Israel's Supremacy over the Nations and its Implications Home2Torah

[Music] I'll tell you what I want to do I want to start with the sheet three that means it's chapter 28 in Deuteronomy and then we'll go back to chapter 26 okay because this is a bit short it may be a lengthy discussion I don't know but the next one that's gonna be much longer I want to make sure to get to this oh it's on board very good and we're on chapter 28 so at your convenience brother okay look we're gonna now read about the blessings that you get for fulfilling the commandments so previously we heard about the curses okay accursed as accursed accursed some huh this is on the this is what's going to be said by mouth cuisine as we talked about before I'm Mount Ebal yeah but we do know that the blessings and curses are both said over there on the mountain but the text in the text only only refers to the curses that were said but in truth the blessings were also set there was one group six tribes on one side subscribes on the other mountain but each it says here in our text like if you go back to verse 15 through verse 26 in chapter 27 mm-hmm it says a curse it occurs to the cursing but if you look down at the comment on the bottom on page 4 not ID it says six tribes were to the stand on Mount greasy and six on mount a a bell with the karke the car named the elders of Levites of the valley beads were the Levites the old the elders returned to mount greasing would call out blessed is the man they would say I made then they would turn to the other mountain and say a curse is the man so each one of these but you just see as the curses is accompanied originally by a blessing mm-hmm it's just not at the text that's when we saw the Prophet Peter the prophets later on mentioned that both blessings and curses were mentioned so it's not a it's not a fabrication it's not one of those you know I don't know people say the rabbi's make things up this is nothing to even compare to this is exactly what happened it's brought down the prophets and we're gonna start with chapter 28 which is really interesting because we did discuss the ideal couldn't we do what's right so you God is consistent he's constantly giving you his energy deserving of the positive God forbid you get the negative we call that a cursed yeah not that the curse your blessing is coming from it's whatever you're receiving it's the receiver that determines what is received definitely discuss that idea mm-hmm so now we're talking like the blessings in general it says it shall be that if you are kin to the voice of Hashem your God to observe to perform all his commandments that I command you this day the Shem your God will what's the Shem your God what's he gonna do make ease gonna marry you supreme over all the nations of the earth all these blessings will come to you and overtake you if you hearken to the voice of Hashem your God so now we're going to talk about the Hebrew we're gonna really go into the Hebrew a little bit I'll read it at first and then I'll tell you which words we're going to focus on okay yeh um oh ah to swab the Kailash and Oh Peppa if you really truly listen to the voice of the Lord your God the shmore law saw to guard to do it called mitzvah thought all of his Commandments I share a no commit saga kayo which I command you this day this is going to be the next word you're going to really focus on it says when the Todd crush mr. le oh god it's God who's placing you supreme over all the nations of the world well it's not me saying it's the Flemish and it's the book it's God's Word if I said it you can string me up you can finish your fiber you could you know everything I mean come on it's not me saying it this is the book this is the Torah is the Word of God and what does it mean that God is going to do it God is going to place you here it says God will make you but the Hebrew puts in the time clock means he's going to make it happen to a place you as supreme but over all the nations that means over the 70 nations and then it says we've got Lou I'm looking now at verse 2 over Lowell a car called a brook wholesaler and we're gonna focus on the word overrule and we'll come all these blessings keep this rubber coalition mellow kappa because you listened to the voice of Hashem your God what do you think of this and this is like this is worthy of discussion now who's got rocky you know that same title that God is given a yawn El Elyon and he tells us but he's gonna make us Lu on that word supreme he's gonna elevate us up like Most High in the sight of all the nations it's so beautiful imagery and language and it's just a natural byproduct let me know harmony with the principles of Hashem of the universe of everything the fabric of space and time and who is God talking to me to Israel artless obviously compared to all the other nations if you listen you will be elevated you will be supreme mm-hmm to those there that down into those who would come off what does it mean that all the brokers are going to all the blessings are going to overtake you what does that mean hmm they're gonna naturally pursue you it's like a cause and effect they're gonna overtake you it's like you couldn't even run away from the blessings it's just such a natural part of the cause and effect oh if you try to run away it will catch up to you and overtake yes I love that he points out the word boo-boo so boho right would be they came Lulu will come okay they will come upon you all these blessings and overtake you even he wants us to know the peacock huh I'm just thinking of that context even if you don't see them immediately they will overtake you whether it's in this world or the world to come the blessings are there and you can't separate them from the observer of Torah the first thing he wants to point out is the idea going back to the last verse when we talk about two verses but in verse 2 it says and they will come the blessing can come and overtake you he wants us to refer back to and wants to refer her back to the first verse which says that what does it mean what is this idea that you will be come supreme over all the nations of the earth it's referring to something that God makes happen so this is all depending on God the idea becoming