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essentially we are here to learn from
the text the book called mayhaw Sheela
which in English I believe is called
Stillwater's right I'm guessing I think
that's what school it is translated you
can get it from comment from Amazon you
can know you can connect you with the
guy translated the writings about my
Mordechai Yosef later the first
revelation bits 1801 to 1851 that's why
I've tried my best to translate on that
that English sheet there that you have
in front of you
the story of how this book got to be
printed is really straightforward like a
lot of the great rabbis of these guitar
those times on these times as well
didn't write down his his own stuff some
of them for example Rebbe Nachman was
incredibly careful about how everything
was written recorded and published and
checked every single word here he wasn't
available to do it died in 1854 a couple
of years later one of the sons and then
Bronson started putting together the
collective thoughts in the briefest
possible manner in this prior this
process of collecting and writing went
over many years and what we have today
is a book that is very great terse
doesn't look like it's dense but it is
there's an enormous amount of meaning
and reference in what he's saying so
what we started out with a couple of
weeks back was a list out of this book
of one thing to focus on each month of
the Hebrew year right so that's really
where we started as ultimately where
we're going to again this is the month
of
hello and we're getting ready for the
month of Tishri the first month of the
Jewish year what should we be having
first and foremost in our minds every
single day of the month of Tishri it's a
very important month ago to all these
Jewish holidays Hashanah Yom Kippur it's
a time of year that people take very
very seriously right so what and what is
the focus and what we're trying to do
here is reach into the programming of
the cosmos but this is my terminology
not not anybody else's and you're
welcome to use different set of words or
a different set of terminology but the
book that we actually really start out
with and roll this is based on it is the
safer you see rather book information on
the book of creation which is one of the
earliest books of the cell part of the
Kabbalah the corpus of Jewish mysticism
and that gives us a list of five things
that go together with each month and the
more I learn what the great conceding
rabbis are talking about and really
saying about it the safer you can see
Rock and what it says about the month
what they add to it how they explain it
the more I see that there there is just
so much in this and this is one of the
big factors that you have to remember
when you're learning any book of Torah
but especially when you're reading the
the original layers of cusine ISM that
you're not going to get it all the first
time around or even the second time
around you'll read the stuff and you'll
go why I get this does this mean
something to me but give it a couple
hours give it a day or two come back to
it read it again and then you go oh my
god and then give it another couple of
days and come back to it again and then
you go well I got that and I got that oh
my god Mullen but now I really
understand it this is this is stuff with
an enormous amount of profundity right
there's an enormous amount of stuff in
it and is a whole universe of references
behind the very small piece of text that
says well here's what we should focus on
in this month right so before we
actually get started and take a quick
quick look back over the last time three
cardinal principles have to be kept in
mind
number one it's just stars up there in
the sky right these are again my
cardinal principles you don't have to
agree with them but I think if you want
to be Jewish you you probably should
write if you think the the
constellations up there power in and of
themselves well we got some serious
questions here about the constellations
we know are simply an alignment of stars
from our point of view in our particular
time started by the Sumerians about
3,000 years ago time with Abraham
so Abraham being the first astrologer is
really quite quite logical and
intelligent makes a lot of sense in the
background of general history of the
world I taught high school history for a
while so yeah yeah it makes it makes a
bit make sense that that Abraham would
be the one that is taken out of the
astrological system of his time and
shown what's really all about right not
not so this is this is the three
cardinal principle it's just stars up
there we think there's a lion in the sky
we think in the next month that's coming
there is the constellation Libra you can
see the scales somehow most of the time
I look up I've got to look very hard to
see these alignments it doesn't come
naturally but you once you have the the
predisposition to see something up there
in the sky you see it astrology is not
prescriptive it's not going to tell you
who to marry what business to go into
may give you a certain amount of
warnings but primarily this type of
is extremely and very significantly
different from the reading you would get
from a regular contemporary astrologer
we read the Cassini masters talking
about this stuff and something should
jump up out of the page and talk to you
especially if you're looking at the
