Only This Nation is a Wise and Understanding People with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] in the very beginning it says though hashem lay more the clear car is bothered by the fact that the word lame are appears twice look in verse one the dhabi adenoya moshe the lro laymore literally the first verse always says and god spoke to moses in this case also to our own lamar lamar means to say over to say over what well guess what the following verse we just said lame war appears again so the clear car is bothered by the fact that lamar is set twice that's the first point the clear car wants to get across the second idea is he's bothered by what it says in rashi rashi says regarding this verse israel that not only the satan but the nations the non-jewish world will complain will will be aggrieved lay more saint israel what is this commandment and what reason is there for it so from the very beginning rashi is quoting from the major stance that is telling us that there is a problem with this particular mitzvah by the non-jewish world and we're supposed to answer to them so rashi is quoting the midrash saying that's exactly why the torah wrote it's a hulk why it's it is a commandment to me it was decreed before me meaning hashem and you have no right to reflect upon it what's bothering rashi by this because we have a well-known verse a well-known verse in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 6. it says over there ushmartanva sitam are you listening to this right and you shall keep them and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of all the peoples who will hear all the statutes i share yeshmi's and you know what they're going to say when they hear all these statutes they're going to respond by saying only this great nation is a wise and understanding people what is rashi bringing down from the medrash that they're going to complain and say you guys are superstitious or primitive or backwards and yet the passage in deuteronomy tells us that they will be praising the jewish people for so in order to answer this dilemma the clear car brings down in michele verse four and five do not answer a fool according to his folly lest even you become like him okay but the second part is rather answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his sight so if they come and they complain to you if you don't have a good answer for them they're going to walk away and say the whole torah is nonsensical doesn't make sense but if you can come up with a good answer and that is what king solomon is trying to tell us to come up with a good answer and that is what the clear car is telling us in the verse itself because it says i shared sivo hashem laymore which god commanded you to say in other words with the first laymar is tell over to the jewish people this is the answer that you will give the nations when they come and they complain that it's a hukata torah not the para it's not necessarily even though it really is the law of the the para aduma but say it is the of the torah itself that the word torah as it says the word torah means law the word law is interchangeable with the word hamach with the word the king because where else do the laws come from other than the king himself and this really helps helps us understand rashi when he says don't think about it it's really means god commanded us and that's the answer there's nothing to think about now the cleo card is going to explain over there in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 6 what the verse is telling us about why the non-jews will be praising us will be praising israel over even the khukem and he says so beautifully like this there actually there are these remember the mitzvahs are divided into two different categories in this sense there are the mishpatim which are logical and makes sense and any society would come up with them and then there are the which are the more mystical and ritualistic uh commandments that are not based on seiko however there are hukim that one could come up with reasons behind them aside from the fact that some of the reasons are hidden from the many uh the masses nevertheless they're still revealed to unique individual remnants in each and every generation when it comes to the para zutamin nistramikola adam we know this was hidden from almost everybody share allah shalom even king solomon peace be upon him he was able to grasp the reasons behind all the mitzvahs except for the paradigma as it says in ecclesiastes in the cohellis chapter 7 verse gimmel it says that that was distant from him left therefore if that's the only mitzvah that they heard if that was the only command that they were that they knew about vadaymonino love for sure there's no question they would mock us for that aloha nemar but it says esko right in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 6 it says they heard all the word call all of the mitzvahs yes they even heard about the paradigma but 99 thing 90 99 of the other things they heard made sense it was that's the praise of the jewish people that we we didn't make this the torah but we keep the torah and and 99.9 of it makes total sense the ishmael kim of course there are many of the reasons for the hukim that are revealed and known about and based on that if you're able to grasp 99.9 percent then those also would testify and tell over basically reflect upon all the choking that are still hidden yes bo because they are of a secret uh content the yeti and any normal person with enough humility would come to the understanding that whatever i don't understand of that one percent that's fine that's because of me i don't get it but the torah is so beautiful with 99.9 percent i can grasp i can understand and i praise the jewish people for i will take and i think this is a cliche a leap of faith on that other one tenth of one percent that i don't understand i will still accept it as part of a package and praise the jewish people for it and therefore this is what the cleo car is explaining when are they going to be complaining as rashi said when they only heard about one thing like the paraduma one thing that's the only thing they heard about and they can't make heads or towels out of it of course they're going to uh say negative things but if they were taught the torah and non-jews should learn torsh bhikkhtav they should know what the bible says and once they grasp the beauty of it they'll accept the other one-tenth of one percent on faith that's shabbat shalom [Music] is [Music]