Living Up To The Name "ISRAEL" with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody Welcome Home to Torah a war a very warm welcome home to Torah this is not the I a madash although that's where our real home is and we are still hanging out at erit Kenda where they're making tius and unbelievable distribution to all the families who are displaced um needs for the families as well as um equipment for our soldiers and if you're interested in receiving our email with the sheets specifically The Source sheets that we use because we do encourage you to learn Hebrew please send me an email but if you want to use them you can get them off of the uh um you get them off to the website down below in the description box is a a link where you can at least get the Hebrew Sheets if you're interested in the English sheets that you have to sign up for spec specifically to receive the other thing is we're still in the midst of a war and there's a great demand for tius that's why we're here never ending making tens of thousands of citas because theim want situs and we're also Distributing to filling and that's a little bit more expensive right the difference between a 30 shekele item and a 3,500 shekel item but nevertheless is a great demand and we're trying to uh to supply that demand so for those who are unfamiliar we use the CLE car as the basis for our discussion and we're going to talk about ah unbelievable stuff the name Yakov was changed to Israel and we're going to discuss because there is an idea that even though God says in chapter 35 verse 10 God said to him your name is Yakov your name shall no longer be called Yakov but Israel should be your name and he named him Israel so here the Hebrew the it says your name is yov and I'm stressing but it also says your name shall no longer be called yob so before we even go further what is it is it Yakov is it not Yakov okay the verse then says his name is yra the problem that anybody who knows the tanak should have what happens by Abraham in chapter 17 of Genesis verse 5 very similar language your name shall no longer be called aam but your name shall be Abraham so so no longer are we're going to call him now why is this so important because as you will know we going to see aor our rabis teach us you're not allowed to call a Ab for only from the point before his name was changed is it permissible to refer to him as ab and read the verses such as but afterwards to refer to him as a would be well we'll see there's actually an argument is it violation of a positive Mitzvah or a negative Mitzvah keep in mind in the verse itself it says your name shall no longer be called aam that would be a violation of the negative mitzah but your name shall be aam by calling him Abraham by not calling Abraham you could be violating a positive MIT with that in mind let's go immediately to the cleart cell here we go on page Kim it's so right we already read that and understood your name is yov you shall no longer be called Yakov and the clear points out midar from that which is said it actually says in the verse your name is Yakov we do not find that by the way your name is Abraham it doesn't use Shaham but by yov it does say that and that's going to be part of the answer the resolution why you can call him both Yakov and is masma what does that infer that actually implies by the verse telling you your name is Yakov that the name Yakov remains in place and is is not uprooting because afterwards it says we know that it says you should not no longer call him yob so what is the verse trying to tell [Music] me certainly it's coming to tell me by the very fact is your name is yov it's coming to tell me his name is not uprooted drum roll please but it will become secondary it's not uprooted we third line down in that that first paragraph that it's Tel what's Tel secondary not the main name not the important name somehow it's as I said secondary you have another word for secondary telam you see by Abraham and I read the verse already in chapter 17 verse5 see there's a gamor in BR 13A and it actually says and we can read it it's number three on the sore sheet um is it no one second it's not there it's actually um it's number four on the sore sheet 13A it says by bar capara in regards to Abraham's name that anyone who calls Abraham Aram transgresses a positive Mitzvah because we saw the verse in 175 and your name shall be a your name will be abam rezar argues with barara he says no if you call Abraham Aram you're violating a negative commandment because the same verse says you your name shall no longer be called abah let's stop there in terms of the source but go back into the clear he mentions in Hebrew anyone that calls to Abraham that name he's over below he violates a negative commandment the clear says what's the reason you violate the negative commandment sh because it's missing those first two words that are in our our par our parure specifically says your name is yak over by it doesn't say your name is Abram okay that's how the first paragraph ends we are entering a whole new dimension of redemption wait till you hear this the name the difference between Yakov and Israel