn't want to recognize that joseph saved their life right after there was a right there was the dreams and the prediction and that he had this great advice to save up during the seven years of plenty and that would help them during and so joseph he owed yosef a lot and he gave joseph a lot he appointed him as number two nevertheless it was if he didn't know him right as if he didn't know him and that's why it says the illah and these because it's a conjunctive verb it's a connecting to the last verse the yosef had died merciful indian rishon it's adding to what was just said shimizad yosef from the aspect that joseph died dome of hema when it was as if they had just come now and there was no reason to show all this immense gratitude and recognition for saving egypt nikola mccomb nevertheless alpha peace joseph mace even though this is what this is going to be the main topic for eve this evening for this class but i want you to know i want to continue on with the clear car and then go back into the meat and potatoes of what we're about to say you have to put on your seat belts because if you don't have your seat belts they're going to fall off your chair okay it says hinayakov low mace even though joseph died yaakov never died what does that mean first of all we have a few problems and we're going to point them all out but one of them is it's really hard to believe okay there may be some characters in the torah in the bible that we see like eliyahu and navi right somehow went up without really dying but come on the real problem is that the torah over and over and over again seems to imply that he did die so if there's implications that he did die then how is it possible to make such a a far-reaching statement and what does it mean so that's what we're going to investigate tonight but i want to go on because that's going to be the meat and potatoes but i want to get through some of this we're not going to go through a lot we're just going to go on this first page another two paragraphs besides this one one more lechac number that's why it says what is at many times it's explained in with so you not that they came down with yaakov but they were still with yaakov remember present tense they're still with yaakov and yaakov died way before yosef and what was what how did they know joseph was still alive how did they know that joseph the pasek says they were with they were with yaakov what were they with shayacov that the merit whatever merit will describe what it is whatever merit yaakov had was still with them he must have done something in his life that was keeping them going and that's what i mentioned the very beginning of this class it's going to be about faith and about loyalty but in the meantime it mentions that in the merit that yaakov what does it mean still with them the merit of yaakov was still with them and what merit was that from the very fact that they did not involve themselves in illicit relations mainly with the gentiles who at that point in time were the egyptians now does it mean they didn't want to we heard rabbi bridals explain they seem to want to assimilate a majority of them a lot of them but you know what hashem does you know i thought about this there were nuremberg rules right the ninth i don't know the year uh let's say sometime in the 30s could be in the late 30s i'm not sure exactly when even though that in europe germany was the highest level of intermarriage amongst jews the were fed up and they said no more no way no how we don't want to marry you jews it's illegal i don't know what the penalty was but it became illegal they were losing their people to intermarriage they were losing their people we were assimilating and and they made it illegal okay the egyptians also listen to the next line though because they were so perverse marriage was not interesting to them so of course they didn't marry us but they made they they themselves did not want to marry the jews and that's how i'm reading that so the nasunoshima coulomb code embolium limits ryan the truth is yaakov somehow enforced before they even went down to egypt that every single one of the couples right the other people who were imaginable age were all married when they went down to egypt everybody was already married and that was a great way to prevent intermarriage right and i'm all for that i'm all for getting married at an early age a very early age like the gemara says it says 18 but it actually says even something more profound it says that if you really want to shoot the satan in the eye she get married already by 14 which means right after bar mitzvah because it means your 14th year anyway let's not get too far ahead of ourselves i'm not so sure that people are mature enough to handle such a thing but just imagine if we could mature our children to be i'm sorry one second i'll get back to that the nasheem that each man and his household what's the word household mean your wife your wife is your house right that's your home okay so each man with his house they came already past tense when they first came to egypt and you know what the more forshim explained this is going to also be i'm not gonna say it's controversial but it was eye opening for many of my students who were leaving christianity and that is this verse that we're about to see this explanation what does it mean ish base ubato bo that each man and his household came don't read it remember forget the english learn hebrew ish means amen ubaito and his household again it means his house they explained karis baruch the word man is talking about hashem because man is really master right just like the word mister right there's a husband he's the bow bow means the word master means hashem and it's referring to hashem and who's baso who's god's household debate then his court his entourage in his court why look in verse in exodus chapter 15 verse 