Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: He that curses you I will curse

[Music] welcome everybody we are dealing with partial slip of chapter 12 verse 3 and it goes like this I will bless those who bless you and him who curses you I will curse and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you now keep in mind in the Hebrew you'll notice that it's not symmetrical symmetrical means a B a B it's a B and then B a what do I mean it says I will bless God says I will bless those who bless you so God's already blessing though first those who bless you and then when it comes to curse it says and those who curse you I will curse it doesn't say I will curse those who curse you those who curse you all occurs also in the Hebrew for curse as two different words so it's true by the blessing I will bless those who bless you so it's a B but when it comes to we already said it's BA but it's not even VA it's not even well it's two different words will meet Colin Carr and I will curse and roar those right those who curse you I will curse but a different word for curses used then those cursing you okay so let's begin the clear car says the word mash alone Mr Al Rohr Michalka it doesn't say I will curse those who curse you in the same manner that it says I will bless those who bless you and why is that so I want you to look at proverbs chapter 16 verse 1 the preparations of the heart are man's what goes on inside of our minds and our hearts we are the ones that are range it what does that mean code emption might see is a deport minhas otha the LaHood's before any words come out of our mouths out of our lips and our what's happening be who the person is my refill tequila believe uma Shaftoe its first arranged in the mind in the heart they do it and it's known okay this is the one when every sense it's well known it means it's well known to us that what Sheila Tova can achieve our home it's our a from a shovel of MYSA that God takes positive thoughts and he is I'm gonna say he injects himself he connects the the mind to the action he's involved he's a partner he's involved and I'm gonna tell you now if you are constantly thinking good thoughts you're in a good place that means you're with God all the time now I'm gonna tell you another secret that us Jews speak about often that if you want to do a mitzvah and you make the preparations to do the Mitzvah but for some reason you never get around to doing it something prevented you from doing it you get credit because Hashem it this is what the word today it's well-known Shillito Vitelli bara whom it star a flop shovel of myself he's mid star if he is involved he is connected and he connects that's midst I admit sorry he actually connects the thought to the action as if the action already happy about Mahavira but if it comes to a bad thought I could who does not weld together it does not connect the thought to the action he's not involved he's far from it can you imagine a bad thought where's the chef now what did king David say regarding this look in psalm 66 verse 18 dove it says of on that's in Umrah ET beliebe ii if i see it or perceive it in my heart lo Yushima I don't know God does not hear it clear as mud okay the bridge was laying some groundwork here now in Isaiah 65 verse 24 it says terrib-- you crew before they call out Vani Anna I answers it's Isaiah 65 verse 24 when they have not yet called before they even speak I already answer do you see where were connecting all these ideas here latisha Kadem shod the might sing the peeve shake a lot o Vikash at all before even before a man utters a word of his requests or his needs Kivar I am maja shave Balibo he already has that thought in his heart Lavaca shikaka to make such a request therefore cut his bark yone you mich make a chaw Cottam SheiKra God already answers from his holy abode before you call out this comes to exclude to eliminate blah sarvatah a human being who would make such a request from his friend how would his friend ever know that he has a need sorry cliff aarush mr. Patel he needs to explicitly say it because who knows the hearts of man only his burrow he ain't of them your day a Marsha Balibo shall have a route because the human being does not know what's in the heart of his friends but a Kurdish bara who's buzzing leave ice he is the examiner of hearts me male called me shallow sleemo he's the only one that can fulfill all of the requests of the heart as it says in Psalms chapter 20 verse 5 they copy that here well I have it here this is me may he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill your every plan eat a macaque cube of that clock and also it says in proverbs chapter 16 verse 1 which we already read love them they are kale avi Shanley Yami Russia it's from Hashem sorry and to the man is the arrangement of the heart that's the first part but it's from Hashem who comes the tongues reply so what does that mean he's going to ask the famous question that most people ask right the big difference between many other religions and Judaism and I have I have something sitting on my right you can't see him right now but he's one of those guys that witnessed Jews praying rocking back and forth and moving their lips very strange very strange Rotolo takane was busy cushy zoo actually this comes now to this this verse that comes the tongues reply from Hashem because being in Bear meant if it's really true were saying that God will fulfill the requests after it was already arranged in the heart of man if that's the case then why in the world would God command us to pray with our lips to feel up a pen why would we have a need to move our lips so regarding this that's why it says and it's from Hashem who answers the tongue it