Mystical Insights into Sabbatical Year with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody back to the infinite midrash welcome home to torah a warm welcome at that and i just wanted to start off we are in parshas bahar slash bahukhotai tonight we're only going to be dealing with the first few verses of bahar for those who've seen this before i heard this before there's always something new something deeper but i want to start off just by mentioning that i remember my rosh shiva with noah weinberg he uh he always said that hashem wants us to be unified no matter what happens the goal is to have a unified nation everyone should care about each other everyone should love each other i know that's like a really high ideal but we have free will and that we have the torah as the ingredients the instruction manual and unfortunately when we fail when we do not do what we need to do hashem will make it happen and we just had a horrible tragedy in may road we're not going to blame anybody at this moment that's not what this class is about that's not what i'm going to mention but the bottom line is that the beauty that comes from the unification of the people after such things like this is it's unbelievable it's really unbelievable amount of actus octus is unity and you know whatever could be found out in order to prevent something like this happening before or if there are people to blame of course lessons should be learned and it should never happen again but to keep in mind the unity let it last not only let it last whatever hashem wanted us to learn bizrat hashem we should really take to heart allowing people a life you know okay so here we go we are in chapter 25 of leviticus it's actually verse two well actually it's verse one let's go to versums that's what we're going to deal with okay the adam adanoyamosha now if i said the next word is lame war what would you all say that i skipped two words correct how many times does that verse appear throughout the torah right god spoke to moses saying what does saying mean to tell over god spoke to moses told him something and the instruction is now to tell it over to the jewish people in fact the word the adabir is a code word for the written torah meaning the exact words that god told moses to say whatever god told moses and then lay more is it's a different word than vyadavir it means to say over it actually means to tell over in a way that the people can understand you don't have to use my words god said you must take these words and tell it over to the people in a language in a way they can understand so you have the word the adapter which somehow represents what we call the written torah it's concrete it's never changing static and lay more which represents the oral torah the softness the difference between the diabetes it's a softness it's a way of communicating so that the listener can actually hear what you're saying now i did skip two words because it says bill harsinah so many times we have this verse without the words bahar sinai and right here right now in our verse we have marcina so what is so significant about these words that god had to tell moses at this particular place to tell over what interestingly enough what is what is what are what is the narrative as you continue you'll see it's about the shemitah the sabbatical year allowing the land to lie fallow not only that then there's seven times seven meaning at the end of the seventh cycle the 50th year it's called the jubilee year there are so many details so many say generalities and details that were told over rashi rashi says that the main reason or at least the first reason he brings down so the very fact that har sinai is in this verse has to be significant so rashi mentions that this is either the main reason or the least cup shot the the idea that one should recognize is that the oral torah just as this particular mislab of shmita which by the way is coming up in less than half a year for a whole year shemitah is this rosh hashanah isn't that great okay so the sabbatical year now just amazing idea by the way i'm going to try to save this idea for later but remind me if i don't bring it up that the farmers who allow their and they all should right all the jewish farmers in earth's israel allow their land to life fallow what do they do that year they are supposed to sit and learn torah that is going to be key to what we're going to discuss tonight so remind me to bring that up if i don't mention it it has to come it has to come up because that's going to be the main thing [Applause] so rashi simply says that just like the idea of shemitah was told over at har sinai but not just any day by the way we'll see we're referring to this 50th day called chavuz meaning the 50th day from the time we left egypt meaning that this we're counting the owner seven weeks time seven on the fiftieth day that's shibuyas that's called it serious that's when the misters were told over to moses specifically this mitzvah for a reason that the clear car will tell us and i am of the opinion that is a novel idea of his because the way he expresses it but remember he's a student of the morale there's no way that he made this up he just put what happens is what i think is a douche the concept of the douche a novel idea is when you're able to see the same information you received it but within you your native your heart and your brain connect a certain way and you're able to connect the dots in a way that probably or previously nobody ever did before but it was all there right in front of the whole time and i shouldn't even say nobody did before perhaps it just wasn't related to you remember whatever generation we are there's like whatever 60 some generations going back to rc9 so at somebody during the last you know 300 years thought of it considered it practiced it even heard from their rabbi but it wasn't in your particular tradition you didn't hear from your father you didn't hear from your rabbi but you're able to tune in finally tune into those reverberations and i'm going to use this word meaningfully meaningfully the chauffeur that was blown at heart c9 the sounds that were blown in harsh scenario that you can tap into okay so nothing is new under the sun let's begin corrode the shmo in the clear car by the way for those who are not familiar i want you to know that this class is based on the writings of the clear car frying of lunches one of the greatest students of the morale he actually was the rav of prague following the maharal's tenure as the rav of pride and he says karobe shemoah meaning listen well or it's easy to understand for him for us bazrat hashem when moses went up to harcina kisha allah moshe el harsinai when moses went up after seven complete weeks shisap through israel right this was the day following the jewish people's counting of 49 days and by the way schwa says a little over a week from the day of pesach meaning that they following pesach until the actual