supreme that's a nothing the God it's a II call super knack sure Mantle's some lip companies happen whereas all of the other blessings it says the word wahoo and and they will come it's unreal and that the blessings are going to come on their own there's nothing you're doing and we were saying we start off by saying if you listen to a Shem and told me please listen to Shem but God is making you l yo making you mighty high but the blessings are a result of that God mean and as a result of you become dream that buses me chasing and they chase you all on their own now there's a nice an idea that it says and they will overtake you so someone who is chasing after some after them except me your your dope ha ha hey ham ksham are you see Guha took a rhetorical question if you're chasing after blessings are they gonna overtake you no they're chasing you it says Vicki see hook ha that's right they will chase you now the extra mint can is an idea it's a well-known concept perhaps you were your Ticknor when the authority runs away from him but when you run away from honor honor chases after you mm-hmm so god it's telling us he's gonna create this position for us where we are mighty and high and it's gonna chase us the blessings are gonna chase us so we're not looking for it it's not I mean we already know it's very dangerous to be mighty and high it's quite a responsibility and a lot of people are gonna hate us it's not something we're looking for but we're stuck we did a good way nice no but we're not chasing you're not supposed to change the Shem is giving it and granting it so there's idea that if one chases after authority that Authority runs away from him but if you run away from Authority the authority will chase after you yeah and what if he wants to tell us now is it's the authority itself which is the school earth of the blessings but you can now have that's the source of the blessing and now there's another concept it may not be politically correct but it works would say robot let's say you owned a rope but I was gonna use them word the the concept of a slave we don't encourage slavery but if one did have a slave and his slave was walking down the street your slave is your possession and he finds an envelope full of money or you found a gold watch of course you're obligated to return if you can find the owner but there's certain times where you can actually keep it we're not going to go into those details right now but there are times where things are honest and it's impossible to find their owners and you may have no obligation to try to find their owners and therefore you can keep it it's not called stealing otherwise it you find something you have an obligation to return it to its owners or try to find its owners about a case just theoretically where your robot or your slave found well guess what the owner of the slave the owner of the robot is the one who choirs the possession because your own possession came upon or quiet let's say you had a hot area a courtyard and money that I'll add if I don't know take that and then your yard your yard acquires the money you follow so we're trying to say that basically because of God's placing us in this position position of being a yom all the blessings of the world because we're now supreme over all the nations owe their wealth they really sounds crazy right mm-hmm oh they're well actually belongs to the Jews and I can understand these anti-semites they have some spiritual insight you know I don't want to go there but it's it's messed up I mean it's really messed up right where they say uh-oh the Jews they want us to be all circumcised because you know you have to circumcise you slow babes so they're getting ready I mean it's not our intent and that's we didn't it's not a we're so nice people got sir you know todrick circumcising so for whatever reasons maybe it's for health reasons maybe you know because they choose to but not because there's some kind of conspiracy you're any Jews are trying to take over oh this is something that God Himself said I mean you read it I didn't just make that up right we read it that's right if you listen shouldn't we listen isn't it a good thing to listen and as a result God is gonna make you supreme over all the nations of the earth I'm just kind of scared the huge responsibility okay well I was young my father taught me along with privileges you want privileges son comes responsibility you go hand in hand you cannot have privileges without responsibilities so the main point here is that we have responsibilities Hashem himself says hey the fair thing is to have privileges the privilege here I'm making it up there's all these blessings will come upon you to overtake you it just got done saying you'll be supreme over all the nations of the earth so this idea that an a master over a slave just conceptually speaking we're not saying the Jews are the masters over the nations and slaves at all that's left for the anti-semite imagination okay but somehow know that we're put in a position of a big master I don't mean the master race God no such thing is right race comes to Judaism it's like an instructor the instructor is over the student and Israel has been set up to instruct the nations in the ways of Hashem and so in that he's a master but not a past master right not a - mr. right so I just want to read his words to get an idea here that this authority that we have is not something that we sought or tried to chase after that's not what the Jews intent is that's what I said might have been mine but it's of course we want whatever Hashem hasn't but that's not our desire to be the Masters the club nevertheless God gives it to us anyway even though we're not looking for it we're not chasing the answer it's kind of scary mm-hmm but from that point onward that Authority will chase after us and will pursue us and it's only by the way of this Authority that we ourselves will come all these blessings the blessings will come all by themselves but there's a can of course Braxley because we're walking in the way even Israel it seems if they cease to listen to the voice of Hashem and walk in his ways so it's so important and all the blessings are going to chase after us without even thinking about