3. it says over there if i can find it i don't know if i put it down here okay here it is number 14. the lord is a master of war the lord is his name when was this taking place this was at the at the after we crossed through the sea of reeds right the the sea split rust and there was a great song that was said who else are we talking about what each are we talking about it's hashem he's the master of war look at rashi literally a man of war which usually would be inappropriate in reference to a deity therefore of course rashi explains the word as master of war and there's other examples where the word ish is referring to master or hashem self as we said it says the lord is his name right the whole verse the lord hashem is the name that signifies mercy are you telling me that god of war is a god of mercy yes it says the lord is his name his wars are not waged with weapons but his wages but he wages battle with his name just like king david before he was king he said to goliath before fighting with him he says you come to me with spear and javelin and i come to you with the name of the lord of hosts another idea that the uk lovecake denotes a stan a divine standard of clemency means forgiveness that is his name even when he wages war and takes vengeance upon his enemies he sticks to his behavior of having mercy on his creatures and nourishing all those who enter the world unlike the behavior of earthly kings when and when he an earthly king is engaged in war that's all he can think about that's all he's involved with he turns away from all of their affairs and does not have the ability to do both that's the amazing thing about hashem hashem is almighty right he's the master of the universe there's nothing that he cannot do and since he has many attributes khashogg that god is more than one we only have one god as we're going to talk about tonight but he has different attributes and the amazing thing is he can what's that multi-function is that the word multitask thank you you can multitask okay unlike many of us is okay so that's what the clear car says he brings down uh so the word ish means in hashem household he came he came with his court his his right his place for judgment how do we know actually says um in chapter 13 verse 21 just as an example that you can have the word hashem and then you have the word hashem whenever it says hashem itself it means hashem alone whenever it says hashem with the love and god it means god is surrounded by his based in look at exodus 13 21 and the lord went down before them by pillar by in dave by day in a pillar of cloud to cause it to lead them what caused it to lead them what caused this this was the pillar of cloud that and the the pillar of fire that was like an angel look at the rashi at the bottom now who was that messenger because it's talking about the idea that the word lancotam to lead them is talking about a messenger and it was the pillar of cloud and the holy one blessed be he in his glory let it be for them in any case it was the pillar of cloud that he prepared so they could be led by it for they would travel by the pillar of cloud and the pillar of cloud was not meant to provide light but to direct them on the way um there's a gemara here i think i have to bring it down i'm not sure where it is okay if i don't have it here maybe we'll get back to it okay it's um the who beso no i'm sorry the who do you know meaning hashem and his court ma dino lacan what in the world do you need his based in doing here he we went down to egypt god said i'm going to go with you but not only did he say i'm going to go with you he says i'm going to judge them that afflict you look now i'm sorry let's just continue in the clear car first the nearest shabbos is it seems he he wanted them to know that he was going to fulfill the promise what promised in genesis chapter 15 verse 14. and also the nation that they will serve i will i judge in hebrew at the game that nation who you will serve meaning they will enslave you i am going to judge them now the words the passage began with the gum and also this not only talking about egypt but every one of those nations that ever comes against the jewish people yeah hashem will judge them so i'm looking at you i don't know who you are whoever you are in that cyber world if you're part of that nation you can do chuva right but you have to recognize that what you do was wrong right so much anti-semitism so here this idea um that's what the gomorrah here is talking about it's i'm sorry it's in genesis rabbah genesis rabbi 4419 brings down this verse and also the nation that they will serve shall i judge and in the middle line uh where is it one second okay i'm not gonna i don't want to go through this but basically it's talking about the uh that the nations will be judged okay no imam so too came down god came down with us this is a very important thing when we're in exile god is in exile god is with us but he promised us that he will bring us out of the exile and he will judge those nations i want you to go to i think it was exodus 14 verse 25 yeah yes so this is actually after we crossed through the sea of reeds and we were singing the song and we were discussing uh no i'm sorry this is actually as we're passing through the sea of reads is way before the song the song is in chapter 15 where in 14 it's chapter 14 verse 25 and he removed the wheels of their chariots and he led them with heaviness and the egyptians said let me run away from the israelites this is what the egyptian would say because the lord is fighting for them against the egyptian they knew that hashem is the ishmael hama it's hashem who's leading the war and they were cognizant of that fact [Applause] okay now that's the clear card now what i want to do is go into the gamora and tinus 5 b and the reason we're doing this is because this gemara discusses the