Parsha Perspectives for Today (Chukas/Balak, 5780) - Religion Requires Submission

good morning in Boker Tov and welcome back to partial perspectives for today and we have the privilege this week of learning that one parsha but to par ce o--'s together precious hookahs and bollock i want to thank our dear friends becky naughty cats who have sponsored the precious series for the year the year comes to a close now at the end of june in memory of Becky's father David Grossman little English mas BB Menaka Mohnish very grateful to them for their generosity for their sponsorship and I hope that our learning throughout the year really not only enriched their lives and your lives with its Torah but served to elevate the neshamah of mr. Grossman was a very very special men I also want to thank the owe you for again promoting and sharing our partial perspective that welcome all of our listeners and all those who are participating we found out and came through the through the oh you link okay as I said we have a lot to cover two partials hookahs an embolic each one could take five hours not to worry breathe out we're not gonna spend five hours on each one but we'll see as far as we get so if you want to follow along in the article stone commish it appears on page 838 at least the beginning of precious hookahs does and here the passion begins dose hookahs hatorah this is the folk of the turbine the Marshall Marshall Yardley more zou smoke a cetera a should see Varsham l'amour de bourbon is from Baku a laugh a parody with Mema and so on and so forth here we have the Tory introducing what is known as the quintessential Hoke the paradigmatic the perfect example of a model of all who came what is a hook a hook is an inexplicable incomprehensible unexplainable law we have laws we understand we have laws that makes sense we have laws that are rational we have laws that are enriching because they speak to our intellect our cognitive ability to understand them and then we have laws that are shem says jump and we say how high we do them without understanding them we do them simply because he says we have to the question is it should say those who cos this is the hook of the para duma the para duma is the ultimate example of such a law not only is it uncomfortable in fact it's paradoxical the pure person who is using the of the para Duma to purify the impure person themselves becomes impure how does it make sense if the person is pure is trying to purify the impure they should remain pure why do they themselves become impure how does the process corrupt them it makes no sense none other than Mela the wisest and was brilliant the greatest genius of all men said I'm art the outcome of the hero how come he man he said let me be wise let me study let me analyze let me dissect let me plumb the depths to try to understand what it means the here if economy many nevertheless it remained elusive he was unable to understand he was unable to be able to comprehend so why isn't the passion to do specifically this is the hook of the para a Duma why is it this is the hook of the Torah and the answer is this is the essence of our parsha as a whole our pasture talks to us about what happens when we don't understand Judaism is such a beautiful religion it teaches us and it trains us to ask questions it's not afraid it doesn't fear the questions we're supposed to challenge we're supposed to seek to understand we're supposed to peel back and unravel we're supposed to ask and yet what happens when you run into a wall what happens when you hit a roadblock what happens when you have tried all you can and yet you cannot understand and that's true both in the area of hala it's true in the area of Jewish law and it's true equally and even more difficult ly sometimes in the area of not law but the area of life and that is the theme of our Pasha this is not just the folk of the para Duma this is the hope of life itself let's start by looking at or by solid matrix insight or based on the metric on these words writes the following those focus on Torah hukum are classified by our rabbis as unintelligible and egg Matic mysterious it's forbidden to ask the reason pertaining to certain divine categorical imperatives but we should enquire the interpretation of the law there's a difference between explanation and interpretation and listen to how he compares it as only the rough could he says take physics for example physics does not ask why in science you don't ask for Y because Y is not a scientific question it's a metaphysical question not a physics question there can be no scientific why for water freezes 32 degrees Fahrenheit or light traveling at 186,000 miles per second asking why God issued certain commandments is seeking to comprehend the unfathomable man must recognize that the ultimate reason for mitosis is beyond his grasp the very question of why in regard to mitzvah observance is philosophically invalid so the Ruff says the physicist the scientist who's studying science so tries to understand of course you try to understand the secrets the mysteries of the universe you try to explain why things happen the way they do what are the formulas and what are the what are the physics to be able to explain the phenomena the natural phenomena in our world of course that's the omission that's all gold the scientist but the scientist never asks why well why does water freeze at that level and why does gravity make things fall and why does light travel at that speed because those are questions that have no answer they don't interest the scientist you're not able to discover them you're not able to measure them you can't provide hypothesis evidence or proof for them and the same is true when it comes to mitzvahs so to my cell allegic 600 Targ Mitzvah 613 mitzvot are no less than the rules of physics yes we dissect them we analyze them we interpret them we explain them but we don't answer the why tamo mitzvot we try to discover the time I've said many times we have the same word Tom means both reason and the word Tom also means taste why do we have the same did we want to run out of words why do we have the same word to describe taste and reason the answer is I need to eat in order to live so why not just subsist on the minimum have bread and water I could live on bread and water the answer is once I need to eat to live and might as well eat with a taste it might as well have a flavor I might as well enjoy it and the same is true with mitzvahs I need to observe and perform it's supposed to spiritually live but once I'm doing it I might as well give them a flavor and a taste which will enhance it what if you don't taste cos for show them someone comes down with coronavirus they lose their sense of taste not eat for the next few days of course they have to eat if you don't eat you're going to die whether you taste the food or not and the same is true spiritually whether you taste what you're eating spiritually whether you discover the time the reason or not you nevertheless need to continue to observe so yes we look to understand but like the scientists the physicists we don't get stuck on the wine when we ask one in the context of human activity we are truly asking what motivated him motivation carries an implication of an unrealized need but with regard to the divine to Hashem it's impossible to ascribe motivation to God he has neither needs or deficiencies so in response to the question of why I shall created the world we cannot answer it's because he's kind and want to bestow goodness this assertion implies I had some vague need to do good the only acceptable answer the question is he willed it as Rashi comments on the PASOK Zehra he melfin i/itsec zero it is a decree God ordained it we don't ask why we can't understand why we'll never know the why we just know his will but the question of what can be asked what is the meaning of this coke as far as I'm concerned what is the hope tell me one does not ask why god legislate para Duma or does it purify the ritually defiled but one can ask what is its spiritual message to me how can I is the thinking and feeling person is simulated into my world outlook I don't get stuck I don't get stuck I don't get debilitated on the why but yet I'm motivated I'm pushed I aspire to answer the what what does it mean for me how am i life be different how can I be inspired what will change the evolution believe the avada shall believe must be present in every religious act in the ritual as well as the motive as well as the moral although the key moments that can be achieved for a mechanical approach of other Saluki means not only to discharge the duty to enjoy rejoice in and love the mitzvot but the I hope this Elohim is unattainable but the hope does not deliver any message to us when one looks at a mitzvah and says I can't understand that like Mela I'm no