looking backwards and I'll catch up to us by way of this Authority because what happens is like this he taken our yogurt Cola Bracco's Shopko chorus that the Jewish people that the intonation will acquire all the blessings of the nation's I mean look we have different verses there's another verse that says all those who bless you will be blessed if they're doing the right thing also they will bless us on the right with the verse is talking I mean I automatically I mean with with intent and effort but it's coming to us it's a very interesting statement Israel will quieter through in although through it through the sorority the authority all the blessings of the nations of the world because of this concept of whatever the slave or let's just say in theory or one that's really I mean I don't have thought we're gonna post this on youtube I guess we can people should really understand this is not our choice and we chose to be slaves of a shed would be fun to be a Venetian that's what the nation of Israel said not sevenish mom will follow we didn't do it for our we did do it for thority God place that authority this is black and white wasn't like you were chasing after it all God decide so if you don't like with the tortoises take it up with God to be a slave in the house of a righteous man was a great thing you were treated like family and your status was elevated and you were better off than being alone and how much more in the house of Hashem ah to be a servant in the house of Hashem what a blessing because your family oh yeah so I don't know if you want to discuss this any further any questions don't want to go to another piece you have a really nice piece on me like it you read it you don't really see what it really means you just see the words but this brings a whole I think it brings a little bit more depth right mm-hmm what we just discuss and then these blessings are reiterated from earlier and every blessing in the city and the countryside the fruit of your body the fruit of your land the fruit of your livestock the grain baskets and meeting bowls and when you go out and when you come in it's beautiful yeah it's it's basically covering every aspect of life so I don't want to go any further in chapter 28 we can save that for next year I want to go back to 26 okay it says it will o be remember our Hebrew vow hyah hyah means past tense the vault turns it to future tense right Oh hiya it will be when you come into the land right now we're spending our third last year in the desert this is the 39th year it will be when you enter the land of Israel your God gives you as an inheritance and you possess it and do well in it so we're gonna see the Hebrew but basically you were discussing the idea at this moment about the first fruits the bickering the special offering of the firstfruits now these first fruits are of the seven species of Eretz Israel okay even though it says yeah but that passage that the sages use you shall bring the first to the first in the place of the first are you familiar with that and it covered every address I work with okay because now the Levites have been in the place of all the firstborn bringing the firstfruits of the land to the first which are the priests are the people of Israel all yeah to the place that is first Jerusalem and to also one of these oh one of the first things we're going to discuss is the idea of these words as an inheritance and you possess it and dwelling those words the arista we shall Tabo are found only in one other place in newton ah in the hummus hmm so what do we know when there's some same words are found somewhere else mm-hmm there's a connection so where else in the hummus I think I made these seats up for you so if you go to source number one Deuteronomy 17 14 you see it it says when you come to the land of the Lord I'm sorry when you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and you possess it and live therein it's the same words in Hebrew the URI stop you shock the bone okay you see it so that okay look at Deuteronomy 17 14 is this on one of the sheets are just in the homage yeah it's a word well it's both I'm a copy it over into a sheet view I may even get a word the word document oh there it is I only adore four three okay thanks it's a sure sheet weird document term buddy you can look it up in Deuteronomy 1714 [Music] and this is dealing with the clean a metro when you come to the land that a Shem your God gives you and possess it and settle in it you're gonna say I will set a king over myself and all the nations that are around me so then it goes on to discuss the laws of the king and setting up a king we might as well read it you shall surely sit over yourself a king who mission your god shall choose from among your brethren yourself said a king over yourself you shall not place over yourself a foreign man who's not your brother only he shall not have too many horses for himself he wasn't singing it nothing to return to Egypt he turned the people to Egypt in order to increase horses for him I said to you shall no longer we turn on this road again he's unhappy he shouldn't have too many wives since heart was not stray he's didn't increase his silver and gold it shall be that when he sits on the throne of his kingdom he shall write for himself two copies of the Torah right he has to write two copies hmm one to carry around with him at all times and you fool from before the colony the Levites are shall be with him he shall read from it all the days of his life so he will learn if you're sent to observe all the words in the tour and the decrease form that she was heart does not become horny over his brethren and not turn from the commandment right or left so he will prolong years over his kingdom in his sons amid Israel so would we see when he's gonna propose is the the laws that's the Mitzvah be chlorine of firstfruits is going to be related to whatever the reason we put a king over ourselves in all the safeguards there's a lot of safeguards here so one should not become so haughty you see that the king right mm-hmm okay now if we go into this a little bit better if we go I'm gonna make a dimension of this idea after we have a yeshiva ueshiba means a dwelling a settlement and we conquer