leg we call uh at cerris why is it called why should we call it ceres because really it's like one big holiday when we have the temple and we're not in galut anymore it will be a real big celebration that's hollow night for these 48 i don't know because you have to count colombo you have to count the last episode but whatever from passage until it service will be one long celebration what happened on that day following uh meaning matures itself there was a sanctification then the ultahar on that very mountain i just want to stop for a second when i was in yeshiva in asia torah and roshiva again i love to quote him he sat all the new students down and he says you know i know it's going to be very difficult for you this was like anybody was planning to go home to visit their family he wanted to give us some keys of some strength some ideas that we should be able to walk away with and make sure that we stayed strong in our faith he says you know you're going to be tested you know your families are not they don't really know anything about what yeshiva is in fact my family never heard the word yeshiva they thought when they consulted certain people that it was a cult yeah that orthodox judaism and whatever yeshiva is represented was a cult yeah okay so the idea here is that he says they're going to ask you questions but there's always like one family member who's kind of kind of who's gonna gonna kind of start up with you and they're gonna argue with you what are you guys learning in yeshiva not out of curiosity but out of perhaps instigating an argument you know wanting to argue so uh of course i did happen to have one particular i don't even call him a family member but uh like an uncle like a um a very good friend of my father's and always starting up with me so he said this is what you need to tell them when they start asking what do you learn yeshiva in a very provocative way play it off it's not really that it's not really going to interest you remember all they want to do is this particular type of person all they want to do is argue lower the temperature let them ask you ten times by the tenth time they're pulling their hair out what are you guys learning in yeshiva and then you tell about the revelation of mount sinai that's what we're doing all day long we're just sitting and learning about what god said to the jewish people and then what can they answer you what can they say to you this is an amazing thing for the last 3 300 years this is what we do we discuss we live it right we think about ways in which it's practical right making it practical in our lives from the ethical teachings down to the the minute minute details right okay so here what happened mit kadesh oz o to ahar on that 50th day that awesome and i don't know what are the words to use incredible day that mountain became holy vanessa biz river but it was only on the 50th day we're talking about that it became forbidden to plant or to harvest on the 50th day shabbat nintendo because that was the day the torah was given the torah was given received let's say given it wasn't received until a young kipper but it was given us i want to focus on those words what does it mean so those words somewhat appear in aposic and i wonder if i brought the classic um i think it's in uh number four these sheets if you go to exodus chapter 19 verse 12 and 13 um looking through the hebrew it's at the end of 13. where it says when the rams horn sounds a long drawn out blast think about those words drawn out blessed what is a blast it's referring specifically to the ram's horn a ram's horn that's making a sound okay keep that in mind that's what the verse uses now if you go to back into the clear card he says i'm going to try to translate it in a eloquent manner that this is the time what time we're talking about we're talking about shavuots right or are we talking about shemitah let's see maybe there's an overlap maybe there's a uh i think of different words here let's let's use this particular um phrase they call a shofar i'm sorry it's yoga that it is the time where there's drawing fourth of now yo means jubilee that's how it's translated to english but what in the world is jubilee it's really referring to a freedom it's actually based on the mobile yovil is based on mobile meaning the freedom to transport goods to transport yourself from one place location to another it's a very interesting word because most of us who are coming from first world free democracy countries we know what it means to have freedom so meshika tayova keep in mind we're not only talking about there's a drawing forth of freedom and i want you to get that word into your into your noggin but it's also based on the sound of the shofar like rodr not from philadelphia so in the liberty bell it actually has this phrase proclaim liberty throughout the land so this is the idea here mashika tayovel drawing forth the sound of the shofar lithro the roar of sheila israel to proclaim freedom and liberty to all of the jewish people now here's a little bit of a play on words because it actually referring back to um if you want to go back to exodus chapter 32 16. do i have it here um yes number two right now the tablets were god's work is talking about the actual tablets with the ten commandments the ten statements and the inscription was god's inscription so it was a shampoo chiseled out so to speak uh the 10 statements on these two tablets as the last few words engraved on the tablets the word in hebrew in the actual homish it's spelled we pronounce it which means engraved but wait to hear this it's in perkiamos chapter 2 verse 6. do not read it meaning we do read it as engraved but there's another level of understanding right there's no vowels in the torah that's all the oral torah that it's read this way you can also read it and you should read it understandably as means freedom liberty that's really what it means and i'll just tell you what the perkial vote says about this the tablets are the work of god and the writing is god's writings engraved on the tablets don't read it as kharut which means engraved but is liberty and why is that for there is no free individual nobody is considered free unless except for he who occupies himself with the study of torah okay i don't want to go i don't want to spend too much time reading the rest of that um but this somebody asked me about non-jews are they allowed to learn torah can they occupy themselves with torah i don't want to go into this too much either because i want to spend more time on bihar but i just want to say that a non-jew according to the rambam and where does the rambam say this is mita and jubilee that anyone who comes into the world can dedicate themselves to learning torah okay but i do want to warn you there's a caveat and that's what i want to make sure it's clear to those listening those non-jews are listening number one you must recognize that the torah was given by god had harsinai that's a