Kosher Astrology (Part 9 Cheshvan - Scorpio) Rabbi Robert Rhodes

[Music] good afternoon everyone so good to see you we're moving on with the with the months of the year and looking at the month of cash bond which is from the beginning of the year it is in fact the eighth month counting from Nissim but we're looking at this is being month number two right two straight being Rosh Hashanah not the first in the beginning of the year but also the seventh month so we're going to stick with this being the first the second month but we're going to bring up the eighth month sorry there's there's always a little bit of confusion with all of these things we need to start with the three cardinal principles that I have formulated and what you're entitled to argue with me about this English stars are just stars they have no power significance of value meaning abilities of their own they indicate something they help us understand things it's a picture - drawing the means of understanding things they align to form the picture or drawing according to how we see it from our point of view in time and space so another planet would see these things very differently number two it's not prescriptive if you are looking at these tax and we're going to do a reading for the month our pressure on this is not going to tell you what to do in the month of Fishbach who you should marry for example the people sitting here seem to be single who you should not marry who what you should think of whoever you're dating or not and what business you go in to give you some advice to give me some help something to think about understand yourself a little bit better but lottery numbers and who to married they're not and it is of course the hebrew months only which is of course one of the biggest revelations for people coming into this from from the outside or from never having done any of this before it is referring to the hebrew months only so we're gonna be taking a look at a book called a shame and eschew el which was written by a rabbi shmuel Bornstein if I can be really smart about page printed out from Wikipedia 1855 to 1926 right so we're going a little bit ahead in time from where it from where we being in terms of the great receding masters he was the second Rebbe of the Safa Java dynasty a seriously impressive looking guy leading Hasidic thinker major advantage is that he does right relatively easily he's not the most difficult to read the other side of the coin is there's a lot of it there's a lot of text and he does go off into different asides and you do need to do a little bit of prep before you get down to reading him so we're gonna be spending a fair amount of time just on the Bible text but what he's doing in this particular piece that we're looking at and they were going to be looking at is tell us a greater level of detail into how the stars aligned with the months the constellations and the tribes right because we know anything that's twelve is fair game for connecting with the in the 12 months of the year and the tribes of Israel is right up there with thee with all of us but he's going to he's going to tell us how this how this works how would happen and specifically how it works with the first two months of the year Tishrei and fresh pot which connect with a frying menage in terms of the tribes right he's going to be quoting his father Rotherham Hornstein 1838 to 1910 major halakhah authority as well as the founder of the dynasty of so job and pretty much all of what we know of his Hasidic writings it he definitely will unify them Haseena grinding stone comes to us through his son so a lot of the time repression wheel is gonna say dad said this but he will of course refer to with great reverence of respect because the father was his his only teacher and his main teacher do their metal lessons here need to take us with nice German long term you learn a lot from classy good you know a lot from reading from the Cassini rabbis but yep we need to take a step back and you see what's going on and you start to think about it all there is even bigger lessons that come out of all of us and one of them is a learning relationship with a parent or a parent figure you've got to have a spiritual father spiritual mother and that doesn't necessarily have to be a biological parent right some of us had smart parents some of us have parents a topless months so most of parents who aren't religiously observant and knowledgeable Jews who taught us lots of tolerance almost didn't and that's that's the way life is but you've got to have that sort of present in your life and that's one of the things that we definitely we're gonna meet also Rabbi Menachem Mendel of rim enough a little bit earlier 1745 to 1815 and we're gonna get a very well-known quote from him that will come in come in to all of this okay deep breath we're gonna do some serious Bible reading here because without it you're really not going to get walk with Schmoyer saw each other say he has a lot to say and it takes us into a fairly different focus from what we've been talking about before the last couple of months we were looking at the names of the princes of the tribes and we were looking at also the gemstones that associate with the particular tribe here we're looking at the tribe itself and specifically the name of the progenitor of the tribe great English word you will know the progenitor is right the father of the tribe and specifically we're looking at Jacob and his twelve sons although it's going to expand a little bit because we're gonna go to Jacob is twelve sons plus two grandchildren so that's fourteen people and they're still only twelve months so there's there's something that we're we're looking at here but that is an incredibly mystical and profound thought that that is out there but doesn't have any real explanation to it and it is