we will grow fat Israel will grow and will we need a bell and we're going to then ask for a king like all the other nations in other words even though there's a mitzvah to appoint the King mm-hmm it depends how we ask yeah do we want a king because we want the kingdom of heaven on earth kingfish Messiah or do we want a king like all the other nations so when we won the king like King Saul we stood with one of the King they called the other nations Shem grant to us but the idea before prophecy if you will that after we would become that meaning too many riches luxuries we would rebelled very easy to rebell and we would look to be like all the other nations and he explains the the intent of the whole Mitzvah of firstfruits the mitzvot bring the first fruits is in order to what laughs via room the Vavoom to bring down the hoary heart when you bring your firstfruits it's supposed to reduce the haughtiness or the arrogance that normally would come with it alone because you're not taking credit and what happened to have it by recognizing the source Hashem it is really first recognize the firstfruits are holy they're only going to come as a result of the conquering the possessing and the settling which then results in extinct back and raising up our heart by thinking I mean this is a running theme through the Torah don't think that you conquered don't think that it was your sport that brought you into landing helps you maintain it what right in other words that's the arrogance of the Jewish people to say it's us we conquered it so what happens when we take possession of the land and then we are waxing fat then we raise up our hearts in Han eNOS and think and say that it's us who conquered the land through our sword that we you know that was us and we forget about God that's the result we forget about God and that's why it says when you come when you went to the Lynn that Hashem your God gives you he's the one who's giving it to you the word you Russia the Rasta could mean actually conquering or it could mean an inheritance something that comes not a result of anything except the death of you of a four parents you know mm-hmm so it's so he's really go into that a little bit that's because of our forefathers God promised he's gonna give the land to us because he promised them as the next verse I'm bringing this down as a source it's in Mishler that's proverbs 1914 what does it say a house and wealth are the heritage of the father's by its Mahone and Nakhla Cabos okay in all come from a Shem it's coming by way of the promised not because you conquered it it all comes from a chef he gave it to us as a gift a madman but ready for this he gave it to us a gift on condition that we do what that we return the goodness we recognize the goodness we recognize the goods we will return the goodness and regard all the missiles it is conditioned Niki yeah conditional we have to recognize and come from a Shem we have to be extremely grateful for that and we have to keep the mistress if we don't do that we don't stay in the land Isaac what do you say about that it's absolutely right it's a natural cause and effect and now I want you to go back a little bit to where you were talking about the correlation and it's amazing how many the words are exactly the same it will be when you enter into the land that Hashem your God gives you all of that is exactly the same in the Hebrew it has devarim 714 unit right right except for this one Bob Pollin home Bob in you enter the temple he took you top oh yeah why is that different yeah why is that different and what is the correlation between when you have a king again just to bring out clearly because I got distracted me guy yeah first of all you just wanted to point out the word to be gosh the year hasta via shaft above those three words those three words are only found in one other place in the whole Torah and that's by the if statute the setting up of the king and we see all these warnings against becoming Connie she's comparing the idea the the law of firstfruits is also as an antidote against becoming okay I wasn't sure if you said anything else on after I got distracted but thank you no because even though even though it is say Keith Pavo and it's got a little different and it is the same very similar but it's those three words of the Rasta be a shock to both okay it's only those three words he's bringing out as being the same here and the only places in the entire you can find that is by the king great so we love color your pain you dummy he says Ellen barista you know this idea that you can only imagine them when it says take possession that you take possession by force and when you take possession by force it cancels out it disqualifies this idea that we already said is very important is that it's a a inheritance from your forefathers it was we only get it because God promised it to our forefathers so don't think that it's your might yeah more because of his promise not because your might ever know easy as that the stuff oh yeah it's so easy to misunderstand if somebody uses that part of trevor is after the nature of hashem which makes us more humble more selfless more meat and you lose the blessings if even though on the exterior you're seemingly going through the ritual of observance but without the heart of understanding that it's in selfless love right the Torah is ultimately fulfilled and that's what brings the blessing where the king is more self focused and he thinks look at the great kingdom like Nebuchadnezzar or even Solomon wrote all three of those mitzvot you know to not multiply horses multiply wives multiply gold and silver we see Solomon doing all three of those things and becoming haughty and then it becoming a problem for him the rise of blessing machine so look at yeah and there was a division after his death of the don't order them in southern kingdom okay look at the source number three just as an idea of what we really mean well let me before that let me just tell you but since we shot the ball whether you dwell there that's also a mistake because what we think is weird Welling there as a permanent resident we're not permanent residents in that sense because this world is not permanent we should understand