prerequisite if you're going to learn it now if you're just investigating it of course but to really occupy yourself to really dedicate yourself this is a prerequisite you have to come to this understanding right once you come to this understanding then you know that it belongs to the disseminators who's given by god at harsinai to the jewish people it says so in the torah itself you have any questions you're not allowed to invent your own religion that is going to be the next most important point here it's forbidden to create your own religion therefore religion i i don't like the word religion but there's already a way of life and that is under the banner of right as a non-jew following the seven of high laws of course then there's a full conversion to be jewish and there's quite a lot in between as agiratosha which unfortunately is not a it's not applicable today because there's no it's connected to the jubilee year by the way once we have the majority of jews living in the land of israel we have a temple sanhedrin and what not okay majority jews living in israel then we have a jubilee laws of there's other laws connected to it and then the the garetoshaft status would apply in its fullness and that is a semi-status between a full-fledged non-jew living outside the land as and as opposed to full convert living in the land and somewhere in between okay again this class is not for that but i just want to make that clear number one that you believe that the the rev that the torah is from god and that there is such a thing as the transmissions therefore if you want to be oh you say do not be involving your own don't learn on your own it doesn't mean you can't learn from jewish books you can't learn from jewish sources but don't think that you understand anything on your own and you will for surely make a mistake and create your own religion we have seen it for the last 3 300 years how many people have picked up what they would call the bible and how many i mean just doesn't how many christian sex are there i can't even count and let alone think about muslim sex they also believe in the bible and there are i don't know if it's just as many but as close to so many thousands of different groups of muslims as well so that's a huge mistake okay now now let's go on so the last thing we really mentioned was this idea of meaning the freedom true freedom is found specifically to the engraving because engraving is not adding into a piece of paper but it's carving out and creating borders creating limits obeying you know dictates that limit you that's where you find your true freedom i know that sounds so um counter-intuitive but we do know that good borders make good neighbors right good fences make good neighbors there's a city methula in the northern part of israel bordering us ordering lebanon i think and there's a crossing there it's called the good fence it's the good fence which helps create good neighbors anyway let's go on the in they call hashofar it's through the voice the sound of the chauffeur of matantora of that day called shibuyas or i think they call it pentatoc is that what it's called pentecost pentecost i think it's related to the word 50 right pentecost anyway so it's through the sound of the chauffeur of the matan torah of the real true revelation the time the torah was given it was at that moment right it was at that moment that hashem related to moses this concept of the shemitah the sabbatical year and the jubilee year and all their details now what exactly was moses told he was told saying like this partisan that those very numbers the concepts behind the number seven and seven times seven which is like seven squared like seven maxed out forty nine ah nino ten kendusha zulu colors israel i hashem and placing or transmitting or transferring like from harseen i from this whole event this whole experience i'm placing that on the land this holiness on the land and there was a book when i first became religious called i think it was called living in the palace of god it was all about eretz israel we you know we i think hopefully i don't know we shouldn't take it for granted for those who are living here that every step you walk every breath you take every tree you look at every cloud you see pass over your head it's like it's breathtaking it could take your breath away in a good way right it gives your neshama kius life the life force itself and now listen to how he says that there actually is to the land of israel a similarity and a relationship with mount sinai by the way mount sinai has many names one of the names is maria and what do we know the name harmony is right over here over my shoulder my right shoulder a few hundred meters right maybe a little bit longer than a few hundred meters but okay a kilometer maybe so here you have it that mount moriah there is an opinion that we were actually transported at the time of the revelation to harsenai because there is an overlap here between the holiness which was only temporary on mount sinai and the holiness which is permanent over here nearest israel mitzadhayota evira this phrase and the next one are very important from the very aspect that the environment the word avir of iran means the air and i think it means much more than the air i think it means the environment okay so from the aspect that the air causes one to be wise breathing it in right and i like the word environment a little bit better than of air but it try to think about it like that the aim torah torah er it's israel there is no torah like the torah of the land of israel these are very important concepts to remember however that's from the gemara and the medrash and he adds two words the harsinai as if they're the same because he began by telling us there's a dimny on the yakas there's a similarity in a relationship so there's no torah like garrett's israel there's no torah like hearthsteena obviously right atmosphere huh thank you stephen so look at that i wasn't far off i never saw that but it makes sense alkane royally tengam the arat sahih kadusa sarsinayaka misbartesh the miss barshiva therefore it's totally fitting it's most fitting to place or to transmit also onto the land of israel this holiness of har sinai meaning the experience that holiness that unbelievable kedusha after the number 49 which we experienced 49 days after we left egypt so too the same two same idea with number seven obviously it's not the same as 49 another jubilee has much more greater ramifications than the shemitah but we're including the laws of shemitah into this now he says or meaning and what else are we experiencing let's say on shavuous or ie what are we experiencing on the jubilee year in order to make a commemoration a zika rhone a remembrance a commemoration to the actual revelation itself at arsenal by the proclamation of freedom remember it's all through the torah i'd actually mentioned in the beginning to remind me of something uh we'll get to it he says in