smarter I'm the wiser I'm no greater if he got stuck certainly I'm stuck it's not a reason to walk away or to give up it's a reason to double down but not on the why on the one what is it meant to teach me how is it meant to change my life we have no right to explain hukum but we have a duty to interpret hukum what does the mitzvah mean to me how am I to understand its essence is an integral part of my service to our ship we do not know why the metal is familiar but the question on how I can integrate the similar to mitzvot into my total religious consciousness world outlook an eye awareness that question is not only permissible but it is one that we are duty-bound to ask I know speaking very quickly you know if the right in the chat or send me an email but it's a double parsha what can I do it's a double partial and you only give me an hour if you gave me the whole day or the whole week I would be able to speak a lot slower but alas you don't that is the inside of a solid a tree or solid matrix says don't get stuck on the why like the physicist doesn't ask why ask the what and that's what it means those who Gus and the reason that those who curse a Torah not just those who curse of the mitzvot para I do MA because this is the essence of Torah you see it's our attitude towards hukum that reveals our attitude towards Mishpatim misrata Marash limits as they make sense they're logical they're rational I understand them even human beings might have come up with them so why am i doing them am i doing them because they make sense to me or am i doing them because isaiah melfin either the will of Hashem you see if I'm only willing to do what I understand and I'm unwilling to do that which I don't understand then it reveals my very motivation and agenda in all that I do our relationship with Hashem is no different than our relationship with a college bar who with the almighty with with a relationship with the Almighty sorry is no different than our relationship with our spouse in the human realm so imagine I tell my spouse my spouse says to me would you do X Y or Z I'm very concerned the very nervous I'm very anxious it's an awkward time and if you did a B and C it makes me feel more calm and I say that makes no sense that's irrational it's ridiculous it makes no sense to me no I'm only willing to do your needs the things that you want that reconcile and integrate with what makes sense to me do the things that you asked for that make more sense to me god bless good luck you're on your own how would that relationship of look what would be the nature of that marriage the fabric the foundation of a marriage is when I say you know what you've said it 15 times I still don't know what you're talking about I don't know the why but okay it's what you want it's what you will if it matters to you it matters to me and when a person is willing to invest in and a person is willing to selflessly pursue the hoch that which does not does not conform with their understanding it reveals that even the miss fault and even that which they understand that they pursue is also for the right reason there's also for a meaningful and enriching reason and that's what the rub is saying hookahs nachas para Duma but the attitudes of the para Dumas those hookahs hatorah the attitude to the para Duma in fact reveals and reflects our whole attitude to all of Torah and to all of observance the helices Fossum is remuda labor nagoya has a different interpretation those hookahs hatorah he says he says that those who curse our torah this is not just a hook of the para duma this is in fact those hookahs of the whole Torah why because it takes us all the way back to the beginning of Torah you see our attitude towards and our performance of even a Hoke repairs the damage that was done at the very beginning of the Torah what was the damage that was done at the very beginning of the Torah so says the gara rebus says this famous what was the first mistake you know if it weren't for the mistake of hava of Adam if it weren't for the mistake of of going after the heated ass we would still be in GaN Eden all you could each morg barbecue midnight buffet women would not have to have pain in childbirth there would be no gestational period there'd be no need for the epidural we man wouldn't have to go work the sweat of our brow our bank accounts would be overflowing and the buffet would be overflowing and there'd be no social distancing and no coronavirus and we would be like that would feel a little breeze be a little cool we wouldn't have clothing but it would be this ideal existence but alas what happened there was a mistake in judgment I'm not blaming anyone grandpa's fault I'm not blaming anyone but it began the nefesh enticed cava who enticed Adam and the next thing you know we're on the outs why what was the whole source of this so the plastic says but yo ma how come a man of a nickel in a khabees and camel cameo date over ah how did the Natasha entice how did he seduced how did he persuade hava it's okay touch and eat it's not a problem he said the day you eat it you will gain wisdom you'll open your eyes and you're going to be smart the Eastham killer Kim you'll be like God you date over ah you'll know the difference between good and evil you'll have a sense of consciousness you'll have a conscience you'll know the difference between right and wrong that was the first mistake the first mistake was this goal of understanding the first mistake was thinking you were capable of differentiating of distinguishing of thinking of understanding so said the guy represent the sauce ms the Bittle Sickler shall utter the qiam rukuh a torah when a person says you know what I'm Noah fiying my need to understand I am submitting myself to you I'm not trying to be your date over ah I'm not trying to conquer and understand I'm not willing to only be obedient to observe that which I understand when you say jump god I say how high it's all about you and your dominion over me I'm not trying to compete ka-lok in your debt opera you're the only elokim when I'm the VAT on my - when I submit that I'm willing to do even that which I don't understand it is the tycoon is the Khepera it is the repair it is fixing the mistake and where we went wrong with the sin of the a-10s so sendagaya ever that's why those hookahs not just the hook of the para duma this is the hookahs cateura because we go all the way back in time and we repair that very first mistake that first mistake of the of the torah you also see this you also see this why precious hookahs comes right after Cora because Cora who said Cola inoculum Kadosh am I want equal access everybody's capable of understanding everybody knows I want equal access and the answer is their thumb some things you can't understand there are some things that you don't know there are some things that are beyond your comprehension you cannot and you will know it and I want to suggest based on an insight that also comes from a safer I tell us mortify it tears mordekaiser of more to hi Raghav and I'm grateful to my hover emotions fee for sharing the source last year he mentioned it mushy Leah Terrace mortified with the following suggestion he says part of this but I want to add to it and expand on it in my own in my own way in the following context the following context our parsha begins with this story of the para Duma the red cow the perfectly red cow that has to have never worked it has to have know as to be perfectly red it can't even have other extremist hairs it can't have a moment blemish and then you burn it you take the ash of it and a mixture it sprinkled on the person who is impure and in that process they become they become pure that's the first part of the party and then the partial turns to one of the most mysterious one of the most enigmatic inexplicable sections narratives of our entire Torah we are 38 years 38 years of the 40 years of wandering the desert has passed in our passion it's amazing from seifish most all the way to about minbar all the way to a kora is two years and now hookahs fast forward expedite you know he can listen to a sheer on double speed triple speed well Jewish people went on quadruple speed 38 years went flying by in one Pasha and hookahs and in our passion we have this mysterious mitzvah of the para Duma and then a few passages later in the story of Moshe and hitting the rock we'd examined this in depth in the past and there's many many explanations which are offered the ROM mom says Moshe came into anger he gave in to rage he acted out against the Jewish people he gave in to his urge to castigate them and criticized them he couldn't take them there in encourage of all people who complain they're ungrateful and he just can't take it any more he gave in to that sense of anger and there are mom says for that motion was accountable he could