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Shalom Alim everybody welcome back to
the m welcome home to Torah a very very
warm welcome home to Torah and we deal
with the Clear Car we deal with the
fundamentals these are issues in Judaism
I should say um you know topics of great
interest and necessity we should know
the fundamentals of
Judaism we also are using the clear as
the basis for our discussion and I
encourage everyone to use the original
Hebrew sheets you can find the link Down
Below in in the YouTube description box
you won't get a colorcoded one like I
have it'll just be black and white but I
it'll be so useful because the nuances
of what we're learning is you can only
really feel them out in the in the
Hebrew
itself okay so let us begin as I
mentioned before we started we're in
chapter 10 of Exodus verse 10 we're
going to deal with the last few words of
that verse okay so that verse says like
this
Pharaoh is speaking to Moses and Aaron
okay Moses and Aaron they want the
Jewish people to leave let my people go
so they can serve me so they can serve
KES they can serve the creator of the
universe and Pharaoh said to them so may
the Lord be with you just as I will let
you and your young children out see that
evil is before your faces the last few
words that is what we're going to deal
with and I always always wondered myself
what exactly do those words mean what is
Pharaoh saying see that evil is before
your faces I get it that he does not
want to relinquish this great nation
property that he owns they're his
slaves they're worth
money um at the same time this is uh
this is towards the end right this is
not um this right pares Bo is dealing
with the last three of the plagues so
it's not the
beginning uh it's already been quite an
event to to say the least for pharaoh
and for Egypt yet he doesn't want to
really see them leave so I'm thinking to
myself what is he saying that something
bad is going to happen to you is that
what he's saying what is he I don't I
don't understand at all what he's saying
that evil is before you neged p
in front of you although Rashi does give
us some understanding first of all he
does not want to let the flocks go
that's why when it says I will let you
out right just as I will let you out but
I'm not letting the cattle I'm not
letting the sheeps and the goats and
that's going to prove very important in
today's
lesson that's what Rashi says right away
surely I will not let the flocks and the
cattle out as you requested as you asked
and this is very interesting see that
evil is before your faces maybe I just
give a little bit of an introduction the
Zodiac the constellations right we see
newspapers today they seem to uh give
these predictions horoscopes um and
there's a lot of um what call phony
science I don't know whatever you want
to call it out there with horoscopes and
palm readers and they're all about the
money it's all about the Benjamin right
however in Judaism we do believe that
Hashem created the entire universe exilo
yes and something from nothing and what
you look up into the sky and you see is
a creation of God and it actually has an
effect on the planet Earth however you
want to view it whether it's the light
that's emanating or it's Hashem created
it in a natural in a natural sense or
it's even we call hashem's own
Providence coming through the the
Creations that he made however you want
to look at it it's real not the way it
says in the newspaper but there is some
aspect of reality that comes through the
the Zodiac through the
constellations so the the Rashi says
understand this thear Mon rener it's
fine now he says I've also heard from an
atic midash in other words our sages our
sages have passed down this
information explains the POS the passage
in the following way there's a star
named
happens to be Mars by the way a name a
star by the name or a planet by the name
of evil and what was Pharaoh actually
saying to Moses and Aaron through his
astrologers or through his own aspect of
be being able to read astrology he said
there's a star named ra and with my
astrology I see that that star or planet
is ascending towards you in the
desert and you're going to be damaged by
it you would like to go that's a sign of
blood and Slaughter so we we we will see
a gamorra that explains anybody born
under the influence of Mars is likely to
be a murderer and we we'll see it
shortly and when the Israelites sinned
with the calf and the Holy One Blessed
Be he sought to kill them we all know
that Moses uh pleaded on our behalf that
we shouldn't be killed so when the
Israelites sinned with the golden calf
the Holy One Blessed Be he sought to
kill them we know Moses prayed on our
behalf and one of the things he said
right in Exodus
32:12 why should the Egyptians say with
ra again that word ra meaning the masle
the constellation he took them out I
mean we always read it as perhaps with
evil right he took them out that that