idea that yaakov did not die how's that possible let's look at the gemara first so besides it's actually at the end of a discussion so we're just going to plug in as if we're coming in in the middle of the discussion the work continues to explain a story after these rabbis had finished their meal battard after they finished their meal so [Music] and we have a discussion between rebbe yitzchak and ruby nachman well first of all just give you an idea that you're not supposed to talk while you eat because if you talk while you eat god forbid you could choke okay but we all talk torah at the table so that's like in between uh courses right that's the time to speak because it's uh if you're if you're eating and you're talking god forbid says sorry he said it what does it mean according to rashi we're going to see rashi says he never died he really physically never died how do we understand that we'll see he says doesn't it say in the torah one second i told you we're gonna have some issues here i want you to go to uh chapter in genesis 50 verse 2 and then verse 10 and then verse 13. so looking at all three verses he says chapter 50 verse 2 10 and then 13. so it says joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father do you embalm a lot a living human being first of all if you did you probably kill him correct the little that i know the little that i know i don't know much but it sounds like if he wasn't dead that would kill him and to division insufficients did they embalmed him they conducted a very great and impressive eulogy what does that mean why do you eulogize a live person no i don't think so and they buried him they buried him in the field in the cave of the field of machpelah so i'll just tell you the hebrew that was the eulogy the yikra vu all these words appear in reference to yaakov so what's going on here i'll give you a few other examples in chapter 50 verse 15 now joseph's brothers saw their father had died hello they saw he died at least they perceived that he died look at rashi now yoshi's brothers saw their father and died what does it mean that they saw they recognized that yaakov's death was somehow on joseph's face because yosef had been so kind to them and then now that they're burying him he's changed and they're worried oh no and now he's going to take his vengeance on when the father was still alive he was on his best behavior towards us but now the yaakov's death they recognize that the yaakov was dead on joseph's face by the way he was treating them or the way they perceived they were going to be treated that's when they came and lied and said you know before father died he told you he told us to tell you that you should forgive us you know i'll just read that i'll read that rashi again that part i didn't finish for they were accustomed to dying at jose's table and he was friendly toward them out of respect for his father but as soon as yaakov died he was no longer friendly towards them okay i want to save the rest of these verses for the discussion but that's the that's the paragraph we just read in the in the gemara and then there's a latter part where the yitzhak said to rabbi nachman that how can it be that yaakov died doesn't make any sense right but must be that they thought he was dead they just thought he was dead and that's why they went ahead and they embalmed him and they eulogized for him and they buried him well mikraani daresh but then murtamba rabbi yitzhak is saying i darshan the verse there's a verse in jeremiah chapter 30. now we have to find it jeremiah 30. so that last paragraph starts like this that i rabiotsak wrote said back to rabbi nachman i'm interpreting the verse as follows and now this is the verse from jeremiah chapter 30 verse 10. it goes like this and you fear not my servant yaakov the attah al-tira of adiakov says [Music] because i will save you from afar that zarekh shivyam not just you from afar but also your seed which is in captivity okay and your seed from the land of their captivity the shove yaakov and yaakov what the shakat um english and shell again yaakov shall again be silent right the shove yaakov the sha'anan the ain't which means no one will frighten them now in this verse you have the word yaakov twice yaakov is in the beginning my servant jacob says so god's it's like god is speaking to yahushua but later on he said i'm going to save you from afar your seed from the land of their captivity and yaakov shall again now the idea is like this are there such things and there are as captives who are dead usually captives are alive unfortunately we do know that in israel modern-day israel that the our enemy actually holds hostage our dead bodies usually that's unheard of so let's go with the general rule the general rule here is that if you're a captive you're alive and just like the children of yaakov are held captive by our enemy soaked and they're alive so too the second time yaakov is used in this verse is to so too yaakov shall again be silent at ease and no one will frighten them yaakov is alive and that's exactly what is mentioned here that the verse juxtaposes yaakov to his seed just as his seed is alive when redeemed so too yaakov himself is alive now let's just look at rashi and then toss and then we're going to go into a few interesting commentators especially the ben yahooda which is always my favorite and you guys know that already and we're going to go into some really interesting concepts so yaakov says lo mace ella you know what he's actually alive forever that's what that's what rashi says how we're going to understand what rashi's talking about let's just continue and we explain the other two and [Music] okay let's go to toast those okay let's go to tosus the yaakov dino low me so the gomura had said that yaakov avinu did not die and it's understood from the the language of the verse there's a verse