Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: I place Hashem before me always... He is at my right hand...

[Music] welcome everyone to the high b'nei beit midrash welcome home to torah last Thursday night we had a Bar Mitzvah so we did not have a class so I decided based on this fundamentally transformational information that the clear card gives over for this week's partial last week's barcia parshat bow present which can be found in Exodus chapter 13 verse 16 that's the last verse of parshat ball is it something we couldn't miss out on sharing with the world and I gave this class on Shabbat morning and it was received very well and I felt after that that it was a mistake not to get this information out there we all know the verse sri PM Lynette D tamid i shall place hashem before me always that is a fundamental Judaism right the mission of Brewer explains we close our eyes right we should actually imagine the youth and they Hey and the love and the hate on our eyelids with certain permutations of vowels to be pronounced a certain way even though we don't pronounce it but we should imagine it okay against our eyes in order to have to not just fear but love for Hashem for the creator of the universe and the one who's looking out for us always and so that our right hand shall not falter as we will explain as part of the verse so the verse that we're dealing with is I mentioned chapter 13 verse 16 in Exodus and it says like this valhalla oath are yet ha there's going to be a sign you should make this as a sign on your hand we were taught the phone's been a mecca and US and whatever total folks are these are the phylacteries that are between your eyes keep the heizak yard because with a strong hand hoe see I don't know Shannon it's Ryan God took us out he removed us from Egypt so this has a lot of implications number one this is known throughout the Jewish world that the phylacteries the tefillin that we wear everyone everyone knows that these are laws that were given to Moses at Mount Sinai no matter where you go in the world all Jews are wearing these black boxes you don't see pink ones you don't see white ones you don't see different colors you don't see different shapes certainly different sizes but not none of the details are overlooked everyone is keeping that's filling exactly they were the way they were from from time immemorial the problem with the issue the issue here is that the word yad car is spelled you'd Dollard tough hey but if you look back in verse 9 you will see a different a different spelling for the word yard car and it's you'd Dollard cuffs of feet so what's the difference so we all know you should know by now that you're supposed to place the filling on your weaker arm as the shotgun Arak says you place it on your left arm and people who are lefties put it on their weaker arm which is their right arm so that so question is why and the verse itself says for with a mighty hand that God take us out of Egypt for with a mighty hand you're putting these to fill in on your weak arm in order to remind you that God took you out with a strong arm something doesn't sound right if you follow my drift okay so without any further ado we will now enter the clear cards explanation and it says like this our rabbis teach us that's in Gomorrah Monaco's yacht kaha yard car is yacht kaha kaha light or weak is cut hey hey and here you have the spelling of yard ha you Dollard cuff hey so that's what we have a new royal tradition to teach us what Shawn not have to fill and be out small that one should put there to fill in on their weaker arm which is the left arm and what is the reason so as we have discussed in the past the real world is the spiritual world and the physical world is just a manifestation of what's happening in this virtual world so the clear card says the Tama shell devar the reason is kiha Seco bhai mare Haim Katz are Azula zoo when you deal with concept called spirituality okay or let's use the in Rambam terms Seco means intellect in Mohali in terms safe I mean spirit so as you know from watching these videos that we will combine the two to mean the spiritual intellect that's what st. hell is so say how versus physicality how there are rivals they don't they don't jive they don't really work well together and as the clear card will explain when one is up the other one is down and when one is down the other one is up cuz that calm the Zen no fault when one is up one is down the car show us our claim there can you buy a car clásico and when there's an affliction or pushing down and the the physical side guess what happens there's an increase in spirituality and the power of potential of spirituality and the clea car we'll go on and tell us the reason why we were afflicted so harshly in Egypt the time the time Eloy mitzrayim who why kadai LaHaye v at claiming is real Bakura Bazo in order to bring the physical part of the jewish people into the iron crucible right the boiling point of pain now as an example and there's an idea in Exodus chapter 1 verse 12 that the idea is the more that Israel is afflicted the more we actually prosper so what does the verse say but as much as they would afflict them so did they multiply and so did they gain strength okay the cashier you're our new hotel as right as they were afflicted year but they would increase the same year froze the ikutsu in a mini show so - not only would they increase but the people who were the Egyptians were actually disgusted because of us because of the increase Rashi says right there but as much as they would afflict them in whatever way they set