would be a that would be a desecration
of God's name that the Jews left Egypt
only to find their demise in the in the
desert so Moses is praying on our
behalf we also
see um see the ra is opposite your faces
that those are the words in our verse 10
verse chapter 10: 10 where Pharaoh
himself said that implying Pharaoh was
implying that their blood would be shed
in the desert so what he so concerned
about us or again perhaps he just didn't
want to lose uh the Jewish people from
from leaving immediately the Lord
repented
meaning he changed his mind so to speak
and we're going to discuss what does
that mean cuz God is not a man that
changes his mind what does it mean that
he repented of the ra and what did he do
it's actually the verse itself
says means that he reversed he changed
his
mind the verse itself says that Hashem
did something he changed that evil and
it was not evil in the end
he turned the Bloodshed that was
originally symbolized by this star that
even Pharaoh
saw into the blood of
circumcision and also he Rashi doesn't
bring this down but also the blood of
the pesak offering he turned the blood
that was symbolized by the St into the
blood of circumcision when in fact
Yeshua circumcised it was a mass
circumcision before we went into the
land of Israel but also before we left
the day the day before we left there was
also Mass circumcision
it says in Joshua
5:9 regarding a place called gigal this
day I have rolled away the reproach of
the Egyptians from you that was the mass
circumcision and
hasem again you know um in
Hebrew right the word galal that's the
name of the place for they were saying
to you we see your we see blood over you
in the desert as we said Pharaoh saw the
demise of the Jewish people through
astrology and what did Hashem do he
changed something where and we're we're
going to see that God won't make an
entire uprooting of nature he won't
change nature entirely but he'll you I
think the word manipulate is okay to use
he'll manipulate nature that it doesn't
change per se there still has to be
blood but it's not the blood of the
Jewish people
for death but it's the blood of the
Jewish people for life through the
circumcision so there's not an entire
uproot but there's somehow a
shift taking place okay so we're going
to see in the clear let's go into the
clear itself and it says like
this see that evil is before your eyes
we saw this these were the words of
pharaoh imagine Pharaoh's words get put
into the Torah
the rabbis teach us inor shabas page
156a you can find this is three lines I
quoted from the gamor number two on the
S
ritak said that one who is born under
the influence of Mars which is the red
red
planet will be one who spills blood that
sounds very bad like you're going to end
up your whole life in jail because you
were living with the guilt of murder
Rashi said well got free choice here
right you can actually overcome you
Canen there's a way to fix this just
because you were born with let's use the
word fate as if there was a fate that
you were going to be a murderer not so
you can either become a blood Letter now
in the Hebrew it really means a surgeon
or let's say we're going to translate
really as a a mohal one who circumcises
others or a thief or a slaughterer of
animals oh or or a circumciser so the
blood Letter would be a surgeon the
thief is a GH of but who who can kill
people oh Slaughter you can be you have
free choice right you can either be help
Humanity or steal from them you can
either uh circumcise people or not even
not only that you can koshery is that a
word Slaughter animals in a kosher
fashion right you don't have to be a
murderer so the clear quotes the gamar
in Hebrew or Aramaic
what happens this person who's born
under this the uh the masle the
astrologic astrological sign of
Mars so that that person um that person
will end up being a
murderer how can he fix
this let him be either a sh a Slaughter
of animals or a surgeon so what's behind
this V the reason for the matter is as
follows this is like the secret of the
universe Hashem set into motion nature
but he oversees everything but he will
not uproot mad right what's a pirate one
who overtakes Hashem will not overtake
nature unnecessarily for just about
anybody
but rather what will he
do but he will do he will make that
manipulation in nature for whom for very
special people for those Hashem will act
for those who fear Him and consider his
name meaning think about Hashem right
they want to have a relationship with
God people who are interested in a
relationship with God Hashem right
people who the VAC hem people are
clinging to hem people who have a
relationship as I
said at a time when the word like is
basically the Matrix when when the the
system of nature is set up to instruct
on something negative
God will basically change the face he'll
turn it around he'll M M turn it around
the whole nature the whole system that