will play an important part in how we view ourselves as Jews as individuals of of the nation of Israel our future Destiny and what it means to be called Yakov versus is so now you know what we're going to talk about and that's what he says there's an aspect of a hint there is place for me to bring an explanation regarding the two names of Yakov the two names of Yakov one being Israel in reference to two concepts of redemption we find 12 that's number five on the sori so he says I'll read the clear's concise explanation then we'll go into the when we think of the future Redemption it's going to be it's going to be grand see right now we're in the birth packs of the coming of the Messiah which could be and probably will be extremely painful but at the end of the day what are we going to be talking about we're going to be talking about the the present day Miracles The Unbelievable salvation that we all experienced have experienced now and have experienced and are we going to be talking about the leaving of Egypt all the Miracles of leaving of Egypt seem to and I'm putting these in parenthesis because this is how we nor think of it will pale in comparison to the Miracles that are going to happen at the end of days you're in store for another level of un understanding but let's let's let's say that's how we think of it so the idea of leaving Egypt will not be entirely uprooted but reminding remembering mentioning all the Miracles that happened 2,400 and actually in the year 2,448 we're talking about over 3,500 years ago and 3,300 plus years ago that will pale in comparison and what will be the most things that we will be mentioning and remembering V all the Miracles are happening right now and will happen days to come that is what we're going to be speaking about that's what we're going to be mentioning that's what we're going to be remembering and he says now we understand in our para with Yakov getting these two names Yakov legre the name Yakov was never entirely uprooted I don't know if I mentioned this already but I mentioned before the class the very fact that the Torah itself mentions back and forth the name of yakob and then the name of Israel consistently going back obviously we didn't uproot the name Yakov so not only does it say your name is y and that's what we're banking on here but even God he never refers to Abraham as AB except maybe when discussing the history but he's not called aam anyway and therefore we shouldn't either right because we imitate God he created us in His image and he follows H and we follow the same H okay so the Clear goes on and he says if that's true both names have to represent something meaning the same thing now he's taking us on a little journey to what we're going to call the Final Redemption it should be soon our days and that verse is in Isaiah chapter 40 verse four that's that's number six the top of Page Three it's says every Valley shall be raised and every mountain and every Hill shall be lowered and the Crooked terrain shall become a plane p l a i n and the close mountains a champagne by the way champagne Rashi right he lived in France as well he says champagne is a smooth and even terrain and we looked it up today on Google and it's true the champagne grapes grow in an area of France called champagne which is a smooth and even terrain okay just uh file that somewh right okay so what do we have here in the Hebrew when we talk about crooked look at the word crooked in Hebrew it's a Cove and what about the word for Straight Like a straight place that's called leure like a plane a straight plateau of sort I think I might have skipped an important Rashi previously if we go back to uh the first Rashi on on chapter 35 verse1 just understand the word Yakov not only does it mean heal which is a very low place it also means stealth and Gile let's just use crooked okay because that's our verse which we just quoted in Isaiah 40:4 that it's a crooked terrain it's um it's deceptive and it's crooked okay it's not straight as opposed to Israel the name we said was um the hinted at Isaiah 40:4 it was it's going from Yakov to right from HOV from being crooked to being a straight plane so leure mure now the clear is explaining the word m is a hint to the name Isel I mean you have accept the me but you have basically the the main consonant are the same okay so that's important information regarding the future Redemption and the clear says the word akov which we know means either deceptive or crooked or low that's nigar Min yov the same root as yob and the word me okay listen to this When God says your name shall be Isel and because the word right is to contend to contend with God but Israel also means sarel shall be the minister or the ambassadors you shall right you're going to be the Ministers of God you are God's Representatives here in this world that's Israel but it also Shale you go straight with God you use no intermediaries so for all those people of other religions keep in mind get rid of these intermediaries for you Jews out there money is not you know the end game here okay uh trust in God In God We Trust okay so we go straight to God without any intermediaries