Prerequisite For The Blessings with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the you've been a big midrash welcome home to Torah a very very warm welcome and you can find some of the previous uh classes and links in the description box in the YouTube below that's first of all we also like that you learn Hebrew and the Hebrew sheets of course they're not color coded like mine are black and white but they're on the on our website there's a link below as well for those who are new or not aware of what we do we're using the CLIA car as the basis of the discussion we're only trying to figure out his shot right we want to know what he has to say and I'll tell you I mean as the student of the maharral of Prague and of the shla kodesh he's quite he's quite the man right quite the rabbi with the masara the transmission from Mount Sinai and we are his students we're all his students and I'm just the guide um so we're in bahukutai which is in vayikra Leviticus 26 and it's we're going to start with verse 3 which is where it starts now there is a war going on in Israel and I promised my wife never to be political that war is now 100 years old it's not didn't start yesterday and we do have enemies we're not in a great neighborhood we have enemies all around us and this Parsha is going to give us the the not just the remedy the instructions right what we can do as Jews living in the land of Israel where anybody who believes in God could try to follow the instructions whatever instructions there are to the best of their ability and yes there's a message from benenoch as well in this Parsha so here we go when we start in Source number one Leviticus 26 3. if you follow my statutes no I divided it's not me really the clear card is going to explain how it's divided into three portions as if Rashi did it no Hashem himself did it we have a cancellation marks we have we'll call trop and the way it's sung the Torah is sung through the oral Torah is uh explained when and where and how you make your stops and your breaks you know what I might as well show you for who those who are unfamiliar real quick in the beginning of most humashim you'll find the page like right before the first page or sometimes it's the very end the cancellation marks I'll just show those who want to see it these are the cancellation marks and uh each one has a distinct sound now of course svardima have a little bit of a different Twang and then you have yemenike Twang and of course the Ashkenazi and then there's different types of ashkenazine that have but it's basically the same Concepts right because each cancellation Mark has meaning behind it this is all part of the altara anybody who's a denial in the Nile denial of an oral Torah I mean they have no idea just join a Jewish community and you'll see there has to be an altara right everyone's wearing the same to fill in basically right okay there's a minor differences but 99.9 of what we do no matter where we ended up in the world we're all following the same Torah and it's not because we're reading the words and figuring out there's no way to do that and that's the problem with these people who come from the outside and just try to read the Torah and try to figure it out they're going to invent the new religion no question about it and that is a big No-No that's not what God wants okay so let's start the first verse I told you is broken up into three parts if you follow my statutes I'm going to put a comma there and observe my Commandments another comma and perform them they all all three statements mean something else try to read it and just push-up shot god is simply saying if you follow my statutes and You observe my Commandments to perform them the rest of the verses are talking about the blessings all kinds of seemingly physical blessings will come true will come to pass and then later on in the partial you see that if you don't listen and you don't follow this instruction manual then may I say oh hell we'll break loose right literally it's not going to be comfortable for anyone by the way if you pray for your shalaya right which has got what God wants of you right King David pray for the Peace of your lion you shall lie and see on it all means Israel trust me if there's really peace here there'll be peace throughout the world everything comes from Zion everything comes out of the the Heartland right out of Israel so if we read it in Hebrew we'll see how it's broken up if you what I would say if you like he translated it here as follow but I'm going to say if you walk in my statute okay and we don't know what statute is we think what we think we know what it means that it just means the general rules but it can't be because then it says those are the rules right my mitzvot my Commandments and by the way just I have to reiterate this all the time the very word Mitzvah itself means the connection points there are 300 613 total connection points 365 low to assay and 248 assay we're going to see and I'll just put it here the word charmere when it says my mitts was you a guard we will see that this is talking about the low tasse the negative Commandments and vasi team osam and you perform them that's talking about the assays the positive commands the actions the dues and that's why once you realize that who cannot mean the general mitzvahs well seemingly push-up shut is that it is but when you carefully examine it you'll notice through this class that it has to mean something else first thing Rashi says because the clear card will discuss Rashi and help us understand it in Source One I might think that this refers to the Fulfillment of The Commandments meaning the phrase if you follow my statue first of all if it was meaning all the Commandments there's no real if you must so that may be one dead giveaway but as I said that if you do this we see the blessings come okay Rashi says right away if you would have thought and I'm going to add the word mistakenly that the first phrase If You observe if you follow my statutes is referring to the Commandments in general well the scripture right away says and observe my Commandments so it's already stated so it can't mean so