lead them into Israel and others give many many many many many and different explanations and answers of what Moshe did wrong we suggested our own one year that in fact it wasn't a punishment it was a description of reality I'm not gonna review the whole thing but I'll give you a little bit of a hint what's a little bit of the hint when MUC God first recruits Moshe to be a leader what does God say to him I want you to come lead the people I'm appointing you to lead and what does motions response HIDA Muir's he hesitates he says no I'm not qualified I'm inadequate y lo ich devar iam anole I'm not a man of words fast forward thirty-eight many more than 38 years later and God says to Moshe Moshe have you learned to communicate have you become an orator have you mastered the power of persuasion and speech the debate and malice Ella I want you to speak to the rock and Moshe does what he doesn't speak to the rock the morale says his speeches the bridge between the physical and the spiritual Moshe is so great so spiritual that he is transcendent above the power of speech he doesn't know how to live and operate in the physical some Moshe was the quintessential leader Moshe was the perfect choice to lead us through the midst the minbar through a desert lifestyle through a time when we had the mana in the air or protected by the clouds when we were living this Cola life and everything was provided for us and we didn't need anything else Moshe was the leader but they're about to go into Eric's Astro a land of mitzvot Toledo's Bart's they're about to need to bridge heaven and earth Eric Cicero is the bridge of heaven and earth it's the place where soil earth we perform mitzvahs through it and so Moshe God says are you ready have you learned how to bridge heaven on earth Vindi Bartonella so have you learned the power of speech and motion does not speak to the rock he hits it instead and so I've argued that it's not a punishment that Moshe can't go into Israel it's simply a description of a reality the reality is he was the perfect leader for the depth or daya for the mid bar who was the perfect leader for the desert lifestyle but they're going into Israel we have to set up a judicial system a police force an agricultural society a stock market you have to set up businesses and commerce and transportation and government Israel we have to begin to integrate and build a bridge heaven and earth motions no longer the right person but it's very interesting there are countless explanations which are offered so many were the hypotheses but the 19th century Italian commentator of Shimoda the Santo said quote most should committed one sin yet the commentators have accused him of 13 or more each inventing some new iniquity motion did one mistake but we've come up with many many more in fact as a safer shaly arum and I will finish our errand and there are no lists and 25 different explanations of what motions poor Moshe one mistake this incredible leader who literally saved the Jewish people he made one mistake but instead of putting him in the books for one mistake the shari aaron has no less than 25 suggestions of what he did wrong what I want to suggest to you is stop looking stop trying to explain this what the aterrorist modify says again a little bit of a different context but expanding on it from my own and he says you know what the theme of our Pasha is what do the para a Duma and the story of the main Mareva Moshe hitting the rock instead of speaking to it what do they have in common and you know what the answer is let me read you the words of the attackers mortified he says cash income oh she is cooking too much cotton Bottari camelina tamil telugu monisha bottom bhai him there are hukum in-laws and there are hokum in life why was motional I don't know he dove into the hundred five hundred and fifteen times he wasn't answered why not the great motion when he advocated and davon for the people he was answered why wasn't the answer for himself you know what it's a Hulk sometimes in life there are hukum why is there a virus and why did some people lose their life and why are some struggling and others seem protected and why are some regions the data spiking in other places they seem they're going back to normal sometimes in life one has to throw up their arms and say you know what it's a Hoke it's a Hoke I'm trying so hard to understand but not everything do we have access to not everything are we capable of understanding not everything will we understand it was Cox mistake Caracas followed by partial suckas and hookahs begins with the para Duma but it ends with me Meriva because like there are human laws there are hukum also in life and that's the message of our parsha it's what is telling us with all due respect to the 25 different reasons which are suggested and offered the answer is you know why Moshe wasn't allowed in why was he punished why was the punishment so severe because sometimes there's a hope not only in law there's a hook sometimes in life be humble be humbled to realize that were not capable of understanding everything to think that I'm capable and I deserve and I'm entitled to understand everything is arrogance it's the epitome of arrogance you know to believe in God is not only to believe that there is a God but to accept that we won't understand everything because if we could understand everything then he would be God we're not competing with God that's what this farce Emma said the Higashiyama said this is the Tekin for the it's a gas they hated us we said we want to be callow kimi o dear taubira but you know what to be a religious personality means to submit submission footnote 4 of her logic man whereby solomon talks about that religious man religion at its core e defines religion religion means submission you see we live in a time and we're living in a generation that says you know religion is spirituality and I moved in my souls and fire and love and crumbs it's and meditation and it's bugs us and you know me you know that I believe in all those things as much as anyone else and I'm working on all of those things but you have to understand that as beautiful as that is spirituality in music increments and it's folded in meditation and every Mitzvah the deep reason are it's all beautiful but at its core you know what religion is at its core religion is submission at its core religion is I don't only observe and I don't only follow and I'd only stick with you and I'd only see you when it's all good but I stick with you and I see you and I submit to you even or especially when I can't understand mish bottom are lovely but ultimately the evidence of the genuineness of our relationship with Hashem is not in our observance and acceptance of mish bottom but rather it's in hukum and that's why it says hookahs hat ola this is the hook of a Torah not just those who cos natural those who curse of the para oedema but those who just Pat Torah and I want to extend your steam and I usually give a lot of direct order and we're gonna start that in a moment but I want to just share with you this this theme that is pervasive throughout this parsha of focus it's called hookahs for this reason and even though arguably it belongs elsewhere maybe in viagra where we have car Bono's maybe the law of the para Duma we have to Montara and viagra wising it there it's here because it's in the middle of the book of Bamidbar when we have an adolescent nation developing with rebellious that's seeking to understand now is specifically why it's placed here by the way Rashi at the beginning of the partial tells us those leukocyte aura that this is the this is the antidote and the repair for what the hata ago let the mother come and clean up for her calf let the mother come and clean up for her calf what does that mean is it just a cute play on words para a Duma the cow and a cow the calf just cute these animals are related to one another of course not it means so much deeper the kuzari the great cruz re-reviewed our lady says what was the mistake of the hata eagle after all motion disappears on top of the mountain and the jewish people say how are we meant to connect to God we need something tangible we need something palpable we need something we can hold we can look at we can feel we can smell we can listen to we need something we want to understand we want to connect we want to do it our way and God says you know that may be a legitimate need and I'll give you a Michigan to fill it but you can't do it your way you're not capable of understanding you're not omnipotent and infinitely in finite to be religious to have a relationship with me says God means the willingness to submit the willingness to concede the willingness to admit that you are not God and therefore you have to do it my way that's why the basically be rights the pressures of ayack of Truman that