that we are a template we're good source number three leviticus twenty five twenty three he counters the idea of via shock the ball these chapter bowman and you dwell in it like a permanent resident in verse Leviticus 25 2015 so permanently you're not allowed to sell the land to someone else forever it's not our land belongs to me that's your hang the land belongs to god who are strangers Gary stranger temporary residents with we are just that's how we're supposed to live Hashem has given us and trusted to us so all this idea of it's like symbolic just by the king once you conquer and then dwell in it like a permanent resident you're gonna ask for a king like all the other nations that's a mistake mmm-hmm and so to here as a remedy against it against making that mistake is the first fruits we're just scratching the surface here we're just laying foundation for what we were going but you get where we're going already right this is love it this is one of the foundational things that I bring out in every Torah portion is to see the need for selfless humbleness after the likeness of Hashem and I love that you're bringing out this characteristic it's so important the land is not ours nothing is ours if we will with gratitude and humbleness acknowledge Hashem in all things and that's the beautiful reason for the blessings of our home then we're going to remain in that state where we can receive the blessings and we can observe all of the Torah rather than becoming haughty and then also in the blessings go out the window if you think you're the source of all your own blessings so all these ideas exactly as you said if you think it's causing you that you conquered and you're dwelling as a permanent resident all this is gonna bring you to the saltiness and as a result of the holiness you forget about the Lord your God and that's why God command that us regarding the first fruits as the Rambam explains that the prime reason for this Mitzvah is to bring this humility and I'm going to use the word Hebrew called his table doot servitude towards Hashem and why is that we're actually testifying through the bringing of the firstfruits there's a proclamation that is made this proclamation goes like this he got at T high yo look in verse 3 he gotta tell Michelle okay Huck says in verse 3 you shall come to whomever will be the cone in those days as a you shall say to him I declare today to a shame you God our God your God that I've come to the LAT land that Hashem swore to the forefathers to give us not because of my might might by my power but interesting because in English says I declare today but in Hebrew it's I declared today it's past tense remember the world changes it around and we see the word I'm sorry there's no bug here it's he got at t he got to use past tense it would sit well he got a deal with me future there's no drug it's past tense now you're just getting there and you're bringing him this stuff but you're already saying I declared see he's gonna be he's bothered by the fact that it's past tense you didn't even declare anything yet and you said I declared like in other words I could say I declare now I'm making a statement now but that's not I'm saying I declared I want I want you to focus is very important this is one Hebrew word that says I declared hmm if I say I declared I have to wonder what did you already declare he got T he got T and that's a lot Dean I did oh yeah it's past tense interesting because it sounds like he's saying and I show and you shall say to him I declare today to Hashem your ela hecka so it sounds like it's in the present moment when you're saying it but having that little that's how they translate the English but that's not true yeah having that little Yoda on the end he got a T I've declared today to chevre your God that I have come to the land so I'm making a public declaration how something in the past that everything belongs to God that God gave it to me it's not because of my mic I haven't yet made my real declaration yet over the firstfruits and yet I'm saying I declared so what does it mean that the actual walking up to the Temple Mount the walk and let's say you lived in the North you took you took your tree you put a little ribbon around the first blossoms of the fruits you watched it grow at some point you disconnected it from the tree you put it into your baskets or your your car or your motorcycle or your wagon and you made a trek you made a pillow to come the pilgrimage pilgrim pilgrim it a pilgrimage to you shall I am to Jerusalem and then you got off your donkey or your Whoville or worse or whatever you parked your car and you walk up to the Temple Mount and you're standing from the colored and you're saying I declared how's the declaration the declaration is all of that non-nil an expression of action that's powerful of of what because walking ain't coolness and gratitude if we will be led astray we will begin to forget and so that is a step by step process through every step I love it it and you're coming as if you're making a deliberation in a way of a confession how is confession done silently sock the confession is done so this is what we called the confession confession and that later you see I he's gonna confess that he took all his tithes properly all the Truman's and mystras all the tithing and the gifts to the poor everything was done correctly that's going to be you'll see that later on in the verse there's a whole declaration of history but as you read on my kids in verses 12 through 16 15 it's all about confessing that you've taken all the done all the missiles with the agricultural food properly so it says ki baat ELR it since I came to the land you're saying it's also ok in the past tense [Music] where is this this will be in the Hebrew let's see [Music] ki Bhatia Lawrence if you look in verse I'm gonna say it's verse 3 towards the end of verse 3 okay that I have come to the lands past tense mm-hmm we need to say it's not through what it's not to conquering it's only in the way that God swore to our forefathers to give it to us and we are testifying I am testifying what I bring my first fruits on myself I'm testifying myself by just bringing them that it was from Hashem that the land ended up being