Isaiah 66: The Haftarah For Shabbat Rosh Chodesh by Pearl Borow

there's one wonderful thing about our calendar and about the way we have everything lined up with our calendar because it makes us extremely in touch with time with time passing with the world we are always aware of season and world and when it's Roes and it's because we are as our calendars the way we live at and we listen we sit in sh and we listen ah it's and so one of the things about being part of our is that we really it makes us very aware of the world around us if this particular Shabbat of would be a normal Shabbat and it wouldn't be Ro if R KES would have fallen during the week or what have you then we would read peric lamid in yu which is a very very interesting historical time it is shortly before the betam mkes was actually destroyed it's a little it takes place in a little window of time uh that um took place between the time that there was a heavy Siege set on and then for a little while uh probably because he gotad the king the uh emperor of B probably got some money and so he took his army away for a little while in that time the people of Yehuda were asked by the king Sid Kahu who was the last king of uh Yehuda uh they were asked actually they were commanded who was a king decree to um rid themselves of their Jewish slaves because many of them had held on to their Jewish slaves and I'm deliberately using the term slave for more than six years and we know that the first that we learn in is if you buy a Jewish servant so it happens because it has so much history it's very very interesting there's that history of the end of the time of Yehuda uh the king uh uh the king Sid yahu the last king of yehudah and of course the interaction with the naah himself and then one unusual thing about that H Torah is that when helle didn't want and remember last week if you were here we talked about the fact that that K always wanted to end on a positive note and so sometimes they go forward usually they go forward in this ha they go backwards back to and they take two that tell us about the fact that there will be a time there will be a time when we will get back Friday and it's a it is if it would be we would have a different we would not do the but we would do Shabbat yes and that was one time that I messed up that I was talking about was shab on shab and I had forgotten that it was and I did the regular but we won about that one at any rate yesah this is yesah and yesah on Roes what we usually do is we take the very last par of yes yahu and it's really interesting because yes yaho is I don't know if you ever noticed it's the biggest the heaviest of all of the is 66 the next big one is like 40 something 66 Pim it is the very very last parot and the interesting thing is that isah is very organized and he starts talking about Shabbat and Roes and he ends talking about Shabbat and Roes in per Al per Al yah who introduces what's going on in the world around him what is going on in the 8th Century before the Comon era in the city of yusim what are the people doing and he is quite harsh he is quite harsh he speaks in the name of Hashem and basically he says I hate it really in those words I hate it I'll give you an exact quote from per Al in he says this is all who is speaking the is speaking he says why do I need all of your sacrifices they're meaningless because there's nothing behind them the idea of doing carbon note is really to affect the person it's not the carbon itself yarem and he literally says what I told you before Li I am filled I am filled with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fattened Sheep I don't want you to sprinkle the blood of all I don't want you I don't want it when you come to see my face when you come into the bet mikash who asked you to do this who asked you to bring this Ros trampling trampling into my Courtyard you can always get a picture because his language is so very descriptive I just don't want to say that what you said this is so it's a very very strong very strong we read it thank you Brenda I should have mentioned I really appreciate we read first peric I left out the first we read that on Shabbat which is the Shabbat before so yes it's very strong the language is very strong and he says loto don't don't continue don't bring this meaningless uh meal offering to me don't continue to do this TOA that's really strong it is disgusting incense to me TOA the lowest right here it goes cro you come you call an assembly you come to the bet mikdash you all get together you call us to get together onat Andes I can't take it I can't stand the combination of evildoing and and you come together to celebrate when you're doing evil and here it is very strong youres and your my soul hates such strong [Music] words they were a pain to me they were just a pain in the neck I didn't enjoy it at all I am tired of tolerating it in the last per in our Torah he berat the people people again in a bone chilling manner for their continued Behavior but then ends with a magnificent glowing description of what Shabbat and Ro kodes will be in the time of the in fact it's the next to Les P but it's one of the times you know them I'll remind you I know one of the times that we repeat the next to l p you get the end and then you repeat the next to last P because the next last p is an up upper and we always end with an upper like and here it is the I'm not going to tell it to you when we get to it we'll tell it it is this beautiful description ofes and so what's going on what is going on in of yes that we will be reading as Torah of the Shabbat and we read several times during the year whenever Roes comes out on Shabbat and it's not Shabbat as well or whatever uh there