safa are repeated by a kapa coude you have Truman that Sava the laws of the Michigan then you have key Cecil Decatur a go and then you have Iacocca ku daddy the difference says the base lav is in Viacom PACU day you have koshcheeva shaiiaja over and over and you have as God commanded as God commanded as God commanded because the the lesson of the hata eagle is you're not capable understanding you cannot innovate and invent there's not room for entrepreneurship in religion God says there's 613 mitzvot now yes there's religious creativity and yes there's poetic creativity and yes there's romantic creativity and this loving relationship we have with the Kurdish particle of course and yes but fundamentally it begins with a commitment to Talia admits was the 613 bits as they're non-negotiable they're from him we don't try to modify them we don't try to change them or adapt them based on our own intellect at his submission to him and that's what it means let the mother of the para Duma come and clean up for the AYGO the egos mistake was you thought you could understand everything you thought you were in charge you made a mistake with the Fate to a go it was a costly mistake and you know what the antidote you know what the response is para a Duma let the mother come and clean up for the calf clean up for the calf you see this as well again giving this whole theme so much more to get to but you see this as well towards the end of harshest Lucas what's at the end of partial cookus the Jewish people are ready to go through the land of C phone and oh gosh lock is from Allah cannot see from Allah for Emery they send emissaries ambassadors to see home Abra Bart suffered only tempest father became minister made the air but their harmony like a national board will Lanka said we pass through your land a shortcut we're on our way we're not going to touch anything we won't finally we will compromise we won't touch your resources can we just cut through but on us on see if on his job or below they're so sick on his column obey to the crossbar off they wouldn't allow it and so on so what I tell you there's a battle and there is a fight via Russia Sarto mera no Nadia Boca I'd been a Timon and what happens the Jewish people we killed them with sword we took possession of the land and to the children of our Mon he has ruled the nation on the border of the children of ammon is powerful on a page 852 in the article stonefish the end of precious hookahs paragraph Aleph I just read to you PASOK huftalin what's going on over here see phone and I'm on prevent the Jews from entering so they go to war with c1 but not Amman why don't they go to the war with Amman they go to war with C home they triumph over sikhandi eliminate C home what happened I'm on I'm on equally egregiously does not allow the Jewish people to pass through their land why does I'm on get a free pass so the plastic tells us why you know why key as gavel Binet I moan because the border of a moan is incredibly powerful so now tell me what does it mean that they're incredibly powerful what is the Torah telling us what is the Torah testifying to us Qiao's gavel Binet I'm on the border of a moan is so powerful what's so powerful it's fortified militarily it's got incredible weapons it's got a mast and enormous army what is so powerful that as kiosk of Albany I'm own so Rashi here says well Marcus Co what is the strength of this border what is the strength of this boundary that you can't pass through it says Rashi hasta la social ecology board oh ho shut and Marla I'm Marlon I'll touch so room because later in the forum God reveals to us that he told us that the Jewish people were not allowed to harass or wage war against a mon-sol ozg Reuben a time on you know what the strength of Amun was because God said no that was it strength isn't that amazing Rashi my brother called my attention to this Rashi many many years ago my brother pointed out where a she's telling us is the strength of that boundary that border was not its military was not its army you know what the strength was God said no and when God says no the answer is no it's a non-negotiable and it's a non-debatable two motions word is a reality Thiago bayamón God said no so the boundary was strong there's nothing to talk about they're non-negotiable so I remember many years ago when he told me that inside in this Rashi it occurred to me you ever go to the supermarket remember when you can go to the supermarket you ever go to the supermarket with your child I'll tell you and and you know the people who design the layout of a supermarket are not dumb this tremendous Karma there's a whole wisdom to the design of a supermarket they don't put the milk in the front when you first walk into a supermarket you know why because the milk is a staple you have to get milk they put it all the way the farthest point from the entrance because you have to pass a lot of other things and you'll fill your cart with things you don't need on your way in and on your way out so by design the milk is the furthest from the entrance of the supermarket because they want you to have to pass everything and be enticed by everything and buy things that you don't need and you don't want there's a hot mother's of wisdom part of that wisdom it's a cruel absolutely cruel wisdom cruel wisdom is at the checkout line what is there a wall of opposite the conveyor belt of the checkout line there is a wall of candy and why don't they put that there again you're waiting in line the people in front of you it's taking a while and you're you're hungry you're tired your guard is down you're gonna grab for the candy you're gonna stuff it on on the in the cart or on the conveyor belt so if you ever been to the supermarket with your young child and your young child starts you know pulling on your pant leg or on your skirt pulling on your arm start scratching I want the candy I want the candy I want the candy I'm dying for candy I want candy they take the candy and you don't want to give them the candy now there's two things you can say if you say to the child not two things you could say but there's two options of what kind of candy they're asking for it if you say well you can't have the candy you haven't eaten dinner yet Candy's gonna cross cavities we don't need the candy it's overpriced and it's expensive is your child's gonna stop crying a Jewish Torah ditka observant child will they stop crying in most cases in my experience with several children the answer is no if you tell them that's going to cause your teeth to fall out rot you tell them it's over expensive you tell me and I've dinner yet that's like no but I want to cry why because children are very smart they're almost as smart as the people who designed supermarkets and they know that they're going to beat you out if they can just cry longer they're going to wear you down till you can't take it you're embarrassed you humiliate you're going to give any given the credit but what happens when you turn to that same child and you say because it's true I'm not suggesting you lie but you say the candy that you're crying about in holding you can't have it why because it's not kosher you know what that child does three four or five years old they look and they say okay and they put it back on the shelf why why is it when you say it's not kosher they put it back on the shelf but when you say it's gonna make your teeth fall out and you need dinner yet and it's too expensive they try to wear you down they're gonna cry their eyes out the interest kiosk of Albin a unknown this is what Moshe was telling us is when a Shem says something the core of why we do it is not I need to understand it and why you know according to many Cassius is a hook there's different offer explanations which are offered for why we keep kosher but some suggest in the end of the day that conscious itself is a hook ultimately Cassius is a hook so if the child says well I want to understand that no the child said oh it's not kosher never mind and puts it back kion's Grogan am own so you see this notion of those hookahs hatorah just those three words that begin our pressure so school Cass hatorah this is the hook of the whole Torah this is the hook of the Torah not just the hook of the para Duma it is the hook of the whole Torah it is teaching us an attitude towards religious life submission to concede to admit we're not capable of understanding we're not entitled to understand we have no expectation of understanding like the physicists we're not getting stuck on the Y but we're asking of the what what does it mean from me what does it mean for my life how can I live the most virtuous life from it those who curse our Torah those who curse Arturo this is the para Duma this is why it's not here and why is it not in viagra automaton or why is it here why is it after Cora