addition or in combination combined whatever he said so far he's not negating the other commentators in combination to all the other reasons for this mitzvah that's why it says barcenae and he says the zen this is completely proper the corrode the shemoah and easy to understand now we're going to it begins and then yeah which it wouldn't just mean come and listen it can't just mean come and listen if you end with it it has to be more like what i said it's easy to understand or it's easy for me to understand it means it's close to hearing but the word the shemoah does not just mean hearing it means understanding and if it's close to understanding that means it's easy to understand in my this is how i would translate it by the way i encourage everyone to learn hebrew and um on our website gmna.com you can find there's a link in the in the uh description box below of this youtube video that gives you a link to where you can find the source sheets the original source sheets in hebrew i don't put up the english ones that i let you do the work yourself unless you want to join us and then i can send you by email in advance so basically i encourage you to do such a thing and the next verse it actually says it's also in source one when you come to the land that i'm giving you okay you should say to them when you come to the land that i'm giving you the land shall rest a sabbath to the lord so let me just ask you guys a question what's the purpose of the rest it's for hashem hashem it's somehow dedicated to hashem guess what you asked the um the scientists they would say you leave the land fallow in order to replenish the minerals in order not to drain the strength of the land it's healthy for the land which would mean if that was true our verse should say when you come to the land i'm giving you the land shall rest as a rest of the land but it doesn't say that so let's begin with uh the clear car we're in the very last two lines of the first page i sent out but tom it's the zoo yes according right the the reason for this mitzvah have various opinions in fact very differing opinions kirabi mo ma omrim there are many that say now according to this many he's going to include the rambam shatamu the reason is shatishbo ta'aretz kidaish that the main reason for this uh laying the land fallow is in order to and i'll use the word replenish it means to add energy to the land and i want you to look i brought down a number seven and i got this from different websites that the the concept of crop rotation basically you think they leave it fallow we have to leave it foul but what the non-jews do all over the world is they do crop rotation and if you if let's say you grow wheat so you divide your your crops into three meaning your your land you make three whatever let's say every hundred yards so you have uh one whatever 33 yards you shouldn't say yards meters 100 meters so 33 meters is going to lay not with grain this year you're going to plant rice or beans beans different types of vegetables or other sorts of things other crops other than grain and then the next year a different 33rd right different um 33 right a different third and then the third year the the last remaining third that wasn't yet uh let's say fallow i it's not really phthalo it's you're using it for crop rotation because looks in what it says the crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops rather than the same vegetable or members of the same family in the same place each year so the idea had developed obviously that would be a total loss well total loss of the third instead plant a different grain a different type of crop and that would help enhance the idea here is um crop rotation will prevent the soil from wearing out he mentions some technical terms heavy nitrogen phosphorus and potassium feeding crops such as tomatoes are rotated with soiled budding crops such as beans which add nitrogen to soil and then the light feeding crops such as onions okay there's a whole science here we're not going to get into it but you get the idea that and this is also why ashkenazi jews had developed the custom of not eating of not eating what kidney or passive okay because the way in europe anyway they did i don't think they did in the middle east but in at least in europe they had grains growing except when they did this crop rotation and they planted beans well do you think you can totally get rid of the grains that were growing from the previous years no of course seeds fell and as you have a crop of beans growing you have little pieces of grains and those grains of course when you boil the beans you're going to boil the grains the one or two grains that got stuck in the you know the larger uh quantity of means and there you have khanates okay okay that's not for now let's go on well basically we said like this that many people believe this is the reason shitish both in order to add nutrition and add add energy into the the fertility of the land well the day of zoo returning to the next page and according to this opinion so tell us right away the more nabooking the rav of the martin of came no other than none other than the rambam himself opines he opined that way however robin many disagree with the rambam that's fair and they say like this why would they disagree with the rambam one of the reasons i mentioned earlier right if it's a shabbos to land their shop is to hashem but let's start with the way he brings it down if the torah was really concerned for the land shalom in order not to diminish weaken the the land itself why would the punishment be exile we always think in terms of measure for measure what kind of punishment punishments you're supposed to learn from not just we don't have a vindictive god who just punishes for no sake he wants us to learn the lesson and come back to him and follow his rules so the best way he does it is by sending us a message a clear as clear as possible a clear message so that we can pick up what we did wrong that's what measure for measure means that the punishment the so-called punishment fits the crime so that we could figure out what the crime was in order to fix it by having a clear message this is what i did oh so so what why would the jewish people be exiled on account of not keeping shemitah yet anshum shalom twice if artists taped kokomo wouldn't it be more logical that the consequences of constantly working the land would just be a weaker crop let the crop just continue to diminish that would be a crime a punishment that fits the crime so you figure out what you're doing wrong not only that he says shane says shabbos lesham this idea with you if it's for the land it's not for hashem tsar haras the only reason you're doing it is for the sake of the land not for the sake of hashem and we even have a verse in chapter 26 verse 34 number eight on the english english sources it says then the land will be appeased regarding its sabbaticals and at the end of that verse and the land