says Tom but it really means it really means language we say Lashon it doesn't only mean the tongue it means the speech it's only after it's from Hashem he's the one who answers speech verse you may arrange everything in your heart and in your mind but there's dissent you want God to answer your prayers then you better move your lips that's right he's a Matata sham this is a gift from God that he's giving the reply of the lips of man of the tongue of men it's a gift it's a only granted when you do that that's because I'll say ready for this this is unbelievable we all know that our foremothers we happen to have had others but all of our great mothers of the past cut Asheboro who meet ave let's fill a time Scheldt Siddiqui me that god desires the prayers of the righteous the fishing in Chima a solution is Barack to Yelich a shoeing aitsl of Eve you know what it's like it's compared to we compare god it's comparative by God as if you were talking about a very excited and happy child making all kinds of requests from his father consumed the blackest of him the RV's when he makes a request his father alpha pichia of video dear Masha Ben sorry even though the father knows what the son needs the father wants to hear it he's excited by his son talking to him the comical rosanoff she don't say I've been the Pima Buckshot nevertheless the father once that the son tell the father it should come out of his mouth what his request is because the father himself is made happy the father himself is excited by the deepest of a top shallow bed when the Sun is explaining his needs Nakamura Kenzaburo Julio this is what God is saying to Israel if she meet on the Escalade let me hear your voice let me hear your voice Kiko Lakes i rave the gaseous lead because your voice is pleasant when it comes to me and I have two verses to look at to see how that is expressed one is in Song of Songs chapter 2 verse 14 and the other one is Jeremiah 30 verse 21 so we see in Song of Songs chapter 2 verse 14 my dove in the end the clefts of the rock in the coverture of the steppe show me your appearance you know the song as long as a love it's a love story between God and Israel let me hear your voice he says for your voice is pleasant and your appearance is comely and then in Jeremiah 30 verse 21 and their prince shall be from them and their rulers shall emerge from their midst and I shall bring him near and he shall approach me there's a concept of approaching for who is it who pledged his heart to approach me there has to be some action it's not just in the heart in case of national are on our side a mesh and his brother hid my hague Eman okay Derek ah sorry mu marked a bus of Adam God does not want to deal with us the way that many politicians and ministers in the government deal with people shame Anika Madhab Meredith named high-bay they don't want to hear you talk so much they want to do all the talking you know they get the sound bites so when you approach them the minister you start to open your mouth yeah I know what you need already you know go speak to mine in a lower assistance you know to stop wasting my time I mean you can imagine right what do you need to talk to me so a a Minister of flesh and blood usually there are exceptions you know we see that the present president of united states the 45th president that may be a little different he's a little different in a lot of ways but anyway so the ministers don't allow you to speak so much me odd cachaca vena cava not has show al immediately as soon as they understand what the person is asking them you know they say to them cuts aired devour ha cut your words short I've heard enough Calais mid Berta Xavier finish whatever you have to say in Eve look at Hershey bar who but when it comes to the Holy One blessed be he the costo in his mercy and kindness anil king he isn't like that and we can see this in psalms chapter 21 verse 3 king david says you gave him your heart's desire tahvalli Burnet ah tell oh I'm getting goose bumps and the speech of his lips you have never withheld by reshet Safa tov Bhama aunt Sara I thought became nevertheless right even though you desire the lips right you gave him his heart's desire sorry the speech of his lips you have never withheld the feature onion being obvious broth because you know how we are in the sign of God Joshua yell it will Vania car we are like an excited child and a very precious son and this is what it means even though before you call out I already answer nevertheless Oh Jay Madhab Reem the rest of the verse says while they had before they had yet spoken I need a Sh'ma I hear he still wants to hear and he's beyond time Shalom and not see may have a ratchet sip okay AB I will not hold back the movement of their lips he will be moved and I know prayer works I know it there's ocean Empire now we understand also when it said of an irritable EB when King David said in psalm 66:18 had I perceived iniquity in my heart the Lord would not have listened the shemitah' are the shemitah' Marsha calmly Amy and her Tova okay maybe that's also by the good right why's it only by the bad that's why it says in the next verse look at 19 but God heard he hearkened to the voice of my prayer he Edsel Fila a mat of arcane Elish umeå become Falacci alopecia die little a to deport me P so and that's why it says I will bless those who bless you because he's already blessing you Kiev article car wash a bubbly bow he's already blessing you what you're thinking about in your heart before you even mention the words Oh muck shava toeyvah good thoughts are sure the Kumasi are already considered actions therefore I'll paint anemia vodka condoms geogebra lima-bean therefore God's already gonna bless the person before