in 49 33 and this is something that yochanan mentioned before we started 49 33 says that yaakov concluded commanding his sons and he drew his legs up into the bed and expired and was brought into his people from the very fact the torah does not tell us that he died it never said that yaakov died anywhere any of the verses we read didn't imply that yaakov actually did die it's they perceived that he that he it could be that they only perceived that he died but listen to the hebrew the achaea that savot right yaakov finished his command to his banav the asov raglav he gathered up his feet el hamita towards the bed the yigva and he expired rashi says right there but no mention is made of death in this regard as our rabbis the blessed memories said our father yaakov did not die from our gomorrah he didn't die okay i mean what are we going to do with the other verses when the time drew near for israel to die behold i'm going to die behold i'm going to die in my grave i'll just tell you the verses it's genesis 47 verse 29 it says when the time drew near for israel to die uh verse chapter 48 21 yakov actually said to joseph behold i'm going to die in chapter 50 verse 5 my father endured me saying behold i'm going to die in my grave okay so we have some issues we still have to deal with going back into the torsos the location of the yamato it doesn't say that he died now in the majority in sota we could do sorry as explained in more so than you'd give muhammad regarding the mice of cushim everyone knows the story of kushim he's the son of dan and he was deaf like the word who she means okay let's read it when the twelve sons arrived at the cave of the patriarchs ligbourba in order to bury et arunosho yaakovina they they came to bury their forth their father in in the cave of the patriarchs who came asap [Music] he prevented them from burying him why why would asaf come to prevent yaakov from being buried because he claimed that there was only left over in the cave of the patriarchs room for just one more place for burial you know who's buried there adam and eve adam and eve the avraham and sarah right abraham and sarah the yitzchak rifka shikhavar nikbaru all of those six people those three couples were already buried the yaakov and yaakov already used one of them by who by leia the hare khabar shammit leia okay in kane this is what asa felt that must be mine that place is for me yaakov thought it was for him for himself the anushvatim connector well jacob was not around to make a claim but the children were and they claimed on behalf of yaakov of that their claim to asav was that you sold your birthright you sold your your um your rights to be buried there and okay toyaco our father so what did asaf say to them hiroli you know what i want to see this this document i want to see the bill of sale or whatever you call it the document of a gift the naftali shrine of you they sent naftali naftali is the deer right naftali is quick on his feet zip zip zit and they sent him and figured you know let's not hold anything up we'll send the fastest one of us and they sent enough tally back to egypt to bring back the document they didn't know it's like going to the misrata panim here in israel and they tell you bring this document bring that document and by the time you come back they say oh where's the documents we told you i wrote it all down this is what you told me no no no no no it's impossible you have to also bring this document right so when you go to the misrata panini make sure to bring your suitcase that you came with on aliyah if you ever need a document you'll always have it with you all right be prepared well they weren't so prepared in the meantime who was deaf was there with them although shema saddened he didn't hear the whole conversation he didn't hear the conversation so he said to the brothers to his uncles my high what's my high mean what's up what's happening what's the holdup can't we get a move on my high lama energy why are you not burying our my grandfather yaakov i'm rulo they responded back your uncle or granddaughter whatever you would call them asap is holding us back so he would show them the document that is no longer belongs they saw but now belongs to rightfully to yaakov amar lehm you know don was a little impatient he said you know by the time naftali gets back it's going to our father is sitting there in in this shameful state oh i'm going to tell you something i always thought that he took a sword and cut off his head and the head rolled in well here's the medrush in toslos he says no that's not what happened he took a stick and banged his head so hard that his eyes flew out of his head out of his skull that's a little different enough the eyes fell out from the power from the force of the hit the naflu ah ragla of shayakov and they fell on the legs of yaakov or by the feet of yaakov and what do you think yaakov did was he dead he see a lot of nods well this is what this is what toso says that he opened his eyes and smiled let me ask you something do dead people open their eyes and smile no hainu dixie there's a verse in psalms if i'm not mistaken it's 58 verse 11 now we have to find it we're always looking for verses here it is the righteous man will rejoice because he saw revenge he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked yes okay so what do we see from this from the very fact that we just read that yakov opened his eyes and smiled must be that he was alive and he never died okay i have so much here i'm not sure i'm going to get to everything and on this page where it says notes for the talmud i just want to go through the first two the truth is there's so much more to do but i want to go to some other stuff uh he just mentions from the verse that we just spoke about in genesis 49 33 that the yaakov expired and he gathered he was gathered to his uh people