will rest and thus appease its sabbaticals which does give the impression to external certain extent that it is for the land correct well guess what mata of the position of israel if you really think about the fact that we're exiled as a result of not keeping shemitah that's what it says will happen and that's what did happen right we were exiled exactly 70 years for the 70 cycles that we didn't keep shemitah in the first temple in the second temple i'm not even sure that the majority of the jews came back i'm not as far as i know we weren't obligated in shmita on a torah level similar today we keep shmita on a rabbinic level right because we don't want to forget any moment now to become elevated to a torah level obligation but anyway so and there are certain aspects of shemitah that let's not go into that right now maybe we'll give a whole sheer just on shmita but that applies only to shroud i mean i know some interesting fellows that might be watching this right now they live in texas they're the different places and they claim they keep shemitah and that god blesses them god bless them what can i tell you and perhaps they're blessed but the obligation is here in the land for the jewish people so the question really is what benefit would there be that the jewish people would be exiled from the land of israel and the the yeshua right if we were exiled from the land which we were and who came here in our stead other people now god promises they will not succeed in making the land flourish but that doesn't mean they won't try that means that if the jewish people are working the land right continuously violating shemitah violating yeovil right this is the following just violating it that the punishment should be that they would leave the land and who comes in their stead other people romans greeks iranians uh egyptians whoever they are right they come in their stead and they're going to work it straight through so what benefit would there be to the land by half because way to hear the land is alive the land has it's hard to explain because it's an inanimate object but yet it responds it throws us out of the land right it responds it has a will right even inanimate objects have angels over them have spiritual energies so the land itself has an amazing spiritual energy we're going to talk about later but he says the eighth tishbo hashem amen how would the land rest while the jews are are are no longer there but you have these other people working in the land that's a great question but we're not going to answer right now he says now there's a safer called the aqueduct right the uh k-dot it's not i think i wrote something about it this rabbi isaac van moses arama he died in 1494 obviously he was in spain he was exiled with all the other jews [Music] okay so this par this book called the safer arcana the akita's yitzhak one second where are we brings a reason a different reason he gives a completely different reason now this is very important to know the reason he says is shitakely mitzvah zoo think about the goal the main idea behind this idea of counting seven years counting until the jubilee means the renewal of the world now i have three definitions of what that means and i think they're all correct because they're all simultaneously talking about the same idea means the renewal of the world that the world actually came into being and yeshmian something from nothing meaning there was a big bang whatever there was an explo there was some kind of beginning right the greek philosophers and many scientists up until about 200 years ago believed that the world always existed and i bet there's people today that think that the universe always existed okay but we believe there is actually a beginning point of creation number one another idea of is there's a constant renewal in other words just like in six days god created the world and what's he doing from that from then until now okay we're not going to talk about all the other things but one of the things he's doing is he's constantly renewing it if he would say forget the world it would cease to exist that's true but he's actually willing it into existence every moment just like the original six days he willed it into existence he's actually willing it into existence and it's recreating itself every nano i don't know exactly how to break down the seconds every moment there's a recreation going on and that should give a lot of people hope because we are new people every day we're born again every moment we are given another every moment we're given another chance think about that our bodies are a sign of that because all their cells are renewed they say that once every 10 years i think seven years for sure and the third idea be that i think what hindus could mean and i think he says it here is that just like there was a seven day cycle of creation the truth is there's a 7 000 year cycle blueprints for creation meaning the 6 000 years not going to go into the details 2000 years of this 2000 years of that but basically that 7 000 year would be shabbos and then there would be a renewal meaning life as we know it would end and there would be a new cycle and listen to his words list this idea of remembering whatever is is to remember time immemorial yamos olam it could be history but it's past tense the sofia mejialdo as well as the future the end of days on this planet which is temporary so he puts in two two categories the list core and to remember the past and the present so interesting now he also says the the revenue is similar agrees similarly with the safer al-qaeda but he has a little bit of a twist because well he doesn't really mention that much about what the r barbanel says he does say the the the barbados did add some aspects of his own kiddush to the idea but let's just say that's the idea and the clear car sticks his neck out here his neck out and he says gonzalez this is so far from reasoning why because if the whole idea is to remember there's some kind of a blueprint for creation right you have the six days whatever this um seven times seven was all about is to remember history and the future of the fact that there is such a thing as a creator how can that be what does it add what kind of additional proof no further proof is necessary than shabbos itself and shabbos itself comes every seven days so why are you why are they giving me a something to remember that i need to remember every 49 years when i already have every single week in fact us jews we count every single day it's this day it's the first day of the week not of the week in english but towards shabbos right every single day we're anticipating and looking forward to shabbos we're counting the weekdays so we're living with this constant reminder and cogniti this knowledge that god is the creator of the universe what would every 49 years help me when i have it every single day at least because he says every single week end listen to his words and when he says