was there are certain times that uh you certain things come first there's a preference like if it's roses you don't read the of rodes even though it's a special Torah but you would go to shab if shab at any rate I am in says the heavens on my Throne it's my seat remember last week if you were here we talked about but whenever it sayses is sitting on his throne it's the idea of his conducting the world in his normal fashion in other words everything's going on correctly in the world so when I am conducting the world normally everything is doing well then the heavens are my throne and the Earth is my foot stool is my foot stool what kind of house can you possibly build for me and what kind of physical thing could be a place of my rest in other words the whole world is me I F the world how could you possibly think that I can beum that I can be somehow placed within a structure and everything in the world my handed and they were I just said we say every morning right we bless who just said right so all these my hand and did and it just came about it just was there but nevertheless despite the fact that I am all over the entire world that the whole heavens and the Earth is mine that I made everything I still pay attention to individuals this is what I look at L and on doesn't necessarily mean a poverty stricken person but it means a humble a humble person somebody who is like uh who is not arrogant is of lowly Spirit the and somebody who is very careful he trembles he trembles right so I look at a person who is of lowly Spirit who is really careful and who trembles to follow my word as opposed to somebody who comes and brings a carbon and he Slaughters an ax m is but he's just killed somebody or struck some man he has done something wrong so I look at the lowly person and I pay attention to what he's doing if he is obeying my word but then there are all these people that are coming into the Beta mikdash just like the first peric that we were speaking about a few minutes ago and that person who was sacrificing a sheep oh Rafe kff he might as well be breaking the back of the neck of a dog that's how much it means to me he is bringing a a meal offering and it's to me as though he is bringing the blood of a of a pig and the person who is bringing frankincense is at the same time blessing the evil that he has been doing or that's going around around they she they chose their ways they decided to do what they do and what their soul desires what they want is that sh could Sim their Abominations their disgusting actions simply there are voters around because what they were doing is the idea of people in the T the time 8th Century before the Common Era the people of the time of yes yahu were very into the idol worship that was going around the world around them everybody was doing idol worship we have no concept of why it was so attractive to these people why was it so attractive to our ancestors we can't imagine we can't me we have no concept but they were very much attracted to all of the Abominations everything that was surrounding them but they came to the beta mikdash they brought that corbon cuz that was part of what everybody did it was the celebration it was the panoply it was everything it was beautiful so they came but it meant nothing to them I will also in other words I am going to I am going to punish them mid mid what they chose to do I in turn will punish them in like fashion I will choose their actions and all of the things that they had done that which they fear I will bring because I called and there was no answer de I spoke and they did not hear and they did that which was evil in my eyes and they chose to do that which I did not wish them to do and here there though yesah is speaking in the name of in the name of hasem he's also speaking in his own name because the largest huge problem that ISU had was that he was given the gift of magnificent speech and nobody listened nobody listened and so you hear it you hear it sometimes in his language he's saying in the name of Hashem nobody's listening but you know that is coming from him as well there is something within him there's one par where he really says Hashem gave me an educated tongue it's not only The Gift of Gab that he had but it was educated he was an extremely Highly Educated person he spoke beautifully I wish I could give it over properly he spoke beautifully and nobody was listening now maybe I'm exaggerating there were a few people here and there that were listening but he didn't really make he wasn't much he didn't really have an effect and why is that on his generation it's really why is that a good question you could even put it a little bit different you can to that as well we don't have but we have and we have and he consults them that was that was a good answer is we have it all around us the human being I I when one Marcel speaks I should not say anything because it's true we have it all around us today we have we don't have we have people who speak magnificent L who are great teachers and there's a lot of people who are not listening it's the nature of the human being at the if we think of the time at the time it was a z we have a zday it's a different type that people listen to and there Temptation I it's hard but however it's okay I'm up to put I think was the na of the king and the King didn't listen to him yesah was um one of the interesting things to think about all together Mara glad you brought that up was the king versus the Nai in all of the era all of the era of the first bet mdash because the king versus the navi is always very interesting to see the kings were not listening even the me of the time of yes and whom the and describe as like David his father that's