current month or the month that were
building up to or you were born in this
particular month which is our article
cardinal principle number three so
Hebrew months only all of this stuff
goes according to the Hebrew months of
the year and not the regular months at
war okay okay number one is the stars of
just alignments of stars and number two
is not prescriptive you can't ask me I
was born in the month of Tishrei which
is the month we're gonna be studying
tell me what I should do for a living
what career I should go into who I
should marry where I should invest my
money right other other cultures have
this sort of thing it's it helps you
this gives you understanding it helps
you live better if you have a
relationship with a person of another
month of the year you can say hey my
daughter is a Leo I know exactly how to
deal with Leo's right he ever met my
daughter she's a Leo 100% I am a Sartana
I'm a cancer I fit the model and mold
absolutely perfectly that helps me
understand me and helps me understand my
kid and it validates why I deal with and
handle my kid in this particular way
right you know you don't need to get
into any of the specifics but it's it's
it helps you understand and gives it
gives me anyway a perspective and if you
like it you like it
if you don't find this interesting and
informative we'll arrange a partial
refund so okay know that by Postum
doesn't give refunds right okay so last
time we started this that which I call a
reading right and that is opening up the
books and reading it from them so we
read together what the mayushii law says
about this particular month the month of
Tishri that we're looking we're looking
at going into and also insight for those
born into sri or relating to people born
industry there are a number of things
that connect with months and what we're
looking at here in this particular piece
of text is two of the less commonly
discussed ones so I figured we'd start
off with these because they are
interesting they are obvious and they do
require a little bit of Hebrew meaning
okay so if Hebrew is not your best
subject
this should be an encouragement for you
to work on it okay very very
straightforward though it's not gonna
it's not rocket science here we're
looking at anything that has 12 to it in
the Bible in the Talmud and the Midrash
in Jewish law as a whole anything that
has 12 to it must be something to do
with the 12 months of the year right
it's a level playing field one of the
most amazing things about the Cassini
flybys is that all of these texts are
simply put a level playing field you
would say maybe if it's in the book of
Genesis ingratiate that would be
something more important than a
paragraph in the prayer book these all
of this stuff comes from the same source
originally and they do put all of these
things together here we're in the Bible
he was straight throughout talking about
biblical texts
and you were putting the sign a lot of
the other stuff of putting aside the
constellation we're putting aside the
other various things what our varam was
talking about before permutations of
God's name and verses that go with that
that was a technical on a tough one that
we worked through and for some people
that can be very very dramatic
personally that particular thing is what
drew me into this whole study because it
showed me the huge truth about myself
all right I'm not just a crab there's a
certain I'm a crappy person a lot of the
time but there is a certain verse in a
certain book in the Bible that is
associated with the month of cancer the
crab and that's been my difficulty all
my life up to it including this day and
understanding that I now understand what
or Who I am and maybe what my job is in
this particular incarnation of my soul
okay so we're looking at away from all
the standard stuff we're not looking at
the tribe itself we're not looking at
the constellation I'm not looking at the
body parts we're not looking at the
senses or actions of the body but we're
looking at the stones on the ocean what
are the stones of the ocean page number
three in your handout if you're watching
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things with you okay page number three
comes from the website of the temple
Institute you should spend some time
reading that interesting interesting
stuff the high priest had something
called a hoe Shem which is one of those
words that we don't really have a
meaning for
and a translation for and you've seen
this before this is nothing nothing new
there are four rows of three stones each
each one representing one of the tribes
of Israel right and according to the
temple Institute website there are 30
different possibilities for what these
12 stones are we are going to be looking
at a situation where we have to examine
two stones and two tribes why is that
how many tribes of Israel are there this
is not trick question depends how you
count them right
depends how you count there are in fact
13 tribes of Israel
right there are only 12 constellations
how does that work when there's no
consolation maybe again if you look at
Exodus chapter one say first remote you
will see a list of the 12 tribes of
Israel as they go in to the land of
Egypt here we're talking about the men
themselves right the sons of Jacob which
includes Joseph and Lady right
he then zipped the head to numbers