what does it mean if you follow my statutes drum roll please it means you must toil in the study of Torah now this is not a command because it starts with if so there's something very unusual by the fact that it is not a command okay but the word to follow or here who is like walking and right well through the guraria he understood he understood Rashi as saying something like the word means an effort making an effort as walking could be an effort for some people and the older we get we understand what that means anyway and then it says and he says what does it mean and observe my Commandments that's really that you shall toil in the study of Torah in order to observe so we're going to find out as Rashi says it's toiling in the Torah and the reason you toil in the Torah is so that you can fulfill the mitzes and we're going to talk about covana I just want to give a real good plug on the giboney channel we have cavana limits this Rabbi wegbrite have you ever seen it so it's very important to have certain minimum cavana's intentions when you do Mitzvahs at least know what they are that's like the minimum okay so how can you if you never studied how can you perform them so the studying is like a prerequisite so it's a necessity if you really want to do the rest keeping that in mind that's what Rashi says and he brings down a verse in the Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 1 which I hope we will be able to look at but it's very similar hero Israel the statutes and the ordinances I don't have the whole verse in front of you although I could open it up here let's just see real quick because it's a very important verse and Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 1. says like this so Moses called All of Israel and said to them hear o Israel the decrees and the ordinance thy speaking ears today learn them and be careful to perform them so that's very very interesting how learning them comes before obviously it's so obvious you have to learn in order to perform them and Hebrew ulamada okay now let's start with the clear car now with that introduction underway ah maybe I should give you one more quick introduction I mentioned or I don't know if I mentioned it on on camera since we started this year but beforehand I told the students that are here that you will find the word natati three times in those blessings that we hopefully will be receiving constantly because we're doing the right thing in Source number two I mentioned them you'll see it in 26 4 26 6 and 26 11. the word nitati just a brief right then I will provide Reigns in their time that's verse four I will provide peace in the land which is what we're praying for I mentioned that's verse six and I will place my Sanctuary among you again in Hebrew it's all vinatati okay so those are the three natatis it's very important to keep track of them as well through this brief encounter with us at the event of eight midrash on time okay let's look at uh Clear Car ish Rashi right on that verse right away he explains that one should toil in the Torah explains it through either you know other verses or the extra verses the extra words that come after right it's so obviously is not talking about the mixes themselves it's going to be talking about learning because that's what she's talking about not just learning toiling and we'll have to discuss exactly how to set that up for yourself because Rashi says the whole idea of fulfillment of the mitches is already said in the verse where as we saw in Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse one it was also spoken about there and here it goes nevertheless the language itself needs clarification we don't understand what the words so he begins by telling us what I had already mentioned that hashem's intent that Hashem divided this verse into three parts by the way I mentioned about the cancellations so um any well you can look at it yourself okay so they're basically strong commas where I mentioned how the the posic is divided and he mentions that those three divisions in verse 3 are what connected I shall connect them the three times natati is used to God's going to Grace us God's going to grant us God's going to give us God's going to place for us three very distinct things they're going to parallel these three statements in verse 3. okay Turn the Page the very first statement that we're going to do a natati for eign as we said the the posix divide into three parts first part if you walk in my statutes and we already know this is it's right through um the toil the trying to understand the Torah but it's through study and he now says these important words these are strong words that you'll hear from many roshishivas many rabbis of communities any malamed and anybody who's teaching make sure and hopefully every father to their child that you should establish set times for learning right if it's 15 minutes a day it's at the same time every day if it's five minutes or five hours or 12 hours or 18 whatever amount of time it is that you set you should set it aside every day at the same time and not only that it should be just remember we're asking what is the word mean so we already said there's mixes that are low tase and assay right there's mits that are don'ts and this is dues that's one way to divide them there's another way to divide them and mishpatim are laws that are comprehensible logical understandable and anybody can come up with these ideas by the way Ben noach are obligated in all mishpatim anything that is logical and comprehensible that you would if you were on a deserted island and you had a bunch of people and you had to make rules these are the rules you would come out with obligated to follow them who came on the other hand in general I'm just saying how it can be divided in general means Mitzvahs that are either you might have some reasons but that's not the real reason and it's usually a reason that is incomprehensible something that is you would not have made it up on your own it's not something society would have come out with but it's coming from a higher power it's coming from the almighty himself the creator of the universe he's the one