he set
up he'll change it to something else but
it has to be similar to right like like
we saw the planet Mars is set up where
it has this influence on the person on
the nature of the person maybe even
affects their DNA on some level that
they'll be likely to be a murderer or
let's say a blood Letter right so
instead of being a murderer the person
if they fear Hashem and they have a
relation with Hashem Hashem will set it
up he'll become a moel or a or a sh and
we see in Calis that's
Ecclesiastes chter 8:5 number three on
the sore sheet whoever keeps the
Commandment shall know no evil thing no
no k n o w no no right in
Hebrew what is it first of all it is in
singular right whoever is showare
showare means observing keeping right
keeping the Commandment what does that
mean it's in it's in
singular Rashi says there well actually
let's read the rest of the verse and the
Heart of a wise man knows time and
Justice in Hebrew
the the idea of knowing the times
perhaps not just knowing astrology
because that is yakar the tribe of yakar
they knew the times they knew when to
set a leap month and a leap year they
knew right but it was more than that
when you're really connected with hem
you can also hope and I'm GNA say this
I'm gonna put myself out there when we
talk about ma right people say ma right
we say when we doesn't mean good luck it
really means
what the word ma is an acronym
for that you should really be saying and
thinking that that person you're wishing
Maz to should be in the right place at
the right time doing the right thing
that's the greatest BR you can have
right
it's a br not just good luck hello it's
right again the word luck probably
because it's fixed into the word mazal
which seems to imply fate but there's
not we we the Jews are the Jewish people
are above mael right God took Abraham
out of the tent to show him the Stars
when he says he take him out of the tent
it means that he took him out from
underneath the stars and he explained to
him that if you connect with me you're
above the Stars when it comes to
non-jews there's different types of
non-jews right we know there's righteous
non-jews and non- righteous non-jews so
the righteous Jew the righteous
non-jews are people who connect with
Kadesh with the with the god of Israel
with the Y right they could be uh they
can also change their masle or be above
the masle similar to the Jews and that's
why okay that's I was going to say
that's why they could be
Jewish but anyway way whoever keeps the
commandment and by the way the the
righteous noahide keeps the Commandment
as well they know that the seven laws
come fromes at SII it was also repeated
at seni let's go back into the clear
because that's the last
quote some whoever is even the word I
just want to tell me about the word
Mitzvah okay it's me causitive
it's like causing to be commanded right
but if you want to look at it another
way the word seit is really the root
which means a group there's
a there's a
connection the me causitive causes you
to be connected to Hashem by doing a
Mitzvah you're you're connecting
yourself to Hashem and if you want to
look at it even another way mean similar
to the word Mitzvah when you look at the
word Mitzvah you have a me which I'll
explain in a second the v v are the last
two letters of God's name the madic you
all heard of atbash atbash is another
way of doing gatria so the AL if is the
same as the T or like in English it
would be a equals z b equals y so bash
Al equals T be equals Shin so they're
like interchangeable the me in the sadic
in the atbash is yud so embedded in the
word Mitzvah is actually God's Own name
and therefore you're not just connecting
you're connecting to to the the only
reality that there is which is the YK we
spoke about this last week he he was is
and will be as we said he is time itself
and we know that time is connected to
the physical world in a big way right
you have e equal mt^ 2 without the
energy turning into uh the physical you
would have no physical world okay so the
clear continues 1 2 3 4 5 six lines
down so even though the righteous person
won't know anything evil right that's
what we're assuming here nevertheless
the Judgment of the mar the
Mish has to be fulfilled nevertheless as
we said so that there's blood it could
be through uh using it in a positive way
inic page 9B it's a very very strange
conversation that Rish shim's son elzar
had with the children of two converts
now these children of two converts
happen to be great
sages so if you look on number four it's
quite a lengthly discussion I don't
think I'll do any justice if I try to
sum it up but I'll try to go through it
quickly so RAB yonatan Ben ASI and
rabuda they were sons of converts they
approached they they were in in the
presence of rabish shimai son and they
said to him what are you doing here what
do you want with us he said to them my
father told me and asked me that you