velo katupo it doesn't say that he died just like it does mention that that were avraham and yitzhak did die but it doesn't mention it here and that's current rashi rashi says that he didn't die at all now yaakov himself mentioned right we saw that verse where he says i'm about to die i'm about it's very possible that he did not know that he was going to expire die like other people right he didn't know that's why he says i'm going to die like everyone else but he didn't die like everyone else oh that's possible oh shabba met yo dominic or maybe he did know ella shalom russell to take cabo de shmoe maybe he didn't want to um how do i explain this and he didn't want to give too much credit to himself in front of his children by saying that he's not like anybody else no it's a a little bit humbling i'm just like everyone else is about to die but perhaps he knew that he wasn't uh the euro achios unto him but we did see it actually says after he was buried that the children saw that he had died in chicago the intent when they said that they saw he was dead that he really was dead oh my god or perhaps they had no idea not they just didn't even know what's going on now let's go to the page that looks like this okay this is an interesting idea and i'll bring down a few ideas but bear with me because we're going to get to the ben yoda and that is like unbelievable if you waited this long to hear it you can wait just a few more minutes right listen to this i'm talking about the net the last thing i'm going to talk about right now we're in the process of getting there and mentions in our gemara that yaakov avinu yaakov our father did not die yaakov dino lomate by the way this is from the matifta gemara that's where this is from the ben yoda we'll get to shore babymerzet in order to explain this statement we're going to see several of the commentators one rashi matharish which is clear and explains he appeared to them as if he was dead again that's difficult for us to fathom but the marsha explains that rashi hamar shokatov shapiro rashid he says it's a real stretch it's a real stretch for rashi we don't really get it why keep the pirusho ikar because he always brings down what is called shot if it was you know something far out great but rashi himself says he never die how can that be it's question is safer see so he says the answer is just not written that we're already touching it up we're already understanding yes it's true yaakov died but he didn't die the way his soul didn't die like the way other tsunde can die sadiq him die but yaakov did not die the same way of the goof it was only his body that died which is already getting into where we're going with this the top shannon of yotem well why was it so difficult because the truth is the reason it mentions yaakov why should it mention yaakov more than anybody else also abraham's soul didn't die and also yitzhak soul didn't die so what is so different about yaakov's soul than a ramen yitzhak and the answer is because yaakov is because avraham gave birth to yishmael and yitzhak gave birth to asav in other words their their seed was not completely righteous each one of them had incomplete seed okay clear as mud right avraham gave birth yes it's true to yitzhak but also to ishmael and yitzhak gave birth to both asov and yaakov so they were they did not have complete um a bed so to speak let's continue um because remember that pasek in jeremiah chapter 30 verse 10 where we explain there's a connection between the seed and life so just like over there is a connection between seed and life so too he yaakov is alive lo shaikh nahaki zara ella at yaakov avinu so you can't really make a connection to to avraham and only to to yaakov shakul zoro heights deacon because every one of his 12 sons were righteous ma came avram which is not the case by avraham fine okay and they said the the next is the safer called merome he writes the yaakov venue perceived he felt that after his death kolakavod that they were going to go such great lengths to to bury him and because they gave such a great honor he knew they were going to such great honor it's as if he's still alive and that the fourth answer on this page is in the name of manohar explains the yaakov did not die well this is like really interesting he didn't actually die the whole time he was in egypt remember that one verse where it says that the children perceived that he had died when that was after he was buried in israel that's when he died let's read the words yaakov vino lomes hainu and that would go well with the verse that we read okay now this is drum roll please this is the most fascinating ideas do you see it it's been you that's on the very back page of the pamphlet there you go okay tom the christmas richonne uh rishonna shane brockhouse okay this is on the first page of ben yoda in massachusetts he asked many times you'll find why is the gemara called what it's called why does it come after a previous massacre well this happens to be the first of the entire shots you look behind me this is the oral turrets the transmission and the very first mishna what's the first mishna it's dealing with krishna in the evening and it's sai right that's how it starts when do we read krishna in the evening and by the way the answer is when the konim go in to eat their truma which is interesting on its own right now vernier leaves my the way that the ben yehuda answers always with the help of god i will i will explain tom bizet the reason for this because the the broncos the word brachot is the same letters as beau ketter ketter means the crown the very first gemara is going to be bronchos because the word cat hair not just ketter boqueter what's bo cat there just think about a second bet va ketter so ketter is 620 and bo is another eight six hundred and twenty eight so le removes meaning the entire uh library