chapter one so for Bamidbar and you have
the order of how they marched in the
wilderness there you have Joseph is out
of the picture and emplace of him you
have at his two sons of fiim Menasha
that's 12 know what happened to lady
number 13 right he is out of the picture
all together because he doesn't march in
the same order and that particular tribe
is not included in the list of 12 tribes
there so this is an issue that keeps
coming back and rather than look at it
a problem how on earth are we going to
deal with it there's 13 tries but
there's 12 tribes in this 12 different
tribes the Hasidic rabbis of the the 18
1900's have largely tried to reconcile
it how can this month be both the month
of Joseph and the month of Benjamin and
you'll see it does pretty much work
surprisingly the alignments of the
tribes this is a technical bit that you
don't have to you don't have to remember
the alignments of the tribes either
Exodus order birth order or numbers by
mid bar mark marching through the
wilderness order these line up according
to the versions of the Seyfried suah
according to the regular hold of the
book and that is it Oh safer you see
rock book of creation translated whether
later in my are you Catholic
and attributed to Abraham so it's very
very early and a book that was kept
completely secret for a long long time
and taught only to unique individuals
and eventually in the 12th century or so
it does become public and it does get
written and passed around dad today you
can download it from the internet me
multiple versions I would say don't
download this version because I'm sure
now my counseling have some airs who
would not be entirely happy about that
this does not in fact have the tribes
names listed
but the order of how this works
goes according to the published versions
of the book of creation that of the Gras
or of Sajha gone and that of the gavel
money right so there there are different
there are different alignments of tribes
and what we get here is for the month of
Tishrei f-fine we are looking mostly but
not exclusively at the version of the
arrangement and the text that is
presented to us by rabbi Elia Elijah the
governor Vilna in his Edition and his
commentary Racine writes an enormous
commentary on this big fat book of
commentary and I think he probably can't
buy it you can down actually download it
for nothing from Hebrew books org ton of
small print but the tribe that he
associates is the tribe of the frying
the son of Joseph whereas the version of
the gut limb of of sachika own puts
together with this tribe with this month
rather the tribe of Benjamin so it's
Tishrei month Libra the the the
constellation the thing that we are
dealing with is sexual intimacy we're
always going to be talking about sex
here so it's not there's no way out of
it either Benjamin or affright so we
looked at last time the stones on the
plate of the high priest that
represented Benjamin and the represent
Friday okay I have this in two different
versions here we're good I just want the
one that I wrote over there and then
I'll be very happy yeah here we go right
so the thing that we started out with
and going back several weeks that we
keep coming back to is the focus of the
month according to our my wonderful yo
silverfish bits and the focus is eternal
freedom get out of jail free the thing
you have to think about and focus on in
this month of all of these difficulties
of reviewing our life what we've done in
the last 12 months how rotten with being
how often we fail know that God is in
charge and God has always been the one
who has control your mistakes are not
mistakes of law okay
and we took a look that was one of the
text of you so he took a look at in
really great detail before let's see
what else we looked at the stones of the
plate of the high priests shoham onyx
being the stone of joseph onyx refers to
love and he has a Kabbalistic he sort of
derivation from this but onyx is the
stone of love of love of God of absolute
love of God which God returns to you
absolutely God has always got your back
you're in the worst possible situation
you're doing some pretty wrong things in
your life God is still on your side and
is going to be there to pick up the
pieces for you that is the Joseph story
and he pulls that out of the Joseph
story right the second stone is the
stone of Benjamin I've translated
because Jasper where as the temple
Institute is going to say opal a stone
of all colors it's very very difficult
to say which stones which and it deliver
to continue matter it's just something
that's going to help us understand these
things nonetheless we're not looking at
the stone we're not looking at anything
else other than the Hebrew word for it
and the Hebrew word for this particular
so does Yosh a or Yash Fay and EH Pat
the tribe of Benjamin has the ability to
swallow and process all the goodness
found in the nations of the world
I'm on page two in the the English
handout right second third paragraph
there and while the Joseph's stone the
Onyx has the thought to it of absolute
love of God God has always got your back
here we have in the tribe of the stone
of Benjamin which I'm saying is a jasper
means you can go and take things from
the other nations of the world other
countries other peoples do have good
things and we have to eat them up you