it even comes out of his mouth but when it comes to curse of a Mikado lemay dad of our came it doesn't work like that but rather those who curse you that means after they already uh turd the the curse from their mouths then he'll curse the person but not before it came out of their mouths because this bad ideas bad thoughts Hakadosh barukh who does not combine and make a connection with okay then he brings another idea Taba kala devar the Fisher a Medina Maryke McLean male of the goosh l'm a reek meekly hacer okay I needed two cups hand me two empty cups okay watch this guys you got too many cups if this cup is half full and this cup is full and we say this is a kosher broth and a cup of blessing which is greater obviously the overflowing cup correct oh that's one cup you don't have to worry what is it half full or half empty it's overflowing there's no question there's a better blessing now in the blessing of the priest the high priest of the not die priest the priests weed everyday' okay in Israel includes large outside the land they only make these blessings on the holidays do you know that the leader of the congregation the leader of the prayer service when he's doing his repetition he says these words he feeds them one word of the time and the cony bless us one word at a time it's the craziest name everyone knows the Prophet Carney because we bless our children every Friday night and it could be when you go to sleep at night you want to say there's so many times in the morning we say there goes a Torah I mean who doesn't know the blood the beer Cosco I need my heart and the carny who said every day so why would you need to feed him the words because you don't your blessing him your blessing the car need that they should have a full cup right if they start out with a cup that's not so full so you the leader of the prayer service your blessing that so they should have an overflowing cup so then they're turning around and blessing the people with an overflowing cup okay so listen to the words since you cannot compare pouring out an empty cup to a full cup you just can't so we see in the blessings of the car nyan where it says tote it says in the verse and in numbers chapter 6 verse 23 speak to own and his son saying this is how you shall bless the children of Israel saying to them my lamb you should say to them the Schleck see what should say first to the co a giver a flash em mash em bless you because lushly oxy brewer this person leaving the prayer service is acting as an intermediary between God and the county and he's the one who says first to the KO'ing God should bless you well murdered olive Sheva and it comes down to the cow I mean a tremendous amount of Providence there are Hudson arose the way of the flow condition Cohen cream male so that the cow it should be a full overflowing blessed vessel bit hotter Shem through the blessing of God the Aqua Eureka Cohen man clean Malayalis rail and only afterwards the cow aim then pours out his blessing from a full cup on to the Jewish people he asked Allah how broke up be your tear because then the braava the blessing is even more applicable Kshama spean in sabaha Brockovich libera shana when the influence is found in into them first meaningly the person blessing and then on to the cony in the county are blessed first and then they're able to bless the people it the Evonik misha under mubarak the ottoman because how can someone who's not blessed himself bless others that's why it says I will bless those who bless you that even before you bless I'm blessing first kadai Shaklee male so you should be a full vessel of the blessings of God and pour them out as if you're pouring out from the overflowing vessel hmm but when it comes to the curse is you can't relate to that at all that's why it says those who curse you I will curse in that water and not the other way around now here's another interesting idea we're just chock-full of different interesting ideas I'm so glad this this is the parsha this week I can really relate and from what it says now there's one unit live our ethical rush and robbing it's as we said I will bless those who bless you plural when it comes Mikkel Elka it's mush and yucky I will curse him who curses you hmm let's leave let's see how they translate it look at the English I will bless those who bless you and him who curses you so they translate it correctly but you didn't pick that up nobody picks that up you guys picked it up now I will bless those plural because many people will bless you but when it comes to cursing the masses will not curse you individuals workers you mm-hmm and you Akane individuals Luke seen the poutine the very degraded and inferior ones like Nimrod and his entourage shabbat la da da Atsuko dom so when it comes to individuals it's like nothing so the Chris's will not affect you when the masses bless you that has an effect but individual like you know in conscious law right we have majority that's really what determines whether something is kosher or not in many cases fifty-fifty but of course we know that if it's a small very small amount one in 60 even rabbinic ly it's nothing you can eat it it might even be a mitzvah because it's a waste of food it's not not kosher like what drop of milk went into your whole challenge or your your chicken soup you have to throw it away no their loss you'll learn the laws and you find out so little things are called but thought nothing void so here in the blessings I will bless those who bless you the masses will bless you has an effect pumps that individuals doesn't have an effect you like that I'm just speaking to the camera guys okay so I wish everyone a shabbat shalom and looking forward to see you next week [Music]