mine as a gift a portion and as a gift and we'll see now through the rest of the confession how it all comes to be so we see that this just bringing the actions of bringing all the actions involved is a public declaration that the land belongs to Shem and then we are submissive and subjugated to a Shannon hmm okay ready to move forward ready constantly yeah day night he's bothered by the word Willa cocktail the top t means I took verse two and then you shall take Berlin Cocteau the Cocteau without the ball of his future and the Gulf turns around to pass and you took right here cockta is you tuck the bug turns around the future and you shall take me races may ray she's from the first so it shouldn't question it have said you shall give why does it say you shall take in the field so you talked like you said you said you're taking right from the field but it's from the race sheath you're taking from the race sheet from that which is first and you're actually making the very first yes which you're bringing to the house of God in order to give thanks and on earth passion from the very beginning mm-hmm me menu tea [ __ ] it copra Adama from it from the race sheets from God he gave it to you you're taking from him remembered you said race cheek it's also hushed enemies the first cause we menos he cuffed at cold and once you take it then you then you merit then the blessing comes that you get the rest you bring the first and then you the rest can belong to you and it's only after you admit and praise Hashem that you you you that you're bringing the first from look from your land that a Shem gave to you see it easy to say if you look at the word it's after you took it it's only later it's called your land look it's a third line down yeah it's like me and four three and I know I'm just looking at the English though yeah three lines now it says only a few take it then and you're its then it's you're taking you're bringing in from your land that a Shem gives you but it's only your land after you bring the first mmm it's only yours after you recognize that's why we make blessings before we eat that all belongs so shall we have no right to even take it stealing but once we recognize it's his then he gives it to us they move the world that wherever shared we give him the glory and he gives it's like back to the idea of chasing things down are you chasing your own glorious employ of a shadow chasing the query of a shot means you're running away from your own glory it'll taste you now so that's what all the blessings come and it's through taking this are you day how about zooty Kakaako Preetam ah it's through the actual taking then you're bringing this as the the whole bringing is the process it's called a declaration that you're actually making do you say you gotta tell y'all my bet I make this declaration today its meaning really I made this declaration the declaration again can't emphasize it more it's the actions of the whole process is a public declaration people would come with his most beautiful baskets they were parade to Jerusalem do you imagine the beauty of it absolutely I was reading about the Psalms that they would sing as they were coming up to Jerusalem bringing the firstfruits Psalms 120 to one to the house of the Lord they're singing with joy and then when they get there they sing verse two in front of the priest and they wave it together with the priest and there's even a certain process to the layering of the first fruits depending on how many first fruits they're bringing in what time of year that's a beautiful beautiful process and and how can people say that the oral torah is not important when these are the every nuance every detail of how to bring the first fruits how to stack them how to present it before the priest what to say everything is only in that oral torah it's first of all you want to talk about this I don't know how any Christian or person who believes in the written book the written scripture how they even understand one single word how do they know an hour is an hour a bet is a bet and the vowels ation what does it mean how do you pronounce it the pronunciation can define the word whether let's take the word hat Macbeth it says you shall not cook a mother it's kidness mother's milk we know Caleb or Caleb Wow does the same letters as Caleb mm-hmm so how how would they understand what you think we didn't understand milk because it's an oral tradition you think the written book says do not cook a kid in its mother's head Lama Ben's yeah so what what it what are the definitions of any of these words what do they think God Almighty gave us a book to figure it out ourselves no and that's why I asked you some spelling in the woods a lot of our work is to ease people in first to a knowledge of the basic Torah that they recognize and then the Torah that they don't recognize but it's a long patient process that we have to go through to bring people step by step and you accept one thing then you begin to see the validity of the other and accept that and so it is patient toil well baby maybe we can just start with this point whoa you get let's say in the early 70s or 80s computers first started coming out you ordered a computer maybe you ordered it through IBM maybe you order from Japan I don't know but you ordered a computer comes to your house you open the box ok you could plug it in you can figure that out the power button you could probably figure out but would you know how to cut and paste I'm talking about it the easy the simplest concepts you know today come like without even a thought would you know how to cut and paste delete ok maybe do because there's a bite member that days where they used to have these big classes and everybody to go to the classes to learn how to use the software within the computer and it was the most basic things yeah it's a good my my exam oh but I need we bring the example yet let's say you open the box and you're looking for the manual and it's not there so if you had the manual you would be able to figure that out let's just say in a relatively short period of time you could master the computer in a few weeks or a few months but if you didn't have the manual how many mistakes you're gonna make how many just