let's say the oral torah is built called tarjak mitsus derisa it comes to teach us all about what the 613 commandments and seven misses the abundance meaning there's seven major uh rabbinical commandments now some have the the text the seven noah high laws either way when you add up 613 and another seven you get 620 that's the word ketter that's the word crown so bo means in it inside bronchos meaning inside shots this is the shar this is the beginning this is the great opening the great um gate to all this superb information in shas you're going bokeh there into the crown and that's the word brachos itself is the same gematria also bronchos which is 628 is the same gamache and believe me i checked all this out i spent a lot of times with the time with the calculator today those famous expressions you can talk about if you want but with khachma with bina and with that with understanding with wisdom understanding and knowledge that those three words with the uh the bet the love and the love everything all together adds up to the same gemachos brachas and sarik la torres shabbat shaft in order to understand the actual scripture in order to understand the torah itself you need shas you're right you need the shots but you need the the the bean and das as well right in order to understand that the shots you need the wisdom the understanding and the knowledge gone broke loves misbar shame hazikaron the name of remembrance that the actual word the name of remembrance is the same gematria i have here as 628 in order to have hashba'ah in order to what's the point of keep learning every single day you learn and it's like new like you never remembered anything that wouldn't be good the whole idea is to apply it to bring it into your life to have a life full of torah so you have to have some semblance of memory so the the idea of shame and zikran so you don't forget from learning it okay now i want to go to the next paragraph it says the rabino kodesh who is roberto kodesh we're going to talk about that surely but in the meantime he begins with the words i means from when he could have according to menya just said when but why add the extra mem why is there from when so just add that to the equation you could have just said when not from when via marta kiram because take those letters and they're not necessarily in that order because we have the second member in the beginning but he says exactly what the rejection stand for ani yehuda hashem so that is me yehudah yehuda nasi i am the author the the the collector the compositor of what we call mishnah torah which is the collection of all the lessons of the torah of hashem also the first mishnah we said opens with the mem by the way because may mustn't have to it could have said a messiah but he added a mem guess what the very first letter of the entire shot is a mem and the very last letter of the entire shot in uxim shalom is a mem so you have these two mems now a final mem has a different kamachi so mem in the beginning is 40 meaning uh the let the letter mem is 40. but if you have a final mem it has a gamachi of 600. so you have a gamacho 640 which is the same as tamar tamar is a palm tree and what is the palm tree likened to look in psalms 6 92 verse 13. the righteous one flourishes like a palm as a cedar in lebanon he grows um okay i think that explains this is compared to a tamar and a tamar is the same value as the first mem and the last mem of the entire shas and because they'll tell us [Music] anybody that forces themselves into the shiva anybody that really wants to learn and comes to the bait midrash kade torah i'm sorry they skipped something uh xiaomi i did tamar basically don't get the name of palm tree the sodambiano and its deepest explanation we talk about somewhere else in terms of mother ki torah shabbat nikra's aim because the torus shall be the oral torah is called the mother whereas torsion is called the father right okay let's go on i'm going to skip down to the next the divine the the column over here look all the way over here the column on the left second paragraph down well the feep shot hamish nearly according to the simple explanation the mission seems to me why is all of shas why does it start with shema i hope you get the idea we're trying to relate this to yaakov avinu right that actually yehuda hanasi is a transmigrated soul of yaakov avinu i'm not saying it well i am by repeating what he says listen to what he says the reason why the very first mitzvah of the entire shots begins with shema midrash parties [Applause] [Music] that you know that the jewish people where did we get the merit of saying from think back moses said it but who said it before moses come on guys didn't weren't they all at his bedside at yaakov's bedside and he was about to reveal the end days and all of a sudden he like had a blank right it was taken away from him and he was worried that maybe they weren't and they proceeded yeah maybe one of us would go after derek and they all got together and said listen dad shmai israel listen israel that we believe in the one true god of israel we have our faith we're not going to leave it that it was zakir israel from here we know that that's how we got krishna the very moment that he was about to leave the world carlos right when he was about to leave the world he called his 12 sons listen to your father don't forget about god in heaven perhaps one of you in the future i don't know will have a problem with hashem i'm rulo so they responded no shema israel listen to is listen o israel our father this is what they were saying they were saying listen israel our father just like you yaakov have no problem you're a believer a true believer in a karishbaru there's no mock locus there there's no problem in our hearts either right god is our god god is one of pirus even came out of his own lips and he said baruch shame