how does it repair for the feita ego how does it appear for the eight said ask how does it connect in the second half of the parish of motion talk instead of speaking to the rock and as a connect to the story of C phone of own the fact that we can't penetrate their board or kiosk pool the answer to all those questions is the notion of the hook which is the core of what it means to live a what it means to live a religious life okay let's keep going now I got to do some triage and figure out where we're going but let's keep going Perik your tests pass above in the context of the para doom oh we're trying to purify the impure correct your test puzzle valve says the following like a eat eres de sarousch nice Allah's wish leaf Altos srivasa para the process of the purifying is that the Cowan takes cedar wood eight errors and eyes of his suppose natales a crimson thread and throws it into the burning of the cow this mixture this funny recipe these ingredients you could beat Bobby Flay with this recipe he's never tried this one before the para do ma you throw it all in he sprinkled on the impure person they become pure the pure person himself becomes impure why are these specifically the ingredients that are chosen what is the lesson what is the message so Rashi here explains that each component of the purification process they're not they're not random but they are by design why specifically are these the ingredients that are chosen so Rashi tells us Rashi tells us where is this Rashi o to me my bonny moose it should be pure we have to be pure and Rashi says here that each aspect of the Mitzvah connects with and rectifies the mistake of the golden calf Lalita ago we explained it in the intellectual sense of needing to understand everything the cedar the eight eras a cedar tree is the tallest of all of the trees a cedar tree is a tall sturdy firm tree the hyssop the azo is the lowest of all the trees a little lowly bush and says Rashi this symbolizes that the haughty arrogant person how did they get impure how does one become impure in life contaminated by life when a person's arrogant egotistical narcissistic self-centered that person needs to be sprinkled by an azo they need to be sprinkled by something which is lowly something which is humble something that's going to bring them down and make them more modest revolt but expanding on this Rashi llevaba says initiate hummus on our Pasha the lobo says you see at the core of every mistake at the core of all contamination of the core of all impurity at the core of all corruption is the ego is arrogance now that doesn't mean to say that that anytime a person makes a mistake they're arrogant we know humble people that make mistakes arrogance here doesn't mean that the person needs to be the loudest in the room or garner all the attention of the room arrogance in this context means that they're driven by their ego they're driven by their needs they're driven by putting themselves first they're incapable of being disciplined they're incapable of quieting the voice of their own of their own needs of their own needs so a similar idea is conveyed when the term describes beneath Shaw complained about the Munn Hashem sent them the Slavs the quarrel as a punishment and he said that they would eat it until it comes out of their noses until they're disgusted because you've disgusted Hashem who's in your midst the Rashi there says Michele was telling them that were not for the fact that I dwelled among you you want to become conceded and sinned it was their haughtiness that brought them to sin so when a person is arrogant and haughty when a person thinks that they're all that and all capable that is the beginning of the end Guyver is what undoes it all that arrogance that guideth and arrogance is the underlying feature that brings about our demise and that's what's going on over here Rashi says specifically why they eat arrows why it is that parakeet esposa get down moving right along those we have a very similar language the passion begins zoast cuca cetera and now we have Zeus a Torah Adam kiyah Mesbah oh well this is the law of the Torah Adam cameras were all Kabbalah all washable yet mischievous young man we're talking about the laws of impurity how a person becomes contaminated by the negative energy of a corpse this is the teacher growing a person who would die in a 10th page 8:14 the article stone Flemish parakeet as pasok yard it down here again or my cell of a chick jumps in with beautiful insight it says reverse elevate shook he says interpreting this phrase homiletically wish luggage to go on a bronco some death Sam again will explains dosa Torah Adam Kia Mesbah oil a person if you want the Torah Tama turtle in the sky in a person who studies Torah you're coming to the pasture class beautiful you're logged in zoom YouTube Facebook why you told her about it from Goldberg wherever you're listening live recorded one speed to speed triple speed but you're learning Torah how are you making the Torah how do you make last how do you imbibe but how do you absorbed it how does it become part of you says the says the Gemara Morocco's fish lock ish only mission may miss at small now only a person whose name is at slow on it you have to apply yourself you have to toil you have to work you know no pain no gain Jack LaLanne you have no pain no gain if you don't make if you don't work for something then you don't really acquire it so I have to tell you by the way this parsha class is beautiful I'm so glad you're listening I'm not sitting here by myself but it's passive listening you listening even if you're taking notes some of you I say are taking notes koulikov ode I'm honored even if you're taking notes its passive learning you gotta open a home but you got to read it inside you got to break your teeth you got a struggle you got a toil the things we work for are the things that we most acquire there are the things that most transform us by the way the ballet muster point out that rich Locker says when is it that total asks when is it that we truly acquire it in a meaningful and lasting way Misha name is Admiral aha because it's learn so cetera ah donkey Yama's but oh well Oh L is the oil of Torah oh well is the tent of Torah like yeah Cove dwells in the tent of Torah the oath of the tent of Torah Adam Thomas Panozzo cetera if you want so cetera Adam Thomas but all you have to be willing to die for it but the ballet Moses say it doesn't mean you have to be willing to want it so bad and work for it so hard that you're willing to die for it by the way it's true if you watch these motivational YouTube videos I don't care whether it's an athlete or whether it's a business icon or whether it's someone who broke through in any arena and they'll talk about they were in the gym before and they stayed in the gym after and they worked harder and they put in more hours whatever it is you want you whatever you really want the most the a you want to kill yourself that's the lush on the language in the vernacular we we use someone's wanted to kill themselves for it and kill themselves over it so on them to Yama's but oil the oil of Torah you have to be a nun them to us you have to be willing to die for it so the Gemara Bravo's rich Locker says name is axe Malala ha you now you acquire Torah like we just said from revolver about the ease of about the hyssop why was the hyssop used you were an eight errors you think that you're such a mighty tall arrogant haughty self-centered narcissistic arrogant person you became contaminated we got to sprinkle you with a little modesty a little humility those who curse a torah mission may miss what do you have to kill the Osmo the sense of arrogance at smo means the sense of i the sense of ego you only really acquire torah when your may miss the Osmo when you're willing to kill the sense of i the ego allow in it in a did some different passage for me so that continues in perky almost we read such as the way of torah we read in purity of us this is the way of torah past momento how and maíam water and small measures drink and sleep on the ground and a life of deprivation that's how you toil and torah that's how you toiling torah so empirically avos it deals with the necessity for material denial to attain greatness and torah and wish luck it refers to spiritual space in order to merit greatness and torah you have to be ready during a thorough discussion to endure embarrassment but immediately admitting that you're wrong when such an admission is warranted so empirically Elvis is talking about that if you really want to break through with Torah greatness you have to be willing to be miss topic but more used to be willing to live with little and that's why classically in your Shiva's we say you know a person the the the Shiva Barker has to be willing to live with very little the one who