that is slang in the gemara for no further proof is necessary why kiyom hashabas because the very day of shabbos itself tamidi which happens constantly the kosh and every week comes to remind us about this concept what i just mentioned there's a creator there's a plan there's a constant renewal emuloyo if that doesn't help meaning every single week what kind of salvation what kind of hope is there that some that having a reminder that's going to come at such distant times meaning every 49 years and i was discussing it this morning there are times in history where people did not live and whether there were plagues uh wars i mean the mortality rate i mean even 200 years ago was closer to 30 or 40 years old so how many how many jubilees did a person get to to witness to have this so i think he's making a great point right so i think he's pushing it aside it doesn't mean it's not valid it's obviously valid it's torah but he has another idea coming up as we know the cleo car was a great orator he knew the language well and he helps us and assists us in understanding the language of the torah right so he says in order to resolve several of the if you the careful examinations within the language omir ani i'm going to tell you like this the reason for this is the reason for this mitzvah is to embed lahash like from the charish in root right roots to enroute is that a word in root enroute and bad i know the word embed to really uh you know sink depths into the jewish people this to just to root it in okay that's a verb just to root it okay uh the character the attribute of faith will beat the trust in hashem oh so i just want to mention back with the the the rambam brings the whole idea of anybody who comes into the world that includes the non-jew can mamish dedicate themselves to learning torah and it's in the laws of shemitah because the laws of shemitah is referring to the farmers and they they're like with they don't really own the land that year they're becoming not the landowners right anybody can come into the field and take whatever they want they're becoming like levy during the year of shemitah all the jewish people are like elevated to like lady because nobody's a landowner anybody can come in they're dedicating themselves to torah that's what lady is but the rambam says there anybody even a non-jew can elevate themselves to a lady it's an unbelievable concept like dedicating themselves to torah and removing the yoke you know what it means to remove the yoke of the government of big tech of all the crazy stuff going on to remove the yoke of the government and like king david says hashem is my portion right to really feel that you're totally relying on hashem and that is true that's why i preface this in the beginning how a non-jew who really wants to learn torah should if he's going to do it right he should feel and acknowledge who gave the torah who he gave it to and if he has any questions he goes to jewish people and he doesn't make up his own religion very important fundamental okay so here we have it and i brought hashem we have jews and non-jews different people listening online with me uh at skype skype call love you guys love you guys righteous gentiles because we have jews do but uh referring to them because this class is today it's just jewish sometimes we also have uh people who are in the process of converting sometimes we have people just checking it out okay let's go on this is very important that it's to embed it's to root within the jewish people these attributes of faith and trust in hashem why ki hashem was concerned yes he's concerned for what for the biggest nick shaw that i think faces our people today maybe the world and that is i'm looking for the yeah you'll find it in deuteronomy chapter um chapter 8 verses 11 through 18. basically the idea that the clear car brings down is that people will think the action also is that people will think that it's their own efforts that made them successful so the farmers work so hard and whatever i don't know they have maybe they're superstitious they do different things but basically they will forget that hashem created the world that hashem is the real bala by it he's the real owner of the land and they'll think they're the landowners when really all they are are sharecroppers right so just take a look because the hebrew in the hebrew it's the very end of the of the right i'm looking at number 11 on page four and also so what are these two last two verses god is warning us he's concerned lest you say to yourself my strength and the might of my hand has accomplished this wealth for me but you must remember the lord your god for it is he who gives you the strength we forget i mean come on we all have egos we're all human beings we're all flesh and blood we all have our own you know i said ego we all have our own self-worth issues that we have to deal with and we we need to feel that it's us we need to feel it right the question is how to feel that in a healthy metaphysical way right hashem gave you the gift of intelligence again gave hashem gave you the physical strength and stamina you must acknowledge that hashem is the one even if you're like this inventor and you cure cancer don't let it get to your head if you are the one who cured cancer many people have tried and failed the reason you succeeded because hashem gave it to you right the idea to your head the circumstances which in which you came about you do deserve you will have deserved a lot of credit but don't let it go to your head so i'm talking to you right now the one who's going to cure cancer right that's right hashem so this is a huge deal that we should not we should not forget that it's hashem the oil can mean hugo noe now this is very interesting because many people who are not living in the land of israel are listening to this and even those that are maybe will not get this concept but this world the works in a certain way okay and people who succeed yes it's true they work according to nature and their success the yakshi musha are still in but the problem is they think that it belongs to them the success is theirs and the land is theirs the heimha bali and the ainsworth alkane hashem to the legendary this is why hashem took the jewish people out of the natural world by living in the palace by living in earth's israel we see miracles all around us all the time all the time okay you just have to have the eyes to see it right and the heart to to recognize it so hashem took us out we don't live we shouldn't be living outside the land of israel those who are living here know what i'm talking about now what is the now think of this conceptually for those farmers he besha shanim what normally happens every six years the way the nations do it is la so stay safe that they would do this crop rotation they would divide the land into three sections and every two years they would seed two of those sections and one section they would leave um either fallow