and the clear says me basically it's the same root okay straight to God or straight with God and how do we know this says now since it says this is a new idea since it says in mik 7 verse1 15 as in the days of your Exodus from the land of Egypt I will show him wonders so this is also talking about a future event as we're going to be witnessing and have been seeing ourselves the last 100 years really I mean we've been around right these Generations but it says here in Hebrew like just as the days when you left Egypt I will show you wonders so the question is when I began by saying you know we're going to see much more bigger n wonders and miracles happening in the future maybe that's not true maybe at worst the will be the same as Egypt and if that's true going back to our original question why would the remembrance of what happens in the future um out outshine that which happened in Egypt if it's the same if it's amazingly the same okay so mik implies it may not be amazingly greater it may just be as great which is fine with me I'm open for that okay so that's the uh that's going to be the question of the he says based on that verse the inference could be that the Miracles that are going to take place in the future which is just around the corner will not be any greater maybe they'll just be as great so why are we making this claim that the Miracles that took place in Egypt 3,300 years ago pale in comparison to the Miracles that are happening now or tomorrow great question guys so you know if I don't answer this you're not going to sleep tonight or tomorrow or ever until you hear the answer here he begins the answer now it may be hard for us to really comprehend for those who are spiritually sensitive it should be easier so I'm working on my own spiritual sensitivity l we did leave Egypt in the day not at night running away however because we left with the yadama yadama means like hallelujah we're leaving and we deserve it and we earned it held head held up high we did leave Egypt with a yadama but we didn't earn it we didn't deserve it we were Idol worshippers in Egypt we were I don't know what else we were Sinners let's it like that we were sinners in Egypt of course we kept certain traditions we didn't speak lashara which was it's a big deal that's a big deal but he says because we didn't earn it even though we did leave with the Yad how should we have left because of our own merits which we didn't have any it was would have been required of us to leave and not not only a lowly fashion not only a lowly fashion but also in a type of fashion that is going to be described as deceptive like the way the AR left in the middle of the night see we left the following morning in daylight okay for all the Egyptians to see the whole world had to see the Jews leaving Egypt we didn't cower over okay we held our heads up high that's what happens when you leave in the day when you leave in the middle of the night that's called Ste stealthily okay and shamefully okay that's not that's not how we left although we deserved to have left like that because and it'll bring the verse in shortly on second remember what we said to Pharaoh come let us go right let us go and for three days that was a little deception there right we were ready for a full fled deception by the way I just want to mention and I should have mentioned in the beginning before any of our dignitaries ever went on a mission to do negotiations whether it was in business or diplomacy okay with the Enemy with people who were not our our best of friends they always read and learned par par okay it's in M it's a big deal you know would go to Rome and speak to them he would always go into learn because you need to know how to deal with your enemy and this is not an accident that right now with all that we've been going through that negotiations are either being made they're being made for sure question is you know do we have the uh that the help from Heaven to open up our minds to what we need to do and how we need to behave how to behave it's very important what I'm saying and I'm sorry I missed it anybody who didn't hang in there for the last 20 minutes missed this I should have said it the beginning but it's h it's it's it's very important to know that um but anyway what did we say to Pharaoh we said let us go we're just GNA go for three days and serve our God and see in Exodus 12: 11 and we did leave quite quickly once we were allowed to leave um so there is a comparison because the arav is actually two3 of the Jewish people yes there were three million Jews that left there were six million AR there were n million people in the desert and it's in a um it's in a milila and I want to tell you this that that's the minimum there's uh two other opinions that it's twice that and three times that of the Arab yeah unbelievable right they we're walking around they they mag they converted with us and they're they're part of us and they've been our uh a pain in the side ever since uh but anyway going back to the clear he says that's how we should have left in fact we even asked to leave that way and so in Genesis chapter I'm sorry Exodus chapter 12 