have to you have to devour them but we
only have to eat that which is good for
us and that which is good and useful for
the Jewish people
other cultures other nations have things
to teach us
and that's a risky endeavor it's a very
risky endeavor there are many many
people in this world especially among
the our people who say we should never
leave the Beit Midrash we should never
send her children to university should
never let our kids go to the army for
example take something of no relevance
here in Israel there are things out
there that can corrupt them just as much
there are things out there that are good
and that are wonderful that we can bring
back into our community and into our
lives so the two things the two Benjamin
and Joseph things here that we're
learning through the stone may very well
fit and be both sides of the same coin
that is of course me thinking and you
don't necessarily have to disagree have
to agree or disagree so here we are in
the month of Tishrei it's coming up in a
couple of weeks what's my focus what am
i preparing for and then what energies
do I have to work with and this is a
biggie this is a real big one of the
basic thoughts that comes with the whole
astrology stuff is that there is a power
there's a force in this particular time
of the year from the first of Tishrei to
the end of Tishrei there is something
out there there's something inherent in
the world as it is in time itself that I
can let overpower me then push me around
or I can use it for good right and
that's what we're trying to look at here
and I think it is connected to Joseph
and especially the Joseph story and
especially the Joseph story with putty
far and mrs. Potiphar
right and you will remember the listing
these are these Bible stories
what we're gonna get into is a very very
basic thought and that is that God lives
in a universe that is not entirely
accessible by us ordinary human beings
right if I want to talk to God and get
God's opinion on something not the
easiest phone number to come by right or
email address or whatever it is
nonetheless we're encouraged to talk to
Connor that's that's uh that's just a
basic but the thought does come forward
that to put it in very straight ordinary
terms that what God is doing up there in
heaven can be at least seen and felt by
us to some degree what's God's priority
right now what is God working on over
there right I mean we can't really apply
these sort of sort of terms and ideas to
God but there's something going on up in
heaven and if you tune your mind
correctly if you stop thinking about all
the rubbish that we normally think about
there's stuff that we can access and
even more there is stuff there is energy
that is being sent down to the world
that people who are not spiritually
attuned are going to take in a certain
way and people who are spiritually
attuned and we've been learning this
stuff could say hey I recognize that and
it's something that I can use and this
is what we're going to get into with
Joseph and what the meaning of the names
of the princes of the tribes is all
about why does it ever need to tell us
the names of the princes of the tribes
what are you going to do with it and
what you're going to do with it is
you're going to open up the mihashi law
of Rome or the Kyocera ish bits and it's
a very beginning of the book of number
and it says it's halfway down page two
on my translated she's my translations
are full of mistakes and I fully admit
to having made multiple errors here in
terms of spelling and internal other
things but you will forgive me for that
because um it's coming up to Rosh
Hashanah right okay so numbers chapter
one it counts the count that can be
numbers one yeah here we go numbers
chapter one it's also numbers chapter so
we have the list of the tribes and their
princes for the children of Joseph for a
frying and the shaman ah the son of
amulet the names always mean something
right and if you divide up any name in
Hebrew you will see that it does have a
meaning right
Aylee to me or my God shall not hurt and
me is either my people or a me with me
Lord glory honor and then Menasha is
also family album product sir
probably were not associating the
Gamliel and with Menasha because this is
the month not of Menasha with a month of
our frying and then Benjamin the tribal
opinion mean have we done the son of
Dido knee and we're gonna divide this up
RV my father Dan judges get only he's
gonna say is from God down gimel dalet I
into cutoff okay these names are
significant and they're gonna tell us
something about them
month of the tribe that associates with
with them as opposed to the name of the
tribe myself right we're getting into
nuances here and we're really really
really focusing in on on Joseph and
Joseph and the potty fire story right
you remember you remember Joseph's story
right Joseph sold into slavery he's
bought by potty far who is what is potty
far he is the Tsar
how about him he's the executive chef
something like that in the household of
the Pharaoh he has a mrs. potty far
right whose name is not given in the
moment or in the Bible itself
she lusts after him mightily right you
know the story and he resists potty far
potty
mrs. Potiphar and then we know that once
Joseph rises to power in Egypt who does
he marry exactly us not the daughter of
ot Fair party Farrah was not that
Farrah right the Kohen the priest of the