in the master loss order the use of a fish which were talking about in fluid and how many make seven eight weeks or so the whole process of human existence and all of history is moving from twelve to thirteen and then he says nothing else absolutely nothing else moving from place where there are twelve tribes and twelve constellations in 12 months to a place where all the tribes are there and there are 13 months as we know there are 13 months occasion it is a leap month so this is part of the process of moving towards the ultimate future we're going to dip into this as well we're going to dip into it in terms of the letters of the alphabet right you only your Hebrew letters right of course you do you at least know the names and the sounds and letters if you need a bit of help with that talk to us around we have time or I have time right okay the the English translated pages translations are entirely my own and are of course filled with mistakes spelling errors despite amazing spell checkers and computers and all that sort of stuff we're going to look at firstly to say free at Xerox time the book of creation which is the absolute worst source for all the stuff and in Chapter five we have the list of five things that connect with each particular month and they are the letter nun God made a letter nun king over smell so a lot of the time because see the grammar eyes are going to start talking about what on earth does that mean what's the letter nun referred to and what a smell got to do with the month of ashwin we're going to come to some of that not a lot of it but some of it generally the letter is usually represented as having a power and a very positive influence and it becomes the king over the sense of smell or the other sentences we're not going to get that here but I'm going to get it design some of the other letters together they form the constellation Scorpio the scorpion how do you say scorpion Hebrew I graph exactly you're gonna have to know this word I am proof that it's written down here I've done most of the work for you we're gonna we're gonna get to it there will not be a test on this so don't worry no final exam if you learned this wonderful you get something something out of it we're all very happy but some of the details can be a little bit a little bit tension producing don't worry about it take a deep breath we're gonna move on right so the Scorpion and the picture of the Scorpion and what it represents we would tend to look as a scorpion as being negative thing I don't think there's a positive side to the scorpion but Rashmi is going to come up with one and he's going to tell us what we should be doing the month lineup okay basic aside here in conventional astrology the month's lineup in many different ways first one to seven two to eight that sort of way the months go in pairs and that's what we're looking at here tissue and cash so a month number one and number two which is actually in this sort of enumeration seven and eight all right sorry to keep doing this math is not my strong point counting I'm really bad at so the math was my best subject in high school oh gosh those brain cells were killed by something or other over the years but month number 7 and number eight counting from Nissan as the first month of the years that is a pair so then nine month number 9 and 10 11 and 12 etc etc the months also do connect in threes so we look maybe if we have time and other sources that would say Tishrei crash fun kiss slave go together the monks also connected fours right so you have three you have three sets of four the muscles of connecting sixes the first half of the year the second half of the year so again emphasizing the very very fundamental point which goes back to one of our cardinal principles somehow or other this is not a precise science and if there is something in this that is valuable to you then this has been a valuable exercise if not we'll move on to the next thing and you'll find something valuable there right so the last line of the safer at sea rap piece is the intestine in the soul of male and female generally speaking we're not looking at how we would look at our innards what does your intestine eliminates waste gets takes the good stuff out of the food and you will see this you will see this as as part of the meaning as well but we are ultimately looking here at the month of fresh fun as it is presented to us by refurbish more sausage after so we've got to go back and just think very carefully through the lists of the 12 tribes right the tribes line up with a month twelve tribes twelve months in the book of Exodus and safer Schmoke the tribes include the tribes of Joseph and the tribes of Lavy they are the twelve sons of Jacob literally when we get to the Book of Numbers to chapter one and two we have Joseph out and lady out and they are replaced by a frying and Menasha two grandsons of Jacob so we still have twelve tribes right so here at the very beginning we're going to go the feasts a deer had two gallium which is the very first line that we'll head we are going to be looking at the tribes as they are enumerated and the numbers according to their marching order through thee through the wilderness on the way to the promised land okay so far not too difficult right third text on the page which takes us to Genesis chapter 41 right so if you have a little bit of time you might want to do a little bit of homework safer brace sheet book of Genesis chapter 41 and then 48 the story of Joseph in Egypt right reasonably familiar I hope yes yeah of course it is even if you haven't done much Bible study before you do know this and here we're gonna have to dip a little bit into the Hebrew and every produced it for you right you know the whole story Joseph is sold as a slave into Egypt by his brothers instead of killing him I'm not sure which