who decided this is best for the Jewish people and who came in general that's good for the that's the Jews are obligated but the word here does not mean that and he's going to prove it he says here these are not those types of Mitzvahs that are incomprehensible we already said that it already includes all misses the positives and the negatives I mean the do's and the don'ts so the word cannot possibly mean that kilometers not only that where we do find those words regarding those who came those metaphysical Mitzvahs that don't necessarily make sense we don't find the words you shall walk in them at all ever because we don't see anywhere these words connected walking or proceeding or following just doesn't happen therefore he concludes it infers from that you can understand from this you hear from it with it's like I said earlier it's called a statute you make it like a law for yourself and he explains it like this that this type of proceeding this type of walking this type of going is speaking where Hashem is not commanding you we already saw it says in it's not a command but rather that a person himself does it someone something that a person on his own does without being commanded and therefore therefore what are we forced to explain we're forced to Fashion that that is going to be something that a person does and I'm going to use the word Teva meaning like naturally by Nature now you can create your own nature right we call that second nature when you frame so he's going to explain where you make this into your second nature we'll have to discuss what that means but he says like this through constant well let's say being habituated by doing it um on a regular basis you become accustomed to doing it that's what hair girl means it becomes your second nature you're creating it to become part of you it is somewhat superficial because it's not who you are but nevertheless you created it as a second nature to yourself so the only justification the only way to understand this these words is if you this is how we're explaining it that if you set aside times you're making like a statute like you're making right for yourself and setting aside time for Torah Vu margiel Atmos that basically what you're doing is you're setting aside time you're making yourself so accustomed that you're going to debate midrash that's the study hall at a known time a set time and you're constantly doing it foreign now this is very like you know you got to be sitting down to hear this until this thing becomes the nature in regard to your own legs your own feet I guess I could try to compare it I don't really jog but I can imagine someone who has a set time every day they're always doing it that time comes they're gonna just you know even if they're in their house they're gonna start jogging around their house they're going to walk outside to uh to check the mail and all of a sudden they're going to think oh I'm already out here I'll start jogging right or maybe someone who goes shopping right they're going to start whatever I'm just joking but listen to this he's bringing down a medrish now this is 35 one I actually have I have a really good uh copy of the measures with all the all kinds of explanations I would like to spend some time on it I'm wondering whether I do it now um yeah we're gonna have to I'll explain it like this the measures brings down this verse and there is a verse now this verse King David says in Psalms where will you find this uh you're going to find this on number three on the English sheet but the verse you'll find on the following page so in Psalms 119 verse 59 King David said I considered my ways now for those who don't have a a com you know an oral Torah they wouldn't know what this means right I considered my ways but my legs turned towards your testimonies the understanding is that even though I King David had my own mind about what I was going to do my legs took me back to the bait midrash where your testimonies are being taught okay now that's I'll read to you the um the madrish simply like this the majors presents several approaches we're only going to deal with one of them to this verse as I mentioned in Psalms 119 verse 59 that I considered my ways and I returned my feet to your testimony it actually means I returned my feet but my feet went because I trained them to do that so in this verse King David is saying his followers Master of the Universe I think to myself and I says you know to a specific place or to a specific house I'm gonna go and guess what happens but you know what happened my feet would lead me to synagogues and study halls now the The Mattress goes on and says you know it says vashiva raglai all right I consider my ways and I return my feature testimonies well there's a lot here I don't want to go too much into it because it will spend way too much time it's worthwhile studying medrish on its own um one thing the H Joseph points out what bothered him the most is the very fact that it says I will go if you will go in my decrees as opposed to if you will observe my decrees so the very fact it's not talking about observing you mean keeping the Commandment but it's walking and we already pointed that out as Rashi said it's something strenuous um yeah I'm gonna skip all this because we have way too much uh to go through in a short period of time okay so back into the Clear Car where he said like this and Zach him everything we just quoted from this magic is showing us what from the aspect that King David set times for learning Torah as a statute that he would not transgress he wouldn't break through the lines until his own feet went without any hear responsibility Irvine arvina's responsibility to go to the bank midrash below cavana without intent because he was already accustomed to do such a thing imamish made a such a fantastic wonderful habit of setting aside the time for the Torah that no matter where he went at that time his feet would take him to the baby Josh the the measures explained some say that he always went to Daven first and he always learned first and then that would help him in whatever he did during the rest of the day anyway therefore there's