their heart to afflict them so was the heart of the Holy One blessed be he to multiply and to strengthen them and Rashi continues so did they multiply and so did they gain strength that's the same year Bethlehem your throats literally so they will multiply and so will they gain strength which what does it mean it means that they will actually multiply just as they did so - they will gain strength now the Midrash ik interpretation is like this however the Holy Spirit is saying you Pharaoh you say lest they multiply because that's what Pharoah said lest they multiply he was so afraid the Jewish people would multiply so what does God say what does the the Holy Spirit say but I say so will they multiply in other words God up roots and transforms the ideas and the muck shall growth the thoughts of the evil into a blessing right in other words it's like boomerang or back I know it boomerangs the idea of a fool wants to accomplish something Hashem will turn it around transform it around into a blessing for the the object of the fools that the target of the fool okay so that's how we begin now the clear carby continues the arya days there yet coming with gar-bear hosaka that through the subjugation through the Eloi through the affliction of the physicality only increases in strengthens the spiritual intellect and guess what as a proof he uses the word witness via Eve do out there is attaining a Miriam when you compare the elder the the old-timers they opted not altar cockers but the the Wise Ones right who's wise the out the olders the elders and you compare them with the younger people and I'll just use people who are in puberty or let or a lot less than that Kibo diode um other nagua are because the clear card says while they are still yet a person still in his youth and is full of ignorance the cajamar obukhov o is called a cycle kailash that's when his physical part is growing called growth spurts especially you know in the youth they grow they eat a lot right and they're growing a lot in the physical sense their brains are developing their physical bodies are developing but guess what the intellectual or spiritual intellect art of them is still kailash kailash means weak however the kasha lob i mean when they become older and they come of age the kymaro hollow the hustle then what happens then the physical part when you get older weakens and live wanes you've got bear sick low that's when your spiritual intellect becomes more powerful Lathika therefore and i want you to look in qohelet Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 10 Shahi yamim hari showing him how you toys email ooh it's part of a question it says do not ask this question how was it that the former days were better than these whoever asked that question who looks back at their youth and thinks they were the best day of their days he's only looking at the physical part silly not when he was wise as the verse says for not out of wisdom have you asked concerning this ya kilo mayhawk Michelle tells that it's not because the wisdom only the ignorant people would look back on those part of their days and think they were the best the low Bob or Huck mashaallah sureiy but rather now look in job 12:12 and what does it says b'shem hokhmah with old age comes wisdom the RF yamim and with longevity of meaning of years to guna comes understanding now we're gonna go to the next paragraph I think everything is clear at this point McCain who boosted of Kadam right we have two hands okay we have two arms two hands two arms great hopefully everyone does and those that don't you have my sympathy Piazza mauka Lucia now we're not talking about left-handed people okay I'm left-handed we'll just put down on the side they are an anomaly and the most of the people in this world and I think at least 90% maybe 95% of the people are right-handed so we're talking about the left hand since the left hand is weaker and key odd small Kalusha the hey ha it is actually weaker lighter can- lathe why is it weaker okay this is where we're going to get into the really interesting stuff because the heart is on the left side it even though it's in the middle but it's towards the left though the the hand it's weaker is closest to the heart why is that shabam ich kann of huffman we say that the heart is where the wisdom is look in Proverbs 1623 as it says the heart of a wise man gave his mouth intelligence and adds learning to his lips lave ha ha yah skill peel the officer for table Yosef look ah okay so then Rashi says right there the heart of a wise man gives his mouth intelligence meaning his heart teaches his mouth to speak lucidly so that there's a certain cough certain powers from potential within the heart of wisdom that's going to allow one to be wise okay it is going to speak wisdom and whatnot so it's going to come out Sookie I'm Malcolm us how sickly should believe it's for the very fact that the place of this spirit or intelligent intellectual spirit is by the heart that is what actually causes the left hand to be weaker goring shield okay Kuki he asked anita Batoche misha a climber because it and we're saying maybe left hand but we're saying the hands themselves deal with the physical world that's what you do you how else you're gonna be able to physical if not with your hands a little yad you mean but when it comes to the right hands at least it's gonna wake in the left hand what about the right hand that is close to your liver them calm haha bed there your liver is near nearer to your right arm kilo mich kind of kaufman tada when you deal with the liver the concept is your physical