is better but in any event Joseph doesn't the long run say God made this happen so good things can happen right very very inspirational stories but we're looking here at Joseph's two children right Joseph named the firstborn Menasha this is chapter 41 verse number 15 - Joseph named his firstborn Menasha because God has caused me to forget all my toil and all all the difficulties that I have had up to this time God has made me forget it all it's gone none shin none right we're not going to do the do the grammar of it all right but not shiny on Menasha are very obviously the same the same route right Hebrew names always mean something the second one he called to fry him because God had made me fruitful in the labs of my affliction he calls the second son Ephraim he Heath Ronnie hey pay ratio you it if Ronnie from the terminology free to be fruitful first God made all the bad go away by making me forget and then gonna made all sorts of good things here by making me fruitful I'm having these two wonderful children right first point is Menasha second one is a fine zip ahead to Genesis 48 this is all going to come up in the neck and the first paragraph in the Shamy so we need to get this into our minds for a bit Jacob Jacob is dying very end of the book of a book of Genesis if appreciate Jacob is about to die and Joseph brings his two sons to him for a blessing right so this blessing thing is really really serious and Israel Jacob stretched out his right hand and placed it on a frying said although he was the younger and his left hand he placed on Minaj's head he guided his hands deliberately for Menasha was the firstborn right the text continues as a few more lines where Joseph says no put your right hand on the hat on the head of my firstborn and your left hand on the head of my second-born child but Jacob says no I'm switching the order here right the younger child is going to come first what he's altom utley going to be reading into this is that if Ryan is gonna be Tishrei and Menasha is going to be fishpond and that's that's where we're going and this is a direction and a method of getting into the new year and of going through life we're gonna see how this spells out forget stuff move away from the past put aside that the bad things that have happened the bad things that you have been doing and then be fruitful and multiply and do arts of good just a Fryman Menasha so those are those are chapters that are worth reading really inspirational stories and the next one that we're going to look as the first book of kings chapter 12 I'm sure you're all very familiar with the Book of Kings right yeah of course you of course you are you've at least heard of this once what happens after King Solomon dies merely a quick test either general biblical knowledge now path you have a split in the kingdom exactly right first three kings of Israel I saw David Solomon Solomon dies and his son is called Rahab the Rehoboam I believe is correctly in English right okay that's pretty much the same in different languages but we have um and he is not the wisest of people he is about to be crowned as king and the people get together and say excuse me your royal prince and soon to be king we owe you a respect and honor etc etc but please a little less taxation right reasonable request King Solomon built a temple King Solomon built Jerusalem and Solomon built palaces King Solomon maintained an army how did he do that through taxation and Taxation in those days was not just money taxation was a percentage of your crops and taxation was your people they would take one person from each family however the percentages were worked out there is some indication of it in other parts of the Bible that you would give one month per year of labor if you were a carpenter or a wood wood worker or a brick worker you were conscripted for 30 days work per year so that's not entirely a nice way of doing things on the other hand one month out of twelve to work what's the statistic of how the average person works how many months of the year to pay their average tax burden it's more of them it's more than a month but it's something like three or four months but it's Wow it's a very good reason to leave Brazil right I think in America somewhere in the three or four month range and so giving one month of actual physical labor over to the king and building his palaces wasn't so bad but they were complaining they were complaining and in chapter 12 verse number 11 you should go home and read this yourselves I've reproduced a couple of the pieces here and I've done my best to emphasize and highlight the the words and the terms that were going to be needing gears Rahab arm says where my father did burden you with a heavy yoke I shall add to your yoke right yoke means burden my father flogged you with whips but I will flog you with scorpions isn't that a nice thing to say to people I'm gonna increase your tax burdens the term scorpion I graph is of course a very very obvious connection to the month of I Krav this is the month of the aircraft this is where it happens is the month of the scorpion in real terms if you want to be particular probably an i craft is a term for a very nasty whip with barbs on it rather than picking up a scorpion they don't see how you could pick up a scorpion and whip someone with it but I don't even think about it it's beginning is one of the James Bond movies of course you're much more pure and good and virtuous but it's one of the James Bond movies really where Tyler multiple times that kill him by having been getting bit by a scorpion and then he comes back no okay [Music] it's tough to not remember my head is full of rubbish like this I will add to your yoke my father King Solomon lift you with whips kind of liquor with scorpions this is obviously a reference to something not good happening in the 