should give me a blessing he wanted me
to go to you to get a blessing and this
is the blessing they gave him it's like
I would say drum roll please because
this is no blessing at all may it be
God's will that you should sew and not
reap that you should bring in and not
take out you should take out and not
bring in that your house should be
destroyed and your lodging places shall
be inhabited that your table shall be
full of chaos and confusion and you
should not see a new year okay great
what would you walk away with would you
even say Amen would you even say Amen to
that BR doesn't sound like to me so he
comes back to his father and he said you
know not only did they not bless me they
actually cursed me they basically caused
me a lot of pain with their negative
words so the father Strokes his beard as
you can imagine the rash be doing says
well what did they say to you so he
repeated word for word and then he
interprets what their words were because
they said it in a riddled fashion Mas
analogies and that's what he said these
are actually blessings uttered in a
cryptic Manner and this is really what
they meant when they said you should
seow and not reap they meant you should
bear sons that won't die right before
you you know before you die right their
statement that you should bring in and
not take out means you should bring in
Brides for your sons and your son
shouldn't die and uh which would
obviously caused their their wives to
leave your house and when you said you
should and when they said you should
take out and not bring in they meant you
should have daughters and their husband
shouldn't die which would cause your
daughters to end up returning to you
your house when they said that your
house should be destroyed and your
lodging place should be inhabited they
meant this allegorically in the
following way as this world is compared
to your lodging place and the world to
come is compared to your house like it
says in Psalms
49:12 their inward now inward thought is
kiram which is inside them is that their
houses shall continued forever the sages
explain remember there aren no vowels
and in the in the Tor itself there's
even difference between cre and cive the
way it's read and the way it's written
but they explain don't read it this way
as their inward thought but rather read
it as
K as their graves according to this
reading one's grave is considered his
permanent house the sages gave rimai
Sons a blessing that he should dwell in
his temporary home rather than his
permanent home meaning he should have a
long life in this world and when they
said your table should be confused and
uprooted
they meant that you should be blessed
with so many sons and daughters there'll
be tons of noise and confusion at your
table and when they said that you should
not see the new year wait till you hear
this one I mean not to see the new year
which meant you should not have to marry
another woman you know your wife
shouldn't die and then you shouldn't
have to marry another woman because we
all know that the first year you
basically are not going to go out of
your house well you know at least not in
the Army when a man is taken a new wife
he shall not go out to war neither shall
be charged with any businesses he shall
be free at home for one year right
that's one of the most difficult times
in life called shisha right when two
people who are very different very
different from each other are finding
out much about each other it's
worthwhile to build that first year with
a lot of a lot of time
anyway right amen so this is the idea
that he shouldn't have to take more than
one wife meaning that his wife shouldn't
die so basically the clear
car car says like this in
Hebrew right this is an Aramaic go buy
them for and get a blessing from
themule so they said to him it should be
God's will the
T right you should seed but not Harvest
and your house should be destroyed
that's just a
quote he said to his father these are
all
blessings right you can ask on this
first of
all why did they bless him with all
these analogies and
riddles they could have just blessed
them outright without all the riddles
ready for this they saw within the right
Alazar Shimon that there was some type
of judgment and that the nature had to
play it out that in some level there was
going to be a seating without a
harvest and they themselves wanted to
turn it around in their own words to
create a blessing so they wanted to to
turn the curse into a
blessing and they wanted they knew it
had to be fulfilled but in their way and
they said what they said was really a br
as Rish Shimon explained where they
would not be any damage to his
son okay so the clear continues next
paragraph so too when the Jews were
leaving Egypt Raw
that Pharaoh saw with his own ability to
read the Stars we're called
astrology
shal that this particular Planet the
star called Mars its name is RA is
evil he saw that it was coming up