broke out of that mold was from Mayer Shapiro that had sounded Carla Baraka from Mayor Shapiro the great founder he she was Hofmann Lublin was the first to say people shouldn't sleep on a bench they should have to beg for their meals they shouldn't have to live in a you know schlocky based measures anyone who's been to the Shia's car caleb lynn in Lublin and poland knows the shoes luckily the Blin is a beautiful edifice it's a magnificent yeshiva it had a dormitory it was the first of its kind of a mound your Shiva with a dormitory in the cafeteria and a magnificent base menders I how did he understand this mission and all those that says that in order to break through and Tory have to be me stopping from you up so mayor Shapiro read it he punctuated it differently and he said this is a life of Torah that passed by my toe how all you're gonna eat his bread and water no that's not a life of Torah he punctuated the mission differently to come to a different conclusion where my cellmate Sheikh is saying here that the mission and almost Irish lore caches understanding of our Park are not in conflict one is talking about being a stopping from what in the physical sense but but here mission name is Osso allah is talking about in the spiritual sense if you really want to grow and you want to discover truth you have to be so humble that you're willing to become embarrassed over it and the RO shared a story about his ADA about his grandfather said the robe on my grandfather a crime applied to become Russia's human vulajin many great rabbis opposed him because they disagreed with his unique method of Talmudic analysis as part of the process of being considered for the position he delivered a lengthy shear in the vulajin least Midrash at one point he abruptly stopped the lecture indicating he just then remembered a passage in the patient which ties in the Rambam which conflicted with his thesis which was based on the mission of Torah the skeptics were so impressed with her crimes ability to admit his mistake he was offered the position immediately mission Amos axonal Aloha means that you know you see this sometimes in any debate in any conversation people become so entrenched in their position that even when they're disproved they never this must cling to their mistake because they're so entrenched their ego is now so intertwined with the position that they took Mitchell a Mossad smiler means you have to be willing to be embarrassed or humbled you have to be willing to let go if you're going to discover the truth not to cling to your not to cling to your positions okay let's keep going are you so much so much to talk about what should we do next the bay area of Marion let's talk about the bitter of management for a moment para cough pasta Calif by Roberto I'll call you dummy Bart's in before the traditional Asian on the cottage but Thomas Shawne Merriman to give our show Miriam Miriam anivia the great prophetess Miriam the beautiful woman inside and outside who saved the Jewish people she saved her brother she dies but Tikaram she's buried and what is the Torah tell us immediately afterwards below hi um I am law a dhaba Carlo emotionally are on Miriam's gone Miriam dies and with her goes their water source so what happens the people are incredibly thirsty by RFM emotion IM really more of a Luke Ivana big var finish em now they confront Moshe and they say what happened why'd you take us why didn't where's our water we're surely going to die what's the connection between Miriam's death and the lack of and the lack of water what went wrong here what went on here so Miriam it was in Miriam's clothes that we had to the air Torah tells us back in schmoes parfaits Bostick Dollard that we had the by air we had this as well and the well that traveled in Germany with the Jewish people as our unlimited water source was in the merit of Miriam and when Miriam died there went the water source and that's why it's exactly after her death that we have them complaining about the water why was the bear specifically chosen the merit of Miriam so remain Ibaka has a beautiful interpretation I've been a Baha'i or been Ibaka however you pronounce his name different traditions been Ibaka says that Miriam was responsible for the survival of the Jewish people why because Moshe was the parents did one have another child and they had another child and it was time to get rid of motion because powder was gonna hunt him down and Miriam was the one who said put him in the river let him float in the Nile and name is the one who stood by the river and watched and Miriam's the one who convinced the daughter of Paro that her mother could be the one to nurse him so since Miriam performed this incredible Hesed that ensured the survival of the Jewish people at a body of water and her merit we always had a body of water I saw a second beautiful explanation we know there's a connection between she do come at the bear there's always marriage she do him at the well Moshe meets his wife at the well it's Clark and Rivka the well yeah command Rocco at the at the well Miriam who reintroduced her mother and father and convinced her mother to beautify herself and her father to reunite with her mother so Miriam was the Shotokan of her own parents so to say in their second go-around it was in her merit that we had that we had water now there's a very interesting hollow huh a little bit of an obscure Halawa and we learn it from here show an orphan erudition llama test rites Minna glish Bakuman Shubham shalosh Kunis anis there's a lot of that when a person passes away when a person dies we pour out any water that's in their house and that is in the three houses adjacent to that person do we keep this today do we not keep this today does it mean any water even if it's closed or only uncovered water like in a cup as opposed to a sealed bottle to get the exact application of the halacha today but the chiffon arm does not heebie-jeebie Coburn didn't make this up this is Johanna your additional amid tests that when a person dies in a home you have to pour out all the water in that house and in three Jason houses why there are two reasons which are offered the shaft writes their quote shake-a-doo are koshish but Makram others but it started here but pavia mot sediba because we don't like to be we're not supposed to like to be the bearer of bad news unfortunately many people love to share the bad news we're not supposed to want to be the bearer of bad news so rather than have to announce don't send out an email all of a sudden you see that in that house everybody's spilling out the water into the street into the sewer it must be that that person passed away so in order to have to avoid sharing bad news says the shock that's why they have this traditional pointing out the water a second reason it gives us Shamala for mamas map and my auntie posed on my mother's the Maha Mabus cleans off his bloody sword in the closest water so as not to ingest that bloody water we poured out any water that's there how do we know this Allah where does this Allah come from it seems to be a little bit of a misses are halakhah a mystical aha is this true also on Shabbos is it true in a hospital do we do it in our time there's a lot of a lot of literature about this Alaka again sho funaki idea and tasks so the the bare Gola writes in the name of the Abood raha that a hint to the Salafi is from where it's from our passion why because Miriam dies and immediately the next passage they say we're thirsty now the question is didn't they have a little bit of water left when Miriam died it meant that the water source was not renewed but didn't they have some water left in her merit so the water source is not renewed so the next day or the next week in the next month complaining fetch that you ran out of water why'd they crank complaining fetch immediately says the a votre Homme they complain and they catch immediately you know why whatever water was left had to be spilled down because the halacha is when someone passes away the water has to be spilled out so whatever was left had to be spilled out and since it was spilled out since it was spilled out that's why they had no water they complained right away we know as a result of this episode we're not going to go through it right now I want to get to partials public for a few minutes we know that a result of this episode they're not allowed to enter Moshe diamonds to enter with us comment 515 times he Dobbins why does an hour never die but to enter the land our own is part of this and in our partial our own dies tragically she said our own dies why wasn't our important prayer why didn't our never die to come in so now I'm away says why did motion want to enter Eretz Israel because we want to play golf in case aria you want to swim and lounge at the King David lounge why didn't you