the way he's described and even he did not always listen to yesah even he and certainly not a and so it it was uh it was a little difficult at any rate here okay he's calling he's calling to the people listen to the word of hem in case you thought that was a modern expression you can find it all over listen to the word of Hashem those who are tremble those who tremble to hear his word don't listen to the words of your brothers who are really acting they pretend to be your brothers that they care for you but they are really they're really your enemies they're the ones that push you away from the correct path so listen to me those who really still remember and who tremble don't listen to your brothers we will get to a place of happiness and they ye they will be embarrassed they will be ashamed at the end Co sh May ear listen to his language he says I hear noise I hear noise coming from the city I hear a voice coming from the sanctuary from the bet mikdash you know what the voice I hear is you know what the sounds I hear coming from the city coming from the BET mikdash coming from all of the holy places it's the sound of Hashem because Hashem knows what's going on and he is preparing to bring about the G which will be the good time for those sikim who listen to his voice and the punishment L for those people who didn't because he does a Mas he gives us a parable his language is always Parable mixed with fine language that's why sometimes it's a little difficult to understand but if you just think then you get it very quickly he says this is the voice that's coming from the city the voice that's coming from the city is saying before she's going to eat even have any labor pains she's going to give birth the city very often is compared to a woman the city yusim very often in the language of yeshayahu who uses these Parables the parable of a woman giving birth a woman goes through labor pains before she can have a baby but she knows that there's a good reason for those labor pains the labor pains are making it possible for her to actually have that baby the city is going to come to life it's going to begin coming to life before she even begins having the labor pains this really scares me I have to tell you because it's talking about the time of Yeshua and when the N talk about the time of Yeshua we need to be thinking about today we need to be thinking how does it fit in with our language today with our life with our life today because look what it's talking about there will be some people coming back to Yus after yusem will be left desolate we'll get to them we'll be left desolate because the people will be sent out into Exile into G the no is saying this is the way the Yeshua is going to begin people are going to start coming back to Yus I'm sorry that I always have to walk around to see you I like to see everybody's face thank you I'm sorry to make you get up i' like to have eye contact thank you people will come back to um before anything starts and what do you think the labor pains on countes excuse me the persecution in the persecution not just in but we're going to be talking about mil go go here that's why I get scared I really get scared they're getting Goose now here here they're going to be thank you for moving here they are going to be so in other words before the actual labor pain start people will start coming [Music] back even before she has the first labor pain she is going to bring out a male child that's the voice coming from the from the sanctuary individual people will come back to and begin settling even before anything really happens that will bring on the [Music] G by which he is going to refer to the terrible battles that we say will happen at the end of time before the G unless we deserve it in which case it will be modified and he says M who ever heard anything like this who has seen things like this can an earth can a land rebuild itself in one day you like having the baby having the labor pains can can it happen like that can you rebuild a nation seemingly in one day sorry can an entire nation be rebuilt be reborn be reborn at one time because the holy city of will go through through the labor pains and will give birth to her children in other words the G is going to be like a birth it's going to be like a birth but it will be a little bit not a the the way a birth usually happens because it'll be little by little there will be children born even before the terrible labor pains it will there will be children and then it will be more and more and more and the labor pains will come as well who says in the name of hasem do you think that I will bring the woman to the birthing stool the mash bear and then I won't give birth in other words if I say this is going to happen it's going to happen am I going to bring the birth process to that moment of Crisis the transition and not give birth Yash says if I'm the one who's bringing about the birth will I stop it says Hashem no once the birth process starts it will continue Hal that we're in that stage right now and then what I consider one of the most beautiful fim in when all the children will come back toan when all am Isel will be gathered to again make her happy Sim cause her bring her happiness Su the Gil Rejoice with her call oh all who love heru Rejoice celebrate All Those Who in the past mourn for and the Mal has a thing about these different words for happiness that I always quote he says there's a difference between s and and I learned this I learned this because I have a granddaughter whose name is Gile and so for her but Mitzvah we looked at theim that use the word Gil and every time the Mal tells us when you use the term it means a state of General satisfaction Sim is where