desires your physical wants are coming and emanating out of your liver Lena mint noggin la God it's not in opposition to the right hand it sits with it okay Keshawn eager coca because that is the prime source and this prime source of the of its power is coming from the liver and therefore it's closer to the right side and the right hand is not affected affected negatively of a mullah Mitch Conner se acabó when it comes to the place of the spiritual intellect which we said is on the week that we can which is on the Left cashew o Aamir Khan therefore in our verse in chapter 13 verse 16 it says Valhalla loose our yaha it will be a sign on your weak hand what is it saying what does the Torah telling us what does God want us to know Shahi Allah owes I'll live ha that it should be a sign or in your heart what what should the sign on your heart be PLA Siebel okay Jose God that you should understand this is the exact reason why your left hand is a weak it's the reason that's the heart is the reason why your left hand is weak Cataumet to fill in who the very reason filling is put on your left hand why lee hyo tom leezak our own it's supposed to serve as a reminder cognizant of the fact that what them called Michigan a safehouse shabam ah this ship believed that this is a serving as a reminder in the very place where the spiritual intellect is residing and where is that it's in the more more often is the brain which again we talked about feeling sitting here and on the heart which your film is gonna sit on your left arm the Honorable shall row she you and it says that they the head-tefillin is supposed to be bein a mecca what does it mean between your eyes no we have the old tradition right for those who don't believe in the old tradition or are ignorant so they actually place these boxes right here between their eyes but no it's supposed to be you know where that soft spot every baby had a soft spot right here right about here and that's what we would say is the most vulnerable and the most sensitive area of your brain to connect to these boxes which have the Word of God in them and it's a serve use reminder so it affects your spiritual intellect but that is with the tradition we have from Moses at Mount Sinai that it sits above your original hairline which I guess mine is still where it is DNA will leave a trace of source aid the cottony knew there are different agents of our body that act towards sin and our eyes and our heart are two of those agents right the eye sees the heart once and then the hands the physical body runs and does the act so right now we're talking about two of these agents which is the eyes and the heart are agents towards sin you can find that in the Jerusalem Talmud and Braavos al-khaimah comes a new shrieking load of our Hamas hero some but see a chemise Barak Mohammed oh that these are the two places that require something to serve as a reminder about the Macias about the existence of God and his abilities in his power are you they they're you shuva me out and through this one will either be prevented from sinning or god forbid if they sinned they would come around to repent and do chuhwa from their sin devar affair alternatively Lacock his Kiryat kaha I mean whenever we say devar ox hair we don't mean in opposition to whatever was said we mean on another level additionally why does it say why does it mention your weak arm ready Lajos to teach a very important lesson and you can find this verse in 1st Samuel chapter 2 verse 9 for the very end of the verse for not by strength will man prevail so the whole verse says the feet of his pious ones he will guard and the wicked shall be cut off in darkness for not by strength will man prevail kill Oba co-opt gig beresch so we think we put a lot of our own pride in our own abilities to withstand tests in this world the only reason we're able to withstand any test because Hashem is there helping us ok so if we know that in especially 12-step programs but you'll find this story spread through the world that someone who had a very hard life and many experiences with trials and tribulations turns to God and says God I knew you were with me most of my life but why was it that whenever I experienced my most my most trying trials and challenges right I only saw one foot one set of footprints in the sand otherwise I always saw - two sets of footprints but when I was feeling alone and feeling really down and out I only saw one set of footprints why did you leave me and God turns to the person says you fool it was then that I was carrying you okay that's why there was only one set of footprints of course it's just a story because God has no feet and no footprints but I thought it was a a a good introduction to what we're talking about here not by strength that man will prevail but rather qiyam Hashem Hashem amel all the battles are fought by God the fish yada yada may have a solution la vida loca Tana when it comes to man our own strength whether comes to something big or something small it's not us it's very weakened compared to a Shem M Loki our Hashem Auster's owed a maahes e viado but rather was only through hashem doing while he was actually holding our hand he was our assistant he was better out there Shem as we say and now we're gonna get into the verse that we've all been waiting for sheathing a Shamblin egg d'etat me I place you'd cave of K I place Hashem before me always why this is what King David was thinking when he started that first you know what he was bothered by but everything we just said how is it that God created me I think David is saying with my left hand being