8th month of the year and indeed who got see this is the 8th month and all of Israel saw that the king did not listen to them and they replied to the king saying what shared do we have in David and no heritage in the son of his shy to your homes or is o Israel now see your house David and the Israelites went to their homes this is a reasonable response to a very bad difficult king who promises to make life worse for them and you cannot blame the Northern Kingdom for seceding the ten tribes were saying we don't want any part in this whole this whole Israel thing if this is what the king is going to be it makes sense nonetheless there is a great deal of loyalty and there is religious stuff and there is spiritual stuff that has to do with number one a descendant of King David a member a descendant of the tribe of Judah being on the throne of Israel and the temple being in Jerusalem and all that sort of good stuff so this is considered to be a serious rejection of God's selection of Jerusalem of the tribe of Judah and the house of King David so now we get back to the word I crab scorpion and this is what I've done my best to write up here for they're a crab I incur fresh bet is taken to be a car that up routed the letter bet that meaning by it meaning a house so the people of Israel 10 out of 12 of the tribes after routed from themselves or uprooted themselves from the buy it the house which was the Beit HaMikdash the temple and Beit David the house the family of King David so this is another implication and meaning of the whole I crown of the Scorpion thing zipping on a little bit in the chapter this is 12 as chapter 12 in the first book of Kings still very very and Jeroboam who is who is Jeroboam who is your Rav he is the first king of the Northern Kingdom he is brought back from exile and he becomes and he is appointed king of the north this really interesting stuff here in the text and in mid Russian in the commentaries it's really worth looking at where God has this talk with Yura Varma who is supposedly the leader of the other of the rebellion of the revolution against King David and God says I'm okay with this just do the mitzvahs be a good king help the poor do charitable acts and the light and we're gonna be fine you can be king I'll be with you it'll be good of course it doesn't work out like that what does Jeroboam do he made a festival in the 8th month he's got this big problem all the people of the ten northern tribes that go with him when they separate out from the nation of Israel they still owe their religious allegiance temple in Jerusalem what are they gonna do Europe um Jeroboam decides he is going to set up two temples within his territory and then he makes a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month like the festival which was in Judah what festival is that Sukkot right so a month after Sukkot he makes a new festival and he brought up offerings on the altar and he did something that L to slaughter the cars etc etc here's the point it's a it's verse number 33 he brought up offerings on the altar which wasn't left L on the fifteenth day of the 8th month and this is the precise terminology in original Hebrew via a Lamas barichara sabha detail he brought an offering on the offering which on the altar which was in that he did it himself right so taking completely away from came with him from the priests the Levites etc on the 15th day of the eighth month the whole - I share ba da neatly bow it seems to be a totally superfluous couple of words here he did this on the 15th day of the eighth month in the month which he invented from his heart he fabricated I've got here right there's absolutely no need to say in the month that he made up from his heart and rapprochement is gonna go on to that and he's gonna say that he took the essence of the Hodesh the month the cycle of the moon which represents the kingship of David which represents the nation of Israel in waxes and wanes we are up and we're down but it is a cycle and he did something with that hit had should a month is called Kadesh the moon is called the V Hodesh and he perverted this process he made up a whole negative aspect to all of this renewal cycle and this was an incredibly bad thing of course all right so this is the this is the Bible text that we've been dealing with and I've done my best to translate the Hebrew as well as IQ and hopefully it will make a certain amount of sense deal and [Music] here we go if you're looking in the Hebrew side where it says you've gimble the extreme extreme left we are reading a talk from Rosh Chodesh my freshman year is 56 72 it's October 23rd 1911 alright so hundred and something years ago 187 right years ago the fee Center had the Galleon following the order of the tribes flags their encampment that's why I started by emphasizing all of these all these Bible texts this month connects with Menasha and we have already written about this in another place that the names of Menasha and a fine refer to the prescription of the Book of Psalms 34 verse 14 which says surah marij turn aside leave that and do good right seems like a reasonable thing to have as your motto stop doing bad things and then start doing good things right this is what we have in the Book of Psalms and this was up to a certain point the way of doing things in life first stop doing the bad and then doing the good Menasha me Lashon nishang me elokim God has caused me to forget all of my toil and all of my labors this we take to mean sumir I'm forgetting moving aside walking away from the bad life that I had in the past right there frying me Lashon kehe from yellow Kim the Eretz on ye God has made me fruitful has given me the opportunity to grow here in this land of affliction that is too good even when things going around you are not so not so wonderful Lehane and is for this reason