town of home right so there's there's a
name connection that is too too obvious
not to not to put them all together so
there's something happening here and
that we're gonna learn from this I think
that there is something in this world in
this particular month that is very
significant with Joseph and is a huge
lesson and is firmly and completely in
solve the base in the two and a half
lines that we get from the safe against
Iran right now she law doesn't bring up
all of these things he gives you a very
very easy and straightforward
so it's the left-hand column in the
Hebrew it's the halfway down on page 2
are we ready
leave neo safe for a frying the tribes
leader is Ali Shama the son of a me hood
it divides up into two ways either a li
my god Shama heard or a lie to me
he listened right we're gonna see can
where he can work in swing both ways
le Shama means Macomb she'd
Gabbar has called AZ Java when your
desire is mint gab air it becomes so
strong that it overpowers you ele
shambhavi l'shanah Tovah tat shame Anson
it's a verse in Proverbs the light of
the eyes makes the heart happy good news
fathoms of the bail hearing good things
is good for your health so hearing good
things brace yourselves for this because
this is very very much a definitive
piece in issue it's terrible
the McComb should get there a la pêche
Co whatever place you have when your
desire overpowers you you'll say call me
NATO vote all sorts of good things come
from that
right he's saying an enormous amount in
very very very few words you have this
or that's I can't say you I I have this
overpowering desire to eat a
cheeseburger in the non kosher
McDonald's that used to live be here in
Jerusalem right cannot stop myself from
doing it and I do it here we have a line
in the writings of a great Hasidic rabbi
that says whenever my desires overpower
me many good things are going to come
from it oops better not let too many
people read this sort of stuff that is
what is meant by ben-ami hood the word
is emo halt
glory is with it halt
glory is in the place the the Hebrew is
a little convoluted and the English is
even more convoluted but the point I
think is relatively clear this hobbed is
a place where a person is yearning or
you are bent down completely towards
something to do the thing meaning you
live under its power I cannot resist the
lure of a McDonald's not kosher
cheeseburger for example only that ever
had cheese on meat or
with me I'm told it's good but never be
anything I ever wanted in my entire life
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God says to you don't put yourself into
that sort of position don't bow down
don't have anything in your life that
has godlike power over you other than
God don't let your food addiction or
well let's not say food addiction but
don't let your desire to impress other
people by eating not kosher food take
over your entire life and rule your life
right but what's he gonna do with this
he's gonna say that this is actually a
good thing if you are there macomb rod
God told you when you go to this bad
sort of place don't allow yourself to be
under its power
I'm Yas damn you're safe as that was
Joseph at that particular time right the
story of Joseph F kilo Shama even though
he did not listen to his mistress
mistress in the sense of female master
who owned him as a slave even though he
didn't listen
he was completely under her spell she
was trying to seduce him for quite a
while right Torah tells us very clearly
every day she attempted to tempt him and
he resisted but nonetheless he must have
felt a certain reaction to the
temptations right
Midrash tells Midrash Takuma says a lie
Shama right le Shamas the name of a
leader of the tribe and reading it here
as to me
he listened says God and not to his
mistress right what's you got this
picture I felt became NASA betta he
married her daughter right we're not
gonna refer to any contemporary or
classical novels by anyone else right
Nabokov but we're not gonna we're not
gonna do this sort of stuff
this is what it means any hood with him
or with me is honor LP rat son Hashem is
off littlie by the will of God by the
desire of God he longs for the good and
and it's his longing turns out for good
what's really going on here it's like a
very big convoluted you know you would
like him to have said this in much
greater detail and greater explanation
what I think we're getting at here is
there has been and always will be part
of God's plan that certain people marry
each other and have children together
we're going to go into the basic
assumption that us not that Joseph
Mary's is indeed the daughter of his
attempted seductress the daughter of his
former owner right and that is something
that is destined from the time of
creation and perhaps she sensed that
but does not see the full picture or the
timeline events marriage of Joseph into
that family was predetermined so when he
came to that household a marriage Bell
an intimacy bell went off in the minds
of everybody in that family ooh this is
my prospective husband this is my
perspective lover but Joseph is adapter
in a slave and really could have been
forced into bed by his owner because
that's so he do it you slaves right I
never owned a slave and I don't think I
ever want to but this is the this is the
basic point and it's the astrology point