weak which is near my heart which I always thought David's thinking the heart is the main part of a person why shouldn't my right my left hand be strong if it's on my left side and my my liver which is all about that my tithe is my desires for physical things why is that next to my strong hand why is my strong hand closest to my desires this makes life very challenging hashem are you sure this is the way you wanted to create the world and watch what the king david says after this maybe we'll just read the whole verse so we have an idea where we're going so it's in Psalms 16 8 I placed before the Lord me constantly because he is at my right hand I will not falter shriti Shamblin neg de tamid que me me me vamos he is by my right hand what does that mean he's by my right hand my right hand is near my liver which is full of Tyga's so watch what it says [Music] Timothy light oven mitts tire ohana fatale a bit sad small baka bed beside you mean originally dove it was quite bothered by the fact it had in the heart is on the left side and the liver is on the right side kilo high in rotten a kale as if this was what God wanted meaning for me to run after my my right arm is obviously stronger to run after my tie this doesn't make sense sha kah I'm Todd a Yeti car what ends up happening is the prime I guess the prime purpose of man would even be to chase after his desires whereas the sacral should belay where is the spiritual intellect tough there would only be secondary because would be weaker come o yon Yamini carve-outs Malta fell just as the right hand is stronger and the left hand is weaker but right away I shed mad of it says the Aqua right right after he says I will place Hashem before me always as yacht's malika negative mean Hashem he realized my left hand my left hand is parallel to a shameless right hand I'll just give you an example when we where the Jews walked back from their prayer right we're involved in an intimate encounter with Hashem we walk forward three steps to be involved in that encounter and when we're finished we walk back three steps but we do something very unusual normally we always go to the right everything about the right is always more important such as when we get dressed in the morning right we put our right hand through the sleeve first we put our right foot through the pants first we put our right shoe on first right we're in the shower we wash the right side of our body first we go for an alley out to the Torah it's always to the right and in there in Friday night in liquid OD at the very end when we turn around towards the door to welcome the bride to the shana to the there's a Shabbos mauka we turn to the right everything is always to the right okay even when we lift up the Torah we show to the people to the right first okay everything is always to the right but what happens when we go back three steps we bow to the left first what's going on we're bowing to the schemas right he is right there's King David said I place God connect D right Lynette V is parallel to me as if he's opposite me so how does dove it say so Oh busy I need bowtie off even though my left hand is parallel to God's right hand in this III actually trust and this is where my security this is where I trust keep me me me because he is at my right hand I shall not falter Hashem who is against me parallel to me he's at my right hand slow your matada should be I mean the mote a thirty-minute area Shar that what that he's at my right hand it's not the power of the desires of the physical world that's in my right hand that's going to falter from going in the direct path why because the right of God is romema latane OS but saw to most L Haleiwa a flesh connect though the it's the right of God raises one in majesty and all the might and the power of the heart which is what which is where the spiritual intellect is parallel to that's God's right hand you should pen island- Shevlin when I turn towards God and parallel to God as it says in the next verse chapter 16 verse 9 in Psalms Lehane samatha be my heart then rejoices Baruch Hashem so melody that I what do I see I see that it's a Shem who is lifting me up who is carrying me who is strengthening me with a machinist I am there on there and that's why that verse ends that to the chapter and the emos be mean that's a net saw that the lights are in your right hand eternally that's God's right hand which is parallel to my left hand Marsh MA the love in me me not my right hand God's right hand the feesh I called to Lloyd be Amina sham because everything is dependent on the right of Hashem he he connected not Kile because that would be parallel to my weekend but I'll can't see Varsham Lahani up to filling therefore the command for Jews to put the tefillin on his weak arm I cherchez my sham half cook them what is on the arm ok it's not just the arm remember it's the head as well but you have in on the actual call to buy it on the black box you have a shin there's two shins on each side one is a four-headed shin and one two three headed chin okay and so the shin is bow let is is kakuka is basically engraved right it's embedded in the to fill in itself then you have a dollar in the knot in the back of the head and on the hand to fill in you have a good and not of a good so basically what we're saying is that the Shin dollar good one of the names of Hashem is is engraved basically in the tefillin so on the left hand which is your we can to teach you what she yard Hashem Kazakh hanging amici I know tenant costly yard quejas ooh that God's right hand God strong right hand is given over the power to