against the Jews in the desert
which reflects or IM Intimates that
there is some type of murder death
coming through the the
constellation now the instruction of the
star meaning whatever emanating as an
instruction from the
Star the only way to fix it if you were
born under that masle or in this case
the Jews coming out being born we were
born man and I'm going to use the words
born again we really were truly born
again we all converted at sini so on our
way there we're leaving Egypt in order
to be born as a nation that's when our
nation was born we all
converted and we needed some kind of
protection on the way out this is where
it comes that Pharaoh himself saw a
devastating you know thing in the clouds
in the sky so to speak and the only way
to fix it would be through because of
MIM the influence of Mars was to either
be circumcised be or be a A
circumciser or Tock to slaughter animals
which is also the tun as we see through
the PES which he says
now either one they're all equal either
one make sure you do one of the two the
f
there is some kind of a doubt whether or
not the power the influence of this
particular
star is actual death oh P
of or maybe it's just a type of a wound
alone or maybe it has an effect on both
but either way it's a doubt
therefore in order to fix this doubt
you need right we Jews cannot live in
doubt we need to solve and resolve every
issue therefore since there's a doubt
which one do you need do both right
that's the Jewish right we have so many
doubts we we try to cover all the
different all the different
opinions so therefore to get circumcised
and to do the slaughtering remember
Pharaoh says you're not taking the off
they're not taking the the animal
well that was not sufficient right and
we'll see
why and this is the reason why God gave
these two Mitzvah to the Jewish people
the d p right as we're leaving Egypt
before we leave you have to do the
Passover offering which involves blood
and the the
circumcision because God wanted to save
us from the judgment of
nature that he wanted to reverse turn
around change the face of whatever the
instruction of the masle of Mars was
which
was and therefore he gave us those two
Mitzvah circumcision as he says and the
and the and the pesak
offering so what's slaughtering
to do the ritual slaughtering of the
Passover
Lamb as well as the circumcision which
is now there is a little bit of a hint
to this because it says K right in our
verse when you go back
to uh chapter 10: 10 right our very
verse ra he saw
K what is key
what do you need the word key see that
see evils before your faces see that
evils before your faces I don't even
know if key could be translated that way
but the way the the clear and he's
explaining it and there's a lot of other
people explain it a lot of interesting
ways as well that if you look at the
word key which is 20 and 10 right cuff
is cuff is 20 the yud is 10 that's 30
which is a lamid add the L lit into the
word ra just change the order a little
bit it'sa so the ol is the circum is the
foreskin that needs to be removed so
that's the ra that's the Tuma that's
part of getting rid of the evil is
through getting rid of the Ura and we
see that that's the gacha 305 the whole
word if you add it up it's the same as
same
gatria that we were commanded regarding
both regarding the pesak and regarding
the the the circumcision for what
purpose
in order to save us from any remember
there was a suff a doubt to save us from
number one any kind of fatal catastrophe
of death as well as P the or any type of
blemish or wound wound uh coming uh upon
us as we were leaving for the desert um
just one very important point when we
talk about someone being born under any
masle but let's say especially this this
one cuz we spoke about the the the gamor
that says they're likely to be a
murderer right that's really what we
meant it means the inclination to be m a
murderer it there's all kinds of ways
God forbid that one could damage
somebody fatally and it's even with
their tongue but if it's there's an
inclination now it could be and it could
very well be that people come from good
stock right you might be born under a
certain masle but because in your DNA
your parents your grandparents they've
worked so hard on a certain Meda a
certain character trait that it won't
even come up right uh it could be that
Hashem made it easier for certain people
based on their lineage but if someone is
born under a particular masle we only
mean that there's an inclination towards
it doesn't mean one has to necessarily
become okay the armar par the last
paragraph what was Pharaoh
saying ran I see this is what he's
saying I
see that this particular
constellation its name is
evil it's coming up to meet you to greet
you it's going to greet or let's say
encounter all those who are leaving
Egypt as I mention we were born
again but who who are we we are made up
of men women women and
children