that Joseph wanted his father to bless Menasha first but obviously the Book of Psalms has not been written in the time of Jacob and his sons right but the issue is when we're reading these texts here time doesn't mean anything the fact that a book hasn't yet been written doesn't mean it's it's basic thoughts don't exist and it's all a level playing field in in terms of equality and value of the texts so Joseph wanted his father to bless Menasha before Ephraim as we have this verse in Psalm number 34 which does of course seem to be the absolute normal way of doing things first you stop doing something bad then you start doing something good if you are pulled and compelled to eat non-kosher food for example first stop eating non kosher food and then kashchei to your kitchen and start down and start eating kosher food we're gonna try and stick with the pretty safe examples here that hopefully will not hurt people too badly but what did Yakko do jacob our father introduced a different way in alphab what does Avedon mean now who da means work it means laborer it means service of God it means working on yourself this is what we are supposed to be doing our abode on this world is what we're supposed to be doing so Jacob says start by doing good and then it's much easier to leave the bad behind Yaakov Aveeno ilaha shalom jacob our father may rest in peace Kadesh dara are there he introduced this this is a completely new method first do good and then me mela in and of itself it's gonna be much much easier to stop doing the bad once you get a taste of how good life is when you're following the right path then you can much more easily say oh those bad things that I used to do I can just forget about them because to wait to do good until you remove all the bad from your life Zeca Shama aunt this is far too difficult to do Val cane AHA - AHA Ayla these two months so he's putting together Tishri on Marrakesh wanna connect first to a flame and then - Menasha in that particular order and that's what Jacob was doing when he set this up by reversing the blessing order and placing the second born before the firstborn right reading a lot into a little bit of text here but we've done this before and this is really a refinement of something that we started with many weeks back with the very well known story of Abraham and stars right where where Abraham says to God I see in my constellations in my astrological readings that I am NOT going to have any children and God takes Abraham outside raises him above the canopy of the stars the orbits of the stars and says here from my point of view I pull the strings you can pull these strings - and metaphorically of course so that is a general statement of how a Jewish person of how a spiritually tuned person has the ability to take some of the things that are out there in terms of basic programming of the cosmos and say I can put this under control here we're gonna be a bit more specific it's another layer of meaning and it's another layer in the in the origin story of how we get to all of this stuff and how we control our destiny the month that we are in at the moment the month that we're looking forward to for the month of our birth if you happen to be a Scorpio in the month of May okay so these months refer specifically to a frame and then Menasha Tishrei the first month of the year is we do good because there are many many myths vote in the month of Tishrei the shofar yom kippur suka lu love all of these things he's so calm lying the water my nation at the end of the holiday of Sukkot eons in here hooba sewer may rob wrong one that is of course isotope that is doing good and that is a frying and then we come to the month of March fun which is sir mehron turn aside from doing that the King masala I graph right so he's not be entirely parallel here right he's not referring to the masala to the constellation of Tishri at all constellation Fortis tree is the most nyan is the scales right Libra and he's not referring to that at all he's saying there's loads of mitzvos to do in the month of Tishri so it's a month of doing good of getting a jumpstart on changing your life because most of the month you've got nothing else to do but observe hiking holidays and enjoy enjoy doing all these all these myths vote but when we come into the month of March - there are no specified holidays which is not to say it's an empty right that's a whole separate lesson on the marshmallow of the future that it's going to be the month of the dedication of the of the next town but that's a whole other lesson in the whole other branch of classy dude the constellation of a month of hash fun is going to tell us something relative to the month of Tishri which is full of means for lots of good things to do we then move into the month of the Scorpion he they cackle a vote could show my father the ad more of blessed memory all right here we got a huge lesson in all of this good stuff this is where the shame Ishmael is amazing he just takes the time to explain stuff to you he says the top of page to download and were about halfway down page 2 in English translation the tribes line up with the twelve months in the year what does this mean Jaime Chiapas ooh Tom he beuaty seldom Allah may Hamas a lot that through their merit through the actions of the twelve sons of Jacob they raised Israel above the constellations right same thing as God taking Abraham and raising him above the stars and saying it's all yours here the twelve tribes have done the work specifically for each individual month and the month of lines up with their tribe with their name okay the a Chamizal Moshe fitted up even though the individual constellation pulls the two o with its nature the variability him towards things that are not appropriate there is something out there in the month of the Scorpion that pulls you in a