trial and error you wouldn't even know you can cut and paste yeah I mean and that's just the most simplest of processes you know the most simplest of things to do but what about all the other things you can do at a computer so how do you save the doctor you work all so long you would even how to save so anyway the manual is so important so that's what I'm comparing you have the written Torah and you have the hora Torre would you just anybody who really read the written Torah properly in Hebrew have any clue how would they think there's not in the company company yeah I did how to use it read it today and they don't realize that that has crept in from Christianity and so they put the fear in the people you know all these are man-made these are not of God and so this is what we're dispelling constantly by the only way to dispel it is to actually show them the source and to get them familiar with it and to see the beauty of the month of the manual that shows all the details that are not in their Bibles did you have to be a serious thinker in other words III keep mention Christians but let's just say certain Christians obviously not all certain Christians never read their Old Testament and if they do it's certainly only in English mm-hmm tell me what the point is you're reading someone else's interpretation every translation is an interpretation that's right the only thing that when it comes to the Jewish text they're using legitimate interpretations and I say legitimate as opposed to illegitimate because they're basing it on the oral torah there's no government agenda there's no agenda here except to try to bring out the depth of meaning but we know that there's death after death after death there's so much so the translator has to say you know who might who who am i translating this for the average reader or the higher-level reader and then that will determine which level which word he'll translated us mm-hmm and that's the truth so when you have a let's say the Christian Bible they have everyone has an agenda like the Jewish translator Who am I writing it for so the Christian translator who is he writing it for he wants them to come out with a certain belief right I don't know Isaiah 7:14 if they still translate as a virgin but if you look in the original it doesn't say virgin yeah so you talk how do how do you deal with that when you talk to people yeah have you been with with the source otherwise they're only gonna come to a certain level of understanding and they're gonna plateau and they're not gonna go any further so the first thing is to actually get them familiar with the Hebrew and the regular tour that they have access to and then show them the validity of what our sages say and how they teach on these particular points and these nuances I'm just want to ask you so the people that you know come to you to learn by you do they get caught up in this version virgin birth fallacy or are they straight now with it or where they're at as far as their own learning because everybody's at a different stage of spiritual growth and understanding and so there's people that understand that it's a young woman that the tool there's others that are just still caught up in the English and they're not even learning the Hebrew yet and so we're dealing with a plethora of a great variety of people coming from all different backgrounds because I was asked by one of your people question like so it was a virgin birth that are [Music] sorry lon B yes it Oh how's this back on yeah there's me about to a prophecy do these things happen twice so there are they run to the assumption that it was a virgin birth so there's more than one person right they're calling the JC man I were through virgin birth I don't know let's just say you know seven hundred years later right seven eight hundred years after Isaiah mmm-hmm so then they were really bothered by this idea and how can it be how can it be we don't hear about that other person being born from Earth because the virgin birth would have been a pretty big thing yeah so where's the big deal and then if it's a big deal happen at the more than one person it kind of puts a little bit of a wrench into their works if you don't know the history that the history that the prophecy is talking about a present-day prophecy and if you want to make it into a future prophecy means happen twice there are such things that dual prophecies but anyway was an interesting question yeah let's go on a little bit via Martha I love he got it see so you're supposed to say I declared because you already brought this so even the oh I'm a peach ain't chump home it's boring even though there's no words in other words I'm just keeps going over the idea again by saying I declared is really that the clicker ational all the actions because there are no words here but there's another there's a if you look on my source sheets in some number four it says Psalms 19 verses 2 through 4 let's see how a declaration a declaration could be made that was a declaration yeah get out of something bigger than you how a declaration can be made without words so Psalms 19 verses 2 to 4 the heavens recite the glory of God okay astrum i'ma supreme corrode Hashem okay hmm come on yeah the heavens actually speaking do the heavens have a mouth how did the heavens declare the glory of God hmm I'm a result we see this every day we see this especially at night but we see it every day with the Sun Moon stars you can see it through hurricanes you can see it through eclipses so the heavens recite the glory of God and the sky is telling the work of his hands it says umayya sayadaw of Megiddo Rekia yo Leo you'd be oh man it's amazing the sky tells of the work of his hand day today utter speech and night tonight tells knowledge same words of talking and speaking Oh merde of our Maggie aimed over in Bolinas Mikola there is neither speech nor words their voice is not heard obviously there's a proclamation that is made without words mm-hmm the drill was home that point of how when we walk in the way of God like they're making a public statement and by bringing these first fruits it's putting it's bringing is bringing it all together so to the way of bringing is the actual declaration and testifying