you feel you have reached a certain point you are satisfied with what you have done that's s Gila is where something has happened that's exciting something has happened right now this minute it's exciting and you're reacting to it so Sim is where you're satisfied with like a ongoing thing and Gil is wow that's Gila Gila is wow there's really something going on S is the way you show your happiness you know how you show your happiness when you go to a wedding don't you want to put on your best dress right I'm not going to go out of my house without putting on some makeup you have can't scare people in the streets so you have to you have to you dress up you outwardly show your happiness that's Sone sason is also at what do you do to be you dance you right you sing You Dance you eat a good meal all those outer things that s there's also ala in other words other words for s for different kinds of joy as well but the Mal concentrates always when there's Sim when there's Gil the Mal by the way is a wonderful P Nai end of 18th beginning of 19th century uh that you can't learn a without you have to have a say for at any rate so Rejoice with youus and cause the city to Rejoice even more make them happy the I want you to notice how he keeps using the M the parable and like dring it the only word I can think is the Yiddish he kind of like he takes a parable and he gets everything he can out of it he says Rejoice with Yus so that you will be able to suckle from the breast of her tan of her consulations in other words if you rejoice with Will Rejoice with you and will bring you pleasure and will nurse you will give you sustenance so that you will be able to Tin you will be able to nurse from the breast of her me of our consolation so that you'll actually like take the last drop you want to keep nursing till you get the last drop the and is like that last sweet honey flavored drop of the milk in other words as long as you are happy you will respond will give you the T will nurture you will give you what you give you your sustenance will sustain you and meanwhile you will be it's with it's with joy that you will experience your time [Music] words it's probably it's probably I can't think of it right now Marcel what Marcel is saying Marcel speaks very quietly but it's very important to hear what she says so she's saying that there is in one of where we have and coming together on Shabbat in that we have the we have the of having every week and it is part of these Mir Road of shabat another absolutely beautiful because this is what Hashem is saying there's more that's going to happen in the time [Applause] of I am going to turn to her and is saying I'm going to turn all the nations the other nations I'm going to turn towards not the way they look today not the way the UN looks at us today as if we're some kind of Rebel Rogue state that does horrendous things but I'm going to turn all of the Nations towards Shalom like a river of Peace they're going to come to like a river of peace and like a a river that's flowing slow and quick it's not just slow water it's going to flow quickly of the glory of all the nations they are going to come and visit jerus out and you'll also suckle from that which the Nations will bring you you will have that as well and you will be carried around in other words like you know you take a baby and you just want to carry a baby around they'll carry you around because you'll be precious to all of the Nations at that time and they'll shake you on their on their knees they'll they'll you know like hug you and and and Shake you on their knees hard to imagine that happen it's really something to imagine is itag I could just imagine like a man whose mother Comforts him so will I comfort you and where will you be comforted in this manner that I am describing CU you will be here in Jerusalem it's one after another my friends and you will see this your heart will rejoice it will be seen outwardly remember s is the outward display of joy and your very bones will Blossom like grass that comes all over that's all over you know in other words grass that grows very quick quickly you will feel your bones coming to life like Des covers the ground you know like after a rain when it looks so green you will have that rebirth you will feel it in your bones and the Hand of Hashem will be known to his servants how he has acted to those who were loyal V and there will be anger to his enemies and now just a few suim about the anger to the enemies is going to come like a fire in a fire and the wheels of his chariots will be like a storm going very very quickly picking of dust Hashem moving not just sitting not conducting the world but moving to return with anger the anger that he has at the people his anger will be like flames of fire is going to judge with fire and fire you know is anger fire is strong anger Hashem and there will be many many that will be slain by that anger of Hashem at that time who those people that thought that they were being holy and that they were purifying themselves by going out in the gardens and the gardens were where they had all the idols for aod Zar so they thought that they were being pure M they're sanctifying themselves how by going to the idols one after another going to the centers where they had all those Idols they ate the Flesh of rats and disgusting things in other words they did disgusting things doesn't mean they literally ate rats it means that that which they did theod that they did was filled with Abominations it was filled with all kinds of sexual uh aberration there there it was horrendous it was really Abomination they'll all be finished together in other words they will be ended that will be their punishment and I