negative direction in a way of doing things their way a feeling that is not good right I'm skipping attention skipping a few lines in the Hebrew here Nicole McComb Israel us we have the ability to rule over the powers of those constellations and because of this the Masada constellation does not work on us at all right as a verse in Jeremiah which backs this up do not be afraid from the signs of the heavens the nations are dismayed from them but you the Jewish people those of you who are in the spiritual know are not dismayed and are not bothered by it there is something about the a craft something about the Scorpion that were good discovered that may or may not have anything to do with it's actually nature I don't remember National Geographic special and scorpions but I'm sure there is such a thing right so now he's gonna start explaining here's a little bit about what my dad taught me and I have got something else to say based on that all right still looking good in the video yeah it's the second paragraph of the Hebrew about the second paragraph from the bottom in the English the Liege dos if I want to add to what God said there is something in the stars but the tribes which worked on each of their own constellations and made it their own water under their power and gave that as an inheritance to us this is our birthright it's our birthright as spiritually attuned human beings as Jewish people to be able to pull those strings and make the stars and the constellations and what they represent work for us so Vavra how we suffer job says the following and then the son rapprochement comes around story shall look die it's not enough not just are we not drawn after the hora at Hamazon hora ah is from is usually the word teaching the direction there's something about the month there's something about the constellation that goes with it we are not drawn that way Ella she hailed here we go we're going to get into some deeply capitalistic stuff here but this is a very very important principle Enzo are only in the Kabbalah in understanding what things are about shahane mat beam hora otama Zala sure sure we are able to elevate the constellation to its source in the upper spiritual worlds and use its power for holy purposes what do we mean by this so this is this is real this is a real Zohar piece that you have to you have to understand you have to let it in a little bit that it's only in the world that we see and touch that there's such a thing as good and bad as you rise up through the spiritual worlds in other words it's very simple in which the closer you get to God the less mad there is you come up to a level that is really high then what we see here as something bad is actually good because it's inconceivable that there should be anything bad or negative that comes out from God that when God sends good things down to us he is only sending good things down to us and it's only after it goes these things go through the spiritual realms do we find that something not so great here right so our abilities are number one based on the progenitors of the tribes having done the spiritual work before us and laid the groundwork for us but also we have this ability to we can take the negative factors of this month the Scorpion the nasty stuff of the score you know we're not talking about this thing at all we can take some of the things of the Scorpion raise them up use them for good holy and positive purposes okay let's take an example he says the Michoud Hodesh Mahesh man Jean Amitabh Rimbaud this month that we are not talking about its constellation is the scorpion via duaa and yet door seems to be a key word it is known it is known from many places in the Zohar as a whole giraffe who could reroute the Scorpion refers to coldness to cold-blooded creature it is a killer that doesn't have any argument with its victim right the Scorpion and the snake are cold versus harm in this in this sort of picture a snake will confront you yeah I know nothing about these things but a snake will confront you hiss at you and then bite you the scorpion sneaks up on you and then stings you right me none of us ever meet such things or have such unfortunate encounters but this is the picture we are looking at I wish it to emotionally that sale is a shape a tell the nature of the Scorpion draws people we hit that sale to be lazy and to sit and do nothing Cole naxi ah sir everything that it does it does with coldness of spirit - la bruja not with a warm spirit fiddler have wooden certainly not with enthusiasm so the Scorpio factor a month that has no holidays to it at all as we now see it is laziness coldness boredom have got nothing to do and even if I have something to do I just couldn't be bothered doing it I'd rather stay home the Israel this is repression well talking here this youngish time she family died he had smile and Jewish people the people of Israel use this character trait to turn away from evil and to be lazy about actions that are not appropriate what good is laziness and boredom laziness is good when you have the choice and an inclination to do something then it's not so good I'll go take a walk and I'll go into this non kosher restaurant and have myself a cheeseburger right and a milkshake right make it even worse I'm too lazy to do that it's hot I'll get all sweaty it's not worth it and I'm bored anyway and that's not going to cheer me up this is a positive valuable and useful application of the nature of the Scorpion laziness coldness boredom I've had enough cheeseburgers this week furthermore I've had the buddy Mike Ashley him even ordinary things of this physical world everything of the physical world I'm Luke Rahim things that we are that we even need food for example clothing housing pubic he rewrote through we should deal with these things with a coldness of spirit because after all