entirely or they would do this crop rotation with a different type of species in order today shalom in order not to diminish the power of the ground kareshbar whose god is telling the jewish people i brought you the land of israel i want you six years to plow your field work your field six years don't be like them don't be like the non-jews who do this normal they they believe that they and they are to a certain extent under nature but you're above so that's what akane spark who wanted us to know that we are above nature six years straight continuously knee day shana bashanah continuously each and every year work the land hashem is talking that hashem will continue to add i promise you to add energy nutrients whatever it is that the land will not diminish producing so that's one miracle one miracle the land will not diminish in fact it seems like even hashem will add the odd nays now there's another miracle within a miracle shocker after the fact that you went ahead and worked the land for six straight years in bashana hashish halo if after the sixth year in the sixth year in the sixth year the the land was not diminished however there's a possibility let's say that there wasn't an addition in other words the sixth year was exactly like every other year that's already a miracle right but and then if it wasn't added to that would be not natural but that would be one miracle you know what god is saying ah the robber i'm to do the opposite i'm going to make sure that in the sixth year you will get crop for three years so it's like a promise there will be an addition so no miracle number one it doesn't go down miracle number two it will go up because in the third in that sixth year you will get what do you need three years for and you need for the sixth year you don't plant the seventh so you need enough to get you to the seventh year and you can't plant for the eighth year until the eight year begins and it does take time for things to grow so you don't need three full years but you need two plus and that's what we call three enough for three years enough for those three years to get you through okay so god says yes in the sixth year yoshifa there will be additional power given over to the land and that's why it says if you go back to leviticus 25 verse 21. i have this here i think it's number 12 over there know that when i will command my blessing for you in the sixth year and it will yield produce for three years you see it it's so clear however one thing we'll have to recognize we are not masters of the hebrew language like the kliyakar was look in the hebrew it says he's going to make a claim which we'll see shortly that it could have just said it could have just said it will yield produce for three years in english which seems to say but it doesn't say you know what it says and it will make the produce for three years what he's going to say is an unbelievable that it was i'll just tell you right now that it was the same produce quantity wise in the sixth year as you get in the fifth third and you know every year but it lasted three years it's that one produce because indefinite or infinitive hey okay it means law very specifically the tavor will last three years unbelievable it's a new model of produce yes it's a special it's a specialized custom-made model of trust yeah yeah yeah so listen to this he says we just read the verse but they call him hollow that through all of these signs and wonders that i have given to you i share something that i've placed in your hands teda you will know it will become known to you kiliharets who owns the land of israel hashem owns the land of israel and through that our eyes will be raised our hearts will be raised we will be looking at hashem as the true balabayat he's the owner of the land kamo shemitsina barida taman liyomo just like when the man the monarch fell from heaven we knew who is the owner of the land we did not have food except for the food that hashem provided us and we knew it that was like living in the desert that our eyes would be fixated raised up towards hashem constantly the botamine and we would have a constant level of faith and belief this is what shemitah the the seventh year is all about shalom and you would not work the land at all during the seventh year in zero then cuts here not not seeing it and not harvesting it by the way just so i want to make it clear there are many laws that are only rabbinic today however zoraya and katsir are on the ricin okay even though there's no jubilee year even though majority jews don't live in the land of israel it's still forbidden on an internal level to do certain things and we should rely we would end up relying on a miracle which normally the case is we don't rely on miracles but in this case god is telling us to rely on this miracle that he will produce that there will be produce produce there will be grains and food produced for three years haresh namasim now that is two miracles however he says there's a third miracle over and above those other two ready that that grain that those that which was produced on the sixth year of even if the amount of produce was just like every other year nevertheless hashem will send them a blessing within the granary now the granary is a not a public area it's like it's a semi-private area meaning there's a roof and whatnot people went to work in the granary but i think it means in modesty it means also in your stomach but the literal word assam alef means the shepherd the the abundance of grain the abundance of rain that hashem will send you an abundance of grain but wait we just said it's not any more quantity that a person would eat a small amount um but it would be i'll just say the word blessed right beth and think about that word it means the source means less but every letter is a multiple of two bet is two ratios 200 cuff is 20. the very word implies multiplicity right it means to multiply to have abundance fruitful multiply there you go so here you have that you eat a small amount yet it would either expand or multiply within within your intestines within your stomach until the very grains would last three years now think about another way if you would have three years worth of crops is that a time to sit back and relax no you would have to work so hard in that sixth year by building extra silos extra storage i mean okay maybe you had to build but six years would go by they would need you to paint that maintenance you would have to fix them up so this is a big hassle in a certain sense you didn't have to work so hard but you even just think about if you had three work three times worth of produce forget about the storage and the building of the maintenance facilities just harvesting it alone would be a tremendous i'm going to say curse or pain obviously you need the food it's not we don't think it's a curse but it's a lot more work no think about it what a blessing hashem gave us in the sixth year exactly what we got in the