upon yourself that keep RTL are saying this how he came to the land not on my righteousness not because of my seat kotti not because of my actions not because of anything that I've done but only because God observed and kept his promise which he swore to our food to our forefathers which is what it says over and over again in our vs. right if you take a look again at verse three I declare today to assume your God that I've come to the land that Hashem swore to our forefathers to give us couldn't get clearer than that mm-hmm that's the declaration because since confession b'doyng confession is too strange concept now the actual confession is like a animal sacrifice on the altar that's what confession is is a it acts as an atonement on the often we say I made a mistake there's more you're not powerful and in telling us we're sin what are we doing here with these uh firstfruits we're bringing them we're putting with the base of the altar we're making this proclamation - at the altar but there's no sacrifice yes I mean except all the effort the small amount of fruit it's not a lot of fruit you know small basket hmm it's just a burst and you're putting it at the base of the altar and you make this proclamation looking at now verse 4 but look AHA Kawai not ten I mean your deck huh right the Cohens take the basket from your hand Ronnie who nickname is Baha sham and he lays it before the altar of God your God this is the process of removing your sin and your uses different kinds of words for sin different types of sin your mistakes you are going to be atoned for and afterwards then there is the there's the atonement process as a short court so I don't know I hear from a lot of Christians that they won't like to quote different verses and I think it's Leviticus or 17 or 19 is all we only through a blood sacrifice can you find a tome it there's so many sacrifices that are not blood sacrifices here's one you're putting it next to the altar it's like it like I said Holmes mm-hmm we're coming up to Yom Kippur it says that the day itself atones you know we're gonna have a time well we don't have a temple right this is back in the day God knew that and he says the day itself atones we have flower offerings made out of ground flour that's called a Min Ho there's no blood sacrifice there until animal sandwich and I think we spoke about this last time that no sacrifice at all no animal sacrifice at all is used for intentional sin that's right the whole sacrificial system is made up mainly these are sin offerings and guilt offerings these are for unintentional sins intentional sins the only thing is going to help use of confession and a resolution not to do it again and hopefully if ever being put in that same position not doing it again okay having regret and a strong disposition to hold yourself back that's called Trueba mmm-hmm that is what we atone for sin intentional second course God says I don't want you to Sakura I want your heart that's right same thing P bring the sacrum you think the sacrifice actually is like magic just does something that's the problem how many times that says I don't want it that's not what I'm interested in you I want a relationship with you you've done things to sever that relationship and if you don't stop it's gonna end bad you can you know you gotta do truven I want that relationship with you and that atones for the sin very good point so so important for people to understand it can't be emphasized enough well that you see this you see this verse for we just read the Cohens will take the basket from your hand and lay it before the altar it's not the core name are going to eat it it doesn't go to waste there's so many things that the co name dude the dresses that they wear the different clothing that they wear tones for different sins we chose talked about oh it's just a blood sacrifice you've no idea the thing that he wears on his head it tones for the thoughts the dirty thoughts of you time the different clothing the pants atone for sexual sins there's different aspects of his clothing in his dress by going into the Holy of Holies by going into the temple wearing these clothing in itself a tones here's one aspect just taking the basket of fruit and putting it down to them his Bay off he said lay it before the altar said we're gone for what purpose anyway I'm sorry that I actually have to get going because I have a big big meeting tonight and that's okay statement was huge that brings it all home thank you my brother and I love to work you're doing you're sharing the truth and trying to get people to become let's say le on that strange thing because we would think that it only belongs to a Shem but he's El Elyon he's the Almighty God but himself says I'm placing you I need that he's placing us placing this realm whose beloved his firstborn son his only son that's right his first fourth son the one he loves above but not for not for I'm gonna say he not it's not from our glory it's for his brain and we have to remember that because when we you know we get blacks in fat and we forget I think it's us this is the biggest you know call this sat on the Ishihara it's a lot about the ego the ego is comes in between us Hashem too often so we see that both of these mitzvahs the Mitzvah of firstfruits and the Mitzvah of appointing a king have a lot in common there was no coincidence and Hashem set it up this way so that we could understand clearly over there by the king he has all these rules and regulations to bring him down from being hearty so to the first fruits our remedy to keep us from coming hearty and remembering I mean this is the Holy Land the whole world wants this place you gotta remember it's not because of our might because God's were to our forefathers yes it was conditional that what that we keep his myth to us but that we recognize him and it's indeed because the kindness that he gives to us we have to pay back it's called before people forward already back it's all about the kindness that he gives us we must pay back or pay forward however you want to sounds like they're opposites but I think it means the same thing yeah we're paying him back by paying it forward to others there's basic guys great Seder okay so Chavez [Music]