right if that's the case how can we fix
this how can we as a people
fix these instructions whether it was
for murder you to kill us uh fatally or
to wound us how could it be fixed so the
clear says B I get it it all works out
well the anim the men the men is kind
you the adult men can certainly be fixed
through the cor P the P PES offering and
also through the
D but what about women and
children how can they be fixed how can
they have find this
protection of course women do not get
circumcised so how are they protected
and the T they're not going to they're
not fit or regular to do a't
dark they don't do sacrifices right you
have to be an
adult that's why Pharaoh said to them
he didn't want to send the animals you
can see on Rashi right there on that
verse that's verse 11 he did not want to
send the animals he says let the men go
cuz that's what you wanted what are you
now asking for more than you originally
asked for like he was like breaking it
down he didn't want the women he want
the children to go he didn't want the
animals to go here he says let the men
go just let the men
go because that's what you want to do
you want to be able to fix or redirect
uh the instructions of the
star you yourself said in chapter 5:3
which is going to play a very important
role
here it's number seven on the sore sheet
this is how Phar this is how Moshe and
Aon responded to
Pharaoh they said the god of the Hebrews
has happened upon us
D let us just go on a three-day journey
in the desert and what did they ask
specifically they wanted to sacrifice
but here's the important part why
sacrifice specifically the word Yu as we
all know in
modern Israeli Society a pagia God
forbid is a not just a wound we're
talking about a a terror attack right
it's a strike and to so we didn't want
that to
happen that's why they asked in the same
verse we want to sacrifice by saying we
want to sacrifice means you better let
our animals come with us because this is
what we find as our protection daa
they didn't even ask regarding the going
they asked regarding the
sacrificing does not come back and
say because if you just ask to go then
Pharaoh would say okay go but once they
say we want to sacrifice Pharaoh is
going to have a problem with that so
they didn't even they didn't even speak
about the going
right because that's what Pharaoh wanted
Pharaoh wanted them to keep their
animals
here Moses specifically added the word
to
sacrifice specifically to protect the
Jewish people by doing the that was one
of the ways to protect the Jewish people
from anything bad happening whether it
would be uh mortally mortally wounded or
or or not
that's also why he used the word to
strike at least that's talking about the
people who were actually leaving Egypt
and going and if that's the case Pharaoh
is using words from the Tanakh from 2
Samuel
1116 he was saying you know your own
words are answering or testifying
against you
as if Pharaoh was saying you do need to
fix some way to redirect the the power
of that U star that is perhaps going to
cause pestilence or Devastation of some
kind with the
sword this can only be fixed through the
men and Pharaoh was trying to actually
say see only the men should go leave the
women and children by me as hostages as
collateral as a way to make sure that
the men don't leave forever so we have
some
background to this verse right we read
the verse I said in the beginning I
never really understood what was except
through rashi rashi seems to imply and
did imply quite clearly that is through
some astrological Insight that Pharaoh
had about blood about de vastation but
now we have a lot more background how we
should live our lives the more that we
cling to hasem the more we cling to his
Mitzvah and his will and are obedient
and have faith then we really have
nothing to fear
and the Jewish people should continue to
grow in their faith in the land of
Israel and um I'm wishing it not just
everyone a great shabas also this is a
great month
theat and uh it is a new year here right
whether it's the first or the 15th
however you want to look at
it um the trees the fruit thereof and
it's going to have a magnificent impact
on the rain the rain in
erel because the fruits need many fruits
are not irrigated and they rely on
rainwater mem we should see a I say the
late rains in other words we have where
they the claim is that majority of the
water that's already in the ground is
already there and is starting to go up
the roots into the roots into the trunk
of the
tree um but since we do pasin that it's
the 15th of shat not the first of shat
which is the New Year's let's hope for a
good U the late rains the rains that are
still
coming that we should all Prosper
through the G the G and use all of our
physical abilities to grow spiritually
and with that I wish everyone shabbat
shalom and a great life and we'll see
you next
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week oh now