verse 11 and this is how you shall eat it your loins grew girded right we ate the matah why do we eat matah because of the idea that we had to get out in haste your shoes on your feet the staff in your hand and you shall eat in Hast haste it's a Passover sacrifice to the Lord means quickly and even Rashi says there a term denoting haste and speed okay then what about the the the Exile of Babylon when we were finally redeemed from Babylon with the it's obvious that that was not the Final Redemption it was not a complete Redemption it was just an appointed appointed time right God said do you're going to be exiled for the amount of time that you didn't keep the shmita year right so the amount of shm years that we missed over 490 years so we were exiled or 420 years whatever can't do the math right now but we were exiled for the 70 years for the that we did not keep so it was an it was a point in time that's what it means it was not a complete Redemption the and even when we left Babylon look in Isaiah chapter 48 verse 20 it says leave Babylon flee from the Chans so in other words you have to run these types of redemptions involved a running a shameful perhaps even lowly State for the Jewish people but in the future I tell you I'm not me I'm telling you what it says we are going to leave with our H heads held up high because we earned it wow that's like a big jump but listen to what the clear says so we just read uh right I skipped something again I'm going to go back when it comes to the later or the last the last Redemption this is so important after all of our sins have been expunged does it because we did cha yeah or we suffered either way right I just want to go over these ideas there's a and C God created the world and he wants to to give us reward so he gave us Mitzvah okay you don't do the Mitzvah guess what then you miss plan a there's plan a do the Mitzvah cling to God have a relationship with God be happy okay that's plan a God knows that we're not all perfect we're not I mean I'm talking for myself here we're not all perfect see Plan B Plan B is chuva right there's a there's a way out okay got Plan B but he also knows that we're just flesh and blood and we might not do chuba perfectly so there's plan C plan C is suffering so you got Mitzvah plan a okay we're human chuva and we don't do Chua perfectly if we don't do chuva completely and perfectly uh there's plan C and he says like this so at the Final Redemption after we've been expunged uh empty purified from our sins in its entirety through the hard long Exile don't worry if you didn't do plan a and you didn't do plan B plan C will take care of itself okay it will be hard and suffering Exile we have been through and we will be what then we will automatically be uh have enough merits that Final Redemption I mean you know what we're going through now we are so we are by the way chapter 53 of Isaiah I Isaiah chapter 53 the suffering servant that is the Jewish people if you read all through the 40s and in the beginning of the 50s and even what does God call his suffering his servant he says yakob my servant Israel is my servant okay so anybody who thinks that that's not the case go back to kindergarten okay here we go so the clear says that it will be sufficient our merits will be sufficient that the Jewish people will go out in the Final Redemption with a Hands Held up high meaning our heads held up high beore like the name Israel like a a flat plane that is uh not lowly right the not lowly or deceitful and certainly not even out of haste um so it says in Isaiah chapter 52 verse 12 says over there for not with haste shall you go forth and not in a flurry of flight shall you go that Final Redemption will not be in haste or flee okay and this is what it means going back to Isaiah chapter 40 verse4 where it says that the the Crooked places will be flattened will be straight again going from the state of yov to the state of Israel the state of Israel the you know mean the status when we call but the name is not entirely uprooted just like the Rememberance that we left Egypt will not be entirely uprooted either rather will be remembering the the the future Redemption the one that's happening now along with what happened 3,300 years ago but it's important to know this you will know they will know and they will recognize that there is a big difference between them now which which sin caused sin is the reason for Exile it says in Ezekiel chapter 20:8 I mean we know this from tradition but Ezekiel says but they rebelled against me and would not consent to hearken to me they did not Cast Away every man the Despicable Idols from Before Their Eyes neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt and I said to pour out my wrath on them to give my anger full Reign Over them in the midst of the land of Egypt this is referring to the Jews when they were still Idol worshippers in Egypt Rashi says they were they are the Wicked the majority of Israel who died in the three days of darkness by the way we went upim we went up armed the word K right you go into a a bank or a store Banks they don't do it anymore you go to a hospital you going to a