emphasize again that there are forces at
work that are really the programming
underlying all of the cosmos that we
have as our birthright the ability to
incline our ear focus our minds and get
a good idea of what this is and use it
to good effect
Joseph marrying us not the daughter but
mrs. Potiphar or party Farrah whatever
her name was or his name was or whatever
this whole story is it's really graphic
x-rated Midrash if you want to go into
that stuff
I'm who's who wouldn't want they've got
an inkling of that as well maybe she
right she saw progeny and we've seen
this in a number of other cases Cara for
example right who sees that there are
descendants that are working in the
temple singing Psalms and all that sort
of decide
how can he not be all right and this is
this is how I think it works and I think
this is what makes sense to me
there are signs we are being given tor
is meant to give us a key to a door that
will never fully open for us while we
remain alive well we're here in this
human form we can get maybe remember
radio that he didn't hear the station
very well aren't you listening to a
station that's very distant
I had a shortwave radio I don't think
these things are terribly popular
anymore but you hear that there's a
certain tune being played and it's a
radio station from the other side of the
country
yeah I don't watch TV so I don't don't
listen to the radio so I'm a very holy
Epicure person I only download TV shows
but the point is you you hear it and you
hear there's a tune and you feel you
want to dance to that too how are you
gonna do it well just a minute you don't
get every single note you're not hearing
it or you're not hearing the entire the
entire melody the entire piece of music
you don't know what it's called you
don't know who wrote it you don't know
what it's really all about so this is
what the safer you see when I was
talking about I think when it says that
the very and this is the one we started
out with that we're dealing with - mish
oat lament with the letter valid and
sexual intimacy that this is a month
that I don't want to say intimacy is in
the air but it's a month of connection
it's a month of focusing on where our
closest and most intimate relationships
are with gone or with other human
beings and that maybe brings us into the
verse that we were learning last week of
the week before those what's that what's
the toe reverse that associates with
this particular month and I can pull out
the handout from back to them it's a
versatile sis about Sarah being taken
from Abraham into the household of
Pharaoh right she is taken to Pharaoh
and it's that particular verse against
her will nothing happens you gets
returned and they they move on it's
about relationships it's about
connections and there are a number of
different ways you can take this and you
can use this whole connection thing the
tribe of Manasseh through the name of
the leader of that tribe Elisha ha
meaning a lie Shama you he listened only
to me
Joseph him in the household at the
moment of temptation a me hood there is
only good there is only glory there's
only good things coming out of that
particular situation even though it was
less than perfect it was less than
perfect and of course Joseph shouldn't
have been there right
no normal intelligent person would
continue to put themselves in a
situation where they're being constantly
tempted and seduced right unless you
really want it right
even a bad thought comes with the beds a
bad deed comes from a but from a good
place the fact that it appears to be
wrong or bad or inappropriate or harmful
or a failing that's something for now
for here or for the individual in the
right time in the right place and the
right person then it's gonna work out
fine intimacy of Joseph and his wife
after they got married and when we make
the assumption of course that she
converted to Judaism too right
or if you go as they say Bob's your
uncle right perfect
that's what was meant to be that's what
was meant to happen okay
skip over Menasha because it does make a
certain amount of sense but not not a
huge amount the other tribe is of course
Benjamin Benjamin and the leader of his
tribe is Arvid on the son of the guid
Oni and if you if you just look back to
the previous piece from the martial art
which was which is the top of the page
you'll see how the stone things the
stones of the ocean things correspond
very much to the names of the leaders of
the tribes Ramona hi-yah safe is
focusing on one of the names and not the
other
Benjamin stood on the border his
position was not in the center but on
the side and we can beit's Khomeni to
vote me bein happy mohuru moved he his
job was to gather things from all the
surrounding nations and bring them into
Israel
well then Amara love then Godot me thus
he has to be the son of Godot me what
does that mean he recognized that which
was good and that which was not good to
bring into the Jewish world omigod daya
Oh Tom and cut off that which was not
appropriate for him to bring into his
life okay so you got it we got a whole
pile of different things here that do
indeed seem to be saying roughly the
same sort of notion this is an
incredibly important month coming up
right whether we think about it or not
whether we're very spiritual in
capitalistic lis inclined or not the
month of Tishri is huge it's absolutely