have taken hold of the thoughts the ideas of everybody of the Nations and I am going to bring them I am going to gather them and bring them all of the go all of the Nations and the languages to come and see my Glory run on sentence I didn't know where to stop but what he's saying the people that will come to yusim from the Nations I'm going to put a sign on them they will be changed they're not going to leave jeruselam in the same condition that they came they will be changed and they are going to go back to wherever they came from all over the world and they will repeat and tell everybody in those far off places to and Y gree the islands the far islands that didn't even never heard about me they didn't hear my name did not see my glory and they will relate my glory among all the nations that they come back to talking now about Goot they will bring your brothers that were scattered all over the world from all of the Nations as a gift to Hashem in other words I'm going to bring the Nations here including those that come to fight originally and I will put my mark on them they will be forever changed they will not be the same they will go back to their Nations they will really bring the message of Kes to all of the other nations and they will then gather all of the Jews and we're talking essentially about the 10 lost tribes here we're talking about the that we are just beginning to hear about in our day and they will bring them all back they will bring them as a gift to on horses chariots riding on individual horses and on wagons excuse me they will bring them all to my Holy Mountain sayah they'll bring the Jews the way a Jew comes to the BET mikdash and he brings the fine flower to give as a carban in a pure vessel in other words they'll bring them as something precious as something holy as something extremely important when they bring your brothers back that have been lost all over the world but and when these people who have been lost for so many centuries come back if there are among them Kim and leim they will be returned to their place because they were forced all those years not to be here and yes I know the people want to come in it's early though it's still my time still but we are [Music] finishing the ne is saying if you don't believe me Hashem says that I see exactly what the world will be like at that time and those renewed heavens and the renewed Earth I see it before my eyes as though it's happening right now these are the words of Hashem the shim so your children will surely be there stand up at that time and your name in other words just like I can see it all now it is true it will happen because I seees says that it exists your children will remain in your name remember that old promise but that promise that is constantly renewed to us that we are an eternal Nation we are Eternal the heavens are Eternal the Earth is eternal you I'm Israel are Eternal and here we go with the month and Shabbat connection next to that is repeated and it will be on each month on the Roes on the first day of the month the shab and on every Shabbat as it falls on its day you all flesh will come to bow down before me on on Shabbat All Nations will come to the bet mikdash the BET mikdash will welcome just like scho said in his original when he built the first bash he said because my house will will be called the place of worship for all the nations so you know what will happen at the end of days the Nations will come on Roes and on shabat the last there's always that idea that evil will be punished there is always that idea throughout and theim that it's not it's not it's a negative idea but we have to remember that evil will be punished so they will go out they'll come to they'll come to the betam mikdash and they will see the bodies of those who were the Sinners who refused to listen and did not do CH they will be burning those bodies and they will be filled with worms it's the idea of Eternal punishment it is a picture of evil will be punished true evil that we unfortunately have seen with our own eyes in our day it will be punished with eternal punishment that will never never stop chill the bones of All Flesh and then you can always see at the bottom because we never end never end on a negative note and it will be on every on the day of and on the shabat all flesh all human beings will come to the BET mikdash to bow down before me says Hashem so that's quite a message can I ask just quickly in most of the pieces they were discussing it was very much emphasized about everything happening in y what happens to the rest of the K of of the whole country is it a metaphor for it is a metaphor that's a good question I'm glad you brought it up did you all hear the question uh it always mentions yusim yusim is the center but yes it is a metaphor it is actually a metaphor for the world it's a metaphor for the whole world at the time of G it is everything in other words J is the center it is really the middle it's where everything happens from Yim everything comes out remember at the very beginning peric in bit when we had a description of Gan ADM and there were four rivers that came out of ganeden and essentially it's the idea that from this Center that was ganeden all the good all's good the chefes will then go the the culture the beliefs everything comes out of Ghan and nourishes the entire world world so when we talk about yam it is the center and the entire world not just I'm as Israel but the entire world is nourished from that center of yerusalem the rivers go outes tells us a river will go out from under the door of the bet mikdash a river will go out from under the door and it will go underground break off into different pieces and nourish the entire world