that was his response right blessed is the name of hashem the glorious name of isaiah and his kingdom shall be forever now rebbe barachya and rabbi khabo in the name of rav umar reading the ko yo the omrim we all know this the jewish people every single morning and every single evening we say we're asking we're talking to yaakov when we say israel we today no matter where we are in the world we're saying listen no father you who's alive in that cave listen to us we're still like your children who are faithful right we don't get caught up in the news shema israel you're in the you're buried in the cave of the patriarchs that same thing that you commanded us a dying who know we the jewish people are still accustomed twice a day hashem that is the language of the metro shop until there nimsa krishma zahinuba mikak yaakov the whole idea of saying krishna comes from the power of yaakov allah shalom peace be upon him and regarding him we are saying shema israel avinu listen israel our father ki hashem eloquenu god is our god who has one god the adora ki roberto kodesh nitzus you hear it that he is the sparks he is the continuation of the soul so to speak of jacob we're talking about rubino coders the one who were behind me compiled the entire mishnah yehuda hanasi that's why he's called ha nasi what does hannah see it's the same reishitables as nietzsche gamora broncos the entire shas the entire volumes right of oral torah all begins with shema and which ma in the evening and even the gomorrah s why don't we start with the the shema the morning doesn't the day begin in the morning okay the gamora answers that of course not but it's the evening shema and who do we know is responsible for mari's yakova here we go and let's just read the last line [Music] because he was the reincarnation the spark of the same soul of yaakov the arvit that's why he begins the whole world torah in gomorrah brachos with the shema of the evening kiako vino that's as far as he brings down that it was yaakov as we know avraham invented discovered tuned in tapped in to the spiritual reality of chakras yitzhak tuned in discovered the powerful prayers in the afternoon called minha and it was yaakov avinu who tapped in and discovered the the the powerful um the spiritual powers of the evening prayer the diet ain't on zem but he's not so happy yet why because what's the question the question is why arvid means prayer arvid does not mean shema arvid means shmonesh ray so you're telling me this whole thing is based on ar mari which has to do with prayer and yaakov did prayer but what does it have to do with tefila i'm sorry what does that have to do with shmash that's this whole separate thing he's actually now going to sweeten the understanding make it even sweeter it's like putting divas putting honey on this beautiful answer that we already are totally satisfied with and unbelievable what does he say kibanet krishma yeah it is true that the nighttime shema or let's say the shema general is yaakov and knock it rebbe so we know that rebbe uranus he mentions krishna de arvis below basakris the right it's specifically the nighttime shema bishop the arvis alone really it was yaakov who who established the whole evening prayer hashtag and this is all praise the yakov it's all praise to yaakov which really is a praise to you nasi i mean this is all it's unbelievable anyway so what i hope that anybody takes away tonight besides the fact that the jewish people today right the ones that are getting up early in the morning right and saying the shema and are staying up late at night and saying the shema and not just saying it believing it and teaching their children the first words we teach our children right hopefully besides bamba right after bamba right and mommy and daddy i love you right we all want to hear that but you want to love hashem right and you'll be you're you're willing to die one of the ideas of shema there's many different kavanaugh but one of them is as i'm willing yes i'm willing to live it's very important to want to live for hashem but you have to know you're willing to die for it if you know you're willing to die for it then you're ready to live for hashem so one of the things we should imagine is like rebbe akiva died saying the shema right if god forbid that we were ever caught up with our enemies like this guy daniel dan pearl right who was killed he said i'm a jew i'm a ud right this is what we this is something unique and special about us and until this day barak hashem many of us are are willing to live right as a jew and live for the jewish people it's not enough i think this is what he's taught us it's not enough just to want to die for them right there's so many people that come to israel i want to fight in the army i want to be on the idf i want to you know help the jewish people hashem you have a heart but if you have such a heart that you're willing to give up whatever comforts you have in america and believe me they're not there anymore right if you're willing to come over here and defend the jewish people and live for the you should be willing to live for the jewish people live for i'm israel live your faith stop listening to so much news on the whatever on the phonograph whatever you're listening to right as uncle joe would say the phonograph but let's get with it and sink your teeth into the hebrew learn the torah because this is like the daily newspaper it's better you'll get your news right from here hashem creates the cure before he creates the illness yeah he's the one who created the illness and he created the cure before the cure is always there and the antidote is here and the antidote's right in front of you you just have to open your eyes and see it so with that i'll say shabbat shalom have a great life and we welcome you home to torah and please join us next week hashem call tooth [Music] i