enormous and we have this issue of
sexual intimacy being a big thing if you
go back to the original class that we
did where there are 12 focus points one
for each month of the year the three are
I think four of them are to do with the
appetites and the lusts that people have
and all of these appetites and lust
overlap and inform and pull on each
other but we get from the stone of
Joseph that there there needs to be an
absolute love and once you have this
incredible clear absolute love for God
he returns and it's reciprocal God's
always going back we look at the tribe
of Benjamin and it's stone it's about
devouring the good things of the nations
of the world here we're looking at the
blessing of Jacob right so for homework
to go and read you didn't expect to get
homework right I'm not going to check if
you read it or not but read the last
chapter of Genesis justice 49 the
blessing of Jacob to his sons because
each one of them is significant and it
fits in with all of this and then go to
the end of Deuteronomy at the end of the
varium and read the blessing of Moses to
each of the tribes of Israel and again
that's that's going to fit here you're
gonna see this because of patterns and
there's a connection with all of them
and when we're looking at the month of
Joseph in the month of Benjamin we've
got two sets of verses from Jacob's
blessing of a Moses blessing that you
can add into this whole mix of things
right le Shama from the name of this
particular tribes prince the leader of
the tribes life puts you into difficult
situations but everywhere you go where
you seek temptation where you see the
pull of the negative side of intimacy
which is the Joseph story which is the
safer you see Ron word of the month you
can say listen to God you want God to
look at his book up there and say in
that particular difficult situation he
listened to me a li Shama or a lie shall
are robbing and not that everyone else
around him and if that happens God's got
your back and will get you out of that
difficulty if we look at Benjamin it's
about just that it's about leaving
behind the safety and security of your
life you can spend all your life in a
basement mattress you can spend all your
life in the library
assuming you have someone to support you
you can spend all your time just
studying you can spend all your time
with pious and observe them to pure
people but life isn't like that it's out
there there's a world and your
obligation is to decide what to bring
the end and what to leave out there's
stuff out there that's negative the
stuff out there that we shouldn't touch
but there's stuff out there that we can
lead and use and put to put to use and
make our lives better with it
so all of these things do tend to
overlap and they do tend to come towards
a central focus that you do have the
ability to get over mistakes and your
being in a place where things are going
to be difficult for you and you're gonna
have a temptation and maybe you're gonna
choose the wrong thing
well that really is ultimately for the
good because you're not a failure and
God sets you up to always succeed
it may not feel like that all the time
but that's an enormous technology lesson
and for the month of Tishri we're
starting a new year that's maybe the
biggest lesson that the doctor is that
was a joke we were saying the very
beginning that we always say this is the
most important lesson that there always
is maybe this really is that you you're
being set up for success that God really
does have you back and that when you
encounter things that look to be 100
percent not kosher and that I should run
away from them or take a little bit of a
look maybe there is a piece of this
thing out there whatever it is the
Internet is good there's plenty of good
stuff on the internet and your mom and
stuff on the internet right this would
take a very simple simple example maybe
this individual that I have to die find
myself working with is complete I did
not stick someone who hates the entire
notion of religion well you know
something talking to him could help me
come up with a more clarified vision of
what my beliefs are there's always
something good you're not a failure you
aren't being set up for success by God
in this new year and that sort of
reduced the end of what we have to say
about Tishri about the first month of
the year there are many other aspects of
many other ways of looking at what the
month is about and we'll go back to the
safer you can see it all we'll go back
to the latter if there's a letter for
every month there's a thing for every
month there's a body part there is a
constellation which can mean something
and there is also the name of the month
which we can dissect and get some
meaning out of I mean also the standards
of what the tribe is like because the
tribe in and of itself is a piece that
we eat
and that's why I'm pushing you to come
and read from Genesis 49 very end of
Genesis in the very end of the variants
well because the tribes themselves are
are of value and the lineup of which
tribe goes with each month that's taking
it for the handouts I did before or just
on Google and Google leases which tribe
goes of which month ok reasonably clear
good month every month Sabbath month as
long as you agree that every month is a
good month we're in good shape
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