not even space or Place Macon right there's not even any space or place to command a person in such a thing for anything that a person does without cavana which in this case God wants you to do it there's no you cannot possibly come in God wants you to set up a hoax that you do every day so that it will take you always there whether you like it or not you cannot have a command to defeat but rather what is this talking about that if such a thing would occur that if you're covering that as long as you set up these times for Torah and then the point would come where your feet would just take you there on their own to that very time that you're going to call yourself it's called a statute a statute you made it coveya you you set it up for yourself that you wouldn't transgress and that is the meaning of okay now can negative so we're going to describe how each one of the three parts of verse three are parallel to the three natatis so the first natati which you'll find in verse 4 by the way right which says um then I will provide your Reigns in their time and the land will give its produce and the tree of the field will give its fruit so in Hebrew so the clear car says the very fact that the verse says I'm going to give Reigns in their times is going to be parallel with the words that we're all familiar with of setting aside times for Torah this is actually the reward God is re is informing you that the reward for setting aside time making a toil setting like a statute for yourself a hope that you're not going to transgress God will bring the Reigns in its time now there is a statements which you will find in the source sheet number six okay now number five is what we just read and number six and number six says like this and I just want to the the uh the Bold the middle part ref Catina said oh by the way just you should know there are different opinions about why rains stop so I might as well read them he said that Ranger withheld if now it says the enemies of the Jewish people but it's talking about the Jewish people we're Sinners have been sentenced to destruction so there will be a ceasing of rain the current area of his there the rains are hell withheld due to the sin of not doing Truman misers says Reigns are withheld only due to the sin of blushing um ribby Salah said that said that Reigns are going to be stopped because of khrespedic people because of haughty people but this statement we're about to read katana said Katina said the Reigns are withheld only due to the sin of the religion of the study of Torah and he does give a proof here and the proof is the verse in number seven it's Ecclesiastes that's cohalis 10 18. but it's that through laziness the roof will collapse basically and why is that so first of all we're going to see that since the Torah comes from heaven and it was brought down here to the Earth that's and we're going to see a verse Real dealing with Sinai at Sinai it's like the um we're going to see in where is it in Judges chapter 5 verse 45 I might as well go through it now Lord when you went forth out of Sierra when you marched out of the field of Adam the Earth trembled the heavens also drift U and also the clouds drift water gam Avi matafu Mayim naslow that the the mountains melted the verse itself talks about water descending from Heaven that's the Torah that just like the Torah was in heaven and brought down to earth that's what gesham reminds us of so if you learn the Torah you bring the waters from Heaven do you follow thee okay so that's what the clear card is bringing down now it's brought down he quoted tyness and in Tinus according to hellis and and then he says perhaps this is the very reason in chapter 5 verse 4 and 5 that we just described how the water is descended from the heavens by harsinai okay loharos to show you what drum roll please to teach you right that the very Merit of learning tariff and you learn Torah that the Torah itself Came From Heaven as a result of learning the Torah will come down the geshen from heaven and we have a famous statement in perkiavotes if I'm not mistaken it's number nine it's chapter 3 mission 17. said a lot of stuff I'm not going to quote this whole thing but the very last few words if there is no Torah there is no flower think about it like this wouldn't even if there's no Torah there's no Torah there's no rain there's no rain there's no wheat growing there's no wheat growing you have nothing to Harvest get nothing to grind you have nothing to eat so in the Merit right in in the Merit of keeping that hook what's that hook setting aside time for Torah which was not a command as a result of the Merit the Reigns will come in their time okay now the next paragraph remember the middle statement of our original verse and my Commandments you will guard what does that mean the Mitzvahs are the results is the goal is the purpose of the learning by learning this will bring you to guarding or observing the mitzes the what we call I don't like the word negative I know I've used it a few times obviously there's no negative Commandments but we use the word negative as the ones you're not supposed to do okay and positive is the ones you're acting you act out you do but let's become familiar with the words don't use and I say dues so he says regarding those misses that you're not supposed to violate that's what the statement the society and how is that proven and I'll show you where that is in November 10. in Gomorrah eravin 96a there's a discussion this is true it's in the middle of the discussion it's page three number ten that this is also a violation of a negative Mitzvah in accordance with the principle the rabbi avin said there will be Ella said as said the rebel and said any place this is the statement that clear car quoted any place where it says to observe lest pen or do not means nothing other than a negative mixer okay okay so you follow those are like don't don't do guard yourself against doing as the Gomorrah says in Arabic now what else do we know what about the last phrase vasitimosan and you shall perform them those are the last words of verse 3. I knew Mitzvah say these are the positive misses these are