my we can okay zu Shama now we understand why the verse ends because with a strong hand God took us out of Egypt keep a hos ik God Hosea Noah Shem emits trying we'll talk about this another time between a long hand and a strong hand or a great hand a yada gadot law versus a yacht Kazakh right the Holy secured with a strong hand God took us out of Egypt hi new Janish my god may meet ha ha Sokka that was with a the hand of God we choose his right hand which is much stronger share he connected yachts more bottom which is parallel opposite the left hand which is on man boho tiana hashem and with that god took us out of Egypt the yoke pan i can- Shem and when I'm facing Hashem as I you mean no his right hand is connected yacht kaha is parallel to my weak handle the hardest not to believe Bob in order to give us instruction to give us understanding Shane Chumash it's Lloyd the pool Saddam that there's no action that is totally dependent on man alone kimba's there ha L ok gives Barack only through the help of Hashem now to conclude there's a few there's two other ideas and it says in verse nine I mentioned it says yahveh your dollar cuff so feet not as we've been talking about in verse 16 you Dalek ha hey so it says well hallo hallo oats out yoke our rights will be a sign upon your hand would be shell Roche lo his killer when it says it should be between your eyes it doesn't mention lahar ah it's only the ha when it comes to the hand to fill in but who comes to the head to fill in the has not used which means what the fee shame Odie's gamla carrying so what we do when we put on the arm to fill it it's supposed to be covered that's why there's a little black box that covers it or you put your sleeve over it it's only for you so you walk around the streets that should be covered you're right needing the beit midrash or when you're praying it should be covered when it comes to the head-tefillin now it's very you have to be very careful when you walk around the streets and that you don't pass any garbage cans or any dog excrement or anything is you shouldn't be looking at but basically it's supposed to be revealed that's why you don't cover your Tallis entirely it should stick out for what because it's a sign for others right it's not look ha so it's not look ha which means for you it means it's a sign for others and you can go to Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 10 where it says well recall I merits that the whole world will see all the peoples of the world would see a shame a shame Nicoletta that the name of God is called upon you the Yiruma mecca and they will have fear of you a recognition of a sham because of you and that is talking about the filling the head so they should be obvious for all to see now why is it that we put on our arm to fill in first I just want to mention before we go into this all the details you ever find in the shotgun are up and the Gemara in judaism practical hahaha there is no such thing as dry haha what we find is there's so much depth and meaning behind every dot tittle where every every detail here we're talking about the fact that we put on our arm to fill in first and then we put on our head to fill in and when we're finished praying or finished through the day before the Sun has set by the way Jews should be wearing fill in all day the reason most of us don't is because you have to have a clean mind and a clean body which during prayer services you usually will write it's almost a guarantee that you will have a clean mind today many maladies exist and it's very difficult to have a clean body so anyway you have rough maynooth and all those Jews who don't wear them all day but only wear them for a period of a half an hour to an hour a day whenever the less when you put them on we mentioned you put on your arm to fill in first and the verse says it right because the the series of the verse speaks about your arm and then your head to fill in but when you take them off you remove your head to fill in first and then you remove your arm to fill in and the reason why bajas are autonomous your show Roach the Fela the reason when you remove these you take off your head to toe in first because there are three agents three agents towards sin the fish Lucius or shoe sale Dara hain and one of them it's the eyes that see it's the heart that desires and it's the clay Hamas said going rain and then it's the action that finishes it off if so Michele yard her of it we're talking about the action comes through the hands so since the ands will need more shanira more guarding more blessing let's say Keyshawn Haleiwa Yad when it comes to the hand film we already said it's against the heart that does fires alkane unwelcome harsh Mira mean I hate theater maybe she'll haroche it requires maybe because it's either to some money right out of the three the eye that sees the heart the desires and the hands that make the action but the hand is close to the heart it means more schmira so the longer the hand fulfilling is on you even it's just a few seconds before when you're putting them on and a few seconds after it can make all the difference in the world alkane yak Neela talking homonka ma who therefore this place meaning the arm comes first it needs to be fixed has more more need to be fixed the famous are you a young Tommy therefore it's on your hand much longer and with that I wish you all make sure a sugar Tov a blessed week and I welcome you home to Tora if you like this series you like any of the series that we have going on on deep on a youtube channel I 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