the physical stuff of this world is not learn to Oldtown we are looking towards the spiritual realms and to much bigger and better things and the things of this world whether we like them or we love them are all described from this point of view as rich I am something that is bad that is not of the absolute best right Jewish people and the Jewish thought doesn't have a very strong aesthetic trend in it right we're not we're not into deprivation we like to eat we like to enjoy life and that's that's a good thing we're urged to get married or urge to have children worse dress well or reasonably well and well right and make a living not wander the streets and be beggars nonetheless it's not an unhealthy thing for us to introduce a certain amount of coldness and disinterest in a lot of the things I know I like my electronic toys I very much like Mike Tao my computer and my laptop and my noise-canceling headphones and all these little little gizmos but it would do me an awful lot of good if I would have a certain amount of cold most of these toys but this is something to work on this is the month of Fishman this is the month of Menasha where I am trying to forget and this is the stage that we have after we've already started to do good so you know to pick on myself I should spend more time with physical holy books and less time playing with my nice little Samsung tablet that in addition to being filled with wonderful holy books has comics and sci-fi books I don't have to waste time with first do the good then once you get a taste of the good it's an awful lot easier to walk away from doing some of the not so good right now we can expand the example it's very very very easily none of us here are particularly evil people who do terrible things but we do have stuff but we do have things in our in our lives and when we're looking at the list of mitts vote and do's and don'ts we're looking at relationships that we have with people we are supposed to care about right there are things that we do that are not up to snuff as they say right we don't play according to the rules and business in our dealings with nonprofits or any sort of things that we do there's there's only something that we can improve there's always somewhere that we can we can go better but the issue is give yourself the boost of the tissue of the do the good select something good nice reaffirming and then you've got power you've got the ability to say hey I'm doing this good already I might as well and it's a lot easier for me to leave aside some of the negative stuff right and with this we're on the bottom of page number two there's a lot of stuff right this is a lot of stuff now we understand the safe for you to see right now we understand that which is written in the safely it's Iran that we had again he's giving you this as a quotation from the banana saw so far and the Benes authorized the writings of to see Ellie Miller Dean of who is probably the major authority on this subject that's a big white Iran all of these things that we're dealing with the letter noon and smell and dark in the intestines I've intentionally not translated the next couple of paragraphs because he really takes quite a while to say what he has to say the connection of the letter none to the month of March moment is a little bit complicated there are two forms of the letter nut right there's the last thing we're going to do today I don't what your heads to explode on this one there are two there are two forms of the letter look right reasonably familiar on that are none which looks like I so the backwards squared over C and then there's a straight line down right that is the noon of the present direct the regular letter known as the noon of the present and then the future letter noon is the straight line by okay these indicate a number of different things the letter none as it is now bent over refers to turning away from evil turning away bending yourself over to the will of God observing the negative Commandments fear which leads to purity which leads to a good smell once you're pure your sweet spot whereas the none of the future which is standing up is do good the positive Commandments love of God holiness and the month of Tishrei this is an equation I've written this out as best I can on the top of the last page and we'll come back to this next time because I think it is important we can't leave the Seyfried serie lines unexplained but the two types of the letter none are that are the significant ones bent over and subservient and saying yes gone you tell me not to do this I will not do it I have fear that leads to purity that leads to me having a very good smell the connection of smell for this particular month that is Maha chuan and Malaysia doing good is the previous month the letter noon of the future which is a straight line meaning holiness love of God doing the positive Commandments standing and that's the precondition it's not a very tightly constructed set of parallels and if it's escaping you exactly how it works that's okay because we're just gonna go on to the next thing and look about the the next thing we look at will be the focus on the the first book of Kings chapter 12 okay so reasonably clear up to this point right Ephraim and Menashe it being the two sons of Joseph in two grandsons of Jacob Jacob our Father right God God rather Jacob places a frame me for Menasha the second one before the first Lord make me fruitful God do good have wonderful experiences and then Menasha comes second forgetting all over the bottom all of the negative first Tishri then crush from first a frying then Menasha first do good accumulate lots of good enjoy and experience the good and then walk away from doing the not-so-good okay yeah heavy stuff heavy stuff but incredibly important and totally fundamental to the scenic world of you [Music]