the active misses I say means to perform to do them now interestingly because it does say at the end oh Tom so why couldn't the verse have just said what does the word otam add to us at the end right and you shall perform them just say these you guard and these you do could have been simple so he asked well he's quoting actually 13 a and you'll find that on number 11 but basically this word and this is a plug for cavanus foreign okay and that's the intent of the word Autumn and that's what the Gomorrah says look on page three number 11. we have a mishna that says if you're the time arrived where you need to read the uh the Karishma and you read it now if you thought about fulfilling the midst of your yotsi if you didn't you're not yoti so what does it say in the Gomorrah from this we learn that Mitzvahs require intent and the Gomorrah goes on to prove from the word otam this word that we're quoting here it's a side point you need intent to fulfill mitzvahs this happens to be very interesting because we're discussing this whole idea in the beginning you have intent in the beginning that's your whole goal to learn how to do the missions to the point that it becomes like wrote now rote usually is a bad word in Judaism we don't want to fulfill missus but in this case you do meaning of course it would be great if you had cavana but if you make it your second nature that's fantastic because you'll always end up in the bait midrash no matter what just like King David said I thought about going to suck my complaining but my feet took me back to your statutes [Applause] so then afterwards there's it specifies the reward for each one of the three parts of our original verse in verse 3. so we saw connectora we already saw regarding the learning of Torah which was a ramus the imrutai that if in my statutes you follow you walk and it said that God's going to give you the rain it's going to provide your Reigns in their time now the clear card is bothered by the fact that it says he's going to provide your Reigns in its time why doesn't it says why doesn't it just say I will provide Reigns in its time which kind of would make more sense well there's a reason why it says your Reigns what I think he's saying is the father that right now God did not want to designate the reward for the learning of the Torah as if this is something that's well known that the rains come down in the Merit of Torah and therefore what actually happens is as you're learning clouds are forming and there's water evaporating from the earth and being collected that is your excuse it's waiting for you it's called your reins but it's not coming down yet so aside from that now aside from that then now he wants to add another thing those very range those very Reigns that will happen later in its time they're going to come down in its time they're already considered yours they're going to be designated for you you have any idea the power when we do mixes when we're learning Torah in order to fill the Mitzvahs just learning Torah and I mean really learning I don't mean sitting and listening to some you know tape in a far-off country when you can be sitting like in front of a rabbi watching his lips move attain osambi Tom that he's telling you now I want you to know through your learning Torah the real reward I mean the real um way that you're going to see it is when it comes in its time um but as you're learning they're they're already designated as your Reigns but they didn't come yet so that he says in in the in the Merit of import that's already finished now we've already explained it now he wants to go on not to the next natati but in verse if I'm not mistaken it's verse 5 no in verse 4 where it says and the land will give its produce [Music] the land itself will give forth its produce now we how will the land give forth only if there's rain correct so the first thing the rain is going to happen is time and then the land will get the rain and give forth its produce this is only going to happen if there's Torah Torah yes as long as you have Torah you have the Rays that come down that produce the fruit the the grains and then you have flour meaning your bread la now in the explanation of uvula which means produce where it could mean movement is what you're bringing to it or what you're producing no much like Rashi says now this is a little complicated because in verse 20 by the curses okay see in verse 14 it says but if you will not listen then all these very negative consequences happen so in verse 20 it says your strength will be spent in vain in other words you're going to work the land but ain't nothing coming out of it right your land will not give its produce and the tree of the land will not give its fruit okay where do we see this on our page it's in number 12. by the way and I I have to admit I skipped something in the English in the English it doesn't give I skipped it I don't know why but in Hebrews says you have to add the words your land will not yield its produce so your strength will be expanded expanded in vain so you're going to bring the seed to the acreage or dunams and it's not going to produce anything that's in the curse but notice that it said ET uvula in the bracha the word does not appear in the curse the word EK does appear so he says and look in Russian verse 20. and he says it clearly in the case of a man who did not toil not having plowed sown weeded cut out the Thorns or hold a time of harvest so if there's like a you know but bad storms and a drought or something like like that blood comes and ruins everything that other people worked on the person does not feel so bad as if he was the one who worked however if a man did everything he toiled he plowed he sowed he weeded he cut up the thorns and he hoed and then horrible weather comes or um of drought comes and ruins everything this person is really really feeling it so what does it mean the Rashi says the land will not yield its produce do your word yavula means even the quantity of seed quantity of seed that you bring forth mobile just as a side point many English words are taken from the Hebrew Mo veal it's like Mobile in other words it's the