want to get in you're one of the all-you-can-eat what's that great restaurant when you turn it over red and green do you want more you not want more all you can eat I forgot the name already haven't been there it's drawn a few months and that's it why didn't you want to go in because he wanted to perform the mitzvahs that are only in era to scroll so Moshe was desperate he diamonds I shouldn't let me in I want to perform the Mintos you can only do there why didn't our endowment says the mammal aways cuz you know what mitzvahs are would have merited there the madness Kahuna he would have received from the people and so the island didn't want to look like he was entitled or that he was trying to take or that he was wanted to get into Israel so that he would have more therefore he didn't even davon to come in that is the explanation of the Madame Louise I want to share with you because I think it's a little bit timely and these are the partial perspectives for today there is a fast day associated with the Friday of precious Lucas by a show of hands how many do you are going to fast this Friday how many of you have ever heard of the fact that there's a fast day this Friday shavasana Tamas you heard of it's coming up with 17th of Tammuz but did you know there's a fast day this Friday it's quoted by the mugging of Rome Morgan of Rome references this this fast day what is the notion of this fast day where does it come from what's it really all about so the Morgan of Rome explains it's worthwhile for every Jew to cry for the burning of the Torah and he tells us a customary annual fast for this reason Erev Shabbos precious Lucas it's very unusual our fast days all are associated correlated with a date on the calendar now with a parsha shavasana Thomas T Shabaab isara Batavian Kippur is the tenth of Tishrei why do we have a faster that's associated with a partial with a day rather than with rather than with a date on the calendar so the Morgan of Rome tells us the reason he says on that day in the Year 1242 on the Friday of era of precious hookahs in the year twelve 42:20 wagonloads is another version it says 24 wagon loads of Gomorrah and of Talmudic literature including many of the works of the ballet Otto slows that we've never recovered were burned in Paris by agents of the church by King Louis the ninth and the pretext was this disputation a public debate between an apostate monk and some of the leading Robottom of france and the verdict came out although it was a foregone conclusion even before the verdict was reached and and in 1242 these 20 or 24 wagon loads of manuscripts handwritten were burned never to be replaced I remember 200 years before the printing press was invented these these manuscripts were priceless they were they were critically important from the transmission of our Turkish mob pad and it was considered such an enormous loss for Clara we all know that the Minami Ruttenberg the last of the ballet at Osos who was an eyewitness to this the Edict of King Louie the ninth in fact composed a kina that we recite tissue above morning and when we sit on the ground we recite the king of charlize through four by H and it's part of our quino's keno number 41 commemorates this episode and that happened on the Friday era of Pasha's hookahs in 1242 20 or 24 laggin loads were were burnt and the margin of room therefore says that we should commemorate that loss was so severe so significant so deep the great rabbis at the time instituted a of fast and they said why did this happen they tried to understand that they tried to make sense of it and they looked at our pasha and they said dogs aris o Raisa this is AG 0 of Hashem we quoted earlier Rashi those who curse our Torah this is AG 0 of Hashem the targum at the opening paths exist so Snuka cetera the targa monk was translated as those who curse a torah is dog zeroes Araiza this is the will of Hashem we don't understand it we know that years later and this is more petition above morning hopefully we won't have to say kenosis here or gula but we know that one of the students of rob a jnana who was an eyewitness also thought maybe this was a shams pay back they had burned the books of the Rambam they thought the Rambam was a heretic they burned the books of the Rambam maybe I shouldn't this says divine retribution they tried to make sense of it and there's a whole history to this Morgan of Rome offers another reason for fasting at Friday he says this day Erev Shabbos hook us two cities were decimated as part of the exam staff attacked the Cossack massacres by come on let's key in 1648 1649 recorded by the shock so the Marga Navarro these two reasons either because of because of King Louie the ninth or because of the exist a 4-top c'mon it's give rebellion and so many people died we therefore have this custom of fasting on the friday arab Pasha's hookahs why am i raising it because it's pressures cook us I'm also raising it for another reason which is there was an article in the foreword that quoted this although you don't see this movement in mass if we're gonna start taking down statues and we're choosing to whitewash and cleanse history I'm not weighing in this is a partial class a political whether we should or shouldn't then it's time to change the name of the City st. Louis because the city st. Louis is named for that king who burned 24 wagonloads of our Talmud who killed Jews and by the way who killed Muslims in the crusade to go to Jerusalem so interestingly the movement to change the name of the city st. Louis is not being led by Jews who embrace the Talmud it's not the learners of the DA feel me around the world it's the Muslim community who are saying if we're going to start cleansing history and taking statures and changing names it's time to change the name of the city of st. Louis the church has responded which true he made some mistakes but he was a very good and gracious person he was a sainted and therefore we keep his name st. Louis anyway it's an interesting footnote to history relevant to our history connected to precious hookahs because it was in partials hookahs that this episode a tragic tragic episode happened okay so much more I wanted to talk about and our partial but let's move over to precious Volek which we also read this week paraquat based passuk you days paraquat basic year days a few minutes left what do we do barricade base verify baseball secure base bill um commas bill um is this wicked evil prophet on par with moshe so great that he comes to Balak and he tries to recruit him to come curse the jewish people and i Shem system mostly late or on page 858 pedicure paragraph base positive is very more like ml bill I'm low silly FEMA hem loose or Assam key borough who don't curse the people because they are blessed don't try to curse them what's going on over here so Druker we strongly urge or can I say very strongly wonders and he says the following he says he need sort of beer Massey much I'm asleep chuckles grown with the Moluccas why was it good for a fool so adamant that bilham couldn't go why not bill him go and I shan't you're in charge of the world so let him go let him go and whatever bilham says you won't make it come true he'll go he'll try to curse and you'll turn it into a blessing which is in fact what happened in the end so why does he first hesitate and say you can't go keema triggers broccoli across lata colosso my life must longish a column calls the little moon what do we care if he curses of his curse is meaningless Hashem is dawn who protects us from curses a drama hyah Markham Lamarr she literally collinear she could also into ms KMS which would have been the greater kiddush Hashem if he didn't go or if he went and tried to curse him and nevertheless was unsuccessful in the curse it would have been a bigger kiddush Hashem if he went and tried to curse and was unsuccessful so why did we why did we hesitate why don't we let him go successor of drug higher echelon martial erotic artificial doula me kal-el kinship mahalo fedora Xia concessional necessarily amateur some you have old muscle Oh me attention there's no mark was colossal goodness bar who didn't want it on the books that there was a profit of curse the Jewish people because fast forward to Arab harshest cookers 1242 fast forward to the 17th century come on Nicky fast forward to a time the Jewish people would suffer and our out of adversaries and enemies would point back and say you know why you know what's bringing them down because on the books is a curse from pillow so I should have said I don't want to curse anyone near my people and maybe that's why at first they said no you can't go but open a car near levar unions I have another reason so now my Sascha my sister will have moved on the schmuck loud to recall I you saw second reason of drug gives is because he says it's true the