fifth year in the fourth year and third year but there was something nutritionally more valuable or it didn't rot it wouldn't rot you were able to store the same amount but it's stored much longer however you want to look at it so he says it would last three years and and now we know from the word it says it will produce the crop and it's a ba hey how you dia it's called a um what's the word i used before it's a definite article thank you hi a little more because without the definite article you would need it just says it would produce grains for three years no it says the grain it would produce the grain so this hints through the definite article the idea that that very produce that you're getting in the sixth year is it's exactly what you would normally get each and every year you would also receive this in the sixth year the yosef hashem koch bards but hashem added power into the land meaning we're not contradicting we said earlier that hashem is giving he's adding the nutrition that he's adding the power of the land itself until that very grain until that very produce is enough to last three years and he says nigla the god of nicola this is an unbelievable miracle that's even greater than all the others now we're at the last paragraph so i hope you can bear with us everything i said meaning the clear car is proper and correct in terms of the reasoning and it's much more clearer than what all the other commentators have to say therefore he's not going to conclude that it's very logical and it makes a lot of sense she is that the proper punishment the proper punishment the most fitting punishment measure for measure for not keeping shemitah is exiled because the lack of faith if the mitzvah is all about faith so therefore as a lack of faith what else would you expect since for the very fact they didn't believe in hashem meaning as they should have the low beats and they didn't have trust in his salvation she asked a lamb nace because hashem would produce such a miracle again how to look at it enough for three years as it says now this is in jeremiah it's a very interesting verse it's in jeremiah chapter five i have to find it now it's number thirteen it's it's jeremiah five verse one jeremiah is giving rebuke to the people of jerusalem and he says stroll in the streets of jerusalem see now and know you seek in its squares whether you will find a man whether there is one who performs justice and these are the important words who seeks faith are there people that are people right if there would have been i wouldn't destroy jerusalem if there would have been you wouldn't go into eggs off there would have been so this idea of had we had people who sought justice and sought out a muna that's enough to stave off and hold off bad things from happening gamma arts atsumo now that's by hashem that's by man but the land itself is an inanimate object and yet it itself right it has spiritual energy and in itself is the land itself is very exacting or concerned regarding this because what's its goal it's an inanimate object now think about if this is true about an inanimate object how should we feel as human beings that it wanted to be an example whatever that means to produce this fruit for the jews to realize that hashem cares about them and they would only strengthen their ammuna but it was much it felt oh my gosh i'm doing the best i can they're obviously not doing what they're supposed to do therefore i can't produce this miracle for them and that's where i feel let down that the land itself desired to roll out a merit through her through the land itself to what the hazak that through the land should be able to encourage the jews to have more faith in hashem as you can see a vehicle with wheels yeah as a vehicle very good that was its desire to be the vehicle in order to strengthen the jewish people in uh an unbelievable faith and trust in god just imagine if that's an inanimate object how should we behave and believe right on rock arising the carcass right and through this ammuna if we really truly believe then all of us would feel like all we were were sharecroppers in the land and karashvar who is the bala that hashem is the real owner and that is truly what the land which is inanimate yet it's a metaphysical it has energy that's what it truly desired that it should be that a kaddish bar who on his own the soul proprietor the soul owner and master kilo yes brought hearts because the land the world the earth the universe belongs to hashem but as a result of not keeping smith by us not keeping shemitah properly kabbalah and we held ourselves we strengthen ourselves in the wrong way thinking ourselves as the owners of the land royal ship of course it's fitting that the land would take offense with the exacting uh regarding this that's even why the verse says us right then the land would be appeased because of her sabbaticals that's what it means it's not for the sake of the land but the land even though it's an inadequate object has a reality a spiritual reality regarding the nations of the world even when they come and live in the land lo god is not concerned and neither the land especially is not at all concerned by these non-jews that are coming and living in the land of israel not keeping shemitah they're just behaving in a natural fashion now we're not talking about righteous gentiles of course we're talking about the majority of the world of non-jews that without this they only go by nature anyway because they're not considered the faithful ones now after this whole proposal nabul lavar pursue him he will go into the verses in detail because you'll see that everything he says is consistent with this idea and with that there's no doubt so we will not go into this tonight it's already an hour and 20 minutes and i wish everyone an unbelievable shabbos we should only be going from our strength to strength right as we're approaching srivois the kabbalah torah and we should also have in mind right we spoke about for the last few weeks even more now than ever before understand that hashem ultimately wants the unity of the nation when we stood at har sinai and kabal satora it was isha khan vlad as one unit one nation under god right we mamish had like we were one person right throughout the wanderings of the desert we were divided the economy they camped they in camp but three days before mountaintop right the beginning of sema we camped at mountain mantora the israel israel and camp this is the ultimate goal and we're going to get there whether we try or fail if we fail god forbid hashem will constantly give us these unfortunate reminders this is the goal and i'm going to get you there but we can stave this off we can momish push off these decrees by doing what god wants to begin with and that is have true true unity and with that i wish everyone a blessed life have a great life and we'll see you next week oh next week most likely 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