produce is moving from one location to another or what you bring as seed to the field or what you bring is the produce the Harvest out of the field that's what your vula means so the clear car says the word ET what is it doing there by the curse but not by the bracha usually the word at comes to add something so what is it adding that right so listen to his words he says and we just read the word low details what is it coming to add we already know that other places Rashi says the word ET is always coming to add it's coming to add something here in the curse even that which you mow the Allah that you bring meaning you sowed you you made a measurement right this is what farmers do they calculate I have X amount of acreage I need x amount of seed and this is what I could uh benefit you know I could profit from low t-tane the land will not produce avocad but by the blessing the word at does not appear everything is included in the uvula because it's a bracha meaning to say that which it's normally the way to bring it into your house meaning as a result of the Harvest and he says it has to be like that otherwise why would you have it by the curse the word ET but you don't have that by the bracha so it has to be already included in the produce in the broker side so this is what the explanation is I just read that darshinen so there is the at the extra at by the curse and therefore we're able to darche now back to the the bracha as he says even that which you bring in seed that in the bracha you'll get back by the curse you won't okay now new subject it says in verse 5. this is also a little bit complicated in verse 5 it says that your threshing will last until the Vintage now threshing just keep in mind is dealing with grains so the grain Harvest and then what you do after your Harvest you bring it to The Granary and you separate it you grind It Whatever It Is the threshing will last until the Vintage the Vintage has to do with the the um the grape Harvest so one will overlap with the other you will have so much work which will be a blessing because you have so much food that one will meld into the next and the Vintage will last until the sowing and then it says you will eat your bread to say it doesn't say anything about the wine notice you will eat your bread to say to you and you will dwell securely in your land now in the Hebrew where are we at in Hebrew it's number it's a number 13. so it's 26 5. the Hebrew says means to you in other words so you're you're um it will it will reach you will overcome to you the daish which is the threshing at the Basir but sir is harvesting the grapes the word lechem appears by the threshing the word does not appear by The Grapes look the rest of the verse the Sova the the shaft him so the Clear Car points out right away it's why does the word lechem only appear by the threshing but does not appear appear by when it comes to the Vintage so he has a very important lesson for life because the bread which is from the grains that's considered a necessity it's Minot it's something that you need to live that God will provide for you meaning promise and abundance wrote since it's from what we're going to call what Pleasures luxuries it's just not for you doesn't mean you're not going to use it but he says it's not for you to what to go out and get drunk to just chill out and have a few drinks it's not for you it's for God when you drink wine are you drinking for yourself or you're drinking only because it's a mitzvah this is a very crucial Point especially people in recovery okay the doctor tells you to do a certain drug it's going to save your life you do it okay you want to do it for your own pleasure wrong so let's go on it says you will eat your bread what does it say Le Sova to or towards sayati what in the world's alamed what does it mean towards sayati so the lamid of lasova is coming tomorrow to teach you Shalom that one should not eat until they're completely satisfied eat less than I know it's hard you go to a buffet you pile your plate first of all lesson one you can always go back for seconds so don't overpower your plate and not only that whatever you have on your plate leave over a little bit okay so just don't eat until you're totally full just have a little bit less than being fully satisfied just like the re the the rabbis sorry just like the doctors say the rabbis do say it but this is something well known in the uh Sciences that's what the doctors say you should only eat in a way where you're really close to being fully satisfied now what about the lamid of levettach the shaft and you will dwell towards safety in your land what is love it's going towards safety so the lamina teaches you sahas that what we just said about Society being satisfied that is what brings one towards peace that right people go to war I shouldn't say this what do I know but let's say history most Nations most wars happen because of lack of resources it's probably not true probably people have all kinds of reasons why they go to war but let's say the only real reason to go to war let's say you know you try to make a deal you have no water and the people are not willing to give you any water so I you know you go to war right I mean like why else would you go to war it doesn't make any sense to still have people die for nothing right but anyway so if you have Saidi and I think there was a president of the United States if I'm not mistaken it might have been Roosevelt and it was you know a time of I guess rebuilding and he said every family should have two chickens in every pot or something like that maybe two cars in every driveway but you get the idea he felt as a president which is true the king his responsibility in fact that's why the king the lineage of the king is born not the our King has to be born in belechem but our King has to come from the seed of David who's from they let him just keep that straight the mashiach does not come from the meshiach comes from seed of David who's from baitlyn so the word bait lechem because the king's job is to provide sustenance right to make sure that there's Security on the borders remember we're not getting political