place where they have a guard and they look at you and they say are you K I want to tell you something the word like K means armed no question about it it also like Rashi says cion Zion Zion over on that PK CL means armed I want to tell you some really interesting uh piece of information so tell us only one fifth of the Jews left Egypt four fifths died in the ninth plague of Darkness as Rashi says over here one out of and then there's another opinion not one out of five one out of 50 many many Wicked Jews died we were not sading when we were in Egypt what I want to tell you is this the clear explains says what do you mean we went up K he's very bothered by that we were slaves we didn't know how to use arms and not only that the medra says we went out with five identical weapons everyone had the same what a miracle and we didn't even had to use them something's wrong with the picture he says these this word K means weapons it means the five books of Moses we left Egypt willing to accept the Torah in other words we didn't really receive it yet until Hari and then through the desert but before we even left we knew we were the Servants of God we knew that we were going to Mount Si to receive the Torah and it's as if we had already received it in our hearts so next time you go through one of those turn Styles and they ask you if you're K whip out yourish and say I'm armed I'm armed this is the instrument that's going to win the war yeah we do need our weapons as we explain if you don't do everything that's necessary from a natural point of view Hashem will not fulfill all the Miracles and take care of the enemy first you do that and then Hashem will take care of everything else the is the Torah in general is our weapon of War okay with that in mind going back to the clear we just quoted he says from the aspect that we were what we were not really fit we were not really fit uh to be redeemed on a high level that's why it was secondary T sh and that's why the name yov is actually not entirely uprooted even in this we need both the Redemption itself this future Redemption uses two aspects of redemption what are they this is where we're going to get into the re and this is where we get into a little bit of cabalistic and mystical teachings he says so there's going to be what we call redemption or salvation physically from the the subjugation and the pains the anti-Semitism right from the physical pains but there's another type of redemption there's a Salvation or a Redemption on a soul level regarding the spiritual Concepts that were given over to the status of Israel to the state of the Jewish people is like the names yob and Israel represent one of those which we know now is yob represents the more physical state the Rani and the second of the more spiritual state and the last page I'm G I'm gonna go through with you because I think it's really important before we go through the want to finish the last three lines even though it's true that the spiritual is the main part and that's going to be equivalent to Isel mik nevertheless the Shan yov the name yov was L was never entirely uprooted why because a person is is incorporated with both aspects and both need to be activated shame back to our original question why aam was not used sorry was entirely uprooted we don't call anymore because in truth he is the that's his name Abraham is literally the father of at least you know we know the the religions the main religions they call them the I don't know they call them the great religions I have a hard time saying that but okay Christianity they claim to follow Abraham's teachings and the Muslims certainly claim they claim they claim it's a false claim but okay not there's certain there's a lot of things it's a lot of things that they follow they should follow from Abraham there's no doubt there's no doubt he says also that the the the population the tents of AD in is the tents the the um the population of Christianity and Islam came from his well actually he's talking about literally their seed but we know that their seed is more of a concept and it spread into these two major that's not great but major okay major religions um came from his Loy now what I'd like to take you on is a little journey into the of Baya it's the re is based on Genesis chter 47 verses 28- 29 keep in mind when yakob is about to die Yakov it says Yakov lived so the name Yakov is used in the land of Egypt for 17 years and jakob's right jakob's days the amount of his life was 147 and the next verse says when the time Drew near for Israel to die so even the even at his death it's using both names so and on page 683 of the book that I you have it in front of you um it's it's a lot to read but I will tell you the interesting interesting things he begins just by mentioning that throughout the the Torah the both yra and yov used interchangeably when it's referring to Yakov and the name Yakov appears six times the name Israel appears 13 times I say that's significant but we're not going to get into it here from a more scientific and rational point of view we may detect a distinct pattern in the Torah sometimes choosing to refer to Yakov