curse of this wicked man would be meaningless and the people would be protected from it yet nothing to worry about and yet nevertheless Hashem says if you love someone you can't tolerate hearing them cursed out even if the curse is not going to negatively impact them but if you love them you cannot and you will not tolerate somebody speaking about them in that way well we have people around us that we love you know sometimes there's a person acting out but the real more egregious violators are not the ones who are cursing it's the general public who sit there a pathetically quietly and therefore become accomplices because if you really love somebody you can't tolerate some cursing them out cuz bar who couldn't tolerate it and therefore he intervenes and intercedes even though it seems like it wouldn't really need be necessary it then says throw drunk on the next puzzle but your mother came up billable say the clean mama source I'm Kimber who don't go by Royal Hakeem abilify law cash bar who came in the night macoco born a shame they've come and so on and so forth so had a Kurdish Brotherhood go back first he said mostly looking maíam and now he says cool Malaysia eat um so isn't a Shan going back on his word what happened whatever his original hesitation was why does he given in the end so they grow the Vilna Gaon in his Cola Leo gives an answer and he says notice there's a change in word be sensitive to the text and noticed as a change in words and what's the change in words he goes from low sailor m ahem to come late eat um what's the difference in my hand means when you're aligned with them and their interest in mine means don't go with them where you become one of them he Tom means to just physically be alongside them but to physically be alongside them is different than to go with them and among them and that's what changed and that's why in the growth traces the center of drug expands upon it and he says we have the episode Russian she would lock on poema for more I'm her dome Elohim or because it says in not s haha more that's what we learned from it the difference with the word in and eat Tom from the difference in those words you can apply that in several other places as well look in the safer H tumin or if joke applies it in other places as well ok we have a couple minutes left I just want to bring to your attention a couple more quick beautiful inspiring ideas I guess the beauty of learning virtually is you drop out and I'm not insulted so you'll go when you have to but just give me a few more minutes if you're able to stay pedicle based puzzle game a model of rough base mammoths back and forth and back and forth and you go with the donkey and this is no ordinary donkey get a very special intimate inappropriate relationship with this donkey para five days puss ik ma'am Alif by he by Booker because both his bill Amelia but most Bob finally to their bilham has successfully gotten Bullock to where he's going to curse him and he brings him on top of the mountain and from his perspective from his perch on top of the mountain bill um is going to look down an issue and offer this curse but I Lobos Baba i'ma shank damn you on top of the mountain the heights of bow and from there he sees the people and gives a curse and then a man makes an incredible comment here we don't have time I'm not gonna read you then I'm buying it inside but I encourage you to look at this from banter for basic men Alif you know Terrebonne says about this he says why did bill him have to come all together send bilham a telegram and went billah grant led Billa Graham led bilham curse the people from his home office from quarantine from seclusion why couldn't bilham have been buckled down and Bullock would send him a text send them a whatsapp send them an email and from his home office why couldn't from the safety of his home office why does he have to come all the way to mow off and want us if to climb on top of the mountain and look down at the people in order to be able to curse them what's going on over here so says the man bun you know why but like a LED bill him to a place where he with his own eyes because a person is deeply affected by what they see with their own eyes aina doe mesh malaria when you see with your own eyes whether you see when you connect when you observe you are much more connected with something that you just hear about you see this when it comes to moshe rabbeinu as well because we know when the Jewish people left mitai him Amal it comes out to greet them and you're sure ground has got as a people group of people to fight and while yo shoe is leading the people fighting motion goes where on top of the mountain - da van when he lifts the sands they win and we lowers as soon as they lose but where does most should go to David he goes to the top of the mountain much like bilham here goes on top of the mountain and there I'm bombed there - Schmo said Zion plastic tests that I'm bombed there - says Moshe candy just lie in his own bed sending his own comforter why does Moshe have to get up out of his massage chair and go to the top of a mountain to Dobbin for them why can't he dumped him for the convenience of wherever he was and they're on bond says the same thing over there because Moshe steel isn't gonna be much more heartfelt much more genuine much more potent much more effective when he's looking down at Klaus Earl when we see when we connect why am i sharing this room bound with you - lime bond in two places I think very powerful in bond because it's one of the great fears that I have when this pandemic is over and it will be over make no mistake it will end we will please God up a vaccine or will have a antibody formula and combination and it's going to be over we're going to come back hopefully will happen soon I hope I hope that you're not all going to be watching and listening to me unzoom or Facebook or YouTube again if you don't live here and you can't come here I hope you'll be in a room and we can feel the energy of being together and we can look at each other with our with our four eyes and connecting the way that we're meant to connect because that's the message of the Ironbound here there in Bonn is telling us that bilham had to see the people Moshe had to look at them when he Dow and for them we have to be able to be experience one another together not just to see across technology not just to see across cyberspace but to see physically to be together physically and it's one of the things that I worry about and then I hoping that I pray that when this ends and we can turn it around one of the things that we can capture we can continue to do going forward is to recover that ability to be together and to be able to put eyes on one another just like that was part of the power of bilham's effort to curse it was part of the power lahardee love moshus ability to Davin I wanted to tell you about my tovo no he bit of an Bianco and or a high McCullough traditional AV about Shem Tov I didn't even tell you one Emory I am today how could you not even share one English I am one in my friend okay we'll just close with one in there kinda then my friend tells us we know that when the people suffer the plague the symbol of the AMA the American Medical Association is the snake wrapped around the staff where did that come from our Pasha and the people made a mistake and they were struck with the plague they recovered from the snakes biting them by looking at the snake and that's how they recovered so the Torah says I say look on staff you have to make a snake pair of off-post FS huh file off yes it's back in hukum waymarsh mi mochila her serif they see masala nice by Ilocano shows but also Makai make an image of a snake a fiery serpent put it on a pole anyone who was bitten by a snake will look at this image and will live says the vision utter commercial auto oh yeah this lava fish Kodesh meta blend whatever you do I say lahars ruff whatever you do be on fire when you do it make for yourself a fire be on fire mitah Bren there's lavas whatever we're doing we have to do on fire the governor Chavez says the shaman says a rogue Oban air hub in Lebanon Tommy the person is accustomed to be by the fire we'll have children who are on fire the shame of Shimoda suffer chopper says what does it mean a raga bionaire it means if you're on fire and you're a model for others then they'll be contagious others will be on fire to give us all abraca we should be safe from snakes and from plagues we should be able to be in the presence of one another to put eyes on one another and that we should emits a shell live our lives but the brand we should be on fire passionate excited in all that we do thank the oh you again thank you to our cats as our wonderful sponsors and the mid-session we'll pick up next time have a wonderful and a safe health and holy day