here we're just saying okay new onward so that's what the clear card is saying that satayati is that how you pronounce it is what satiation anyway let's just say Prosperity right will bring security and as a proof text he brings Psalms 147 14. within your borders he makes peace with the best of the wheat he will satiate you shalom foreign okay so this proves that when you have um when you have sanity it it creates peace and then there's a Ghazal in public 59 a I do have it here happens to be anybody that has shown bias problems listen a lot of problems are caused for other reasons but unfortunately many times divorces do happen as a result of the combinations but one of the things is the husband has to provide is to make sure there's always food in the cupboards otherwise you'll find other other reasons to fight right as long as you have food at least you there's something to work on right so the Gomorrah says regarding this robuta says a person should always be careful about ensuring that there's a grain inside of his house as Discord is down than a person's house only over matters of grain as it says and that's the verse we just quoted he makes your borders peace he gives you plenty with the finest wheat and if there's the finest Suite in your house there will be peace there where papa says this is in accordance with the adage and this is what the clear card brings down in Aramaic people say when the barley is emptied from The Jug quarrel knocks and enters the house so you want to keep that outside the house so Cod Michelle basically like I said and translate it now afterwards Barrel this is where we're going to get into this idea here how we're going to match up the natati of the now let me just give you if anybody you know wants to hear it real quickly we said that the Lo tase the negative Commandments God's going to provide peace we'll have to explain why I'll give you like a a short summary I mean it's really not doing any justice here because we really have to see it inside but the enemy comes through your land so God's going to prevent them when you prevent yourself from violating God's command God will then guard you and not allow others to violate you the the positive commands which we call the assays God says I will place my Sanctuary among you will see these many many verses an idea it says that God will create the mikdash with his own hands and hands represent action that you do so that's how it will match up with the positives so hang in there we only have a few minutes left let's see how the Clear Car explains the negative I'm sorry the low tasses and he says right away those misses you shall guard my missiles you shall guard I knew Mrs Lotus how's that it says I'm going to place peace in the land okay and now by the way of now this is in um devarim rabba 4-4 again I have a whole lot to say about it but in short if you look what I wrote here well it's number 17. it's all in Hebrew I'll explain it that um God said to man that my candle which my candle is in your hand my candle god is saying my my Torah right there's a concept that the um that the Torah and and how's it go I should bring it up real quick Adam the narrow of Hashem is the soul of man and we have another statements was the Torah were the the candle of the um the Commandment is a lamp and the Torah is the light let me just give you those verses you can look them up one is in Proverbs chapter 20 verse 27 and the other one is in the Proverbs chapter 6 verse 23. so what is he saying over here he's saying that if my candle that's in your hand which is my Torah is in your hand if you guard it then your candle which is in my hand which is your soul I will guard so there's this symbiotic relationship we have something of gods which is historah he is something of ours which is Our Song and as long as we guard his Torah he will guard our soul that's the short of it okay so going into the Clear Car he says he what does it mean to guard guard is to prevent something from ruining something right you're guarding it you want to return it in the position in the same status it was when you received it it's a little bit to prevent something bad or damaging to it foreign so if you're going to end up guarding something you're going to prove you're guarding it to prevent something from happening to it and that's what God is saying I'm giving you my talk god is saying I'm going to guard your candle from anything that can happen bad to it and therefore I'm going to put peace in your portion then the verse goes on and says a sword will not cross your portion [Music] okay in verse six we see this actually look in number 16 right I'll Grant peace in your land and at the end it says no Army will pass through your land no sword will pass through your land Mitzvahs anyone who guards these Mitzvahs that are low tassai don't Do's who basheva altace is a famous expression by khazal you sit and do nothing right how do I not murder somebody I sit and do nothing I fulfill admissions do not murder right don't steal I sit and do nothing I don't act on it I don't act on it right that's the whole point so too by God guarding against the invading army or the um the evil that's going to come upon us it's also a shavalota say the whole idea of shmira from either sword or wild animals comes from don't not doing anything therefore it says in other words he's teaching us foreign which means you you pursue your enemies and they will fall Before You by The Sword now this you'll find in number 18. it's Leviticus 26 7 and 8. you will pursue them but they will fall what By The Sword before you listen to what he says meaning to say Alpha Pi should tear the fame even though you're chasing them now you didn't really have to become a come ain't from nevertheless it wasn't really necessary to chase them through an action akum vase getting up and doing something Ella shave the shave just sit there look I say don't do anything and on their own they will fall on their own swords or buy the sword which we'll see and read the rest of the verse like in verse um eight five of you will pursue a hundred and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand and again your enemies will fall by the sword before you so the math doesn't work out in other words if five pursue a hundred that's five percent five percent of your energy is chasing the enemy but then the rest of the verse says that a hundred will pursue ten thousand now that's only one percent so what's going on five percent you need to Chase it should be five percent all the way through use a consistent math but it doesn't what's it telling us first of all that the accounting is not even accurate says the before shame that in the very beginning from the very start before overwhelming fear and cowardliness enters the enemy it's true you're going to have five chasing a hundred but what happens as a result of the five chasing a hundred already that's that's something you know what they're going to see they're going to see hamisha yurt they're going to be watching five chase a hundred and then what's going to happen is then all of a sudden it's going to even more fear here means like they're so their hearts become soft and and cowardly um so the the um the enemy has even a greater sense of fear and what happens is there there it's really it weakens the Morality In other words the morale the uh it says here it weakens their power but I think it means it weakens their morale and therefore what happens then you're gonna have Maya michem a hundred of you is going to be chasing right there's ten thousand you're the fool and then after that and then as a result after even more fear comes to them then the clear card says they're actually going to fall before you on their own a few below even without chasing them at all now this is only if you're strong in Torah right if you have a nation that is strong in Torah right when we're weak in Torah don't even want to say okay that you have to read the rest of the Parsha right okay so now we're mom is going for the what's the word the uh the Finishing Line now from the words this is verse 11. this is the third natati I'm going to place my Sanctuary among you it hits as I say this begins to designate the the the the the the the reward for the Fulfillment of the assay of the positive Mitzvahs Nasim be a diamamish it's something that actually actually happens they're actual Deeds this positive Mitzvahs are things that you do therefore God says I will put my presence there meaning the base of mikdash the mick base of miktas Rashi says in Exodus chapter 15 verse 17. where do we find that that's number 20. so in the Hebrew it says your Sanctuary Lord with your hands founded I'll read the whole verse you shall bring them and plant them on the Mount of your heritage directed towards your habitation which you made right this is something something you actively did the sanctuary O Lord which your hands founded it's something right God this is a metaphorical right obviously or anthro anthropomorical Hashem doesn't have any hands okay but somehow he's responsible for building it beer four that's what it means here it's an act it's an active action as the verse says because he's the one who's actually founding it creating it just like Rashi explains impartialism which is um which is I don't think I wrote it here again the low tigal nafx yeah I do have it here this is um number 19. Leviticus 26 11. it's not the Charlotte but it is this is the verse this is the word I went you words I want you to look and I will place my dwelling in your midst and my spirit will not reject you because these are the words that we're looking at oh commercial Paris Rashi bashalach there's a period fine now we're dealing with our verse and our Parsha that God says my my soul will not Purge itself of you it will not reject you it's very important to understand what's happening here so that's Lush and polita Plata is spitting it out disgust throwing it out like Rashi explains now the next few things are what you should not think right we just turn the page the low Tak shavu one should not think that when I Hashem dwell with you in my temple in my house that you will be rejected ejected too much room it's like what they say there's not enough room for the both of us Hashem is Big the house is small there's not enough room for us remember don't think this God says I will not reject you in Isaiah chapter 28 it's actually verse 20. it's number 21 on the source sheet it is what God says don't say it says for the bed is too short for one to stretch and the ruler in it shall narrow when he enters don't think that this little house that I told you to build is too small for the both of us I will not push you out I will not reject you this is all you keep the positive commands we're going to dwell together okay and that's what the clear card is saying it's that God is going to meet something he is going to restrict himself or con confine himself make himself so small amongst us in a way that will actually be able to dwell in one dwelling altogether and even if you have held by this idea this is indivrayami in Chronicles chapter 2 verse 5. write this idea of course God how can we ever build a house for him right who can gather up strength to build him a house for even the heavens of the heavens of the heavens cannot contain him so what I'm going to build him a house how can that be so below to you don't worry you're right God Is Bigger than you can imagine that's one thing we have to understand God is infinite and we are finite there's it's almost impossible to know God except through the Torah that's why the Torah is the guide we have a relationship with Hashem and it's so important you have to know Torah okay so actually we'll end here I hope this was quite enjoyable for everybody you have to do review these are fundamentals and like I mentioned there's some really good stuff if you follow through with some of the sources and learn them on your own in your own time I guarantee you you will increase your Torah knowledge your faith in Hashem your connection to the Jewish people and most of all you'll receive the reins in its time and God will place what peace in the land and bisrat Hashem will see the rebuilding of the base of mikhnash sun in our days see you next week have a great life [Music]