by his original name and sometimes by his additional name the name Yakov applies to the physical part of yakov's Personality matters connected to his terrestrial existence where the name whereas the name Israel refers to the spiritual as aspects of his personality matters connected to his eternal existence in Celestial regions when Yakov had first been given the name Yakov the Torah stated this was reflected was holding on to the heel of his brother asov we find the name is first used in connection with Yakov having Su successfully contented contended with the celestial force representing his brother ASA it is therefore clear that the additional name ping an additional name not a a replacement name uh is was intended principally to reflect yakov's spiritual accomplishments so that would be the first solid explanation as we've been talking about what isra represents seeing that it is impossible it is impossible for a human being while part of a body to digest himself totally of bodily needs and concerns which we said that's why both a person is given both portions you're not just a spirit you're like a a jockey riding on a horse your your your body is your vehicle is your horse you have to take care of it feed it guard it love it at the same time know the you're really a spirit having a physical are you are we a spirit having a physical um uh experience or are we physical people having a spiritual experience I would say we're really the jockey the jocky is the spirit We Are Spiritual Beings having a physical experience okay but we're both you cannot deny that uh seeing that okay fine so so I'm going to read that again seeing that it is impossible for a human being while part of a body while part of a body to divest himself totally by needs and concerns we can appreciate what our sages said that contrary to the name of raham which actually totally replaced the name Abraham the name Israel did not replace the name yakob it reflected the fact that yakob had attained an additional dimension in his personality development I'm going to skip uh to the next page oh no no no let me just read a few more lines therefore the name Yakov henceforth became subordinate to that Tel secondary to that of isra the use of these names teaches amongst other matters that if someone makes his spiritual Dimensions subordinate to his physical terrestrial concerns this kills him it leads to his death sooner or later okay I want to turn the page and go down uh to the middle paragraph just the first eight lines of the middle paragraph upon closer examination you will find that when the Torah employs the name Yakov to describe our patriarch it refers to his terrestrial concerns concerns which are indispensable for any human being that means the physical whereas when it switches by calling him Israel it refers to his spiritual concerns matters which are larly largely abstract this is what the prophet Isaiah 43:1 had in mind when he said who created you oh Yakov who formed you oh Israel keep in mind the word create is B and you formed is we have these in cabala these four different levels of creation Bria being the lowest and that referring to Yakov The Next Step Up is Israel and that would would be Y and the verse itself Isaiah 43 says that specifically how these names are used differently in connection with the name Yakov the prophet only mentioned the word Bria A Primitive kind of creation where his connection whereas in connection with spiritual parts of man the prophet speaks of of a more sophisticated product one that has undergone an advanced form of formation I'm going to leave it at that I want all to go through and review and see the in full by itself but what do we see here first of all Hal we should all live up to the name israa okay that's the first thing we see Yakov was a that name represent a lower aspect it's true physical you cannot totally uproot the physical we are here to uplift this the physical world into higher spiritual Dimensions the only way right unless you're really spiritually gifted you go out and you meditate the field and get in touch with nature but it's very difficult the best way aside from that or in conjunction with that is to learn Torah the Torah the Torah is God's instruction manual and he lays it all out and I had a conversation today with somebody says well it's not explicit in the Torah I said but the Torah itself says God gave you torot torot is plural he gave you a a written Torah it's true but he gave us an oral Torah every word every sentence every Nuance is explained what do you think we spent 40 years doing wandering in circles we were 28 years in one place we everywhere we went was with a mission in mind we had 42 specific Miss uh Journeys and uh the CLE car explains each one of the 42 Journeys that the Jewish people experiened in the desert every human being experiences within his own life her own life 42 distinct levels of life and Journeys and with that I wish you a great life a good shabas a victory if we are together and bat we will continue to stick together and we'll see you I'm not sure next week but happy Hanukkah and we'll see you soon call to [Music] bye [Music] oh